While studying a supercolony of Argentine ants in North carolina researcher Eleanor Spicer Rice then a doctoral student at North carolina State university spotted some Asian needle ants a strange sight as Argentine ants usually attack other
To investigate further Spicer Rice and Jules Silverman a professor of entomology at NC State studied how the two species were spread across a 116-acre (47-hectare) office park in Morrisville N c. Gallery:
This is the first time we've seen another ant species take territory from Argentine ants Spicer Rice said in a statement.
And because it is active at cooler temperatures it could move into a very broad range of territory Spicer Rice said.
The researchers gave between 450 and 500 members of the public who weren't whisky connoisseurs a glass of 12-year-old single-malt Scotch whisky
and includes dishes such as fried chicken collard greens black-eyed peas and corn bread. Tex-Mex popular in Texas and the Southwest is a blend of Spanish
A bowl of a high-fiber cereal might have up to 8 grams and a cup of cooked peas lentils or beans has up to 15 grams of fiber.
These came from olive wheat and many other plants such as stinging nettles and alder trees. However about 60 percent of this pollen came from plants that are pollinated by insects such as bees suggesting they may inadvertently have hitched along in a bee product such as beeswax instead of getting intentionally added to the medicine.
what little water reached the region to farm wheat grapes and possibly olives just outside the city.
#Arsenic in Rice Not a Risk Over Short term, FDA Finds Levels of arsenic in rice appear to be too low to pose health risks over the short term the Food
and Drug Administration said today (Sept. 6). The announcement comes after concerns about arsenic levels in rice prompted the agency to analyze more than 1300 samples of rice
and rice products testing them for both total arsenic and inorganic arsenic-a form of arsenic that has been linked to cancer.
Average levels of inorganic arsenic in rice grains were between 2. 6 and 7. 2 micrograms per serving.
Instant rice tended to have levels on the low end of this range while brown rice had levels on the high end the FDA said.
Products made from rice such as infant formula had lower levels of inorganic arsenic ranging from 0. 1 to 6. 6 micrograms per serving. 5 Things You Should Know About Arsenic The FDA still needs to assess
whether arsenic in rice might pose health risks over the long term (from exposure over many years)
and whether certain groups of people such as pregnant women or children might be more vulnerable to health effects.
In the meantime the FDA echoed advice it gave last year regarding concerns about consuming arsenic in rice:
Consumers should vary their grains-for instance by eating wheat barley or oats as well as rice. Parents can also consider alternatives to rice-based foods as their child's first solid foods the FDA said.
Research suggests that rice cereal has no advantage over other grains as an infant's first food.
Earlier this year the FDA set a limit for the first time on the amount of arsenic allowed in apple juice at 10 parts per billion (ppb)
Because rice is grown in water and takes in more arsenic it has higher levels than other foods said Suzanne C. Fitzpatrick the senior adviser for toxicology in FDA's Center for Food safety and Applied Nutrition.
A study published in 2011 found that people who eat more rice have higher levels of arsenic in their systems.
In that study researchers found that eating just over a half-cup of cooked rice is equivalent to drinking 34 ounces (one liter) of water containing the maximum amount of arsenic allowed by the federal limit.
Just how much rice you'd need to consume for it to affect your health is unknown.
Because levels of arsenic in rice are on the order of one-millionth of a gram a person would have to eat a ton of rice to get to this amount States said.
and ranching operation is looking out on a deep green field of sunflower vetch corn clover buckwheat savannah grass and other crops.
According to USDA data farmers who used no-till methods on corn in 2010 were 30 percent less likely to receive an indemnity payment from the FCIP than conventional farmers.
Planting a mix of cover crops like winter wheat and hairy vetch increases soil nutrients and water retention and prepares the soil for the next planting rather than depleting it.
Instead it encourages profits for risky planting such as repeatedly planting corn or growing crops on marginal land that requires heavy use of chemical fertilizers that depletes soil health.
 In the United states grain products such as cereal bread and flour are fortified with folic acid. Since it can be hard to obtain enough folate from food the March of Dimes recommends that all women of childbearing age get 400 micrograms of folic acid daily from a multivitamin.
When British farmers are struggling to increase their yields of wheat should they rely on genetically modified foods or imported (gasp!
The National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB) based in Cambridge has announced the development of a robust new strain of wheat the BBC reports.
