'Moving Beyond an Unhelpful Phrase (Op-Ed) Margaret Mellon is a senior scientist for food and the environment at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS.
Likewise the recent Food and agriculture organization of the united nations (FAO) report on world agriculture and malnutrition The State of Food and Agriculture:
Food Systems for Better Nutritiondoesn't use the term feeding the world. FAO would eradicate malnutrition by integrating agriculture into local and regional food systems from inputs
and production through processing storage transport and retailing to consumption. Maybe the phrase is falling from favor.
U s. farmers can feel good that they are helping to meet the food needs of those who can afford to buy their products.
But the phrase conflates the important issues of food production and hunger alleviation. It implies that producing corn
and soybeans is the equivalent of putting food into the mouths of hungry people. But there is no direct connection between U s. corn
Afternoon energy boost In other forests the process of making food from light known as photosynthesis tends to drop off in the afternoon.
and changing food supplies these traits could be useful to breeders developing hardier breeds of cattle especially in the face of climate change Mctavish said.
which was likely still dependent on its mother for food and protection. Separating the two could have severe consequences for the calf FWC manatee biologist Thomas Reinert said in a statement.
Bigger animals can eat a wider range of foods and be fiercer predators than their pip-squeak pals.
When food supplies dwindled these giant creatures could have had a tough time finding enough food Pimiento said.
and it's threatening their access to food. A team of researchers studied the migration patterns of polar bears (Ursus maritimus) in Hudson bay Canada using satellite-tracking data collected between 1991 and1997 and 2004 and 2009.
Polar bears hunt their main food source seals primarily while on sea ice. Changes in the ice are driving the bears to spend more time on land where they have to go longer without eating
and meetings they write. oein addition great houses with their large storage capacity may have served as central storage and distribution facilities for both food and trade items.
Mexican food Mexican culinary norms vary widely based on income level and social class. The diet of working class Mexicans includes staples such as corn or wheat tortillas along with beans rice tomatoes chili peppers and chorizo a type of pork sausage.
and Europeans and include a wide variety of food items prepared in wide range of culinary styles.
In fact some foods in the dairy case do a better job than others at strengthening bones a new study suggests.
But they found no evidence that these two foods were linked to better bone density in the spine.
All the people in the dairy study completed a 126-item food frequency questionnaire which indicated how often they ate certain foods each week.
Scientists also considered whether people smoked took calcium or Vitamin d supplements and got regular exercise
Foods in this group included ice cream sour cream cream cheese and cream. Â Cream is definitely different from the rest of the dairy products said lead author Shivani Sahni an assistant scientist at the institute.
which equals a little more than 2. 5 cups of these foods had better bone density scores of the hip
 Sahni suspects the various nutrients in dairy foods their protein calcium and Vitamin d content for example work in synergy
If actors handled food the monkeys would likely choose whoever they thought would give them the most treats.
Using food could have changed the capuchins'behaviors. A widespread behavior? I think it's a really interesting study with implications for helping us understand how cooperation comes about said Malini Suchak a primatologist at Emory University who wasn't involved in the research.
and are incorporated into the body from food. Such isotopes of carbon can tell researchers which types of plants people consumed.
or a famine food Killgrove said but the researcher's findings suggest that plenty of ordinary Romans depended on the easy-to-grow grain.
Or perhaps he kept eating the food he was used to even after arriving in the city.
It's found in most breads cereals pastas and many processed foods according to Webmd. People who have called a condition celiac disease develop an immune reaction to gluten that damages the intestine
If you embrace such a diet you'll end up eating a lot of foods that are stripped of nutrients Tallmadge said.
because to avoid the protein they end up cutting out desserts and junk foods thus losing weight.
It's found in most breads cereals pastas and many processed foods according to Webmd. People who have called a condition celiac disease develop an immune reaction to gluten that damages the intestine
If you embrace such a diet you'll end up eating a lot of foods that are stripped of nutrients Tallmadge said.
because to avoid the protein they end up cutting out desserts and junk foods thus losing weight.
