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Animals, Health, Feb 11th, 2013,
(Never has a story invited so many bad puns) Hi and welcome back to The Fudge. I was just finishing up a delicious horseburger I purchased at Aldi. Don’t get me wrong, I like Tesco, but they just aren’t “horsey” enough for my equine-discerning palate. I need as close to 100% as possible and so far my best bet for that is Aldi and Findus. Imagine my delight when reading all about it in the Guardian. I felt like those Japanese school kids must have when they were served whale meat for lunch. Truth be told, there’s not much else…
Tags: aldi, findus, horse meat, Tesco
Health, Nov 7th, 2012,
As a holder of three diplomas in massage and former practitioner of both medical (sports injuries) and wellness massage, I still find the varying practices of this ancient art and therapy among different cultures to be a fascinating subject. Malaysia is of course no exception. Since the origins of modern massage can be traced back to India and China, Malaysia – as a crossroads for these two cultures and home to a rich native culture of its own – is by no surprise a place where one can find both traditional massage and modern spa techniques. I also admire when…
Tags: Massage in Malaysia, tourism Malaysia, traditional Malaysian massage
Health, Politics, Jul 23rd, 2012,
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez is urging Venezuelans to stop buying foreign sugary sodas like Coke and Pepsi and switch to locally produced fruit juice. According to the Associated Press, Venezuela currently imports most of its food and drinks, so Chávez’s advice is at the same time economic and health-related with an obvious political element. Besides advocating the state-produced grape juice Uvita, he has also promoted Venezuelan wine. Though Chávez’s words are sure to anger some, especially Coke and Pepsi’s shareholders, every leader throughout the world should be discouraging the consumption of sugary sodas and promoting local, healthy drinks. Say what…
Tags: Chavez, Coke, juice, Pepsi, soda, sugary drinks, Venezuela
Health, Science & Technology, Wildlife & Flora, Jun 27th, 2012,
I’ve heard that bananas lighten your mood because they contain B6, which stimulates serotonin production. I’ve even read that coffee can fight depression. Now daffodils can join the list of potential resources for battling the blues. A certain species of South African daffodils (as well as a species of snowdrops) anyway. The daffodils and snowdrops (Crinum and Cyrtanthus) don’t actually treat the depression, but they do contain compounds which “trick the blood brain-barrier”, allowing drugs to be absorbed by the brain, according to scientists at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. The blood-brain barrier makes it very difficult for most…
Tags: blood-brain barrier, daffodils, depression, snowdrops, South Africa, university of copenhagen
Health, Videos & Documentaries, Jun 15th, 2012,
A diet that encourages you to eat lots of meat, eggs and butter has been linked to cardio-vascular disease, by increasing blood cholesterol. This may not sound surprising to those of us who were brought up with the conventional wisdom that saturated fats and red meat are bad for you, specifically bad for your heart. However, being brought up under conventional popular ideas of nutrition does not an expert make. Neither does following faddish diets that let you eat these somewhat taboo foods at the expense of other, more conventional dishes. The Atkins diet, popularized in the 1990s, paints carbohydrates…
Tags: atkins diet, cholesterol, fat, heart disease, low-carb
Green living, Health, Science & Technology, May 4th, 2012,
You have to be nuts not to be eating nuts (pun intended)! Nuts are super-nutritious for you, easy to carry around, and delicious. With so many varieties of them, it’s hard to tell which ones are the cream-of-the-crop when it comes to nutritional punch. We did the research, and we picked out the 5 “core” nuts that you should be eating daily to give you that daily punch you need for maximum energy at minimum cost. Raw Almonds Want to have “wolverine” like energy? Take about 40 raw almonds a day. Avoid the salted kind. Brazil Nuts Brazil nuts cover…
Tags: EthicalCommunity.com, Green living, natural living, nuts, top 5 nuts
Climate Change, Health, Wildlife & Flora, Apr 25th, 2012,
It’s coming some time and maybe… The Asian tiger mosquito originates in hot and muggy South East Asia. But international trade, tourism and (increasingly) climate change will enable the tropical disease-carrying insect to establish itself in northern Europe, including the UK. Reports last September from the US told of how the smaller, but more aggressive Asian tiger mosquito was causing problems in the states of California, Texas, Florida and Hawaii; and cities including Memphis, New Orleans and Washington DC. In Europe, the Asian tiger has already encroached upon parts of Italy, Spain, southern France, the Balkans and even The Netherlands….
