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WEâRE POISONING OURSELVES WITH PESTICIDES, PRESERVATIVES AND âIMPROVERSâ
We add only tiny quantities of poison to our food, but no one knows what quantity is âsafeââand meanwhile, degenerative diseases are on the rise September 10 1960
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WEâRE POISONING OURSELVES WITH PESTICIDES, PRESERVATIVES AND âIMPROVERSâ
We add only tiny quantities of poison to our food, but no one knows what quantity is âsafeââand meanwhile, degenerative diseases are on the rise
OUR FOOD TODAY contains, at best guess, more than three thousand chemicals. Among them, in minute quantities, are some of the most powerful poisons known to man.
At every meal we swallow dozens of substances that serve as thickeners, thinners, curers, maturcrs, moisteners, dryers, bleaches, deodorants, antioxidants, anti-foaming and anti-caking agents, alkalizers, neutralizers, disinfectants, fungicides, herbicides and insecticides.
A new paper in
JNCI Cancer Spectrum, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that several non-genetic factors including greater red meat intake, lower educational attainment, and heavier alcohol use are associated with an increase in colorectal cancer in people under 50.
In the United States, incidence rates of early-onset colorectal cancer have nearly doubled between 1992 and 2013 (from 8.6 to 13.1 per 100,000), with most of this increase due to early-onset cancers of the rectum. Approximately 1 in 10 diagnoses of colorectal cancer in this country occur in people under 50.
Researchers have observed the rise particularly among people born since the 1960s in studies from the United States, Canada, Australia, and Japan. During the same period there have been major changes in diets among younger generations across the developing world. Such changes include decreases in consumption of fruits, non-potato vegetables, and calcium-rich dairy sources. This is coupled with an incre
myelin.
Myelin acts like the protective and insulating plastic casing around the electrical wires of the brain - called
axons. Myelin is essential for superfast communication between
nerve cells that lie behind the supercomputer power of the human brain.
The loss of myelin results in cognitive decline and is central to several neurodegenerative diseases, such as Multiple Sclerosis and Alzheimer’s disease. This new study found that the cells that drive myelin repair become less efficient as we age and identified a key gene that is most affected by ageing, which reduces the cells ability to replace lost myelin.
Everyone is familiar with the brain’s grey matter, but very few know about the white matter, which comprises of the insulated electrical wires that connect all the different parts of our brains.
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Outline Biography
I am a graduate of the University of Cape Town (first degree and first postgraduate degree, 1980-83) and holder of a Masters and a doctorate from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London. I held a temporary lectureship in Comparative Politics at the University of Keele in 1987/88, before taking up a Lectureship in African History at Edinburgh. I was promoted to Reader in 2003 and Professor in 2005. I was the Director of the Centre of African Studies for ten years and was formerly co-Director of the Edinburgh International Development Centre.