Researchers have studied bee colonies for years in an effort to discover the root causes for the collapse of millions of bee colonies an ongoing problem with significant downstream ripple effects for large-scale agriculture and food production efforts.
Few people overdose on minerals from food. However it is possible to get too much magnesium from supplements or laxatives.
These forests provide food (especially fruiting trees) habitat and connectivity to other patches of forest for wildlife.
Deforestation causes erosion alters water balance eliminates the food and habitat that wildlife need and increases the chance of conflict between people their cows and predators with fewer and fewer prey options.
and lips when they start to eat certain foods. This condition is known as oral allergy syndrome (OAS)
or pollen-associated food allergy syndrome and it's the most common form of food allergy in adults.
and raw vegetables as well as some nuts and spices these people's immune systems recognize a similarity between the food and pollen's proteins.
The thinking in the field is that the pollen allergy is the driver behind the immune response to the food said Dr. Wayne Shreffler director of the Food Allergy Center at Massgeneral Hospital for Children in Boston.
Know your worst foods. Shreffler said apples peaches plums cherries nectarines hazelnuts almonds and carrots are the most common food culprits of oral allergy symptoms that he sees in his Boston allergy clinic.
He noted that apples are a common offender for people who are allergic to birch pollen as well as foods such as celery pears
and other raw fruits containing pits because these fruits and vegetables are botanically close to birch.
or two foods on the list that might cause oral symptoms in some individuals with birch pollen allergies.
or minutes of putting the food in the mouth. It's quite an immediate reaction Shreffler said.
and they might be able to eat the food at other times of the year without any reactions.
But for others the offending food can trigger symptoms year-round whether it's pollen season or not.
If you have an itchy mouth after eating a food pay attention to this he said.
Stop eating the food and take an antihistamine to relieve the itchiness Shreffler advised. 8 Strange Signs You're Having an Allergic reaction Try other forms of the food.
Someone with a birch pollen allergy might get oral allergy symptoms from a fresh apple
That's because the food's allergy-causing protein is broken easily down by cooking or processing.
Eating canned or frozen forms of the food might also be well tolerated. It really varies Shreffler said.
whether it's oral allergy syndrome or another kind of food allergy. Follow Live Science@livescience Facebook & Google+.
what foods to limit or avoid and which ones to eat. The recommendations which appear in the June 30 issue of the Journal of the American College of Nutrition were spearheaded by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) a Washington D c.-based nonprofit group known for its advocacy of plant-based diets
or fried meats. 10 New Ways to Eat Well The overall recommendation is to favor plant-based foods said lead author Joseph Gonzales a registered dietician with the PCRM.
Wanjek is the author of Food at Work and Bad Medicine. His column Bad Medicine appears regularly on Live Science n
Top 10 Cancer-Fighting Foods And in addition to the cashew's known nutritional benefits researchers have explored also the possibility of using the toxic oil found in the nut's shell as an antibiotic.
I can't really track the food-miles of everything I eat I can't always avoid driving
We don't need necessarily to produce food as we have done for the last 10000 years the main advance being the use of fertilizers to increase yields.
Maybe geneticist Craig Venter will find a way to produce food in the lab making traditional agriculture disappear.
It is possible that the same human ingenuity that gave us industrial production of ammonium for manufacturing fertilizer will find a way to use oceans for hydroponics along with aquaculture to sustainably produce sufficient food for the world.
Hibernation is a deep sleep that allows a bear to live without food for long periods of time.
Each species of bear has certain foods that they eat more than others though. For example the polar bear eats mostly seals
Termites are the primary food of sloth bears. Sloth bears have especially long noses that allow them to suck termites from their holes.
and rely on their mothers for food and protection. Sun bear cubs have no hair and cannot smell
Some of the strongest advocates for the world's forests are the communities that depend on them for food livelihoods and culture.
and foraged on lichen and algae for food. The locust's abdomen shows hints of decay and the insect is surrounded by ants inside the amber suggesting the ants might have been carting off the carcass for a meal.
whenever a entire flock lighted in search of food. The passenger pigeon was likely the most abundant bird on earth in the 18th century numbering three to five billion individuals.
