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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 
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 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 Survey on plastic bottles The microplastic is often present in the drinking water and a research carried out on mineral water packaged in plastic bottles would have found a contamination which comes from the same packaging even if it is not clear whether it can pose a health hazard, but for sure this clashes with the salutary and purity statements touted by the water-bottled companies that describe in most cases various positive effects on the body and also healing property. The researchers fear, generally for the contamination with regard to the drinking water, that the plastic micro-particles (composed of chains of polymers with the addition of chemical additives) can reach up to the tissues causing oxidative stress with consequent chronic inflammation. International organisations say that first should be established the concentration levels of microplastics which may be damaging. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Mar 17, 2018 n°: 3718 Study on soy formula for newborns breastfeeding It happens that mothers who cannot breastfeed their children decide for avoid allergies, lactose intolerances and other digestive difficulties to use instead of a preparation formulated with cow's milk a soy-based formula from which is obtained a milk-like beverage which, however, it is a little too rich in estrogen especially for females and can alter the endocrine system and interfere slightly with normal hormonal development; at least for the results of a study carried out by American researchers who have monitored the data related to two hundred and eighty-three infants of which two hundred and two lactate with soy formula, one hundred and eleven breastfed with milk and seventy to the mother breast. The differences found are not relevant so it is not the case to worry about having chosen a formula based on soy, then needless to say that breastfeeding is far preferable and there are stratagems to solve any problems. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Mar 14, 2018 n°: 3715 Healthy oranges juice just squeezing the oranges The news that the minimum content of orange juice present in the drinks will have to go from the current twelve percent to the twenty although positive should not make the consumer think that it is in the whole of healthy beverages; in fact just squeezing the oranges and drinking the juice without spending a lot of time the organism can benefit from the C vitamin that is thermolabile, then should also be careful to dose with due caution the sugar (if can not avoid the use) since it raises the glycemic index of the food by predisposing to obesity and related pathologies. Needless to say that eating an orange is better than squeezing in order to have the supply of abundant fibers in the spongy and white mesocarp, then can enjoy more of the scents that release dividing the segments of the fruit without forgetting the ideal contact figured with the tree and the nature. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Mar 07, 2018 n°: 3709 Cancers favored by highly processed foods Increasing the intake of highly processed industrial foods by a ten percent in nutrition also increases the risk of cancer for a percentage that can reach twelve percent and for example in the case of women is estimated a risk of breast cancer upper to eleven percent; at least according to a French online study in which researchers have monitored in Paris from 2009 the data of almost one hundred and five thousand people (aged eighteen or older) who participated in the registration of their consumption of about three thousand and three hundred products in the twenty-four hour interval. The study would require a wider range of data including those of different types of populations in order to give reliable indications, however it emerges that simply changing the lifestyle could avoid being affected by many forms of cancer therefore it is advisable to consider whether to consume some "junk" food. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Feb 16, 2018 n°: 3693 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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