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Vegan Palm Oil Free Christmas Recipes
Boycott palm oil this Christmas 🎅🎄 with 10 yummy, #palmoilfree and #Vegan #recipes 🦧🦏🐘🐒🐍 and your #health 🥦🍆 #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4WildlifePalm Oil Detectives
A new study that takes advantage of a change in availability of the shingles (*Herpes zoster*) vaccine in Wales finds that vaccination reduces dementia symptoms in those already diagnosed with the disease, and reduced deaths from dementia by approximately 30% over the following nine years.
Summary: sciencefocus.com/news/shingles…
Original paper: cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8…
#Science #Health #Dementia #Alzheimers #Shingles #HerpesZoster
Vegan Palm Oil Free Christmas Recipes
#Christmas is a time for celebration 🎅🎄 This #holiday season try 10 yummy, #palmoilfree and #Vegan #recipes. Good for #forests, #animals 🦧🦏🐘🐒🐍 and your #health 🥦🍆 Use your wallet as a weapon, #Boy…Palm Oil Detectives
#Christmas is a time for celebration 🎅🎄 This #holiday season try 10 yummy, #palmoilfree and #Vegan #recipes. Good for #forests, #animals 🦧🦏🐘🐒🐍 and your #health 🥦🍆 Use your wallet as a weapon, #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife
Halted NIH Clinical Trials List Reveals Slashed Treatments for Cancer, COVID and Minority Health
The National Institutes of Health has canceled funding for at least 383 clinical trials in the last year, affecting some 74,000 participantsDan Vergano (Scientific American)
Brands Using Deforestation Palm Oil
These brands have products that contain palm oil sourced from mills that are responsible for the destruction of precious habitats of endangered species. Just in 2020 alone, these brands (along with…Palm Oil Detectives
Corporate Control of Food Harms Us All
Around 800 million people in our world go hungry each day. Yet around the globe we have enough food to go around. So why the discrepancy? Market concentration and corporate monopoly of our global f…Palm Oil Detectives
Deforestation is killing people by raising local temperatures
Deforestation doesn’t just fuel climate change—it makes people hotter. A new study finds tropical forest loss raises local temperatures, and is linked to 28,000 heat-related deaths annually.Conservation news
Palm Oil Free Cooking Oil, Margarine and Spreads
Are you an avid lover of #Nutella and other spreadable butters and #margarines? Consider that many popular brands come tarnished with dirty #palmoil. Why is palm oil dirty? It has destroyed million…Palm Oil Detectives
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Ultra-processed Food: Bad For Our Bodies, Bad For The Environment
Although a lot of research has been published about the direct negative impact of these ultra-processed #foods on our #health, including obesity, cardiovascular diseases and diabetes, little has be…Palm Oil Detectives
Humble Algae: The Solution to Palm Oil Ecocide
Consumers, businesses and researchers have shown growing interest in microalgae in recent years. Use of Arthrospira platensis (spirulina) as a food supplement is one example. Others include how mic…Palm Oil Detectives
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Brands Using Deforestation Palm Oil
These brands have products that contain palm oil sourced from mills that are responsible for the destruction of precious habitats of endangered species. Just in 2020 alone, these brands (along with…Palm Oil Detectives
Anna Gilmore, public health researcher: ‘Just four products cause at least a third of all deaths’
"I am hopeful, and I think the best solution is to move toward a different economic model. The world is realizing that we can’t maintain capitalism as it is."
english.elpais.com/science-tec…
#climate #PublicHealth #health #economy
Anna Gilmore, public health researcher: ‘Just four products cause at least a third of all deaths’
The British scientist examines the techniques that companies use to influence public opinion and how these tactics impact our healthJessica Mouzo (Ediciones EL PAÍS S.L.)
Shattered Science: The Research Lost as Trump Targets NIH Funding
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The Trump administration cut research funding that sought cures for future pandemics, examined the causes of dementia and tried to prevent HIV transmission. ProPublica heard from more than 150 researchers to understand the work that’s been lost.
projects.propublica.org/nih-cu…
#News #NIH #Trump #Science #Research #Health #PublicHealth #Medicine
Science Shattered
The Trump administration cut research funding that sought cures for future pandemics, examined the causes of dementia and tried to prevent HIV transmission. More than 150 researchers shared with ProPublica what is being lost.ProPublica
Given the USA spends more (by some margin) on health per capita than any other country, the Q. is if that money is not prolonging lives of US citizens, what is it doing?
To which the answer is:
enriching healthcare corporations, pharmaceutical firms and, of course, the politicians who these firms 'support'.
When politicians in the UK say we need to learn form the US healthcare system, the only lesson we need to learn is to not adopt a profit-centered model!
Major Food Companies Sued Over Addictive Ultra-Processed Foods Targeting Children
A landmark lawsuit filed in Philadelphia names major food companies: Kraft Heinz, Mondelez, Post Holdings, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, General Mills, Nestlé, Kellogg’s, Mars, and ConAgra and accuses them o…Palm Oil Detectives
Ultra-processed #food AKA #UPF containing #palmoil #sugar 🍔🍪🍟 is destroying our #health and nature. It's linked to all of the diseases killing the most people: #diabetes #heartdisease #obesity #dementia #cancer. #BoycottPalmOil
palmoildetectives.com/2021/07/…
The rise of ultra-processed foods and why they’re really bad for our health
Unlike traditionally produced foods humans have been making for many millennia, ultra-processed foods contain ingredients to prolong their shelf-life and artificially augment the food’s taste…Palm Oil Detectives
Chalk added to milk was the least of it.
While researching a story on this for radio, I learned they also used plaster of paris and pureed calf brains.
A lot of people, including children died. #Food safety regulation is critical. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi… #health #uspol
Calf Brains and Other Disgusting 19th-Century Ingredients
A very short book excerptDeborah Blum (The Atlantic)