Tags: Asian Tiger, dengue, Europe, mosquito
Health, Pollution, Apr 5th, 2012,
As people start to get hip as to what a scam bottled water is, the bottled water industry is getting worried. Bottled water wastes energy, pollutes and rips you off. What’s more, it is often less healthy than tap water. Microbiologist Dr Sonish Azam of Ccrest Laboratories is quoted in an article in the Telegraph from May of 2010: Heterotrophic bacteria counts in some of the bottles were found to be in revolting figures of one hundred times more than the permitted limit. Bottled water is not expected to be free from microorganisms but the [level] observed in this…
Tags: bottled water
Climate Change, Green living, Health, Pollution, Mar 28th, 2012,
The key to a green future is doing a little at a time, and considering all the options At this point we’re past the stage where energy saving and renewables are talked about as something futuristic and unobtainable or something for sandal wearers and lentil-eaters. Solar panels are appearing on many suburban homes, wind turbines a common site on farms and new commercial buildings and wind-farms, heat pumps and tidal power generators and a smorgasbord of clever new technologies are popping up all over the UK, Europe and beyond. But what, as a normal everyday consumer can you or I…
Tags: AnderhamEnergy, eco-friendly living, Green living, reducing your carbon footprint
Conservation, Green living, Health, Science & Technology, Mar 23rd, 2012,
By Qudimat (EthicalCommunity.com) Between the years 2004 and 2005, the world saw an extra 10,000 metric tons of fair-trade coffee being produced. The UK alone consumes around 150,000 metric tons per year. Since the inception of fair-trade coffee, less farmland was cultivated for illicit drugs, fewer children were put to work, and more kids were sent to college. The benefits of fair-trade are unmistakable. The biggest mindset change for a consumer is to recognize the effects of fair-trade are indeed positive with each purchase that they make. Main Points: Fair-trade coffee raises standards The special fair-trade blends and their respective…
Tags: ethical coffee, ethical consumers, EthicalCommunity.com, fair trade coffee
Climate Change, Health, Politics, Pollution, Mar 16th, 2012,
Just as the UN published figures that global access to clean water has improved, already surpassing their goals set for 2015, a new OECD report predicts that air pollution is set to become the leading environmental cause of premature death. So the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, whose raison d’être is economic growth, is warning that industrialization, which has worked hand in glove with economic growth and market-based economics, is killing more and more people by polluting the air. Previous UN figures showed that as the Global population increases, more urbanization occurs and the proportion of urban inhabitants without…
Tags: clean water, OECD, Pollution, report, sanitation, UN
Health, Politics, Mar 15th, 2012,
The wealthy countries of the West are exporting processed, unhealthy foods to the developing world – and with dire consequences. The shift towards unhealthy diets – heavy in processed foods, fat, sugar and salt – is not simply a result of an increase in wealth among growing middle classes in the developing world, but a concerted effort by large international corporations to inundate markets with unhealthy, non-locally sourced food. A UN report authored by Olivier de Schutter reveals how this spells economic death for local farmers. The real culprit is globalization, facilitated by international trade agreements. Schutter also cites the…
Tags: developing world, disease, food, globalization, healthy, junk food, Mexico, obesity, rich
Climate Change, Green living, Health, Natural disasters, Politics, Mar 8th, 2012,
By Alyson Kenward While the cumulative effects of rising global temperatures have already caused dramatic changes to our planet, those changes often seem distant and it’s hard to put faces to them. But as climate change becomes more disruptive to daily life around the world, it’s more likely than not that the faces of that disruption will be those of women. With the world celebrating International Women’s Day on Thursday, it’s a good time to reflect on just how vulnerable women are to the effects of climate change. If you’re surprised to hear that gender makes a difference, you shouldn’t…
Tags: climatecentral.org, international women's day, Natural Resources Defense Council, women and climate change, world health organization
Green living, Health, Mar 2nd, 2012,
