Scrambling for a win, America's poorest households spend 33 times more of their income on lottery tickets than the rich
The luck of the draw is especially appealing when the cards are stacked against you. But, unsurprisingly, the nation’s most popular game of chance has a sinister undertone as major lotteries capitalize on people’s hopes and dangle the ever-elusive carrot of a jackpot over financially vulnerable…#newyearsday #fortunes #chrismorris #economist #lesbernal #bernal (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 4, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Why Your Diet Needs More Fermented Pickles
Maybe you heard somewhere that pickles are a “superfood,” and dutifully added them to your shopping list. Unfortunately, you may reach for the wrong jar, because many pickles at supermarkets aren’t especially good for you.
Scientists have made progress in separating fact from fiction when it comes to health claims about pickles: both the cucumber kind, and other types of pickled vegetables. We asked experts how to find the healthiest kinds of pickles, which benefits are backed by research, and the right amount to eat every day.
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Source: TIME: Health - March 20, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Matt Fuchs Tags: Uncategorized Evergreen freelance healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Craving snacks after a meal? It might be food-seeking neurons, not an overactive appetite
Key takeawaysA new study from UCLA researchers is the first to discover food-seeking cells in a part of a mouse ’s brain usually associated with panic – but not with feeding.Activating a selective cluster of these cells kicked mice into “hot pursuit” of live and non-prey food, and showed a craving for fatty foods intense enough that the mice endured foot shocks to get them, something full mice normally would not do.If true in humans, who also carry these cells, the findings could help address the circuit that can circumvent the normal hunger pressures of “how, what and when to eat.”People who find themselves ru...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - March 19, 2024 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Denmark leads the way in incentivising low-meat diets
Policy carrots have kept livestock farmers sweet so far — but sticks may yet be needed (Source: FT.com - Drugs and Healthcare)
Source: FT.com - Drugs and Healthcare - January 25, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Yellowstone: The Two Characters With The Highest Kill Count On The Series
A show like "Yellowstone" clearly shows the mechanics of the carrot and stick equation. While many of the show's players are happy to buy, bribe, or promise their way into a position of power or leverage, there is always the…#johndutton #kevincostner #bethdutton #kellyreilly #ripwheeler #colehauser #kaycedutton #lukegrimes #taylorsheridan (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 6, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
‘The Taste of Things’ and a Lovingly Prepared Meal
How a movie announces itself to you is everything, and “The Taste of Things” begins in a kitchen. Well, a kitchen garden. It’s dawn, and someone is crouching near the rows, cutting heads of lettuce, pulling up a few carrots, unearthing a white knobby thing and bringing it all indoors. The light is…#tasteofthings #nt #trananhhung #babettesfeast #bignight #tampopo #bear #dodinbouffant #benoîtmagimel #juliettebinoche (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 4, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Kern County is poised to become warehousing's next frontier
Season upon season, watermelons, carrots and corn have sprouted from Daniel Rudnick’s 255-acre farm along Interstate 5 in Buttonwillow, Calif. Now, the ground lies unplanted. In the next year, it will be cleared and graded to build complex. “Our plan all along was that we were going to leverage…#danielrudnicks #interstate5 #buttonwillow #rudnick #kerncounty #southerncalifornias #farmland #shafter #southerncalifornia #inlandempire (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - December 19, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
‘Independent actor’ Vietnam is deftly navigating geopolitical tensions as both Biden and Xi make trips to Hanoi promising investment
Hanoi’s becoming a popular travel spot for world leaders. In the span of just three months, Vietnam has welcomed the leaders of two major powers: first U.S. President Joe Biden in September, then Chinese president Xi Jinping this week. Xi brought a lot of economic carrots with him for his first…#hanoi #vietnam #xijinping #xinhua #metrosystem #emirati #g42 #middleeastern #beijing #southeastasian (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - December 15, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
How to get kids to eat more veg? Serve it with smiley faces! Children eat 52% more vegetables if they're in the same bowl as fun potato shapes, study finds
Researchers from Brigham Young University found that children ate up to 52 per cent more peas and carrots when they was served with potato smiles. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 30, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Inside The Two Companies That Dominate The U.S. Carrot Crop
Americans will eat 100 million pounds this Thanksgiving as the California neighbors of Bolthouse and Grimmway call for a consumer boycott over water use. sounds weird to say that carrots are having a moment, but social media has catapulted the humble root to a status resembling stardom. Anecdotal…#bolthouseandgrimmway #bolthouse #grimmway #adamwaglay #butterflyequity #opec #cartels #southerncalifornias #cuyamavalley #jeffhuckaby (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - November 21, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
'I wore a glucose monitor for a month - a surprising vegetable caused a blood sugar spike'
Even healthy foods like carrots can affect your blood sugar in unexpected ways. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - November 18, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Woman, 21, claims she was left looking like an 'Oompa Loompa' due to 10-a-day carrot habit
Dena Rendall, from Edinburgh, worried when peers noticed her orange skin and suggested it was due to a make-up disaster (pictured left). But she insists the glow caused by carrots (pictured inset). (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 7, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
OrbiMed scores more than $4.3B in private investment funds
The investment firm ' s portfolio includes tech-enabled drug discovery startup Insilico and fertility benefits manager Carrot Fertility. (Source: mobihealthnews)
Source: mobihealthnews - October 24, 2023 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
If you hate carrots, you'll love this: GRAPES also help you see in the dark, study suggests
A new study from researchers in Singapore suggests the beloved grapes are as good for your eyes as carrots, which have long been known for their vision-boosting effects . (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - October 13, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Not ALL ultra-processed food should be avoided, experts say as they warn CARROTS can be wrongly classed as being as bad as chocolate and crisps under blanket system
Leading experts today rallied against calls for the UK to roll out official guidance to avoid the food group, saying such a system would be 'complicated' and 'unworkable'. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - September 27, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
