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Health Highlights: Feb. 9, 2010
New Guidelines Coming on Use of Newborn Blood Samples Poor-Quality Malaria Pills Worry Experts FDA Wants Realistic Serving Sizes on Food Packaging
Your Food Environment Atlas
Food environment factors—such as store/restaurant proximity, food prices, food and nutrition assistance programs, and community characteristics—interact to influence food choices and diet quality. The Food Environment Atlas assembles statistics on...
Not worse is not better
If there is good news in this, it’s that the tidal wave of obesity is not sweeping up a larger proportion of Americans. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
Food Safety Tips for Healthy Holidays
FDA gives consumers practical food safety tips to help prevent foodborne illness
Barley Protein Concentrate Could Replace Fishmeal in Aquaculture Feeds
Read the magazine story to find out more. ARS fish physiologist Rick Barrows and Montana Microbial Products have developed a barley protein concentrate that could replace fishmeal to make a...
ARS Scientists Turn to a Wild Oat to Combat Crown Rust
Read the magazine story to find out more. ARS plant pathologist Martin Carson is using genes from a wild oat, considered by some to be a noxious weed, to help...
Yoga versus stress
Yoga and other kinds of meditative physical activity may do some measurable good against stress. Researcher Janice Kiecolt-Glaser of Ohio State University found signs of this when she compared 50...
Nutrition_gov: One week from today: The Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee Webinar... Written comments due tomorrow http://bit.ly/auUwWr
Nutrition_gov: One week from today: The Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee Webinar... Written comments due tomorrow http://bit.ly/auUwWr
ARS Researchers Develop Method to Speed Up Breeding of Scab-Resistant Barley Cultivars
Read the magazine story to find out more. ARS scientists have developed an efficient, cost-effective way to speed up the breeding of barley that is resistant to scab, one of...
Which kid gets diabetes
A tidal wave of diabetes is building as kids gain too much weight. At the Jewish Hospital of Cincinnati, Charles Glueck has been looking at ways to predict which kids...
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