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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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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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Hungry for Nano
When it comes to nanotechnology, almost every industry wants a piece of the action. For more than a decade, the electronics industry has been exploiting the tools of nanotechnology for the development of high-performance computer chips. More recently, biotech companies have begun harnessing the same tools for diagnosing and treating disease. Now, the food industry is turning to nanotechnology as...09/20/2004 - 19:15 Technology -
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The Color of Controversy
When it comes to the safety of dyeing food, the one true shade is gray. Artificial colorings have been around for decades, and for just about as long, people have questioned whether tinted food is a good idea. In the 1800s, when merchants colored their products with outright poisons, critics had a pretty good case. Today’s safety questions, though, aren’t nearly so black and white — and neither...08/12/2011 - 10:13 -
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Soothing start to childhood weight problems
BALTIMORE — Parents who use food to sooth anger- and tantrum-prone infants may raise the likelihood of those youngsters becoming overweight or obese, according to preliminary evidence presented March 13 by psychologist Cynthia Stifter of Pennsylvania State University in University Park.“This type of parental behavior may promote an association between food and comfort in kids who are...03/15/2010 - 16:21 Psychology, Nutrition, Body & Brain, Humans & Society