I told you in November about the pleasures and benefits of "cauliflower of color" -- green, yellow, orange and even purple cauliflower. Now, it appears, the colorful-cauliflower craze that started in California has spread to the UK, according to an article in the Daily Mail. It's now a popular item in some UK grocery stores.

A report in The New York Times today says a caterer working for the United States Olympic Committee (U.S.O.C.) bought a half a chicken breast in a Chinese market that measured 14 inches. After testing it, they found that it "was so full of steroids that we never could have given it to athletes. They all would have tested positive."

A new study counters the myth that people who are obese and people who smoke cost more to treat for healthcare than thin non-smokers do. The study, conducted by the Netherlands' National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, found that unhealthy people are cheaper to treat because they die younger, and dead people don't need healthcare. What this ridiculous study didn't take into account was that dead people don't also don't contribute to the economy or pay taxes.

New research suggests that some of the differences between humans and chimpanzees thought to be genetic may in fact be diet related. In a study by German and Chinese scientists, four groups of mice were fed, respectively: 1) normal lab-mice pellets; 2) the same diet as zoo chimpanzees (fruits, vegetables and yogurt); 3) food from the scientist's cafeteria; and 4) all McDonald's diet. The most surprising finding is that mice expressed various genes differently depending on diet; and in the case of some genes showed some of the differences between human and chimpanzee genes thought to be determined by DNA rather than diet. Another likely take-away: The expression of genes, especially in the liver, of vegetarians is likely to differ from the expression of genes in the livers of people who eat a standard American diet. In other news, zoos feed yogurt to Chimpanzees. ; )