A Little Planning Helps Your Heart - and Your Budget

Convinced that eating a healthy diet will take a big bite out of your budget? Put the brakes on your next fast food trip, because food that comes through a window may be low in cost but high in fat and calories. And your health will pay the price!
“Many unhealthy foods are high in c...
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RASFF Food Alerts, Week 12

Here is the summary of food alerts issued by Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) last week
On 19/03/2014, too high count of Escherichia coli (1700 MPN/100g) was identified in organic mussels (Mytilus edulis) from Ireland. The product was distributed to France. RASFF reference No.:...
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Deep Ocean Current May Slow Due to Climate Change

Far beneath the surface of the ocean, deep currents act as conveyer belts, channeling heat, carbon, oxygen and nutrients around the globe.


A new study by the University of Pennsylvania’s Irina Marinov and Raffaele Bernardello and colleagues from McGill University has found that recent climate c...
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FSIS Educates Kids Food Safety

A core mission of The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is educating the public on proper food handling practices. The agency ensures that meat, poultry, and processed egg products are safe and wholesome. Recently, FSIS has implemented education food safety programmes for children....
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DSAS Recalls Dés de Saumon Atlantique Fumé

FRANCE – DSAS is recalling Auchan Dice Atlantic Smoked Salmon (Auchan Dés de Saumon Atlantique Fumé) because some of the batches may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.
Listeria is the name of a bacteria found in soil and water and some animals, including poultry and cattle. It can be pr...
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Illegal waste shipments: Environment Committee backs plan to step up checks

An Environment Agency worker inspecting a shipping container filled with refuse in Felixtowe, Suffolk, returned to Britain from Brazil. Businessmen who helped illegally ship 1,500 tonnes of household waste to Brazil are due to be sentenced at the Old Bailey.

Draft EU rules that would require...
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A diet to make you fat or fit? The role of 'sumo stew' in shaping a sumo wrestler

A recent study published in the Asia Pacific Journal of Sport and Social Science, ‘Bodies steeped in stew: sport, tradition and the bodies of the sumo wrestler’ by R. Kenji Tierney (Anthropology Department, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA), explores the meanings of ...
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Web Tool Successfully Measures Farms’ Water Footprint

A new University of Florida web-based tool worked well during its trial run to measure water consumption at farms in four Southern states, according to a study published this month.
The system measures the so-called “water footprint” of a farm. In the broader sense, water footprints account for...
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Not Just What You Eat

Over 35 percent of American adults and 17 percent of American children are considered obese, according to the latest survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Associated with diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and even certain types of cancer, obesity places a major...
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E3-production – sustainable manufacturing

Scarce and expensive raw materials, rising energy prices, climate protection and demographic shifts leave industrial production with a lot to contend with in the coming years. In the “E3-production” lighthouse project, Fraunhofer researchers are laying the groundwork needed to achieve sus...
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Ancient food webs show modern structure after mass extinction

Visualizations of the Messel lake and forest food webs: (left) lake food web, (right) forest food web. Spheres represent species and lines represent feeding links. Links that loop indicate cannibalism. The vertical axis corresponds to trophic level, with plants at the bottom level. Colors of...
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When your water is contaminated

Every year 300.000 Europeans are falling ill because of contaminated drinking water. A new high-speed test is being developed to identify the contamination of drinking water much faster than today and thus reduce the number of victims considerably.
Statistically, drinking water in Europe is...
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Climate Change Could Increase Thunderstorm Severity

This spring may be more like a lion than a lamb.
John Harrington Jr. is a synoptic climatologist and professor of geography at Kansas State University who studies weather events, how often they occur and the conditions when they occurred. He says climate change may be increasing the severity...
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Research reveals true value of cover crops to farmers, environment

Planting cover crops in rotation between cash crops — widely agreed to be ecologically beneficial — is even more valuable than previously thought, according to a team of agronomists, entomologists, agroecologists, horticulturists and biogeochemists from Penn State’s College...
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'Breaking bad': Insect pests in the making

Of thousands of known species of Drosophila fruit flies, just one is known as a crop pest, depositing eggs inside ripening fruit so its maggots can feed and grow. New research from the University of California, Davis, shows the similarities and crucial differences between this pest and its...
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Harsh Weather Conditions Increase Cost of Food

Many of your favorite products at the grocery store are going to cost more, according to Glynn Tonsor, associate professor of agricultural economics at Kansas State University.
“When consumers walk in the grocery store, they are going to have to continue to juggle what they put in those b...
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The Precise Reason for the Health Benefits of Dark Chocolate: Mystery Solved

The health benefits of eating dark chocolate have been extolled for centuries, but the exact reason has remained a mystery –– until now. Researchers reported here today that certain bacteria in the stomach gobble the chocolate and ferment it into anti-inflammatory compounds that are good for th...
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Most Parents Don’t Favor Bans on Nuts in Schools, Including Those with Allergic Kids

Parents of nut-allergic kids more likely than other parents to want a lunchtime without restrictions, according to U-M’s National Poll on Children’s Health
Most parents of kids with and without nut allergies don’t support schoolwide bans on nut-containing products, according to a new Unive...
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Fried foods may interact with genes to influence body weight

People with a genetic predisposition to obesity are at a higher risk of obesity and related chronic diseases from eating fried foods than those with a lower genetic risk, according to a new study from researchers from Harvard School of Public Health, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Harvard M...
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Study examines pesticide poisoning of Africa's wildlife

Poisons are silent, effective and cheap, making the especially dangerous in Africa where they are used for both pest control and illegal poaching. However, as a new study in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences reveals, they also kill un-intended wildlife.
Africa has a long history of...
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