but to get in there and fight for safeguards against contamination and restitution for farmers whose fields are contaminated.
when they play outdoors and 92%believe outdoor play is good for their childrens health.
From the picture, the people appear in good health, said Watson. These people look healthy. Theyre not obese, theyre not thin.
and mining come foreign diseases and the destruction of forests on which tribes rely. Some uncontacted people have fled from Peru into western Brazil,
but managers at the 7, 000-employee Community Medical centers say they cannot find enough qualified technicians, therapists,
or even custodians willing and able to work with medical waste. The situation is much the same at Jain Irrigation
such as nursing. Ginny Burdick, senior vice president for human resources at Community Medical centers, said the hospital is like a city.
We have every kind of job there is. Some take four-year degrees. Some take two-year degrees.
Genetically engineered crops have not been tested for long-range health effects on humans and wildlife. 2. Contamination of Non-GE Crops Alfalfa plants are pollinated by bees, most
of which can travel and pollinate plants as far as five miles away. So a farmer who has been making a concerted effort to steer clear of GMOS in his fields can very easily be contaminated.
and no insurance policy against damages these farmers suffer as a result of GE alfalfa contamination. According to the Center for Food safety
a study of the past 200 GE contamination cases has found that farmers have suffered hundreds of millions of dollars in lost sales.
of pesticides, up to 23 million pounds of poisons per year. This is due to the fact that while farmers douse their Roundup Ready crops with glyphosate,
more toxic pesticides being used on our farmland, and seeping into the groundwater. This, in turn, puts farm workers in danger#a Swedish study recently concluded that the application of Roundup doubles farm workers and and rural residents risks of getting cancer.
What Can We Do? GE alfalfa will be sown in fields across the country this spring. There are a few steps we can take to avoid it.
#Dairy industry Fights FDAÂ##s Proposed New Drug Testing for Milk How could there possibly be antibiotics in my milk?
The dairy industry is butting heads with the FDA over the agencys plan to increase testing for antibiotics in milk.
Food safety advocates are concerned about overuse of drugs in dairy cows (and increased antibiotic resistance in humans),
Certain farms are caught already regularly with milk containing illegal levels of drugs#nd farmers also use drugs that are tested not regularly for.
while showing illegal levels of drugs. Drugs can persist in an animals system because of misuse of medicines on the farm,#reports the Times,
which can include exceeding the prescribed dose or injecting a drug into muscle instead of a vein.#
#Farmers are known also to ignore rules about the minimum wait time after administering drugs before sending an animal to slaughter or into milk production.
The agency said in a statement: F. D. A is concerned that the same poor management practices
which led to the meat residues may also result in drug residues in milk.##More from the Times:
It said it would test for about two dozen antibiotics beyond the six that are tested typically for.
The testing would also look for a painkiller and anti-inflammatory drug popular on dairy farms, called flunixin, which often shows up in the slaughterhouse testing#.
because it would rather not deal with a recall#pparently reducing the amount of drugs used,
The dairy rule in question would require dairy owners install synthetic barriers to stop groundwater contamination from cow waste.
and Drug Administration to identify the source of an outbreak of foodborne illness, trace its path
The FDA has had trouble quickly pinpointing the source of national outbreaks of food-borne illness a task complicated by a lengthy food supply chain where tomatoes might change hands five times from farm to store.
said the company is basically taking the tracking system it uses for the pharmaceutical industry and adopting it to the food business.
But according to a 2009 investigation by the Department of health and Human Servicess inspector general, most food facilities surveyed did not meet those requirements
The need for better traceability became clear after a national outbreak of salmonella illness in spring 2008 that sickened more than 1, 300 people across the country.
Initially, investigators at the FDA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention identified tomatoes as the culprit
#Collapse of the Honeybee Population Could Be linked to Pesticides Even tiny doses of neonicotinoids made the insects more susceptible to disease.
Pesticides are making honey bees far more susceptible to disease, according to new research than links a new group of chemicals to the recent collapse in the bee population.
