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#More than just food for koalas: Scientists sequence genome of eucalyptus--a global tree for fuel
and biomaterials production and provide a stable year-round source of biomass that doesn't compete with food crops.
Forest debris that drains into lakes is important to freshwater food chainsresearch shows forest debris that drains into lakes is an important contributor to freshwater food chains--bolstering fish diets to the extent that increased forest
While plankton raised on algal carbon is more nutritious organic carbon from trees washed into lakes is a hugely important food source for freshwater fish bolstering their diet to ensure good size
Until recently algae were believed to be the only source of food for zooplankton but the new research builds on previous work that showed they also feed on bacteria from forest matter drained into lakes.
The young fish in these parts of the lake were considerably smaller due to less available food.
and yeastgood chocolate is among the world's most beloved foods which is why scientists are seeking to improve the product
Adolescent food intake was measured also and included foods that were eaten commonly from 1960 to 1980
when these women would have been in high school. Medical records identified 2830 cases of breast cancer during 20 years of follow-up.
what type of carbohydrate-containing foods may be the most important foods that breast cancer survivors should limit she said.
This is known as food pollen syndrome cross-reacting allergens found in both pollen and raw fruits vegetables and some tree nuts.
Summer allergy symptoms can easily be mistaken for colds food intolerances or other ailments said Dr. Foggs.
and food sources for other estuarine species. Approximately 200 mosquito species live in the United states . In addition to causing painful itchy bumps to people mosquito bites can transmit serious diseases such as malaria dengue fever
Such increases in food production from double cropping--without expanding to new lands--are the key to meeting global food needs as populations
Ants move more soil than earthworms plus they are food for lots of reptiles and birds.
which ranks as the 10th most cultivated food crop worldwide. Legumes such as the common bean and soybean however can form symbiotic relationships with nitrogen-fixing bacteria Understanding how such symbiotic relationships are formed
and sustained is a crucial to improving agricultural practices as increasing crop yields are desired both for fuel and food production.
and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture U s. Department of agriculture and the work was published online June 8 2014 in the journal Nature Genetics Unlocking the genetic make-up of the common bean is a tremendous achievement that will lead to future
advances in feeding the world's growing population through improved crop production said Sonny Ramaswamy director of USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture.
and to further demystify the fascinating process--of how plants make the fertile sperm inside the pollen grains--that are essential for the vast majority of our food crop production.
when foraging for food researchers based at the University of Bristol have discovered. This is the first time bees have been found to use this ability for something other than navigation.
and find food a non-navigation function for polarization vision has never been identified in bees--until now.
'in order to obtain a food reward. They found that freely foraging bumblebees soon learnt to differentiate between rewarding (sucrose solution providing) and aversive (quinine solution providing) artificial'flowers'with two different polarization patterns.
but not so easy to pay for through food sales. Finding a way to produce enough food for humanity without losing these assets is perhaps the biggest challenge of the twenty-first century.
Unfortunately the latest CAP reform has not found a way to secure them. The authors offer six'immediate actions'that states should take.
Health-care professionals should address the importance of food choices to help ensure optimal oral health by explaining how oral health status can affect their food intake.
The practice paper encourages food and nutrition practitioners to educate their patients and clients on important aspects of nutritional health that lead to oral health:
â#¢Consuming fresh fruits vegetables and dairy foods such as milk cheese and yogurt without added sugar helps reduce an individual's risk of cavities. â#¢Consuming fewer foods
that are high in acid--such as fruit juices pickled foods sour candies citrus fruits and wine--may decrease an individual's risk of dental erosion
They're not a koala food tree but clearly they can be important when it comes to coping with the heat.
if the bumblebees compete for food or nesting sites. Further research should focus on how our native bees are affected
and remember floral traits associated with food. Disruption to this important function has profound implications for honeybee colony survival
because bees that cannot learn will not be able to find food and return to their hives.
and Durham Universities and the Food and Environment Research Agency was funded by the UK's innovation agency the Technology Strategy Board.
