Public Health
- Obama Administration Replacing A Pyramid With A Pie To Combat Obesity
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I suppose the recent Egypt-centric focus on food consumption had to end eventually. The 'food pyramid' you have seen for decades, craftily negotiated by food lobbyists, is being replaced by...a pie. First Lady Michelle Obama is on a war agains ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 1 2011 - 10:09am
- Like E. Coli? Enjoy Organic Food
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While Europeans trade blame about the E. coli contamination that has killed 14 people and made hundreds sick, one factoid is left out of most news stories- you're far more likely to get E. coli from food in organic supermarkets, where European governm ...
Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Apr 16 2012 - 10:24pm
- Calories Are Up But Sugar Calories Are Down- What's Ailing Cereal
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Americans spend what I consider a long time getting breakfast, though nutritionists say it is "the most important meal of the day"- 13 minutes a day, it turns out. I say a long time because mine takes 30 seconds; during the week I eat Raisin Br ...
Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jun 3 2011 - 5:26pm
- E. Coli- Tracing The Source
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E. Coli- Tracing The Source In a few words, most reports are false, and the timidity of men acts as a multiplier of lies and untruths. Clausewitz ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - Jun 10 2011 - 11:09am
- Plywood Gives You Cancer? Politics "Have Hijacked The Scientific Process"
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The National Toxicology Program has released its latest warning on things that 'give' you cancer and they include two things people come into contact with every day. If you have walked into a new house and smelled that 'new house' smell ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 17 2011 - 10:25am
- Modern Agriculture Has Been Bad For Our Health For 10,000 Years
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Anti-science progressives in a culture war over food insist modern agriculture- including where we precisely modify changes in genetics instead of letting high-energy cosmic rays do it randomly- is bad. But a group of anthropologists say it isn't ju ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 15 2011 - 11:11am
- Some plants of ethnobotanical importance.
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Name- Catharanthus roseus (Madagascar Periwinkle) (fig.-1) is a species of Catharanthus native and endemic to Madagascar. Synonyms include Vinca rosea (the basionym), Ammocallis rosea, and Lochnera rosea; other English names occasionally used include Cape ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Jun 19 2011 - 10:03pm
- Bhutanese Medical System
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Bhutanese Medical System: The Bhutanese medical system goes well beyond the notion of medicine in the narrow western sense. It forms a part of their culture and tradition, in which "Buddhism" is the prevailing influence. Health and spirituality a ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Jun 22 2011 - 5:20am
- No Gimmicks, No Cleanses- Your Brain Knows Weight Loss Better Than Your Beliefs Do
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Other than wasting away due to illness, there is no shortcut to weight loss. You can, of course, simply not eat at all and that will work but if you resume your old habits you would gain the weight back and the drastic changes to your body might do harm. ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 23 2011 - 3:23pm
- Practical Science: Will Grilling Kill E. Coli In Your Sirloin Steak This Weekend?
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Given the news recently about yet another E. coli outbreak, you may be concerned E. coli is not just a plague in 'organically' processed and prepared vegetables but perhaps in regular steak - and you would be correct. ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 28 2011 - 3:56pm
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