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Eating Fabulous

March 8th, 2007

Reduce Heart Failure Risk with Whole-Grain Breakfast Cereals

What’s up for breakfast today? Make habit of eating whole-grain breakfast cereals daily and you can reduce your risk of heart failure by up to 28%!
The analysis shows that those who ate a whole-grain breakfast cereal seven or more times per week were less likely (by 28 percent) to develop heart failure over the […]

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October 27th, 2006

Anthocyanin- and Lycopene-Rich Purple Tomatoes

During the height of the Football World Cup, I succumbed to the fad and bought fan items, including tomatoes. Those tomatoes on the left are supposed to represent the colors of the host country’s –Gemany’s– flag: black, red and gold. The black, though, didn’t really look black… more like deep purple.
Now I am not sure […]

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September 4th, 2006

More than Peas in Mendel’s Garden

I’ve entered a previous entry on genetically engineered tomatoes to Mendel’s Garden, a blogging carnival about everything genetics-related, hosted this time at Evolgen. There’s one other food entry I’ve spotted: DNA Talk marvels on the medicinal benefits of coffee, pretty much what I have enumerated in a previous entry.
What role genetics play there, however, […]

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