The focus of National Nutrition Month is on the importance of making informed food choices and developing sound eating and physical activity habits. The theme for this year is “Nutrition From the Ground Up.” One way for people to build better eating habits from the ground up is to stock the kitchen with plenty of [...]
A Dose of Daily Green
April 12, 2010 By
Anna Dvorak – At some point or another, almost everyone has heard that eating 5 to 9 servings of fruits and vegetables is good for us. If you haven’t heard, fruits and vegetables are our best protection against certain cancers, heart disease, cholesterol, and weight gain. Not only providing our bodies with important vitamins and [...]
Scientists Sequence Peach Tree DNA
April 3, 2010 By
Scientists have sequenced the DNA of the Lovell peach tree. The tree’s DNA sequence has opened a new era in fruit-tree research that could have far-reaching implications for the future of peaches, as well as many other valuable plants. This genome sequence is the culmination of an extensive research program pioneered at Clemson University under [...]
Breast Cancer Screening Is Not Beneficial: Study
April 2, 2010 By
Breast cancer screening has “no benefits” and it leads to needless treatment, a new study involving over one lakh women has claimed. The decade-long study questioned the benefits of organised screening programmes, saying women given mammograms and those who had none had “remarkably similar” chances of survival. The study by the Nordic Cochrane Centre in [...]
St. John’s Wort Collection Mined For Its Medicinal Value
March 31, 2010 By
A unique collection of St. John’s wort (Hypericum) curated by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists in Ames, Iowa, is providing university collaborators with genetically diverse, well-documented sources of this herb to use in studies examining its medicinal potential. In collaboration with Mark Widrlechner, a horticulturist with the ARS crop genebank at the North Central Regional [...]