#Eliminate the worry of harming the environment or beneficial insects with Dragon Juice Dragon Juice naturally helps eliminate many common plant problems.
It effectively eliminates the need for additives and many other toxic and ineffective products. Dragon Juice is one of the featured exhibitors at the Davinci Inventor Showcase,
to help produce safe consumable food and medicine. What problem does it solve? It provides the user with a nontoxic product to help eliminate bugs
Contacting Botanic Gardens and Hospital Gardeners are some of the new marketing plans we are currently working on.
When the report s authors factored in the impact of sophisticated concealment techniques of the kind used by drug cartels,
shipping timber, unlike ivory or drugs, is not illegal. What we re shocked about is the sheer scale of timber that goes unaccounted for,
The standards are designed to improve the health of about 32 million children who eat lunch at school every day
accessibility, productivity, aesthetics, and health. Below, via Edible Geography s Nicola Twilley, are ranked the results of that endeavor.
cold beer. 2. Pasteurization/sterilization Useful for the prevention of bacterial contamination in food, particularly milk. 3. Canning Developed in the early 19th century,
The researchers also found no obvious health advantages to organic meats. Conventional fruits and vegetables did have more pesticide residue,
#said Dr. Dena Bravata, a senior affiliate with Stanford s Center for Health Policy and the senior author of the paper,
which appears in Tuesday s issue of the Annals of Internal medicine. I think we were surprised definitely.#
Organic chicken and pork were less likely to be contaminated by antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Those are the big motivators for the organic consumer,
For four years, they performed statistical analyses looking for signs of health benefits from adding organic foods to the diet.
#Dr. Bravata said. One finding of the study was that organic produce, over all, contained higher levels of phosphorus than conventional produce.
the higher levels in the organic produce are unlikely to confer any health benefit. The organic produce also contained more compounds known as phenols,
believed to help prevent cancer, than conventional produce. While the difference was statistically significant, the size of the difference varied widely from study to study,
#Dr. Bravata said. Other variables, like ripeness, had a greater influence on nutrient content. Thus, a lush peach grown with the use of pesticides could easily contain more vitamins than an unripe organic one.
Some of my patients take solace in knowing that the pesticide levels are below safety thresholds,
#Dr. Bravata said. Others have questioned whether these standards are sufficiently rigorous.##Similarly, organic meat contained considerably lower levels of antibiotic-resistant bacteria than conventionally raised animals did,
but bacteria, antibiotic-resistant or otherwise, would be killed during cooking. Dr. Bravata agreed that people bought organic food for a variety of reasons#concerns about the effects of pesticides on young children,
the environmental impact of large-scale conventional farming and the potential public health threat if antibiotic-resistant bacterial genes jumped to human pathogens.
Those are perfectly valid, #she said. The analysis also did not take factors like taste into account.
But if the choice were based mainly on the hope that organic foods would provide more nutrients
#Dr. Bravata said. The argument that organic produce is more nutritious has never been major driver#in why people choose to pay more,
and Mount sinai Hospital in Manhattan. The studies identified pregnant women exposed to higher amounts of pesticides known as organophosphates
Dr. Crystal Smith-Spangler, another member of the Stanford team, said that the strawberry study was erroneously left out
to manage one million animals gives me a headache.##The falling costs and growing sophistication of robots have touched off a renewed debate among economists
but also create new stress and insecurity. The giant facility where he works distributes dry goods for Kroger supermarkets.
there are fewer injuries, said Rome Aloise, a Teamsters vice president in Northern California. Because a computer sets the pace,
the stress is now more psychological. Mr. Graves wears headsets and is instructed by a computerized voice on where to go in the warehouse to gather or store products.
instead show cancer-riddled mouths, blinded eyeballs and sickly children. The High court rejected a challenge by tobacco companies who argued the value of their trademarks will be destroyed
instead come in a uniformly drab shade of olive and feature dire health warnings and graphic photographs of smoking s health effects.
or text describing smoking s health effects, and some limit the size of the branding or ban certain slogans,
#Australia s Health Minister Tanya Plibersek dismissed those claims, saying there are still measures to prevent counterfeiting,
It s never been asserted successfully around the world in any trade dispute that governments are allowed not to take public health measures to protect their community,
Ross Mckenzie, a Macquarie University lecturer on health studies, said it was likely that the tobacco industry was behind the WTO challenge.
