Archive for the 'Health' Category
Inuit Diet Touted as Health Tonic
January 4th, 2007Via: Vancouver Sun: The Inuit traditional diet offers natural protection against two of the planet’s biggest killers — heart disease and cancer — according to a study that gives an unprecedented glimpse of the health of northern Canadians. While accelerating environmental and social meltdown is putting huge stress on Arctic communities, the study of almost […]
U.S. Beef Contains Dioxin
December 23rd, 2006Yummy! Via: Yahoo/AP: South Korea has asked the United States to explain why a shipment of American beef rejected for having banned bone fragments also contained unacceptable levels of the toxic chemical dioxin, an official said Friday. The discovery was the latest bad news for the U.S. cattle industry in South Korea, already dealing with […]
