This guy is like a real-life fruit ninja.
But instead of using broad sword-strokes intended to decimate the fruit, our hero, who has the deft precision of a surgeon, uses a series of carefully considered quick cuts to transform this pineapple into fin…
This is a cereal crime.
A mom in the United Kingdom is super cereal about her kids’ breakfast. She’s ratting out Kellogg’s after she found a dead mouse in her 2-year-old grandson’s box of Crunchy Nut corn flakes, according to the Mirror.
Pauline Henderson, 50, was pouring a bowl of the freshly opened cereal when she says she found this:
Naturally, the Portsmouth native was disgusted.
“It was horrible,” she told The Portsmouth News. “If [my grandson] Toby had eaten it I could have been rushing him to the hospital … Goodness knows how long the mouse was in the box or if it was dead or alive when it went in.”
She didn’t have to rush anyone to the hospital, but she did throw the box — mouse included — into the freezer while she notified environmental officials.
A representative of the supermarket Tesco, where Henderson reportedly bought the cereal, told the Daily Mail that the find is “concerning.”
“We set ourselves the highest standards for the quality and safety of the food we sell and were concerned to hear of this,” the spokesman said. “We would like to thank Ms Henderson for alerting us and we will work with the supplier to support their investigation.”
Henderson also reportedly declined Kellogg’s offer of a new box of cereal.
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Maiko Takahashi knows how to make mealtime special for her kids.
The Tokyo-based mom regularly creates wonderfully whimsical bento boxes for her 6-year-old son and 4-year-old daughter, transforming everyday food into cartoon characters, cuddly animals, and even Santa Claus.
息子の担任の先生のお誕生日のお弁当。 pic.twitter.com/ZjfxAAdymH
— Sasariri (@ejkzmrs) August 26, 2014
クリスマスのお弁当〜♪ #キャラ弁 pic.twitter.com/YXgL97bqCy
— Sasariri (@ejkzmrs) August 8, 2014
猫とかそこらへんを捕獲しました弁当。 #キャラ弁 pic.twitter.com/G8fNzn8jkh
— Sasariri (@ejkzmrs) August 25, 2014
Recently, Takahashi decided to take her mealtime works of art to the next level, putting together bento boxes for her children that are delicious, aesthetically interesting and educational.
For her Japan map series (pictured below), Takahashi has been creating bento boxes featuring maps of every one of the 47 governmental prefectures in Japan, such as Kyoto and Osaka. As Neatorama points out, the meticulous mom has sometimes even included edible symbols associated with each region, such as the Tokyo Tower.
“The smile of [my] son and [my] daughter is my driving force,” Takahashi told Mashable of the inspiration behind her edible works of art.
Scroll down to see some of Takahashi’s Japan map bento boxes. For more, visit her Twitter page.
お弁当都道府県シリーズ。
東京都。東京タワーも作ってみた♪ #キャラ弁 pic.twitter.com/3Qsd6mpedJ
— Sasariri (@ejkzmrs) August 9, 2014
お弁当都道府県シリーズ。
群馬県。この日、節分だったので鬼がいますね(笑) #キャラ弁 pic.twitter.com/Y0L6bxQmye
— Sasariri (@ejkzmrs) August 8, 2014
お弁当都道府県シリーズ。
京都府。この日はこどもの日付近だったのでウィンナーの鯉のぼりが入ってますね(^_^) #キャラ弁 pic.twitter.com/jo8lIDrvD8
— Sasariri (@ejkzmrs) August 16, 2014
お弁当都道府県シリーズ。
広島県。 #キャラ弁 pic.twitter.com/wQ5ROEsHtr
— Sasariri (@ejkzmrs) August 19, 2014
お弁当都道府県シリーズ。
大阪府。 #キャラ弁 pic.twitter.com/5ZqIsdguGi
— Sasariri (@ejkzmrs) August 16, 2014
お弁当都道府県シリーズ。
日本列島。これで本当に終了！いつもクールな息子から「お母さん、大変だったね。僕のお願いきいてくれてありがとう(^o^)」と言われ、意外過ぎた展開に思わず泣きました(T_T)あれからもう2年か…。 #キャラ弁 pic.twitter.com/ec5todmwtZ
— Sasariri (@ejkzmrs) August 24, 2014
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By Charles Choi, Contributing Writer
Published: 08/25/2014 07:33 PM EDT on LiveScience
Bacteria in the gut can help protect mice against peanut food allergies, according to a new study. The findings suggest that probiotics might help treat or prevent these potentially lethal food allergies in people, researchers say.