Connecticut s students choose majors such as animal sciences and human nutrition in hopes of becoming veterinarians and dieticians at hospitals or corporations
Better health through local foods and farmers markets appeal to them, added Weidemann, who noted deans at other universities have observed a similar trend.
Cocolicious chocolates are a great new chocolate on the market for people who are health conscious yet recognize the value that chocolate is able to provide.
and health benefits of raw cacao and coconut oil and wanted to have them in my diet,
A study published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that a diet based on healthy carbohydrates#ather than a low-fat or low-carbohydrate diet#ffers the best chance of keeping weight
also saw improved cholesterol levels and other important markers that lower the risks of developing heart disease and diabetes.
The study was led by researchers at the New Balance Foundation Obesity Prevention Center at Boston Children s Hospital and funded by the National institutes of health and the New Balance Foundation,
They ate many meals at the hospital, picking up others to eat at home. David Ludwig
Dr. Ludwig s study was designed to look at the impact of the three diets on measures of energy expenditure,
in addition to assessing hormones, fat levels in the blood and other health markers. The study s 21 participants, 18 to 40 years old
Dr. Ludwig said. Participants on that diet also had increases in triglycerides, a type of fat,
Dr. Ludwig said those on the low-carb diet had the biggest boost in total energy expenditure
increases in cortisol, a stress hormone, and a measure of inflammation called CRP, which can raise the risk of developing heart disease and diabetes.
Those on the low-glycemic-index diet burned about 150 calories a day more than those on the low-fat diet without any negative impacts on cholesterol levels
Dr. Ludwig said. The glycemic index measures the impact of carbohydrates on blood-sugar levels. A second study in the same medical journal showed that people in an 18-month weight-loss program that started with monthly meetings lost nearly as much weight as those in a much costlier program of the same duration with group sessions that initially met weekly.
That study led by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh, found that the monthly program cut about $600 off the cost of a $1, 360 traditional weight-loss program with the weekly classes.
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#Apple s retail employees are long on loyalty but short on pay Apple employees During Jordan Golson s best three-month stretch last year, he sold bout
Even if you had a doctor document some medical condition, if you didn t come to work,
and a half weeks with severe bronchitis and was on the verge of dismissal when he e-mailed Ron Johnson, then the retail chief,
I m a low stress kind of person to begin with and I didn t find it unmanageable,
Sales employees, Mr. Garcia and others noted, deal with stresses all their own. Though commissions are offered not,
when stress-related health issues sidelined him long enough to put his job at risk.
and would not be connected to human biology (probably as a response to the six other doctors#in my family, all of
whom are physicians). So I was drawn to the question of how plants sense light to regulate their development.
and human biology even as my own research evolved from studying plant responses to light to leukemia in fruit flies. 2. How do think people should change how they think about plants?
you can walk to the nearest watering hole (or bar. If you re hot, you can move north,
And some stressed plants give rise to progeny that are more resistant to the same stress
what s fascinating is that the same drugs that inhibit the human glutamate receptor also affect plants.
In the early 1800#s, The british chemist Humphry Davy invented the light bulb but it was a failure.
you re done. 6. The Congestion Killer Traffic jams can form out of the simplest things.
which is why many traffic modelers see adaptive cruise control (A c. C.)#which automatically maintains a set distance behind a car and the vehicle in front of it#as the key to congestion relief.
but within a few years, it ll tip paramedics off to probable injuries too. E. M. T s would know the likelihood of internal bleeding or traumatic head injury, for example,
before arriving on the scene, which would help them decide whether to move you to A level 1 trauma center or a standard emergency room.
