Facts About Genetically Modified Food A genetically modified organism or GMO is an organism that has had its DNA altered
Genetically modified foods have been linked to toxic and allergic reactions sick sterile and dead livestock and damage to virtually every organ studied in lab animals according to the Institute for Responsible Technology a group of anti-GMO activists.
or outright bans on the production and sale of GMOS However many scientific organizations believe the fear-mongering that runs through discussions of GMO foods is more emotional than factual.
Consuming foods containing ingredients derived from GM genetically modified crops is no riskier than consuming the same foods containing ingredients from crop plants modified by conventional plant improvement techniques according to the AAAS.
In both of these cases however it could not be determined that the GMO food itself was the cause of the problems:
The argument over the development and marketing of GMO foods has become a political hot potato in recent years.
if food made from GMOS should be labeled as such. The initiative was defeated but only after GMO proponents like Monsanto General mills Pepsico Dupont Hershey Cargill Kellogg Hormel Kraft Mars Goya Ocean Spray Nestle and other industrial food
marketers spent millions on advertising to convince voters to vote against the measure. Opponents in several states and countries continue to push for GMO labels on foods if not outright bans on GMO foods
but industry and science insists the foods are safe labels aren't needed and they'll just confuse consumers.
Only one thing is certain: The battle for and against GMO crops and the foods containing them isn't likely to end soon.
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#Go ahead, Eat the Halloween Candy (Op-Ed) Katherine Tallmadge M. A r. D. is registered a dietitian author of Diet Simple:
My philosophy is that all foods can be enjoyed in moderation. But there are special challenges posed with some foods particularly sweets a finding that has been confirmed by solid science it's not just in our heads!
Understanding the science behind cravings for sweets and overeating can help everyone eat in a more moderate and healthy way.
Humans have been eating naturally sweet foods such as breast milk and fruit for millions of years.
Those foods contain life-sustaining nutrients and a love for those foods helped keep people alive.
Also over the course of human evolution an attraction to scarce calorie-dense foods such as sweets and fats improved people's chances for survival.
But there are other explanations. The research surrounding the human attraction to sweets has stepped up in recent decades.
When tasty foods such as sweets are around people simply eat more of them. Chances are a combination of factors is responsible for cravings and overeating sweets at Halloween and the holidays.
There has been an explosion of gluten-free junk foods and I hope you don't become a victim.
or celiac disease visit a registered dietitian to verify that you are eating a balanced diet with plenty of nutrient-dense naturally fiber-rich foods
A gluten experiment in food science at the University of Maryland left a lasting impression on me about the function and importance of gluten.
What are examples of gluten-containing foods that appear on food labels? These include barley bulgur cereal binding couscous durum einkorn emmer filler farro graham flour kamut malt malt extract malt flavoring malt syrup rye
Wheat allergy is an adverse immunologic reaction to wheat proteins a classic food allergy affecting the skin gastrointestinal tract or respiratory tract.
and other highly processed foods can make you fat. If you eat a lot of these so-called bad carbs they will increase your risk for disease.
Foods with a high glycemic index like white bread cause rapid spikes in blood sugar. Foods with a low glycemic index like whole oats are digested more slowly causing a lower and gentler change in blood sugar.
Diets rich in foods that have a high glycemic index have been linked to an increased risk for diabetes heart disease obesity age-related macular degeneration infertility and colorectal cancer.
Foods with a low glycemic index help control diabetes and improve weight loss. However other studies have found that the glycemic index has little effect on health or weight.
As a result more research on the glycemic index is needed. You can't base a diet on the glycemic index alone.
In the meantime eat foods that have a low glycemic index: whole grains beans fruit and vegetables.
Scientists Say Yellowstone national park grizzly bears could be removed from the Endangered Species list after a new federal report revealed that the bears are threatened not by the loss of one of their main foods whitebark pine nuts.
or if the slow down is related to food scarcity. Â Bears rely on four major food sources in the Yellowstone region said David Mattson a visiting senior research scientist
and lecturer at Yale university who studied the grizzlies for more than a decade as a U s. Geological Survey scientist.
