In a less elegant but no less impressive effort, NEXT Architects and designer Aura Luz Melis built a lamp that's filled with vegetable fat, which constantly changes its brightness through the process of melting and re-solidifying the fat.

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Darden Restaurants, which owns Olive Garden, Red Lobster, and other chains has voluntarily changed their kids menus to include a choice of a fruit or vegetable and low fat milk with every meal.

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The Mediterranean diet discouraged soda drinks and the low-fat diet discouraged vegetable oils, nuts, fried snacks, visible fat in meats and soup, fatty fish and tomato sauce.

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The facility, which would burn vegetable oil and animal fat, could power up to 18, 000 homes and start operating from the beginning of 2015, according to Edgeley Green Power.

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Double your vegetable intake and reduce fat -- Both of these changes will significantly decrease the calorie density of your diet without decreasing the volume of food that you consume.

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What was better was the fat found in cheaper vegetable oils such as soy oil and corn oil.

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Designed after the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, the new rules require schools that participate in federally funded school lunch programs to offer fruit and vegetable daily and in larger quantities than in the past, serve only fat-free or low-fat milk, and limit calories by age.

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