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Pay the bus with used plastic bottles It is estimated that the archipelago of Indonesia islands are second only to China regarding the pollution of plastic residues in the ocean and to solve the problem the authorities of the large city of Surabaya located east of Java would have promoted an ecological plan initiative to pay two hours of travel on buses with plastic waste, ten containers or at least five bottles (depending on size); in fact the data showed that the fifteen percent corresponding to four hundred tonnes of Surabaya's daily waste is made up of plastic. The lettering applied to bottles or other containers and the plastic plugs are removed after collection and the waste is sent to the recycling plants, then the proceeds of the recovered raw material is destined to the transport bus companies and to create green spaces in the city, also contributing to improve the urban aspect and that of the beaches. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Oct 24, 2018 
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 Less beer for cause of the climate change The increasingly frequent heat waves and drought periods damage barley crops, one of the main ingredients in brewing beer together with malt, so it is expected in the future more scarce harvests and with a much lesser quality considering that high-quality barley is more sensitive to climate change; also, the price of this fairly healthy beverage if drunk in moderate doses could also double (in the worst conditions). The production of beer in 2017 was two hundred billion liters being the most popular alcoholic beverage, but being a substantially luxury product some argue that since climate change also damages other crops, impoverish them of nutritional properties, the barley could be used for the primary livelihood of the populations rather than in the production of beer. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Oct 16, 2018 n°: 3902 Eating oranges against macular degeneration A study carried out by consulting the eating habits of over two thousand Australian adults over the age of fifty followed for a period of fifteen years would have shown that regularly eating oranges prevents macular degeneration in eyes and found from the data a very minor percentage of getting sick compared to the average. This disease is quite common among middle-aged Australians and people who eat at least one orange per day are experiencing a reduced risk rate of sixty percent blurred vision fifteen years later and these healthy advantages would seem to stay even if is eat only one orange per week. The benefits would derive from the flavonoids present in many fruits and vegetables that are potent antioxidants that are thought to have important anti-inflammatory properties on the immune system, then the researchers are going to look for if there are genetic reason and environmental. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jul 17, 2018 n°: 3821 Beer prepared in Sweden by the Iron Age The discovery of carbonised germinated cereal grains in order to obtain malt in several ovens made to operate at moderate temperature placed in a separate area of a human settlement in Sweden led the researchers to state that in the northern regions prepared the beer from the Iron Age, then the quantities of charred malt suggest that it was a large-scale production probably prepared to organize feasting and trade. The beer was produced in Mesopotamia from before four thousand B.C. as evidenced by legal documents and images found by archaeologists and this means that it was an important product of the ancient societies that also requires careful preparation; in fact there are two stages in the brewing by wetting the cereal grains with water to allow to germinate for an enzymatic process and then dried in the oven to stop the germination. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jun 22, 2018 n°: 3799 Scarcity of vegetables for climate warming Without new farming practices aimed at plant growth and the search for varieties that can withstand climatic overheating there is a risk of finding themselves in the future in a situation of scarcity of vegetables that are essential for proper nutrition due to the combination of two important factors such as the lower availability of water and the warmer air, at least from what results from the systematic review of one hundred and seventy-four studies based on the impact of climate change on crops and related nutritional intake of vegetables and legumes since 1975. Some research in the past argued that a higher concentration in the atmosphere of carbon dioxide could encourage plant growth, but this advantage is nullified by other factors that can be connected to greenhouse gases like smaller amounts of water available for irrigation and higher temperatures, as a result will have lower quality crops. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jun 12, 2018 n°: 3790 Rice crops less nutritious if CO2 increases In developing countries such as Bangladesh, Indonesia and Cambodia, the livelihood of millions of people is mainly based on different varieties of rice that provide at least fifty percent of daily calories and daily protein; but with the increase in the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, researchers from an international team would see how much decrease the nutrients in the crops (proteins, iron and zinc) and for the first time also the decline of an essential vitamin as that of B group. This test carried out with an experiment simulating the transition from the current concentration of four hundred and ten parts for millions to the expected five hundred and eighty in the future not only concerns rice crops, but also wheat and many other plants; moreover, due to the acidification of the oceans it would also be detrimental to the microscopic phytoplankton at the base of the food chain. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jun 11, 2018 n°: 3789 Costa Rica first country without single-use plastic Initiatives are multiplied to prevent the plastic production or that is not properly recycled by ending up in the environment with disastrous consequences and the first country willing to ban from 2021 all single-use plastic will be the Costa Rica, followed a short time in 2022 from India; then in the Netherlands there are already supermarkets without products packaged with plastic and there are no shortage of proposals for new types of recyclable ecological packaging and to avoid using for example the transparent plastic wraps printing directly on the products information about the purchase. Clean the seas from the plastic, try to intercept the debris at the mouth of the rivers and use the so-called "plastic eating bacteria" does not seem to be useful as to avoid the whole to produce it and now there are valid alternatives; but it is already sure that plastic has entered in the food chain with unhealthy consequences. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jun 09, 2018 n°: 3788 Regulations for the use of the plastic Environmental authorities have long argued that plastic is becoming one of the most serious threats to the ecosystem so much that it has entered the food chain with not yet clear effects on health and now the European Union has proposed a series of regulations to reduce the impact on the environment with the prohibition of the sale of plates, glasses, plastic straws, cotton buds and other objects to replace with ecological correspondents beyond arrive by the 2025 at the almost complete recycling of bottles through a bail system; then for example on wet wipes and similar products must be clearly highlighted on the packaging what would be the consequences of a possible dispersion in the environment. The last demonstration of the environmentalists against the growing pollution from plastic (which is killing the turtles) was held Sunday in Hong Kong with a campaign of mass cleanup on the beaches. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: May 29, 2018 n°: 3778 A lot of plastic released from the Arctic ice At first glance certain remote areas of the Arctic covered with ice might seem clean and pristine but researchers would detect over twelve thousand small pieces of plastic imprisoned in a single sample examined small enough to sit in one hand and this means that as the ice melts with the climatic overheating a large amount of plastic will be released into the sea. Among the most common plastic residues small enough to be eaten by fish and entering the food chain have been identified types used in plastic bags and bottles, paints, fishing nets and cigarette filters. The highest quantifiable concentration quantifiable in approximately twelve thousand particles per litre, almost exclusively polyethylene, comes from the ice of the Makarov basin that may have originated in the northeast Pacific Ocean where floating a huge aggregation of plastic waste. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Apr 26, 2018 n°: 3750 Consuming five servings of fruit and vegetables How healthy it was for the body to eat a lot of fruit is vegetables is known and a new study carried out by Australian researchers on over nine hundred and fifty women of seventy years of age or older would have verified by ultrasound examination of the carotids in the neck thinner walls of the vessels and less accumulation of plaques especially in those who ate many cruciferous like broccoli, cauliflower, cabbages and sprouts of Brussels; so with less risk to the cardiovascular system. Less than one person in ten consumes the minimum flow of fruit and vegetables servings recommended by the guidelines and for example this new study shows comparing women with intake in the diet of less than two servings a day with those who consumed at least three a difference in the thickness of the carotids quantifiable in a five percent less (the test was not aimed to probe specific differences in the thickness of the carotids), then the plants are also rich in vitamins and minerals that have proven to reduce inflammation and oxidative stress that are factors that can contribute to cardiovascular disease. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Apr 06, 2018 n°: 3734 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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