The grain can increase crop yields by 30 percent while also boosting wheat's drought tolerance and disease resistance.
Though the new strain of wheat won't be available for a few years British farmers and food manufacturers heralded the announcement.
Wet weather in 2012 lowered crop yields and forced The british to import wheat for the first time in decades.
As a result iconic brands like Weetabix cereals have had recently to scale back production. Though genetically modified foods have been touted as a potential solution to feeding a hungry world NIAB researchers didn't use genetic engineering to create their superwheat.
Instead the researchers relied on ancient grasses crossbreeding them with existing strains of wheat the Daily mail reports.
It is about finding novel characteristics from the original ancestors of wheat and breeding them to make them as productive and resilient as possible Tina Barsby director of NIAB told the Daily mail. You can sometimes become too focused on one technology like GM genetic modification
and not look at other techniques that can bring you similar success Barsby said. Follow Marc Lallanilla on Twitter and Google+.
Gluten is a protein found in foods processed from wheat and other grains. Exposure to gluten damages the lining of the small intestine interfering with the absorption of nutrients from food and often causing abdominal pain.
This occurs in the lamina propria and crypt regions of the intestine when the patient eats specific food-grain antigens or toxic amino acid sequences.
These toxic amino acid sequences are found in wheat rye and barley. Research shows that some celiac sufferers can tolerate oats
while others cannot. There are nearly 300 symptoms related to celiac disease but the classic symptoms are diarrhea weight loss and malnutrition.
Wheat rye and barley are common in many foods like bread pasta baked goods and pizza.
So even French fries which do not normally contain wheat as an ingredient would not be cooked safe
They are made with potato rice soy or bean flour. Relief for many celiac disease sufferers can happen almost immediately after starting the strictly gluten-free diet.
Adding milk to cereal doesn't have the same benefit however. The milk becomes syrupy and sweet
The Chinese word for rice is fan which also means meal and it is a staple of their diet as are bean sprouts cabbage and scallions.
and supplements that may help to lower cholesterol according to the Mayo Clinic including artichokes barley garlic oat bran beta-sitosterol blond psyllium (found in Metamucil) and sitostanol.
Their primary piece of evidence is a woodcut from 1678 that appears to show a field of oat stalks laid out in a circle.
which an English farmer told a worker with whom he was feuding that he would rather pay The devil himself to cut his oat field than pay the fee demanded.
and intelligence that is behind the patterns not in the form of hoaxers but some sort of global psychic power that manifests itself in wheat and other crops.
but they do reap benefits from them including increased yields of cash crops like corn and soybeans.
Now a new survey of commercial farmers has confirmed that cover crops increase yields in corn and soybeans the most common crops in the U s. Moreover cover crops were especially effective under drought conditions.
Farmers who responded reported average increases of 11.1 bushels of corn per acre and 4. 9 bushels of soybeans per acre over prior harvests.
In percentage terms the extra bushels represent an average 9. 6-percent-greater yield in corn planted after the planting of cover crops compared with crops not preceded by cover crops.
The 141 respondents from those states reported an average corn yield of 11.3 bushels per acre
Farmers enjoyed better corn yields after cover crops in all but one of the states hardest hit by the drought.
Growers with more than three years of experience working with cover crops saw a 9. 6 percent increase in corn yields
whereas growers with one to three years of experience reported a still respectable but lower 6. 1 percent boost in corn.
and might be used more often in U s. agriculture Doug also discussed the success of conventional corn breeders who have increased drought tolerance at a steady pace of 1 percent per year over decades.
This article was adapted from Cover crops Dramatically Increase Corn Yields specially In Drought Conditionson the UCS blog The Equation.
Soft bland foods are recommended as well including bananas plain rice toast crackers boiled potatoes smooth peanut butter cottage cheese noodles and applesauce.
At Chipotle one could order a burrito bowl with rice beans peppers and onions and no sour cream.
Conversely the researchers found no association between Vitamin e an antioxidantâ found in high levels in oils made from safflower sunflower and wheat germ as well as nuts and nut oils.
and included women who mainly ate fruits salad fish and cereals. The traditional group's diet consisted mainly of vegetables red meat and chicken.
