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Possible contamination of food in Japan Due to the leakage of radioactive material from cracks in the concrete and steel outer casing of the reactor core number two (and probably others) of the Fukushima nuclear power plant is possible that there is danger to the health of the population and consequent contamination of food on which droplets fall of steam carried by wind or rain. The international authorities have declared that the accident was more serious than reported and therefore are of six on a scale of seven and now also in Japan and admit that the level of radiation in some areas is quite high, with a slight decrease in the nuclear power that seems could enables a small emergency team to continue to pump sea water into the reactors. Meanwhile the death toll of the eearthquake and tsunami is more than four thousand three hundred people even if the number of missing remains very high (near twenty thousand). e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Mar 16, 2011 
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 Food contaminated with dioxin in Germany A test on the levels of dioxin in some German food from the treatment of chickens, eggs, pigs showed a dioxin level up to seventy-seven times the amount considered legal in their thirties and eighteen samples tested were found to be out of the norm, then the authorities have identified in food preparation to be a major industry because of the contamination and found that despite being known since March by the technical staff the problem related to food security and production of various feed pellets continued (up to about one hundred and fifty thousand tons in all). Dioxin tends to accumulate in the fat particularly of eggs (is possible recognize them from labels) and is considered very dangerous for the human body especially in view of long periods of time, but in this case the main farms identified in the controls for the animals fed with contaminated feed have been closed. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jan 08, 2011 n: 1469 Treatment against peanut allergy According to an Australian study about an individual every hundred would have the allergy to peanuts, and then one in four could be suffering from anaphylactic shock, a violent reaction of the immune system which can be potentially fatal, but researchers have identified "protein fragments dominant" to make the organism tolerant to the ingested food (though this is a study in the initial phase and probably expected to take years to produce results on the ground). The peanut is a herbaceous plant imported from Brazil by the Portuguese conquerors and seeds ovoid containing forty per cent of oil, thirty of proteins, and twelve of starches and in Italy are usually called american peanuts and in certain subjects can constitute a real danger even if it is possible to desensitize the body with small increasing doses of peanut proteins or allergic immunotherapy. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Dec 16, 2010 n: 1450 Waste management and nutrition In industrialized countries the amount of waste produced by each individual is consistent and usually ranges from one to about four kilograms per day, so that even in the '60s and '70s disposal was reorganized and regulated through a management-type which passed from a rural to a specific classification and then in the following decades we have moved slowly to the recycling of different materials. One of the data that are often analyzed with concern is the amount of unused and wasted food in the garbage that end up going to exacerbate the overall balance of the mechanical disposal of the so-called municipal solid waste, with inevitable repercussions on the environment and the sustainable use of the its resources, since that the landfills fill up quickly if nothing is done to reduce all the various amounts of trash on the whole cycle of waste. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Nov 04, 2010 n: 1413 Cases of cholera and diarrhea epidemics in Haiti After the strong earthquake that struck Haiti in January, causing the collapse of most of the vulnerable households the population of the Caribbean island that living in tents is forced to cope with epidemics of diarrhea caused by ingestion of contaminated water and food, and is count four hundred and forty two victims [04/11] for cause of cholera, which threatens to spread among the poor inhabitants of the barracks and of the hospitals, or even worse in the capital Port-au-Prince. The authorities say that these are isolated cases, but warn the population that only by taking proper precautions (washing hands and not touch the food, boil and filter the water to drink..) is possible to prevent that infections continue to claim victims. According to recent studies, after washing the hands should not for example touch the face, to prevent contamination with bacteria, even the skin that tends to be populated quickly from various germs sometimes unhealthy. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Oct 25, 2010 n: 1404 Button batteries for toys not to swallow The new modern toys and small electronic devices are often equipped with button batteries or very thin and wide about two centimeters of the lithium type that if swallowed by children, exchanged for sweets, can be very dangerous and must be quickly removed due to a species caustic type of chemical reaction which is favored by the current in the organism that emanates from the small cell and body fluids, that can burn the tissues. These button batteries are very widespread and is present in some toys or remote controls, both in various gadgets until the children's shoes (which feed the LED light walking) and in particular flat and wide are used as to guarantee a good durability and performance than those used in the past. Many people each year swallow these batteries that are difficult to detect in time to intervene. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Sep 22, 2010 n: 1376 Pesticides harmful for children Children are generally more sensitive to pesticides respect the adult and immune system has less capacity to counteract the negative effects on the organism, and now a search for over eleven hundred children and teenagers found that those in which the residue was higher of pesticide (organophosphates) occurred about twice the incidence attention deficit and hyperactivity. Most pesticides "harmful" is used for specific types of crops such as berries, beans, celery.. but the quantities usually are quite different from country to country, including the doses used to treat the fruit. To note that children with attention deficit or hyperactivity are often treated with behavioral therapies of psychiatric - family type that does not take into account the natural and the human dimension, with the use of medicines for some of questionable scientific validity. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: May 18, 2010 n: 1273 Controversies on the ogm and the labels A type of potato genetically modified so that is rich in starches, it could be cultivated for industrial scope and also of the maize varieties ogm could be used for the feeding of animals, this although previously external analysis carried out on samples of modified maize had evidenced as these types of aliments could provoke damages to the liver and to kidneys (but on the ogm aliments there are discordant positions and some countries as an example do not concur any use even if by now many denounce the contamination of the foods that would have to be biological). Controlling the labels is possible to make sure if a product contains or less aliments genetically modified, pesticides or others chemistries compounds not appreciate; but also in this case it is risked to become ill itself of a species of "obsession from control" with consequent nutritional disorders. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Mar 03, 2010 n: 1213 An unhealthy smoky flavor Foods can be smoked in a traditional way to give a distinctive flavor to a particular aliment or by using a kind of additive made by burning the wood of beech and then "condensed" the fumes during combustion in a solvent, but some authorities on food safety have found that use of these additives from the smoky flavor is close to the limits that were set above which a food may be hazardous to health (though for now it seems that there is no significant risk to a moderate personal use of these foods). It is also unhealthy eating foods properly uncooked and visibly scorched as you often see, for example with the frame of the pizza cooked in the oven so is advisable to eliminate the burned edge without doubt and all parts blackish in color or from the flavor type smoked. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jan 09, 2010 n: 1167 To drink likewarm tea for not burn the throat A study in a particular area of Iran where the population is accustomed to drink large quantities of hot tea would have found a fairly high risk than the average of oesophagus cancer, which is usually caused by excessive consumption of alcohol and smoking also, drinking hot beverages is reported to damage the epithelial tissue of the throat and then expose the individual to the danger of being struck by cancer in the throat. A temperature of tea about 70 degrees greatly increase the risk of cancer and between 65 and 69 degrees it would double compared to a lower that can be achieved by simply waiting a few minutes before sipping the tea. Other studies previously demonstrated the antioxidant and anticancer properties of green tea (for example against prostate cancer or to "stabilize" the metabolism), but it is advisable to drink it lukewarm for not to affect its beneficial effect. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Mar 28, 2009 n: 936 Aliments and security * The author doesn't assume some kind of responsibility for the bad use of the articles councils (all rights are reserved) |
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