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Wednesday, March 27, 2013
John Kerry in Afghanistan on heels of President Karzai's U.S.-bashing
KABUL U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has flown into Afghanistan on an unannounced visit to see President Hamid Karzai amid concerns the Afghan president may be jeopardizing progress in the war against extremism with anti-American rhetoric.
Kerry arrived in the Afghan capital on Monday for a 24-hour visit and was to meet Karzai, civic leaders and others to discuss continued U.S. assistance to the country. His visit coincides with the handover of a major detention center to Afghan officials.
It also comes as Karzai has infuriated U.S. officials by accusing Washington of colluding with Taliban insurgents to keep Afghanistan weak even as the Obama administration presses ahead with plans to hand off security responsibility to Afghan forces and end NATO's combat mission by the end of next year.
CBS News correspondent Margaret Brennan reports that Kerry met Sunday night with a top Pakistani general, with whom he discussed how Pakistan can help ease the U.S. transition to Afghan security forces.
The changing U.S., Afghanistan relationship
Hagel denies Karzai claims that U.S. working with Taliban
Karzai irked Washington in early March with a suggestion that U.S. troops had acted in concert with Taliban militants to keep his own leadership weak -- a charge flatly denied by Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, who happened to be visiting Afghanistan when it was made.
The U.S. military gave control of its last detention facility in Afghanistan to Kabul, meanwhile, a year after the two sides initially agreed on the transfer.
The Monday handover of Parwan Detention Facility ends a bitter chapter in American relations with Afghanistan's mercurial president Karzai, who demanded control of the prison as a matter of national sovereignty.
The dispute threw a pall over the ongoing negotiations for a bilateral security agreement that would govern the presence of U.S. forces in Afghanistan after 2014.
Top U.S. commander in Afghanistan Gen. Joseph Dunford handed over Parwan, located near the U.S.-run Bagram military base north of Kabul, at a ceremony there after signing an agreement with Afghan Defense Minister Bismullah Khan Mohammadi.
"The transfer of the detention facility is an important part of the overall transition of security lead to Afghan National Security Forces. This ceremony highlights an increasingly confident, capable, and sovereign Afghanistan," Dunford said.
An initial agreement to hand over Parwan was signed a year ago, but efforts to follow through on it constantly stumbled over American concerns that the Afghan government would release prisoners that it considered dangerous.
A key hurdle was a ruling by an Afghan judicial panel holding that administrative detention, the practice of holding someone without formal charges, violated the country's laws. The U.S. argued that international law allowed administrative detentions and also argued that it could not risk the passage of some high-value detainees to the notoriously corrupt Afghan court system.
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Fruit flies fed organic diets are healthier than flies fed nonorganic diets, study finds
Mar. 26, 2013 ? A new study looking at the potential health benefits of organic versus non-organic food found that fruit flies fed an organic diet recorded better health outcomes than flies fed a nonorganic diet.
The study from the lab of SMU biologist Johannes H. Bauer, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, found that fruit flies raised on diets of organic foods performed better on several tests for general health.
"While these findings are certainly intriguing, what we now need to determine is why the flies on the organic diets did better, especially since not all the organic diets we tested provided the same positive health outcomes," said Bauer, principal investigator for the study.
Fruit flies on organic diets showed improvements on the most significant measures of health, namely fertility and longevity, said high school student researcher Ria Chhabra.
"We don't know why the flies on the organic diet did better. That will require further research. But this is a start toward understanding potential health benefits," said Chhabra, a student at Clark High School in Plano, Texas, who led the experiment.
Chhabra sought to conduct the experiments after hearing her parents discuss whether it's worth it to buy organic foods to achieve possible health benefits.
Bauer, an assistant professor in SMU's Department of Biological Sciences, mentored Chhabra by helping guide and design her research experiments. The research focus of Bauer's fruit fly lab is nutrition and its relationship to longevity, health and diabetes.
"It's rare for a high school student to have such a prominent position in the lab. But Ria has tremendous energy and curiosity, and that convinced me to give this research project a try," Bauer said.
The findings, "Organically grown food provides health benefits to Drosophila melanogaster," have been published in the open access journal PLOS One. Buaer and Chhabra co-authored the paper with Santharam Kolli, a research associate at SMU.
Flies on organic food performed better on some health tests
"The data demonstrated that flies raised on organic food extracts by-and-large performed better on the majority of health tests," reported the researchers.
It remains unclear why organic diets delivered better health, the researchers said.
The Bauer lab results come at a time when the health effects of organic food are widely debated.
Prior studies by other researchers have found conflicting results when reviewing the scientific literature for data. While several studies have shown elevated nutrient content and lower pesticide contamination levels in organic food, a recent publication reporting a large-scale analysis of all available studies concluded no clear trend was apparent.
Fruit flies were fed extracts from produce purchased at a grocery store
In order to investigate whether organic foods are healthier for consumers, the lab utilized one of the most widely used model systems, the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Because of the low costs associated with fly research and the fly's short life cycle, researchers use fruit flies to study human diseases, from diabetes to heart function to Alzheimer's disease.
The Bauer lab fruit flies were fed organic and nonorganic produce purchased from a leading national grocery retailer of organic and conventional foods. The flies were fed extracts made from organic and conventional potatoes, soybeans, raisins and bananas. They were not fed any additional nutritional supplements. The researchers tested the effects of each food type independently and avoided any confounding effects of a mixed diet.
