TNP - Vitamin and Mineral Supplements
Guide to understanding your vitamin and mineral needs
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TNP - Daily Vitamin and Mineral Requirement
Guide to undestanding your daily requirements and how to evaluate your supplements
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TNP - A Great Vitamin, Mineral and Phytonutrient Supplement
Recommendation on a vitamin and mineral supplement that contains phytonutrients.
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TNP - Understanding the Importance of Phytonutrients
Description on role of, and sources for phytonutrients and phytochemicals.
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TNP - A Unique Phytonutrient Supplement
Recommendation on a unique phytonutrient supplement
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TNP - Six Steps to Good Health
Simple guide to using the tools and techniques on The Natural Path
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The Smallest Plant May Pack the Biggest Punch - HappyNews.com
The Smallest Plant May Pack the Biggest PunchHappyNews.com, TX - Dec 14, 2006... suggests that herbs and spices may aid in the prevention of cardiovascular disease and cancer, and the high levels of antioxidants and phytonutrients found in ...
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XanGo Welcomes Soccer Superstar Freddy Adu to Real Salt Lake (MLS) - PR Web (press release)
XanGo Welcomes Soccer Superstar Freddy Adu to Real Salt Lake (MLS)PR Web (press release), WA - Dec 14, 2006... To learn more about mangosteen juice, phytonutrients, xanthones, and becoming a XanGo Distributor, visit xango.com. To buy XanGo Juice, visit buy.xango.com.
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New Malting Barley Developed
Image courtesy Chocolate ManufacturersAssociation. "Herald"benefits farm animals, growers and environment  New barley forcandymakers, brewmasters—and more   "Burton" fendsoff aphidsFrom Candy to Brews, Sublette Malting Barley IsSublime By Marcia WoodDecember 14, 2006 As every Santa knows, agift-wrapped box of chocolate truffles—some filled with rich chocolatemalt—makes a hard-to-resist holiday treat. The malt chosen for creatingthese confections might someday come from a barley bred by AgriculturalResearch Service (ARS) plant geneticistsand their University ofIdaho colleagues. Named in honor of William L. Sublette, an early explorer of the AmericanWest, this barley is intended for candymaking, brewing and all of thetraditional malting-barley uses. Tests in Idaho, one of the nation's leadingproducers of this crop, have shown that Sublette plants provide a higherpercentage of plump kernels—the kind maltsters prize—than Harringtonbarley, the standard against which all newcomer malting barleys are compared.That's according to plant geneticistDonaldE. Obert with the agency'sSmallGrains and Potato Germplasm Research Unit in Aberdeen, Idaho. Too, Sublette is less likely to topple over—called lodging--in highwinds or other adverse conditions than the less-sturdy barleys. That meansSublette doesn't have to be treated with growth-regulating compounds to keepits size in check and reduce the likelihood of lodging. In turn, doing awaywith that treatment saves time and money.After putting this barley through about a decade of testing, Obert,now-retired ARS colleagues Darrell M. Wesenberg and Berne L. Jones, along withUniversity of Idaho co-investigators decided in 2005 that Sublette was readyfor seed companies and growers to try. The scientists documented their researchearlier this year in the journal CropScience. Currently, Sublette is in the final stages of intensive,industry-led brewery tests to determine if it will win the all-importantapproval of the American Malting BarleyAssociation. Technically known as a two-rowed spring barley, Sublette joins a series ofsuperior feed, food or malting barleys bred for western U.S. fields by the ARSresearchers at Aberdeen.ARS is the U.S. Department ofAgriculture's chief scientific research agency.
ars.usda.gov Thu, 14 Dec 2006 08:27:00 EST

Dr. Julia's Inn: Surviving breast cancer naturally - Rock River Times
Dr. Julia's Inn: Surviving breast cancer naturallyRock River Times, IL - Dec 13, 2006... Phytonutrients found in broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage and brussels sprouts are wonderful foods that will help with breast health and general health. ...
