All of today's: News . Sports from the Kennebec Journal Today's Top Headlines from the Morning Sentinel Mystery of the Missing Lure Sebasticook Valley gets its own Opry Throngs of media, protesters follow Putin, Bush to town Franklin Search & Rescue expanding Report from Russia Evicted family finds rental 2-for-1 deal for Hamlin Minus chiefs, teams find ways to succeed. All of today's: News . Sports from the Kennebec Journal Today's Top Headlines from the Morning Sentinel Mystery of the...

Scientists reported yesterday that they have uncovered a biological switch by which stress can promote obesity, a discovery that could help explain the world's growing weight problem and lead to new ways to melt flab and manipulate fat for cosmetic purposes. Scientists reported yesterday that they have uncovered a biological switch by which stress can promote obesity, a discovery that could help explain the world's growing weight problem and lead to new ways to melt flab and manipulate fat...

The price of milk on the supermarket shelf is likely to go up, the result of price-setting by the state that follows national trends and international market forces. Cost to processors hits all-time high; increase likely to affect all types of dairy products. Historically it goes up and down and we learn to shoot for the middle, just so we don't have to change prices all the time. Meanwhile, dairy farmers were hit with increases in the price of fuel and all types of feed, because of the...

The public hunger to shop ethically, locally and sustainably - a phenomenon that reached its acme with the high-profile opening last month of the American Whole Foods Market in London's Kensington High Street - is eating up British crops faster than farmers can produce them. The public hunger to shop ethically, locally and sustainably - a phenomenon that reached its acme with the high-profile opening last month of the American Whole Foods Market in London's Kensington High Street - is...

Other ingredients also may be used at different times during the process, such as a chocolate malted barley for dark beers or stouts, or wheat for a wheat beer. And not just drinking beer, although he readily admits that's the best perk. Lewis started brewing beer about two years ago and for the first time is entering his beers in contests with other home brewers. Sometime during the process, depending on the type of beer being brewed, dry hops are added to the mixture, which adds a bitter...

By the way no one is suggesting that these companies can t sell junk food. With Kellogg already having given in after several years of activists battling the food industry over the wide-spread use of licensed cartoon characters such as SpongeBob to sell junk food to kids, the others will start to fall like dominos. After Kellogg announced as part of a lawsuit settlement that it would drastically cut its advertising of food with poor nutritional profiles to kids under age 12, a Democratic...

Rainwater Organics comprises four body lotions that proudly carry the USDA certified organic seal, conferred only on products that are at least 95% certified organic. In order to display the USDA seal, personal care products must meet the same stringent National Organic Program standards as those imposed upon organic food products. The industry s largest venue for new product introductions also drew a team of six young trend spotters from InStyle Magazine, scoping the floor for the items...

Under the high school law, half of the beverages sold on high school campuses must meet nutrition standards and all beverages must meet them by July 1, 2009. The law sets limits on fat and sugar content and portion size on all foods sold in vending machines or in school stores. A law passed two years ago took effect Sunday banning junk food vending on campuses. If youre looking for a Twinkie in a vending machine on a public school campus in California today, youre out of luck. A companion...

Beer sales, brewing and employment tied to beer was a $190 billion industry last year, according to the study. July Fourth is now the nation's No. Independence Day topped even Super Bowl Sunday for beer sales. Using 2006 data, the study was conducted by the research firm IRI InfoScan and was bankrolled by the Beer Institute and the National Beer Wholesalers Association. Copyright 2007 NYP Holdings, inc. All rights reserved.