The health tests measured longevity, fertility, stress and starvation resistance.
Findings suggest beneficial health effects dependent on specific foods
Some negative or neutral results were obtained using diets prepared from organic raisins, which suggests the beneficial health effects of organic diets are dependent on the specific food item, Bauer said. That might explain some of the inconsistent results in the published studies in the scientific literature, he said, noting some studies suggest there is a nutritional benefit from organic food, while others suggest there is not.
"To our surprise, in the majority of our tests of flies on organic foods, the flies fed organic diets did much better on our health tests than the flies fed conventional food," Bauer said. "Longevity and fertility are the two most important aspects of fly life. On both of these tests, flies fed organic diets performed much better than flies fed conventional diets. They lived longer, had higher fertility, and had a much higher lifetime reproductive output."
Factors such as soil condition and latitude where the produce was grown weren't considered, mimicking a typical grocery store shopping experience.?
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- Ria Chhabra, Santharam Kolli, Johannes H. Bauer. Organically Grown Food Provides Health Benefits to Drosophila melanogaster. PLoS ONE, 2013; 8 (1): e52988 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052988
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Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Toy Poodle Looks Just Like A Teddy Bear (PHOTO)
This puppy's doppelganger is a teddy bear.
Ergo, there is officially no better way to end a Monday.
Redditor vodkamort posted the photo to the site's aww subreddit today. We've inferred that this dog is a toy poodle and that his name is Jett.
We would like a Jett, too, please.
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Apple Acquires Indoor GPS Startup WiFiSlam For $20M
The Wall Street Journal is reporting today that Apple has acquired WiFiSlam, an indoor GPS startup that enables smartphones to pinpoint its location -- along with that of your friends -- in realtime up to 2.5 meters in accuracy.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/C4pF_sbMrS0/
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Can Lactose Intolerance Be Cured? - Shape
Cheese, ice cream, Greek yogurt?so many of women's favorite foods can't be enjoyed by those who are lactose intolerant?or so we've been told. But a group of researchers says those with the condition may be able to have their ice cream cake and eat it too.
The 14-member panel at the Development Conference on Lactose Intolerance and Health concluded that diagnosing lactose intolerance isn't as simple as it sounds: Many people lacking the digestive enzymes necessary to digest dairy tolerate the foods just fine, while some who have problems with dairy produce plenty of enzymes.
Even better, they say that "avoiding dairy products isn't even necessary for lactose-intolerant individuals." Instead, they may be able to eat dairy in moderation and?get this?lactose intolerance may even be able to be cured.
Sounds crazy, but it may be true. "The key to successfully overcoming this is to not just eliminate dairy for a time but to 'heal and seal' the gut before trying it again," says Jill Brunewald, a holistic health coach and expert in treating food intolerances. Thanks to an unhealthy diet, illness, or antibiotic useage, many people suffer from "leaky gut syndrome" where the lining of the intestinal wall has thinned, thereby allowing pathogens and undigested food into the blood stream, Brunewald explains. She offers five steps for helping cure your dairy issues:
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1. Identify. To figure out if dairy is the real issue, eliminate it entire for at least 21 days. Be sure to check for the bold "Contains milk" under the allergy warning to weed out sneaky sources that you may not realize have dairy in them. After the elimination period, it's time for elimination provocation. Eat a large serving of whatever type of dairy you like, such as 1 cup milk, 1/2 cup ice cream, or two ounces of cheese, and see if you experience pain, bloating, diarrhea, brain fog, skin problems, fatigue, and/or irritability within 72 hours of eating the food. If you experience any of these symptoms, move on to step 2.
2. Eliminate. This step is as simple as it is hard: Remove dairy?even minute sources like icing on a granola bar?out of your diet for a minimum of six months in order to give your body plenty of time to ?seal and heal? the intestinal lining.
3. Substitute. During the elimination period, find healthy substitutes. Brunewald likes coconut, such as coconut milk, coconut oil instead of butter, and coconut yogurt, which are gentle on your sensitive system and offer healthy medium-chain fatty acids. If coconut isn?t your thing, almond milk and goat milk are also good substitutes, but stay away from soy, as it can mess with your hormone balance.
RELATED: Whether you can stomach cow's milk, are vegan, or just want to mix things up, find the best milk for you.
4. Heal. To fix the "leaky gut," Brunewald recommends bone broth, probiotics, fish oil, apple cider vinegar, and fermented foods such as kimchi, sauerkraut, and kombucha on a daily basis. While there isn't any strict amount of the foods to take daily, she says that the more you eat, the quicker your gut will mend, as these are all high in prebiotics or probiotics, as well as other compounds that encourage a healthy immune system and intestinal function.
5. Reintroduce. After six months, baby-step your way to eating dairy again. The National Institutes of Health recommends starting with a couple of tablespoons of yogurt because it comes with digestive enzymes built in. You can also try other foods, but always start with one tablespoon and work up to two or three small servings of dairy a week, slowing adding another tablespoon every three days until you're eating a normal serving size. Depending on how severe your reaction was to lactose and how well your gut has healed, you still should eat it in moderation?which frankly is good advice even if you don't have tummy troubles.
Source: http://www.shape.com/lifestyle/mind-and-body/can-lactose-intolerance-be-cured
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