The US research, revealed in a new film about the disappearance of bees, found even tiny doses of neonicotinoids made the insects more susceptible to disease.
However UK scientists insisted that the decline of bees is due to a number of factors, such as disease or a lack of suitable food sources in the countryside,
It makes the plant toxic to certain insects if they eat the sap. However scientists fear that the systemic chemical also makes it into the plants pollen
revealed in new film The Strange Disappearance of the Bees, exposed two groups of bees to the common insect disease nosema.
Matt Shardlow, of insect charity Buglife, said most bee deaths in the UK are caused by disease.
Pests and disease seem to be the major factors and pesticides seems to be low down the list.#
#Dr Julian Little, of Bayer Cropscience, the main manufacturer of neonictinoids, pointed out the US study has not been published
#Milk From Organic Cattle Less Fatty Than Ordinary Milk Organic milk is better for your health.
Milk from organic cattle that eat a fresh grass diet is consistently better for your health, a new study claims.
Its health giving properties were also much less likely to be affected by changes in the weather.
saturated fatty acids are believed to have a negative effect on human health. Were always being told to cut down on the saturated fat we consume
#Calcium Supplements Linked to Heart attacks: Feed Your Bones Instead Calcium supplements have been linked to increased heart attack risk.
A study published in The british Medical Journal via Natural Awakenings found thatcalcium supplements can increase your risk of a heart attack by as much as 31 percent.
The new research looked at 11 studies on 11,921 individuals. Its scary stuff for those at risk of heart disease and osteoporosis, both of which plague the U s
. But its also more proof that the best way to feed your body the nutrients it needs isnt through supplementation,
Well you may be surprised at the foods with the highest percentages of calcium#More and more people are rethinking the tried and true calcium supplementation after finding that it could increase heart attack risk significantly.
and rethink our practice,#said Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum, director of womens health and heart disease, at Lenox Hill Hospital in New york city.
We shouldnt just recommend supplementation to all of our patients.##Additionally, look to other components of protecting the bones like getting Vitamin d through 10 to 15 minutes of sunshine without sunscreen each day and Vitamin k from green leafy vegetables like kale and spinach.
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#Genetically Modified Chickens Developed Than Cannot Transmit Bird flu Scientists develop GM chickens that do not spread bird flu.
British scientists have developed genetically modified (GM) chickens that cannot transmit bird flu infections#a step that in future could reduce the risk of avian flu spreading
and causing deadly epidemics in humans. Scientists from Cambridge and Edinburgh universities said that while the transgenic chickens still got sick
and died when they were exposed to H5n1 bird flu, they didnt transmit the virus to other chickens they came into contact with.
Preventing virus transmission in chickens should reduce the economic impact of the disease and reduce the risk posed to people,#
#said Laurence Tiley, of Cambridges department of veterinary medicine, one of the lead researchers on the study.
H5n1 bird flu has been circulating in Asia and the Middle east, with occasional outbreaks in Europe, since 2003 and has killed
and producing a pandemic in which millions of people could die. ECONOMIC AND FOOD SECURITY THREAT In Southeast asia, China and parts of Africa, bird flu is already a major economic and food security issue,
and also poses a constant threat of being transmitted to humans. South korea already battling an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease,
said this week it was raising its bird flu alert level after detecting H5n1 bird flu at poultry farms.
Helen Sang from the Roslin Institute at Edinburgh University, who worked with Tiley, told a joint briefing the GM chickens could offer a way to improve economic
and food security in parts of the world where bird flu is a major threat, but said using them would probably add slightly to farming costs.
#At the same time, the need for vaccination and losses from whole flocks being infected should be reduced. While large poultry producers could benefit from this early type of transgenic bird,
the researchers introduced a new gene into them that manufactures a small decoy#molecule that mimics an important control element of the bird flu virus. The replication machinery of the virus is tricked into recognizing the decoy molecule instead of the viral genes
they infected 10 of them and 10 normal chickens with H5n1 bird flu. Like the normal chickens, the transgenic birds became sick with the virus,
but they did not transmit the infection on to other chickens kept in the same pen with them
The researchers said they now plan to work on trying to make chickens that are fully resistant to bird flu rather than just blocking bird-to-bird transmission.