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Try a festive salad - Kansas City Star
Try a festive saladKansas City Star, MO - Dec 13, 2006... light. Avocados are not only delicious but also contain good amounts of potassium, vitamin A, niacin, fiber and phytonutrients. ...
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New Eco-Friendly Fertilizer
Ready for commercial licensing: ARS technology for making a new, eco-friendly product to reduce leaching of fertilizer from lawns and turf. Click the image for more information about it. More research by Drs. Sojka and Entry   Research findings from Idaho available in Spanish ARS Seeks Partner for New Environmentally Friendly Fertilizer By Kim Kaplan December 13, 2006 The Agricultural Research Service (ARS) is seeking a company to license a new, environmentally friendly, slow-release fertilizer for lawns, turf and other crops. This new fertilizer technology can significantly reduce the potential for leaching of nutrients into groundwater, streams and rivers by as much 97 percent for phosphorus and 84 percent for nitrates in greenhouse studies. Slow-release fertilizers currently on the market typically work by applying a sulfur or polymer coating to fertilizer granules. The coating wears away slowly, delaying the release of fertilizer. But once the coat is gone, the remaining fertilizer becomes available in a fast cascade. In contrast, the ARS slow-release system is based on ion exchange mechanisms that more closely mimic natural soil processes, which gives the new technology a more consistent release over time. ARS is seeking a cooperative business partner to license the technology and develop it into commercial products—especially one for use on lawns and turf, which tend to be major contributors to nutrient runoff and leaching. The fertilizer system also can be used on almost any crop and could be customized to the specific needs of a crop throughout its life cycle, according to co-developers Robert E. Sojka, director of the ARS Northwest Irrigation and Soils Research Laboratory in Kimberly Idaho, and former ARS soil microbiologist James A. Entry. For further details about the new technology, please visit http://ars.usda.gov/research/patents/patents.htm?serialnum=11504401. For ARS licensing information, visit http://ars.usda.gov/business/docs.htm?docid=768. ARS is the U.S. Department of Agriculture's chief scientific research agency.
ars.usda.gov Wed, 13 Dec 2006 07:12:00 EST

Eat your reds and greens to live well - Auburn Citizen
Eat your reds and greens to live wellAuburn Citizen, NY - Dec 12, 2006... But did you know that what color you eat is just as important? Fruits and vegetables contain phytonutrients in the pigments that give them their color. ...
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Take control, wash away the bacteria - Miami Herald
Take control, wash away the bacteriaMiami Herald, FL - Dec 12, 2006... Let's dish about spinach, the leafy green that was the first to hit the radar of suspicion. Spinach is a nutrition star containing at least 13 phytonutrients. ...
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Weed Implicated in Potato Blight
Dark splotches on these leaves of hairy nightshade are lesions caused by the late blight pathogen. The weed is actually a relative of potato; both are species of Solanum. Image courtesy Steve Johnson, Cooperative Extension, University of Maine. Potatoes infected with late blight are shrunken on the outside, corky and rotted inside. Herbs and plant oils in fight against late blight   Bacteria take on late blight   Wild potato's gene may protect vulnerable spuds Weed Implicated in Potato Blight Persistence By Erin Peabody December 12, 2006 Late blight, the devastating tuber disease that triggered the Irish potato famine of the mid-1800s, has a new partner in crime. Scientists with the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) in Orono, Maine, discovered that Phytophthora infestans—the microorganism behind the spud-spoiling disease—is seeking refuge in potato fields, holed up in an alternate host plant: hairy nightshade. Best known for causing widespread hunger, illness and death in 1840s Ireland, P. infestans continues to pose a formidable threat to global potato and tomato