food

Handbook of Food Engineering, Second Edition (Food Science and Technology (CRC Press))

November 16th, 2008

As the demand for safe, nutritious, convenient foods continues to rise, and the capabilities of molecular biology and nutritional biochemistry continue to expand, the need for up-to-date engineering information becomes ever more critical. The application of innovative engineering concepts enables scientific breakthroughs to be utilized in the manufacture of the highest quality food products [...]

Food Lion to create new Virginia Tech Scholarship

May 18th, 2007

Food Lion stores from across Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, the Carolinas and Georgia are getting ready for a variety of events to raise funds for a new scholarship to assist the company’s associates and their dependents in attending Virginia Tech.
Cookouts, casual dress days, raffles and other activities at approximately 350 stores Saturday will raise [...]

Fiddles, food and scholarships

March 8th, 2006

Annual musical fundraiser coming to Ridgewood High
The sounds of traditional bluegrass, country and old time music will fill the air at the Ridgewood High School auditorium Friday, March 10. For the second year in a row, some of the area’s top musicians and singers are donating their time for An Evening of Musical Entertainment, a [...]

YoNaturals Continues to Install Healthy Vending Machines Throughout San Diego Schools

January 20th, 2009

Leading healthy vending snack supplier YoNaturals, Inc. of San Diego recently announced the addition of new vending machine locations at schools in the Greater San Diego area.
Aviara Oaks and Calavera Middle Schools in Carlsbad, and Grace Lutheran Schools in Escondido have all entered into agreements with the rapidly expanding food and beverage marketer, providing students [...]

Clinical Engineering Handbook (Biomedical Engineering)

November 16th, 2008

As the biomedical engineering field expands throughout the world, clinical engineers play an evermore-important role as translators between the medical, engineering, and business professions. They influence procedure and policy at research facilities, universities, as well as private and government agencies including the Food and Drug Administration and the World Health Organization. The profession of [...]

Crisis Preparedness Handbook: A Complete Guide to Home Storage and Physical Survival

November 13th, 2008

A complete guide to emergency preparedness for our uncertain times. Virtually an encyclopedia of food storage and personal preparedness, it covers topics from exactly how to design a food storage program tailored for your particular family to growing and preserving food, storing fuel, alternate energy, emergency evacuation kits, medical and dental, surviving biological, chemical [...]

The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience

November 13th, 2008

We live in an oil-dependent world, arriving at this level of dependency in a very short space of time by treating petroleum as if it were in infinite supply. Most of us avoid thinking about what happens when oil runs out (or becomes prohibitively expensive), but The Transition Handbook shows how the inevitable and [...]

Diversified Health Occupations (Simmers, Diversified Health Occupations)

November 7th, 2008

The highly respected Diversified Health Occupations, now in its seventh edition, is the informational authority on careers in health care. Organized in two parts, the first section of the book presents foundational information required to enter a broad range of health professions. The second provides fundamental entry-level skills by specific careers, including [...]

Empowering Your Health

November 7th, 2008

Asa Andrew says there is only one step necessary to revitalize your life and regain your personal health: Change your health by changing your choices.
Andrew has learned that most people “lifestyle themselves into sickness” and can, with determination, “lifestyle themselves back to health.” Once readers make that choice-to be well-Andrew provides all the guidance [...]

Eat For Health: Lose Weight, Keep It Off, Look Younger, Live Longer (2 book set)

November 7th, 2008

Hundreds of medical doctors utilize Dr. Fuhrman s Eat For Health system in their medical practice. It is because all diets fail, for vast majority, in the long-run, unless there is an adequate understanding of nutrient density of food and how low-nutrient-eating leads to food cravings, food addictions and fuels overeating behavior. Dr. Fuhrman [...]