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Sep 27

If you have not watched this film yet, I would highly recommend it:
Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret.

Being the hardcore conspirator that I am… I first thought it would be something about cattle mutilations or abductions, but upon reading the summary (it’s on Netflix by the way), I saw it was more about how cattle are destroying our planet (I knew they were going to get the last laugh)! I knew about the mass production of meat/dairy, the grains we feed them and the methane they emit were bad… Just didn’t know it was THAT bad and more-startlingly, how few environmental protection agencies actually even discuss it.

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Nov 22

“You are what you eat…”

You have heard that statement many times growing up – but I always dismissed it. Lately I”m beginning to realize just how real it is.  Sometimes these simple sayings are the ones that mean the most.  We are very much what we eat.  If you eat nothing buy sugary and fatty foods, chances are you are overweight and unhealthy; whereas if you eat nothing but vegetables and fruit, chances are you are thin and healthy.  This isn’t always the case, but more times than not it is.  The key is balance obviously.

What troubles me the most is the small role nutrition plays in the field of medicine.  Considering how important your nutrition and diet is to your health, you would think that nutrition would be the keystone of curriculum in Medical Schools… think again!  Of the random ten medical schools I have evaluated online, only one had a “Nutrition and Exercise Physiology” type department, class, or focus area…

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Oct 19

There has been a recent discovery of an Earth-sized “alien” planet very close to us, which has got scientists starting to think about interstellar exploration.

On October 16, 2012, a European team announced the existence of Alpha Centauri Bb, a world residing in the nearest star system to our own (about 4 million light years away, real close I know). The find could ignite serious and sustained efforts to explore the newfound planet and any siblings it may have in the three-star Alpha Centauri system, say researchers not involved in the discovery.

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