Enjoy your meal!
Illustration by Lars Wannop
I remember when I was at school.
At 11 in the morning, as the bell rang, hundreds of pupils ran out of the classrooms to queue at the bakery.
Just one word to resume our thoughts: HUNGRY.
Sandwiches, pizzas, cakes, chocolate… those fifteen minutes were the most exciting moments of our young existence at school.
I cannot imagine what our reactions would have been at the bakery owner’s answer: “D’you prefer an apple or a banana”?
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Filed Under Food, Modern Life, Research, World Health
LA policemen go on a diet
When you think of an American policeman you probably think of a fat middle-aged man who loves sweets, especially doughnuts.
And this picture often coincides with reality.
That’s the reason why the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) has hired a full-time diet coach to chalk out special diet plans for overweight officers. Read more
Filed Under Food, Modern Life
No biofuel for farmer women
Imagine you are a woman.
Imagine you are a woman and a farmer.
Imagine you are a farmer woman living in a developing country.
This situation is not as rare as you think: actually women represent between 40 percent and 80 percent of farmers in the developing world.
Filed Under Environment, Food, Human Rights, World Health
Liberian-style spaghetti
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Since a few months rice has become too expensive for many people in developing countries.
That’s why people often prefer to change life-long habits and switch to cheaper staple foods such as spaghetti. Read more
Filed Under Food, History & traditions
$1,000,000 for fake chicken
After years of covering celebrities in body paint, P.E.T.A have finally hit the big league. The animal rights organization is offering one million dollars to anyone who can invent a commercially-viable method to produce fake meat. They are specifically looking for ‘in vitro chicken’, which means chicken grown out of stem cells, without feathers or bones.
I’m sorry to cut this blog post short, but I really need to get back to my laboratory.
The year of the potato
2008 is the International Year of The Potato, don’t you know it?
You should! Potato is an important food staple, the fourth world largest crop in terms of fresh produce.
Last week, as a part of the conference “Potato Science for the Poor: Challenges for the New Millennium“, Peruvian farmers and international potato scientists met in the Cusco Potato Park, located in the Sacred Valley of the Incas. Read more
Filed Under Environment, Events, Food, Research
Skinny dreams…
Illustration by Lars Wannop
Have you ever suffered from insomnia?
Every hour laying in your bed becomes eternal, you can not stop thinking of your work, you know your alarm could be ringing soon, you look at your boyfriend snoring next to you and you begin to hate him.
Did you know that you also run the risk to put on weight?
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