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Portion Sizes in Restaurants Larger than Before

...ler portions compared to younger chefs who usually dish larger ones. This could be explained by "The older chefs were trained a couple of decades ago when portions were smaller," Flood says. "The younger ones grew up at a time when the cultural norms were bigger servings." While 76% of chefs referred to...

NHS Food Slowing Patient Recovery

...ity to choose meals in advance, while 18% said the dish of the day they liked sometimes ran out before the trolley reached their bedside. Patient forums conducted the research. These are official bodies set up by the government to represent the interests of NHS users. On interviewing a sample of 2,240 ...

Rescuing Injured Hearts by Enhancing Regeneration

...y could coax cardiomyocytes to multiply in a petri dish by inhibiting an enzyme known as p38 MAP kinase, which normally suppresses cardiomyocyte replication. [See: http://www.childrenshospital.org/newsroom /Site1339/mainpageS1339P1sublevel139.html] Engel and Keating (Keating is now at the Novartis Insti...

Researchers Develop Technologies to Devour Food Pathogens

...he process works by shining a laser though a petri dish containing bacterial colonies. A computer program determines the type of bacteria by analyzing how light is refracted-a unique "scatter pattern." Bhunia has shown his technology is capable of recognizing Listeria monocytogenes, a microbial pathogen...

Curry Could Help Keep Off Alzheimer’

...rom the disease, they found that those who ate the dish at least once in a month or once in 6 months had better mental performance than those who had never had it or had it rarely. Dr. Tze-Pin Ng, who led the research, told the New Scientist Magazine that it was remarkable to note that consumption of t...

Scientist Move A Step Closer To Treating Genetic Obesity

...very simplistic approach to say what we study in a dish (completely explains) why a person is obese. At the same time, taking it down to the simplest level is how you identify specific problems." The melanocortin-4 receptor's link to obesity was first reported in 1997 when scientists discovered that a m...

Measuring the Quantity of Information Passed on From the Eye to the Brain

...ell types. The guinea pig retina was placed in a dish and then presented with movies containing four types of biological motion, for example a salamander swimming in a tank to represent an object-motion stimulus. After recording electrical spikes on an array of electrodes, the researchers classified eac...

Thailand Tops in Rare Type of Cancer

...result of eating uncooked meat and fish, a popular dish especially in north-eastern Thailand. Of the six million Thais with trematodes some 97 percent hail from the North-east, The Nation reported. "Larp," or uncooked pork, beef or fish that is eaten with a hot sauce and sticky rice, is unique to nort...

Research Finds That Nicotine Hastens The Growth Of Lung Cancer

...surface of aggressive cancer cells in a laboratory dish had effectively halted their growth. Chellappan has however stressed that cigarette-smoking can nevertheless trigger the development of cancer. The researchers have explained that it is not yet known how nicotine makes cancers more aggressive, rela...

Suitable Culturing Medium, essential for Stem Cell Development

...working with. When you grow the cells in a culture dish you are actually educating them to become something very special.’ In that respect, the discovery sheds light on how embryonic stem cells diversify to form various neural structures, one of the fundamental mysteries of brain development, the resear...

White House recipes doing the rounds for commoners!!

...ts recounting the occasions for which a particular dish was created, and people feel close to the power of the president and his numerous illustrious guests. As an instance Scheib served buffalo steaks to the president of Mexico and a raspberry dessert that became Chelsea Clinton's favourite. He was ...

Bill Clinton On A Kill, To Bell The Bulge Out of Schools

...igure on the anti-obesity campaigners’ mandate, to dish out leaner and healthier choices. Nearly 35 million school-age children will stand to be benefited by the soda revamp. It is estimated that nearly 17% of U.S kids are grossly overweight, a bad prognosis for obesity related diseases. Even 10 year old...

Oven roasted Vegetables Can Cause Dental Erosion

...tudied how different methods of cooking vegetarian dish like ratatouille could affect its acidity. Ratatouille was acidic no matter how it was cooked, but it was noticed that oven roasting significantly increased the acidity of the dish, compared with stewing. Dr Chadwick explained that the acidity of r...

Poultry Industry Of Pakistan Stresses On Need Of Relief Package

...government has been requested to serve alteast one dish even if it is unable to serve the entire menu at weddings. The Prime Mister has further been requested to give attention to the observations of the World Health Organization (WHO), which states that well cooked chicken and other poultry products ar...

Women’s Day of Festivities during Attukal Pongala, Tomorro

...oldest temples in South India. The devotees make a dish of rice and jaggery as an “offering” to Goddess Bhagavathy, at the time when the head priest calls out the ‘ auspicious’ time. The administration is spruced up to provide protection, facilities and arrangements so that the festival celebration goes...

Chill Out With Chilly Chicken

...y at the capital,// with a chicken mela that would dish out all varieties of chicken goodies – Chicken biriyani, roast, eggs, fried chicken, chilly chicken, and what have you, all on the house and served on a platter. Ever since, bird flu got its way in India and hit the headlines on February 18, the p...

A Protein In Yoghurt Has The Potential To Fight E. coli

...of yoghurt to it and chronicled the results. The dish with the most yoghurt had the least E. coli, so Fasano was able to say that yoghurt kills E.coli, which kills six million people annually in the world, mostly children in Third World nations. --Edited IANS...

To Eat Or Not To Eat: Confusion Over Tandoori Chicken

...ken tikka butter masala, rated as the most popular dish in the country. The state stands unparalleled in retaining this glory for the past five years. Sadly, there has now been a drastic change in the eating habits of the Punjabi's. The sight of marinated chickens grilled over iron rods in local dhabas no...

LG To Market Air Conditioner Capable of Fighting Bird Flu

...g an enzyme contained in the "the pungent national dish kimchi" Apparently, //this enzyme will confer prot...e filter killed the deadly H5N1 virus. Kimchi is a dish made of pickled radish or cabbage and has garlic, hot pepper and ginger. The dish is very healthy an...

Bird Flu Scare Does Not Reduce Demand For Chicken

...thern China. Chicken happens to be the traditional dish consumed during the // ar New Year holiday. One seller at a market close to the border said Hong Kong residents would ask vendors to kill and pluck the birds to make it easier to get them through the customs. Hong Kong health authorities have alrea...

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