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Food crunch opens doors to bioengineered crops (AP via Yahoo! News)
Zeng Yawen's outdoor laboratory in the terraced hills of southern China is a trove of genetic potential — rice that thrives in unusually cool temperatures, high altitudes or in dry soil; rice rich in calcium, vitamins or iron.
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Nutrition Notes: Antioxidants During Cancer Treatment? (Kansas City InfoZine)
By Karen Collins, MS, RD, CDN - Conflicting news headlines have many cancer patients confused about antioxidant use during treatment. Although some reports claim that supplements like vitamins E and C, beta-carotene and selenium increase the success of radiation and chemotherapy, additional research says otherwise.
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Welcome to CAPETOWN – the seat of a government that for many years confused it’s people about the best ways for treating HIV. Vitamins, olive oil, lemon and beetroot, and a number of traditional therapies were promoted over scientifically proven life-prolonging anti-retroviral treatment.
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Food crunch opens doors to bioengineered crops (San Francisco Chronicle)
Zeng Yawen's outdoor laboratory in the terraced hills of southern China is a trove of genetic potential _ rice that thrives in unusually cool temperatures, high altitudes or in dry soil; rice rich in calcium, vitamins or iron. "See these plants? They can...
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Vitamin D Vital for the Heart (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)
MONDAY, Dec. 1 (HealthDay News) -- A lack of vitamin D, which is absorbed primarily through exposure to sunlight, helps boost the risk of heart attacks and strokes, new research finds.
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We took up to £20 of vitamins a month - then went cold turkey (Daily Mail)
Britons spend £330million a year on supplements. We asked three devotees to give up their pills - with fascinating results.
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Food crunch opens doors to bioengineered crops (Las Vegas Sun)
Sun, Nov 30, 2008 (7:42 a.m.) Zeng Yawen's outdoor laboratory in the terraced hills of southern China is a trove of genetic potential _ rice that thrives in unusually cool temperatures, high altitudes or in dry soil; rice rich in calcium, vitamins or iron.
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Food crunch opens doors to bioengineered crops (The San Luis Obispo Tribune)
By By ELAINE KURTENBACH -- Zeng Yawen's outdoor laboratory in the terraced hills of southern China is a trove of genetic potential - rice that thrives in unusually cool temperatures, high altitudes or in dry soil; rice rich in calcium, vitamins or iron. "See these plants? They can tolerate the cold," Zeng says as he walks through a checkerboard of test fields sown with different rice varieties ...
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Healthful beet tasty as well (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette)
To paraphrase Sonny and Cher: “The beet goes on.” OK, so shoot me, I’m a child of the ’60s and I took a little poetic license changing the spelling. Anyone who reads my column knows that this is just my way of saying “new idea for a column.” Photo caption: Beets contain potassium, vitamins A and C, magnesium, riboflavin, iron, copper, calcium and zinc. Photo by File
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Food Crunch Opens Doors to Bioengineered Crops (Wired News)
Surging costs, population growth, and drought and other setbacks linked to global climate change are pressuring world food supplies, while soaring prices on the street have triggered riots and raised the number of people going hungry to more than 923 million, according to U.N. estimates.With food demand forecast to increase by half by 2030, the incentive to use genetic engineering to boost ...
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