Mevrouw M. had jeuk en krabde tot het hersenvocht naar buiten kwam, misschien een kwestie van perceptie. Hoogst fascinerend. The New Yorker, Annals of Medicine, The Itch. Its mysterious power may be a clue to a new theory about brains and bodies: “The theory—and a theory is all it is right now—has begun to make [...]
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The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer from the People Who’ve Lived the Longest.
June 16th, 2008
NPR’s Weekend Edition, Can ‘Blue Zones’ Help Turn Back the Biological Clock? “Sardinian sheepherders, Japanese grandmothers and Seventh-Day Adventists in Los Angeles don’t seem to have that much in common. But within these groups there are some of the longest-lived people in the world.” (…) “Although the aging process isn’t fully understood, scientists do know [...]
Tags: centenarianism · dan buettner · food · health · longevity · okinawa · sardinia
Once again: dead bodies don’t cause disease epidemics
May 21st, 2008
AFP, Dead Bodies No Threat To Disaster Victims: “”There is a widespread and erroneous belief that dead bodies are a source of disease and therefore a threat to public health. This is untrue,” [Arturo Pesigan, WHO's Western Pacific Region's headquarters in Manila] said. “There has never been a documented case of a post-natural-disaster epidemic that [...]
Tags: dead · epidemiology · health
Tegenlicht Interview Michael Pollan
January 28th, 2008
VPRO’s Tegenlicht: de integrale versie van het interview met Michael Pollan. Tegenlicht uitzending: De toekomst van ons voedsel: landbouw of laboratorium? (maandag 28 januari 2008, 21:00 Ned 2)
Tags: food · health · michael pollan · tv
In Praise of Melancholy
January 21st, 2008
‘Shipwreck timber littering coast’ (BBC). Photo: pip aka flipflop :) (idem) Eric G. Wilson, In Praise of Melancholy. American culture’s overemphasis on happiness misses an essential part of a full life: “I for one am afraid that American culture’s overemphasis on happiness at the expense of sadness might be dangerous, a wanton forgetting of an [...]
Tags: fishing · health · melancholy · usa
Michael Pollans ‘In Defence of Food’ – 2 extracts
January 8th, 2008
Michael Pollan, In Defence of Food: The Myth of Nutrition and the Pleasures of Eating (eerder) Extract 1/2: Consuming passion: “That eating should be first and foremost about bodily health is a relatively new and destructive idea – destructive not just of the pleasure of eating, which would be bad enough, but paradoxically of our [...]
Tags: food · health · michael pollan · wining and dining
Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food. An Eater’s Manifesto.
January 3rd, 2008
In Defense of Food. An Eater’s Manifesto, Michael Pollan. Morning Edition, ‘In Defense of Food’ Author Offers Advice for Health (interview): “”Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” (…) The implication of Pollan’s advice, however, is that what we’re eating now isn’t food.” Slate, The Holy Church of Food: “There’s always been a streak of [...]
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A Cocaine Vaccine
January 2nd, 2008
Houston Chronicle, Houston scientists see hope in cocaine vaccine: “In concept, the idea seems simple. Cocaine (and many other drug) molecules are so small the immune system fails to recognize them and make the antibodies necessary to mount an attack. To help the immune system, Kosten attached inactivated cocaine to the outside of inactivated cholera [...]