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Nathan's hot dog eating contest - can science explain how they do it?

As I sit here on a overcast 4th of July, I stumbled acrossed ESPN's coverage of Nathan's hot dog eating competition. It seems interesting enough - 20+ eaters enter a competition to crown the one true great eater. As the contestants enter, I was surprised how many of them were skinny! That\\\\\\'s right - the greatest eater is not even a fat man.

YouTube - FAO, the true list

Really list of problem during last FAO meeting or just a menu list?

Corn, wheat prices dip sharply

How does weather affect your wealth building? Well...Everything is connected.

Nine-year-old girl finds black widow spider in red grapes bought at Waitrose | Mail Online

Supermarket Managers have recalled red Mexican grapes from all their stores after a deadly Black Widow Spider was found in a bunch. Waitrose pulled the fruit from shelves in case other spiders had entered the country in the same consignment. The black widow - one of the world's most poisonous spider - was found by nine-year-old girl in a fruit bowl at her home.

The Food Chain: Hoarding Nations Drive Food Costs Ever Higher

After at least 29 countries sharply curbed their food exports, impoverished importing countries are finding it more difficult to afford the food they need.

Seattle's prostitution 'problem'

Though police and outreach workers acknowledge that Seattle has long had a problem with juvenile prostitution, a new report states that hundreds of girls are working the streets with little or no substantive help from authorities. They are teens like Bella, 16, already arrested numerous times for prostitution and other crimes, who told a social worker that her pimp makes her work 20 hours a day without food, according to the report. "She says he beats her, spits on her and does not allow her to look up -- ever. To cement his control, he forces her to walk naked in front of his friends. The pimp's name is tattooed on her neck." ...

High fat level found in takeaways

Campaigners call for better labels on takeaway food after revealing huge levels of fat, salt and sugar in some dishes.

To Stop Global Warming and Hunger, Let’s Turn to Organic Farming

Timothy J. LaSalle is CEO of the Rodale Institute, a 60-year-old non-profit organization dedicated to researching sustainable farming and educating farmers and consumers about the food we eat. He will be contributing posts to TreeHugger as a guest blogger on an ongoing basis. There is no question that a perfect storm of factors from rising oil prices to the growing climatic impact of global warming are creating a silent tsunami of global hunger. There is also no question that the world s most vulnerable disproportionately live in Africa where food aid has failed to keep ah...

$200 Burger: Decadent Or Despicable?, From The Fast-Food Chain Who Made The Whopper

To food crisis campaigners trying to draw attention to the millions of poor around the world, who are struggling to survive at a time of shortages and rising prices for basic commodities, this is the wrong burger, and the wrong message, at the wrong time.

Healthy Diet May Curb Cancer Genes

Channeling Hippocrates.

Air ambulances address issue of obese patients

The obesity epidemic meets the health care crisis. Meanwhile, we continue subsidizing corn syrup.

Melting Antarctic glaciers may be releasing DDT, says study

Adélie penguins in the Antarctic are as chock-full of pesticide DDT as they were in the 1970s, even though global DDT use has dropped 80 percent in the past three decades, says new research published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology. Researchers speculate that climate change is at fault -- honestly, is there anything climate change is not mucking up? -- as concentrations of the pesticide that had been trapped in ice are released by glacial melt and travel up the food chain. DDT has been banned in the northern hemisphere, but the World Health Organization has endorsed its controlled use to fight malaria in Africa. The purpose of the study "was not to further vilify DDT," says lead author Heidi Geisz, but to research how persistent the pesticide and other pollutants of its ilk can be.

sources: ScienceDaily, The New York Times
see also, in Grist: Study suggests link between DDT exposure and breast cancer

The number of overweight Swiss children has decreased significantly over the past five years. - swis

The number of overweight Swiss children has decreased significantly over the past five years, according to a national study.

Bush pledges $770m in food aid

Let them eat switchgrass! US president vows to help tackle global crisis caused by rising commodities prices.

Wild salmon could disappear from Vancouver menus

One of Vancouver's top restaurants says it would consider taking wild salmon off its its menu if it proves to be unsustainable. Robert Clark, the executive chef of C restaurant, which overlooks Vancouver's False Creek, said the restaurant has made no decision yet, but wants to do its part to help protect dwindling salmon stocks. "At C, being a leader in the selling of sustainably harvested seafood, we are always considering and reconsidering and analyzing what's on our menu and should be there," Clarke told CBC Radio on Thursday morning.