Tahitian Noni International Expands HIRO(TM) Beverage Line With Super Fruits Sparkling Black Currant
Newest HIRO(TM) Beverage Provides Refreshing Taste with Benefits of Noni PROVO, Utah, Feb. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Tahitian Noni International today launches HIRO(TM) Super Fruits Sparkling Black Currant, the newest addition to its popular HIRO(TM) ready-to-drink noni-based beverage line. An all na...Consumption of fruits may reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease
Geneva, N.Y. January 30, 2008 Apples, bananas, and oranges are the most common fruits in both Western and Asian diets, and are important sources of vitamins, minerals, and fiber. A new study in the Journal of Food Science explores the additional health benefits of these fruits and reveals they a...Diet and cancer prevention: New evidence for the protective effects of fruits and veggies
PHILADELPHIA -- The age-old refrain, Eat your vegetables! gets scientific support as researchers present the latest findings on cancer prevention at the American Association for Cancer Researchs Sixth Annual International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention, being held December 5 8 in Ph...How to help baby like fruits and veggies
PHILADELPHIA Moms, want your baby to learn to like fruits and vegetables? According to new research from the Monell Center, if youre breast feeding, you can provide baby with a good start by eating them yourself. And, offer your baby plenty of opportunities to taste fruits and vegetables...P.A.C.K. Week Declared in Support of Fruits & Veggies-More Matters Month
Nationwide Effort Encourages Parents to Pack Assorted Colors for Kids CONCORD, Mass., Sept. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- As part of the new Fruits & Veggies-More Matters(TM) public health initiative, which encourages Americans to incorporate more fruits and vegetables in their diets, September has beco...First Jatropha Genome Completed by Synthetic Genomics Inc. and Asiatic Centre for Genome Technology
...p also owns 5 oil mills with a total milling capacity of 235 tonnes per hour and is reputed to be one of the lowest cost palm oil producers with fresh fruits bunches production of over one million tonnes. Asiatic is one of the early members of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). For more informat...Risk of Stroke, Heart Disease in Women Lowered by Mediterranean Diet
...ed by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute -- significantly lowered their risk of coronary heart disease and stroke. The DASH diet is high in fruits and vegetables and low in animal proteins. The study indicated for the first time that the diet, which had previously been shown to lower blood pressu...Grapes May Aid a Bunch of Heart Risk Factors, U-M Animal Study Finds
...h it's true that your mom told you to eat all your fruits and your vegetables, and that we are learning a lo...s Bolling. However, research on grapes and other fruits containing high levels of antioxidant phytochemica... grapes a day. Currently, five to nine servings of fruits and vegetables are recommended as part of the DASH...Wild Blueberries Take Top Spot in New Antioxidant Research Study
...t Wild Blueberries have the highest cellular antioxidant activity of the 25 fruits tested, as well as the highest total phenolic content and oxygen radical ab...Nutrition Advisor Susan Davis, M.S., R.D. advises choosing brightly colored fruits and vegetables with an emphasis on berries. According to Davis, berries are...Consumer Group Urges Gov. Schwarzenegger to Sign Stem Cell Bill Into Law
...e bill would help ensure that the people paying $6 billion for stem cell research -- the taxpayers of California -- will have affordable access to the fruits of the research they are funding. In addition the bill will help make the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) and the Independent Cit...European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition
...: 657-663 PubMed Miller AB, Altenburg HP, Bueno-de-Mesquita B, et al . fruits and vegetables and lung cancer: Findings from the European Prospective Inve...H, Peeters PH, Bueno-de-Mesquita HB, et al . Consumption of vegetables and fruits and risk of breast cancer. JAMA (2005) 293: 183-193 PubMed Verheus M,...Substance found in fruits and vegetables reduces likelihood of the flu
BETHESDA, Md. (Sept. 3, 2008) Mice given quercetin, a naturally occurring substance found in fruits and vegetables, were less likely to contract the flu, according to a study published by The American Physiological Society. The study also found that stressful exercise increased the susceptibility...Parents shape whether their children learn to eat fruits and vegetables
Providing fruits for snacks and serving vegetables at dinner can shape a preschooler's eating patterns for his or her lifetime. To combat the increasing problem of childhood obesity, researchers are studying how to get preschoolers to eat more fruits and vegetables. According to researchers at ...Chemical in red wine, fruits and vegetables stops cancer, heart disease, depending on the dose
The next cancer drug might come straight from the grocery store, according to new research published in the November 2007 issue of The FASEB Journal. In the study, French scientists describe how high and low doses of polyphenols have different effects. Most notably, they found that very high doses...First draft of transgenic papaya genome yields many fruits
A broad collaboration of research institutions in the U.S. and China has produced a first draft of the papaya genome. This draft, which spells out more than 90 percent of the plants gene coding sequence, sheds new light on the evolution of flowering plants. And because it involves a genetically mo...100 percent juices found as beneficial to health as fruits and vegetables
When it comes to some of today’s health issues, 100 percent fruit and vegetable juices do help reduce risk factors related to certain diseases. This conclusion is the result of a European study designed to question traditional thinking that 100 percent juices play a less significant role in red...Aloe vera coating may prolong freshness, safety of fruits and vegetables
Aloe vera gel is best known for its therapeutic effect on burned or irritated skin, but in the future you could be eating the gel as a healthful additive to your fruits and veggies. Researchers in Spain say they have developed a gel from the tropical plant that can be used as an edible coating to...UCLA welcomes startup to new incubator space at California NanoSystems Institute
...d to housing eight to 10 early-stage incubation projects for short periods of time. "The incubator program is an important way for UCLA to make the fruits of our world-class faculty's research available to the public as rapidly as possible," said UCLA Chancellor Gene Block. "California looks to universit...Osprey Biotechnics: More Trillions of Good Bacteria
...ore trillions of beneficial bacteria -- the hungry kind that open drain pipes, clean up soil and groundwater, treat waste water, and are beneficial to fruits and vegetables. Osprey Biotechnics is quadrupling its output this year from about 20,000 gallons a week to 80,000, and that's a lot of bacteria -...Alexion's Soliris(R) Receives 2008 Prix Galien USA Award for Best Biotechnology Product
...gical revolution and the breakthrough agents honored by the Prix Galien USA illustrate the substantial research and development necessary to bring the fruits of that revolution in molecular medicine to the clinic," said Gerald Weissmann, M.D., Prix Galien USA committee chair, New York University professor e...Massachusetts Company May Have Silver Bullet In Vitamin D Fight Against Disease
...lses -- flashed on mushrooms -- increases the vitamin D content in mushrooms substantially. Dole, the world's largest producer and marketer of fresh fruits and vegetables, has been treating Portobello and other mushroom varieties with light flashes and found that the vitamin D level increased significantl...