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- Food for Thought: A Salty Controversy over Sodium-and-Health Papers
10-21-2006 · Science News Online
A public-interest group has raised a ruckus over salt-industry payments to the authors of a nutrition journal's package of articles on salt's influence on health.
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- Food for Thought: Planting the Seeds for Folate Enrichment
03-24-2007 · Science News Online
Florida scientists have engineered tomatoes with 20 times the ordinary amount of folate, making them the most concentrated source of this important vitamin ever measured.
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- Food for Thought: Super-Size Mice—Fast Food Hurts Rodents
06-09-2007 · Science News Online
When rodents eat the equivalent of a fast-food diet, they develop health problems similar to those seen in the movie
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- Food for Thought: Infectious Foie Gras?
06-30-2007 · Science News Online
Foie gras contains misfolded proteins that, when given to mice, trigger disease.
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- Food for Thought: It's Spud Time
01-05-2008 · Science News Online
The United Nations wants more people to appreciate the potato's potential to fight world hunger.
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- Food for Thought: Don't Push Babies' Growth
02-17-2007 · Science News Online
Overfeeding low-birthweight infants risks programming them for high blood pressure later in life.
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- Food for Thought: Marlin Crash Is Worse Than Expected
03-03-2007 · Science News Online
A newly identified species of billfish resembles white marlins so closely that its presence might be masking how decimated Atlantic stocks of the marlin really are.
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- Food for Thought: Chocolate Constituent Bests Fluoride
05-26-2007 · Science News Online
The beans used to make chocolate can also render a tooth-decay-fighting extract; unfortunately, it's bitter, not chocolaty.
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- Food for Thought: Cloned Meat and Milk Are Safe, but They Won't Hit Stores Soon
01-13-2007 · Science News Online
A Food and Drug Administration analysis concludes that food from cloned animals is safe, but the effort and expense involved in creating these animals means that products from them won't be in markets anytime soon.
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- Old food meets new technologies, leaves food for thought
02-16-2007 · EurekAlert!
There are big changes driven by small forces in two of the oldest industries of the US economy -- agriculture and agricultural production.From the fields to the grocery store shelves, nanotechnology -- technology that allows the control of unique, sub-molecular properties of matter -- is revolutionizing the way food is produced, packaged and distributed, leaving many in the industry grappling with nanotechnology's numerous implications.
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