Food and Hunger
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Since When Do We Automatically “Trust the Science”? — Mickey Z.
Mickey Z. — World News Trust March 12, 2021 INTRO: Let’s say I was really hungry and someone offered me a meal. But they told me that the primary ingredient of that meal had never before been ...
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At the Recycling Machine in the Age of COVID — Mickey Z
(Mickey Z.) Mickey Z. — World News Trust March 8, 2021 Recently, as I neared my local C-Town supermarket, I passed its recycling station. Just outside the entrance are a couple of machines at which ...
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Vegan Diet Better For Weight, Cholesterol Than Mediterranean Diet | Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Feb. 5, 2021 (MedicalXpress) -- A vegan diet is more effective for weight loss than a Mediterranean diet, a groundbreaking new study shows. The randomized crossover trial, ...
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Just Add Water — Mickey Z.
Photo: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. — World News Trust January 25, 2021 Back in the pre-mask era, I'd regularly venture into Manhattan to train fitness clients. On those early morning trips, it was not ...
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Lockdowns Devastate Yemen (and the Third World), But YOU Can Help — Mickey Z.
Abdo, aged 4, with his uncle Yahya in Al Sadaqah hospital. Abdo passed away on December 3, 2020 from the effects of severe acute malnutrition. (Courtesy of Giles Clarke/U.N. Office for the ...
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Sustainability: 3 Global Trends in 2020 — Mickey Z.
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Mickey Z. — Now With Purpose December 11, 2020 When we look back on 2020, one collective remembrance will be about how everything came to a halt. Well… not everything. Some ...
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Pandemic dreams of New York egg creams | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust June 12, 2020 A legit New York egg cream contains neither eggs nor cream. It’s a fountain drink consisting of carbonated water, milk (animal or ...
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A Palestinian Guide to Surviving a Quarantine | Ramzy Baroud
Dr. Ramzy BaroudOn Faith, Humor and "Dutch Candy" Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust April 2, 2020 Call it a "quarantine," a "shelter-in-place," a "lockdown" or a "curfew," we Palestinians have ...
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New 'interspecies communication' strategy between gut bacteria and mammalian hosts uncovered | Case Western University
Feb. 21, 2019 (Case Western University) -- Bacteria in the gut do far more than help digest food in the stomachs of their hosts, they can also tell the genes in their mammalian hosts what to do. A ...
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Oysters at risk from changing climate | Yoann Thomas
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Oct. 9, 2018 (Phys.org) -- Climate change's effect on coastal ecosystems is very likely to increase mortality risks of adult oyster populations in the next 20 years. That ...
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New evidence supports the hypothesis that beer may have been motivation to cultivate cereals | Melissa De Witte
Credit: Oregon Health & Science UniversitySept. 12, 2018 (Phys.org) -- Stanford University archaeologists are turning the history of beer on its head. A research team led by Li Liu, a professor of ...
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