Most teens aren't thinking about chronic disease 30 years down the road reminding them that the foods they choose now have an impact on their appearance athletic performance
so helping them select foods that will make them physically feel well can also improve their mood and emotional health.
For teens who consider pizza an entire food group finding a whole-wheat thin crust emphasizing veggies rather than high-fat meat like sausage
but research has shown that acne is caused not by dirty skin or by eating chocolate pizza or greasy foods.
and vegetables and clients would use other sources of food dollars to maintain fruit and vegetable intake Chapman-Novakofski noted.
We'd also like to know how much of the food purchased at farmers markets is eaten. And we're interested in how consumers view the quality of farmers market produce and the kinds of fruits and vegetables they most often purchase.
Along with other staple foods such as corn rice and wheat the potato forms a substantial portion of the modern human diet.
A cheap and plentiful crop that can grow in many locations the ability to increase food production with the potato eventually aided a European population boom in the 1800s.
As global population continues to grow biocontrol bacteria may be an important key for farmers to overcome crop losses due to plant disease and to produce more food from the same acre of land.
At stake the study emphasizes are the futures of food production our climate and water security.
and start to reject foods--even those they previously liked. Among the children four distinct groups emerged.
NHS guidelines are to start weaning children onto solid foods at six months. The research has been published in the journal PLOS ONE.
Today nearly 800 million people are affected by food insecurity and the number of children affected by stunting due to malnutrition is estimated at 165 million.
There has never been need a greater to ensure equitable efficient and sustainable food production; the livestock sector plays an essential role in achieving this objective.
This study is the result of a partnership between the Laboratory of Biological Control and Spatial Ecology (ULB LUBIES) the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI Nairobi Kenya) the Food and Agricultural organization of the United nations
Looking forward to mid-centuryas population grows society needs more--more energy more food more paper more housing more of nearly everything.
Food and carbon sequestrations are fine and may even rise under the various scenarios but you may need strong incentives to limit declines in the provision of other ecosystem services.
and so a good place to look for food sexual partners and egg-laying sites. The jumping plant louse Diaphorina citri hones in on the odor methyl salicylate that is released by damaged young leaves of citrus trees
whose sap is the only food of the young lice. But other species have evolved the capacity to take advantage of its attraction to methyl salicylate.
they will not find enough food there as the bacterium has lowered drastically the nutritional quality of infected leaves.
Growth in income will allow people to increase the amount of food they consume and upgrade their diets by adding more meat and processed foods to staples such as crops and starches.
The shift toward a diet higher in calories and richer in protein could lift many in hunger-stricken regions such as Sub-saharan africa South Asia China and Mongolia above the malnutrition line.
Globally the volume of food consumed per capita could increase by about 31 percent. In developing regions with strong growth in income and population consumption could rise by about 56 to 75 percent.
Increased global productivity improved the availability of food over the last 50 years but this trend must continue between now
Boosting productivity tends to lower food prices and declines in the cost of food in turn can allow for better nutrition.
Income growth alone will not be enough to solve the malnutrition problem. Historically agricultural productivity has been driven by investments in agricultural research and development.
The organic-food industry has spent millions of dollars building brand awareness only to see some consumers confuse organic food with local food products said Ben Campbell a University of Connecticut extension economist and the study's lead author.
Hayk Khachatryan a UF food and resource economics assistant professor worked with Campbell and others to survey 2511 people online in the U s. and Canada in 2011 and found 17 percent thought the terms were interchangeable the study said.
By the same token he noted that locally produced food may not be the most sustainable choice
Exact figures for locally grown food are tougher to come by but recent estimates indicate sales of local products were $4. 8 billion in the U s. in 2008 according to a U s. Department of agriculture study.
One factor clouding consumers'understanding is that Canada is changing its definition of local food
and the definition of local food varies by jurisdiction in the U s. U s . and Canadian governments both mandate organic production to mean grown without synthetic pesticides among other things.
and develop food crops that are of high yield and nutrition and can grow successfully in environments stressed by drought pests diseases or poor soil quality.
