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Reykjavík, Iceland In the Icelandic language the words for "money" and "sheep" are the same. But under Iceland's current economic conditions, goes a joke doing the rounds, only one will put food on the table and a coat on your back - as long as you eat mutton and wear wool. With a flagging currency and a crippled banking sector, Icelanders are fast losing their jobs, savings and businesses. The government fears that some may even be losing their minds: the Icelandic Ministry of Health has set up an emergency mental-health center in downtown Reykjav...
...under his belt, Bonduel, 57, feels he can ride out the economic storm. But he acknowledges that his guests' more modest outlays have forced some changes on him. "For the first time ever, I closed the restaurant in August and went on vacation because no one was coming to eat," says Bonduel. "I do the cleaning myself, and to save money we've stopped sending the tablecloths out for laundering and pressing. I also had to let one of the cooks go ... We'll be fine, but we're having to tighten the screws...
...collagen-infused marshmallows. In Japan there's beauty ice cream. Food that used to be reviled for being fattening, like avocados, olive oil and nuts have been reborn as elixirs. Chocolate, once the poster food for appearance problems, now [claims to have] anti-aging properties. Maybe if you eat a lot of chocolate, your wrinkles will plump...
While vitamin D is found in some common foods, kids (not to mention their parents) don't eat them in sufficient amounts. Currently, most children get their vitamin D from fortified milk or orange juice; under the AAP's new guidelines, kids would have to drink at least four glasses a day. Vitamin D is also found in cod liver oil and fatty fish such as salmon or mackerel - not terribly popular with most youngsters. And while the best way to spur vitamin D production in the body is exposure to sunlight - typically about 10 or 15 minutes...
...Zhen Gong ’10 said he was accosted by one of the exhibition’s representatives as he was about to eat at a local restaurant...