production. According to the International Potato Center in Lima, Peru, the disease costs the world's growers more than $3 billion each year in fungicides and other control measures. Modesto Olanya, a plant pathologist at the ARS New England Plant, Soil and Water Research Laboratory in Orono, learned of the possibility of an alternate host in 2004 from colleagues at the University of Maine Cooperative Extension in Presque Isle. As extension agents in the northern part of the state discovered, hairy nightshade plants were showing up speckled with suspicious dark and oily spots. Olanya analyzed the microorganisms on the plants and verified, for the first time, that hairy nightshade is an alternate host of P. infestans in Maine. To make matters worse, hairy nightshade is hardly a wallflower, in terms of its presence in commercial potato fields in Maine. In a limited survey, Olanya and University of Maine collaborators found that 55 percent of fields assessed in the state contained the plant. According to Olanya, the finding that hairy nightshade is an active host of P. infestans is problematic in two ways. First, the plant is a secondary source of the destructive disease. And, it's a weed. As a result of this ARS research, growers are now learning the importance of controlling hairy nightshade as part of their overall late blight management program. ARS is the chief scientific research agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
ars.usda.gov Tue, 12 Dec 2006 07:06:00 EST

Queen Bees Can Pass Virus to Offspring
This week at the Entomological Society of America meeting, ARS entomologist Yanping Chen reports the first evidence that a mother queen (in photo, bee with white dot on body) can vertically transmit viruses to her offspring. Photo courtesy Yanping Chen, ARS. How genes govern bees' lives   New antibiotic for bee disease   Tapping bee genome for improved traits   Queen Bees Shown to Pass Viruses to Their Offspring By Alfredo Flores December 11, 2006 The first evidence that viruses can be transmitted vertically from mother queens to their offspring in honey bee colonies has been discovered by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists. ARS entomologists Yanping Chen, Jeff Pettis, Jay Evans, Anita Collins and Mark Feldlaufer in Beltsville, Md., made the discovery by testing individual queen bees and their offspring for deformed wing virus, sacbrood virus and black queen cell virus. The finding, reported earlier this year in the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology, will be discussed this week at the annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America in Indianapolis, Ind. The researchers examined queen feces and various tissues including hemolymph, heads, guts spermatheca and ovaries. Tissues of gut, ovaries and spermatheca, as well as the feces, were found to carry viral infections. In a separate study, the virus status of queens and their offspring was examined simultaneously. Once viruses in the queen bees were identified, the same viruses were found in their offspring, including eggs, larvae and adult workers. According to Chen and her colleagues, this information is invaluable for improving understanding of the epidemiology of virus infections in honey bees. It could be used to predict bee colonies at risk of virus infection, which, in turn, would contribute to the development of effective disease-control strategies. Honey bees pollinate an estimated $15 billion worth of U.S. crops each year. The health of honey bee colonies is continuously threatened by various pathogens, with viruses posing an unknown risk because of lack of information concerning transmission and outbreaks. The Entomological Society of America, founded in 1889, has more than 5,700 members and is the largest organization of entomologists in the world. More than 2,000 entomologists and other scientists are expected to attend this year's annual meeting. Chen, Pettis and Evans are with the ARS Bee Research Laboratory in Beltsville, Md. Collins, formerly with the lab, is now retired. Feldlaufer, formerly with the lab, is now research leader of the ARS Chemicals Affecting Insect Behavior Laboratory in Beltsville. ARS is the U.S. Department of Agriculture's chief scientific research agency.