#Genetically modified crops That Glow Green When Stressed Genetically altered Arabdopsis Thaliana plant, with green fluorescent protein (GFP) inserted near the on/off switches for anoxia and drought genes.
#when plant immune systems are under stress#as might be caused by plant pathogens, drought, insects, etc.
The stress-indicating fluorescent proteins can be detected by scientific instruments only, as pictured above.)To implement this on a commercial basis,
-or pathogen-specific the glow response could be made to be? There could be a problem with false positives, obviously,
bacteria and other pathogens known to reduce crop yields, which normally force farmers to apply costly pesticides.
and health (quite ignoring the fact that we are all eating bugs already in foods meeting prescribed contamination limits).
harvested and prepared present no risks to health. Quite the contrary: insects offer healthy nutritional value including largely unsaturated fats,
fostering an obesity epidemic. Read on to see how one program is working to change Chicagos landscapes
gourmet pop-up restaurants that operate outside the system of health department licenses and inspections. Food lovers have attended these clandestine feasts for years,
At the first market in December 2009, city health department inspectors arrived. I was terrified, #Mr. Rabins said.
well investigate,#said Richard Lee, manager of restaurant inspectors for the San francisco Department of public health. But Mr. Lee said he knew of no cases where diners had become ill at the events.
said she had mixed feelings about the lack of health department oversight. As a food journalist, she considers inspection scores essential when covering restaurants,
As with honeybees, a pathogen is involved partly, but the researchers also found evidence of inbreeding caused by habitat loss.
what is called widely colony collapse disorder, blamed on many factors including parasites, fungi, stress, pesticides and viruses.
But most studies have focused on honeybees. Bumblebees are also important pollinators, Cameron said, but are studied far less.
or does Tropolis sound like a fictional hair-restoring drug, or maybe the way a toddler might mispronounce Superman's city?
#Ten surprising and scary health findings of 2012 Spongebob Square Pants leads to hyperactivity. 2012 was an incredible year.
And it would be fun and interesting to point out some of the interesting findings regarding health
and nutrition this year. 1. Junk food is as addictive as heroin. A study was released just showing that over a period of five days consuming junk food,
The same pattern happens with drug use, specifically heroin. NO WONDER people have trouble losing weight.
These are ALSO the same foods that have created the obesity epidemic in this country. 2. Top foods keeping your ass wide.
Tanning, both indoor and outdoor is considered addictive by medical standards. What s worse is if you become a tanner#before age 30,
you are 75%more likely to get skin cancer. Public awareness campaigns are considered not helpful in this instance.
Fitness still has LOADS of health benefits so don t give up on that. 8. Spongebob Square Pants leads to hyperactivity.
so it s better but sometimes not so much. 9. Genetically modified food leads to cancer.
Make sure to see the pictures of the rat tumors. Those things are huge! They specifically tested the rats on GM corn and soy.
#Chicken farms turn to oregano as a substitute for antibiotics Chickens at Bell & Evans eat feed laced with oregano oil.
Mr. Sechler swears by the concoction as a way to fight off bacterial diseases that plague meat
and poultry producers without resorting to antibiotics, which some experts say can be detrimental to the humans who eat the meat.
have long been free of antibiotics, contributing to the company s financial success as consumers have demanded purer foods.
#Skeptics of herbal medicines abound, as any quick Internet search demonstrates. Oil of oregano is a perennial one,
advertised as a cure for just about everything, #said Scott Gavura, a pharmacist in Toronto who writes for the Web site Science-Based Medicine.
But there isn t any evidence, there are too many unanswered questions and the only proponents for it are the ones producing it.#
#Nonetheless, Mr. Gavura said he would welcome a reduction in the use of antibiotics in animals.
