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Tag Archives: health
Sugar and Big Food
I found this definition of Sugar here: Sugar is a carbohydrate that occurs naturally in many foods. The body mostly uses carbohydrates as an energy source. Food producers also add sugar to many products, which can lead a person’s blood … Continue reading
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Tagged big food, body fuel, carbohydrates, climate change, Covid, diabetes, health, inactivity, insulin, junk food, kiribati, Pacific Islanders, Sugar, tobacco substitute, ultra processed foods
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Quartz and Solar Panels
‘Clean Energy’, ‘Renewables’, ‘Alternative Energy’……….We can save the Planet! Well, can we do so without savaging the Planet and harming our health? Before we even attempt to create technologies to provide such solutions, we need to lay out the evidence … Continue reading
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Tagged cancer, carcinogens, dust, environment concerns, greenwashing, health, new technology, planet harm, quartz mining, silicosis, solar panels, wildlife survival
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Will we be Fishless?: Part IX
The problem of responsibly disposing of PCBs has been with us for over a century, since Monsanto first developed them. PCBs, or polychlorinated biphenyls, are industrial products or chemicals. learn that definition and don’t forget what is poisoning this Planet and … Continue reading
Will we be Fishless?: VI
How Fish are Exposed to Pesticides Fish and aquatic animals are exposed to pesticides in three primary ways (1) dermally, direct absorption through the skin by swimming in pesticide-contaminated waters, (2) breathing, by direct uptake of pesticides through the gills … Continue reading
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Tagged benthos, environment, Farming, glyphosate, health, pesticides, rivers, soil
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Meat Processing Plants: Covid 19
As we all now know, if we didn’t before, meat is processed by workers who are forced to operate in close proximity. As a result many have succumbed to Covid 19. “Latino communities and all communities of color in the … Continue reading
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Tagged covid 19, diet, health, labour protection, low paid workers, meat consumption, meat processing plants, poverty, wealth
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How we can remain healthy since we first shed our fur coats
Africa would appear to have the longest record of human habitation in the world. The first hominins are likely to have emerged 6-7 million years ago, and among the earliest anatomically modern human skulls were discovered at Omo Kibish, south … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, athlete, chimpanzee, China, folate, genetics, health, hominids shed fur, hunter and gatherer, magnesium, runner, UV rays, vit D
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