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A corrupção é o pior inimigo da equidade social
É tentador culpar os ricos pela injustiça social. É comum ouvir que o 1% das pessoas mais ricas do mundo atingiram sua riqueza à custa dos 99% mais pobres. Na realidade, as coisas são muito mais complicadas do que isso. Os muito ricos são tão ricos porque as condições existentes permitem que eles se tornem tão ricos. Por sua vez, tais condições existem porque o governo permite que elas existam ou ...Read full article...
Is drinking a glass of red wine a day REALLY a life-saving habit?
Alcohol consumption is generally seen more as a negative than as a positive habit. Globally, as much as 6% of deaths are a result of alcohol related accidents. Alcohol consumption is linked to a greater possibility of suffering cancer of the larynx, esophagus, liver, breast, colon or rectum. Separately, alcoholic beverages may also cause liver diseases, pancreatitis, risk of heart attack, more strokes, traffic accidents, suicides, violence… So why ...Read full article...
Corruption is the worst enemy of Social Equity
It is tempting to blame the rich for social injustice. It is common to hear that the 1% richest people in the world attained their wealth at the expense of the 99% poorer. In reality, things are much more complicated than that, but can be simplified into one sentence: The filthy rich are so rich because the conditions that exist allow them to become so rich. In turn, such ...Read full article...
Will plasma transfusions be the next great thing to stay healthy?
There seems to exist a waiting list already. They are still looking for investment partners. They are even offering employment to physicians who may qualify for the kind of work they are doing. Ambrosia Medical, LLC is a California-based company that is betting big on plasma transfusions from young people to older folks as a way to add more years to your life. What once was a project that ...Read full article...
Is a Socialist credit program a reality in America?
Have you heard about China’s dystopian new “social credit” program? If you haven’t, there’s a terrifying infographic from Bored Panda that I’ll be referencing throughout this article. The good news is that this is happening in China, where we all know a Communist government has long been crushing freedom for the residents of the nation. You may think this doesn’t affect you because you’re in America, gosh-dang-it, but we’ve seen over and over ...Read full article...
A “Perfect Storm” Is Surrounding One of the Worst Ebola Outbreaks
An Ebola outbreak that has been going on in the Democratic Republic of Congo since August is already one of the worst in history – the 7th worst to be precise – and it looks like it may spiral out of control. Peter Salama, WHO Deputy Director-General for Emergency Preparedness and Response, called the situation “a perfect storm.” Unrest and war in the region combined with community resistance and mistrust ...Read full article...
Os benefícios do ômega-3, sem retratação
Se eu tivesse um dólar por cada vez que eu leio um artigo de nutrição ou saúde que termina com um aviso como o seguinte: “Nós não somos responsáveis ou necessariamente compartilhamos as opiniões e / ou dados expressos ou divulgados através deste artigo”, eu teria suficiente dinheiro para me aposentar. Jornais, revistas e blogs geralmente publicam informações sobre os benefícios à saúde de alimentos ou produtos farmacêuticos, mas depois ...Read full article...
The benefits of Omega-3, without disclaimers
If I had a dollar for every time I read a nutrition or health article that ended with a disclaimer such as: “We are not responsible or necessarily share the opinions and / or data expressed or disseminated through this article”, I would be all set with my pension money, at the very least. Newspapers, magazines and blogs often publish information on the health benefits of food or pharmaceutical ...Read full article...
The ineffective and irresponsible use of “modern medicine”
Fever is a mechanism of the body used to fight the infection. The inflammatory response of the organism to a serious infection, which appears after the febrile period, is also a way for the body to protect itself from pathogens that, in its judgment, can damage the body. Despite this, patients and doctors repeatedly recommend medicines such as ibuprofen, to calm the fever, thus disrupting the body’s natural mechanism ...Read full article...
O que aconteceu com a licença de paternidade?
Dois terços das crianças do mundo vivem em países onde os pais não têm direito a um único dia de folga pago para passar com os recém-nascidos. Os primeiros 1.000 dias de vida são o estágio mais crítico do desenvolvimento humano, tanto fisicamente como cognitivamente e afetivamente, no entanto, 90 milhões de crianças menores de um ano vivem em lugares onde o pai não tem direito a um único ...Read full article...
Costa Rica, de camino a Argentina, pasando por Grecia
El gran problema no es ni siquiera el déficit fiscal, sino la deuda del gobierno costarricense que asciende al 50% del PIB. El pueblo es adicto al dinero de otros y por ende, el gobierno es adicto a pedir prestado para sostener lo insostenible. Es muy satisfactorio saber que hay gente en Costa Rica que entiende el problema del déficit fiscal. Es tranquilizador saber que algunas de estas personas están ...Read full article...
What happened to paternity leave?
Two thirds of children in the world live in countries where fathers aren’t allowed a single paid day off to spend with their newborns. The first 1,000 days of life are the most critical stage of human development, both physically and cognitively and affectively, however, 90 million children under one year live in places where the father is not entitled to a single day of paid leave to take ...Read full article...
A fome no mundo aumenta pelo terceiro ano consecutivo
Em 2017, 821 milhões de pessoas não consumiam a quantidade mínima de calorias para poder lidar com suas atividades diárias. O número de pessoas em situação de fome aumentou em relação a 2016 em pelo menos 15 milhões. Os dados recolhidos pelo relatório da ONU sobre Alimentação e Nutrição no Mundo confirmam que o aumento não é uma situação isolada, porque é o terceiro seguido com um aumento no ...Read full article...
World hunger increases for the third year in a row
In 2017, 821 million people did not consume the minimum amount of calories for their daily activity. The number of people in a situation of famine increased with respect to 2016 by at least 15 million. The data collected by the UN Food and Nutrition in the World report confirm that the increase is not an isolated situation, because it is the third year in which the number of ...Read full article...
Is Another “Little Ice Age” Approaching?
You may have recently heard the term grand solar minimum and Maunder minimum bandied around by the media lately, but what the heck are they talking about? And should we be worried about another Little Ice Age approaching? Well, there are two types of solar minimum. One of them ordinarily happens about every eleven years. In the simplest terms, a solar minimum phase is a period of time in which ...Read full article...