Data on sales of antibiotic-free meat is hard to come by, but the sales are a tiny fraction of the overall meat market.
which by law must be raised without antibiotics, totaled $538 million in 2011, according to the Organic Trade Association.
as well as some restaurant chains, complain that they cannot get enough antibiotic-free meat. Noodles & Company, a fast-growing chain of more than 300 restaurants, recently added antibiotic-free pork to the choices of ingredients that customers can add to their made-to-order pastas.
It ensured its supply by ordering cuts of meat that were not in relatively high demand
In a nationwide telephone survey of 1, 000 adults in March, more than 60 percent told the Consumer Reports National Research center that they would be willing to pay at least 5 cents a pound more for meat raised without antibiotics.
from heightened interest in whole and natural foods to growing concerns about medical problems like diabetes,
obesity and glutenallergies, were contributing to the demand for antibiotic-free meat. There is growing concern among health care experts and policy makers about antibiotic resistance and the rise of superbugs,
#bacteria that are impervious to one or more antibiotics. Those bacteria can be passed on to consumers,
who eat meat infected with them and then cannot be treated. In November, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and 25 national health organizations and advocacy groups issued a statement on antibiotics that
among other things, called for limiting the use of medically important human antibiotics in food animals#and supporting the use of such antibiotics in animals only for those uses that are considered necessary for assuring animal health.#
#In 2011, there were several prominent recalls involving bacterial strains that are resistant to antibiotics, including more than 60 million pounds of ground beef contaminated withsalmonella Typhimurium
and about 36 million pounds of ground turkey spoiled with salmonella Heidelberg. Consumer Reports released a study last month that found the bacteria Yersinia enterocolitica in 69 percent of 198 pork chop
Some of the bacteria were resistant to one or more antibiotics. Analysis of Food and Drug Administration data by the Center for Science in the Public interest found that 80 percent of all antibiotics sold in the United states are used in animals.
The majority of those antibiotics are used to spur growth or prevent infections from spreading in the crowded conditions in
which most animal production takes place today. The European union has banned the use of antibiotics to accelerate growth,
and the European parliament is pushing to end their use as tools to prevent disease as well. The oregano oil product Mr. Sechler uses, By-O-Reg Plus, is made by a Dutch company, Ropapharm International.
In the late 1990s, Bayer conducted trials on the product, known as Ropadiar in Europe, comparing its ability to control diarrhea in piglets caused by E coli with that of four of the company s products.
In all four test groups Ropadiar outperformed the Bayer products. Strange but true!##Dr. Lucio Nisoli, the Bayer product manager, wrote in his report on the trial.
Compared to the various anti-infectives, with Ropadiar I have obtained much more effective and quicker results.
Furthermore, piglets treated with Ropadiar look much more healthy and were dehydrated not so and wasted.#
#Astrid KÃ hler, a spokeswoman in Monheim, Germany, for Bayer Healthcare s animal health business, confirmed that the company had done the trial
but said that in further evaluations the results of the first study could not be replicated with the same species,
Dr. Harry G. Preuss, a professor of physiology and biology at the Georgetown University Medical center
Six received carvacrol, regarded by many experts to be the antibacterial component in oregano, in olive oil,
Dr. Preuss said. Dr. Preuss said he had applied to the National institutes of health for financing of a larger study, with no luck so far.
This is really promising, particularly when you consider that we are facing a crisis in our hospitals and health systems with the increasing resistance to antibiotics,
#he said. After hearing about Bell & Evans s use of oregano oil, Bob Ruth, the president of Country View Family Farms, a Pennsylvania-based company, decided to test it on some of his pigs.
