Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
the latest thing that is brewing up a storm in Europe is a new self-cooling drink can which could cause global warming. Britain is now seeking new ways to ban the can. "If the can captures, say 10 per cent of the uk market by the year 2000, it would …
US food scientists have found a way to make biodegradable packaging material from a protein extracted from corn. Researchers at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, turned
Following efforts by the Game Conservancy Trust based at Sussex Downs, farmers in the British countryside have adopted a new method of conserving bird species. A six metre-wide outer strip is left unsprayed with pesticidesin farms. Insects in the protected strip provide larder to birds. The populations of birds like …
there is more to the humble cockroach than meets the eye. Recently published research shows that its faeces, saliva, and other parts of the body act as an allergen. This leads to asthma among children, and exacerbates the more serious cases. A study of hundreds of severely asthmatic children aged …
Epidemiologists at the University of California, Davis, suggest that stress from long work hours can triple the risk of miscarriage. After questioning 584 female lawyers about their domestic and professional lives, the researchers could establish a clear link between the long hours of work and the chances of miscarriage in …
A recent study says the inability in women to synthesise the hormone serotonin as fast as men could be the reason why women feel more depressed. A team of researchers led by S Nishizawa of the McGill University, Montreal, measured serotonin synthesis in eight women and seven men. The synthesis …
The Karnataka High Court recently awarded damages worth Rs 21,000 to a petitioner Muniswamy Gowda, who had accused a rice milling industry of damaging his health. The court ordered the state government, the chairperson of Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) and the owner of the rice milling industry to …
The National Environmental Commission of Chile recently gave its final approval for the construction of a second 570-mw dam on the Bio Bio river despite stringent criticism from ecologists and local Indian tribes who seem destined to lose their indigenous land to the project. The electric utility Endesa's environmental impact …
though superconductivity was discovered by the Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes about 85 years ago, it remains an enigma in many ways. The discovery of high temperature superconductivity and the numerous potential applications, from more powerful particle accelerators to high speed trains have been responsible for the enormous amount of …
it is again time for the monsoons to strike Delhi. Again, as before, the government of the capital city of India is unprepared to check flooding in low-lying areas ( pushta ) around the Yamuna. The excuse that the Delhi government's flood and irrigation department give is that, they do …
AS THE host of the next meeting of the ON Convention on Climate Change, which is scheduled to be held in December in Kyoto, Japan is making last-ditch attempts to finish its homework on global warming. In the previous con- vention meetings, rich nations had agreed to start a series …
THE latest source that promises new hope for cancer patients is an African tree. A drug derived from the bark of the African bush willow has been found to hamper blood supply to cancer cells. Tests have shown that it can kill up to 95 per cent of solid turnour …
INSTEAD of lowering environmental degradation along the 3,218-km Mexico-us border, the North American Free Trade Agreement has only worsened the problem. The Mexican region has become an ideal location for polluting us companies because of weak enforcement of environment4l laws. The town of Matamoros on the Mexican side of the …
MANY girls in the us are starting puberty far earlier than is widely considered normal, according to a recently published report of the first large-scale, multi-racial study conducted by Marcia E Herman-Giddens, professor of maternal and child health at the Chapel Hill School of Public Health, University of North Carolina. …
ABORIGINES in Australia live 15 to 20 years less than the white population, says a recently published report citing data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. They are 15 to 18 times more likely to die of infectious diseases and their babies …
THAT the administration of the female hormone oestrogen to post-menopausal women prevents the tribulations associated with the painful process of menopause, has been common knowledge since the late 60s. Many women and their physicians considered this hormone as the closest thing in modern medicine to aIn elixir ofyouth, a drug …
Some cases of human obesity may well be caused by a virus, say Nikhil Dhurandhar and Richard Atkinson of the University of Wisconsin, Madison. The researchers analysed the blood of 199 volunteers for anti- bodies for the adenovirus Ad-36, that causes obesity in animal models. Volunteers included 45 lean people …
BIOLOGISTS firmly believe that parents cannot transmit to their children the traits they acquire during their lifetimes. Though a language can be learnt and passed on to the younger generation, when it comes to heritable traits, the Darwinian theory of evolution remains the cornerstone of existing knowledge of evolution of …
A new study has revealed that some boxers are genetically predisposed to suffer brain damage due to blows taken on the head. The findings were presented at the World Boxing Council's first medical conference on boxing safety at the Caribbean island of Aruba by Barry JordAn, a neurologist at the …
Mask-covered faces are now a common sight on Kathmandu roads. This is a result of the fleet of vehicles emitting thick black smoke which not only irritate the eyes, but also cause several respiratory diseases. "Every second patient visiting an ENT (ear, nose and throat) specialist is directly or indirectly …
