Posted in Ecological Collapse, Sustainable Tech on 03/24/2009 12:53 pm by Gare
Eating Too Much Red Meat May Shorten Life
Major Study Finds an Effect, but Critics Say Meat Offers Important Nutrients
By Amanda Gardner
HealthDay Reporter
Mar. 23
MONDAY, March 23 (HealthDay News) — Diets high in red meat and in processed meat shorten life span not just from cancer and heart disease but from Alzheimer’s, stomach ulcers and an array of other conditions as well, a U.S. National Cancer Institute study has found.
In fact, reducing meat consumption to the amount eaten by the bottom 20 percent seen in the study would save 11 percent of men’s lives and 16 percent of women’s, according to the study.
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Posted in Ecological Collapse on 03/01/2009 12:24 pm by Gare
By ELIANE ENGELER –
GENEVA (AP) — Glaciers in Antarctica are melting faster and across a much wider area than previously thought, a development that threatens to raise sea levels worldwide and force millions of people to flee low-lying areas, scientists said Wednesday.
Researchers once believed that the melting was limited to the Antarctic Peninsula, a narrow tongue of land pointing toward South America. But satellite data and automated weather stations now indicate it is more widespread.
The melting “also extends all the way down to what is called west Antarctica,” said Colin Summerhayes, executive director of the Britain-based Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research.
“That’s unusual and unexpected,” he told The Associated Press in an interview.
By the end of the century, the accelerated melting could cause sea levels to climb by 3 to 5 feet — levels substantially higher than predicted by a major scientific group just two years ago.
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