| PLBuyer: Nutritional Scoring Tool Introduced - and Challenged
Topco Associates has come out with a new nutritional new scoring system, the Overall Nutritional Quality Index (ONQI), that uses a numeric score to rate any food item or recipe. The rating system uses a complex algorithm that incorporates nearly 30 nutrient factors and expresses them via a scoring scale of 1 to 100. What do you think of the simplicity of QNQI's 1-100 'at-a-glance' scoring system? Is it healthy or unhealthy for the grocery industry that so many nutritional scoring systems are being developed? REGISTRATION ONLY TAKES A MINUTE!
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Mothers Given Multiple Micronutrient Supplementation Give Birth To ...
When mothers are given multiple micronutrient supplementation (MMN,) they tend to give birth to children who are bigger and heavier. This is contrast to mothers given just iron and folic acid supplementation (IFA). The effect continues into the first three years of the children's lives, according to an article in the February 8 issue of The Lancet, which follows up the Lancet Series on Maternal and Child Undernutrition.
While it is already known that low birthweight affects child morbidity and survival rates in developing countries, it is not always clear what effect interventions to increase birthweight can have on child health. Dr David Osrin, UCL Centre for International Health and Development, Institute of Child Health, London, UK and colleagues from Mother and Infant Research Activities, Kathmandu, Nepal, has previously investigated this issue through a randomized controlled trial in Nepal comparing 1,200 women given either IFA (a control) or MMN, a supplement with the recommended daily value of 15 vitamins and minerals, during the second and third trimesters of pregnancy.
More support for lycopene's prostate benefits
Forty people took part in the new pilot study, which adds clinical data to an area previously lacking, according to the researchers in this month's Journal of Nutrition.Epidemiological evidence has suggested that tomato-based foods can protect men from prostate cancer. One study found that men eating four to five tomato based-dishes per week were 25 per cent less likely to develop prostate cancer compared to men eating tomatoes only rarely. Such findings are boosting the lycopene market, with growth rates forecast at over 100 per cent by Frost and Sullivan, albeit from a low base of around €27m ($34m) in 2003.Researchers, led by Silke Schwarz from the University of Hohenheim, recruited the men with BPH but no signs of prostate cancer, and randomly assigned them to receive either daily lycopene supplements (15 mg, LycoVit, BASF) or placebo for six months.Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) is a non-cancerous swelling in the prostate gland of older men.
Eww! Double dipping just gross, study confirms
COLUMBIA, S.C. - Keep an eye on the salsa this Super Bowl Sunday: A researcher inspired by a famous “Seinfeld" episode has concluded that double dipping is just plain gross. “That's like putting your whole mouth right in the dip!" George Costanza was admonished on the show after he dipped a chip twice at a wake. That's not too far off, said Clemson University professor Paul L. Dawson. Last year the food microbiologist's undergraduate students examined the effects of double dipping using volunteers, wheat crackers and several sample dips. They found that three to six double dips transferred about 10,000 bacteria from an eater's mouth to the remaining dip sample. .
China presses Sudan over Darfur peacekeepers
Next, anti-government organisations in the Darfur region should return to the negotiating table." China's role in Sudan has come under renewed attention since film director Steven Spielberg quit as an artistic director to the 2008 Beijing Olympic games, saying China had failed to use its sway in Khartoum to seek peace in Darfur. China is a big investor in Sudan's oil industry and is its largest weapons supplier. International experts estimate that 200,000 people have died and 2.5 million driven been from their homes since mostly non-Arab Darfur rebels took up arms five years ago. Even as the Chinese envoy spoke, powerful Sudanese presidential assistant Nafie Ali Nafie rejected any notion of accepting non-African troops in the UNAMID peacekeeping force until all African soldiers have deployed to Darfur.
New Latah Bistro Classes
Join Heather Black-DuPree, owner of Latah Bistro, for the Tastes of Tuscany cooking classes every Sunday from 12 to 3 p.m. The classes feature recipes from Siena, Italy where Black-Dupree recently took classes herself. "Heather's style incorporated a passion for food with stories, trivia and traditional cooking knowledge," the Duprees said in a news release. Future classes will include Latah Bistro Chef David Blaine and other chefs from the restaurant. The restaurant is closed so students use the kitchen and dining room for the private classes. When they arrive they'll meet other students, put on an apron and then start cooking. Recipes will be provided along with wine to sip and appetizers. At the end of the night, the group sits down to the three-course meal they made that night.
Letters to the editor (Feb. 4)
I do not know the true condition of city finances. But I do not want to receive additional services now just to find out, later, that taxes and fees must increase to fund these new services.Before the City Council and Budget Commission approve any service increases, they should be able to assure citizens that the increased services can be funded on an ongoing basis without future tax and fee increases.If they cannot, then the new-found revenue should be saved to offset future cost increases in base-level services.Rolland Baxter, CorvallisTo help Hillary, Bill should stay homeThe recent Opinion page piece about Bill Clinton's campaigning antics being "unbecoming to an ex president" ("Bill too tough for Hill," Jan. 29) seems to me to miss the point entirely.Quite a lot of his past behavior belongs firmly in that category, quite as much as his recent purple-faced rants in apparent support of the much-reviled Hillary.However, I feel it is time to share the real truth about Bill, which everyone seems to have missed.He doesn't actually want Mrs.
March Madness, or The Chuck Hagel Show
And then came the magical moment. Chuck Hagel on March 12, 2007: "I'm here today to announce that my family and I will make a decision on my political future later this year." Talk about flashbacks! It reminded many of Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech, or President Reagan's demand that Mikhail Gorbachev "tear down that wall." Dramatic stuff. OK, so maybe I'm just having fun with Hagel's speech, but given what everyone was led to believe, it was really a surreal event that left more questions than it answered. Chuck Hagel has become the conservative Republican Washington loves to love, like Arizona Sen. John McCain was in 2000 (Hagel supported him back then), because he breaks from GOP orthodoxy from time-to-time. And by "time-to-time," it's really about a single issue: the war in Iraq.
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