At least 30 of these viruses can be sexually transmitted. HPV transmission occurs easily among sexual partners. This is evidenced by the fact that at least 50 percent of sexually active men and women acquire a genital HPV infection at some point in their lives.
A farm worker corrals cranberries in a bog during a harvest. Every schoolchild learns that the Pilgrims couldn't have survived life in the New World without the help of the Indians. The tribes taught them which crops to plant. They introduced them to corn and other nutritional mainstays. One of these, the American cranberry, is still part of the classic Thanksgiving feast.
Summer Corn -- More Than Delicious. This ancient vegetable is packed with nutrients, especially when you use it in our fabulous corn slaw recipe! Nothing says summer quite like corn on the cob -- maybe because of the veggieâs climatic roots. Scientists believe the people of central Mexico developed corn from teosinte, a wild grass, at least 7,000 years ago. Also known as maize, corn eventually spread north to the southwestern United States and south to Peru. Columbus acquired corn from Indians in America and brought it back to Spain.