They get all of the moisture they need from their food and morning dew
#Oranges: Health Benefits, Risks & Nutrition Facts Sweet juicy oranges make a delicious and healthy snack or addition to a meal.
Here are the nutrition facts about oranges from the U s. Food and Drug Administration which regulates food labeling through the National Labeling and Education Act:
Nutrition Facts Serving size: 1 medium orange (5. 5 oz/154 g) Calories 80 Calories from Fat 0*Percent Daily Values(%DV) are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
Oranges are a low-fat nutrient-rich food with a low glycemic index which make it an ideal food to consume to protect against obesity
which can lead to other diseases such as heart disease cancer diabetes high blood pressure and stroke Flores told Live Science.
The glycemic index is a measure of how food affects a person's blood sugar levels:
Foods with a high glycemic index (such as white bread) cause glucose levels to spike quickly after they are eaten
while foods with a low glycemic index (such as vegetables and legumes) cause blood sugar levels to rise more slowly
Because they are a high-acid food oranges can contribute to heartburn especially for those who already suffer from heartburn regularly said Flores.
These medicines increase potassium levels and if mixed with too many potassium-rich foods like oranges
Flavonoids are compounds found in many foods. They are known to have antihypertensive and anti-inflammatory effects
Top Food Facts Science Kids & Florida Citrus Commission) Learn more about oranges and other healthy foods at The World's Healthiest Foods.
Browse the USDA's National Nutrient Database for nutrient content of thousands of different foods a
and Hispanic-style foods are expected to be an $11 billion market by 2017. In fact much of America's recent history can be told by the current favorites in a Super bowl snack spread.
and spaghetti it's the same thing Jim Kabbani CEO of the Tortilla Industry Association told the AP speaking of another ethnic food that's been embraced wholeheartedly by Americans.
Tomato-based salsa the most popular type of salsa sold in the United states overtook ketchup in sales in 1991 according to The New york times. Food historians cheered the dethroning of ketchup as the condiment king
I learned a lot about a food-oriented life while living in France and Italy and now
which includes beans lentils peas and other familiar foods. When planted peanut seeds (kernels) grow into small 18-inch plants with oval-shaped leaves.
Here are the nutrition facts for sweet potatoes according to the U s. Food and Drug Administration which regulates food labeling through the National Labeling and Education Act:
Nutrition Facts Serving size: 1 medium (4. 6 oz/130 g) Calories 100 Calories from Fat 0*Percent Daily Values(%DV) are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
while sweet potato pie might be soul food sweet potatoes themselves are a whole-body vegetable. Heart health Sweet potatoes are a great source of B6 vitamins
and prepared in a healthy way (that means not just indulging in sweet potato fries) sweet potatoes are a nutritious delicious food that should pose no significant health risks.
You may start craving certain foods and foods that you previously enjoyed will start to taste different.
At four weeks the blastocyst a tiny group of embryonic cells would have made already the journey from your fallopian tube into your uterus and implanted along the lining.
Certain medications and foods should also be avoided consult with your health care provider to make sure none of your medications are harmful to the fetus.
Add some foods rich in Vitamin c like oranges and berries to help with iron absorption. Folic acid is very important at this stage as is calcium.
Citrus foods are also naturally high in folate so a calcium-enriched orange juice is a great addition to any breakfast.
You may start craving certain foods while foods that you previously enjoyed will start to taste differently.
In weeks 1 and 2 of pregnancy the fertilized egg moves into the uterus and becomes a blastocyte or blastocyst a very tiny group of cells the size of the head of a pin.
You should also avoid certain medications and foods; consult with your health care provider to make sure none of your medications are harmful to the fetus.
Add some foods rich in Vitamin c like oranges and berries to help with iron absorption. Folic acid is also very important at this stage as is calcium.
Citrus foods are also naturally high in folate so a calcium-enriched orange juice is a great addition to any breakfast.
One swallow of food isn't enough for these animals. They will regurgitate their food into their mouths.
