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Liftware: Google's Smart Utensil Brings Hope for Those with Parkinson's and Essential Tremors [VIDEO]

Liftware, which can be used as spoon and fork, has a built-in motion sensors which are also used in smartphones. It can detect a tremor and regulate the spoon or fork correspondingly which lead to normal eating.
  • Australia Prepares For 2016 As United Nations Names It The International Year Of Pulses

    One challenge, however, is Australians struggle to name the grain. United Nations proclaimed 2016 to be the International Year of Pulses -- which most Australians call "legumes.
  • "Frankenfish": The First FDA-approved Genetically Modified Salmon Is Safe to Eat

    The US Food and Drug Administration has finally approved AquAdvantage Salmon as the first genetically modified food from animals. FDA also declared that this first genetically modified salmon is safe to eat.
  • Growing Food in the Desert is Possible: Port Augusta Farm Has a Way to Do It

    .Sundrop Farms, a privately owned enterprise, uses existing technology to grow tomatoes in the desert. Powered by solar panels, the company uses sunlight and seawater to heat and cool plants all year-round.
  • Experts say, Multisensorial eating is Explorative, Not Manipulative

    Multisensory integration, also known as multimodal integration, is the study of how information from the different sensory modalities, such as sight, sound, touch, smell, self-motion and taste, may be integrated by the nervous system. A coherent representation of objects combining modalities enables us to have meaningful perceptual experiences. Indeed, multisensory integration is central to adaptive behavior because it allows us to perceive a world of coherent perceptual entities. Multisensory integration also deals with how different sensory modalities interact with one another and alter each other's processing.
  • Doctor Warns about too much Use of Antibiotics

    A lot of people now are using antibiotic as an ordinary medicine. The rapid use of antibiotic can lead to an increasing resistant of bacteria to certain drugs and can be superbugs. "Superbugs" is a term used to define strains of bacteria that are fully resistant to some of the major antibiotics that are commonly used to kill bacteria.
  • Lindt Joins Other Australian Food Retailers’ Westward Rush

    The chocolate giant is set to open another store in Adelaide next month. Another Lindt chocolate store will be opened in Adelaide on Dec. 4, 2015 as part of the expansion of Lindt & Sprungli's chocolate stores into Southern part of Australia.
  • Pasta: Not a source of Empty Carbs

    Pasta is a staple food of traditional Italian cuisine, with the first reference dating to 1154 in Sicily. Pasta is a noodle made from an unleavened dough of a durum wheat flour mixed with water or eggs and formed into sheets or various shapes, then cooked by boiling or baking. It can also be made with flour from other cereals or grains. Pastas has two broad categories, dried (pasta secca) and fresh (pasta fresca). Pasta is a low fat, low sodium, low glycemic, complex carbohydrate and a good source of thiamine, folic acid, iron, riboflavin and niacin.
  • Pasta: Not a source of Empty Carbs

    Pasta is a staple food of traditional Italian cuisine, with the first reference dating to 1154 in Sicily. Pasta is a noodle made from an unleavened dough of a durum wheat flour mixed with water or eggs and formed into sheets or various shapes, then cooked by boiling or baking. It can also be made with flour from other cereals or grains. Pastas has two broad categories, dried (pasta secca) and fresh (pasta fresca). Pasta is a low fat, low sodium, low glycemic, complex carbohydrate and a good source of thiamine, folic acid, iron, riboflavin and niacin.
  • Disease Control Update: 838 Salmonella Cases in 38 States Linked to Imported Cucumbers, CDC Warns

    As of November 18, 2015, 838 people from 38 states have reportedly been infected by Salmonella. As of November 18, 2015, 838 people from 38 states have reportedly been infected by Salmonella.
  • Ice Cream Containing a Disturbing Amount of Coliform Bacteria in Hong Kong

    A disturbing number of coliform bacteria in a local ice cream in Hong Kong forced Food Safety officials to seize the products containing it, plus asked the company to pay a fine of HK$10,000.
  • OREO Churros: 'Grab and Go’ Snack Craze Now in Stores Near You

    J&J Snack Foods adds new OREO Churros Creme Filled varieties which appeals to both "dippers" and "grippers."
  • 'Just Eat It': Filmmakers Feast on Discarded Food For 6 Months

    Alarming reports about food waste have been circulating the web. Several initiatives have been started by some nations to reduce food waste. Korea for example has set an agreed amount of food that could be thrown away per household else they pay a fine. A solidarity fridge has been erected in Spain so households can store their food that is still edible in it instead of throwing them away. Anyone can benefit from the solidarity fridge. Now a documentary on how much food is wasted was made by a couple in Canada. For six months, they feasted on discarded foods and documented it, "Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story".
  • 5 Top Skin and Body Benefits of Bone Broth: 'Divergent' and 'Insurgent' Star Shailene Woodley Loves Bone Broth [VIDEO]

    The strength of bone broth is in its collagen and gelatin content, which offer both weight loss and body maintenance benefits.
  • Benefits of foods that are rich in Anti-oxidants

    An antioxidant is a molecule that inhibits the oxidation of other molecules. Oxidation is a chemical reaction involving the loss of electrons which can produce free radicals. In turn, these radicals can start chain reactions.
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