Animals

At the request of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), U.S. Marshals seized various animal food products.
The products were stored under unsanitary conditions at the PETCO Animal Supplies Distribution Center located in Joliet, Ill. A warrent for the seizure was issued by the United States District Court in Chicago. The seized products violate the [...]

Yummy, thorny and cancer killers blackberries are one of the antioxidant super foods. New research demonstrates “for the first time that a purified compound of” blackberry juice inhibits tumors, say the authors cell biologist Min Ding and plant physiologist Shiow Wang researchers at the U.S. Agricultural Research Service.The compound isolated from fresh blackberries cyanidin-3- glucoside [...]

By Erin Peabody
They’ve been said to stall aging, ward off disease and wage internal war against the harmful free radicals that pummel our bodies every day. But just how well do antioxidants? Those all-powerful compounds often found in richly colored fruits and vegetables, such as blueberries, blackberries and red cabbage?actually perform inside the human body?
Nutritionists [...]

Antioxidants are an essential part of the body’s basic cell protection mechanism. Antioxidants can cancel out the cell-damaging effects of free radicals, and people who eat fruits and vegetables rich in antioxidants have a lower risk of cancer, heart disease and some neurological diseases.
Eating a diet rich in antioxidants may help you lead a healthier [...]

UK and US guidelines on how much physical activity children need to boost their health and stave off obesity need to be revised, conclude researchers in a study published ahead of print in the Archives of Disease in Childhood.
What’s more, less than half of boys and only one in eight girls manage the recommended weekly [...]

To turn your body into a fat-burning machine, eat small meals throughout the day
 
1. Rise and chow
If you think skipping breakfast will help you shed a few pounds, think again. Not eating a morning meal can actually trick the body into thinking it is starving, which makes it hold on to fat or cause you [...]

A reveiw of the results of two Scandinavian case-control studies Study finds that Alcohol consumption is associated with decreased risk of rheumatoid arthritis.
The study is published in the journal Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases.
Authors set out to determine the association between risk of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and alcohol consumption in combination with smoking.
Researchers reviewed the [...]

Big babies at birth are often admired, yet it may be a sign of trouble later in life according to data from a large new study that suggests that heavy birthweight babies twice as likely to develop rheumatoid arthritis . The study published in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases.
The findings are based on data from [...]

Invertebrates and warm-water species increase, bottom feeders decrease
A detailed analysis of data from nearly 50 years of weekly fish-trawl surveys in Narragansett Bay and adjacent Rhode Island Sound has revealed a long-term shift in species composition, which scientists attribute primarily to the effects of global warming.
According to Jeremy Collie, professor of oceanography at the University [...]

Carbon stored for thousands of years.
Researchers at the Missouri Tree Ring Laboratory in the Department of Forestry discovered that trees submerged in freshwater aquatic systems store carbon for thousands of years, a significantly longer period of time than trees that fall in a forest, thus keeping carbon out of the atmosphere.
The study is published in [...]