Minister Skinner, why are you selling our land?
“Specialist centres, rather than having many general hospitals have the benefit of improving the quality of care where there is sufficient demand for services. Centres of excellence have greater...
View ArticleSecond Nature: A Gardener’s Education
We are currently working on the garden in Ferndale Street. This is my latest audiobook. Pollan, Michael, Second Nature: A Gardener’s Education (Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated, 2007), xlviii...
View ArticleBan on junk food marketing to nation’s kids takes effect Jan. 1
“Foods with excessively high levels of fat, saturated fat, sodium and sugar in five categories — snacks, candy, drinks, cold products, and in places that serve food directly — will be prohibited, the...
View ArticleWhat is Lifestyle Medicine?
Lifestyle medicine is defined as: “a branch of evidence-based medicine in which comprehensive lifestyle changes (including nutrition, physical activity, stress management, social support and...
View ArticleWorking toward a healthy and sustainable diet
In a recent review in the journal, Frontiers in Nutrition, Ruini et al. state that there is a “strong correlation between the environmental impact of food and their nutritional characteristics....
View ArticleWhy the Islamic world needs a new ‘golden age’
“The Muslim world’s past contributions to science and education were extraordinary. The Islamic “golden age” – during which scholarship and learning flourished across the Muslim world – lasted many...
View ArticleDiabetes and sweetened beverages
“Habitual consumption of sugar sweetened beverages was associated with a greater incidence of type 2 diabetes, independently of adiposity. Although artificially sweetened beverages and fruit juice...
View ArticleDietary flavonoid intake and weight maintenance
“Higher intake of foods rich in flavonols, flavan-3-ols, anthocyanins, and flavonoid polymers may contribute to weight maintenance in adulthood and may help to refine dietary recommendations for the...
View ArticleMoralistic gods, supernatural punishment and the expansion of human sociality
“Since the origins of agriculture, the scale of human cooperation and societal complexity has dramatically expanded. This fact challenges standard evolutionary explanations of prosociality because...
View ArticleOne in Four People Worldwide Have Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
“As the global obesity epidemic continues to fuel development of metabolic disorders, the clinical and economic burden of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and its more severe form,...
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