In a series of experiments in people and mice scientists for the first time demonstrated that carnitine from foods as well as from supplements influenced cardiovascular risk.
but fish poultry milk and other dairy products are also good food sources of it. Carnitine is also a popular over-the-counter diet supplement often billed as helping to boost energy and bulk up muscle.
whose food was supplemented with carnitine. We saw that carnitine supplements doubled the rates of atherosclerosis in the mice Hazen said.
</p><p>A 2009 study of more than 500000 people found that individuals who consume more of these foods have increased an risk of death from all causes
To test the accuracy of the eye-tracking technology Yorzinski threw food into the enclosure to monitor the peahens'gaze.
#On Mozambique Coast, Food Grows Alongside Species Diversity (Op-Ed) Brendan Fisher is a research scientist for World Wildlife Fund (WWF.
Food insecurity plagues one-third of households two-thirds for female-headed households. People are reliant on the condition of their farmland and fisheries.
When German vineyards wanted an automatic process for sorting their grapes Fraunhofer IOSB presented an obvious choice owing to its experience developing machines that sort tobacco minerals foods and more.
The findings contradict those of research published last September in the journal Annals of Internal medicine which reviewed more than 200 studies and found no difference between the vitamin contents of organic and conventional foods.
and Food Chemistry concluded that organic crops tend to be higher in Vitamin c and phenols and lower in protein than conventionally grown crops.
whether the nutritional differences between organic and conventionally grown foods actually translate into health benefits Lester said.
organically grown foods have a lower carbon footprint and use fewer pesticides. Recently the American Academy of Pediatrics said it's important for children to eat a diet that's high in fruits vegetables whole grains
and low-fat dairy products regardless of whether these foods are organic or conventionally grown. Organic produce tends to be more expensive than traditional produce
because these foods are grown under more stressful conditions. The plant's response to this stress leads to increased production of certain compounds including phenols.
Over that same time demand for food water and energy are expected to double. If you think about today's consumption rate per billion people as a shopping cart people are filling 7 shopping carts.
A first step is to change the mentality about how people grow food and use other natural resources like forests water and energy resources.
Even blue food dyes sometimes passes into pee. Indigo and Violet In this photo the deep purple urine comes from a patient with kidney failure.
if there are any food allergies you should know about and pay close attention to what those food allergies mean for your menu.
Even crumbs from food containing gluten being left behind can be harmful for a child with celiac disease
which rely more heavily on rodents for food than fisher cats do. Spotted owls have tested positive for rodenticides in Oregon
We count on farmers to produce safe and abundant supplies of food but it s runoff from farmland that finds its way into the lake
and other creatures for limited supplies of food and water as a good portion of the water was frozen.
Though there is evidence to support the effectiveness of many herbs these plants aren't regulated by the Food
and Drug Administration because the agency considers them food. Drug companies can't patent herbs and they aren't as rigorously tested as pharmaceuticals.
7 Gross'Human Foods'With food taste is highly subjective.</</p><p>From<a href=http://www. livescience. com/39165-worlds-priciest-coffee-test. html>coffee pooped out by Southeast Asian cats</a>to jellied chicken'
s blood humans eat a wide variety of foods that many others would consider revolting.</
</p><p>But some people are pushing the definition of food group to a whole new level by trying to incorporate human waste and bacteria into the food chain.
</p><p>Though breast milk is thought to be the best food for babies some foodies have been trying to expand the market for human milk beyond toddlers and the occasional curious partner.
</p><p>Not content with stealing food from the mouths of babes other scientists have wondered
In a 2013 study in the journal Food Microbiology researchers speculated on the ability to harvest bacteria from<a href=http://www. livescience. com/4141-moms-prefer-smell-baby-poop. html>infant poop
No word yet on the food product' s flavor though.</</p><p>Many people have drunk urine throughout history for cultural reasons with some alternative medicine practitioners claiming the substance'
whether the foods they eat influence the flavor of sperm. Two of the three women claimed they could distinguish differences.</
neglected as a food. " Another book by the same author Paul " Fotie" Photenhauer aims to teach readers how to mix cocktails using the fluid.
</p><p>For every weird food concoction that' s knowingly consumed by humans there are a slew of contaminated foods guaranteed to turn any stomach.
From melamine-tainted milk to " avatar" pork laced with phosphorescent bacteria that glows blue China has had its share of scary food products.
