World food crops are in trouble, and continued drought across much of the US is causing harvests to decline and food prices to rise. Is there a food shortage in the world’s future, even in the affluent West?
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OK, hold on to your hats: the American Medical Association says that drinking coffee is good, eating eggs is good but eating margarine, which they once touted as a way to prevent heart attacks, is BAD.
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We recently warned you not to eat like an African. It’s better to eat a diet that emphasizes whole grains, and you’ll hear many messages urging you to do just that in the near future. But the government is not just concerned about our health…
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After a long stagnant period under Communism, the Chinese are again striding ahead and may eventually even start inventing things once more. The Chinese invented paper, gunpowder, silk and porcelain and now they claim to have invented noodles?and archeologists have found evidence to back them up.
Steve Connor writes in the Independent that archeologists have discovered a 4,000-year-old bowl containing the remains of a noodle dinner at a site in northwestern China. An analysis of the noodles reveals that they were made from ground millet and were thin, delicate and long, resembling the noodles that are still used in Chinese cooking.
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