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Difficult coffee cultivation in Africa Climate change is causing coffee production in Africa to decline year after year making increasingly difficult for farmers to maintain the level of plant yield due to rising temperatures, low rainfall (with radical asphyxiation or concentrated on unfavorable days characterized by storms) and harmful insects, so much so that the harvest is nothing compared to ten to twenty years ago. It also changes the taste since the coffee plant, for example, prefers moderate temperatures and high altitudes to produce the characteristic aromatic fruits that are in practice bunches of berries with varied colors tending to red. Ethiopia is one of the largest producer and consumer countries in Africa and also has a major economic entry, while Tanzania and Kenya are the largest exporters. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Nov 20, 2020 
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 Greenhouse gases that can be connected to food Food plays an important role in the emission of greenhouse gases and in the protection of the planet; in fact, to feed the seven billion and seven hundred million people of the world, almost a third of the emissions are produced as well as causing deforestation (which deprives the soil of trees and vegetation that captures carbon dioxide), are used fertilizers with a high environmental impact and animals are brought up that emit for example methane, a gas that has the climate potential altering twenty-eight times greater than CO2. Needless to say that in order to prevent global temperatures from continuing to rise, must change our diet by abounding with fruit and vegetables, eliminating the intake of meat, using natural fertilizers by not wasting food, also because the use of renewable energy alone instead of fossil fuels is not enough. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Nov 10, 2020 n°: 4554 Closing wildlife markets In order to reduce the risk of epidemics in the future, some argue that the spaces that allow healthy biodiversity and close wild animal markets should be respected, while also avoiding use for food and for obtaining drugs of dubious effectiveness; but this request also recalls the living conditions of many "domestic" animals forced to live in confined spaces, resulting in the need for antibiotic abuse, without considering hormones and other drugs, and then being slaughtered in horrible disassembly chains. The COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak that has claimed more than two thousand lives and seventy-five thousand infections may have also been aided by climate change (provided that the virus has not escaped from some laboratory); in fact, for example, the habits of bats have changed and it seems that in China some people eating these and other wild animals that live closer and closer to the population centers. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Feb 19, 2020 n°: 4322 Taxing meat to limit emissions A meat tax could encourage consumers to choose other more sustainable protein sources even if this proposal finds strong opposition from farmers and related groups, but concerns about climate change are pushing some to find solutions regulation of the market. Farms are also blamed for increasing deforestation, unsustainable exploitation of the land and cruelty to animals; then the very processed meat is indicated by many studies as the cause of many diseases, serious problems to the cardiovascular system and tumors. Keep in mind that legumes when consumed with cereals such as pasta, rice.. and topped with a little extra virgin olive oil and grated cheese are an excellent source of protein, easily digestible (just if necessary for the laziest intestines to decorate the legumes that are indigestible) and tasty, without residues of hormones and antibiotics that abound in meats. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Aug 14, 2019 n°: 4162 Bees in France collect little nectar Beekeepers in France complain that due to adverse climatic conditions bees do not collect anything and the hives are practically empty with very little honey, so much so that they are forced to feed insects with syrup because they suffer from hunger, then there is also the heat wave to aggravate the situation. The bee population in recent years has been decimated by pesticides, parasites, climate change or a combination of these factors, then generally insects and the queen live less; so a season with low honey production is expected, since for example the acacia trees were damaged by the cold after a winter with seesawing temperatures and in the spring it rained a lot and the bees could not spoil, although recovery may occur by the end of the season. Keep in mind that by collecting nectar from flowers, bees pollinate plants and then transfer sugary juice to other bees in the hive with their mouths. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jun 26, 2019 n°: 4119 Better to eat sitting Foods would taste better if eat seated and relaxed than a precarious standing station; in fact, according to the researchers, the vestibular sense that is responsible for balancing, posture and spatial orientation by interacting with the sensory gustatory system influences the perception of flavors and aromas of foods, then when you are standing the force of gravity It pushes the blood into the lower parts of the body and therefore the body increases the heartbeat by activating stimulating the adrenal hypothalamic-pituitary axis leading to a higher concentration of cortisol, the stress hormone. Foods that normally have a good taste, standing and therefore eating in a very uncomfortable position, appear less palatable (and with less contentment), sensory sensitivity is reduced with an impact on the taste assessment regarding food and beverages, temperature and volume perception of ingested food. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jun 08, 2019 n°: 4104 Eat more rice to be less obese Comparing the consumption of rice, both in relation to the grams taken and calculating the caloric intake, in one hundred and thirty-six countries a Japanese researcher would have noticed how in the countries where the consumption is greater drops the percentage of obese individuals even if the cause of this better state of fitness is not clearly clear. Perhaps the whole rice that is rich in fibers and nutrients give in the meal a greater sense of satiety to the organism and thus preventing the intake of other foods and however it is known for time that the Asian populations who tend to consume more rice often are rather lean (also taking into account the lifestyle and socio-economic factors). According to experts it would be enough to increase the consumption of rice by fifty grams per day to reduce by one percent the global obesity and therefore from six hundred and fifty million adults to six and forty three and a half. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: May 09, 2019 n°: 4077 Useful balanced nutrition for health and the planet It is estimated that one million people in the globe are malnourished and the opposite two million are fed in excess, so that researchers say that this type of unbalanced global diet is in practice the main cause of death compared to other factors of risk in addition to having adverse effects on the climate of the planet (such as for example the excessive consumption of meat and sweets containing palm oil). Among the bad eating habits monitored there would be those related to the consumption of sugar drinks, on average ten times higher than the recommended quantities, those of salt reach eighty six percent more; while it is quite reduced the intake of healthy foods such as fruits and vegetables, at least compared to the five servings per day suggested in general. The global obesity epidemic is a really heavy burden on the environment so we should start by teaching children the basic good eating habits. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Apr 12, 2019 n°: 4056 Microplasty in the depths of the North Sea In thirty-five specimens collected in the depths of the North Sea and Barents at installations of exploitation of hydrocarbons and gases was found of the microplasty, at least from what is apparent from the analyses of a Norwegian institute that would have found that there is a danger to the food chain because of the bristle worms very present in the seabed they feed inadvertently of microplasty and then are eaten by the fishes and then by the men. For the moment, the real risks to health are not well known but Norwegian researchers who are surprised to make this discovery farther away in the sea would be making a map on the sources and the type of microplasty found even if some samples do not know the origin; morover a high number of fragments resemble plastic but can't tell if they really are. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Feb 21, 2019 n°: 4011 Production of plastic destined to increase Although efforts have been multiplied to try to replace plastic with ecological materials and there have been agreements in the first weeks of 2019 among the major petrochemical industries to reduce its environmental impact (defined more than other than façade) it is expected that the production of plastic will continue to increase in the coming years and perhaps it will come to quadruple it for the 2050, considering that much of it would end up at sea and in the environment since the shares of material actually recycled are in practice a minimum percentage. The ever-increasing demand for petrochemical plants could become the main growth boost to fossil fuel consumption with consequent large amounts of carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere. Plastic is part of everyday life and hides in many unsuspected products, but we have to renounce it because it has already entered the food chain. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Feb 08, 2019 n°: 4000 Nutrition * 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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