Use Your Loaf!

A loaf of bread: Price and value.

In the Western world, the basic staple of nutrition is bread. It evolved, from Neolithic times in Mesopotamia and the Levant, from flour made from natural hybrids of emmer and einkorn. Its form has changed from that of a dark, coarse and heavy loaf, baked in the ashes, to the enriched artistic breads of the late twentieth century. Its variety of forms conferred status on those who ate its refin...

How to Use Your Mind

Production of Whole Wheat Bread with Good Loaf Volume'

Cereal Chem. 66(3):224-227 A reconstituted whole wheat bread (containing 16.3% bran plus 12.7% was included in the baking process. Addition of a high level of enzymeshorts) with a loaf volume equal to the control was obtained by allowing active soy flour eliminated the need for the no-yeast sponge stage. Certain indigenous lipoxygenase (soaking the nonflour milling fractions) or added salts and...

What's your excuse for Foley use?

Efforts to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) are underway worldwide. Reducing indwelling urinary catheter (or ‘Foley’) use is a key component of most prevention initiatives, which makes sense given the evidence showing its effectiveness in reducing CAUTI rates. Such an approach, however, requires a specific focus on promoting the use of appropriate indications for a Fo...

Locomotion Scoring Your Cows: Use and Interpretation

Lameness of dairy cattle is an economic and welfare issue. It is the third most important health related economic loss facing the dairy industry, following fertility and mastitis. Most economic loss due to lameness results from costs of premature culling, veterinary treatment, increased labor, discarded milk, prolonged calving interval, and reduced milk production (Kossaibati and Esslemont, 199...