Public Health

If Wishing Made It So: Why Offit's Words Will Always Fall On Deaf Ears

The vaccine-injury crowd  is inoculated against reason, evidence, and appeals to civic duty and compassion for the suffering of millions. Those of us who've spent time in the trenches with them know it all too well. You can acknowledge that vaccine in ...

Article - Kim Wombles - May 22 2011 - 5:00pm

What is Ethnobotany?

Ethnobotany is defined as the study of the relationship between people and plants and most commonly refers to the study of indigenous uses of plants. In other words, it is the marriage between cultural anthropology and botany, a study that investigates th ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - May 23 2011 - 10:43am

Happiness syndrome and human survival?

People want to remain happy feel good all the time. Some blogs even point out to remain happy even in adverse circumstances. I wish to share my personal experience. The moment I write a blog on " there is limited supply of water " or something ab ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - May 23 2011 - 7:57pm

Obama Administration Replacing A Pyramid With A Pie To Combat Obesity

I suppose the recent Egypt-centric focus on food consumption had to end eventually.  The 'food pyramid' you have seen for decades, craftily negotiated by food lobbyists, is being replaced by...a pie.   First Lady Michelle Obama is on a war agains ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 1 2011 - 10:09am

Like E. Coli? Enjoy Organic Food

While Europeans trade blame about the E. coli contamination that has killed 14 people and made hundreds sick, one factoid is left out of most news stories- you're far more likely to get E. coli from food in organic supermarkets, where European governm ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Apr 16 2012 - 10:24pm

Calories Are Up But Sugar Calories Are Down- What's Ailing Cereal

Americans spend what I consider a long time getting breakfast, though nutritionists say it is "the most important meal of the day"- 13 minutes a day, it turns out.   I say a long time because mine takes 30 seconds; during the week I eat Raisin Br ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jun 3 2011 - 5:26pm

E. Coli- Tracing The Source

E. Coli- Tracing The Source In a few words, most reports are false, and the timidity of men acts as a multiplier of lies and untruths. Clausewitz ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Jun 10 2011 - 11:09am

Plywood Gives You Cancer? Politics "Have Hijacked The Scientific Process"

The National Toxicology Program has released its latest warning on things that 'give' you cancer and they include two things people come into contact with every day. If you have walked into a new house and smelled that 'new house' smell ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 17 2011 - 10:25am

Modern Agriculture Has Been Bad For Our Health For 10,000 Years

Anti-science progressives in a culture war over food insist modern agriculture- including where we precisely modify changes in genetics instead of letting high-energy cosmic rays do it randomly- is bad.   But a group of anthropologists say it isn't ju ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 15 2011 - 11:11am

Some plants of ethnobotanical importance.

Name- Catharanthus roseus (Madagascar Periwinkle) (fig.-1) is a species of Catharanthus native and endemic to Madagascar. Synonyms include Vinca rosea (the basionym), Ammocallis rosea, and Lochnera rosea; other English names occasionally used include Cape ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Jun 19 2011 - 10:03pm