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Posted: 31st October 2020

Subject: Green Living

Sub-category: Sustainable Fashion

Systems Change and Fashion

This series offers a thought provoking discussion on the connected solutions to the environmental and social issues with the fashion industry, which has many of you calling for a framework to make systems change happen in this sector.

Posted: 30th October 2020

Subject: Nutrition, Therapy and Self Help

Sub-category: Beetroot, Nutrition

Beets: Evidence-Based Health Benefits

Beets have always been and remain one of the world's most underutilized 'super foods' with a number of powerful, evidence-based health benefits.

Posted: 30th October 2020

Subject: 1° and 2° Prevention of Illnesses, Nutrition

Sub-category: Coronavirus (COVID-19), Vitamin D

Sunshine vitamin covid protection that governments need to back

Vitamin D is emerging as probably the lowest cost, modifiable risk factor for severe covid-19 disease. Governments are increasingly recommending it but most are limiting levels to those based on protecting bone and muscles, not those required for immune protection.

Posted: 26th October 2020

Subject: Green Living, 1° and 2° Prevention of Illnesses

Sub-category: Climate Change, Coronavirus (COVID-19)

We must not miss this glorious chance to address the climate and biodiversity crises

Trillions of dollars will be invested by governments in reviving their economies over the next two or three years. If those dollars are well spent, ensuringlow-carbon, nature-restoring prosperity, we have a real chance of avoiding runaway climate change and ecosystem collapse.

Posted: 22nd October 2020

Subject: 1° and 2° Prevention of Illnesses

Sub-category: Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Mouthwashes, oral rinses may inactivate human coronaviruses, study finds

Certain oral antiseptics and mouthwashes may have the ability to inactivate human coronaviruses, according to a new study.

Posted: 22nd October 2020

Subject: Nutrition, IM Approaches by Illness gender and age, Therapy and Self Help

Sub-category: Coffee, Diabetes, Green Tea, Nutrition

Drinking green tea and coffee daily linked to lower death risk in people with diabetes

Drinking plenty of both green tea and coffee is linked to a lower risk of dying from any cause among people with type 2 diabetes, suggests research published in the online journal BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care.

Posted: 21st October 2020

Subject: 1° and 2° Prevention of Illnesses, Green Living

Sub-category: Coronavirus (COVID-19), Positive Change

Biggest carbon dioxide drop: Real-time data show COVID-19’s massive impact on global emissions

While the ongoing coronavirus pandemic continues to threaten millions of lives around the world, the first half of 2020 saw an unprecedented decline in carbon dioxide emissions -- larger than during the financial crisis of 2008, the oil crisis of the 1979, or even World War II.

Posted: 21st October 2020

Bottle-fed babies swallow millions of microplastics a day, study finds

Exposure is far higher than previously thought and also affects plastic food containers

Posted: 21st October 2020

Subject: Therapy and Self Help, Green Living

Sub-category: Green Living, Wildfires

The New Science of Wildfire Prediction

Writer Dan Duane dives into the inevitability of fires in the west and how better models would help combat them.

Posted: 18th October 2020

Subject: IM Specialities, Therapy and Self Help

Sub-category: Environmental Medicine, Green Living

Ground-breaking discovery finally proves rain really can move mountains

A pioneering technique which captures precisely how mountains bend to the will of raindrops has helped to solve a long-standing scientific enigma.

Posted: 16th October 2020

Subject: IM Approaches by Illness gender and age

Sub-category: Heart Disease

Reviving cells after a heart attack

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) - nanometer sized messengers that travel between cells to deliver cues and cargo - are promising tools for the next generation of therapies for everything from autoimmune and neurodegenerative diseases to cancer and tissue injury.

Posted: 24th September 2020

Subject: Mind and Spirit

Is consciousness continuous or discrete? Maybe it’s both, argue researchers

Two major theories have fueled a now 1,500 year-long debate started by Saint Augustine: Is consciousness continuous, where we are conscious at each single point in time, or is it discrete, where we are conscious only at certain moments of time?