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Fr ood From our reporter at the World Food Conference in Rome The assessment Though generally skirting the population issue, an "Assessment of the World Food Situation" compiled by the World Food Conference secretariat clearly shows that a food gap was building between developed and underdeveloped countries long before the present crisis and that its cause lies squarely in their population...11/16/1974 - 00:00 -
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Food
Fr ood From our reporter at the World Food Conference in Rome The assessment Though generally skirting the population issue, an "Assessment of the World Food Situation" compiled by the World Food Conference secretariat clearly shows that a food gap was building between developed and underdeveloped countries long before the present crisis and that its cause lies squarely in their population...11/16/1974 - 00:00 -
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Fossil fangs not so fierce
Anomalocaris, that fearsome predator of ancient seas, may have to return its title. A new analysis suggests that the monstrous shrimplike creature, which lived more than 500 million years ago, couldn’t handle crunchy food.Researchers modeled the stresses that Anomalocaris jaws would have undergone while feeding on snacks as hard as lobster tails. The team found that eating hard...11/05/2010 - 15:37 Earth & Environment -
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Greenhouse Gassed
"The last thing I'd want to get reincarnated as is a caterpillar," says David N. Karowe. He doesn't have anything personal against caterpillars; it's just that the future doesn't look very rosy for the fuzzy leaf chewers.Increased malnutrition, attacks by parasitic wasps, and death rates await caterpillars in the coming decades, predicts the entomologist, who's at Western Michigan University in...09/20/2002 - 15:12 Earth & Environment -
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Nectar: The First Soft Drink
Pressurized fizz and industrial processing aside, modern soft drink makers lag millions of years behind the curve, still catching up with the original purveyors of tasty, sugary beverages. Flowering plants have spent aeons competing with each other to coax animals to choose their formulation of something sweet. While sweetness is important, any devoted fan of a particular brand of soft drink...05/09/2006 - 09:29 Plants -
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One sleepless night weakens resolve in the face of doughnuts
An all-nighter tweaks the brain, weakening people’s willpower and making them more likely to succumb to double bacon cheeseburgers, a new study suggests. The results help explain the link researchers have noted between sleep loss and obesity.After staying awake through the night in a sleep lab, 23 people looked at pictures of food while undergoing brain scans. When calorie-laden foods such as...08/06/2013 - 11:57 Neuroscience -
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FOR KIDS: Junk food junkies
It sounds like a science experiment designed by Willy Wonka: Take a lot of junk food, feed it to some rats, and see what happens. Scientist Paul Johnson of the Scripps Research Institute and his team did just that. But their science experiment was no fiction. They had a serious goal: to try to understand how parts of the brain play a role in obesity. (Obesity is the condition of being...10/28/2009 - 17:48 -
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Sickening Food
If food that was going to leave you with gut-wrenching cramps — or more — tasted sickening, few people would indulge. The problem, of course, is that sickening food can taste quite scrumptious. Indeed, when the hour of reckoning arrives, many of us don't suspect what hit us — mistaking our discomfort for a stress headache, bout of flu, or jittery stomach triggered by nerves. Doctors, too, can...06/04/2002 - 09:47 Nutrition -
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Food Forays
Ever wonder what the Vikings ate on their lengthy voyages to new lands? What pioneers cooked on their treks along the Oregon Trail? Who invented the potato chip? The fascinating answers to these and many other food-related questions can be found at the Food Timeline, a collection of links to related Web pages, compiled by librarians at the Morris County Library in New Jersey. Links lead to all...12/02/2002 - 12:32 Nutrition -
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Food Feedback
S1EN(E NM6 The Weekly Newsmagazine of Science A Science Service Publication Volume 138, No. 11, September 15, 1990 E.G. Sherburne Jr. Publisher Patrick Young Editor Laurie Jackson Managing Editor Janice Rickerich Production/Design Director Bruce Bower Behavioral Sciences Ivan Amato Chemistry/ Materials Science Richard Monastersky Earth Sciences Janet...09/15/1990 - 00:00