Rice is the staple food for most Asian people and has increasing consumption in Africa said Dr. Li.
Dr. Jun Wang Director of BGI added to this saying that the population boom and worsening climate crisis have presented big challenges on global food shortage and safety.
#Families with preschoolers buying fewer high calorie foods and beveragesfamilies with young children are purchasing fewer high calorie drinks and processed foods
Ford and his co-authors examined food and beverage purchase data between 2000 and 2011 from nearly 43000 U s. households with a preschool-age child.
which there might have been less waste notes Ford the team identified the top 20 foods and beverages purchased per capita during that 11-year period.
The researchers found the total calories from food and beverage purchases declined significantly. Declines were noted especially in milk soft drink juice
And while these are indeed valid concerns foods and beverages purchased from supermarkets and grocery stores represent a much greater share of young children's diets.
This report suggests important improvements over the past decade in the food shopping behaviors of American families with young children.
#Understanding disease resistance genes in crops to secure future food productiona new understanding as to how plants defend themselves against some pathogens that cause crop diseases is proposed by researchers from the University of Hertfordshire to help scientists
Breeding agricultural crops for resistance against disease pathogens is essential in the quest to secure global food production.
However despite efforts to control them crop diseases still account for fifteen percent of the losses in the world's food production.
This is essential in the battle for global food security to protect the world's future food sources.
Green and Gold Professor of Nutrition and Food Sciences along with her research team is trying to find out.
--and we know that exposure to foods helps develop preference for those foods --so we're interested in accurately measuring
We've worked on education policy changes physical activity standards new regulations in schools about limiting food marketing to kids about using food for fundraisers she says.
Researchers at the Institute of Food Research are looking at how to turn straw from oilseed rape into biofuel.
Straw contains a mix of sugars that could be used as a source of biofuels that do not compete with food production
and sugar foods and takeaway were about 50%more likely to have a preterm birth.
In our study women who ate protein-rich foods including lean meats fish and chicken as well as fruit whole grains and vegetables had significantly lower risk of preterm birth.
On the other hand women who consumed mainly discretionary foods such as takeaway potato chips cakes biscuits and other foods high in saturated fat and sugar were more likely to have born babies preterm Dr Grieger says.
It is important to consume a healthy diet before as well as during pregnancy to support the best outcomes for the mum and baby Dr Grieger says.
Coccidiosis is associated with extensive destruction of the gut mucosa and thus with reduced food conversion causing decreased weight gain and economic losses for farmers.
Participants were given menu plans that outlined food items and amounts. Rather than requiring fixed meals the menus served as a reference guide
and participants were given a list of suitable food alternatives. With an exchange list of interchangeable food items participants were better able to adapt the diet to their personal tastes
--which helped to encourage adherence to the diet. Twenty-three obese men and women completed the six-month diet.
Carbohydrate sources included high-fibre foods such as oats and barley and low-starch vegetables such as okra and eggplant.
and better access to fresh affordable food--including fruits and vegetables--than they did in past decades.
Geography and the existence of so-called food deserts (neighborhoods or regions with limited access to affordable healthy food) appear to have little bearing on the obesity trend in general
The percent of disposable income spent on food fell quite a bit from 1970 to 2010 he said.
And in fact in the 1930s American people spent one-third of their disposable income on food
So it's hard to argue that food has become more expensive in general. The cost of fruits and vegetables has increased not over time as some have argued
--but not as rapidly as the cost of junk food An said. Overall food is more accessible and affordable than ever in the United states
and this may be an important factor in the dramatic rise in obesity he said. The data on exercise and physical activity also are muddier than some people like to admit An said.
#Composting program with used coffee groundsan interdisciplinary Kansas State university research group is turning garbage into gourmet food.
Dr. James A. Macklin Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Canada; Dr. Zhi-Qiang Zhang Landcare Research New zealand;
and Agri-Food Canada and published in the May issue of the journal Animal Behaviour.
hard-object feeders (e g. hard fruits seeds) mixed food feeders (e g. fruit) and leaf feeders.
