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POPSInteresting facts about Yogurt Yogurt is nothing but a semi-solid food with a slightly sour taste that is prepared by fermentation of milk with added bacteria. The benefits of this milk related product can be fully realized when served chill or in frozen condition, either with additional flavors or in a plain condition without any flavors
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POPSDoes green tea stop hair loss? Amongst the many goodies in green tea there are substances called polyphenol catechins. Evidence indicates that these polyphenols may block the action of dihydrotestosterone that sparks male hair loss.
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POPSFood of the week: Olives Tips for Preparing Olives: To pit olives, press them with the flat side of a broad bladed knife. This will help break the flesh so that you can easily remove the pit with your fingers or the knife. The brine in which olives are packed can be used as a replacement for salted water in recipes. Toss pasta with chopped olives, tomatoes, garlic, olive oil and fresh herbs of your choice. Marinate olives in olive oil, lemon zest, coriander seeds and cumin seeds.
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POPSOral Insulin Biocon is a fully integrated healthcare company that delivers innovative human oral insulin.
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POPSReal cider is hard cider, and tasty stuff indeed More: Finally, drinking cider is not an emulation of frou-frou British and French habits. Cider is America’s original beverage, a fixture in farmhouse cellars and dinner tables from the 17th century onward. When John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed , traveled the Midwest in the 19th century planting apple trees, the fruits were not Red Delicious. They were cider apples. Putting real cider on your holiday table — whether that holiday is Thanksgiving, Christmas, or Flag Day — is downright patriotic. It supports small producers and plant biodiversity.
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POPSMost Unusual Reasons for Divorce which became so popular that it survived to our days – kissing the woman on the lips. In Italy forced dishwashing and other house chores can also become an issue serious enough for a divorce. In Egypt one professor called the police and filed for a divorce on the grounds of having been deceived, after in his marriage bed he discovered the new wife to be bold. Koreans had 7 leading causes of divorce, the major one showing disrespect to the husband’s parents. Recently in the U.S. an obsession with a Rubik’s Cube became an excuse for a divorce as well as for partitioning of property between the two parties. In Japan sleeping in an unacceptable position is a perfectly legitimate reason for the judge to grant a divorce.
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POPSAsparagus, Our Ally for Good Health
These are the causes, but the comments below the article are very interesting too: Lifestyle and Diet Factors • Smoking and second-hand smoke. • Diet–too much meat, not enough fruits and vegetables. • Suntanning. • Absence of UV sunlight in some regions, reducing cancer-protecting vitamin D. • Obesity, and lack of regular exercise. Other Food Factors • Processed food such as nitrosamines, aspartame, some food colorants. • Bovine growth hormone in milk. • Some salt-cured, pickled, and smoked food. • Sugar and alcohol consumption. • Absence of cancer-protecting compounds in food not grown organically. • Food contaminated with pesticides and herbicides. Occupational Hazards • Workplace exposure to carcinogens including solvents, heavy metals, radiation, pesticides, diesel fuel, benzene, asbestos. Radiation • Solar UV radiation from ozone depletion. • Ionizing radiation from diagnostic x-rays, especially CT scans and mammograms; nuclear medicine, radiation thera
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POPSKefir Great for the gut, insomnia and even helps fight cancer
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POPSTurning Bacteria into Plastic Factories Cost will be the ultimate factor in whether this someday becomes a widely used plastic-making process; Genomatica says it's not sure how much its E. coli–produced BDO will cost, noting that results thus far have been confined to the lab.
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POPSSmall Fuel Refinery for Ten Grand. Feed stock, used to make the fuel, will cost about $1 per gallon, he said. ... “Henry Ford started the automobile revolution using ethanol, predicting that this renewable and accessible fuel would become the ‘fuel of the future,’ ” he said during the May launch of the Microfueler. “If not for the Prohibition laws in the 1920s and the subsequent rise of the oil industry, ethanol may never have lost its public appeal. E-Fuel will deliver on Ford’s prediction and enable consumers to bypass the costly oil infrastructure and their reliance on fossil fuels.” Butterfield is excited to be working in the field of alternative fuels again. He’s convinced that this time around, the oil market is not going to stabilize and prices will continue to rise. “I thought in 1980 the world was running out of oil. All the signs were there,” he said. “That was true back then, it’s just we were able to stave it off for 25 years. Now we can’t.”
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POPS|Energy Solution from Bugs This is an exciting development! Hopefully the reverse will now com true. When the "bugs" move - all the giant suckers in the oil business will tremble.
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POPSNew vegetarian food with several benefits Tempe is produced through fermentation with the aid of the micro fungus Rhizopus oligosporus. Tempe fermentation originates from Indonesia, but soybeans are used as the raw material there.
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POPSSweet Deal:Economical Biodiesel Chop up sugarcane. Feed it to bacteria. Produce diesel fuel. Bacteria will begin pooping out Mack-truck grade diesel fuel in test amounts next year and in commercial amounts in 2010 under a new joint venture announced today between a Northern California biotech company and a Brazilian sugarcane processor. Unlike ethanol, which draws the bulk of alternative biofuel attention, the bacterial fuel can be distributed through existing infrastructure, according to Amyris.
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POPSCoffee Tasting - Taints and Defects Coffee taste characteristics includes taints and defects in the tasting vocabulary. Sounds nasty. These taste idiosyncrasies can actually be preferable by many.
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