A recent study conducted by researchers at Ohio State university has found that rice leaves and butterfly wings make use of some unique surface characteristics that promote self-cleaning.
and engineering graduate student Greg Bixler shows that rice leaves and butterfly wings combine the low drag of shark skin with the superhydrophobicity of the lotus leaf putting these surfaces at the top of the list of nature-made self-cleaners.
The idea to look at rice leaves and butterfly wings came to the investigators from observing these structures in their natural habitats.
We noticed that water droplets on rice leaves and butterfly wings roll off effortlessly and that each remains clean in their respective environment says Bhushan.
and lotus leaves rice leaves and butterfly wings have special properties that make them particularly resistant to fouling.
Like shark skin rice leaves and butterfly wings exhibited low drag and self-cleaning properties.
Both rice leaves and butterfly wings contain micro -and nano-sized features that repel and direct water in one direction says Bixler.
By showing that rice leaves and butterfly wings combine antifouling properties of some of nature's best self-cleaners Bhushan and Bixler have identified new surfaces that can be used as engineering inspiration for a wide range of industries plagued by biofouling.
We are investigating methods to fabricate rice leaf and butterfly wing-inspired films for applications requiring low drag self-cleaning
Bushan's study on rice leaves and butterfly wings was titled Bioinspired rice leaf and butterfly wing surface structures combining shark skin
The team gave each group a supply of maize corn dyed pink and another dyed blue.
In two groups the blue corn tasted bad so the animals learned to eat only the pink corn.
In the other two groups the pink corn was unpalatable so the animals favored the blue corn.
After four to six months the researchers replaced the bad-tasting corn with normal-tasting stuff
but the monkeys continued to eat only the color to which they had become accustomed.
In one exception a low-ranking female ate the non-preferred type of corn probably
When baby monkeys that had tasted never either color corn were allowed to feed with their mothers the little ones ate only the color of corn their mothers ate
which was almost always the color of corn preferred by the group. Even the infant of the female who ate the unpopular color of corn copied its mother's food choice.
The infants'behavior provides an example of potent social learning Whiten said. Despite having no prior experience with eating the two types of corn the babies readily adopted their mothers'dietary preference.
Next the researchers observed what happened when young-adult males from each group migrated to another group during the mating season a common practice that ensures genetic diversity in vervet populations.
Of the 10 males that migrated to a group with a preference for the opposite food color from their native group seven of them chose to eat the corn that the new group preferred.
When no other higher-ranking males were present to intimidate them nine of the 10 males ate the popular color of corn.
Ancient mortars and grinding tools unearthed in a large mound in the Zagros Mountains of Iran reveal that people were grinding wheat and barley about 11000 years ago.
The team also found thousands of examples of wild barley wild wheat lentil and grass pea remains throughout the site some of the earliest evidence of agriculture in the world.
but evidence for domestication of wild strains of grains such as wild barley and lentils gradually emerge in the middle layers of the tell.
By the end of the period people had begun cultivating truly domesticated crops such as emmer an early form of wheat.
However most symptoms are caused by intolerances to foods such as wheat and other grains the sugar in fruits and honey dairy products and corn products.
A newborn joey can be anywhere from 0. 2 to 0. 9 inches (5 to 25 millimeters) long the size of a grain of rice to the size of a honeybee.
in addition to supplying workers with grain beer and other products. Vast herds...and herders In order to maintain this level of slaughter the ancient Egyptians would have needed a herd of 21900 cattle
Recently a rogue strain of Monsanto GM wheat was found in a field in Oregon.
Several Southeast Asian countries stopped imports of wheat from the U s. Pacific Northwest pending investigation financially hurting American farmers according to the Associated press. Agriculture biotechnology giant Monsanto uses high-handed legal
Huge soy and corn crops displace a more naturally diverse farming system one that uses fewer resources is more sustainable in the long term
According to the U s. Environmental protection agency about 84 million acres in the United states are devoted to corn and about 73 million acres are dedicated to soybeans a close second.
and corn two crops largely dedicated to processed foods? We should instead fill our fields with an array of fruits and vegetables!
instead with soybeans and corn much of it genetically modified catering to the food industry instead of to the health of Americans.
and corn will allow the country to grow more at a lower cost. But at what other costs?
At least 90 percent of the soy cotton canola corn and sugar beets sold in the United states have been engineered genetically.