This regurgitated food is called cud. Then they will rechew the food and swallow it once again.
This is part of their digestion process. Rams are social but herds are separated by gender. Male-only bachelor herds usually contain five to 50 rams at one time.
The females live in nursery herds with five to 100 members which include adult females and lambs of both genders.
Their favorite foods are grass and herbs but water buffalo will also eat aquatic plants. Both African and Asian buffalo will eat shrubs
march in groups, devouring any food sources they come across. They subsequently pupate to form moths, each
with a steady watering down of the rules in response to claims that they will lower crop yields and raise food prices.
triggering big rises in food prices. Sean Rickard, a senior lecturer at the Cranfield School of management, Bedfordshire, England
and the Sahel region of Africa to illustrate the scale of the impact on food production.
Naylor says that investment will be key to avoiding significant food shortages. Developing crops that are tolerant to heat and drought,
The conventional strategy of coping with food deficiencies in one part of the world by producing surpluses in other areas will be impossible,
In the future, the world may not be able to rely on temperate regions for food supplies as even mid-latitude crops will suffer at very high temperatures
Claudia Ringler, an agricultural economist at the International Food Policy Research Institute in WASHINGTON DC, welcomes the study.
they can still harvest food. What kind of research will the centre carry out? The idea is to set up 12-20 field sites for community-based adaptation to Bangladesh in
As demand for food and energy rises, such questions are more pressing than ever, he adds.
thousands of homeless families in search of shelter and food are flooding Red cross relief centres set up around the state.
Despite intense opposition from the US corn (maize) ethanol industry, the rule takes into account agricultural expansion abroad caused by rising grain prices as food crops are diverted for biofuels.
is because California assumes that half of the food crops that are redirected towards energy will not be replaced because of rising prices,
and quantity of the food they produce by allowing them to track markers linked with, for example, longevity or milk production,
Gerald Nelson, an agricultural economist at the International Food Policy Research Institute an independent research organization in WASHINGTON DC says the study shows there are some fairly easy ways to start the process of adapting to climate change.
mark the fifth anniversary of the adoption of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture by the Food and Agricultural organization of the United nations. The treaty is known best for its role in paving the way for construction of the Svalbard Global
and those that have ratified it are legally bound to pass on genetic information about the world's 64 most important food crops,
helping villagers to keep food on the table and buy seeds to start over again next year.
The money will be spread between emergency food aid and investment in agriculture. The latter push mirrors,
Food crops are produced mostly by women and male extension agents cannot meet with women to transfer knowledge to them as easily.
Some people say that there already enough food to go around and that there is a need for better distribution rather than improving yields.
There may be enough food globally per capita. But we do not have a system of world governance in
which the surplus food from Thailand or Bangladesh will be available to Somalia. African countries that do not have the financial resources to import food should invest in production.
Will increasing production put greater stress on the environment? No. If you doubled yields in Africa from one tonne to two tonnes per hectare, you would only need half the land
and ate a novel food, even with their ancestral food all around them, suffered over multiple generations, according to a study presented last month at the Evolution 2009 meetings in Moscow, Idaho.
The work provides some of the first empirical data for whether behavioural plasticity the ability to adapt immediately to changing environments helps
This was a never-before-seen food source, she says, and they were eating plenty of it.
the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) halted plans for the world's first clinical trial of a therapy generated from human embryonic stem cells.
The monoclonal antibody gained recommendations from an advisory committee at the Food and Drug Administration on 14 august,
Lawrence Deyton (pictured) was appointed to direct the new Center for Tobacco Products in Silver Spring, Maryland, part of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA.
Rice blast disease destroys around 10-30%of global rice crops enough food to feed about 60 million people each year.
if they are to produce enough food to feed their growing populations in the future. Asia contains 70%of the world's 277 million hectares of irrigated land.
state-funded irrigation systems that powered the Green revolution helped Asian countries to become self-sufficient in food production,
By lowering food prices, they also discouraged further investment in irrigation systems. The report was motivated by the spike in food prices in 2007-08
says Aditi Mukherji, one of the lead authors. That food crisis reminded people of the imminent threat in the 1960s
it should be possible to provide more food for Asia in the next 30-40 years.
