Month: November 2010

Climate change

2010 Diary week 46 Climate Change Book Review Below you will find Part 5 of the review of Climate Change: Turning up the Heat by A. Barrie Pittock. These are some snippets: “Human-induced climate change is only an issue if it is large enough and rapid enough to create real problems for natural ecosystems and …

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The food we eat

Joana Blythman is Britain’s leading investigative food journalist who won the Caroline Walker Media Award for ‘Improving the nation’s health by means of Good Food’. In The Food We Eat: The Book You Cannot Afford to Ignore she makes the following points: “By dint of our collective buying clout, we can be tremendously influential in …

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Mediterranean diet

OLIVE OIL EAT BETTER, LIVE LONGER MYRSINI LAMBRAKI E-mail mirsini@her.forthnet.gr web site://users.forthnet.gr/her/mi First edition March 1999 Back cover The fresh juice of olive oil, with it’s ideal chemical consistency and without extracts and improvements, has offered health and longer life to the Mediterranean race for centuries. They used it as the basic oil in their …

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Mediterranean diet

MEDITERRANEAN DIET IN PRACTICE MANOS KAZAMIAS ADAM EDITIONS –PERGAMOS 2004 www.adam-editions.gr Back cover Manos Kazamias studied nutrition and Clinical Dietetics at the Charokopeion University of Athens, from which he graduated with honors in 1987. Subsequently he was awarded a scholarship and followed post-graduate studies at the University of Reading in England and at King’s College …

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