ars.usda.gov Mon, 11 Dec 2006 08:12:00 EST

Mushroom to Combat Fowl Disease
Fomitella fraxinea, a wood-rotting mushroom seen mostly on black locust tree stumps. An ARS researcher and colleagues are using an extract from it to combat coccidiosis. Photo courtesy Kyeong Soo Chung, Chungnam National University, South Korea. Lillehoj named "Outstanding Scientist"   Challenging poultry pathogens   Making coccidia less cocky Mushrooms Have a Future in Fighting a Fowl Parasite By Luis Pons December 8, 2006 Wide use of a mushroom extract to protect poultry against a major parasitic disease is now closer, thanks to an Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientist and her South Korean colleagues. The researchers—led by immunologist Hyun Lillehoj at the ARS Animal Parasitic Diseases Laboratory in Beltsville, Md.—developed a technique for controlling coccidiosis, which costs the world's poultry industry billions of dollars in losses annually. The new method is the subject of a patent application. It introduces mushroom lectins to birds via injection into developing embryos, or through drinking water. Once administered, the lectins spur a protective reaction against the disease in the gut. Coccidiosis is caused by parasites of the genus Eimeria that infect the intestinal tract and are transmitted between birds through infected feces. Often most severe in birds that are young or whose disease immunity has been weakened by other infections, the disease can cause bloody diarrhea, severe dehydration, substantial weight loss and death. Lectins are carbohydrate-binding proteins found in animals and plants. They stimulate disease-fighting cells by binding to their sugar residues, inducing the release of potent immune-system proteins called cytokines. Lillehoj and scientists at South Korea's Chungnam National University and Rural Resource Development Institute used lectin extracted from Fomitella fraxinea, a wood-rotting mushroom seen mostly on black locust tree stumps. They injected it into 18-day-old embryos to activate their innate immune systems and later challenged the newly hatched chicks with coccidiosis-causing parasites. The treatment significantly protected chickens against coccidiosis-associated weight loss and reduced fecal shedding of live parasites. This particular lectin is usually prepared under less-stringent conditions than are other mushroom compounds that produce a similar effect, making its commercial production more feasible. This research is described in a recent issue of the journal Poultry Science. ARS is the U.S. Department of Agriculture's chief scientific research agency.
ars.usda.gov Fri, 08 Dec 2006 07:25:00 EST

Fish Vaccines Improved
ARS research leader Phil Klesius feeds vaccinatedcatfish. His research team showed that giving the fish two vaccines before theyhatch can protect them against two major diseases. Click the image for moreinformation about it. Award-winning fishvaccines  Convenient catfishcuisine  Research keyto future of fish farmingSmarter Application Improves Catfish Vaccine By LauraMcGinnisDecember 7, 2006 New vaccination processes couldimprove the efficiency and effectiveness of catfish vaccines, according to astudy by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists in the agency'sAquaticAnimal Health Research Unit, Auburn, Ala. Diseases like enteric septicemia and columnaris cost the U.S. catfishindustry an estimated $50-70 million per year. ARS molecular biologistCraigShoemaker, microbiologistPhillipKlesius and aquatic pathologistJoyceEvans invented two vaccines to immunize catfish against these diseases. Thevaccines were patented and licensed to international vaccine manufacturerIntervet for distribution. The team received technology transfer awards from both ARS and theFederal Laboratory Consortium fortheir efforts. Now, new research is showing how the vaccines should beadministered for maximum influence. Both vaccines can be given to channel catfish eggs about 24-48 hours beforehatching, a recent study found. This suggests they can be successfullyvaccinated during the "eyed-egg stage," when they are still in thehatchery—long before they're exposed to pond pathogens. Currently, fishare vaccinated when they are 10 days old, in the trucks that transport them tothe ponds where they will be raised. The study also proved that the two vaccines could be administeredsimultaneously, making the treatment more efficient. This is beneficial, asboth pathogens frequently appear in the same ponds. The 10- to-15 minute process is easy, safe and effective. The catfish arestill protected against the disease 140 days after immunization. Effective vaccines have multiple benefits, the most important of which isimproved fish health. Vaccinated fish also require fewer chemicals andantibiotics to fight disease. And they grow faster than nonvaccinated fish,which translates to higher profits for farmers. One study estimates that fishfarmers can increase their profits by about $2,000 per acre using vaccines likethese.ARS is the U.S. Department ofAgriculture's chief scientific research agency.
ars.usda.gov Thu, 07 Dec 2006 08:06:00 EST