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Consume Less, Experts Advise as Malthusian Nightmare Returns to Haunt West

...eenhouse gas emissions. But bio-fuels are not a green panacea, as the influential economist Lester Brown from the Earth Policy Institute explained in a briefing to the US Senate last week. He said: "The stage is now set for direct competition for grain between the 800 million people who own automobiles,...

Intake of Potatoes Boosts the Immune System

...ch, such as cold boiled potatoes, legumes, grains, green bananas, pasta and cereals. About 10 percent of the starch eaten by humans is resistant starch - starch that is not digested in the small intestine and so is shunted into the large intestine where it ferments. Starch consumption is thought to re...

'Walk of Shame' Triggers Toilet Consciousness

...then Kaushik led the guests towards the open, lush green fields. As visitors and guests began the tough and unsavoury navigation around mounds of shit and refuse scattered all around, the magnitude of the open toilet ground stood exposed. To drive the point home, the sarpanch captured the dismayed and h...

US Whizkids Create Eco-friendly Building Material from Mushroom

...e from 100 percent recycled paper among their many green building products. After looking through about 8...d hit upon a relatively original idea. Unlike many green building products, Greensulate isn't made from pre-existing materials. It requires little energy or ...

Teenage Birthrate Declining in US Both Abstinence and Awareness Called for to Maintain the Trend

...es ago. At the time, Macke says, kids were given a green light on sex -- as long as condoms were used. That message, she claims, simply did not prevent teen pregnancy. Abstinence education, on the other hand, is working, Macke says. And adults are wrong to think that kids don't buy into it. "Teenagers ar...

Interview With a Surgeon Hidden Hero of the NHS

...achievement. For example the white revolution, the green revolution and rocket technology is a matter of pride for the Indian scientists. The Jaipur foot and Aravind eye care system are a few limited examples in the health sector. 9. Doctors are at crossroads the ethics are on slippery slope with kick...

China Unveils Green Plan to Revert Farmland to Forest

...nveiled a conservation strategy for its flora. The green plan aims at reverting farmland to forests. China is home to 10 per cent of all known plant species, and half of those unique to China, about 5000 species of plants, are under threat. According to Jia Jiansheng of the department of wildlife con...

Live Earth Will Make the World More Aware of the Crisis Facing the Earth, Hopes Al Gore

...ht, in 10 to 15 years time every product will be a green product. 'Live Earth is a big step in the right direction.' Howard added. 'Arnold Schwarzenegger put it well when he said in Washington DC: "We need to make the environment cool and sexy."' Organisers deny that Live Earth will be a one-off that co...

Maggots Rid Patients of MRSA

...gots. Professor Andrew Boulton and his team used green bottle fly larvae to treat 13 diabetic patients wh...lood supply, with sterile free-range larvae of the green bottle fly Lucilia Sericata. They applied the larvae between two and eight times, depending on the s...

Students Join Hands to Save Green Cover in Delhi

...ties in Delhi have raised their voice to save the green cover of their campuses. Teachers and the studen...members, the petition highlights the importance of green cover and pleads the vice chancellor to stop this move. Asserting that nowhere else in north Delhi...

Abu Dhabi to Have Worlds First Zero-carbon City

...aber CEO Masdar. The city will be an integrated green community in the heart of Abu Dhabi, using the traditional planning principals of a walled city, together with existing technologies to achieve a zero-carbon and zero-waste sustainable development, Jaber said. "We are creating a synergetic environm...

Paid Maternity Leave Pushed By Australian Rights Activists

...ressed. The Federal Opposition recently gave the green signal to plans that give working couples a right to take up to two years' unpaid parental leave one year each. Under the policy, parents of preschool children would also gain a right to ask their employer to provide more flexible working arrangemen...

A Stroll Along Countryside Could Reduce Depression and Raise Self-esteem

... The study, which is the first ever to look at how green exercise, called "Ecotheraphy", specifically affec... While 94 per cent of the participants said that green activities had benefited their mental health and lifted depression, 90 per cent said that the combin...

Now a Green Agenda for Mental Health

...d, a leading UK-based charity, is seeking to set a green agenda for mental health. It has released a report... that 71 per cent report depression decrease after green walk, 22 per cent report depression increase after urban walk. Backed by growing evidence to show ...

Intake of Polyphenol Speeds Up Fatty Acid Catabolism

...ls, dietary substances from vegetables, fruits and green tea, bring about a change in the energy metabolism...ed by various polyphenols, particularly those from green tea stimulated the activity of isolated SIRT1. The quercetin molecule also did this, but an importan...

Modest Increase in Urban Parks Could Equalize Global Warming Until 2080s

... team, a mere 10 percent increase in the amount of green space in built-up centres would reduce urban surfa...ked out the impact of an increase in the amount of green space on the urban climate as well as on water retention. The research also examined the effect an...

Boiling Makes Broccoli to Loses Its Anticancer Properties

...such as broccoli, Brussel sprouts, cauliflower and green cabbage are known to contain substances that reduc...ables, (broccoli, Brussel sprouts, cauliflower and green cabbage) from a local store and transported them to the laboratory within 30 minutes of purchasing. ...

Scientists Develop Method to Track Immune System Enzyme in Live Animals

... his colleagues created transgenic mice that had a green fluorescent protein derived from jellyfish fused to the AID enzyme. In these transgenic animals, B cells express the tagged enzyme during the immune response. In a second mouse strain, Casellas and coworkers expressed permanently a yellow fluoresce...

Lipoic Acid may Help to Live Long, Free of Degenerative Disease

...hey say that it is normally found at low levels in green leafy vegetables, but can also be taken as a supplement. "Our studies have shown that mice supplemented with lipoic acid have a cognitive ability, behaviour, and genetic expression of almost 100 detoxification and antioxidant genes that are compara...

Rice Containing Breast Milk Proteins to Be Grown in Kansas

...tates Department of Agriculture (USDA) has given a green signal for plantation of rise modified to express proteins often found in breast milk in Kansas. This is the first time that any food crop containing genes that produce human proteins will be grown on a large-scale. Developed by biotech company ...

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