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20080430
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Agriculture
- Factory
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- Poor
-  People
- Nutrition
-  Health
-  US
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-  World
-  Biofuel
-  Air
-  Soil
-  Water
-  Environment
- Animals
- Plants
-  Science
- "Shortages
Threaten Farmers’ Key Tool: Fertilizer." ... "Some
kinds of fertilizer have nearly tripled in price in the last year, keeping
farmers from buying all they need. That is one of many factors contributing
to a rise in food prices that, according to the United Nations’ World Food
Program, threatens to push tens of millions of poor people into malnutrition."
... "Rising demand for food and biofuels prompted farmers everywhere to
plant more crops." ... "Fertilizer companies are confident the shortage
will be solved eventually, noting that they plan to build scores of new
factories. But that will probably create fresh problems in the long run
as the world grows more dependent on fossil fuels to produce chemical fertilizers."
... "The demand for fertilizer has been driven by a confluence of events,
including population growth, shrinking world grain stocks and the appetite
for corn and palm oil to make biofuel. But experts say the biggest factor
has been the growing demand for food, especially meat, in the developing
world." ... "Fertilizer is plant food, a combination of nutrients added
to soil to help plants grow. The three most important are nitrogen, phosphorus
and potassium. The latter two have long been available. But nitrogen in
a form that plants can absorb is scarce, and the lack of it led to low
crop yields for centuries." ... "That limitation ended in the early 20th
century with the invention of a procedure, now primarily fueled by natural
gas, that draws chemically inert nitrogen from the air and converts it
into a usable form." ... "Environmental groups fear increased use, particularly
of nitrogen fertilizer made using fossil fuels. Because plants do not absorb
all the nitrogen, much of it leaches into streams and groundwater. That
runoff has long been recognized as a major pollution problem, and it is
growing." ... "A barometer of the pollution is the rising number of dead
zones where rivers meet the sea. In the Gulf of Mexico, for instance, nitrogen
runoff from fields in the Corn Belt washes downstream and feeds plant life
in the gulf. The algae blooms suck oxygen from the water, killing other
marine life." (1, 2)
-By Keith
Bradsher and Andrew
Martin -NYTimes
20070812
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US
- International
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 Seniors
-  Babies
- Science
-  History
-  Canada
-  EU
-  Washington
- "U.S.
now trails 41 other nations in life expectancy."
... "Americans are living longer than ever, but not as long as people in
41 other countries." ... "For decades, the United States has been slipping
in international rankings of life expectancy, as other countries improve
health care, nutrition and lifestyles." ... ""Something's wrong here when
one of the richest countries in the world, the one that spends the most
on health care, is not able to keep up with other countries," said Dr.
Christopher Murray, head of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
at the University of Washington." ... "A baby born in the United States
in 2004 will live an average of 77.9 years." ... "That life expectancy
ranks 42nd, down from 11th two decades earlier, according to international
numbers provided by the Census Bureau and domestic numbers from the National
Center for Health Statistics." ... "Researchers said several factors have
contributed to the United States falling behind other industrialized nations."
... "A major one is that 45 million Americans lack health insurance, while
Canada and many European countries have universal health care, they say."
... "Adults in the United States have one of the highest obesity rates
in the world." ... "A relatively high percentage of babies born in the
U.S. die before their first birthday, compared with other industrialized
nations." -AP
via -AZStarNet.com
20070217
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Global
- Children
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 Food
- Health
-  Poverty
-  Politics
- "18,000
children die every day of hunger, U.N. says." ...
"Some 18,000 children die every day because of hunger and malnutrition
and 850 million people go to bed every night with empty stomachs, a "terrible
indictment of the world in 2007," the head of the U.N. food agency said."
... "James Morris called for students and young people, faith-based groups,
the business community and governments to join forces in a global movement
to alleviate and eliminate hunger — especially among children." ... ""The
little girl in Malawi who's fed, and goes to school: 50% less likely to
be HIV-positive, 50% less likely to give birth to a low birth weight baby,"
he said in an interview Friday. "Everything about her life changes for
the better and it's the most important, significant, humanitarian, political,
or economic investment the world can make in its future.""
-AP via -USATODAY
20051212
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 Woman
- Food
- Nutrition
-  Sweden
- "Study:
Tea may help fight ovarian cancer." ... "Swedish
researchers have found tantalizing but far-from-conclusive evidence that
drinking a couple of cups of tea every day might help reduce the risk of
developing ovarian cancer." ... "Those [women in the study] who reported
drinking two or more cups of tea a day were 46 percent less likely to develop
the disease than women who drank no tea. Drinking less than two cups also
appeared to help, but not as much." -By Lindsey Tanner
-AP via -MercuryNews
20051206
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 Entertainment
-  Cartoon
- Marketing
- Children
- Health
- "Cartoon
characters caught in adults' food fight." ... "A
report Tuesday from the Institute of Medicine calls for dramatic changes
in the marketing of foods and beverages to children. For example, it asks
that licensed characters — such as cartoon stars like SpongeBob and the
princesses in Disney features — be used to promote only nutritious foods."
... "But in calling for marketing standards that support healthful diets,
the report does not define exactly what foods it's talking about. And not
everyone has the same definition of a healthful food." -By
Nanci Hellmich -USATODAY
20050419
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- Food
- "Government
Issues 12 New Food Pyramids: Out With the Old Food
Pyramid, in With 12 New Ones As Government Re-Evaluates Dietary Guidelines."
... "The government flipped the 13-year-old food pyramid on its side Tuesday,
added a staircase for exercise and offered a dozen different models, all
aimed at helping Americans trim their waistlines." ... "Criticism of the
new pyramid stood in contrast to praise that greeted the more detailed
"Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2005," released by the government in
January. Developed by a panel of scientists and doctors using the latest
research, the 70-page booklet served as the basis for the pyramid's makeover."
... "The guidelines' message was to choose foods packed with the most nutrition
and the least calories; for example, bread made from whole-grain flour
instead of white flour." (1, 2,
3)
-By Libby Quaid with contributions by John Heilprin
-AP
via -ABCNEWS.com
20020528
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"Study
Touts Broccoli to Fight Ulcers, Cancer." ... "It
started in 1992, when Hopkins pharmacology professor Paul Talalay and his
colleagues showed that sulforaphane -- a substance produced in the body
from a compound in broccoli -- could trigger the production of phase II
enzymes. The enzymes can detoxify cancer-causing chemicals and are among
the most potent anti-cancer compounds known." -By
Rick Weiss -WashingtonPost
20011121
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"Curry
'may slow Alzheimer's'." It's possible that
the spice "turmeric may play a role in slowing down the progression of
the neurodegenerative disease." ... "The crucial chemical is curcumin,
a compound found in the spice." .-BBC
/News /health
20011106
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"Easy
on the Joe?" ... "This isn't the first time
that caffeine has been fingered as a culprit in bone loss." ... "The latest
findings suggest that genetics are at play." -WashingtonPost
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