Each participant reported the amount of a specific food they had consumed during the previous 24 hours.
A disruption in food supply in one place could affect people on the other side of the world.
Together with Neiker-Tecnalia the public body that reports to the Sub-Ministry for Agriculture Fisheries and Food Policy of the Government of the Basque Autonomous Community the following are part of this project:
Teagasc-The Agriculture and Food Development Authority (Ireland) IRSTEA (France) INTIA (Navarre) the University of Glasgow Caledonian (Scotland) and the Higher Institute for Agronomy (Portugal.
More work will be needed to explore the effects of alternative breakdown products of various foods. The researchers note that this study of digestion in the test tube is limited by not including the roles of gut cells
When these two food groups are combined the reaction of unsaturated fatty acids with nitrogen compounds in the vegetables results in the formation of nitro fatty acids.
which there is currently no therapy approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Paul W. Noble MD chair of the Department of Medicine at Cedars-Sinai and director of the Women's Guild Lung Institute is the senior author of the multicenter study that found that the investigational drug pirfenidone
because there have been approved no drugs by the Food and Drug Administration specifically targeted for treating this fatal disease said Shlomo Melmed MD senior vice president and dean at Cedars-Sinai and the Helene A. and Philip E. Hixon Chair in Investigative Medicine.
Significant evidence suggest that the ratio of dietary omega-6 to omega-3 has important implications for human health further increasing interest in the development of foods rich in omega-3s
or other foods rich in this essential fatty acid says Kang an associate professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical school.
While there are regulatory issues that need to be addressed this transgenic approach may help meet the increasing demand for omega-3-rich foods
They have all the characteristics generally used to describe traditional food products: production in limited geographical areas use of specific know-how and techniques handed down from generation to generation
Rising spring temperatures prompt many bee species to begin their search for the flowering plants they depend on for food--and
Unlike social bee species such as honey bees cavity-nesting bees lead solitary lives in the wild pollinating many types of flowering trees as they search for food.
Physical examination of pollen in the nests also is expected to yield information about the food sources the bees visit
At large and foraging for food before their normal sources are available bees may not be able to adapt.
because they are out of synch with the flowering of their food sources could keep them away from their nests for longer periods.
and extending the shelf life of some foods. Last year many scientists looked for new species from the past.
Animals such as white-tailed deer the Florida panther and migratory birds that depend on native vegetation such as mangrove for food
and shelter are deprived of that habitat. â#oethis can have cascading effects through the food chainâ#said Bill Overholt an entomology professor at UFÂ##s Indian River Research and Education Center in Fort
#Dangerous nitrogen pollution could be halvedthe most important fertilizer for producing food is at the same time one of the most important risks for human health:
Both farmers and consumers would have to participate in mitigationit became clear that without mitigation the global situation may markedly deteriorate as the global food demand grows says Bodirsky who is affiliated also to the International Center for Tropical Agriculture Colombia (CIAT.
Only combined mitigation efforts both in food production and consumption could substantially reduce the risks the study shows.
Both changes would also increase the overall resource efficiency of food production and reduce pollution.
This statement is the result of a researcher group from the School of Agricultural Engineers of Universidad Politã cnica de Madrid in collaboration with the Institute of Food Science Research (CIAL-CSIC) who found that the usage of natural additives
and once they know that they assume the food won't taste good. In If it's Useful
Preschoolers Refrain from Instrumental Food to be published in the October issue of the Journal of Consumer Research Fishbach
and Michal Maimaran of the Kellogg School of management at Northwestern University demonstrate that telling children that food will help them achieve a goal such as growing strong
or learning to read decreases preschooler's interest in eating the food. The preschoolers seem to think that food can't serve two purposes that it can't be something that makes them healthier
and something that is delicious to eat at the same time Fishbach notes. So telling them that the carrots will make them grow tall
The researchers completed five experiments with 270 preschoolers in which an experimenter read picture stories about a girl who had some food for a snack.
