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...preventive medicine division, a total of 39,310 female health professionals over the age of 45 completed a detailed diet and food questionnaire, 28,886 of which were used in the study. The questionnaire consisted of 131 items and assessed dairy products including skim milk, cream cheese, low-fat yogurt, and ice cream. “This was a large-scale epidemiologic study,” Manson said. “We were particularly interested in low-fat dairy products, specifically the role of calcium and vitamin D in the development of hypertension.” Both Manson and Wang...
...series of experiments, scientists at Purdue University compared weight gain and eating habits in rats whose diets were supplemented with sweetened food containing either zero-calorie saccharin or sugar. The report, published in Behavioral Neuroscience, presents some counterintuitive findings: Animals fed with artificially sweetened yogurt over a two-week period consumed more calories and gained more weight - mostly in the form of fat - than animals eating yogurt flavored with glucose, a natural, high-calorie sweetener. It's a continuation of work the Purdue group began in 2004, when they reported that animals consuming saccharin-sweetened liquids and snacks tended...
...overeat to compensate for phantom calories. But she says that the study does suggest artificial sweeteners somehow disrupt the body's ability to regulate incoming calories. "It's still a bit of a mystery why they are overeating, but we definitely have evidence that the animals getting artificially sweetened yogurt end up eating more calories than the ones getting calorically sweetened yogurt." (See the top 10 bad beverage ideas...
...sound far-fetched, but Yunus offers up a real-world example: a partnership between the French foods giant Danone and Yunus' Grameen Group to sell nutrient-enriched yogurt to poor children in Bangladesh. He calls it the "world's very first consciously designed multinational social business"?a company that doesn't insist on an ongoing return to shareholders. Whether there's enough motivation in boardrooms to make the idea grow is a big question, but there are some 100 million microborrowers around the world. So it's a nice client base...
...this effort for sustainable dining, our Yale contemporaries have beaten us to the punch. Through Yale University’s Sustainable Food Project (SFP), Elis enjoy four fully sustainable meals each week, and a sustainable entrée and side at every lunch and dinner. Organic milk, coffee, yogurt, tea, bananas, granola, and tomato sauce are available at every meal. SFP also manages a model college farm, fertilized by leaves that litter the campus in autumn...