Hyenas have large bite forces that allow them access to a wider array of foods
The study by the International Food Policy Research Institute in WASHINGTON DC is one of the most comprehensive to look at the links between climate change and food security.
reducing production and increasing food prices. As a result, he says, consumption and calorie intake will fall,
Roger Beachy, the founding president of the Donald Danforth Plant science Center in St louis, Missouri, was appointed last week to direct the US Department of agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture,
Political influence led the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to approve a device to repair damaged knees against the recommendations of its own scientists,
and does not compete with food-supply needs. In February 2007 the US Department of energy selected Bluefire and five other companies to negotiate for up to US$385 million in funding for commercial-scale plants.
The National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) opens its doors on 1 Â October, with plant biotechnologist Roger Beachy at its helm.
the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI), will cut back on congressional demands to earmark funds for specific projects.
where it provides jatropha seeds for farmers to plant among other crops or on spare land that is unsuitable for food crops.
Nature Newsstiff opposition from activists has persuaded the Indian government to put off commercial release of the country's first genetically modified (GM) food crop,
according to a study released on 30 september by the International Food Policy Research Institute in WASHINGTON DC.
a food microbiologist at the University of Reading, UK, agrees that previous studies have shown by implication that immune responses are linked to organisms in the gut.
In the household energy and food and agriculture sectors, the proposal with the biggest impact on both climate change and public health was a 10-year programme in India to replace 150 million indoor biomass-burning
The genetic secrets of maize, one of the world's most widely grown grains, should accelerate efforts to develop improved crop varieties to meet the world's growing hunger for food, animal feed and fuel.
It is the first time that different food preferences have been seen within one coalition of social carnivores.
because their food shrubs and trees versus grasses carries out different types of photosynthesis. The team characterized the humans'isotope ratios by taking advantage of a fluke of history,
The lions'remains gave Yeakel two time windows of food preferences: the last 2-3 months of the animals'lives, obtained by analysing the quickly regenerating tail tuft hairs,
but they weren't sharing food. Dominy says that lions may team up for territorial defence2,
Apart from the initial destruction of a few tree crops like cocoa, coffee and plantain, Achaea did not pose any threat to food crops like rice,
Loren Cordain, an exercise physiologist at Colorado State university in Fort Collins and an expert on the Palaeolithic diet, agrees that the evidence is too thin to support the consumption of grains as food.
chief veterinary officer for the Food and Agricultural organization of the United nations (FAO) in Rome. Just as smallpox ripped through human populations for centuries,
chief veterinary officer for the Food and Agricultural organization of the United nations (FAO) in Rome. It not only kills cattle and other wildlife,
Glenn Gibson, a food microbiologist at the University of Reading, UK, says that previous studies have suggested that immune responses are linked to organisms in the gut.
filling gas tanks without raising global food prices or increasing hunger and deforestation in far-flung locales.
Whales take carbon out of the system through their food, then incorporate that carbon in their tissues.
other species that compete for the same food might decline. But even if ocean food supplies are limited,
there could still be a substantial increase in total biomass owing to the difference in size between whales
Because large animals require less food per unit mass than smaller animals, any given food source (such as krill) can support a lot more biomass in a whale than in a small animal such as a penguin.
Other scientists greeted Pershing's presentation with enthusiasm. It's exciting says Daniel Costa, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California,
which ultimately means more food for everything, including whales. In order to drive these large algal blooms you need iron
Two senators also challenged Margaret Hamburg, the commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA),
Nature Newsindia's government has refused to allow commercial cultivation of what would have been the country's first genetically modified (GM) food crop.
This is a victory for India's food sovereignty, preserving the control of seeds and food in the hands of our farmers and consumers instead of a few multinational corporations like Monsanto, says Gangula Ramanjaneyulu, director of the Centre for Sustainable agriculture in Hyderabad.
