Calories 1.1 Adds Custom Foods, Printing and More
	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, ... [read more >>]
	25 July 2008, 05:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Worms Calculate Their Way Towards Food
	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 environment in different places. They then approximate if the taste becomes stronger or weaker, and the result of the comparison is t ... [read more >>]
	24 July 2008, 06:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

New Ceramics Could Make Microwave Ovens Twice as Efficient
	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 molecules in the vicinity of the rotating ones are forced to vibrate, thus heating the food rapidly. Currently ... [read more >>]
	17 July 2008, 06:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

More Food and Fuel, Less Forests
	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 all regarding land ownership or governance. "Arguably, we are on the verge of a last great global land grab. It will m ... [read more >>]
	14 July 2008, 09:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Certain Foods May Actually Make You Smarter
	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 nutritional role only and is not meant to increase the body mass index. And why get fat in the first place, when you can stay thin a ... [read more >>]
	03 July 2008, 04:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Bad Foods Turned Good
	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 food and the kind of products that are beneficial for our health, few things can be labeled deci ... [read more >>]
	11 June 2008, 18:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Monkeys Also Fish
	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 fish with their bare hands in the East Kalimantan and North Sumatra rivers of Indonesia. The silver-haired primate recently fou ... [read more >>]
	11 June 2008, 03:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Different Bee Species Can Learn Each Other's Language
	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 communication languages. Honeybees 'talk' to each other through dance, thus sharing valuable information such as where flowers ... [read more >>]
	10 June 2008, 05:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Eating Helps Us Make Good Decisions
	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 key to making good decisions. Which means that there may be some truth after all in the whole string of clichés ... [read more >>]
	06 June 2008, 07:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Blame Obesity on Food not Sedentariness
	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 understand it that obesity is triggered by an imbalance in the body's energy management. The energy that is received by the body ... [read more >>]
	05 June 2008, 09:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Chambered Nautilus Has a Simple Memory
	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 see memory at all. Because their brain is so simple and because it lacks the dedicated learning regions of octopus an ... [read more >>]
	02 June 2008, 11:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Most Common Allergy Triggers
	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 harmless for other people. Such substances are pollen, dust, animal hair or even food. Virtually anything can trigger an ... [read more >>]
	16 May 2008, 05:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Memories Can Help You Keep Thin
	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 thought it was, especially if there's a weight loss goal involved. Scientists now believe that if actively tr ... [read more >>]
	10 May 2008, 07:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Impact of Tomatoes on Our Lives
	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 cultivation Wild tomatoes originate from the Andes Mountains. Ancient Indians ate them, but they did not cultivate them as that only came to happen much later. Through them, the plant reached Mexico, where the ... [read more >>]
	07 May 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The "Hunger Hormone" Makes You Perceive Food as More Delicious
	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 the brain revealed that ghrelin shots made reward centers react in a more pronounced manner to food images. Hunger ... [read more >>]
	07 May 2008, 03:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Neanderthals Ate Plants
	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 and about 24,000 years ago, the last of the Neanderthals vanished from southern Spain. The image of a Neanderthal is that ... [read more >>]
	30 April 2008, 03:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Breakthrough: Losing Weight While Not Cutting Down on Eating
	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 that could lead to fat-burning drugs. By manipulating fat cells in mice, the authors managed to increase the rodents&# ... [read more >>]
	29 April 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Pays $72 Million a Year for Employees' Food
	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 all these things? Well, the Silicon Alley Insider made an interesting analysis over the Google food budget, reveal ... [read more >>]
	25 April 2008, 04:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Secret for Popeye's Power
	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 vitamins. One plant has 8 to 12 of them. 100 grams of spinach contain 510 mg of sodium, 375 mg of potassium, 49 mg ... [read more >>]
	24 April 2008, 08:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

10 Tips for Keeping Yourselves Fit
	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 fit: 1. The best sports for toning up the buttocks are martial arts like tae kwan do, judo and kick boxing. 2. The train ... [read more >>]
	18 April 2008, 16:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Check Mail, Some Blueprints Are There for You
	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 available for ... [read more >>]
	17 April 2008, 10:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Way Anorexia Impacts the Others
	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, reveals the long term impact of anorexia nervosa on the physical, social, and psychological well-being of the who ... [read more >>]
	09 April 2008, 14:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Delicious (Or Not) Mobile Phone Straps
	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 want to, but there are mobile users out there who might have this desire. In consequence, some brave manufactu ... [read more >>]
	07 April 2008, 20:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Mmm, Mario Is Tasty!
	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 g ... [read more >>]
	04 April 2008, 17:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Rail-Thin Celeb Claims She Actually Eats. As If...
	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 much the rest of the world to hear rail-thin actresses the likes of Keira Knightley and Sarah Jessica Parke ... [read more >>]
	02 April 2008, 06:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

These Are the Sex Differences in Diet
	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 those blood-thirsty carnivorous beasts, being more prone to engulf meat and poultry, while women are those pea ... [read more >>]
	21 March 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Men Skipping Sleep Turn Obese
	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 the blood which stimulates the appetite (ghrelin, the most powerful appetite stimulant yet discovered). It ... [read more >>]
	14 March 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

