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Graham Perrin

'Green' lightbulbs poison workers - Times Online - 0 views

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health china mercury light bulbs energy environment

shared by Graham Perrin on 05 May 09 - Cached
  • a heavy environmental price is being paid for the production of “green” lightbulbs
  • reopening of mercury mines that have ruined the environment
  • depends on highly toxic mercury
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  • hundreds of workers at Chinese-owned factories have been poisoned by mercury over the past decade
  • Osram, as a responsible multi-national company, was probably the best employer in a hazardous sector
  • ruined mountain landscape of Guizhou province
  • Until recently, the conditions were medieval
  • European demand for mercury had brought the miners back.
Graham Perrin

To Pluck a Rooted Sorrow | Print Article | Newsweek.com - 0 views

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shared by Graham Perrin on 26 Apr 09 - Cached
  • science of forgetting
  • Long-term memories
  • altered and then it is stored again
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  • aren't fixed in a permanent form once they're filed away in the brain
  • ramps up the memory-processing machinery
  • supercritical or meaningful or scary
  • stress hormones alert the amygdala, the brain's emotional control center
  • The original memory? No longer there.
  • superhappy sticky stuff is fun
  • cognitive behavioral therapy
  • isn't wildly successful
  • drops to one third
  • improve by only about 50 percent
  • but every time they were recalled?
  • what if memories were consolidated not just once,
  • original memory could be changed and "reconsolidated"?
  • Researchers first proposed reconsolidation in the late 1960s
  • our remembrance of a single experience lands like confetti in the brain
  • dry facts
  • appear to lodge in the hippocampus
  • emotional trauma of that same event
  • seem to be housed in the amygdala
  • both parts emerge together
  • People cherish their memories, even their bad memories
  • they want to recall them with less pain
    • Graham Perrin
      Graham Perrin on 26 Apr 09
       
      Agreed.
  • removing memory gets into dangerous territory
Matti Narkia

Maximizing the Anti-Cancer Power of Broccoli - 0 views

www.aces.uiuc.edu/...news2746.html

2004 May news broccoli anti-cancer anticancer sulforaphane sulfur-grabbing protein heat-sensitive cooking maximize maximizing temperature time nutrition

shared by Matti Narkia on 27 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Matti Narkia on 27 Mar 09
     
    University of Illinois researcher Elizabeth Jeffery has learned how to maximize the cancer-fighting power of broccoli. It involves heating broccoli just enough to eliminate a sulfur-grabbing protein, but not enough to stop the plant from releasing an important cancer-fighting compound called sulforaphane. The discovery of this sulfur-grabbing protein in the Jeffery lab makes it possible to maximize the amount of the anticarcinogen sulforaphane in broccoli.
Matti Narkia

Fish Oil Consumption and Reduction of Arterial Disease -- Vanschoonbeek et al. 133 (3):... - 0 views

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2003 March jn study review humans fish_oil omega-3 arterial_disease CVD CHD coagulation fibrinolysis platelets platelet activation platelet_activation antiplatelet antithrombotic bleeding time bleeding_time nutrition medline prevention risk_reduction

shared by Matti Narkia on 11 Jun 09 - Cached
  • Matti Narkia on 11 Jun 09
     
    Here we propose that the beneficial effect of (n-3) PUFA diet is related to down-regulation of the mutually positive interactions of platelet activation and coagulation. In addition, we consider the possibility that the dietary effect on hemostatic and lipid factors involves transcription regulation of multiple genes, perhaps in a subject-dependent manner. Fish oil consumption and reduction of arterial disease. Vanschoonbeek K, de Maat MP, Heemskerk JW. J Nutr. 2003 Mar;133(3):657-60. Review. PMID: 12612132
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