Whatever happens Yellowstone grizzlies face extraordinary challenges as climate change drives the loss of habitat and food sources.
and a Better Food System for America (Op-Ed) John paul Dejoria co-founded Paul Mitchell in 1980 and helped turn it into the world's largest privately owned salon haircare company.
To this day I rarely eat junk food because it simply wasn't a part of my upbringing.
More than 50 million Americans live in food insecure households. When I founded Grow Appalachia in 2009 in partnership with Berea College
but realized that the issue wasn't simply a lack of food. The way people relate to food the way they purchase it prepare it
and consume it is the real problem. The current food stamp system keeps people dependent on cheap low-nutrient food.
Hunger in Appalachia has been the focus of government intervention for years the very focus of Lyndon B. Johnson's anti-poverty initiative in the 1960s
and people today still are unable to buy their own food. There has to be a better way for Americans to have access to healthy food.
I believe it's the biggest challenge facing the food insecure across America. Both hunger and obesity exist side by side throughout Appalachia in just about every county.
Today's hunger is perpetuated often by low-nutrient cheap processed food that ultimately results in raised healthcare costs that only contribute to our nation's overall deficit.
Our broken system keeps people dependent on unhealthy sometimes scarce food when we can instead help people to depend on themselves.
and grew their own food. That tradition has been lost as people even in rural areas depend on fast food food banks and gas stations for the majority of the food for their families.
The availability of unhealthy cheap food destabilized the local food system. The relationship with the land and proud tradition of food has disappeared all but.
When in the field with one of our Grow Appalachia gardeners my foundation director ate a bean right off their plant
and congratulated the gardener on the flavor the woman was surprised to see the bean eaten fresh
Grow Appalachia is changing the way people throughout rural Appalachia relate to food. In the past three years thousands of program participants through 25 partner sites in five states have grown more than 574000 pounds of food.
We work with existing social structures 100 year-old missions a domestic violence shelter schools a veteran's organization
and provide the basic tools to help people grow their own food and become their own solution to food insecurity.
These trusted partners provide canning classes gardening workshops and help build high tunnels for more efficient production.
The main goal is to get people as close to their food source and in charge of their own food systems for as long as possible.
Introducing more food to the area solves the basic problem of a supply of high-quality fresh food
but it's not enough to just have more food. People have to be invested in growing their own food saving seeds
and growing organic to keep soil healthy. Individual households have saved about $1000 in grocery bills in a growing season.
A one-acre garden at Jackson County Detention center saved $5000 in food costs in one season and introduced better food
A huge part of the problem with hunger is not just getting the right food to the poor
We believe the people in Appalachia the people of America can be the answer to food insecurity.
Grow Appalachia is a two-year program that gives people the tools they need to grow their own food for a lifetime.
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Moreover there are emerging issues to deal with like sustainability climate change genetically modified foods and endocrine disruptors in drinking water.
and the livestock needed to be culled before the winter said Andrew Smith a culinary historian with The New School in New york city. 10 Things You Didn't Know About Food At a time
A conventional farm that provides their cows with access to grass would reap the same benefit in terms of the quality of the milk Benbrook added. 6 Foods That Are Good for Your Brain Organic farmers are required to follow standards set
and unlike drugs they do need not approval by the Food and Drug Administration before they come to market.
The goal of this project is to develop shelf-stable palatable 3d printed foods for a mission to Mars
but the researcher behind the project Anjan Contractor hopes that 3d printing technology will eventually help supply food to a rapidly growing population On earth he said in May.
Space Food: What Astronauts Eat Coburn criticizes both projects as well as several other NASA efforts for being focused on a mission to Mars arguing the agency is nowhere near launching such a journey.
#High-Fat Dairy May Lower Breast cancer Survival Breast cancer patients who eat a lot of high-fat dairy foods may be increased at an risk of dying according to a new study.