You Did Not Know All These About Bears
	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 appeared in southern Asia. 10-12 MA ago, the running bears appeared. They had longer limbs than the modern bears ... [read more >>]
	19 February 2008, 10:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

We Eat 7,000 Plant Species! 20 Only in a Big Mac!
	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 South Africa has made a phyllogenetic analysis of what we eat (how are the plants we consume related). "Generall ... [read more >>]
	08 February 2008, 06:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Top 7 Food Dangers Stalking The Vegetarians
	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 proportions. Only proteins from eggs, meat, fish and dairy products are complete, that's why pl ... [read more >>]
	01 February 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Top 10 Alternatives to Meat
	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 essential aminoacids, in precise proportions. Only proteins from eggs, meat, fish and dairy products are comp ... [read more >>]
	30 January 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Want to Get Slim? Eat Proteins!
	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 keeping hunger in check, in a real breakthrough understanding of how various diets work. Proteins were found to ... [read more >>]
	30 January 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

10 Things You Did not Know About Bony Fish
	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). Of the bony fish, about 6,700 species live in freshwater (33.1 %), 1,625 freshwater species that can live for a time in sa ... [read more >>]
	29 January 2008, 16:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

6 Health Effects of the Walnuts
	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 years and starts fructifying late. That's why cultivated walnut trees are grafted for an early fructification at ... [read more >>]
	28 January 2008, 16:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Hungry Mothers Have Children Prone to Drug Addiction
	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 organization, Bouman GGZ, and from the Erasmus University Rotterdam made its study on persons born in Rotterdam ... [read more >>]
	28 January 2008, 02:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

8 Amazing Things About Plants
	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 allows the photosynthesis through which plants synthesize sugars coming from water and carbon dioxide. Even brown or red leave ... [read more >>]
	26 January 2008, 07:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

8 Things You Did Not Know About Bananas
	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 ft) wide. The plant originated in tropical Asia. 2. Flowers are hermaphrodite or unisex. At the end of the fals ... [read more >>]
	26 January 2008, 04:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

17 Amazing Issues About Insects
	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 billion times the number of humans. Insects live in various environments, from hot volcanic spring and hot deserts to frozen tund ... [read more >>]
	22 January 2008, 16:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Can Magnetic Stimulation Cure Bulimia?
	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 food and his/her anxiety is calmed down, experiences again the feeling of guilt. The wrong use of laxatives can destroy ... [read more >>]
	22 January 2008, 03:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

8 Things About Digestion
	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 surface of the aliments exposed to the action of the digestive juices is increased. 2.The saliva, secreted by 3 p ... [read more >>]
	17 January 2008, 16:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

8 Issues You Did Not Know About Liver, Pancreas and Bile
	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 causes the release of the bile through the biliary duct into the duodenum (small intestine). If there is no food in the intesti ... [read more >>]
	17 January 2008, 08:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

5 Facts About the Small Intestine
	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-shaped, bound through the peritoneal muscle (a membrane attached to the posterior abdominal wall) to the back part ... [read more >>]
	15 January 2008, 07:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Top 4 Eating Diseases
	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 remaking of tissues and fight infections. The adult body needs about 2000-3000 calories daily, a woman about 2200 and a m ... [read more >>]
	11 January 2008, 16:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How Do Food Tasters Work?
	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 same with foods and beverages. No more Coca-Cola instead of Pepsi light, and funny Italian voices at the pub! For music a ... [read more >>]
	10 January 2008, 07:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Food Allergy Myths Busted in the Case of Babies
	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 baby with solid foods beyond six months would work. The American Academy of Pediatrics has come with a new updated guida ... [read more >>]
	08 January 2008, 04:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

What Is Our Food Made Of?
	"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 overall health. The diet must be adapted to age, lifestyle and clime. 1.Proteins. The human body is made ... [read more >>]
	28 December 2007, 14:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

...Eat Palmito (Heart of Palm)!
	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 sago palm. But perhaps one of the least known and exquisite products of the palm trees is the palmito, or 'h ... [read more >>]
	27 December 2007, 09:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How to Eat Insects
	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 an easy and accessible source of proteins and fats. Eating insects for food is common throughout the world and dates back ... [read more >>]
	20 December 2007, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Top 6 Foods That Boost Memory
	The exam sessions mean mental and physical exhaustion. But there are some mental vitalizers helping you finish the course without problems or stress. After various hours of studying, the eyes get tired too. Tired eyes can be relieved by washing the area with fresh water, which gives a refreshing and relaxing sensation. When tired eyes are accompanied by an itchy sensation, a couple of cotton patches soaked in Eufrasia can be applied on the ... [read more >>]
	10 December 2007, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Green Revolution: Will We All Die of Hunger?
	Humankind, as a whole, has never faced the menace of having the factors that maintain it alive collapse. In your living area, an apple may be something banal, easy to get and perhaps diverse. But, while between 1804 and 1905 there were 7,098 types of apples cultivated in US, today 6,121 types (80 %) are extinct. 88 % of the 2,683 types of pears are gone. In 1949, in China there were cultivated 10,000 varieties of wheat; today just 1,000. ... [read more >>]
	08 December 2007, 03:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia