Word: cereals
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MAGICALLY DELICIOUS! General Mills recently announced that cereal sales were up 10% in the last quarter, a boon that the company attributes to more Americans' eating breakfast at home to save money...
...nice, but if other colleges learned that tailgating and watching sports is fun, why can’t Harvard play copycat? The act of watching sports together is nothing short of a religious rite at other schools. Come Monday, conversation-starved students can re-hash the game over their cereal in the dining hall and bond with their housemates over the events of the Friday before. Why was the night game was so much fun? It’s simple: because it didn’t feel like Harvard at all. For all the things Harvard does well, cultivating spirit...
...This disorder is found in industrialized, western nations - nations where diets have low dietary fiber. In Africa and Asia it is very uncommon," Strate says. Reliance on refined cereal grains may be a factor, Strate says, as well as red meat consumption, obesity, smoking, lack of physical activity, and perhaps even the impact of that daily aspirin so many Americans take on their doctor's advice. More study is needed, Strate says, to pinpoint causes...
Paleontologists hunting fossils of early man in the Rift Valley of southern Ethiopia call the area the cradle of mankind. This year it's bursting with life, especially in the fields where local farmers grow barley, potatoes and teff, a cereal used to make the flat, spongy bread injera. As a warm July rain falls on a patchwork of smallholdings half a day's walk from the nearest road, the women harvest yams, the men plow behind sturdy oxen and fat chickens, goats and cows roam outside mud huts. And yet for all the apparent abundance, this area...
...nutritional quality if more than 35% of total calories came from fat, or if they contained more than 35% added sugars by weight. The sodium content cut-off for full meals was 770 mg; for pizza, sandwiches and main dishes, it was 600 mg; and for individual servings of cereal, soup, pasta or meat, the sodium limit was 480 mg. By law, food labels must contain enough information to allow consumers to calculate all measurements...