Apparently the glow-in-the-dark pork was safe to eat if well cooked. The United states isn'
t immune to food scares either: the process of rinsing ground beef in ammonia to remove potential bacteria caused also some indigestion
</p><p>But urban legends and news reports have also spread some food hoaxes over the years.
and by 2050 food production must increase by at least 70 percent to keep pace. Unfortunately about half of the world's food is consumed never due to inefficiencies in the harvesting storage and delivery of crops.
Even in developed nations about 30 percent of purchased food ends up going to waste and supply-chain inefficiencies only exacerbate the problem.
Certainly weather-related events like the current and long-lasting drought in portions of the U s. add further complexity to the science of farming as resultant crop damage food supply shortages
and rising commodities prices frequently illustrate. To help reverse this sobering trend and to generate enough food to meet the ever-growing demands of a growing global population today's
and tomorrow's agribusinesses need to embrace smarter farming methods. Fortunately the technology to do so is available and working right now.
and more food makes it to the dinner table. The development and use of those predictive analytics based techniques and technologies is limited not to mega-farms.
which routes and methods will be fastest to transport harvested food. That is especially critical in countries like Brazil where many of the roads are unpaved
#Produce From Urban Gardens Could Contain Lead Urban food gardens offer a great source of affordable nutritious fruits
In places where the soil is contaminated heavily urban food production may raise as many public health concerns as it solves said Samantha Langley-Turbaugh a soil scientist at the University of Southern Maine in Portland.
Also it's important to wash produce thoroughly before eating it to make sure no soil remains on the food added Mielke.
Before planting a food garden Langley-Turnbaugh recommends testing the soil for contamination. Most states offer low-cost soil testing through their agricultural cooperative extensions.
whose food had been restricted. After losing weight the same birds would grow in plumage with a lower fractal dimension than they had before while the birds
-and-white chicks stumble out of the nest pecking for food. They feed themselves from day one Vyn said in the video.
And shorebirds are a food source for people living along the coastal mudflats of Myanmar
Raw milk is riskier than most foods said Douglas Powell a professor of food safety at Kansas State university.
or lettuce there are many more consumers of those foods than consumers of raw milk he said. Bacteria commonly found in the digestive tracts of farm animals including campylobacter
Top 7 Germs in Food that Make You Sick The researchers noted that their study is limited in several ways by the data available to them.
although the Food and Drug Administration banned the interstate sale of unpasteurized milk in 1987.
Top 7 Germs in Food that Make You Sick Over the past decade consumption of raw milk has resulted in 93 illness outbreaks 1837 illnesses 195 hospitalizations and two deaths according to the Centers for Disease
You would greatly reduce the types of foods you can eat. And you would do so in vain
No food is heated above 104 degrees Fahrenheit (40 degrees Celsius. Foods are eaten fresh dehydrated with low heat or fermented.
A core tenet of the diet is that heating food above 104 degrees not only diminishes its nutrients
but also makes the food toxic and less digestible. In raw vegan parlance cooking is killing.
Many raw vegans speak of live foods versus dead foods and they aren't talking about sushi so fresh it still wiggles.
Live or uncooked foods are said to be filled with vital life energy. In this way raw veganism is an extension of the vegan appreciation for animal welfare with the added spirituality of a life force called chi or prana.
Dead or cooked foods are said to be depleted of their life energy as well as most of their nutrients.
Juicing and blending green smoothies often are key elements of this diet. Now for the misconceptions:
Misconception#1: Cooking destroys nutrients Sure raw foods can be nutritious. But cooking breaks apart fibers
and cellular walls to release nutrients that otherwise would be unavailable from the same raw food.
Cooking tomatoes for example increases by fivefold the bioavailability of the antioxidant lycopene. Similarly cooking carrots makes the beta-carotene they contain more available for the body to absorb.
10 Interesting Facts About Food Cooking can also reduce certain chemicals in a vegetable that inhibit the absorption of minerals including important minerals like zinc iron calcium and magnesium.
And by eating both raw and cooked foods you get the best of both worlds said Jennifer Nelson director of clinical dietetics at the Mayo Clinic and associate professor of nutrition at the Mayo Medical school in Rochester Minn.
