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Over 40% of breast and bowel cancer cases in rich countries are preventable through diet, physical activity and weight control alone, experts say.
Simple measures like cycling to work and swapping fatty foods for fruit can make all the difference for these and many other cancers, they [...]

News just in that scientists have found the earliest dated footprint attributed to Homo erectus - which reflect the height, weight, and walking style of modern humans…..guess where…..Kenya!!!! I don’t suppose they had a much of a carbon footprint then, or maybe it is when it all started to go wrong!! 
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I found this on the Care2 site, and I thought I’d share it with you all as there is some interesting stuff there from the US which we are not hearing in our evening news like the Portland fishing crisis for instance. They are not yet telling us how dramatically overfished the seas around the [...]

A British supermarket chain is beating traffic congestion and reducing its carbon footprint by using a non-motorised, hand-drawn truck for deliveries of less than a mile.Hand carts are thought to have been used first in Sumeria over 5,000 years ago, but Waitrose is using an up-to-date version to make deliveries that would normally be undertaken [...]

Are you aged 25 and over?  Would you like to be part of a focus group on breast & cervical screening?  
Emma McKenzie, on behalf of south East Essex NHS is looking to run a series of focus groups of women aged over 25 to discuss their knowledge and attitudes to breast & cervical screening.  If [...]

Just a reminder that FairTrade fortnight has already started. Of course, many of you buy Fair Trade products as much as possible and it is great to know that we are helping support farmer’s and other producers. Everyone should be entitled to fair pay and acceptable working conditions.
Although the symbol is widely recognised, our article [...]

A joint investigation by the Independant, Sky News and Greenpeace has discovered that tons of toxic e-waste is going to Africa in flagrant breach of this country’s recycling laws.
Outdated but still usable equipment such as computers, televisions and gadgets can be a great boon to third world countries, but once these items have reached a point of [...]

Parents have been concerned about social networking sites for a long time because they don’t know who their children are talking to. But now there is a new concern: a growing number of psychologists and neuroscientists believe that continous use of online networking such as Facebook and Twitter is actually changing the way children’s brains work. [...]

Did you watch the above-named documentary featured in the BBCs Natural World series Friday evening? If you didn’t, you can still watch it on the BBC news web site for a few weeks and I would thoroughly recommend it. It was superb and inspiring.
The programme was presented by Rebecca Hoskins. It started rather alarmingly with infomation and statistics about [...]

I have started a new love affair, he is small dark and handsome, very strong and hard-working and he sits in the centre of my house keeping me warm for next to no effort!
 He is my little woodburning stove which I had installed this week. Actually he is a multi-fuel burner, which I picked up [...]