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#118787
2018-11-02

‘Poop vault’ of human feces could preserve gut’s microbial biodiversity—and help treat disease

Whether in villages on the coast of Ghana or in the mountains of Rwanda, asking for people's poop is a good icebreaker, Mathieu Groussin says. "Everybody laughs," says Groussin, a microbiologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge. "Especially when we stress that we n ...

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#119020
2018-12-13

Nature is a rich source of medicine – if we can protect it

The Pacific yew tree is a fairly small and slow growing conifer native to the Pacific Northwest. The Gila monster is a lizard with striking orange and black markings from the drylands of the Southwestern US and Mexico. Two very different organisms, but with a fascinating connection.

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#119149
2018-12-20

Will mainstreaming traditional Chinese medicine threaten wildlife?

Traditional Chinese Medicine is going global. Earlier this year, Chinese state media reported that 57 traditional medicinal centers were under development in places as far-flung as Poland, the United Arab Emirates, Germany, and France. By some counts, TCM can now be found in more than 180 countr ...

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#119311
2019-01-09

Conservation Of Traditional Medicinal Plants In Asia Facing A Dark Future – Analysis

Anhar Rabiyah of the tribal Pannei, an indigenous group in Pangkep, South Sulawesi, Indonesia, Sikrip Piyaporn, an ethnic minority who lives in Pu Luong, Thailand and Tuyoc Ballanga of the Maeng Itneg tribe in Tubo, Abra, Philippines don’t know each other from Adam.

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#119358
2019-01-14

Biodiversity is more than just the forests

TOO often when we talk about biodiversity, it evokes a notion of forest destruction or species extinction. To many, it is just about the environment. Little do we realise, however, that in fact biodiversity is the foundation for human health.

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#119383
2019-01-15

World Health Organization: From climate change to HIV and Dengue, these are the 10 global health risks to watch in 2019

There are several health challenges around the globe. These vary from outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases like measles also called rubella, and morbilli and diphtheria which is a contagious disease, increasing reports of drug-resistant pathogens, growing rates of obesity to the health impa ...

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#119429
2019-01-16

The diet to save lives, the planet and feed us all?

A diet has been developed that promises to save lives, feed 10 billion people and all without causing catastrophic damage to the planet. Scientists have been trying to figure out how we are going to feed billions more people in the decades to come.

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#119508
2019-01-18

Food in the Anthropocene

More than 800 million people still live in hunger, and many of us now eat more unhealthy than ever. Global food production remains the largest pressure caused by humans on the planet, threatening local ecosystems and the stability of the Earth system itself.

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#119562
2019-01-24

Canada’s New Food Guide Is A Win For Health, Animals And The Planet

After years of research analysis, stakeholder and public consultation, and message testing, Health Canada has published an updated version of Canada's Food Guide.

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#119598
2019-01-25

How to Eat to Save the World

With the global population set to reach ten billion by 2050, the challenge of feeding the world in a healthy and sustainable way will only deepen. Meeting that challenge will require major, long-term systemic changes.

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#119622
2019-01-28

The way we eat is killing us – and the planet

The distinguished medical journal The Lancet has issued not one but two apocalyptic warnings about our food in under a month. One of its special commissions reported earlier this month that civilisation itself was at risk from the effects of the current food system on both human health and the E ...

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#119649
2019-01-29

The new Lonyiri nature walks in Kidepo a great tourist attraction

From searching for insects, to birds, to different plant species with their unique names, animals, nature lovers in December braved the Lonyiri 25km nature walk in Kidepo valley national park and ventured out in the newly discovered nature walk, to indulge in nature.

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#119664
2019-01-29

It’s nature, stupid! A new deal for nature will improve the economy and wellbeing

In pursuit of wealth creation and economic development we are destroying the very nature we depend on - this must change, says Maxwell Gomera

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#119705
2019-01-31

Feeding the Ten Billion

Our current diets are bad for our health and are harming the planet. Two billion people are now overweight or obese. Poor diet is the biggest cause of noncommunicable disease in the world, posing a greater risk of morbidity and mortality than unsafe sex, alcohol, tobacco, and drug abuse combined.

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#119760
2019-02-05

Seychelles ranked first in Africa for ocean health

The Ocean Health Index (OHI) has ranked Seychelles first in Africa after the latest global assessment of ocean health. Globally the island nation came out 33rd amongst 220 countries and territories. Morocco and Egypt were ranked second and third on the continent.