Researchers at the University of Michigan International Center for Automotive Medicine have created the predictive models by cross-referencing the crash data provided by sensors on cars, like speed and location of impact, with 3-D
scans of accident victims. 11. A Nice Little Cabin in the Sky The typical plane cabin is drier than the Arizona desert,
The swiss company Bolliger & Mabillard had to completely reimagine the seat design to handle the stress caused by the differently distributed weight. 20.
it s called#that would forever eliminate the next morning s headache (not to mention other problems associated with drinking.
a psychiatrist and former British drug czar, has identified six compounds similar to benzodiazepines#a broad class of psychoactive drugs#that won t get you rip-roaring drunk
all you d have to do is pop a pill. 21. The Mind-reading Shopping cart In February,
when it detects bacteria associated with plaque buildup, cavities or infection. It could also notify your dentist,
adding an extra layer of social pressure to make an appointment. The sensor may have wide-ranging use:
the researchers have used already it to identify bacteria in saliva associated with stomach ulcers and cancers.
could be the key to diagnosing diseases early and assessing overall health. This tech,#says Dr. Philip Low, the founder of a medical technology firm called Neurovigil
enables us to look for faint signals of, say, schizophrenia, Parkinson s, depression or Alzheimer s in the brain,
even though there may be no obvious symptoms.##Thus far, Low s device has found a number of applications:
evaluating children with autism, studying the efficacy of trial-phase drugs and assessing traumatic brain injury in soldiers.
Currently, Low is working on a newer version of the device, which will be the size of a quarter
and will transmit brain scans directly to smartphones and tablet computers. We re using sleep, #Low says,
A Blood test for Depression This year, Eva Redei, a professor at Northwestern s Feinberg School of medicine, published a paper that identified molecules in the blood that correlated to major depression in a small group of teenagers.
Part of the reason there s a stigma for mental illness, including depression, is that people think it s only in their heads,
#Blood tests will take mental illness out of the squishy realm of feelings. And as Lonna Williams, C e o. of Ridge Diagnostics, says,
When the spray hits a surface where there are pathogens present, like your bathroom sink, it would bind to the bad stuff
Then you could knock it out with a stronger disinfectant. 27. A New Firefighter You need a lot of water to put out a sizable blaze,
and the chemicals used in fire extinguishers can be toxic (halons, the most effective chemical fire suppressant, create holes in the ozone layer.
According to the program s manager, Dr. Matt Goodman, an electric field destabilizes the flame s underlying structure rather than blanketing the fire to smother it.
or you re in a hospital, or your spouse is allergic to dogs#you can t always have a pet around to improve your mental health.
So researchers at the University of British columbia have created something called smart fur.##It s weird-looking (essentially just a few inches of faux fur)
Sleep Better Researchers at Merck have created a pill called suvorexant that essentially makes you a narcoleptic for a night.
It turns out that might be the best cure for insomnia. Unlike existing sleep aids, the drug (which will likely be reviewed by the F. D. A. later this year) works by turning off wakefulness rather than by inducing sleep.
There s good reason to believe this pill brings on more R. E. M. sleep and better rest,#says Dr. Emmanuel Mignot of Stanford university.
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#Apple turns over its entire inventory once every 5 days Apple s supply chain is ranked best in the world.
They re also attracting chemicals and environmental toxins, which are getting passed along in breast milk.
Writer Florence Williams read a research study about toxins found in human breast milk when she was nursing her second child.
why tumors seem to gravitate toward the breast, and how toxins from the environment may be affecting hormones and breast development.
She says many of those toxins, including the flame retardants found in her breast milk,
may come from ordinary household items like couches and electronics, which often contain flame retardants.
#Breast cancer While researching for her book, Williams also learned that more tumors form in the human breast than anywhere else in the body except for human skin.
The breast is not even fully developed until the last stages of pregnancy, and that s when the mammary gland forms,#she says.
which acts like the sex hormone estrogen, may be linked to cancer and reproductive problems in animals. Most plastic products, from package wrappers to water bottles, contain BPA.
their pups will grow up with altered mammary glands in ways that predispose that animal to breast cancer later on,
Those monkeys ended up developing mammary glands that were altered by the chemical in ways that made it more likely to get breast cancer.#
IBEX team, M. Paternostro (The Adler Planetarium), Dr. P. Frisch (University of Chicago), Dr. S. Redfield (Wesleyan University) First The Interstellar Cloud That Physics
Mom s obesity linked to kids autism and development Kids born to obese moms are more likely to diagnosed with autism.
Kids born to obese women are more likely to be diagnosed with autism or related developmental delays than the children of slimmer moms according to a new study of moms and children in California.
