Eating green: the case for a plant-based diet.
A juicy steak at Outback. A roast beef sandwich at the deli. Beef and broccoli from your favorite Chinese restaurant. Most people know that beef increases the risk of heart disease. And some people know that much of the livestock industry mistreats animals. But few...

Evaluating the performance of sampling plans to detect fumonisin B1 in maize lots marketed in Nigeria.
Fumonisins are toxic and carcinogenic compounds produced by fungi that can be readily found in maize. The establishment of maximum limits for fumonisins requires the development of scientifically based sampling plans to detect fumonisin in maize. As part of an International Atomic Energy Agency effort to assist developing countries...

The American diet's long shadow.
It's easy to forget while we're enjoying a nice meal that our diet reverberates both "downstream"--in our bodies--and "upstream"--on the environment and the livestock we raise. This issue's cover story, an interview with, ahem, me, explores some of those consequences. As I was working on our new...

You are what you read.
"You are what you eat" is the old adage that applies to our bodies. But our personal philosophies, morals, and beliefs--as well as our health--are shaped by what we read. Since Nutrition Action doesn't have a book review section, I'd like to alert you to several interesting reads. ...

Maple Leaf Foods Launches Formal Process to Divest its Animal Nutrition Business, the Largest in Canada.
TSX: MFI www.mapleleaf.com TORONTO, Nov. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Maple Leaf Foods (MFI: TSX) today announced that it has retained RBC Capital Markets as its financial advisor to assist in the divestiture of Maple Leaf Animal Nutrition and related businesses. The process will entail a solicitation of interest...

Reading the food social movement: not all that long ago, most people considered food too common, too quotidian, to be taken seriously as a field of study, let alone as an agent of social change.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] If we didn't know it already, Slow Food Nation, a huge event held in San Francisco over this past Labor Day weekend, made it clear that we are in the midst of a food revolution. Although the idea of food as a social movement is...

Counting down cholesterol: heart-healthy eating means more than just watching your cholesterol, for teens as well as adults. New research is turning up more links between the foods your eat, cholesterol, and heart health. (nutrition).
Cholesterol and heart health may not be on your top-10 list of health concerns. But maybe they should be. "Even though teens don't usually pay much attention to heart disease, it's really important to start eating healthy when we're young," according to Jeff Hampl, Ph.D., R.D., assistant professor of...

Genetically Engineered Foods.
ARE THEY SAFE? Do you take insulin? Have you been vaccinated against hepatitis? Has anyone you know had a heart attack and been saved by a clotbusting drug? Genetic engineering has helped millions of people by turning gene-altered bacteria into microscopic factories that produce life-saving...

Everything you ever wanted to know about L-cysteine but were afraid to ask.
DID YOU KNOW THAT L-CYSTEINE--A COMMON dough conditioner, flavor enhancer in human and pet foods, and precursor in some dietary supplements--is most often derived from human hair or duck feathers and to a lesser extent from pigs' bristles and hooves? We reported the human and animal origins of L-cysteine...

A summer dinner, without the oven.
Byline: THE $10 GOURMET By Jim Boyd The Register-Guard Tom Bollag, chef-owner of Chef's Kitchen, decided it's often too hot to cook in the summer, so for this week's edition of The $10 Gourmet, he fixed three flavorful dishes featuring raw foods. His menu includes...