I would regularly bake my favorite chocolate-chip bars and caramel popcorn both of which I made in childhood.
if you need a gluten-free diet 1. Have a complete check-up with your family physician. 2. Consult with appropriate specialists such as an allergist for wheat allergy and a gastroenterologist for celiac or another gastrointestinal disease.
If you have a wheat allergy you must avoid wheat but you do not have to avoid gluten from other grains.
3. If you do not have a wheat allergy 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
Gluten is a protein in wheat and some other grains such as rye and barley. 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 remained was a rubbery mass the gluten the protein in wheat that gives bread its structure.
These include barley bulgur cereal binding couscous durum einkorn emmer filler farro graham flour kamut malt malt extract malt flavoring malt syrup rye
semolina spelt triticale wheat wheat bran wheat germ wheat starch and oats that are labeled not Gluten Free
because they have been contaminated by gluten in the field or in the processing plant. What are examples of naturally gluten-free whole grains?
These include brown rice whole corn gluten-free oats millet teff sorghum wild rice buckwheat amaranth and quinoa.
What are wheat allergy celiac disease and gluten sensitivity? Anna Sapone of the Mucosal Biology Research center and Center for Celiac Research and her colleagues at the University of Maryland School of medicine reported on
Wheat allergy is an adverse immunologic reaction to wheat proteins a classic food allergy affecting the skin gastrointestinal tract or respiratory tract.
when both allergic (wheat allergy) and autoimmune mechanisms (celiac disease) have been ruled out through diagnosis by exclusion criteria;
Bad carbs aren't. Carbohydrates that come from white bread white rice pastry sugary sodas and other highly processed foods can make you fat.
Simple carbohydrates included sugars such as fruit sugar (fructose) corn or grape sugar (dextrose or glucose) and table sugar (sucrose.
Foods with a low glycemic index like whole oats are digested more slowly causing a lower and gentler change in blood sugar.
Try a hot cereal like old-fashioned oats or a cold cereal that has a whole grain topping the ingredients list. 2. Use whole grain breads for lunch
or snacks. 3. Bag the potatoes. Instead have brown rice bulgur wheat berries whole wheat pasta or another whole grain with your dinner. 4. Choose whole fruit instead of juice.
An orange has twice as much fiber and half as much sugar as a 12-ounce glass of orange juice. 5. Bring on the beans.
Beans are an excellent source of slowly digested carbohydrates as well as a great source of protein.
Consider the eye-opening case of the agribusiness firm Syngenta and its product atrazine a widely used agricultural pesticide on corn sorghum and sugar cane crops.
writes Michael Rice in Who s Who in Ancient Egypt (Routledge 1999. Regency and elevation to pharaoh With the death of Thutmose II the throne fell to Thutmose III a stepson and nephew of Hatshepsut.
More than 20 percent of products contained fillers such as rice wheat and soybeans in addition to the main ingredient.
Other products contaminated with walnut leaves wheat soybeans and rice might pose problems for people with allergies
or those seeking gluten-free products said study researcher Steven Newmaster an integrative biology professor and botanical director of the University of Guelph's Biodiversity Institute of Ontario.
 They twisted it said Chuck Rice a soil microbiologist at Kansas State university and a researcher on a project cited in Coburn's new report. 6 Politicians Who Got the Science Wrong Lazy research?
Not so much said Kansas State's Rice one of the study researchers. The Coburn report conflates the USDA grant with a separate study on the effects of climate change on cattle and bison.
The goal of the large USDA study is to develop more weather-resilient grazing systems for beef cattle in the southern plains Rice told Livescience.
The last couple of years with all the drought and heat people were shipping their cattle up north Rice said.
what ensures the findings from the project reach the ranchers who need the information most Rice said.
Rice's multiuniversity study on cattle grazing for example won funding only after an extremely rigorous application process that involved review by outside scientists
and a five-hour presentation to a USDA panel Rice said. Overall scientific grants are really more competitive now than they've ever been said before Halpern.
As such they need to be taken with the appropriate grain of salt. Although there is evidence of Bronze age habitation not far from Sparta it seems that the city itself was founded not until the early Iron age in the time after 1000 B c. Four villages Limnae Pitana Mesoa and Cynosoura
He managed to catch them by surprise winning a decisive victory and cutting off Athens'supply of grain from the Crimea.
