Food and Health Room

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The plants suffer also, but as we don't see it nor hear their sobs, veggies don't care :

http://www.theguardian.com/notesandquer ... 46,00.html

http://www.viewzone.com/plants.html

We have to eat something in order to survive but I could never bring myself to eat red meat

Or ducks

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BBC Magazine

Is this what we'll eat in the future?

The man who invented molecular gastronomy - the adventurous style of cooking popularised by chefs including Heston Blumenthal - has developed a new concept which he claims will solve the challenge of feeding an overpopulated world.

French physical chemist Herve This says every foodstuff is made up of a basic chemical mixture - and so it's possible to create nutritious dishes from powders, oils and liquids that contain the building-blocks of food, rather than conventional raw ingredients.

He calls the principle Note by Note cuisine and says it is like a painter using primary colours, or a musician composing note by note.

The result is food not as we know it, more like being given a chemistry set on your plate.

Herve This showed BBC News how Note by Note works, and explained why he thought it was so important for cooking to change.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24825582

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With all the Christian fast I practice, I have found my own religion, at the end : FLEXITARIAN

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FLEXITARIAN

Love it

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I found this fantastic site

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAw_6s ... N5bUnX_ARA

The videos are excellent

Veg Bread Pizza - Start to Finish Hindi with English Subtitles

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Dozens of genuine Hindu vegetarian meals

Perhaps I will have to put my Sari on and find myself a Hindu chef

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Reuters

U.S. introduces menu calorie labeling to fight obesity
By Toni Clarke and Anjali Athavaley

The U.S. government will publish sweeping new rules on Tuesday requiring chain restaurants and large vending machine operators to disclose calorie counts on menus to make people more aware of the risks of obesity posed by fatty, sugary foods.

"Obesity is a national epidemic that affects millions of Americans," Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Margaret Hamburg told reporters on a conference call on Monday.

"Strikingly, Americans eat and drink about a third of their calories away from home."

The FDA's new rules, which are part of the 2010 Affordable Care Act, set a national standard for restaurant chains with 20 or more outlets and will pre-empt the patchwork of state laws.

Under the rules, calories must be displayed on all menus and menu boards. Other nutritional information - including calories from fat, cholesterol, sugars and protein - must be made available in writing upon request.

The new calorie rule covers meals at sit-down restaurants, take-out food, bakery items, ice cream from an ice-cream store and pizza, which will be labeled by the slice and whole pie. Seasonal menu items, such as a Thanksgiving dinner, daily specials and standard condiments will be exempt.

The final rule, unlike a 2011 proposal, includes movie theaters, amusement parks and alcoholic beverages served in restaurants, but not drinks mixed or served at a bar.

Restaurants have one year and vending machine operators have two years to comply with the new rules following publication in the Federal Register.

Panera Bread Co in 2010 became the first company to voluntarily display calorie information at all its cafes nationwide. Others, including McDonald's Corp and Starbucks Corp, followed suit.

The agency said it amended its proposals after considering more than 1,100 comments from industry, public health advocates and consumers.

It narrowed the scope to clearly focus on restaurant-type food. Still, there are nuances: Foods such as deli meat bought at a grocery store counter will be excluded. But the rules will apply to food eaten in grocery stores, such as meals purchased at in-house cafes.

Hamburg acknowledged that calorie counts for pizza slices and many other foods made on the premises will vary. Restaurants may draw on databases, cookbooks and food package labels to calculate calories.

The restaurant industry has supported a national standard for years and welcomed the changes.

"We believe that the Food and Drug Administration has positively addressed the areas of greatest concern," said Dawn Sweeney, chief executive of the National Restaurant Association, which represents 990,000 restaurant and food-service outlets.

Not all industry groups were satisfied.

"We are disappointed that the FDA¹s final rules will capture grocery stores, and impose such a large and costly regulatory burden on our members," said Peter Larkin, president and CEO of the National Grocers Association.

National Automatic Merchandising Association, representing the food and refreshment vending industry, said it will "reserve judgment" on the impact on the industry, but said that two years was insufficient "implementation time", especially for small businesses.

