A food science journal has retracted a French study linking genetically modified foods to tumors and organ failure in rats that went viral on the Internet. Elsevier, the publisher of the journal, Food and Chemical Toxicity, said it was ...
The food processing industry and its raw food supplier allies have been clever at marketing their products as healthy while attacking the foods they replace as unhealthy. And it has worked both ways. Saturated fats including coconut oil ...
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For years I have gone into food stores and read labels only to not know what half the ingredients were. I got to thinking, that maybe I'm not alone when it comes to knowing what the rest of them are. So, I've put together what might be a ...
Coconut oil, from the research I have done, is by far the best of the best. I was pleasantly surprised to learn that the benefits of coconut oil include hair care, skin care, stress relief, maintaining cholesterol levels, weight loss, ...
With this coming February being American Heart Month and with the holiday gluttony behind us, maybe this is a good time to look at the causes and cure for heart disease. Heart disease is the number one killer in civilized nations with ...
It is well known that omega-3 and 6 fatty acids are essential for human health. The common advice is to get a good supply in your diet, you need to eat oily fish or take fish oil supplements on a regular basis. Unfortunately, the majority ...
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Most Americans have "hot meals" two out of every three sit downs per day, and usually that food itself has already been cooked, maybe at very high temperatures, and then processed, and finally loaded with preservatives and artificial ...
New information has surfaced in the West, Texas, explosion case that could alter the course of the ongoing investigation into what caused the disaster. As it turns out, West Fertilizer Co., which used to be known as Texas Grain Storage ...
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More and more consumers and corporations are touting the benefits of "local" foods, often described as "sustainable," "healthy," or "natural." According to the trade publication, Sustainable Food News, "local" as a marketing claim, has ...
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The All Pakistan cAssociation (APTMA) has said that it would soon unveil ‘Vision APTMA 2020’ aimed at boosting textile exports from the current US$ 13 billion to US$ 26 billion by 2020. Talking to media after assuming ...
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Norway-based TOMRA Sorting Solutions is set to establish a new facility in West Sacramento to manufacture food sorting and peeling equipment with an investment of $5m. The new 60,000ft2 facility will become the company's North American ...
Brad Kelley, the farm boy with 1 million acres Farmer guilty of defending family with shotgun The farmland gold rush may be cooling, but the fields of agriculture remain wide open to investment. Venture capitalists, DIYers, and a new ...
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United States agrochemicals firm Monsanto has terminated its plans to grow new types of genetically modified (GM) crops in the European Union over lack of prospects for cultivation in the region. The company said that it will drop all the ...
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It was a day of revelation as 2 million people in 436 cities rallied against Monsanto and declared genetically modified crops the beast of the age. Inflated numbers, but regardless, there were a legion of protestors that gathered worldwide ...
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Light-emitting diode (LED) technology has the potential to light up the African continent if the political will can be found, a major producer has said. LED technology was invented by Oleg Vladimirovich Losev in 1927, though it was ...