You read that right: the overly thin and the overly thick are both tending towards shorter and less healthy lives with greater chances of an early death. It even appears that when faced with being overweight or underweight, being overweight carries the greater advantage.
It sounds preposterous: life as we know it is a slave to time and one of the key conditions of living is that a grave awaits us. But is this really a fact, or simply how it normally works? If we could stop aging,
We can basically all agree that the best way to feed the world would involve as little spraying as possible, as few added chemicals as possible, have plants defend themselves against pests or diseases, and then have them carry as many nutrients as possible to our
I was recently discussing birth control with friends of mine, about the various costs and advantages of each system. We discussed condoms, emphasizing their relative safety in use (for preventing both pregnancy and disease). We also discussed “the pill,” which the Germans call “the
In the mountains of the Amazon, the Yanomami live an existence separate from civilization as we know it. Discovered in 2009 in Venezuela, with their exact location being been kept secret to protect them, the Yanomami presented the ability to compare the bacteria in their guts with
Up until I heard lectures on ecology in my university, I hadn’t really thought about the energy and water cost of animal agriculture. Until I watched Cowspiracy, I didn’t realize how completely insane the situation was. When a recent Trucost study for the United Nations regarding
It sounds like a fruit salad from another planet, but really all the genes are naturally found on Earth. As you may have suspected though, the organisms carrying them have been slightly modified to produce more of a certain desired substance (lycopene with the
This isn’t simply a theoretical question: That’s exactly what this group of pranksters did in the Netherlands. Although the video isn’t in English, you can see from the tone (also, know that lecker is delicious) that the people thought that the McDonalds food was great, and
“Frozen food” is a really broad category, including everything from freeze-dried fruits and vegetables to pre-processed meals. I plan on just discussing the effects of freezing on produce, because I think this is something relevant to the lives of a lot of people. As
It isn’t just my imagination, and it isn’t just in any one nation. Nearsightedness impacts around every second person in the US and Europe, up from half that 50 years ago. If you think that’s shocking, it is more pronounced in Asia, for instance in
