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Chow Line: Exercise can help control blood sugar (for 3/29/09)
"insulin sensitivity," or their ability to uptake glucose from the bloodstream. Increasing insulin ... University researchers used data from the ongoing Black Women's Health Study to study the habits of more ... diabetes and exercise is available from the National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse at ...
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Chow Line: Calorie counts on menus helpful (for 4/18/10)
predict exactly what the outcome will be from these new regulations-- the proof will be in the pudding, as ... switched its standard milk option from whole to 2 percent. Even the Ohio State study showed this kind of ... offering to reduce the calorie content by 172 calories, from 839 to 667 calories. That kind of change can ...
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Chow Line: Eat lots of produce, raw and cooked (for 8/23/09)
more nutritious if cooked. So what's better, cooked or raw? Making smoothies from raw fruits and ... dietitians tend to shy away from any sort of "all or nothing" approach when it comes to dietary ... nutrients. For example, several studies over the last few years show that people get a lot more lycopene from ...
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Education, Not Regulation Key to Improving Animal Welfare
looking at it from the wrong perspective. Improvements in animal welfare have to be done through education ... agriculture industry, from the livestock sector to field crop production. Luther Tweeten, an Ohio State ... concern to me from a long-term perspective is food security, which includes plentiful amounts of safe ...
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Geospatial Conference Highlights Success of Technology
Technology Conference will start off with a keynote address from Fred Limp, director for the Center for ... Advanced Spatial Technologies (CAST) from the University of Arkansas. Limp will share his vision and ... from space. The conference boasts a comprehensive list of topics including discussions on the use of ...
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C.O.R.N. Newsletter 2010-20
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletters/2010/20
in pollination within corn fields and the pollen shed period extends from one to two weeks. This year ... stage in corn, is the most critical period in the development of a corn plant from the standpoint of ... mind that the corn plant is more vulnerable to hail injury during the period from tassel emergence (VT) ...
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EPN Event Archive
https://epn.osu.edu/events/epn-event-archive
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Transgenic Corn Production Slowly Increasing in Ohio
transgenic corn hybrids by seed companies." Transgenics is the science of introducing a gene from one ... increased, however, from 9 percent in 2003. "One of the things that is attractive to growers is that ... there have been major improvements in transgenic hybrids from the standpoint of agronomic performance ...
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4-H Holds Ohio's First Multiple-Handicapped Camp
June 13, 2006 JACKSON, Ohio-- For hundreds of children across Ohio, 4-H camps are an escape from ... For Missy Sprankel, the five-hour drive from Erie County was well worth the trip to see her ... cabin, and additional donations amounting to $5,250 have come in from area residents and businesses. ...
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Using New Genetic Techniques to Raise Bigger Yellow Perch
source. It's a step-up from traditional selection where fish are bred without any knowledge of their ... are raised to harvest size, the best fish or candidates from different families can be identified with ... Center. Under the O'GIFT Program, researchers are studying yellow perch lines from Ohio, North ...