By 8000 B c. the cultivation of wheat barley and other plants had spread from its origins in the Fertile Crescent through much of the Indo european world.
Ancient farms like those in the region today likely cultivated vineyards olives wheat and barley he said.
Food safety experts have found that much of the honey sold in the United states isn't actually honey but a concoction of corn or rice syrup malt sweeteners or jiggery (cheap unrefined sugar) plus a small amount of genuine honey according to Wired UK.
They can do this by following the grain of the ivory which shows which way the tusk grew.
The traces of ancient corn farms could reveal how many people lived in a legendary Maya city a new study suggests.
and fellow researchers looked for signatures of corn in the carbon isotopes (carbon atoms with different molecular weights) of 185 soil cores.
Many archeologists have assumed the Maya primarily grew corn or maize on the hillsides around Tikal much like the region's modern inhabitants do.
Knowing where they grew corn gives us a clearer picture about their civilization unknown until now.
But that's doesn't mean you have to  give in to that sugary-cereal sale just yet.
Add brown rice instead of French fries: Guess what? Pound for pound brown rice is cheaper than the fries.
You can probably even get a pound of dry rice for under $2. A cheap yummy and healthy snack:
Mix nonfat Greek yogurt with granola and berries. The big splurge here is the fresh fruit so during the off-season consider buying frozen and blending it into a puree.
The most commonly consumed vegetable among the children was followed carrots by broccoli peas sweet corn and cucumber.
Produits de Sud works with village leaders to train unemployed youth creating an entirely new stream of income for rural Malians to supplement subsistence millet farming
Wheat Basmati rice and pulses with chana (Bengal gram) are important staples of the Indian diet.
To get the higher amount a woman would only have to eat one cup of iron-fortified cereal
For example three-quarters of a cup of fortified cereal has 18 mg of non-heme iron
#Is modified Genetically Wheat Safe? Genetically modified wheat has turned mysteriously up in an Oregon field and while there's no evidence that the crop is in the food supply experts say it would be safe to consume.
The strain of GM wheat found in Oregon was developed by the biotechnology company Monsanto officials confirmed.
The finding was a surprise because as far as anyone knew GM wheat has never been grown anywhere in the world outside of experiments.
While other GM CROPS have been approved for cultivation GM wheat has not. Following the announcement Japan and South korea suspended some imports of U s. wheat
and the European union said it was testing U s. wheat shipments to make sure they did not contain GM wheat.
Years ago Monsanto did research on GM wheat but the company ended its tests in 2005 without bringing the crop to market.
Researchers are still investigating how the plants ended up in Oregon. Why no GM wheat?
The reason GM wheat was brought never to market is not an issue of safety but one of economics experts say.
For the United states wheat is exported a highly commodity and there was concern that if the country started growing GM wheat rather than natural wheat the U s. would lose global market share
because the demand for the GM product wasn't there said Margaret Smith professor of plant breeding and genetics at Cornell University.
In order for Monsanto to gain approval to grow GM wheat to sell the company would need to petition the U s. Department of agriculture said Gregory Jaffe director of the Project on Biotechnology at the Center for Science
and the Public interest (CSPI) a consumer advocacy organization Monsanto never completed this petition Jaffe said.
For its experiments the company required only a permit. Part of the reason Monsanto didn't follow through with its GM wheat may have been concern over the public's acceptance of the product.
A lot of GM foods that Americans eat are in a highly refined form like cottonseed oil or soy lecithin.
but we know we eat wheat Smith said. I think you see some heightened focus
Is GM wheat safe? 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.
Fields have to be torched after the tests are done and wheat is allowed not to be grown in those same fields for several years Sneller said.
But even if Monsanto's GM wheat got out (although there's no evidence that it has) it would be perfectly safe Sneller said.
The gene that is inserted into Monstato's GM wheat makes it resistant to the herbicide Roundup Ready Sneller said.
This same gene has been inserted into GM corn soybeans and cotton Sneller said At least 95 percent of GM soybeans contain this gene
and they're exported around the world and there's no health problems at all Sneller said. When Monsanto was considering GM wheat the company consulted with the FDA
and the agency said it had no concerns about the products'safety Smith said. Could GM foods be harmful?
Americans have been eating GM corn since 1995 and there have been no reports of ill health effects.
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