Lissa Rankin's latest TEDTalk covers ground familiar to anyone who saw her previous talk. This time, she's talking to health care providers about the urgent need to take an holistic approach and to revolutionise the health care system. She's more specific about what stress is, and about the need to reject stress as "normal":

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Let this interview with a marine conservationist from the European organisation The Black Fish first terrify you at the scale of the destruction of marine life (we may be facing fish-free oceans in a generation if we only continue to consume at the current rate), the lack of interest in saving our species' life-support system, and the fact that ( Read more... )

Other Half does not like courgettes or cauliflower. We, however, got courgettes and cauliflower in our veg bag. Hm.

Tasha Edwards (aka The Sweetest Vegan) made a video of her "oven fried" courgettes, and Susan Voisin (aka The FatFree Vegan) blogged her recipe for "cheesy" cauliflower sauce. Turns out that when you puree cooked cauliflower, you get ( Read more... )

Is Coconut Oil Bad For You?

July 30, 2013
Some who profit from coconut oil claim it has miraculous powers, curing everything from cancer to jock itch. The boldest claim may be that it is a potential cure for Alzheimer’s, based on a series of anecdotes and one study I profile in my 3-min video Does Coconut Oil Cure Alzheimer’s? Long story short, as ( Read more... )

A combination of a wide variety of herbicides, pesticides and fungicides killing off the bees? Who'd have thunk?

Scientists discover what’s killing the bees and it’s worse than you thought

By Todd Woody @ greenwombat 12 hours ago


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AICR, the China Study, and Forks Over Knives

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The only cruciferous vegetable I have ever met that I didn't adore is horseradish, which I can only take in small amounts. So this was fabulous news:

Broccoli Boosts Liver Detox Enzymes

July 18, 2013 by Michelle in News with 2 Comments

( No matter what I do, I can't get rid of the heinously huge blank space between the headline and the article. Frustrating. So it's all under the cut. )

Dr Greger's annual round-up of research on diet and health contains some shocking and - to me - very heartening information. Yes, it's frightening that the first signs of atherosclerosis in kids who eat animal products and synthetic trans fats can be seen by the age of 10. It is, though, fascinating and wonderful that going vegan gets rid of it, ( Read more... )

I'm thinking that this is something well worth watching and sharing. You can buy the dvds or download it for free.

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The WHO - and many other medical organisations - have been warning that the livestock industry's stranglehold on politics has led to massive under-regulation of the use of antibiotics. Most of the antibiotics used in the US are used as a preventive measure by livestock farmers, because it's only by pre-emptively medicating animals that you can keep ( Read more... )