Those are the words used by the World Health Organisation to describe the trajectory of the growth of new cancer cases. They predict a jump from 14 million a year now to 24 million new cases per year by 2035 – about 2.5% growth a year (compounded). That better be faster than the growth of …
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It’s easy to ignore what you put in your mouth.
The Ecologist Guide to Food, written by Andrew Wadsley, is to be published in mid-February. I reckon I know about what I put in my mouth. After all I grow a lot of it in the garden. But I happened to click over to the book promotion page and was reminded how easy it is …
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Don’t Just Sit There!
Do you spend a lot of time at a desk or behind a computer? Check out this excellent pdf poster from The Washington Post, and it’ll help you think about some uncomfortable habits. The health hazards of sitting
We are still not prepared to pay for our planet.
In the past decade there has certainly been a huge increase in awareness and care about sustaining nature in the face of overconsumption by humanity. Now, most people have heard the terms “sustainable”, “organic”, “eco”, “green” and associate positive initiatives with these terms. Sadly we also associate a cost with these terms, a cost we …
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Ibuprofen reduces memory loss.
A recent discovery by researchers at the Louisiana University Health Sciences Center has found a way to stop the memory loss side effect of THC based drugs used in cancer treatment, whose use has been cautious owing to neuronal and memory impairments. Lead investigator Chu Chen said that if patients concurrently take a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory …
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Watch out for pinkies in your pork.
It was pretty disgusting before, but since the further deregulation of health and safety standards the level of contamination in the US meat delivery system has become even more vile. BloombergBusinessweek features a report on The Truth About Pork and How America Feeds Itself. Their graphic reproduced below gives a glimpse of the problem. The …
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Roundup (glyphosate) seems to encourage ADHD and autism
Children can be a pain. Singing, dancing, playing … all that noise. Sometimes it seems too much, it seems unnatural. That’s when we start to diagnose ADHD (which isn’t really a disorder at all). But what is interesting is that there seems to be a correlation between the increased use of glyphosate in the food …
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GM corn caused cancerous tumors in the test rats …
… so Monsanto lobbied for a retraction of the evidence. In September 2012, the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology (FCT) published the findings of the first long-term study of rats fed genetically modified corn. The study’s authors, led by Gilles-Eric Séralini of the University of Caen, France, concluded that the GM corn caused cancerous tumors …
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People said no to GMO, so now big agroindustry and pharma-chem businesses are engineering mutagenic food. Yum!
Mutagenesis isn’t new: Breeders have relied on it for decades to produce thousands of varieties of lettuce, oats, rice, and other crops. Pharma-chem companies sell high volumes of mutant breeds, ranging from wheat to sunflowers, in markets that reject genetically engineered seeds. It just doesn’t sound very nice and might even be a dangerous idea. …
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It’s not easy to do the right thing.
So, I must confess that for three years we let a field to a neighbour for use in conventional tillage farming. Previously, that field had been managed organically for over a decade, but we found we could not use it and the rent money would be welcome. Now, we’re regalvanised to protect the environment and …
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