Isle Royale Moose Continue Decline
...able, moose will turn to balsam fir and other less nutritious species. Peterson says the reduction in moose is good from the standpoint that it gives the island's vegetation a chance to recover from years of overbrowsing. He expects moose numbers to increase slightly if this year's calf production is good, but ...New Evidence For Corn's Ancestry Could Lead To Insect And Drought Resistant Crops
...hem accessible as a wild food. And "they arehighly nutritious and delicious," Eubanks said. Based on breeding experiments in the 1930s, Mangelsdorf and other researcherspostulated that the earliest true corn was derived from a cross between Tripsacum and a now-extinct wild corn. Under that view, annuallygrowi...Calorie Restriction Reduces Age-Related Muscle Loss
...nificant age-retarding effects of a restricted yet nutritious diet. Inaddition to extending life span in many animals, calorie restriction (CR)slows down age-related deficits in behavior and learning, immune response,gene expression, enzyme activity, hormonal action, DNA repair capacity,glucose tolerance and ra...Divorce, Insect Style: Termites Swap Mates
...d by termites because other parts of wood are less nutritious for agrowing family. The wood-mining colony, clustered around the original termitepair, can remain in place for years as offspring help with family duties, andone large log may host dozens of separate termite colonies. If the food runsout, termite...Infants, Toddlers Should Not Restrict Fat Intake, Experts Say
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Butter can be more nutritious than low-fat yogurt. An egg is more nutritious than broccoli. At least that's true for many infants and toddlers, and even children as old as 5 yea...Commercial Fish: Eat Up, Despite Low Levels Of Mercury
...hat the mostobvious explanation -- that fish is so nutritious that thosechildren who ate more were healthier than those who didn't --hasn't been established because the study was not designed tolook at such a link. But these results do show that the tests theteam used are sensitive enough to detect very subtle ...Children need their own dietary guidelines, say experts
... physical activity. "there should be a focus on a nutritious diet as part of a healthy lifestyle rather than a focus on dietary restrictions."...$6.75 Million to extend primate studies of diet and aging
...ended andthe rate of aging slowed by maintaining a nutritious but restricted diet,according to Weindruch. In the ongoing Wisconsin study, the influence of diet on aging is trackedby monitoring and measuring a set of biological functions, known asbiomarkers of aging, that tend to change as animals and people gro...Pollution makes crustaceans adapt rapidly
...algae. So thecrustaceans adapted to handle a less nutritious food that would have seriouslystunted the growth of their ancestors, and they became one of the important,natural controls for toxic cyanobacteria in the lake. The research, carried out at the Germany institute, documented the crustaceans'express-s...Algal food quality, not quantity, critical factor in healthy lake ecosystems
...port and food fish. "Phytoplankton that are more nutritious can have a major impact on the overall food web," Brett said. "What the study shows is that the rate at which zooplankton convert phytoplankton biomass to zooplankton biomass depends on the supply of this class of essential fatty acids. This gives ...Updated study shows baseline annual diet costs less for women than men
LINTHICUM, MD, April 13 --The cost of providing a nutritious diet remains less expensive for a woman than a man...ware to ensure that public-school students receive nutritious school lunches. Operations Research Milestone The economist George Stigler posed and solved what bec...Genomics project aims to create a "virtual plant"
...ting wild species and producing higher-yield, more nutritious crop plants." Added Henikoff, "While genetically engineered crops have received considerable bad press lately, we must realize that such crops as vitamin A-enhanced rice could have immense impact on human health, relieving the suffering of millions....Caffeine in colas: 'The Real Thing' isn't the taste
...ed soda drinking in children displaces eating more nutritious foods, possibly increasing tooth decay, obesity and bone fracture. "We know adults and children can become physiologically and psychologically dependent on caffeinated soft drinks, experiencing a withdrawal syndrome if they stop," says Griffiths...Fishing woes will cast need for aquaculture biotech
...nd are more efficient in converting feed into more nutritious meat. In 30 years, most of aquaculture seafood in the world will be raised in closed systems that produce a high density of finfish and shellfish of a higher quality with no wastewater reaching streams and rivers. Advances in biological filter system...Smoking, heavy drinking and poor nutrition tend to cluster
... increased among study participants, the intake of nutritious grains, fruits and vegetables decreased, Betts and colleagues found. The study findings are published in the current issue of the American Journal of Health Promotion. "Efforts to examine the role dietary intake plays in the development of chronic d...New study suggests honey can boost endurance performance in athletes
... prefer natural products will welcome honey as a nutritious alternative to sports gels. The study notes: Honey reduced time to complete a 64 km time trial by over 3 minutes (compared to placebo) Honey produced over 6% greater cycling power during the time trial (compared to placebo) Equal perfor...Activity decrease in exercising older adults linked to decline in resting metabolism
.... "It is important at any age to exercise and eat nutritious foods in order to stay healthy."...School kids as master gardeners
...arning, but they also enticed children to eat more nutritious foods, with students in the gardening program showing greater inclination to try something they had grown themselves than the same vegetable coming from a supermarket. Scientists along with area educators will hear reports on other youth gardening pr...Monsanto and researchers celebrate first anniversary of sharing rice genome sequence data
...research projects. These projects can lead to more nutritious and higher yielding rice, a staple crop that contributes to food security in developing countries. "Monsantos goal in sharing this data is to facilitate and encourage research to improve rice and related crops around the world, and we are excited tha...... whose people could use an inexpensive, yet highly nutritious food product like wheat. Critics say potatoes and tomatoes are another good example of what happens when countries fail to keep trade policies updated. In the U.S., for example, there are tough restrictions against growing imported cultivars of potat...