Diabetics face fewer healthy food choices in some urban areas
...s compared 173 East Harlem and 151 Upper East Side grocery stores. The Harlem stores were much less likely ... or tomatoes. Less than 20 percent of East Harlem grocery stores stocked the recommended list of five diabetes-friendly foods, compared with 58 percent of the...Loyola decides to test new blood substitute in trauma patients at the scene of injury
...ers; and distributing flyers in schools, churches, grocery stores and public health centers. Loyola is one of 20 Level I trauma centers participating in the trial nationwide and the only one in Illinois. "If the blood substitute works the way we hope it will, it could be the first major advance since the i...Only half of recalled meat and poultry is recovered, study finds
...y little follow-up. If a product is already in the grocery stores and the stores don't put up big signs about the potential hazard, people might not get the message." But simply allowing the USDA to initiate a recall doesn't go far enough, Hooker said. "The success of recalls can get very complex. Our resear......this moment, there is contaminated beef sitting in grocery stores and personal freezers across the country," said Krull. Krull, with assistant chemistry professor Norman Chiu, are working to develop an antimortem clinical test, or assay, to detect chronic wasting disease, a variant of mad cow that affects de...E-Commerce and the environment: Good news or bad?
...mpact of conventional and electronic approaches to grocery shopping, book selling and scholarly journals are compared and the possibility of using product tags to improve recycling is explored. The research ranges from the U.S. to Germany, from Finland to Japan. David Rejeski, Director of the Foresight...Americans' knowledge of genetically modified foods remains low and opinions on safety still split
...s been estimated that 70-75% of processed foods in grocery stores contain GM foods, just 24% of Americans believe they have eaten GM foods while 58% say they have not, suggesting that Americans continue not to recognize the extent to which GM foods are present in foods they eat every day. Opposition to G...No detectable risk from mercury in seafood, study shows
...ngs apply to fish bought and sold commercially, at grocery stores, supermarkets, seafood markets, and restaurants. Those fish are already regulated based on their mercury levels. Consumers should carefully follow advisories about eating fish caught in lakes and rivers, since there are hundreds of polluted wa...B-vitamins prove effective in relieving chronic pain
...rovided in the vitamin counter at the neighborhood grocery story. B-vitamins, such as thiamin (B1), pyridoxine (B6), and cyanocobalamin (B12), have been proven to be clinically effective in treating various painful conditions such as lumbago, sciatica, trigeminal neuralgia, facial paralysis and optic neuriti...Free shuttles can close the grocery gap
...ses that disproportionately affect minorities. The grocery gap in inner-city neighborhoods has long been of c...cery-store chain $300,000 a year.For shoppers, the grocery gap means traveling to another part of town to find a supermarket, or buying groceries at a small co...Tea complements drugs in fight against colon cancer
...ecialty tea stores, over the Internet, and in some grocery stories. Polyphenols can also be purchased as a dietary supplement, the scientists said, but even less is known about how they function in the body, compared to the consumption of food products. The level of tea consumption in humans that might prov...More people are getting sick from eating fresh fruits
...fying the exact point along the way, from field to grocery store, where a strawberry or head of lettuce, for example, might have become contaminated can be difficult, if not impossible. Unlike other commodities such as beef and chicken, which are rigorously inspected, methods to detect pathogens on fresh pro...Female hormones found to protect against harmful effects of fructose
...laced sucrose (table sugar) as a sweetener in most grocery products some 20 years ago. Today, about nine percent of the average dietary energy intake in the U.S. comes from fructose. However, a number of nutritionists are alarmed by the amount of the public's consumption, as previous research has demonstrat...Observing proteins and cells in the wild
...livering its goods to a post office instead of the grocery store, the aberrant proteins disrupt the working community of the cell. By using quantum dots to follow these proteins once they are produced in body cells, scientists can get a better handle on what goes wrong in the sorting process that leads to di...K-State microbiologist secret agent in battle against E. coli, other foodborne pathogens
...ected. "We make zillions of salads and send to the grocery stores, but there is no control," Fung said. "The only control of little packages of salad is low temperatures but some pathogens can survive and grow in low temperatures." As opposed to foods that are cooked, Fung said prepared salad mixes are just ...Geneticists trace 'sticky' rice's origins
...ou cooked up a name-brand package of rice from the grocery store, for example - contains up to 30 percent amylose; the result is rice with grains that separate. Glutinous rice is the staple food in some areas in Southeast Asia, including parts of Laos, Thailand and Cambodia, the researchers say. Sticky rice ...Bloodworm's way with copper likely provides paradigm for new materials
...p and to pluck products from the high shelves of a grocery store. In contrast to the clamworm, the bloodworm's jaws are hollow, like syringes, and are used to conduct venom into the prey. The researchers found that the jaw tip exhibits the ordered crystalline structure of the copper-based biomineral atacam...UCSD researchers fabricate tiny 'smart dust' particles
...al substances remotely, using a laser similar to a grocery scanner, it also could be employed as an advanced ...series of bar codes by a laser that's similar to a grocery store scanner to tell us if the cloud that's coming toward us is filled with anthrax bacteria or if ...Healthy dessert: 'peaches and phytochemicals'
...ties available this year meaning they could be at grocery stores by 2005 that are the result of 10-15 years... are otherwise not available to consumers in local grocery stores. Byrne has spent his career trying to give Texas growers varieties that will fruit in areas ...Access to healthy foods limited in poor neighborhoods
...rolina. The poor neighborhoods had more mom'n'pop grocery stores and specialty food stores (fish or meat markets) than the wealthier neighborhoods. The nutritional difference, according to previous studies, is that supermarkets sell more healthy foods at lower costs than corner groceries and convenience sto...Method quickly surveys yeast genome by gene function, not sequence
... "While regular checkout scanners at the grocery store can only read one barcode at a time, the chip can read all the barcodes at once," says Boeke, co-director of a new microarray facility that will soon open to serve researchers at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Initial funding for the fa...