Interesting insight into who’s eating the most unhealthy diets, it may sound a lot more familiar than most of us would expect! - Conventional wisdom has long held that income levels and obesity go hand in hand: Those with lower incomes have higher obesity rates, their diets filled with the plethora of cheap foods that [...]
Interesting new insights into the efficacy of herbs in curing the sneezes - Ever get a flu shot and then wind up sniffling, sneezing, and sweaty anyway? That’s completely possible, according to new research published in The Lancet. Researchers combed through 31 studies and found that during 12 flu seasons, the most common type of [...]
More on how the way we treat our animals has real, serious and damaging effects on us – The world is being pushed towards the unthinkable scenario of untreatable infections, warns a new paper published in the medical journal Lancet, blaming a decline in new drug discoveries and the rising numbers of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. [...]
Eye-opening article by The Ecologist on the impact of meat-heavy diets. Bring on the veg! - Health risk or not, thanks to their success as a dietary quick fix, high protein diets aren’t going away and so popular have they become, supermarkets are seeing a [...]
Worrying research on what genetically engineered food actually does to the environment - RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Sneezing more than you used to? It may have something to do with the proliferation of genetically engineered (GE) crops. Farmers now plant 941 million acres of genetically engineered crops, many of which are designed to withstand heavy applications [...]
Fascinating (and scary!) article on the use of GMOs in our environment, and the impact it’s had in India in particular - Rodale.com: What are the biggest dangers that GMOs pose to our environment and our health? Vandana Shiva: They actually increase the toxification of our food system, even while claiming to be an alternative [...]
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