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New tools for sustainable farming

New tools for sustainable farming

Space & Earth / Environment

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Environmentalists are just as fond of talking about it as are politicians, economists or marketing experts - "sustainability" has become a buzzword. The problem is that the term sustainability can refer to ...


New FDA chiefs stress science, better food safety

Medicine & Health / Other

created May 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The huge salmonella outbreak from peanut butter represented a failure of the Food and Drug Administration, that agency's new chiefs declared Tuesday - one they hope to fix.


Consumers more likely to identify healthy food using traffic light nutrition labels

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 07, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Consumers are five times more likely to identify healthy food when they see colour-coded traffic light nutrition labels than when labels present the information numerically by showing what percentage of the recommended daily ...


Omega-3 fatty acids may benefit cancer patients undergoing major operations

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New research from Trinity College Dublin published in this month's Annals of Surgery points to a potentially significant advance in the treatment of patients undergoing major cancer surgery. The study was carried out by the ...


CDC: Most adults should restrict salt but don't

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 27, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 3

(AP) -- Seven out of 10 Americans should restrict their salt consumption, but very few of them do, according to a new government study. About 145 million U.S. adults are thought to be more sensitive to salt - a group that ...