The research, which was looking for effects on kids cognitive development from a variety of metabolic conditions#in mom#including high blood pressure
or diabetes#found the strongest links between obesity and autism-related disorders. Researchers also found ties between the other maternal metabolic conditions and developmental delays in kids.
Although the study cannot prove that one condition causes the other its authors, who published their results in the journal Pediatrics,
caution that even the possibility is worrisome in light of rising U s. obesity rates. If there is anything you can do to make yourself healthier,
517 had an autism spectrum disorder and 172 had developmental delays. For Krakowiak s study
Autism is attributed to atypical brain development and characterized by a group of symptoms that include problems with socialization, communication and behavior.
Milder versions of autism, such as Asperger s syndrome and related conditions, form a spectrum#of autism-related disorders.
In addition, impairments in any one of the autism-related cognitive skill areas are considered developmental delays. Among the kids in the study with an autism spectrum disorder, 48 were born to mothers with Type 2 or gestational diabetes,
111 to mothers who were obese and 148 to moms with any sort of metabolic condition,
like high blood pressure. For children with a developmental delay, 20 were born to mothers with Type 2 or gestational diabetes,
41 to mothers who were obese and 60 to moms with any sort of metabolic condition.
Overall, the connection between diabetes in a mother and her child being diagnosed with autism was not significant,
and her child having autism. Developmental delays were associated with both obesity and diabetes, along with having any other metabolic condition.
There is definitely an association present and it adds to the reasons for finding ways to lower obesity rates
or diabetes rates and make greater efforts to change lifestyle factors,##said Krakowiak. The new findings come on the heels of a report from the U s. Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention that estimated every one in 88 children in the U s. has an autism spectrum disorder.
That number represents about a 25 percent increase from the agency s last report in 2006.
one-third are obese and 16 percent have so-called metabolic syndrome#a constellation of symptoms, including high blood pressure and insulin resistance,
that raise heart disease risk. Although no one can say the nation s rising obesity rate is to blame for the prevalence of autism,
Krakowiak said the parallel increases did catch her attention. That was definitely one area that
I took note of too. I knew obesity rates and diabetes rates were rising, and autism rates were said too,
#she. Hannah Gardener, an epidemiologist in the Department of Neurology at the University of Miami, told Reuters Health that she thinks it s natural for people to draw a connection between the two rising rates.
There is a lot that is unknown and studies like these really help us figure out the questions that need to be answered,#
#said Gardener, who has investigated risk factors for autism in the past. But Gardener warns that she believes researchers are far away from understanding
what might create a link between obesity and autism. Krakowiak told Reuters Health there are a few theories,
such as that vascular problems and an overabundance of inflammatory proteins in obesity, could be crucial in a baby s brain development.
Regardless of how strong the association is or isn t, Gardener said there is enough evidence to encourage moms-to-be to get healthy.
and insulin resistance can have health consequence for mothers and fetuses, #Gardener told Reuters Health.
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#Use of common pesticide, Imidacloprid, linked to Bee Colony Collapse Imidacloprid is in a lot of commonly used products.
according to a new study from Harvard School of Public health (HSPH) The authors, led by Alex Lu,
associate professor of environmental exposure biology in the Department of Environmental Health, write that the new research provides convincing evidence#of the link between imidacloprid and the phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), in
When other conditions cause hive collapse#such as disease or pests#many dead bees are typically found inside and outside the affected hives.
such as pests, disease, pesticides, migratory beekeeping, or some combination of these factors. In situ Replication of Honey Bee Colony Collapse Disorder,#Chensheng Lu, Kenneth M. Warchol, Richard A. Callahan, Bulletin of Insectology, June 2012 LINK Share Thissubscribedel
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#Bees Self-Medicate when infected with some pathogens When faced with pathogenic fungi, bees line their hives with more propolis the waxy,
yellow substance seen here. Research from North carolina State university shows that honey bees self-medicate #when their colony is infected with a harmful fungus,
bringing in increased amounts of antifungal plant resins to ward off the pathogen The colony is willing to expend the energy
#says Dr. Michael Simone-Finstrom, a postdoctoral research scholar in NC State s Department of Entomology and lead author of a paper describing the research.
