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Published: 09/29/10

Tofu Glue: Coming Soon to a Furniture Store Near You?

By  Katie Drummond - AOL News
Tofu Glue: Coming Soon to a Furniture Store Near You?

(Sept. 29) -- From "ick" to IKEA? That appears to be the trajectory of tofu's latest remarkable transition from niche food product to mainstream miracle-compound. Researchers are developing a low-cost method to convert soy, the primary ingredient in tofu, into environmentally friendly glue products that would be used to make furniture, flooring and other household wood products. The resulting adhesive, composed partly of soy flour, offers an important benefit for eco-conscious and health-conscious furniture-makers and consumers: it doesn't yield formaldehyde vapors, suspected to be ...

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Published: 09/23/10

At 96, Jack LaLanne Says He's Still a 'Nut'

By  David Moye - AOL News
At 96, Jack LaLanne Says He's Still a 'Nut'

(Sept. 23) -- When you're turning 96 and still as fit as a fiddle, people are invariably going to ask your secret. Ask fitness pioneer Jack LaLanne his secret for a long life, and you'll get a variety of answers. One day, he might say, "I can't die. It's bad for business." On another, he'll say, "I can't afford to die. It's too expensive." Maybe it's fruitless to ask health secrets from a man who celebrated his 70th birthday by swimming 1.5 miles while towing 70 boats with 70 people from the Queensway Bay Bridge in the Long Beach Harbor to the Queen Mary -- handcuffed and shackled -- ...

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Published: 09/14/10

'Cheatatarianism': A New Term for Your Secret Bacon Binge

By  Katie Drummond - AOL News
'Cheatatarianism': A New Term for Your Secret Bacon Binge

(Sept. 14) -- At home, they're an avid devourer of rubbed kale salads and scrambled tofu. To friends and family, they're known as the resident vegan or vegetarian. But behind closed doors, or maybe even after one too many drinks at a cocktail party, they're shoveling down bacon-wrapped scallops. Now, the helpful folks at TreeHugger are introducing a term to describe meat-free diners who, on occasion and in secret, nosh on animal flesh. And no, it isn't "liars." Cheatatarians, writes Sami Grover, are those who sometimes "sneak a bacon sandwich or a piece of fish," often unbeknownst to their ...

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Published: 09/10/10

The Dugout: Homophobic Slurz!

By  Brandon Stroud - AOL News
The Dugout: Homophobic Slurz!

This is the same face I use when somebody screams out a homophobic slur in public. Okay, maybe not when they say the actual slur, but shortly thereafter when they are getting all indignant about it. For example, I don't care when Enimem says the f-word (no, not that one, the meaner one), but I get pretty bothered when he does his "I'm just bein' me!" schtick. Thankfully umpire Bob Davidson loves to eject people, so when a 44-year old shirtless troglodyte in Miller Park started giving the sexually-defensive business to Yadier Molina, Davidson sent him packing. The guy's excuse for slurring ...

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Published: 07/28/10

PETA's New Look Screams 'Bloody Murder'

By  Ben Muessig - AOL News
PETA's New Look Screams 'Bloody Murder'

(July 28) -- Animal rights activists say meat is murder -- bloody, bloody murder. Demonstrators from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) recently stripped down in New York City's Times Square, wrapped themselves up in cellophane and doused themselves with fake blood so they looked like meat on sale at a supermarket. They say they put on the July 27 stunt to help meat eaters realize that buying a steak from a grocery store is no different from buying a corpse. ...

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Published: 07/20/10

Meat Eaters Pack on More Pounds, Regardless of Calories

By  Katie Drummond - AOL News
Meat Eaters Pack on More Pounds, Regardless of Calories

(July 20) -- Losing weight isn't as simple as calories in, calories out -- at least for those who eat meat. That's the surprising result of a new study that links meat consumption to long-term weight gain. Researchers out of Imperial College, London, tracked the dietary habits of 370,000 adults across Europe for five years. Those who ate the least meat also gained the least weight. Eating an additional 250 grams of meat meant an extra 4.4 pounds over five years. Because meat is so dense in calories, it makes sense that vegetarian diets would be lower in overall energy -- making weight ...

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Published: 10/29/09

'Mad Men's' Lessons on Food Policy

By  Ria Misra - Politics Daily
'Mad Men's' Lessons on Food Policy

The heat-and-serve meals seen on "Mad Men" don't often inspire me to much food policy thought, but I did appreciate "Mad Men's" very own Soylent Green moment this week when, upon learning what brand of dog food his puppy was eating, a focus group attendee cried out, "Ponies! They make it out of ponies!" After which the dog food company executive calmly observed to the surrounding Sterling Cooper staff that horse meat seemed to have acquired a bit of a branding problem. Likewise, the meat we eat also suffers from a branding problem, namely that we don't think about it enough in terms of ...

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