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Jon Brown has released BeFit 1.0, an easy-to-use Mac app that will help you track the caloric value of your meals. It's intuitive, functional and practical and lets you track your foods using limitless lists, multiple food groups, the Spotlight searching feature in OS X and more. You can even print out your food... |
29 August 2008
08:20 GMT |
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iPhone owners who usually don't like to eat at home have now a new app that can help them in finding the way to a good restaurant. Named LocalEats and developed by Magellan Press, Inc., the application relies on the GPS capabilities of Apple's handset in order to lead hungry people to a restaurant of their ... |
14 August 2008
07:14 GMT |
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Calories, a Mac app that lets you manage dishes and tracks your calorie intake, has been updated to version 1.1. When we first covered the app, we noted that NSObjects promised to include custom foods, printing, improved search and localized date and time features, with the next release. As it turns out, the develope... |
25 July 2008
05:44 GMT |
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Believe it or not, worms can calculate their way to food through a process roughly equivalent to a derivative in calculus. Unfortunately, humans and other animals are also able to do so, although there is still not enough evidence to support this claim. Basically, worms are able to locate food by tasting the environm... |
24 July 2008
06:59 GMT |
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Microwave ovens heat up food by generating an electromagnetic wave with an alternating electric component. As the wave interacts with molecules of water in the food, having a positive charge at one end and a negative one at the other, it forces them to rotate and align with the electric field. At the same time, other... |
17 July 2008
06:11 GMT |
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The Rights and Resource Initiative warns that by 2030 yet another massive chunk of the tropical rainforest will be gone in favor of agriculture as the demand for food and biofuels increases. The organization also points out that the governments of developing countries are rather reluctant in applying any reforms at a... |
14 July 2008
09:46 GMT |
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Most people would eat almost anything today, as long as it tastes good and it fills up their bellies, regardless of how healthy it is, the nutritional values or the bunch of chemicals they swallow up. No wonder that the US is currently facing a serious obesity epidemic - people suddenly forgot that food has a nutriti... |
3 July 2008
04:59 GMT |
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Human beings have prejudices and misconceptions about most things around them - and even about themselves. Our general tendency is to label things - people, foods, cosmetics - put them all in neat drawers in our minds and just think of them as "good for us" or, alternatively, "bad for us". However, when it comes to f... |
11 June 2008
18:00 GMT |
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Although this is not the first time when a species of monkeys are spotted fishing in rivers, the discovery of a silver-haired primate in Indonesia which exhibits similar behavior is definitely a first. In the last eight years alone on at least four occasions researchers have observed long-tailed macaques capturing fi... |
11 June 2008
03:45 GMT |
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Species of honeybees inhabiting the Asian and the European continent are somehow different from each other through the fact that they communicate using different languages. About 30 to 50 million years ago, honeybees split into nine species currently found all over the world and started developing unique communicatio... |
10 June 2008
05:00 GMT |
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If you were among those who thought eating was only designed for the pleasure (or on the contrary, the extreme distress) of our digestive tract and our figures, think again - as a recent study has come up with a rather surprising conclusion. Eating, say scientists from the Cambridge University in Britain, can be the ... |
6 June 2008
07:07 GMT |
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Most people take obesity as a consequence of a sedentary life, when in fact multiple studies carried out in the last two decades clearly show that the couch potato lifestyle can be blamed on overeating which is probably the most likely cause for the world's obesity epidemic. What most people don't understan... |
5 June 2008
09:06 GMT |
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As opposed to other cephalopods, the Chambered Nautilus has a relatively small brain and according to a new experiment it may have a simple memory as well, just enough to remember a particular event that took place several hours back, such as a flash of light that is associated with food."We were quite surprised to s... |
2 June 2008
11:17 GMT |
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Most of us are familiar with the basic principles of an allergic reaction - and at a simple level, it's not a very difficult process to understand. Allergies are basically abnormal responses of our body's immune system to an allergen - a substance that occurs naturally in our environment and which is harmle... |
16 May 2008
05:36 GMT |
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If you're planning to go on a diet and are contemplating cutting back on most of the delicious yet calorific dishes which delighted you at lunch time almost every day, wait until you hear what the latest studies in the effect of the mind on weight loss tell us. Apparently, thinking about food is not as bad as we... |
10 May 2008
07:00 GMT |
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We can't even begin to imagine life today without pizza or ketchup. However, the fact of the matter remains that these food items are recent culinary acquisitions of the European cuisine. A history of tomato cultivationWild tomatoes originate from the Andes Mountains. Ancient Indians ate them, but they did not c... |
7 May 2008
14:06 GMT |
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This gut-released hormone has already been called "the hunger hormone" but what we must know about it is that ghrelin not only increases appetite, it also makes you perceive food as more appealing, as signaled by a new research published in the Cell Metabolism journal. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) of ... |
