In the years following World War II, physicians in the U.S. and Europe noticed a surprising phenomenon: rates of heart attack and stroke fell dramatically in many places. Autopsies from this period also revealed reduced rates of atherosclerosis, which is a buildup of fatty arterial plaques that causes cardiovascular disease.
At first, experts were perplexed. But as time passed, many concluded that wartime food deprivations and the forced shifts in people’s diets—namely, big reductions in the consumption of red meat and other animal products—contributed to the heart-health improvements. Later work, particularly the famous Framingham Heart Study, helped establish that blood cholesterol levels, driven in large part by a person’s diet, tended to overlap closely…
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Michael Polsky, the founder and CEO of renewable energy developer Invenergy, has earned a reputation as a renewable energy pioneer. His company, founded in 2001, has more than 200 clean energy projects across the world completed or in progress.
When we spoke this week at this year’s Aspen Ideas: Climate conference, he could have taken a bit of a victory lapคำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง. But instead he was eager to deliver a warning: without a concerted effort to fix its electric grid the U.S. may soon face electric reliability issues, not to mention challenges meeting it…
(WASHINGTON) — Nearly half of the world’s migratory species are in decline, according to a new United Nations report released Monday.
Many songbirds, sea turtles, whales, sharks and other migratory animals move to different environments with changing seasons and are imperiled by habitat loss, illegal hunting and fishing, pollution and climate change.คำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง
About 44% of migratory species worldwide are declining in population, the report found. More than a fifth of the nearly 1,200 species monitored by the U.N. are threatened with extinction.
“These are species that move around the globe. They move to feed and breed and also need stopove…
The nation shipped in 188,200 tonnes of cotton in December, down 28.85 percent from the same month in 2014, said trade website Cncotton.com, citing customs data.The December number brings imports for the 2015 calendar year to 1.48 million tonnes, the lowest level in at least nine years, according to Reuters calculations.คำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง
The previous low was 1.53 million tonnes in 2008, according to customs data gathered by Reuters since 2006.The industry is forecasting a further decline in imports for 2016, after domestic prices fell to a new low earlier this month on expectations that Beijing could sell off some of its massive stockpile at a discount.The Ma…
As well as changing name, the Alliance has adopted a new corporate identity. The new hexagonal logo’s geometric shape represents both a verdant field and the stylised icons of seven figures standing side by side, symbolising the seven trades that constitute the European flax and hemp industry. The design also hints at a fingerprint, representing one of the four goals in the Alliance’s mission statement: “be proof-obsessed.” Besides traceability, the other goals are “be united”, “connect tradition and innovation”, and “radiate respect” both for people and the environment.“It is time for us to update our identity, so that the image we project may reflect what we have become and have the ambition to become: a collective that represents the entire value chain of the Eu…
Magistrates at the national anti-terror prosecutor’s office in Paris are probing claims the multinational companies are complicit in crimes against humanity, the source said, confirming a report on the Mediapart investigative website.The case is based on a complaint lodged in April by the anti-corruption group Sherpa, the French branch of the Clean Clothes Campaign, and the Uyghur Institute of Europe, as well as by a Uyghur woman who had been held in a camp in Xinjiang, China.คำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง
They accused Inditex, the Spanish owner of Zara and other top brands, Uniqlo, the French fashion group SMCP, and the footwear manufacturer Skechers of using cotton produced in the …
Amongst the various climate targets set is the cap of zero net emissions of carbon by 2050, with verifiable programmes such as REDD+ complementing the reduction measures. Also with a 2030 projection horizon is the goal of 100% renewable energy use by the groups, which simultaneously may encourage supply chains to follow suite. With regards to biodiversity, the groups plan to reject provisions originating from intensive farming systems and to prioritise agricultural usages respecting the natural ecosystem; species protection and soil rehabilitation. The pact aims to protect oceans by eliminating the use of single-use plastics by 2030 and supporting material innovation in order to reduce pollution generated by plastic microfibers.
Besides Kering, the first signatories of the p…
The factory’s 5,700 square-metre building, set within an 11-hectare estate, was designed by the Coldefy architectural studio in Lille using a “bio-climatic approach,” with a wooden structure and façades, and extensive use of solar panels. The factory has a “high level of environmental performance,” meaning it produces more energy than it consumes and has a reduced CO2 footprint, as Hermès stated in a press release. “The Maroquinerie de la Sormonne embodies the house’s sustainable development ambitions, its commitment to the well-being of its employees and its pledge to create sustainable jobs,” said Hermès, anticipating that 260 new jobs will eventually be created at this site.คำพูดจาก The Luxembourg-based General Court will hear arguments from Google and a tech lobbying group backing its appeal while the European Commission will be supported by Germany and eight companies.The hearing is scheduled for Febคำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง. 12-14, said Richard Stables, chief executive of British price comparison site Kelkoo, which is on the EU competition enforcer’s side. Lawyer Thomas Hoeppner, who is advising three other parties on the EU side, also confirmed the dates.Two years ago, the Commission accused Google of favoring its own price comparison shopping service, hitting it with the hefty fine as well as an order to stop its anti-competitive business p…
“Johnson & Johnson has resumed production of its Johnson’s Baby Powder at plants in Baddi and Mulund, India, after government sanctioned testing reaffirmed that the product does not contain asbestos,” J&J said in a statement to Reuters.Reuters reported earlier on Thursday that the federal regulator had not found any asbestos in the company’s talc, citing sources familiar with the matter.คำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง
The federal regulator and its counterparts in Indian states launched an investigation into J&J’s Baby Powder following a Reuters report in December that the firm knew for decades that cancer-causing asbestos could be found in the product.J&J has descr…