Kashi Company Debuts Heart to Heart(TM) Whole Grain Crackers
New Snack Crackers Offer a Tasty Way to do More for Your Heart LA JOLLA, Calif., June 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Kashi Company, the premier natural food company, today announced the addition of whole grain crackers to its Heart to Heart(TM) family of foods. The new whole wheat crackers are as delici...Low-sodium advice for asthmatics should be taken with a grain of salt
Following a low-sodium diet does not appear to have any appreciable impact of asthma control as once thought, according to new research. "Despite the clear benefit of a low-sodium diet on cardiovascular risk factors, there is no therapeutic benefit in the use of a low-sodium dieton asthma contr...Dempster's Smart(TM) 100% Whole Grain Wheat Bread Launched With life'sDHA(TM)
COLUMBIA, Md., April 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Martek Biosciences (Nasdaq: MATK ) manufacturer of life'sDHA(TM), announced today that Canada Bread Company, Limited, has launched Canada's first bread product featuring life'sDHA, a patented, vegetarian form of DHA omega-3 for brain, eye and ...Barilla(R) Whole Grain Makes Healthy Eating Easy
Good for You Food Meets Great Taste CHICAGO, March 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Pasta lovers searching for a way to incorporate whole grains into their daily diet without sacrificing flavor need look no further. Barilla, the world's number one pasta maker, introduces Barilla Whole Grai...Whole grain diets lower risk of chronic disease
Diets with high amounts of whole grains may help achieve significant weight loss, and also reduce the risk of chronic diseases such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease, according to a team of Penn State researchers at University Park and the College of Medicine. "Consumption of whole grains h...Risk of Diabetes is Reduced by Intake of Grain Fiber and Magnesium
Higher dietary intake of fiber from grains and cereals and of magnesium may each be associated with a lower risk of type II diabetes, according to a report and meta-analysis in the issue of Archives of Internal Medicine. Projections indicate that the number of people diagnosed with diabete...Scientists Find Rice Gene for Grain Size and Yield
Chinese scientists have identified and cloned a rice gene that influences rice grain weight and yield, which could help scientists develop// higher yielding varieties of the world's most important food crop. Little is known about the genetic mechanisms that determine yield and seed weight in...Whole Grain Breakfasts Linked to Lower Heart Failure Risk
In an epidemiological study of 10,469 cereal-eating physicians taking part in the Physicians' Health Study, those who ate two to six servings// of wholegrain breakfast cereals reduced their risk of heart failure by 22 per cent. The research, presented last week at the American Heart Associati...Kiwifruit: Antioxidant Power in Quantity and Quality
...ZESPRI(TM) GREEN or ZESPRI(TM) GOLD kiwifruit provides twice the vitamin C of an orange, as much potassium as a banana and as much fiber as many whole grain cereals (4 grams and 2 grams per serving respectively). ZESPRI(TM) GREEN is fuzzy on the outside and tastes tangy and fresh, while ZESPRI(TM) GOLD has...New folic acid seal helps women choose enriched grain foods to help prevent birth defects
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., JAN. 9, 2008 Not enough American women understand that consuming the B vitamin folic acid every day can help prevent serious birth defects, and only 40 percent are taking daily multivitamin supplements containing this essential nutrient beginning before pregnancy, two recent s...Handbook of small grain insects available now
The Entomological Society of America (ESA), in cooperation with the American Phytopathological Society (APS), announces the publication of Handbook of Small Grain Insects, the latest in ESAs Insect Pest Handbooks series. This comprehensive color guide examines the biology and management of arthrop...Corn grain mould used as pesticide
In the early 1960s more than 100,000 turkeys died in Britain of cancer of the liver. Eventually, researchers identified mouldy peanut flour from Brazil containing large amounts of aflatoxin as the cause of this mysterious 'turkey X' disease. Even today the toxin is regarded as one of the most virul...Sustainable agriculture at the ESA Annual Meeting
...t perennial crops are the key to creating more sustainable agricultural systems. "Across agricultural history, we've fundamentally relied on annual grain crops," Glover says. "But at the same time we rely on them, they're degrading the ecosystems they're in, which reduces their productivity." To compa...Corn yield stability varies with rotations, fertility
...ected crop yields differently in poor- and high- yielding years. K.K. Grover et al. investigated the effects of long-term cropping systems on corn grain yields, yield trends, and yield stability over the last 16 years of a long-term fertility and cropping systems experiment at the Pennsylvania State Un...When children have breathing problems