Last year the UK government asked supermarkets to stop putting ‘sell-by’ dates on perishable food items to discourage food waste. Instead, foods that are potentially dangerous after a certain date must have a ‘use by’ date, while those that pose no danger, but may go down in quality simply have a ‘best before’ date on their labels. Of course it is obscene when a supermarket, or even an individual, throws out perfectly edible food because it’s past its sell-by date (not past its use by or even best before date) when there are people in need of food in the…
Tags: best by, food poverty, sainsbury's, sell-by date, supermarket, use by
Health, Politics, Feb 28th, 2012,
Rich people are more likely to steal, cheat, lie and cut you off in traffic, according to research conducted at the University of California Berkeley. Where to file this: in the ‘so obvious we didn’t need a study to confirm it’ category, or in the ‘wait a second, rich people don’t need to steal and cheat, it’s poor people who are pushed into this kind of behavior’ section? Bit of both, maybe? The study suggests that the rich don’t feel that they need to depend on others, so they have no problem burning them. If you think you’ll never need…
Tags: Berkeley, poor, research, rich, study, unethical
Health, Science & Technology, Feb 27th, 2012,
I’ve been noticing lately that most nights I tend to sleep for 4 hours and then lie awake for a while, maybe up to two hours, before falling asleep again. I don’t think I’ve always done this, and have been dismissing it as a consequence of getting older. But a couple of articles from last week have got me thinking that it’s a natural, normal thing to do. As someone who has wrestled with sleep issues for most of my life, I tend to read any sleep or insomnia-related article I stumble upon, even this one on an expensive, but…
Tags: research, sleep
Health, Pollution, Feb 16th, 2012,
A court in Lyon, France found American biotech firm Monsanto guilty of poisoning a farmer who inhaled fumes from its Lasso weed killer back in 2004. Monsanto was made famous in the 1970s for being sued by American Vietnam War veterans who were poisoned by the defoliant Agent Orange. They are also being sued by some 300,000 plaintiffs because they patent genetically modified seeds that don’t proliferate, forcing farmers to buy more every year. Lasso has been banned in Canada and the UK since the 80s and is now banned in France. One year after cereal farmer Paul François accidentally…
Tags: France, herbicide, lasso, Monsanto, pesticide, poison
Health, Politics, Jan 31st, 2012,
In general, conservatives don’t like social welfare programs. They do claim, however, to value freedom of choice, so long as it has nothing to do with social welfare programs – those are gifts from taxpayers to welfare queens and they have strings attached. So it’s no surprise that Florida Republican state senator Ronda Storms thinks federal food stamps should only be used for healthy foods – but maybe she’s right. A bit of good old-fashioned social engineering is what welfare is all about or at least what it should be about. I mean why should the poor be encouraged (by…
Tags: Florida, food, junk, poor, republican, Senator, stamps
Green Cars, Green living, Health, Jan 25th, 2012,
Urban Forestry is a growing trend in cities looking to actively clean their air and water while making streets aesthetically pleasing for pedestrians, bike riders, and drivers as well. While I could list any number of benefits trees in urban areas have been shown to produce, there was one advantage that I didn’t expect to see: safer, more eco friendly carsdriving through cities. Now, you might be wondering how trees help to slow drivers down and create an atmosphere where greener cars and greener driving habits prevail. It’s quite simple; trees help create a natural, visual wall that drivers are…
Tags: Earthgarage.com, green cars, green cities, pedestrians, planting trees, trees in streets
Climate Change, Green living, Health, Natural disasters, Science & Technology, Jan 19th, 2012,
By Andrew Freedman It often seems like weather forecasters blame everything unusual on El Niño or La Niña, be it a drought, a heat wave, or a snowless winter. But this natural climate cycle in the equatorial Pacific Ocean may actually have much greater — and far deadlier — impacts. A new study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences explores the possibility that La Niña helps make conditions more favorable for deadly global flu pandemics. The study finds that the past four flu pandemics, including the Spanish Flu of 1918, the Asian Flu of 1957, the Hong Kong…
Tags: Climate change, climatecentral.org, Flu pandemics, La Nina
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