A New History (John Wiley & Sons 2010) that the city s location in the fertile Eurotas valley gave its inhabitants access to an abundance of food something its local rivals did not enjoy.
and a dash of pragmatism food historians say. Thanksgiving is based on a national myth said food writer Cynthia Bertelsen who blogs at Gherkins & Tomatoes.
A brief history of Thanksgiving First the basics: As you've likely heard the whole Pilgrims
These harvest celebrations would have set the table groaning with their variety according to Sandy Oliver a food historian
Semisavory semisweet foods such as plum pudding would have made up the side dishes. Sidebar: See Menus From the Origin of Thanksgiving Thanksgiving was a good excuse to serve mincemeat pies
The turkeys of the 19th century weren't like today's big-breasted Butterballs said Andrew Smith a lecturer on food history at The New School in New york city.
which to grow food to feed themselves Twitty said. Some of these slaves worked as sugar-boiling men who took harvested sugarcane
If you think about one of our favorite dishes at Thanksgiving candied yams that started out as food for slaves Twitty said.
Cornbread is a Native american food adapted by European Americans and African americans alike Twitty said. West african meals typically include mushes like couscous
Whole roast birds a giant meal at midday instead of a big evening dinner foods cooked from scratch.
but now there was a convenient food that made serving them as easy as wielding a can opener.
Humans once dependent on these oemega mammals for much of their food switched to smaller game
Limiting factors in the environment such as availability of food water and shelter evolutionary relationships like predator/prey ratios or presence of pathogens provide natural balances to populations.
The Science of Food: 10 Odd Facts This is a huge deal for the industry. This is the first admission by a U s. packer of knowingly importing mislabeled honey Eric Wenger chairman of True Source Honey told NPR.
Honey isn't the only food product subject to impurities and mislabeling. Olive oil is often cut with cheaper oils
or other food to find its unique carbon fingerprint and determine its origin. A sample of honey for example can be matched to the flowers of a specific geographic region through the laser analysis. You will know in the case of olive oil
Getting something like honey to the market as a food product is pretty straightforward but for medicines the bar is set higher.
CCD isn't just about the bees food crops and agriculture economies are affected too. Because bee populations are so low in the United states for example the surviving colonies are working overtime to pollinate crops in California and elsewhere.
and which he has claimed his bill would address attempts by the U s. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to review the routine use of antibiotics in animal feed without a sound scientific basis. Rep. Fincher's worries largely are unfounded.
The UCS Food and Environment program citing substantial scientific evidence has warned that the routine use of antibiotics in livestock is a major factor in antibiotic resistance in humans a huge and growing public-health problem.
But if the Sound Sciencebill became law it would be even more difficult for the FDA to try to curb the dangerous overuse of antibiotics in our livestock and hence in our food supply.
This study appeared in 2012 in the Journal of Medicinal Food. Tufenkji stressed that her study doesn't validate that consumption of cranberries could treat UTIS.
A decline in funding in the 1970s provided food conglomerates with a foothold to providing meals often of low nutritional quality.
For most people the holidays are all about the food. But the line between cooking a good turkey
But anyone who has fed ever their child fast food knows that it's hard to go back once kids get a taste for junk food.
What happens when your food budget is depleted all but and you still have three days left in the week?
When children reach 1 year old they start to reject novel foods the researchers said. 10 Ways to Promote Kids'Healthy Eating Habits The researchers also found children's liking of a vegetable was related to how often their mothers
and pay for school fees medical needs and food in the lean months between harvests. Behind Produits du Sud are two local entrepreneurs Amidou Sissako
Leaves and fruits provide food fodder for livestock and organic matter to fortify the soil. More livestock means more manure which further enriches the soil enabling crops to be grown
and food purchased to tide families over.''''Conserving gum trees contributes to an overall vision of creating a green wall across the Sahel to serve as a barrier protecting the semiarid agricultural lands from the Sahara desert's southward creep.
Though the conflict that ripped apart Mali earlier this year had deep political and ethnic roots it was fueled by decades of drought food insecurity and poverty.
