Nutrition & Health

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You often hear that foraging honey bees are either pollen specialists or nectar specialists. That is, some leave the hive to collect pollen for their colony, and some to collect nectar. Renowned bee geneticist and biologist Robert E. Page Jr.

This is one of a series of stories featuring a sampling of UC ANR academics whose work exemplifies the public value UC ANR brings to California.

CalFresh Healthy Living, UC and its UC Cooperative Extension community educators work in schools and community settings to give low-income children and families the opportunities and resources they need to eat right, stay active and lead healthy lives.

If you're a praying mantis, it's important to start the day out right by meditating, praying, and exercising. Close your eyes and slow your breathing. Be grateful for what you have, not what you want. But it's permissible to dream big, as in a Megachile pluto instead of a Perdita minima.

Berkeley, California made history by passing the nation's first sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) tax paid by beverage distributors in 2014, which garnered unanimous support from City Council and 76% of the vote in a public referendum.

How my training as a UC Master Food Preserver helped me become healthy after a heart attack. About three-quarters of the way into my certification training for the UCCE Master Food Preserver Program, I experienced a heart attack, which resulted in stent placements.

If you have ever enjoyed Barilla pasta in your favorite Italian dish, you have most likely consumed Desert Durum wheat from Imperial County. The success of the Desert Durum wheat is due to research of UC Davis Distinguished Professor and HHMI Researcher, Jorge Dubcovsky.

Like everything and everyone else in 2020, our local fairs are adapting to the changes necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Esta es una de una serie de historias escritas por un grupo de acadmicos de UC ANR cuyo trabajo ejemplifica el valor pblico que UC ANR trae a California. In English Los granjeros ya estn viendo en sus cultivos los efectos de las noches de invierno ms clidas y das de verano ms calientes.