The rules aim to close a gap in the 1990 Nutrition Labeling and Education Act, which established nutrition labeling on most foods, but not restaurant or other ready-to-eat foods.

Katie Bengston, Panera's nutrition manager, said menu labeling has not affected its business: "We did not notice a jump in sales from higher calorie items to lower calorie items."

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/ ... 2O20141125

In the UK many chains such as McDonalds include the calorific value of food

What happens in other countries?

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Dog's dinner: Bid to stop the Swiss eating their pets



Hundreds of thousands of Swiss eat cats and dogs, according to an animal rights group that has demanded the government make it illegal for man to bite dog.

The activists handed members of Swiss parliament a petition Tuesday demanding they outlaw the eating of pets -- a tall order in a country where cat still appears on traditional Christmas menus in some areas.

"Around three percent of the Swiss secretly eat cat or dog," Tomi Tomek, founder and president of animal protection group SOS Chats Noiraigue, told AFP. "We especially see it in the regions of Lucerne, Appenzell, Jura and in the canton of Bern."

Dog meat goes mostly into making sausages and a fatty remedy for rheumatism, Tomek said. Cats get cooked for Christmas in the same style as rabbit -- with white wine and garlic -- especially around Bern and in the Jura and Lucerne.

The Swiss are also among the world's biggest consumers of horsemeat.

It is impossible to say how many dogs and cats end up in Swiss cooking pots every year, according to the activists.

"A political leader told us parliament won't do anything unless people revolt," Tomek said. "The Swiss need to take care of this themselves."

"Presently, we can't do anything because the law does not forbid people from eating their dog or cat, we can't even turn in those who engage in this practice," she said.

Her group, which gathered a 16,000-name petition to outlaw the eating of pets, forced a ban on the sales of cat fur in 2013.

Notable signers of the petition include French actress Brigitte Bardot, who has dedicated her life to fighting for animal rights.

"We are asking simply for a paragraph in the law on protecting domestic animals," Tomek said.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/dog ... ar-BBfOmmP

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French fries at dinner (no animal's suffering will happen).

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Mirror

Inventor devises pill that makes your FARTS smell of chocolate
By Ian Leonard

Christian Poincheval says he came up with the bizarre idea during an awkward dinner with friends - this might be the best thing to come out of 2014



We all know how embarrassing it can be when the smell from someone breaking wind lingers in a room.

And this could be the perfect Christmas gift for flatulent friends or relatives who tend to over-indulge during the festive season.

A French man claims to have developed a pill that not only eases indigestion but makes farts smell like chocolate or roses.

Christian Poincheval, 65, said he came up with the idea during a fart-plagued dinner with friends.

"We were at the table with friends and after a hearty meal, our farts were so smelly we nearly suffocated," he said on his website.

"The winds were not very pleasant for our fellow diners. Something had to be done."

Previously, the inventor has sold pills to scent farts with rose or violet, but now he has brought out a chocolate version just in time for Christmas.

A jar of 60 pf the pills sells for €9.99 - £7.90 - and offers benefits including 'the reduction of gas and bloating'.

"It’s a nice present for the festive season," he told newspaper Ouest France.

He started selling the pills, which are made from natural ingredients, direct to the public from his website pilulepet.com in 2006 and he says sales have been good.

He added: "Some buy them because they have problems with flatulence and some buy them as a joke to send to their friends. Christmas always sees a surge in sales."

The pills are apparently made of "mixed vegetable charcoal, fennel, lithothamne (seaweed), propolis (plant resin) and blueberry."

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news ... 33#rlabs=2

[Londoner]

This is really distressing and make you sick.

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This is really distressing and make you sick.

I have a dog that needs such pills

[Londoner]

This is really distressing and make you sick.

I have a dog that needs such pills

I mean about the cruelty to dogs and cats.

[Anthea]

This is really distressing and make you sick.

I have a dog that needs such pills

I mean about the cruelty to dogs and cats.

I thought you did - I was only joking

I was really SHOCKED that the Swiss eat dogs

I had no idea - I half expected it from the Chinese but not the Swiss

Years ago the health inspectors found cats being served in a Chinese restaurant in Croydon

There were more than 20 dead cats hung up in their cold room ready to be cooked and eaten