... cells, found in early human embryos, can be used to regenerate any cells or tissues in the body that have been damaged or destroyed. Samuel and Rebecca also talk about restrictions on using embryonic stem cells, citing the government policy allowing only certain cell lines; the Food and Drug...

... with a range of orthopedic conditions, including fractures that failed to heal and chronic bursitis, with a stem cell therapy it called RegenexxTM. The therapy consisted of mesenchymal stem cells taken from the patient's bone marrow and grown in tissue culture for about two weeks. The Food and Drug...

... to Legere about the risks and benefits of the trial, how the trial works, the form of stem cell therapy that trial participants will receive, positive and negative outcomes expected from the trial and the precautions that Geron has been taking to prevent negative outcomes, and why the Food and Drug...

... movements and how that led her to become an ecofeminist animal rights activist. She shows how the theory of the absent referent allowed her to see the connection between the objectification of women and the objectification of animals, particularly food animals, which led her to write the feminist animal...

... climate gastrointestinal distress geophagy life stage categories pica breastfeeding Mama na Afya Mothers and Health study Pemba pregnancy pregnancy continued requirements during timing of pica ash baby powder chalk charcoal geophagic earth rice whitewash pica non-food cravings...

...This chapter focuses on the representation of food in hagiographic narratives in order to illuminate the function of miracles in Sufi contexts. Food is the most common arena for Sufi masters' miraculous interventions in the lives of their disciples in this literature. Masters' control over food...

...This chapter explains how commodities trading works. It first considers how the commodities market evolved into what we know today before discussing how the modern commodities market works and how the trading of food-based commodities influences what we eat and what we pay for food. Many traders...

...This epilogue reflects on the evolution of the commodities market since those first grain trades at Haine's Feed Store in Chicago. A number of commodities contracts have come and gone. Just as food traditions evolve, so do food commodities. As some contracts are eased out, it seems certain...

...This chapter discusses how umami promotes health and wellness. Food with umami can often be prepared with significantly less salt, sugar, and fat without sacrificing the delicious taste of the resulting dish. Salt, in particular, is frequently applied too liberally in order to compensate...

...This introductory chapter discusses the rise of Chinese food in America's gastronomical landscape in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and sets out the book's central question: Why did Chinese food become so popular in America? It argues that the long and winding journey of Chinese...

...This chapter examines the critical role that American Chinatown played in the transplantation and spread of Chinese food. As a cradle of America's Chinese food, Chinatown was where this food was first transplanted in the early 1850s. In the decades that followed, when anti-Chinese animosity...

...The rise to prominence of American Chinese food in turn-of-the-century markets was shaped by the interplay between Chinese restaurant owners and their non-Chinese consumers. This chapter first describes several groups—the so-called slummers, African Americans, and Jews—who provided an indispensable...

...This chapter considers the increase in scholarly research on food within various academic disciplines, including public health, literary studies, sociology, and anthropology. It argues that the new research and publications about food mark only the beginning, and much more lies ahead. Of particular...

..., 2008), and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (Lord and Miller, 2009), and in the lesser known Bee Movie (Hickner and Smith. 2007), The Tale of Desperaux (Fell and Stevenhagen, 2008), character development connects closely with food, which becomes the instrument of the heroes’ redemption even when...

... reception. It also discusses the metaphorical implications of food and sex in the film and concludes by assessing the impact of globalization on traditional Chinese culture. Brokeback Mountain 2005 Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon 2000 Dostoevsky Fyodor Eat Drink Man Woman 1994 food culinary arts...

...This chapter discusses the medieval monastic world's ways of approaching food. One aspect that is totally uniform in the monastic experience is alimentary deprivation, the renunciation of food as a means of mortifying the flesh. The prime purpose of renouncing food...

...In this new history of food, the text traces the development of medieval tastes—both culinary and cultural—from raw materials to market and captures their reflections in today's food trends. Tying the ingredients of our diet evolution to the growth of human civilization, it immerses readers...

...This introductory chapter provides the author's account of the origins of the present volume, which can be traced back to his decision to shift his focus as a neuroscientist from studying the physiology of the sense of smell to how the smells of food in his mouth produce flavor. His search...

...This chapter explains how fast foods capture the human brain flavor system with excessive activation, and how this leads to poor nutrition and obesity. The popularity of McDonald's French fries, for instance, is due to its smell, the strong meat flavor produced by organic chemical compounds...

...The most important ultimate function of the human brain flavor system is making the right choices in consuming healthy or unhealthy food. The key to making these choices lies in the decision-making mechanisms of our brains. Interest in these mechanisms has merged with the interests of economists...