The review of China’s water supply in The Economist was presented as a sober economic review, as usual. But the information and data is frightening. If disaster isn’t here now, it is certainly here soon. Why? China, which accommodates 10% to 15% of humanity, consumes 400 m3 per person per year which is only a …
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Category:Health
A healthy lifestyle can magically make you live longer.
OK, so that sounds a bit dramatic and the idea is not exactly novel: That healthy living – diet, exercise and stress management – helps you live longer. But emerging science suggests that there is a real rejuvenation at the cellular level. And it’s not induced by some chemical cream from a pharmachem cosmetics company. …
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Roundup (glyphosate) is a broad based biocide
Here’s just one reason Monsanto is in the hot seat. According to Green Medical News: “ . . . “within the scientific community and educated public alike, there is a growing awareness that Roundup herbicide, and its primary ingredient glyphosate, is actually a broad spectrum biocide, in the etymological sense of the word: “bio” (life) …
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Living like a human let’s you love longer.
That is not a trite comment because most of us don’t live very natural lifestyles. We sit around most of the day and eat processed “food” and drink sugary “water”. Humans are built for mobility. We are bipedal and that physiological mutation allows us to travel far and fast allowing us to overcome other beasts …
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Your rotting brain.
The headline “smoking rots brain” looked ominous. Skimming through the article pointed to a couple of studies about the rate of cognitive decline and the influence of age, diet, exercise and smoking. The story indicated that brains start to decline from about the age of 45 and lifestyle has a big impact on the rate …
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100 million deaths in the 20th century – thanks to the cigarette!
By the year 2000, it was estimated that 1.1 million people were dying annually from cancer, with about 85% of those cases stemming from a single cause – tobacco. “The cigarette is the deadliest artefact in the history of human civilisation,” says Robert Proctor of Stanford University. “It killed about 100 million people in the …
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It’s what’s inside that counts.
Check out this BBC article Five photos that sparked body image debates. The images are very thought provoking and challenge assumptions about body shape. Perhaps the message is “more variety, more health is beautiful”.
Health, simply.
The best six doctors are sunshine, water, rest, air, exercise and diet.
Now we have heart disease in primary school children.
Another study has reiterated the foolishness of stuffing children with chocolate and chips. The health problems of middle age are now occurring in children from as young as two years old who are obese. Either the love or carelessness of parents is killing children. Parents want to give the children what they want, or don’t …
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1/6th cancer is preventable or treatable
It is ironic that the evidence is emerging to support the observation that overpopulation is making the world dirty. The Lancet study reports that a sixth of cancer is caused by contamination. It reminds me of the whole BSE and Asian flu epidemics – too many beasts in too small a space eating processed food. …
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