Obesity leaves children with livers like foie gras.

Children as young as four are developing livers so fatty that they resemble the French delicacy foie gras. Specialists meeting in Italy say rising obesity rates across the developed world are driving an increase in fatty liver.

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Eat locally, survive globally. National food policy should give priority to local agriculture over globalized agribusiness [News Source]

Soaring feed costs may lead pig, cattle farmers to reduce herds; meat prices certain to rise. Although a dozen eggs jumped in price by 35 percent compared with last year, and a pound loaf of white bread rose 12 percent, boneless pork chops are $3.53 a pound, a penny less than a year ago. The cheap price of pork is a bounty for consumers fatigued by food inflation, but it's wreaking havoc with hog producers. [News Source]

Pica: insatiable hunger for an odd diet. Nearly all little kids put weird things into their mouths. But children over age 2 -- or full-grown adults -- who regularly eat paint chips, stones, paper clips, cloth and other inedible items likely have a rare disorder: pica. [News Source]

Santa Cruz Nutritionals bulking up on vitamins (Santa Cruz Sentinel) You may not have heard of Santa Cruz Nutritionals but if you buy gummy multivitamins, you very likely are a customer. [News Source]

Sunday, April 27, 2008 (Chennai Online) =Chennai, April 27: Magna Industries in association with its partner and pharma major Khandelwal Laboratories Private Limited (K-Labs) had launched nutritious Vitamin-C effervescent tablets for the first time in India, which was aimed at reducing the increasing malnutrition rate in the country. [News Source]

Nobel Peace laureate Wangari Muta Maathai speaks. The founder of Kenya's Green Belt Movement urged attendees of an ecological awakening event to 'start with small things, start with ourselves,' in a campaign to save the environment and ease poverty. [News Source]

For women, the wineglass is half full. There's mounting evidence that drinking wine and other alcoholic beverages increases the risk of breast cancer. [News Source]

The short end of the longer life. A pair of reports out this month affirm that the rising tide of American health is not lifting all boats, and that there are widening gaps in life expectancy based on the interwoven variables of income, race, sex, education and geography. [News Source]

How much do chemicals affect our health? In the forefront of battles to eliminate environmental toxins since he was sent by the CDC to Texas to study the effect of a lead smelter on children, Dr. Philip Landrigan has helped show the relationship between asbestos, pesticides, and benzene and human disease. [News Source]