Fermenting or juicing raw foods also can make some nutrients more available but that shouldn't deter from the fact that cooking is an ancient craft that makes some foods more digestible and nutritious.
As for the concept of life energy in raw food this is a spiritual belief beyond the realm of science so debating its benefit let alone existence would be futile.
Misconception#2: Cooking destroys enzymes This one is absolutely true but it doesn't matter.
But humans make their own digestive enzymes to break down large food molecules into smaller ones.
The raw-enzyme logic itself breaks down when you consider that most humans cook food
and that most humans are digesting that food reasonably well. Ironically for the raw vegan most of the plant enzymes in raw food get destroyed anyway in the acid of the human gut.
Only a few make it to the small intestine. Fermented foods such as sauerkraut can carry enzymes into the gut.
Their contribution to digestion is not zero but it does appear to be minimal. I know of no importance of plant enzymes in human digestion said Mcdougall.
The enzyme theory for raw foods dates back to Edward Howell a physician who published a book on enzymes in the 1940s primarily citing research from the 1920s and 30s.
Raw foods are detoxifying Dietary detoxification is an alternative medicine concept with little scientific credibility. Usually two organs are cited as needing detoxification:
In short there are no foods or herbs that can magically bind and pull toxins from your blood or organs.
(and for B12 impossible) to obtain a sufficient amount of these nutrients from raw plant-based foods. 5 Key Nutrients Women Need as They Age Also without access to a variety of foods year-round that can
be eaten raw one tends to rely on single-food sources. The problem with the raw food diet is where do you get your energy food?
asked Caldwell Esselstyn of the Cleveland Clinic the doctor who convinced Bill clinton to adopt a plant-based diet.
Some people on a raw food diet rely so much on fruit that their teeth begin to erode:
The raw diet could be more healthful than the so-called S. A d. standard American diet) of processed foods.
But there is no evidence that even given the resources to prepare a variety of raw foods daily the raw vegan diet would be more healthful than the plant-based diets promoted by Mcdougall
Raw-only foods are natural No other animal cooks food many a raw vegan has stated. One can just as well say that no other animal combines their kale
and clover with tropical bananas in a high-speed blender to make the foods more palatable and digestible.
That said no known human culture has attempted ever to survive solely on raw plant foods.
because it is impossible to survive on this diet without modern conveniences such as refrigerators storage devices and easy access to packaged foods such as the aforementioned shelled nuts.
and storing food. Even around the tropics where vegetation is plentiful humans have been cooking as long as humans have been human at least 200000 years and likely longer in our hominid form.
and then cooking food enabled the development of the human brain. Cooking in particular opened up a new world of calories and nutrients.
Rice grown as a staple food for a large portion of the world's population absorbs arsenic from its environment and transfers it to the grain.
The risks of arsenic in rice recently became national news after arsenic was detected in baby foods made from rice.
In regions of the world where rice is an important food staple entire communities are vulnerable to the negative impacts of arsenic contamination.
but junk food may actually contribute to depression. The evidence is mounting many studies have linked junk food consumption with depression
and as researchers continue to study mood and nutrition there are likely to be more. So doesn't now seem like a good time to start replacing the mood-busting junk in your diet with mood-boosting natural foods?
In September 2013 Anu Ruusunen of the University of Eastern Finland presented an analysis of the population-based Kuopio Ischaemic Heart disease Risk Factor Study as her nutritional epidemiology doctoral thesis
and were also less likely to be diagnosed with depression during the follow-up period compared with those who ate an unhealthy diet that included sausages hot dogs sugary desserts processed foods and snacks.
which indicated that people who ate junk food were 51 percent more likely to show signs of depression.
The more junk food they consumed the more likely they were to feel depressed. 6 Foods That Are Good For Your Brain It's important to note that these studies show an association
-and-effect relationship exists between junk food and depression. And it's not clear how the link may work it could be that people who already have symptoms of depression are more likely to eat junk food.
But let's shift gears from focusing on the negative side of things and focus on how to turn around our diets and potentially our moods.
Consider trading in your junk food addiction and adopting these mood-boosting habits: Healthy Bites appears weekly on Livescience.
The Scoop on 7 Perfect Survival Foods Starch vs. fiber The word starch often is confused with fiber.
