The truth about ‘miracle foods’ – from chia seeds to coconut oil
Cancer, diabetes, heart disease, dandruff… can these things really be cured, or at least prevented, by what we eat?
Sport & Health
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Do you know what too fat looks like?
A study suggests that African American women in the US have a different picture of what unhealthy weight looks like than medical experts, prompting suggestions that pictures should be more widely used with health messages to counter the new normality of excess weight
Futuristic green skyscrapers to reduce 75% of Paris’ greenhouse gas emissions by 2050
2050 Paris Smart City by Vincent Callebaut Architectures. “2050 Paris Smart City” is a research and development project for Paris City Hall carried out by Vincent Callebaut Architectures. In order to fight against the urban heat-island phenomenon by increasing in the same time the density of the city in the long-term, the study presented 8 … Read more
Green news roundup: mega droughts, geoengineering and straw homes
The week’s top environment news stories and green events. If you’re not already receiving this roundup, sign up here to get the briefing delivered to your inbox
Conservationists call for UK to create world’s largest marine reserve
Three proposed reserves in UK waters around the Pitcairn Islands in the Pacific, and Ascension Island and South Sandwich Islands in the Atlantic, would more than double the size of the world’s existing marine protected areas
World’s cities experiencing more heatwaves, study shows
Number of extremely hot days a year has increased in hundreds of cities since the 1970s years, with frequencies peaking in the last five years