7 May 2008
03:00 GMT |
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The Neanderthals inhabited Europe and neighboring areas of western Asia. Early proto-Neanderthal feathers were found in Europe in fossils which were 350,000 years old. 130,000 years ago, fully Neanderthal traits appeared. The Neanderthals started to be displaced by modern humans (Homo sapiens) about 45,000 years ago ... |
30 April 2008
03:28 GMT |
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This could be the dream of any junk food lover and sport hating couch potato: becoming slim without decreasing food consumption. In a research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, an Australian team has found a possible way of losing weight without limiting food intake, a breakthrough tha... |
29 April 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Working for Google is like a trip to paradise and most people who have been employed by the Mountain View-based company confirm it. Free food, swimming pools, restaurants, fast-foods, pool tables and gyms. They're all free for the Google employees. But, have you ever asked yourself how much is Google spending on... |
25 April 2008
04:31 GMT |
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The brave cartoon sailor based his power on spinach consumption or at least, that's what we know. But what's real the story behind all that?Spinach is an annually cultivated herbaceous plant with a taproot of up to 1.8 m (6 ft) long. The leaves are fleshy and dark green, reach in minerals, nutrients and vit... |
24 April 2008
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You may look at the stars like J-Lo or Madonna and see how they manage to keep in good shape. Genetics may play a percentage on how we look, but beyond anything, it is about hard work. And specialists are attentive to the multi-million bottoms or thighs of the divas. Here are some advices given by them for keeping fi... |
18 April 2008
16:21 GMT |
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Myth People (developer) and GoBit (publisher) have released Burger Shop for Mac, an interesting cooking game that looks a bit like Majesco's Cooking Mama for Nintendo Wii. You receive strange blueprints in the mail - you build a food-making machine - you're in business. A free demo of Burger Shop is availab... |
17 April 2008
10:21 GMT |
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Anorexia is not all about food. More than an eating disease, this is a mind problem with deep impact upon the people around. A new study, whose results were published in the new book 'Inside Anorexia: The experiences of girls and their families', and carried out by a team at the University of Western Sydney... |
9 April 2008
14:11 GMT |
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Food and mobile phones are both important for our lives, so why not combine them together? Cell phone straps that represent various food items are not something new, but these recently unveiled ones seem to be. Ever thought of wearing a bowl of soup with your phone? I know I haven't, and I also know I don't... |
7 April 2008
20:06 GMT |
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There is no doubt about the fact that everybody loves Mario, even though he's not as cool as Superman or as good looking as Lara Croft. Oh, yeah, Mario's a guy! Anyway, if you were wondering how much you really love Mario, a Japanese girl is going to show you, not any Japanese girl, of course, but the one w... |
4 April 2008
17:06 GMT |
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Hollywood actresses definitely know a thing or two about constantly being in the spotlight - and we could fill volumes with all that has been written on their eating habits, desperate dieting and health troubles stemming from faulty, "make me thin" diets. However, it's still mildly annoying for...well, pretty mu... |
2 April 2008
06:21 GMT |
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Men and women think differently, behave differently, have a different structure, and that's why it should be not such a surprise they eat differently as well. A new research presented at the recent 2008 International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases in Atlanta, Georgia, shows us how. Indeed, men remain... |
21 March 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Lazy people should sleep more. But how can a hard working man be an obese person? A new Japanese research shows that men who sleep less than five hours a night are exposed to turning obese and to having high levels of glucose in the blood, which is the first step towards diabetes."Lack of sleep triggers a hormone in ... |
14 March 2008
14:06 GMT |
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There are 8 living species of bears. Bears split of raccoons and bear-dogs about 35 MA ago. The first bears were small, resembling the dogs. Panda bear was the first bear to diverge from the branch that led to the other bears. The bamboo diet turned them big. Millions of years later, the ancestor of the other bears a... |
19 February 2008
10:19 GMT |
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The Big Mac combination may be an insidious caloric bomb loaded with starches and oils, but a new research of the plants that people around the world eat has found it, if you can believe this, as a symbol of a varied diet brought by globalization!The team from the University of Calgary and Stellenbosch University in ... |
8 February 2008
06:00 GMT |
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You are an animal lover, and you have decided not to eat anything coming from an animal. But with the meat and animal products out, you're going to miss many minerals, vitamins and nutrients. Watch out to this:1. Proteins are the "bricks" of the organism, and must contain all the essential aminoacids, in precise... |
1 February 2008
14:06 GMT |
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120 grams of lean beef contain 25 grams of high quality proteins, almost totally assimilable, unlike the plant proteins, which the body assimilates just in a proportion of 50-65 %. But proteins from the meat can be replaced by various foods. Proteins are the "bricks" of the organism, and must contain all the essentia... |
30 January 2008
14:06 GMT |
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A hamburger loaded with fats and carbohydrates followed by a fat and sugar rich ice cream are the worst solutions for easing your hunger. In fact, an American team has found in a research published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism that a high in protein meal seems to be the best solution for keep... |