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#119893
2019-02-11

A less meaty Year of the Pig?

A few days before the Chinese New Year, staff at a popular Sichuanese restaurant in Beijing’s Dongcheng district were busy serving customers and taking reservations for New Year’s Eve. Meat accounted for at least 65 per cent of the dishes on the New Year menu, typical of the several restaurants ...

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#119921
2019-02-12

Ancient Greek Wisdom for a Healthy Gut and Immune System

The ancient Greek Father of Medicine, Hippocrates penned that “all diseases begin in the gut” and that for true healing and optimum health that we need to exercise, “let medicine be thy food and food thy medicine” and the “natural forces within us are the true healers of disease”.

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#120062
2019-02-22

Research into chimp health benefits human, ecosystem well-being too

Chimpanzees’ health is not just an issue of concern for conservationists or animal rights activists.

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#120113
2019-02-26

Being surrounded by green space in childhood may improve mental health of adults

Children who grow up with greener surroundings have up to 55% less risk of developing various mental disorders later in life. This is shown by a new study from Aarhus University, Denmark, emphasizing the need for designing green and healthy cities for the future.

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#120114
2019-02-26

Biodiversity, people’s livelihoods at risk in Chindwin River Basin

The Chindwin River, the largest tributary of the Ayeyarwady River, is vital to the lives of thousands of communities in Myanmar. Its basin ecosystem offers ecological services and biological diversity that provide the essential needs for six million people, from drinking and irrigation water, fo ...

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#120165
2019-03-01

Sweating the small things

Matt Bonds was young and idealistic when, as a postdoc, he set out with economist Jeffrey Sachs, a rock star in the development world, in his quest to end poverty. But the Millennium Villages Project on which they worked—a package of interventions from seeds to schools to clinics designed to imp ...

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#120266
2019-03-07

How you can change your diet to benefit both your health and the planet

A plant-based diet, with less meat and more vegetables, could help save both human health and the environment, according to a report released last month by the EAT-Lancet Commission on Wednesday, Jan. 16.

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#120269
2019-03-07

Shout out for peace and quiet

We all suffer stress and anxiety to some degree and reported stress levels are generally increasing. The Mental Health Foundation recently found that three quarters of people in the UK had felt so stressed in the past year that they were overwhelmed or unable to cope.

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#120334
2019-03-13

Communicating the health of the planet and its links to human health

The Rockefeller Foundation–Lancet Commission on planetary health1 in 2015 argued that although human health has improved dramatically between 1950 and 2010, this gain was accompanied by unprecedented environmental degradation that now threatens both human health and life-support systems.

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#120474
2019-03-25

Conserving These Endangered Prawns Is A Tasty Way To Protect Human Health

Restocking rivers in tropical and subtropical Africa with a large endangered freshwater prawn not only provides locals with a protein-rich food source, but it also breaks the deadly life cycle of schistosomiasis

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#120537
2019-03-27

Urban biodiversity to lower chronic disease

Replanting urban environments with native flora could be a cost effective way to improve public health because it will help 'rewild' the environmental and human microbiota, University of Adelaide researchers say.

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#120564
2019-03-29

Germ warfare: Biodiversity might be the cure for modern sickness – and lower health costs as well

Adelaide researchers are exploring a very big idea that would tackle the rise of allergies, asthma and immune diseases – and the spiralling cost of healthcare.

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#120599
2019-04-01

Health benefits of Lemon

Lemon, Citrus limon, belongs to family of evergreen flowering plants called Rutaceae. Lemon issued for culinary purposes as well as in cleaning and cosmetics.

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#120635
2019-04-04

The diets cutting one in five lives short every year

The food we eat is putting 11 million of us into an early grave each year, an influential study shows. The analysis, in the Lancet, found that our daily diet is a bigger killer than smoking and is now involved in one in five deaths around the world.

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#120659
2019-04-05

Better sewage treatment critical for human health and ecosystems

World Health Day on 7 April is a reminder that effective wastewater management and sanitation systems are vital for human health. The volume of sewage in the world is set to rise in line with population growth. Furthermore, the growth in global wealth means our wastewater, including sewage, cont ...

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#120661
2019-04-05

Biodiversity sustains human health

The ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) joins the international community in observing World Health Day on 7 April. The theme for this year’s celebration is universal health coverage. The World Health Organization reported that millions of people still have no access to health care. About 100 mi ...

