Read more mushrooms stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/24440/mushrooms.html2010 - Newseren-usNewser Feed Generator2010-03-22T00:29:33http://www.newser.com/story/53690/mushrooms-green-tea-cut-breast-cancer-risk.htmlA 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...http://www.newser.com/story/53690/mushrooms-green-tea-cut-breast-cancer-risk.html2009-03-18T16:25:01http://www.newser.com/story/53265/wild-shrooms-kill-calif-man.htmlA 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 learned...http://www.newser.com/story/53265/wild-shrooms-kill-calif-man.html2009-03-13T17:40:29http://www.newser.com/story/49692/pa-farm-recalls-diseased-enoki-mushrooms.htmlPennsylvania’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 with...http://www.newser.com/story/49692/pa-farm-recalls-diseased-enoki-mushrooms.html2009-02-02T20:48:01http://www.newser.com/story/36512/horse-whisperer-writer-poisoned-by-mushrooms.htmlThe 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...http://www.newser.com/story/36512/horse-whisperer-writer-poisoned-by-mushrooms.html2008-09-03T17:24:25http://www.newser.com/story/31347/groovy-man-study-finds-benefit-in-magic-shrooms.htmlVolunteers 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...http://www.newser.com/story/31347/groovy-man-study-finds-benefit-in-magic-shrooms.html2008-07-01T09:49:04http://www.newser.com/story/20169/species-site-overwhelmed-by-traffic-on-opening-day.htmlA 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 tips. EOL...http://www.newser.com/story/20169/species-site-overwhelmed-by-traffic-on-opening-day.html2008-02-27T21:15:51