Madagascar healers who squeeze the leaf juice that will heal a child from his earache? Yes you can! Taking resources from nature to cure diseases is an ancient practice. The Egyptians themselves had developed a technique to extract essential oils from plants and prepare ointments used especially in the embalming procedure. Until the Middle Ages,... Weiterlesen →
SUSTAINABLE FEEDING The damage of too much meat does not end at the level of the individual: as cardiologists explained in Barcelona, the unbridled consumption that characterizes societies is closely linked to global warming. And climate change in turn is responsible for innumerable problems for human health: from respiratory pathologies to malnutrition, destined to increase... Weiterlesen →
Energy and the food system Part/time vegetarianism could be the key to a healthy planet, as a vegetarian diet reduces soil consumption by 35-50%, which is now increasingly "occupied" by intensive breeding for meat production. A US study also reduces the use of nitrogen fertilizers and greenhouse gas emissions. However, the relationship between energy use... Weiterlesen →
