Good Reading for Good Eating
Early in 1990, FDA began publishing proposals for new food labeling regulations that would, among other things, mandate nutrition labeling for almost all processed foods, limit health claims, establish reference Daily Values for certain nutrients, and define serving sizes.
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CELLS Alive!
This site will probably require some fiddling with your computer, but they tell you how to do it and it is well worth it.
Robert Hooke
Very interesting history about this famous, and slightly mysterious, biologist.
Healthy Eating For Healthy Living This address includes more than 15 other addresses for added information. If you want to have a healthy heart, you have to learn how to eat a healthy heart diet. All of the food you eat effects the health of your heart. Learn which foods are heart smart and try to include them as a regular part of your diet.
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The Heart Preview Gallery Begin your tour of the heart. A text version of the image map is available. During your tour, try the interactives that you can do on-line.
TransWeb Transplantation and donation news for both doctors and transplant patients, alike. The latest medical research, and links to other transplant resources on the Web. This address is not itself a scientific paper or even an article, but it has many interesting and pertinent addresses providing information involving organ donation.
Grand Rounds Archives The two medial nasal swellings and the maxillary swellings fuse to form the upper lip. The nasal swellings merge at deeper levels also and form the intermaxillary segment, which becomes the triangular primary palate, so embryologically, clefts of the lip are almost invariably associated with clefts of the primary palate.
Charles Darwin Research Station Galapagos were once known as the Enchanted Islands because they disappeared into the fog at certain times of year and sailors could not find them.
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ABOUT RED TIDE ... MORE THAN MEETS THE EYES AND NOSE - On a sultry fall morning of 1947, the community of Venice, Florida, awoke to thousands of dead fish along the beaches and a stinging,choking "gas" in the air. Some blamed nerve gas others a chemical spill, but scientists soon discovered, the cause ...
Final Diagnosis -- Malaria (Intermittent fevers) Malaria is caused by four Plasmodium species: falciparum, ovale, vivax, and malariae. It is estimated that over 100 million people
worldwide are infected causing 1-2 million deaths per year.
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KEW WEB Follow the many links found on this home page of one of the world's most famous botanic gardens.
Invasive Nonindigenous Plants of Florida
Recommended Citation: U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, Harmful Non-Indigenous Species in the United States, OTA-F-565.
Addresses of Global Land Biosphere Links Listed here are the addresses of additional land biosphere scientific and educational resources, images and data available on the Web. This list of URLs is meant to be printed out and distributed to scientists, students and educators.
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U.S. Department of Commerce - Bureau of the Census There are many links that are of importance to human population growth. This web site is the major source of the Census Bureau's vast database of information.
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