Local food

There are pleasures in eating local food and knowing that the farmers have considered how the natural world functions, have minimised soil erosion and water degradation and have cared about their livestock. In America today, the problems of soil erosion and water degradation are of particular relevance. 

In humans, a gout-like disease in two villages in Armenia was attributed to the ingestion of local foods high in molybdenum and grown in soils high in molybdenum (Friberg and Lener 1986). 

The wheat bran used in these studies was milled for us from a single lot of Waldron hard red spring wheat. Other foods and diet ingredients were purchased from local food suppliers. Data from HS-I was analyzed statistically by Student s paired t test, each subject acting as his own control. A three-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was performed to test for significant differences betwen diet treatments, periods and individuals in HS-II and HS-III. 

Several dietary flavonoid intake studies have now been completed using the Dutch composition data often with additional estimates of flavonoid content of local food preferences such as berries (Table 4.14). Comparison of these intake studies indicates that quercetin is consistently the main contributor to flavonol and flavone intake. In the Netherlands, for example, quercetin accounts for 70% of the 23 mg/day total flavonol and flavone intake followed by kaempferol (17%), myricetin (6%), luteolin (4%), and apigenin (3%). ... 

Polymer Selection. The selection of corn starch as the starting material was made due to its low cost, ready availability, multitude of previous derivatization literature work and favorable chemical and physical properties (i.e., inert, readily deriva-tized homopolysaccharide capable of forming high solids content aqueous dispersions with relatively low viscosities). The corn starch used in this study was purchased in bulk from a local food cooperative. Table I gives the proximate analysis of a typical corn starch. 

The Iauacinaceae constitute a tropical family with a few temperate representatives. Some are used for timber and others for local food and medicine. 

A family mostly of tropical Asia and America, the Podostema-ceae yield a Few local Foods (salad greens), and the Amazon Indians... 

My beau was eating an ahi steak. The fish from which it was cut had been caught the day before, by a man who lived down the road from us. He had caught the fish maybe a mile offshore in the ocean visible from our porch, then brought it back, sold it to the man who owned the little fish store on the highway—ten miles from the harbor and four miles from us—who cut it up on the table behind the counter and sold a piece to my boyfriend. Here were two things I believed in deeply, suddenly opposed to each other I could eat tofu and boycott death, or I could eat ahi and support a local food system. How to make sense of that ... 

A few months ago our local food coop began posting red consumer alert signs that say, Conventional foods that contain corn, soy, or canola may be genetically engineered. I find these signs more annoying than helpful. It is a little bit like the... 

The major emphasis should be the prevention of rickets by providing adequate calcium and vitamin D in the diet, particularly if exposure to sunlight is restricted. One teaspoon (4mL) of cod-liver oil provides 360 IU of vitamin D. In developing countries where dairy products are prohibitively expensive, local foods such as dried fish containing small soft bones can add to the calcium intake (Larsen et al., 2000). 

In the Se-deficient areas of China, Finland, and New Zealand, the Keshan disease occurs because of a low Se intake from local food. To correct soil Se deficiency in Finland, the government initiated a national program to amend agricultural soils with Se to elevate the Se content in agricultural products. As a result, the daily dietary Se intake of residents in Finland increased from approximately 30 ag (a low value as compared to the recommended US National Research Council value of 55 J,g) to 80 4g. Therefore, seleniferous soils considered as potentially Se-contaminated sites... 

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