30 January 2008
14:06 GMT |
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1. Today there are about 21,000 species of bony fish, inhabiting all marine and freshwater environments. Their number is larger than the number of all other vertebrates together. Compare this with about 50 species of lampreys and hagfish (jawless fishes) and about 700 species of sharks and rays (cartilaginous fishes... |
29 January 2008
16:36 GMT |
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The (European) walnut tree (Juglans regia) is native in a region stretching from the Balkans eastward to the Himalayas and southwest China. It is one of the oldest cultivated tree species. It forms a vigorous trunk of 18-25 m (60-83 ft) in height and over 1 m (3.3 m) in diameter. The tree grows slowly in its first ye... |
28 January 2008
16:36 GMT |
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Having an addiction problem? Well, this may mean that your mother did not eat well after conceiving you. A new research published in the journal "Addiction" shows that children whose mothers passed through a period of famine are prone to addictions later in life. The team from the Dutch mental health care organizatio... |
28 January 2008
02:43 GMT |
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1. Plants have in their structure xylem tubes that transport water and mineral salts and phloem tubes that carry the food. Both types of tubes are produced by a meristematic tissue called cambium. Xylem is produced inward, phloem outward. Death xylem layers form the wood. 2. The green pigment called chlorophyll allow... |
26 January 2008
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1. Despite the name of banana tree, Musa paradisiaca is a 7-8 m (23-27 ft) tall and robust grass, with a tree-like aspect. It has a false trunk made of the well developed sheaths of the leaves wrapping each other (the proper stem is very short). Upper leaves are very large, over 2 m (6.6 ft) in length and 40 cm (1.3 ... |
26 January 2008
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1.There are about 900,000 described species of insects, forming 80% of the described animal species, and scientists evaluate their actual number to be somewhere between 2 to 10 million species, including unknown species. Calculating the total number of insects on the globe, researchers found it overpassed by 200 bill... |
22 January 2008
16:56 GMT |
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Like anorexia, bulimia is a severe eating disorder. Only that in this situation, the person, instead of fasting, crams even 15,000 calories in two hours' time. Then, the person eliminates what she/he ate, by vomiting or taking laxatives/diuretics. Usually, the patient eats secretly and, after having consumed the... |
22 January 2008
03:23 GMT |
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1.Digestion takes place inside a 9 m (30 ft) long duct called digestive tube. It starts in the mouth and even if the food stays very little here, this is the place where the break down of the starches begins. The taste detects food's flavor, size, composition, texture and temperature. By chewing the food, the su... |
17 January 2008
16:31 GMT |
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1. The gall or bile is a yellow-greenish liquid deposited in the pear-shaped gall bladder. It is made of water, cholesterol, biliary salts and biliary acids, necessary for digestion, but also liver waste products, like biliary pigments and extra-cholesterol eliminated from the organism. The hormone cholecystokinin ca... |
17 January 2008
08:46 GMT |
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1.The small intestine is the part of the digestive tube connecting the stomach to the large intestine. It is an elastic and soft tube made of muscles and membranes, tightly contorted in the abdominal cavity, but with a length of 6 m (20 ft) if stretched. It has 3 parts: duodenum, jejunum and ileum. The duodenum is C-... |
15 January 2008
07:06 GMT |
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Any person has an ideal weight depending on sex, age, and the general shape of the body. Bit food disorders can affect severely this, and also the emotional state. An adult consumes on average 14 kg (30 pounds) of food per week. We need food to ensure the function of our organs (like heart and liver) development and ... |
11 January 2008
16:36 GMT |
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Oh... here's a little gadget that will surely get some people fired. You know how sometimes you hear a tune on the radio, but you never seem to get its name? Luckily, they have invented the music analyzer that records the melody and automatically searches its name on the Internet. Well, it seems you can do the ... |
10 January 2008
07:21 GMT |
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In a world of plastics and food additives, there's no wonder we're experiencing a boom in baby allergies. Breastfeeding may help avoid some baby allergies, but scientific researches have not really come with solid proofs that by avoiding certain foods during pregnancy, employing soy formula or nurturing the... |
8 January 2008
04:51 GMT |
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"We are what we eat". The food we eat has various chemicals with different functions: some deliver "building blocks" for our body components (bones, muscles, hair, teeth, nails) and repairing material. Others come with energy or eliminate toxins. That's why the diet must be balanced, a fact reflected in the ove... |
28 December 2007
14:16 GMT |
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Palm trees are more than the symbol of tropical beaches. Many have eatable fruits (dates and coconut are the most famous), while the wood is employed for building houses, including covering of the floors, and the leaves are employed for making of roofings, parquets, brooms and baskets. Starch is extracted from the sa... |
27 December 2007
09:54 GMT |
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The entomophagy or insect eating is considered disgusting in western societies, even if the Europeans eat all kinds of crustaceans and mollusks. But in the diet of our ancestors, they could have had an important place, judging from the diet of the chimpanzees. Other cultures do not reject insects at all, as they are ... |
20 December 2007
14:06 GMT |
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