Soluble fiber dissolves in water making food more viscous slowing digestion and prolonging the feeling of fullness.
A stressed grapevine will produce smaller grapes perfect for making wine according to motherearthnews. com. http://www. motherearthnews. com/Real-Food/2003-04-01/Growing-Grapes
People typically become ill from Salmonella about 12 to 72 hours after eating food contaminated with the bacteria the CDC said.
 We want it to be a nice wild animal not relying on people for food.
It may also cultivate a greater interest in trying new foods a new study suggests.
Australian researchers found that elementary school children had increased an willingness to try new foods after they had grown
A combined cooking and gardening program can have a dramatic impact on children's attitudes to food in a relatively short space of time said study author Lisa Gibbs Ph d. an associate director at the Jack Brockhoff Child Health
Tasting new foods Children participating in the program spent at least 45 minutes a week in the garden with a garden specialist.
and shared new foods with their classmates weekly said Gibbs. During these lunches which featured dishes ranging from pasta
and salads to curries and handmade pastries children were encouraged to taste the foods but they were under no pressure to eat them.
Surveys completed at the end of the kitchen garden program found that kids in the program group were twice as willing to try new foods as children who did not participate in a structured program.
At the beginning of the study parents in schools with the kitchen garden program reported that nearly 39 percent of children were willing to try a new food
By contrast 32 percent of parents at schools without the formal program said their child would sample a new food
Seeds of change School-based kitchen and gardening programs are a great way to help children understand where their food comes from
Kalich said she wasn't surprised that the study only found evidence of an increased willingness on the part of children to taste new foods.
since children ages 8 through 12 still have pronounced a fear of new foods. Although the ideal research outcome would show that a school-based kitchen
and gardening program actually boosted the amount of healthy foods children ate such a result usually occurs over time as kids transition from rejecting new foods to accepting
Children who grow food and prepare it are more likely to try it. This story was provided by Myhealthnewsdaily a sister site to Livescience.
if the food was adorned with a sticker of Elmo the familiar Sesame street character. Pass it on:
10 Things You Didn't Know About Food<p>" I' ve never eaten a museum exhibit before"
said a man sampling hydroponic watercress this week during a preview of the new exhibition on food at New York'
Food Nature Culture" opens Nov 17 taking visitors on an interactive visual tour of food as sustenance entertainment ritual and more.
The show explores the surprising history of many favorite foods and displays sample meals of people like writer Jane Austen Olympic athlete Michael Phelps and Mongolian leader Kublai Khan.
Visitors can even sample treats inside a working kitchen and take a test to tell
</p><p>About 30 percent of all food produced is eaten never. The world<a href=http://www. livescience. com/14447-global-food-shortage-urgent-climate-global-warming. html>produces enough food</a>to feed all its human inhabitants
but the problem is distribution — the food doesn' t always get to the people who need it.
For example just one U s. family of four wastes 1656 pounds (751 kilograms) of food every year.</
</p><p>Wild chickens naturally produce only about 15 eggs a year but farmers have bred domesticated chickens to lay up to 200 or 300 eggs per annum.</
</p><p>Many of the foods central to cuisines around the world originated in The americas.
<a href=http://www. livescience. com/11377-7-perfect-survival-foods. html>7 Perfect Survival Foods</a p><p>People in Japan grow watermelons
t start<a href=http://www. livescience. com/15065-large-forks-curb-eating-study-shows. html>using forks to eat food</a>until the mid 1800s.
and spoons to transfer food from plate to mouth. Meanwhile some people in China say the use of chopsticks over knives for eating there reflects the importance of scholars over warriors in Chinese culture.</
s ice-free land to grow crops and livestock for food.</</p><p>The technique of simmering food to cook it didn'
t develop until 10000 years ago because boiling food requires using airtight containers which weren'
t available until then.</</p><p>Women who eat very spicy foods while pregnant and breast-feeding can pass along an appreciation for hot dishes to very young children.
That' s why many small kids in places like India Mexico and Thailand can stomach foods much spicier than many grown adults elsewhere.</
</p><p>A person can be both overweight and malnourished if they eat too many a href=http://www. livescience. com/20339-fight-obesity-fat-tax-policy. html>fatty foods</a high in calories that lack the vitamins and minerals
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