Enfermedades

Hoy en dia, existen cientos de productos que prometen matar el 99.9% de los virus y bacterias causantes de enfermedades "comunes". Las vacunas han mejorado notoriamente, y a traves de procesos sanitarios y de esterilizacion nos hemos protegido de enfermedades. Pero la capacidad de nuestro cuerpo para prevenir las infecciones no ha avanzado. No seria a caso mas sencillo aumentar esta capacidad, que librar una batalla a muerte para mantener a los patogenos fuera de casa? Entonces surge una pregunta altamente excitante! Como podemos aumentar la capacidad natural de prevenir infecciones? Indudablemente algunas cosas que ingerimos pueden enfermarnos, muchos de nosotros hemos experimentado mas de una infeccion estomacal, entonces es logico suponer que algo que comamos puede aumentar la capacidad de prevenir infecciones.
Que alimentos pueden ayudarnos ? Que alimentos representan una amenaza para nuestra salud?
No tengo que contarles cuentos y leyendas obscuras a cerca de ingredientes que pueden poner en riesgo la vida misma!! (melamina, es el caso mas reciente y notorio)
Dejenme leer, reflexionar y validar nuevas fuentes de informacion, que simplemente abren una nuevo mundo de posibilidades.

Noticias del dia

A third of all commercially harvested seafood goes to animals, which could undermine the entire oceanic food web. Adam Hinterthuer reports

Farmers are fattening up their animals with anchovies and sardines at an alarming rate. In fact, one-third of the world's commercially harvested seafood now is used to feed pigs, chickens and farm-raised fish.Researchers from the University of British Columbia and Stony Brook University spent nine years compiling data on how humans caught, processed and consumed seafood. They report that 37 percent of all the fish caught are small forage fish like sardines and anchovies. And 90 percent of that catch ends up as fishmeal or fish oil, used primarily in animal feed. Forage fish are popular because they can be caught in massive quantities and sold at cheap prices. But, researchers say, these fish support the marine food web, and they’re nutritious staples for coastal-dwelling people in developing countries. So it might be time to rethink the menu. If you feed a pig a fish, it'll eat for a day. But if you feed fish to millions of pigs, well, you might just run out of fish.

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Every year 130 million tons of America’s trash ends up in landfills.

Together the dumps emit more of the greenhouse gas methane than any other human-related source. Engineers have developed an efficient torch for blasting garbage with a stream of
superheated gas, known as plasma. When trash is dropped into a chamber and heated
to 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit, its organic components—food, fluids, paper—vaporize into a hot, pressurized gas, which turns a turbine to generate electricity. Emissions are far lower than in standard incineration, and the process reduces landfill volume and methane release

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Prince Charles has called for rich countries to pay an annual "utility bill" for the benefits given to the world by its rainforests.

Speaking in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, the prince called rainforests the "world's greatest public utility"."The rest of us have to start paying for it, just as we do for water, gas and electricity." As developed nations were the driving force behind their destruction, through a demand for products like beef, palm oil, soya and logs, they should be billed for their protection, he said.

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Bill Clinton: "We Blew It" On Global Food.

Today's global food crisis shows "we all blew it, including me when I was president," by treating food crops as commodities instead of as a vital right of the world's poor, Bill Clinton told a U.N. gathering on Thursday. Clinton took aim at decades of international policymaking by the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and others, encouraged by the U.S., that pressured Africans in particular into dropping government subsidies for fertilizer, improved seed and other farm inputs, in economic "structural adjustments" required to win northern aid. Africa's food self-sufficiency subsequently declined and food imports rose.

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Many pesticides in EU may damage human brain: study

OSLO (Reuters) - Many pesticides used in the European Union may damage brain growth in fetuses and young children, according to a study published on Friday. "Laboratory experimental studies using model compounds suggest that many pesticides currently used in Europe...can cause neuro-developmental toxicity," Grandjean and two colleagues in Denmark wrote in the journal Environmental Health. The developing brain of the fetus and young child is far more sensitive than the adult brain to disruptions from chemicals, they said. Pesticides used on food crops in the EU exceed 140,000 tonnes a year, corresponding to 280 grams (10 ounces) per EU citizen, the study said.

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Bush team rushes environment policy changes

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As the U.S. presidential candidates sprint toward the finish line, the Bush administration is also sprinting to enact environmental policy changes before leaving power. Whether it's getting wolves off the Endangered Species List, allowing power plants to operate near national parks, loosening regulations for factory farm waste or making it easier for mountaintop coal-mining operations, these proposed changes have found little favor with environmental groups. The Bush team has urged that these regulations be issued no later than Saturday, so they can be put in effect by the time President George W. Bush leaves office on January 20. If they are in effect then, it will be hard for the next administration to undo them, and in any case, this may not be the top priority for a new president. Industry is likely to benefit if Bush's rules on the environment become effective, Madia said. "Whether it's the electricity industry or the mining industry or the agriculture industry, this is going to remove government restrictions on their activity and in turn they're going to be allowed to pollute more and that ends up harming the public," Madia said in a telephone interview.

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