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Sanjay Jha
Soaring food prices are going to stay for long time and UN’s Food & Agriculture Organisation ( FAO) have warned that bad weather could increase the problem…as demand from developing countries and production costs rise, says the UN’s Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO). It warned that the current spike in global food prices was higher than previous records, partly because bad weather had ruined crops.

Although high prices will ease off, other factors, such as rising biofuel demand, will keep future costs high. The FAO said speculators were also to blame for volatile commodity markets. The FAO’s annual Outlook report predicted beef and pork prices might be 20% higher by 2017, wheat could be up to 60% more expensive and the cost of vegetable oils might rise by 80%. More

Science Daily
Contrary to long-held assumptions, high-salt diets may not increase the risk of death, according to investigators from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University.

They reached their conclusion after examining dietary intake among a nationally representative sample of adults in the U.S. The Einstein researchers actually observed a significantly increased risk of death from cardiovascular disease (CVD) associated with lower sodium diets. They report their findings in the advance online edition of the Journal of General Internal Medicine. Read more