Two events last week might just bestir the powers that are into action. Although the rhetoric so far on the proposed tax on sugar-laden soft drinks is not encouraging. Specifically on sugar, a new study was published this week suggesting that, despite the protestations of the …
Environmental Issues
Conceiving healthy babies naturally
Rates of infertility across the Western world are rising, and rising significantly. In Canada, they rose from 8.5% in 1992 to 15% in 2009-10; one in six couples now have difficulty in conceiving while sperm counts have halved – yes, halved - in the last 50 years. In Britain, …
Ever been glad that you did not live in China?
Well, if you read this report from Professor Ming-Hung Wong of the Hong Kong Institute of Education you certainly will be.... Professor Wong was reporting on food chain contamination and human disease in the Pearl River Delta area, one of the many regions of rapid …
ES update
For those of you who are interested in electrosensitivity – either because you are electrosensitive yourself or because you worry about the excessive amounts of electromagnetic radiation we are all being subjected to – a few updates. A letter in the BMJ by ES-UK trustee Dr …
Electrosensitivity update – EHS recognised as a handicap in France!
Electrosensitivity (being made ill by the man-made electromagnetic radiation from mobile phones and phone masts, wifi, smart meters, fluorescent lights etc etc) has been recognised as a 'functional impairment' in Sweden for some years. But in the rest of Europe (indeed the world) …