a mixture of plant resins and wax that has antifungal and antibacterial properties. Domesticated honey bees also use propolis,
Researchers know propolis is an effective antifungal agent because they lined some hives with a propolis extract
and found that the extract significantly reduced the rate of infection. And apparently bees can sometimes distinguish harmful fungi from harmless ones
#despite the fact that the propolis also has antibacterial properties. There was a slight increase, but it was not statistically significant,
The biomedical engineer who came up with huffable food, David Edwards, is customized now developing edible containers for all kinds of food, from juice to wine to chocolate.
obesity will cost us about $344 billion in medical-related expenses by 2018, eating up about 21 percent of healthcare spending, according to an article in USA Today.
Not to mention the unseen health issues associated with a genetically modified and pesticide-bathed food system.
especially Roundup, has gotten out of control to the detriment of our health. It s only been since the mid-1990#s that we saw the first approvals for large-scale commercial cultivation of genetically modified crops.
But recent findings are showing that Monsanto s Roundup can cause major health problems. A new study shows that even
Factory Farming, a Relatively Recent Disaster Cheapening our food supply in such a real way has caused also undue harm to the animals that fall victim to our twisted pricing.
roughly 70 percent of the antibiotics and other antimicrobial drugs used in the U s. are fed to farm animals
and prevent rampant disease from striking animals that are kept in filthy, stressful environments. In fact, many common bacteria (such as Salmonella, Campylobacter, Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA),
and E coli) have developed a resistance to available antibiotics. In the end, the new corporate structure of our food system has cheapened our diets in a way the world has seen never.
While food may cost less in the U s, . it s costing us more than we know in terms of our health,
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#14 Global Projects that could Make You the World s Next Billionaire Opportunities are often right before our eyes,
but few of us can see them. Futurist Thomas Frey: The super-connected nature of the Internet is giving us a far different opportunity landscape#than ever before in history.
Would this level of transparency create an unusual level of paranoia? How could this data be monetized in new and unusual ways?
providing data about hereditary diseases, demographic patterns, census bureau analytics, and much more. More importantly, this will become a new organizing system for humanity a new taxonomy.
With many of our newer diseases attributed to coming from animals, understanding animal genealogy may well provide us with the critical information to find a cure. 6.)Whole Earth Ownership Project Records of property ownership are buried typically in some courthouse or government filing system,
available only to people who take the time and energy to do the research. Currently there is no global repository for this type of information.
a report led by the health campaign group the World Lung Foundation (WLF) said on Wednesday.
In the report, marking the tenth anniversary of its first Tobacco Atlas, the WLF and the American Cancer Society said
said Michael Eriksen, one of the report s authors and director of the Institute of Public health at Georgia State university.
Almost 80 percent of people who die from tobacco-related illnesses now come from low-and middle-income countries.
In Turkey, 38 percent of male deaths are related from smoking illnesses, though smoking also remains the biggest killer of American women too.
and misinformation to subvert health policies that could save millions#.#The report said the industry had stepped up its fight against anti-tobacco policies,
advertising bans and health warnings on packets. The world s six biggest tobacco firms made $35. 1 billion in profits in 2010 equal to the combined earnings of Coca-cola, Microsoft and Mcdonald s,
Smoking causes lung cancer as well as several other chronic pulmonary diseases and is a major risk factor in heart disease, the world s number one killer.
Experts say reducing waste is a simple way to cut stress on the environment while easing pressure on farmers,
Increasing composting could boost soil health and drought resistance, while also easing the burden on landfills and reducing decomposition of garbage into greenhouse gas methane.
Environmental and public health advocates are concerned about the safety of biotechnology already in the field, while agribusiness pushes forward with more new products.
concern for the environment or a growing emphasis on health, but Americans are eating less meat.
What American Families are Eating and Cooking,#that more than one-third of U s. households ate less meat in 2011, mostly for health reasons.
although that nonprofit initiative of The Monday Campaigns, in association with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public health, continues to attract attention.
The Meatless Monday initiative stresses the health benefits of cutting meat consumption, as well as the environmental impact of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, minimizing water usage and reducing the use of fossil fuels.
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