GEAC member Pushpa Bhargava the founding director of the Centre for Cellular and Molecular biology in Hyderabad and an active campaigner against Bt brinjal, added that he was pleased with the precedent-setting decision.
Nature Newsthe burning of fossil fuels such as coal and oil releases carbon dioxide that alters the balance of carbon isotopes naturally found in the environment an effect that is now being found in food,
Modern methods for tracking the origins of processed foods use isotopes atoms of the same element that have different numbers of neutrons.
Tracking these ratios is a key part of how food regulatory bodies determine if low-cost sweeteners,
such as corn syrup, have been added to foods. Because sweeteners from sugar cane and maize have a higher proportion of carbon-13,
and Food Chemistry1 that maple syrup isotope ratios have shifted over the years. Samples of 1970s syrup had 108.7 carbon-13 isotopes per 10,000 carbon atoms
but nobody was applying this to food science, says geochemist John Valley at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Clearly, food-monitoring studies need to start taking atmospheric isotope data into account. The findings raise the possibility that producers of foods that are monitored for carbon isotope ratios might be able to add cheap sweeteners without being caught.
Yet Peck doubts this is the case. The producers that could cheat have not had the necessary information do so effectively,
And the findings apply to more than just food. Isotope analysis of human tissue is being considered in some countries to help determine where immigrants have come from.
The appeal of Arabidopsis is as a stand-in for unwieldy food crops that grow slowly
that making these more productive is key to both alleviating poverty and meeting local and global food demand.
We lose as much as 30 to 35%of the world's food output. That gives us a large margin of manoeuvre to increase the food available.
We are doing research with food processors and distributors to explore solutions. We certainly won't be able solve the problem,
We need to ensure food availability of 3, 000 kilocalories a day per person of which only 500 kilocalories is from animal products we are not trying to transform everyone into vegetarians.
we will not have the same results in terms of food availability as we would with a more moderate diet worldwide.
What's the role of food prices? One really big research area is studying the volatility of prices.
Remember the food riots in several countries in 2008? We are still trying to understand what happened,
We already have enough food to feed everyone on the planet at 3, 000 kilocalories per day,
whereby prices can go so high that people do not have access to food. We also have to guarantee minimum prices
after the Food and Drug Administration began an investigation into whether the kits require regulatory approval.
who rely on vanishing natural resources for food and income. But several studies presented at a meeting of the Zoological Society of London last week challenged the largely anecdotal evidence linking conservation projects with a reduction in poverty.
British columbia, presented the results of a project that has been assessing the contribution of non-timber forest products (such as food
conservation projects can actually limit people's access to forest resources by rendering their normal methods of gathering food illegal,
the amount of land required to grow food expanded by nearly 1. 8 billion hectares.
The fall in reproductive success was due to the loss of mosquitoes the birds'preferred food source.
051 flights to obtain food and 14,857 prey items collected by the birds across three control sites and three treated sites.
They found that 58%of the differences in food source and 63%of the variation in the size of prey taken by birds in the control
including whether suitable replacement food items are available, he says. Poulin says she is addressing this concern in a second study on the impacts on invertebrates living in reeds beds in the same national park
On 24 may, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) fined Genzyme US$175 million for poor oversight at one of its manufacturing plants.
Last year, a US Food and Drug Administration committee recommended that the drug be approved for certain patients,
So far, only a potato with modified starch content Amflora, developed for industrial rather than food use by German chemical company BASF,
 See Editorial, page 531 and http://www. nature. com/food
Mexican'climate migrants'predicted to flood US: Nature Newsa wave of up to 6. 7 million migrants from Mexico could head to the United states to escape the ravages of climate change on crops,
whom had nowhere else to turn for income or food, but fisheries recovered faster than most researchers expected.
In the analysis, the researchers assessed data on the growth in Indian plantations collected for the Food
Without adequate irrigation, severe food shortages will become even more likely over the coming months. The Asian Development Bank,
adds Etienne Labande, deputy chief of the Preparedness and Response Branch at the UN World Food Programme,
and food stocks are running short. Millions of families may have lost their personal grain stores in the flood water and chaos. Â
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