Mr. Ruth and Mr. Sechler warned that using oregano oil to control bacterial infection also requires maintaining high standards of sanitation in barns where animals are sheltered,
You can t just replace antibiotics with oregano oil and expect it to work, #Mr. Sechler said.
as opposed to a bunch of pixels#it can accelerate the whole process of analysis. That in turn will make the parsing of things like medical images and traffic video much faster.
and detect changes that indicate a health condition before it gets too serious for example. 3. Hearing the whole story
It s conceivable that your doctor would be able to diagnose you remotely based on that information
This technology could also sniff out minuscule amounts of environmental toxins before they hit critical mass,
which could have broad public health ramifications. And then there s just the quality of life aspect. You can paint chemical sensors on a surface
There are lots of tele-radiology options and doctors can even perform surgery remotely. IBM also predicted real-time speech translation now exemplified by products like Samsung s Galaxy speech translation.
Meyerson admits to some less successful calls#especially one about hydrogen-powered vehicles#but he s pretty happy overall with IBM s effort.
and update medical records across different computer systems. They brought in Mr. Miller s father, Rod, a former I b m. sales manager, as chief executive.
200 doctors signed up, but the company is a long way from making a profit.
Echobase markets its service to medical records software providers and hospitals, whose doctors download the app free.
and therefore not useful for maintaining genetically varied populations#uch diversity is key to a population s resilience in the face of various diseases and predatory threats.
Those are the findings of a new study published in PLOS Medicine by a team of researchers from Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Brazilian National Cancer Institute.
says David Levy, Ph d.,a professor of oncology at Georgetown Lombardi. It also kills more than half a million nonsmokers annually who have been exposed to secondhand smoke.
by health warnings, and 6 percent by anti-smoking media campaigns. Levy has developed similar models for 30 different nations.
He says one distinguishing factor in Brazil s tobacco policies is its use of graphic health warnings on cigarette packages.
While our model credits only eight percent of the reduction in smoking to health warnings,
We believe that value doesn t accurately represent the impact health warnings have in Brazil particularly for youths.#
#He points out that the U s. Court of appeals for the District of columbia rejected a government mandate requiring the use of nine specific graphic health warnings on cigarette packaging based, in part,
and that the U s. Food and Drug Administration, which is charged with regulating product content, is considering a similar policy in this country.
#Levy conducted his research in collaboration with two scientists from the Brazilian National Cancer Institute including Liz Maria de Almeida, Ph d,
. and Andr Szklo, Ph d. The work in this study is supported by contracts with the Tobacco Control Research Branch of the National Cancer Institute and by Bloomberg Philanthropies.
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#If you are looking for a new startup idea, try farming Sustainable farming, which often ties into organic growing, has been reaping profits.
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He d survived a gunshot wound, escaped to Turkey and eventually talked his way onto the Queen Elizabeth,
After X-rays, his doctor concluded that Moraitis had lung cancer. As he recalls, nine other doctors confirmed the diagnosis. They gave him nine months to live.
He was in his mid-60s. Moraitis considered staying in America and seeking aggressive cancer treatment at a local hospital.
That way, he could also be close to his adult children. But he decided instead to return to Ikaria,
His health continued to improve. He added a couple of rooms to his parents home so his children could visit.
he says he s 102#and cancer-free. He never went through chemotherapy, took drugs or sought therapy of any sort.
All he did was move home to Ikaria. I met on Moraitis Ikaria this past July during one of my visits to explore the extraordinary longevity of the island s residents.
For a decade, with support from the National geographic Society, I ve been organizing a study of the places where people live longest.
The project grew out of studies by my partners, Dr. Gianni Pes of the University of Sassari in Italy and Dr. Michel Poulain
Ikarian men in particular are nearly four times as likely as their American counterparts to reach 90, often in better health.
But more than that, they were also living about 8 to 10 years longer before succumbing to cancers and cardiovascular disease,
and they suffered less depression and about a quarter the rate of dementia. Almost half of Americans 85 and older show signs of Alzheimer s.
(The Alzheimer s Association estimates that dementia cost Americans some $200 billion in 2012. On Ikaria,
however, people have been managing to stay sharp to the end. Ikaria, an island of 99 square miles and home to almost 10,000 Greek nationals, lies about 30 miles off the western coast of Turkey.
