- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
The Sacramento Bee ran a story Nov. 9 with advice from two UC nutrition experts that Californians may take to heart next week when the holiday "eating season" begins. Linda Bacon, a San Francisco City College teacher who is on staff at UC Davis, and UC Davis nutrition researcher Judith Stern suggest people don't count on dieting after the holidays to make up for heavy eating. By and large, the diets don't work.
Dieters may get early results, but "every major study shows that a majority of dieters gain the weight back, and sometimes more," Bacon is quoted in the article.
The story reviewed a research project conducted by Stern and Bacon...
- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
ABC 30 News, a San Joaquin Valley TV news program, ran a story yesterday about work done at UC Davis by professor Frank Mitloehner to study the effects of dairy production on air quality.
The research, according to the reporter, "won't clear the air, but it may help clear up some misconceptions."
In conducting his research, Mitloehner kept dairy cattle inside bubbles and closely monitored the air going in and the air coming out.
"See this here, methanol, ethanol, nitrous oxide, carbon monoxide and methane is measured continuously," Mitloehner said, according to a transcript of the story on the ABC30 Web...
- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
ABC TV-7 news reported last night that sudden oak death has made a comeback in Northern California oak woodlands.
"There is a resurgence of sudden oak death from Monterey through Mendocino, more than a million trees killed so far and that number rises daily. Those dead oaks can contribute to the fire danger and change the look of our forests in more ways than one. Experts say we're one major wildfire away from changing the look of some of our forests forever," says the story posted on the program's Web site.
The reporter went to UC Cooperative Extension natural resources advisor Steven Swain for expert comment.
...- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
The Washington, D.C.-based Center for Immigration Studies held a telephone news conference yesterday featuring UC Davis agricultural economist Phil Martin, who has written a paper titled "Farm Labor Shortages: How Real? What Response?" The paper examines workers' wages, farmers' earnings and the prospects of mechanization.
A handful of newspapers reported on the story, including the Sacramento Bee, Central Valley Business Times, and the
- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
A Bay Area television station called on UC Cooperative Extension wood durability advisor Stephen Quarles to comment for its story about "house-eating" fungus found in an East Bay home.
CBS TV-5 produced a story for yesterday's broadcast and Web site about the "rare fungus attack." Poria, the report said, is most common in the Gulf states, but it has attacked more than 200 homes in Northern and Southern California.
For the story, the TV station gave Quarles the title "fungus detective."
"You'll see them often behind a door you don't open so often," Quarles told the station. "The feeling that...