Wall Street began the week with a strong start Monday as better-than-expected profits at Citigroup inc. and a healthy increase in consumer spending renewed investors' optimism about the economy. The national average price for gasoline rose for the 11th straight week, according to a government report. The European Union imposed a five-year minimum price on Chinese frozen strawberries to protect production jobs, mainly in Poland, from imports that represent a fifth of the EU market,...

Substitute brown rice for white rice. They are designed to help you increase the vegetables and whole grains your family eats, while decreasing the fat, salt and sugar consumed. If you're really serious about changing your family's diet, clip this page and post it on your refrigerator as a daily reminder for everyone. Add the following to your garden sales: green peppers, broccoli, cauliflower and red cabbage. Improving your family's diet need not be difficult. You should promptly seek...

In today's world of high-tech medicine, the most important means of obtaining and maintaining good health is to consume a healthy and balanced diet. But as the sun is sure to rise, it seems that before the sun sets, there will be a new warning as to what not to eat. They are good stores of energy and are usually found in sources such as bread, cereals, grains, pasta, rice, flour, beans and vegetables. Protein provides energy and is used by the body to make antibodies to fight off...

In exchange many of their companies have received concessions of thousands of hectares of land to produce pineapple, sugar and other cash crops for export to their home markets. With the fall of the Khmer Rouges and their brutal regime which caused the death of at least a quarter of the Cambodian population, the six million survivors had abundant land. Since the 1970s when the Khmer Rouges abolished private ownership forcing people into collective farms land registry documents have not existed.

According to Professor Robyn O'Hehir, director of the department of allergy, immunology and respiratory medicine at the Alfred and Monash University, there are three to five deaths each year in Australia from peanut-induced anaphylaxis, often in schoolchildren and young adults. Doctors say the prevalence of food allergies has grown markedly over the years, although exact numbers are not known. According to Professor Robyn O'Hehir, director of the department of allergy, immunology and...

Exporters said not many buyers are making inquiries for Vietnam rice, as prices are too high. Indonesia already has a similar agreement with Vietnam for 1 million tons to forestall a shortage of the staple food supply in the country. But prices aren't likely to fall next week due to the strong local demand, said exporters. MANILA (Dow Jones)--Asian physical rice prices were unchanged Friday in thin trade, supported by strong domestic prices in Vietnam, exporters said. In other news,...