In some stories she was interested in the food because it was good for her in others she was interested
because the food was tasty and in some stories there was no reason mentioned in the story for why she was interested in the food.
In each case children ate more of a food when no reason for eating it was mentioned
or when it was presented yummy than they did thought when they the food were good for them Our study focused on very young children
and we should keep in mind that older children might rely less on taste when making food decisions due to higher self-control Fishbach adds.
On the other hand we all know teenagers who only eat six foods so it could turn out that their thinking is similar to their younger counterparts.
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and play an important role in the decomposition of organic material as well as serving as a food source for other higher level species. However the almost 7000 species living in European waters are currently facing a major challenge
At the same time farmers need better pesticides to grow food while pesticide manufacturers aim to design effective pesticides without unacceptable side effects based on our understanding of pesticide effects in nature.
and play an important role in the decomposition of organic material as well as serving as a food source for other higher level species. However the almost 7000 species living in European waters are currently facing a major challenge
At the same time farmers need better pesticides to grow food while pesticide manufacturers aim to design effective pesticides without unacceptable side effects based on our understanding of pesticide effects in nature.
When they emerged there were likely ash trees nearby providing food for the beetles and their offspring.
and barren workers that forage for food and protect the hive. Bee researchers had observed already that honeybees including Africanized Apis mellifera better known as killer bees divide tasks by age.
Increasingly constrained freshwater supplies coupled with increased temperatures stress both people and ecosystems and decrease food and water security.
and illnesses transmitted by food water and disease carriers such as mosquitoes and ticks. Some of these health impacts are already underway in the United states. Climate change will absent other changes amplify some of the existing health threats the Nation now faces.
and livestock across the country--a trend that could diminish the security of our food supplyâ#Climate change effects on agriculture will have consequences for food security both in the U s. and globally through changes in crop yields and food prices and effects on food processing
and productivity of many marine species. The rising temperature and changing chemistry of ocean water combine with other stresses such as overfishing and coastal and marine pollution to alter marine-based food production
#College kids need to change unhealthy waysparents forget the comfort food! It's time to send your college students care packages of fruit veggies
The study also uncovered some interesting insights into how Tofu lovers can get their reluctant friends and family members to try new foods like Tofu.
and an easy-to-cook food the non-users thought Tofu was difficult to cook needed special extra ingredients
Although Tofu is sold in different firmness levels the study's sponsor House Foods America indicated that the firm
The above story is provided based on materials by Cornell Food & Brand Lab. The original article was written by Adam Brumberg.
minority communitieslow-income and minority communities and people participating in food assistance programs are more likely to consume fewer fruits
and vegetables depriving them of the health benefits of those foods. However the government provides assistance such as the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women Infants
and children and improve their ability to purchase nutrient-dense foods. To help promote the purchase of nutrient-dense foods WIC provides cash value vouchers (CVV) to participants specifically for fruit and vegetable products.
However researchers discovered that some barriers to purchasing nutrient-dense foods still exist for WIC participants in a recent study of WIC participants in Arizona.
Barriers that emerged from participant discussions included negative interactions with either the cashier or other shoppers issues with lack of training of store cashiers difficulty keeping up with changes in the WIC rules and embarrassment and judgment in relation to using WIC said lead author Farryl M
Home food environment of overweight womenthe home is an important microenvironment in models of obesity
and the Cancer Coalition of South Georgia sought to examine the home food environment and determine which aspects are associated with healthy eating in low-income overweight and obese women who receive healthcare through local federally-qualified community health centers.
Among a group of primarily obese African american female patients in southwest Georgia researchers looked at food inventories food placement grocery shopping food preparation meal serving practices family
The women all of whom lived with at least 1 other person reported an average of 14 types of fruits and vegetables in their home 4. 6 unhealthy foods in the home during the past week and 1. 8
and availability of high-calorie foods in the home may be contributing to obesity. Likewise eating in front of the television was fairly common
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