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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The power of emotional intelligence in a cognitive world.
Breathe to focus. It sounds simple, even foolish, but it’s not. Daniel Goleman recently gave a presentation on his new book Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence, which was reviewed by IMD. Goleman explains why attention is a little-noticed mental asset that makes a huge difference in how well we find our way in our …
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You are what you eat.
It is really not easy to keep that trim figure of youth. In fact, often it disappears under th e rolls much earlier than you’ld like. I’m carrying an extra 10kg which I want to get rid of, but it’s hard. I’ve got to move more and I’m getting better at knowing what I’m putting …
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Doping lasts a lifetime. So should disclosure and cheating bans.
Research published in the Journal of Physiology shows that the benefits of steroid doping remain for life. Muscles retain a memory of what they did so that after a period of inactivity, when they are trained again they bounce back in to shape. The same behaviour is found in muscles of people who are more …
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Biotech is gonna eat you for lunch!
If you don’t live in America you almost certainly haven’t heard about the strong arm tactics of big biotech firms like Monsanto, Novartis and Dupont. Even if you live in the States you might think that genetically engineered food is “gonna save the world”. Well it isn’t. And 90% of Americans want to know whether …
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