Book review Leo Hickman in A Good Life: The Guide to Ethical Living points out that: “Ethical living means taking personal responsibility; considering ‘sustainability’ of everything you do; making sure that your actions do not have a negative influence on you or the wider world; reducing one’s demand for resources; consuming a fairer and …
THE LEXUS AND THE OLIVE TREE UNDERSTANDING GLOBALIZATION THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN FARRAR STRAUS GIROUX 1999 PART II Chapter 3: … And the walls came Tumbling Down Chapter 4: Microchip Immune Deficiency Chapter 5: The Golden Straitjacket Chapter 6: The Electronic Herd PART TWO: PLUGGING INTO THE SYSTEM Chapter 7: DOScapital 6.0 Chapter 8: Globalution Chapter …
Book review Leo Hickman in A Good Life: The Guide to Ethical Living points out that: “Ethical living means taking personal responsibility; considering ‘sustainability’ of everything you do; making sure that your actions do not have a negative influence on you or the wider world; reducing one’s demand for resources; consuming a fairer and more …
Book review Joana Blythman, Britain’s leading investigative food journalist tells us in The Food We Eat: The Book You Cannot Afford to Ignore that “There are 3,000 or so genetically altered or ‘transgenic’ foods that have to date been tested worldwide. Unlike traditional breeding, genetic engineering permits scientists to move genetic material – DNA – …
THE LEXUS AND THE OLIVE TREE UNDERSTANDING GLOBALIZATION THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN FARRAR STRAUS GIROUX 1999 PART I Opening Scene: The World Is Ten Years Old • On the morning of December 8, 1997, the government of Thailand announced that it was closing 56 of the country’s 58 top finance houses. Almost overnight, these private banks …
Book review In Proof Positive: How to Reliably Combat Disease & Achieve Optimal Health Through Nutrition & Lifestyle Neil Nedley, M.D. we learn that “The World Health Organization states that a program is needed of ‘primordial’ prevention; that is, do something about it before the epidemic occurs. It is possible to reduce coronary heart disease …
2010 week 52 Book review These are some snippets from Part 4 of The Eskimo Diet: How to Avoid Heart Attack by Dr. Reg Saynor and Dr. Franklin Ryan reviewed below: “In the doses we recommend we are not aware of any side-effect of fish oil. Even reviewing the world literature, it is very difficult …
Book review These are some snippets from Part 3 of The Eskimo Diet: How to Avoid Heart Attack by Dr. Reg Saynor and Dr. Franklin Ryan reviewed below: “These four key papers are what is known as review papers – detailed, impartial summaries of all the research done to date on an important subject, written …
2010 week 49 Book review In Olive and Olive Oil: Mediterranean Diet 100 Greek and Cypriot Recipes by Katerina Tsouchtidi we are told that the Mediterranean Diet is a combination of foods that are perfectly balanced, guaranteeing long life, health and a positive psychological outlook. A study showed that rates of deaths from heart disease …
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 …
