I listened yesterday morning to a wonderful programme on BBC Radio 4 “ Our Food, our future” presented by Tome Hean. The participants included young mothers short of money and cooking skills and some very articulate and contributing Nutritionists and Dieticians. ( BBC Radio 4 Monday 9 am August 4th available to hear on the…
Read moreThis paper may at first sight appear to be too detailed and even boring. Far from it. Cholesterol and coronary heart disease is such an important topic. Our understanding of the place of diet owes much to the patient meticulous studies of Grundy, Brown and Goldstein , Ahrens , Miettinen and others . Never easy…
Read moreFrom time to time,one reads a truly exciting article. Such an article is printed in Nature written by Paul Nurse ( Nature 2008 Life, logic and information vol 454 pp 424-5) and has made me think how nutrition fits into his massive picture of the future.Biology has over the recent decades learnt so much of…
Read moreRice is very efficient in assimilating arsenic polluting paddy fields. The plant uses the same transport system as for silicon to achieve this , with two transporter proteins belonging to the aquasporin family.As if polluted wells was not enough of a tragedy.Proc.NatlAcad Sci . USA dol 10.1073/pnas. 0802361105 ( 2008)
Read moreIn any Public Health programme that entails a change in life style it is important that the population at risk should need to recognise that their life style is contributing to real or potential ill health. This applies to alcohol, social behaviour , excessive sized families , smoking and drugs.Alternatively there is the prospect of…
Read moreThere is an exhibition at the Museum of London showing a history of smoking in LondonSmoking cigarettes kills a Londoner every hour.Cigarette butts account for 40% of the litter on London’s Streets.Two million Londoners still regularly light up and smoke cigarettes.
Read moreWorld population growthThe BMJ records an interesting description of how the world population has grown out of control.The first modern human was about in about 160000 BC. In AD 1 the world population was 250 million1776 1 billion1945 2.3 billion 2006 6.5 billionThe human population has quadrupled in less than 100 years.The annual increase in…
Read moreArsenic poisoning is a real problem in Bangladesh. A recent paper in Nature 2008, vol 454 p 263 indicates that many other areas in SE Asia may be troubled by arsenic pollution of the water.A map of contamination indicates that the Myanmar Irrawaddy Delta may be contaminated by arsenic. Many of these countrey’s wells are…
Read moreZinzalla and Hall have writen an important review on how cells sense nutrients to control growth. The selection of nutrients between cells whether they be in the brain, muscle or elsewhere is a knowledge desert.When we eat a meal how does the food get distributed before the eventual cell receives the nutrient.There is also the…
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