Food allergies, which are sometimes deadly immune system reactions to certain foods, currently affect about 15 million people in the United States. Food allergy rates among children rose by about 50 percent between 1997 and 2011.
“We’ve seen a generational change in the prevalence of food allergies,” said senior study author Cathryn Nagler, an immunologist at the University of Chicago. “When I was in elementary school, my brothers and I ate peanut butter and jelly for lunch every day. Now, my children’s classrooms are peanut free — it’s estimated that, in the U.S., there are now two children in every classroom with potentially life-threatening allergic responses to food.”
The causes of food allergies remain unknown. Although researchers suspect genetics plays a role, “this kind of change in such a short time frame must be explained by something in the environment,” Nagler told Live Science. [8 Strange Signs You’re Having an Allergic Reaction]
Previous studies have suggested that modern changes in diet, hygiene and the increased use of antimicrobials might disturb the body’s microbiota, the population of bacteria that naturally live in and on people. This change, in turn, might increase people’s susceptibility to food allergies, researchers say.
To see how changes in the microbiota of the intestines might influence allergic responses to food, Nagler and her colleagues experimented with germ-free mice, which were born and raised in sterile conditions to possess no microbes inside them, and mice treated with antibiotics as newborns, which have significantly reduced gut bacteria levels compared with normal mice. The researchers exposed these rodents to allergens — the substances that cause allergic reactions — from peanuts. Both groups of mice experienced strong immune responses, generating significantly higher levels of antibodies against the peanut allergens than mice with normal gut bacteria.
The scientists then investigated which types of gut bacteria, if any, could be given to mice to prevent them from developing peanut allergies. They found that when a class of bacteria called Clostridia was implanted into the mice’s intestines, it could both prevent these mice from developing a peanut allergy and reverse any sensitivity they had to peanut allergens.
Clostridia are a highly diverse class of bacteria, and are also common in humans. There are toxic Clostridia, such as Clostridium difficile, but the types of Clostridia used in the new study did not include the toxic kind, Nagler said.
The scientists analyzed the genetic activity of intestinal cells in mice that possessed Clostridia. They found that Clostridia spurred the cells of the outermost layers of the mice intestines to generate high levels of a molecule known as interleukin-22, which reduced how permeable the intestines were to food allergens. When the intestines were less permeable, fewer allergens reached the bloodstream, where they could have otherwise triggered allergic reactions.
Other recent findings have made it increasingly clear that gut microbes have many important functions within the body. For instance, they help make some essential vitamins and break down otherwise indigestible dietary fiber. They also release signals that help the immune system function.
“We have co-evolved with our microbiota for millennia,” Nagler said. “It seems that a consequence of some of our 21st-century lifestyle habits has been the disruption of our relationship with the communities of commensal (friendly) bacteria that reside on our skin and mucosal surfaces, and particularly in the gut.”
The researchers have filed a patent to develop ways to prevent food allergies, and they plan to work with biotechnology companies to engineer such probiotic therapies.
The researchers suggested that other commensal bacteria may also help to regulate the body’s tolerance of food allergens. “We still have a lot to learn about the commensal microbiota,” Nagler said.
Nagler and her colleagues detailed their findings online today (Aug. 25) in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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