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What is natural flavor?
Federal regulations define natural flavor as the oils, essences, extracts, distillates or products of roasting, heating or enzymolysis drawn from spices, fruit, vegetables, herbs, meat, seafood, eggs, dairy or fermentation, whose main role in food is flavoring rather than nutrition.
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A worked algebra solution to a word problem, concluding that the road is 24,000 meters long.
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Earthquake in the Northeastern U.S.
USGS details on the magnitude 5.8 earthquake that struck Virginia on August 23, 2011 at 1:51 p.m. ET: shallow at 3.7 miles deep, centered 27 miles east of Charlottesville, with links for reporting shaking and for emergency preparedness.
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Alzheimer's disease
An encyclopedia-style overview of the most common form of dementia, first described by Alois Alzheimer in 1906: usually diagnosed after 65, affecting 26.6 million people in 2006 and projected to reach 1 in 85 globally by 2050, with mean life expectancy after diagnosis of about seven years.
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Statins
A reference entry: statins block HMG-CoA reductase to lower cholesterol, work best in people who already have cardiovascular disease, and can rarely cause severe muscle damage. It lists the marketed statins and notes atorvastatin became the best-selling drug in history.
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Chlorella
A reference entry on the single-celled green alga: spherical, 2 to 10 micrometres across, about 45% protein when dried, and central to Nobel-winning work by Otto Warburg and Melvin Calvin. Harvesting difficulties long limited its use as a large-scale food source.
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Folic Acid - Dietary fortification
An encyclopedia-style account of folic acid fortification: many countries add it to flour to lift blood folate, a step debated over individual liberty and its masking of vitamin B12 deficiency, and no EU country has mandated it. Engineered Lactococcus lactis strains could supply comparable folate.
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Folic Acid - Health Issues
An encyclopedia-style account of folate and human reproduction: adequate intake around conception helps protect against neural tube defects and other malformations, deficiency in pregnancy may raise the risk of preterm delivery and low birth weight, and the mechanism remains unknown.
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Folic acid - basics
A reference entry on vitamin B9: the body needs folate to synthesize, repair and methylate DNA and to form healthy red blood cells, and leafy vegetables and fortified grains supply it. Diverse evidence suggests high intake from supplements may promote some cancers.
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The Many Names of Sugar
Americans average about 22 teaspoons of added sugar a day, 350 calories' worth and 20 percent more than in 1970. AICR says evidence suggests sugar does not itself cause or feed cancer, but the extra calories drive weight gain, which is convincingly linked to several cancers.
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