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#120665
2019-04-05

Tree therapy: what we can learn from the Japanese practice of shinrin-yoku

Chained to our desk, a computer monitor in front of our face, smartphone accompanying us wherever we go, the stresses of everyday urban life can sometimes seem insurmountable. With more than 7m years of human evolution, we have spent less than 0.1% of that time living in cities – and we have yet ...

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#120762
2019-04-15

Allergy Season Is Getting Worse, Thanks To Climate Change

Allergy sufferers are having a rough time of it this spring. If you're among them, and if you think it's getting worse, you're right–and climate change is at least partly to blame.

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#121528
2019-07-10

Flesh-Eating Bacteria Infects Three as Experts Warn Warming Oceans Could Make It More Common

Within the last month, at least three people have contracted a flesh-eating infection from an ocean-dwelling bacterium — an occurrence that experts warn could become more frequent as the world's oceans warm.

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#121555
2019-07-11

Can we feed 11 billion people while preventing the spread of infectious disease?

A new article describes how the increase in population and the need to feed everyone will give rise to human infectious disease, a situation the authors of the paper consider 'two of the most formidable ecological and public health challenges of the 21st century.'

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#121733
2019-07-29

Increasing tree cover may be like a 'superfood' for community mental health

Increasing tree canopy and green cover across Greater Sydney and increasing the proportion of homes in urban areas within 10 minutes' walk of quality green, open and public space are among the New South Wales premier's new priorities.

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#121756
2019-07-31

Selective antibiotics following nature's example

With multi-resistant germs becoming more and more of a threat, we are in need of new antibiotics now more than ever.

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#121906
2019-08-15

Life on thin ice

Greenland’s melting has been adopted by the world as its own problem. But for the islanders grieving their dissolving world, the crisis is personal, and dangerous

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#122589
2019-10-09

If you go down to the woods today...it will banish the winter blues, say health experts

Spending time in nature even when the nights draw in can help alleviate the winter blues, the Royal College of Psychiatrists and Forestry England have advised.

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#122615
2019-10-10

Caring for the environment helps to care for your mental health

On this World Mental Health Day, we draw attention to the relationship between mental health and the environment.

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#122893
2019-11-07

Biodiversity may benefit mental health by affecting gut bacteria

New research in mice suggests that exposure to a biodiverse soil may improve mental health by raising levels of a bacterium with anxiety-relieving effects.

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#122910
2019-11-07

Healthy ecosystems, healthy humans: ‘One Health’ broadens its scope

The world’s most impoverished communities don’t need to be told that intact ecosystems are vital to their health, says Joseph Walston, vice president for field conservation programs with the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). They get it.

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#122915
2019-11-07

The human health benefits of conserving and restoring peatlands

It is well known that peatlands matter for livelihoods, carbon storage, flood mitigation, and water quality, but a recent study has shown that peatlands also matter for human health.

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#122925
2019-11-08

What bamboo forests do for nature and human well-being

Bamboo, which belongs to the grass family, is one of the fastest growing species of the plant kingdom. Its herculean attributes are not at first obvious when encountered in the forest.

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#122941
2019-11-08

Diet for healthy people, healthy planet too costly for some

At US$2.84 per head per day, the ‘ideal diet’ would be beyond reach for nearly 1.6 billion people, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, researchers say.

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#122976
2019-11-13

Importance of oceans for human health, and the need to protect them, is focus of conference in Seychelles

The importance of the oceans in the lives of humans and why they need protecting were some of the main points of discussion during a two-day conference in Seychelles.

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#123106
2019-11-25

Food for thought: dietary changes can improve our health, health of planet

Our health and what we eat are inextricably linked. A balanced, nutritious diet gives us energy, keeps us focused and keeps many medical conditions at bay.

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#123211
2019-12-02

Green spaces in cities can help people live longer

The world's largest review to date has recently established just how important urban green space is for staving off premature death.Some 63% of people in the United States live in cities.

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#123459
2019-12-16

World’s 1st dengue drug, made by Pinoys

The dengue research was part of the DOST’s Tuklas Lunas program to produce reliable and affordable medicines sourced from the country’s rich biodiversity.

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#123665
2020-01-13

Can Biodiversity In Urban Neighborhoods Be Related To Mental Health?

Acquiring properties within a concrete jungle may be the goal of every person trying to make a mark in this world, however, there are downsides to this aspiration. Particularly, in terms of the barriers that it places between man and nature, causing mental health problems such as depression, anx ...

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