Overharvesting limits the supply of pine nuts and acorns a main food source for Amur tigers prey.
and provide food for the large beasts the WCS noted. Less than 1 percent of the yaks varied in color from the rest suggesting they aren't mixing
which are tiny organs within cells that convert the molecules in the food we eat into chemical energy the cell can use.
Any work of the sort would need Food and Drug Administration approval in the United states not a given by any means but rogue clinics or scientists in less-regulated nations could make attempts he said.
This means having the right food and habitat and evading predators especially humans. Conservation controversy Critics of de-extinction say reviving extinct animals would do more harm to conservation efforts than good.
Language religion food and the arts are just some of the various aspects of Indian culture.
Food Indian cuisine boasts Arab Turkish and European influences. It is known for its large assortment of dishes and its liberal use of herbs and spices.
The food is rich with curries and spices including ginger coriander cardamom turmeric dried hot peppers and cinnamon among others.
Much of Indian food is eaten with fingers or bread used as utensils. There is a wide array of breads served with meals including naan a leavened oven-baked flatbread
The Nourishmat is an easier way for people to grow food said Phil Weiner Earth Starter cofounder and CEO.
Though crowdfunding the company recently raised more than $100000 to create even more products and spread its gardening tools and knowledge to local schools and food-insecure urban areas.
Despite the several hundred eradication programs that California Food and Agriculture and the USDA U s. Department of agriculture have launched these tropical fruit flies have become established in the state said study co-author James Carey an entomologist at the University of California Davis. Invasive pest Unlike the harmless gnatlike
and food cravings to fatigue and moodiness. Other research has shown that diet affects the development of PMS
For example diets high in calcium-rich foods have been shown to lower the risk of PMS but little was known about the role other minerals might play in preventing the symptoms.
For the study researchers reviewed three sets of food frequency questionnaires collected over a 10-year period from more than 3000 American women ages 25 to 42.
Researchers compared the mineral intakes from food as well as supplements for nearly 1060 women who had been diagnosed with PMS against those of roughly 1970 women who had few if any PMS symptoms.
It was primarily the iron found in plant foods and in supplements non-heme iron that reduced a woman's chances of developing PMS.
But this effect was seen only for zinc supplements and not for food sources of the mineral.
Potassium found in foods such as sweet potatoes bananas and orange juice may increase a woman's chances of developing PMS by boosting levels of a hormone linked to water retention.
It is also a good food. I am sure because nearly all the food we eat contains DNA and lots of it.
The reason is simple. Organisms are built not of continuous matter like plasticine we are made up of tiny balloons called cells.
To convince yourself that DNA is contained in food you can do a simple experiment at home.
and while there's no evidence that the crop is in the food supply experts say it would be safe to consume.
A lot of GM foods that Americans eat are in a highly refined form like cottonseed oil or soy lecithin.
Field tests of GM wheat are subject to strict rules to ensure that the crops don't get mixed in with the food supply said Clay Sneller an associate professor at Ohio State university who studies wheat breeding and genetics.
Could GM foods be harmful? Numerous scientific studies show that genetically modified crops are safe to eat Jaffe said.
But it is possible to create a GM food that is unsafe for instance researchers could insert a gene that allowed the plant to produce an allergen or a protein to
Currently companies that make GM foods do not have to have approved these foods before they enter the market
so that companies are required to get premarket approval of GM foods. Most companies that make GM foods have consulted voluntarily with the FDA about the safety of their products
but they are required not to do this Jaffe said.)While there has been a lot of talk about whether GM foods should be labeled labeling shouldn t be a surrogate for safety Jaffe said.
If there's any question about the safety of a crop it should not go out to the market he said.
Just as researchers have used genetics to improve food production it can also provide solutions that maintain biodiversity
'FDA Sets New Limits People with celiac disease can now trust that foods labeled gluten-free are safe for them to eat the U s. Food
The agency issued a final rule today (Aug 2) that requires foods with gluten-free labels to limit their gluten levels to less than 20 parts gluten per million parts of food.