... used measurement techniques to draw accurate conclusions about the actual pollution of breathing air. We filtered out particulate matter of different grain sizes, polycyclic aromatic compounds, such as benzo(a)pyrene, that adhere to these particles, and volatile organic compounds, such as benzene and hexa...Early initiation of Arctic sea-ice formation
... compelling evidence for ancient sea ice, as they rely on this medium for their survival," said Catherine Stickley. Moreover, their analysis of quartz grain textural characteristics further supports sea ice as the dominant transporter of ice-rafted debris at this time. "It is likely that sea ice formed...Clinical trial shows quadriplegics can operate powered wheelchair with tongue drive system
...ovements. At the beginning of each trial, Ghovanloo and graduate students Xueliang Huo and Chih-wen Cheng attached a small magnet -- the size of a grain of rice -- to the participant's tongue with tissue adhesive. Movement of this magnetic tracer was detected by an array of magnetic field sensors mount...Study highlights massive imbalances in global fertilizer use
...China, where fertilizer manufacturing is government subsidized, the average grain yield per acre grew 98 percent between 1977 and 2005, while nitrogen fertil... that nitrogen fertilizer use could be cut in half without loss of yield or grain quality, in the process reducing nitrogen losses by more than 50 percent. ...Omega-3 fatty acids appear to impact AMD progression
...y trigger a sharp rise and fall of blood sugar. Low-GI foods, such as whole grain versions of pasta and bread, have a milder effect on blood sugar response. ...by Taylor and Chiu suggests that daily substitution of five slices of whole grain bread for white bread out of a total intake of 250 g of carbohydrate might ...NIST discovers how strain at grain boundaries suppresses high-temperature superconductivity
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have discovered that a reduction in mechanical strain at the boundaries of crystal grains can significantly improve the performance of high-temperature superconductors (HTS). Their results* could lead to lower cost and signif...Martek Announces Launch of Oroweat 9 Grain Bread, First Bread with Martek's life'sDHA
COLUMBIA, Md., March 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Martek Biosciences (Nasdaq: MATK ) announced today the launch of the first bread product with life'sDHA(TM), its patented, vegetarian form of DHA omega-3 for brain, eye and heart health. The first and only U.S. bread with vegetarian DHA, Orowe...DuPont Expands Seed Production Capacity to Meet Growing Demand for Seed, Grain
New Facility in Oregon Will Help Ramp Up New Corn Hybrids Faster. Des Moines, Iowa (Vocus) November 6, 2008 -– DuPont today announced plans to construct a parent seed corn production facility in Hermiston, Ore. The expansion is one of many steps DuPont business ...More Can Be Done Now to Address the Growing Global Demand for Grain
Increasing Yields the Best Option, Says DuPont Leader at UN Food and Agriculture Conference ROME, June 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- More can be done now to increase the amount of grain farmers harvest from their land and help address the strong and growing global deman...Rapid heating prepares energy-saving zeolite for greater role in industrial separations
... they have been able to eliminate the formation of grain boundary defects that undermine the sieve-like qua...s in large area; and the difficulty in controlling grain boundary defects, or non-selective pathways at the crystal grain interfaces, which cause poor separation performanc...DuPont and Arzeda Collaborate to Develop Improved Crops to Increase Productivity
...otein engineering. Pioneer Hi-Bred, a DuPont business, is the world's leading source of customized solutions for farmers, livestock producers and grain and oilseed processors. With headquarters in Des Moines, Iowa, Pioneer provides access to advanced plant genetics in nearly 70 countries. DuPont ...DuPont Adds Cotton to India Seed Product Lineup
...rofitability. Pioneer Hi-Bred, a DuPont business, is the world’s leading source of customized solutions for farmers, livestock producers and grain and oilseed processors. With headquarters in Des Moines, Iowa, Pioneer provides access to advanced plant genetics in nearly 70 countries. DuPont ...Pioneer Hi-Bred and Beck's Hybrids Enter into Research and Distribution Agreements
...ed States. Pioneer Hi-Bred, a DuPont business, is the world’s leading source of customized solutions for farmers, livestock producers and grain and oilseed processors. With headquarters in Des Moines, Iowa, Pioneer provides access to advanced plant genetics in nearly 70 countries. DuPont...A*STAR scientists invent the world's only controllable molecule gear of minuscule size of 1.2nm
...RE is to create a truly complete working gear that will be the fundamental piece in creating more complex molecular machines that are no bigger than a grain of sand." Prof Joachim and his team discovered that the way to successfully control the rotation of a single-molecule gear is via the optimization ...