New study suggests that women eating PCB contaminated fish are less likely to give birth to boys
...e Great Lakes region of the United States who have eaten large quantities of contaminated fish. These findi...g charter boat captains to identify those that had eaten large quantities of potentially contaminated fish. Randomly selected members of the community who li...The spice of life: Antibody cocktail targets deadly foodborne germs
...foods that are prepared outdoors or meals that are eaten away from home, especially at salad bars and food bars. The spice could be helpful for travelers to foreign countries in which food-handling practices are suboptimal. It can even be added to beverages, including water and fruit juice, says Sunwoo. A...Eating eggs may protect against breast cancer
... years. They were asked how many servings they had eaten daily of foods such as milk, fruit, vegetables, meats, and sweets, which account for major sources of fat, vitamins and other essential nutrients. The analysis was carefully controlled to take into account other factors that may affect the risk of d...Larger nuts end up further from tree
...he ground and followed them until they were either eaten or grew into a seedling. He found that the vast majority of nuts were taken by acouchies, large guinea-pig-like rodents, which are active during the day. These animals mostly use the nuts for their food store. Each nut is buried separately at a diffe...UNC study confirms that food portion sizes increased in U.S. over two decades
...n calculated the average amounts of specific foods eaten in both calories and ounces at home, in restaurants and in fast-food restaurants for each survey year. "Portion sizes varied by food source, with the largest being consumed at fast-food establishments and the smallest at restaurants," she said. "Betw...Researchers decipher cause of parasites worldwide spread
...e a heightened ability to infect animals that have eaten the cysts that form in the meat of infected animals. Normally such tissue cysts are infectious only to a single species of animal, typically a carnivore that serves as the definitive host where sexual replication occurs. The ability of the young Toxo...Field Museum uncovers evidence behind man-eating; revises legend of its infamous man-eating lions
...00 years later. The Tsavo lions are shown to have eaten 'normal' prey throughout their careers. Although the study is ongoing, no human hairs have been recovered amid the hundreds of hairs reviewed to date. While broken limbs are certainly debilitating and may lead to man-eating, broken canine teeth do n...UCR entomologists report bee-dancing brings more food to honeybee colonies
...s nectar. It is the only insect that produces food eaten by humans. The University of California's entomological research in Southern California dates back to 1906. Over the years, the UC Riverside Department of Entomology has excelled in virtually all phases of entomological research and developed a scope...Sugar gene helps rice tolerate drought, salt, cold
...ent of rice grown worldwide and include the widely eaten basmati rice. But the same strategy, they note, should also work in Japonica rice varieties, as well as in a range of other crops, including corn, wheat, millet, soybeans and sugar cane. The researchers plan to report on their claims of increased f...Alzheimer's, nutrition, smallpox, and other 'Human Health Frontiers' addressed by AAAS speakers
...whole grains, he said, all carbohydrates should be eaten sparingly. Contact information on nutrition: Walter Willett at (617) 432-4680. SMALLPOX: Faced with the threat of bioterrorism, the federal government hasstockpiled more than 400 million doses of the smallpox vaccine. Its challengenow is to prepa...DNA evidence suggests 3 types of elephants roam Africa
...the forest regions. Because the fibrous vegetation eaten by the elephants continuously scrapes cells from their intestines into their dung, Eggert, Woodruff and Caylor A. Rasner, a research assistant in Woodruff's laboratory, were able to extract their DNA and genotype the dung samples. In a separate stud...Plant detectives seek sources of invasive trees
...studies show that an Arizona saltcedar will not be eaten by certain Asian insects known to like saltcedars; these insects, instead, prefer plants that grow in Texas or New Mexico. So, there are different kinds of the plants in different areas. So far Schaal and Gaskin have found that the most common inv......animal, including the fur and all the insides, are eaten during social gatherings and certain important events. Women sometimes eat the bat as well, but only the breast meat. Yet, this delicacy may have been a leading cause of death for Chamorro adults in the 1940's. For many years Guam has been the focu...Hormone found to reduce appetite by a third
...decrease the appetite, reducing the amount of food eaten in a day by a third. The research, published today in Nature, shows how scientists from Imperial College London, with assistance from Oregon Health and Sciences University, USA, and the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Australia, discovered the ...Medicated ecosystems: Human drugs alter key aquatic organism
... in these ecosystems -- they eat the algae and are eaten by the fish. If something happens to Daphnia, it could affect both the algae and the fish populations." To determine the influence of pharmaceuticals on this key freshwater species, Flaherty tested Daphnia's biological response to commonly prescribed...'Fowl-howl' ties discovered between birds, monkeys
...ve matter," he explained. Because plants are also eaten by insects, the extra growth "allows for a high density of insects, which in turn allows for a high density of insectivorous (insect eating) birds," Feeley said. Since Terborgh's original survey, the Duke scientists have done additional bird censuse...Just one bite at a time: Researchers find snake with unusual feeding habit
...ng the stomach contents, it was obvious that crabs eaten by Gerarda were in pieces. Since crabs can drop (autotomize) their limbs and joints can break as a crab is captured and eaten, it was important to verify how the crab is actually pulled apart. So, Jayne brought the snake into his laboratory and recor...Caloric restriction research: moving from lab animals to humans
...g weight over time or expending more calories than eaten or eating fewer calories? And more importantly is CR feasible? Caloric restriction retards diseases and aging among lab rodents, and is now being tested in nonhuman primates with the goal to eventually identify and test agents that may mimic critical...Study: Higher energy intake, obesity affects all age groups, not just youths
...owing how uniform the changes in the types of food eaten and the locations of food consumption are across a...s about what and where they and their children had eaten over the previous few days and where the food they ate came, from such as stores and vending machine...Black raspberries a potentially powerful agent in fight against colon cancer
... that of other fruits commonly eaten in the United States, but researchers had not studied black raspberries. Using a device that measured each fruits ability to absorb free radicals, the researchers found that black raspberri...