The new rule also says that gluten-free foods cannot contain any wheat rye or barley or any of their crossbreeds.
This standard'gluten-free'definition will eliminate uncertainty about how food producers label their products
and will assure people with celiac disease that foods labeled'gluten-free'meet a clear standard established
and enforced by FDA said Michael R. Taylor deputy FDA commissioner for foods and veterinary medicine.
People with the intestinal condition celiac disease have to avoid eating foods that contain gluten proteins that occur naturally in wheat rye and barley.
The new gluten limit is the lowest level that can be detected in foods using available tools
It keeps food safe for this population gives them the tools they need to manage their health
if you have celiac disease The new rules are an addition to FDA requirements for other food labeled as free:
Foods labeled zero calories should have less than five calories in each serving. Manufacturers have one year to ensure their gluten-free labels are consistent with the FDA requirements.
Foods that carry labels stating they're gluten-free free of gluten without gluten and no gluten but fail to meet the set limits would be considered misbranded and subject to regulatory action by the FDA.
 Tallmadge's most recent Op-Ed wasâ 7'Bad'Foods You Should Be Eating.
A swarm the size of Cairo which is not unusual for the desert locust could in one day eat the same amount of food as 15 million people could consume Cressman said.
In its early years the settlers at Jamestown experienced an extremely high mortality rate the lack of food actually leading some of the settlers to resort to cannibalism during the winter of 1609-1610 this period becoming known as the oestarving time.
Additionally food supplies ran out famine set in and a particularly harsh winter along with drought compounded the misery of the colonists. oeour men were destroyed with cruel diseases as swellings fluxes burning fevers
When the colonists ran out of food they oefed upon horses and other beasts as long as they lasted we were glad to make shift with vermin as dogs cats rats
and food supplies several thousand more colonists were sent in the late 1610s and early 1620s.
and lacking proper clothing and food supplies. One notable change in settlement policy started in 1619
and for traded food supplies from the ship's cargo of 20 and odd negroes originally from Angola.
#Junk Food Subsidies Threaten American Health (Op-Ed) Elliott Negin is the director of news and commentary at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS.
The government's junk food bias Certainly there are other things we can do to protect our hearts.
So what's stopping us besides the fact that junk food is addictive? According to UCS it's upside-down government policy.
which are used for biofuels livestock feed and the basic ingredients in processed food. At the same time farm policies offer few incentives for farmers to grow fruits
These perverse policies make Americans foot the bill twice once to subsidize commodity crops that wind up in junk food
and hypertension said Jeffrey O'hara an agricultural economist with UCS's Food and Environment Program and the author of the recent report.
Our federal food policy is literally making us sick and driving the economy further into debt.
and soy oils the building blocks of junk food according to an annual report published by CALPIRG Apples to Twinkies 2013:
Comparing Federal Subsidies for Fresh Produce and Junk Food. Apples are the only fruit or vegetable that benefits from a significant federal subsidy the report found
The report used the high-calorie Twinkie as its emblematic junk food because 17 of its 37 ingredients including corn syrup high-fructose corn syrup vegetable shortening
and distribution hubs for locally grown food which would not only make fruits and vegetables more available but also provide a market for regional fruit and vegetable farmers.
and local and regional food enterprises to help defray the cost of processing distribution storage and marketing.
when the foods are cooked for just the right amount of time not too quickly and not too slowly a new study from Australia suggests.
See 4 Tips for Sneaking'Health'into Your Kids'Food. The children also preferred broccoli that was steamed rather than boiled;
The study conducted by researchers at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation is to be published in an upcoming issue of the journal Food Quality and Preference.
Honeybee Scouts Find Food They can get up under your clothes where no other insect can go Miller said.
The initial diagnosis of lactose intolerance can be very simple t s a matter of eliminating certain foods from the diet to see
and then reintroducing the same foods into the the diet again to see if those symptoms would come back.
and dairy products into several small portions and to take it with other foods. Processed dairy such as yogurt and cheeses are tolerated usually better
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