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REVIRAVOLTA NAS VERDADES SOBRE O LEITE
Em vez de aumentar, produto integral reduziria risco de problemas cardiovasculares. Por outro lado, corrente científica prega: ele é dispensável para a nutrição humana.O leite integral talvez não seja...
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WOMEN AND MEN AT ÇATALHÖYÜK
OverviewLife circa 7000 B.C.* A 9,000-year-old site at Çatalhöyük in Turkey reveals a curious town of thousands of houses crammed together with no streets between them.* Inhabitants climbed down...
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HIDDEN ARCHAEOLOGY OF STONEGENGE
New digital map reveals stunning hidden archaeology of Stonehenge.A host of previously unknown archaeological monuments have been discovered around Stonehenge as part of an unprecedented digital...
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FOOD AS A HORMONE
Nutrient substrates derived from food can activate intracellular signaling cascades to regulate metabolic health.Diet has an enormous impact on many aspects of our health, yet scientific consensus...
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CONSUMO DE REFRIGERANTES PERDE ESPAÇO NO BRASIL
O mercado de refrigerantes perde peso no Brasil.Em 2013, a produção encolheu 3,4%, ou 524 milhões de litros.A queda surpreende se considerada a expansão nos últimos dez anos:mesmo em 2008, auge da...
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VIRGINS, VIRGINITY AND VIRGIN MARY
Virgin Mary by Eustache le SuerVIRGINS AND VIRGINITYIn European Christian societies, control of female sexuality had long been a concern of the patriarchal church and patrilineal inheritance system....
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JOSEFINA, IMPERATRIZ DA FRANÇA
Uma biografia narra como a feiosa Josefina seduziu Paris e Napoleão, o homem mais poderoso de seu tempo.A exemplo de outras grandes sedutoras da história - como a imperatriz Catarina da Rússia e...
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EDIR MACEDO, QUASE UM RABINO
A construção de sua versão do Templo de Salomão é apenas a parte mais vistosa da incorporação de símbolos do judaísmo pelo líder da Igreja Universal.De quipá, xale de orações, barba de profeta e...
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SPICES IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE
"In the meadow there is a tree, very fair to look upon.Its roots are of ginger and galangal, the shoots of zedoary.Its flowers are three pieces of mace, and the bark, sweet-smelling cinnamon.The fruit...
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FUNNY FOODS - CRAP QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
1. Do jelly babies have feelings?The story of the jelly baby began in Victorian England, when village shop owners began looking around for new treats to make them rich. It was a Cornish woman who...
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THE INVENTION OF HOME LIFE
Nineteen years after leaving his home to fight in a foreign war, a man returns to his native island. After a decade of testing adventures that have deflected him from his homeward course, he is weary...
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GODS AS MORAL AUTHORITIES IN THE EARLY ROMAN EMPIRE
"Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish."Anne Bradstreet in "Meditations Divine and Moral"Popular morality shows a strong desire to anchor human...
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LIQUID-BONE JAB MAY PREVENT BREAKS IN ELDERLY
Scientists are developing a “liquid bone” that could be injected into people affected by bone-thinning diseases such as osteoporosis.The paste-like material consists of tiny hollow spheres of calcium...
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REMÉDIO PARA COLESTEROL PODE INIBIR O NANISMO.
AcondroplasiaA estatina recuperou o crescimento ósseo em ratos de laboratório com a alteração genética que causa baixa estatura. Segundo autores do estudo, da Universidade de Kyoto, no Japão, existe a...
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LIFE STAGES OF FRENCH WOMEN
FRENCH WOMEN DON'T GET FATReaching and maintaining equilibrium is not done by force of heredity; it’s something we cultivate through the way we live. Genetics plays a part, of course, and balance...
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CONTRA AQUECIMENTO GLOBAL, MENOS CARNE À MESA
A criação de gado é uma das atividades econômicas que mais contribuem para o aquecimento global, segundo cientistas.O combate ao aquecimento do planeta tem de começar à mesa. O aviso é de um estudo...
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WHY FOODS SPOIL?
Four kinds of things cause spoilage in preserved food:(1) enzymes, which are naturally occuring substances in living tissues, and are necessary to complete growth and reproduction; and three types of...
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WHAT IS FOOD HISTORY?
"Beer Street" engraving after HogarthExcerpts from the Introduction of the book "The Routledge History of Food"Food history assumes many forms. At the most basic or obvious level, food history is the...
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A CURIOUS HISTORY OF FOOD AND DRINK - THE ANCIENT WORLD.
Circa 650 BC"On the Antiquity of Licorice". The earliest reference to licorice, found on some stone tablets from Baghdad, dates from around 650 BC. The Assyrians used licorice as a treatment for sore...
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THE MAN WHO ATE THE WORLD - MOSCOW
My plan to pay my own way was not going well. I had been chauffeured to the Kempinski Hotel hard by the Moskva River in a shiny black people carrier. My suite there boasted a bed the size of Kansas,...
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