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mushrooms stories: 6 news summaries

Mushrooms, Green Tea Cut Breast Cancer Risk

Study shows big effect among Chinese women

Mar 18, 09 11:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - A mushroom a day could keep breast cancer away, according to a study that looked at the diets of more than 2,000 Chinese women. Their rates of the disease are four to five times lower than the worldwide average, and part of the reason may be the chemicals that... More »

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China • breast cancer • scientific study • cancer rates • mushrooms • green tea

 Wild Shrooms Kill Calif. Man 

82-year-old had a passion for mushroom foraging

Mar 13, 09 12:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - A California man’s passion for collecting and eating wild mushrooms has cost him his life, the LA Times reports. The 82-year-old ate a generous portion of a deadly variety and died of poisoning a week later. His family had long warned him of the risks, but the man had... More »

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food • California • food safety • poison • fungus • mushrooms

Pa. Farm Recalls Diseased Enoki Mushrooms

Giant supermarket chain takes fungi with risk of listeriosis off shelves

Feb 2, 09 2:48 PM CST
(Newser) - Pennsylvania’s Phillips Mushroom Farm has issued a recall on contaminated enoki mushrooms it produced in January, the Centre Daily Times reports. Giant Food Stores, a major Phillips buyer, said today that it has removed the tainted products from its shelves. Phillips fears some of the mushrooms have been contaminated... More »

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food • disease • Pennsylvania • food safety • recall • mushrooms • listeriosis • enoki mushrooms

Horse Whisperer Writer Poisoned by Mushrooms

Author and family recovering after eating varieties they'd picked

Sep 3, 08 12:24 PM CDT
(AP) - The author of the best-selling novel The Horse Whisperer is recovering in a hospital after eating poisonous mushrooms he and his family picked during a holiday in Scotland, his agent said yesterday. Nicholas Evans, his wife, her sister and the sister's husband received dialysis treatment because the mushrooms included the... More »

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Scotland • poison • book • mushrooms • dialysis • Nicholas Evans

 Groovy, Man: 
 Study Finds Benefit 
 in Magic 'Shrooms 

Subjects say illegal hallucinogen changed their lives

Jul 1, 08 4:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - Volunteers who took hallucinogenic psilocybin mushrooms in a study say they have gained long-term benefits from the drug, reports the AP. Subjects of the study, one of very few involving hallucinogenic drugs since the '60s, say they still feel positive effects from their psychedelic experience years later. Many say it... More »

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drugs • psilocybin mushrooms • mushrooms • psychedelic drugs • hallucinogens

Species Site Overwhelmed by Traffic on Opening Day

Encyclopedia of Life will eventually describe all 1.8M species on Earth

Feb 27, 08 3:15 PM CST
(Newser) - A much-anticipated web encyclopedia of all Earth’s life forms crashed hours after its launch yesterday, inundated by traffic. The Encyclopedia of Life had 11.5 million hits in its first 5½ hours—including 2 hours down—leading the site’s founders to ask their opposites at Wikipedia for bandwidth... More »

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Internet • Wikipedia • species • web traffic • Encyclopedia of Life • mushrooms

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