Its reputation as a health destination dates back 25 centuries, when Greeks traveled to the island to soak in the hot springs near Therma.
I called on Dr. Ilias Leriadis, one of Ikaria s few physicians, in 2009. On an outdoor patio at his weekend house, he set a table with Kalamata olives, hummus, heavy Ikarian bread and wine.
but they all double as medicine, #Leriadis said. Honey too, is treated as a panacea. They have types of honey here you won t see anyplace else in the world,
They use it for everything from treating wounds to curing hangovers, or for treating influenza.
Old people here will start their day with a spoonful of honey. They take it like medicine.#
#Over the span of the next three days, I met some of Leriadis s patients. In the area known as Raches,
I met 20 people over 90 and one who claimed to be 104. I spoke to a 95-year-old man who still played the violin
Dr. Ioanna Chinou a professor at the University of Athens School of Pharmacy, is one of Europe s top experts on the bioactive properties of herbs and natural products.
When I consulted her about Ikarians longevity, she told me that many of the teas they consume are traditional Greek remedies.
Wild mint fights gingivitis and gastrointestinal disorders; rosemary is used as a remedy for gout; artemisia is thought to improve blood circulation.
She invited me to give her samples and later tested seven of the most commonly used herbs on Ikaria.
As rich sources of polyphenols, they showed strong antioxidant properties, she reported. Most of these herbs also contained mild diuretics.
Doctors often use diuretics to treat hypertension#perhaps by drinking tea nightly, Ikarians have lowered gently their blood pressure throughout their lives.
Meanwhile, my colleagues Gianni Pes and Michel Poulain set out to track down the island s 164 residents who were over 90 as of 1999, starting in the municipality of Raches.
Pes and Poulain were joined in the field by Dr. Antonia Trichopoulou of the University of Athens, an expert on the Mediterranean diet.
low intake of saturated fats from meat and dairy was associated with lower risk of heart disease;
was associated now with lower rates of diabetes, heart disease and, for some, Parkinson s. Local sourdough bread might actually reduce a meal s glycemic load.
Another health factor at work might be unprocessed the nature of the food they consume: as Trichopoulou observed,
#Following the report by Pes and Poulain, Dr. Christina Chrysohoou, a cardiologist at the University of Athens School of medicine, teamed up with half a dozen scientists to organize the Ikaria Study,
which includes a survey of the diet of 673 Ikarians. She found that her subjects consumed about six times as many beans a day as Americans,
and the Harvard School of Public health that studied more than 23,000 Greek adults. The researchers followed subjects for an average of six years,
They found that occasional napping was associated with a 12 percent reduction in the risk of coronary heart disease,
when it comes to improving health, people tend to focus on exercise and what we put into our mouths#organic foods, omega-3 s, micronutrients.
As Dr. Robert Butler, the first director of the National Institute on Aging, once told me
It has also been linked to reduced rates of diabetes and heart disease. Adventists diet is inspired by the Bible#Genesis 1: 29.
As Nicholas Christakis, a physician and social scientist at Harvard, found when examining data from a long-term study of the residents of Framingham, Mass.,
health habits can be as contagious as a cold virus. By his calculation, a Framingham individual s chances of becoming obese shot up by 57 percent if a friend became obese.
it was mostly positive social contagions that were in circulation. Ask the very old on Ikaria how they managed to live past 90,
You re not likely to ever feel the existential pain of not belonging or even the simple stress of arriving late.
That s what the $70 billion diet industry and $20 billion health-club industry do in their efforts to persuade us that
or buy cough medicine without being routed through a gantlet of candy bars, salty snacks and sugar-sweetened beverages.
but discipline is a muscle that fatigues. Sooner or later, most people cave in to relentless temptation. As our access to calories has increased,
There s no silver bullet to keep death and the diseases of old age at bay. If there s anything close to a secret, it s silver buckshot.
How does he think he recovered from lung cancer? It just went away, #he said. I actually went back to America about 25 years after moving here to see
if the doctors could explain it to me.##I had heard this part of the story before.
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