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Climate Q&A: Will We Be Less Healthy Because of Climate Change?

The CNCL Team — Thu, 08 Aug 2019 00:13:50 +0000

Some of the negative health effects of climate change are already upon us, but it’s not all doom and gloom. There is a huge opportunity for better health through well designed action to reduce our emissions and by adapting to the changes we are facing.

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A Rare Flesh-Eating Bacteria Is Spreading Because of Climate Change

The CNCL Team — Wed, 19 Jun 2019 04:13:16 +0000

A team of researchers has published a report in the Annals of Internal Medicine, arguing that the sudden appearance of the flesh-eating infection, Vibrio vulnificus, which is generally found in warmer water off the coast of southeastern United States and in other parts of the world, can be linked to rising ocean temperatures.

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The Climate-Health Connection: Infectious Disease

The CNCL Team — Mon, 17 Jun 2019 05:12:50 +0000

Driven by the burning of fossil fuels like coal and oil, our world is getting warmer and warmer – putting real people’s lives are in danger. But not just from the searing heat, violent storms, and rising seas most think of first when the conversation turns to our changing climate. The climate crisis is also making us sick – and it’s only just getting started.

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The Healing Power of Gardens: Oliver Sacks on the Psychological and Physiological Consolations of Nature

The CNCL Team — Sun, 09 Jun 2019 22:39:05 +0000

The role that nature plays in health and healing becomes even more critical for people working long days in windowless offices, for those living in city neighborhoods without access to green spaces, for children in city schools, or for those in institutional settings such as nursing homes. The effects of nature’s qualities on health are not only spiritual and emotional but physical and neurological. I have no doubt that they reflect deep changes in the brain’s physiology, and perhaps even its structure.

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These Canadian Doctors Just Turned a Village Vegan

The CNCL Team — Sat, 08 Jun 2019 20:28:44 +0000

Around 300 people in Burin Peninsula, Newfoundland have recently switched to a vegan diet for health reasons. Gift of Health workshops held by Dr. Arjun Rayapudi and Dr. Shobha Rayapudi — two doctors who moved to the town of Burin in 2011 — inspired them to do so.

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White Meat Is Just as Bad for You as Red Meat, Study Finds

The CNCL Team — Fri, 07 Jun 2019 23:28:52 +0000

Due to unhealthy cholesterol levels, consuming white meats -- such as chicken and turkey -- could be just as bad as consuming red meats, says a new study.

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If We Want Antibiotics to Work, Consumers Have to Put Big Pressure on Factory Farms

The CNCL Team — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 00:15:44 +0000

On March 1, Denny's stopped purchasing chicken treated with medically important antibiotics for its U.S. restaurants. Many consumers might expect to see such promises at Whole Foods or their local farm-to-table restaurant, but why is a chain like Denny's (i.e., one that is enjoyed more for its assortment of inexpensive breakfast foods than its moral standards) joining the trend to reduce antibiotics in meat?

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After Years of Abuse, the Earth Has Sent Its Bill Collectors

The CNCL Team — Mon, 27 May 2019 21:09:22 +0000

This planet’s macro-ecological system does have an undeniable sense of accounting … and it keeps a running tally. From alpha-gal syndrome to herbicide resistance, from rising seas to superstorms, we’re watching Mother Nature’s accounting system repeatedly expose the fatal flaw driving economic growth during the Anthropocene era. That flaw is the fallacy of externalities.

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‘Our Very Survival Is in Doubt’: Disasters and Threats to Life Escalating Due to Human Activity, Un Warns

The CNCL Team — Thu, 16 May 2019 02:39:52 +0000

Earth's "very survival is in doubt” if mankind continues to damage the planet, the United Nations (UN) has warned in a report that suggests previously “inconceivable” threats to human existence will rear their heads more often and less predictably than ever.

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Japan Begins Culling Thousands of Pigs as Swine Fever spreads

The CNCL Team — Wed, 06 Feb 2019 04:21:57 +0000

Japanese authorities were battling to contain swine flu on Wednesday (Feb 6) after the virus was detected at multiple sites in central Japan.Japanese soldiers and local government officials began slaughtering around 6,600 pigs at a farm in Toyota City in Aichi prefecture following the confirmation of an outbreak of swine fever, also known as hog cholera, there.

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Animal Agriculture is Choking the Earth and Making Us Sick – We Must Act Now

The CNCL Team — Mon, 04 Dec 2017 04:38:39 +0000

Our collective minds are stuck on this idea that talking about food’s environmental impact risks taking something very intimate away from us. In fact it’s just the opposite. Reconsidering how we eat offers us hope, and empowers us with choice over what our future planet will look like. And we can ask our local leaders – from city mayors to school district boards to hospital management – to help, by widening our food options.

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