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Profit-driven plastic industry’s toxic pollution, turning a systemic problem to a personal one

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A compelling exposé of the industry flooding our world with plastic, the fundamental material for modern consumerism, spanning our daily lives. Although the oil and petrochemical companies making it are hiding in plain sight. Because for all the vivid coverage of where plastic ends up, there is remarkably little discussion of where it comes from. Today, industry is pouring billions of dollars into plans to double, or even triple, the amount it churns out, even as individuals concerned about plastic’s out-of-control proliferation try to use less. As Big Oil shares down a future of diminishing demand for fossil fuels, plastic … Continue reading Profit-driven plastic industry’s toxic pollution, turning a systemic problem to a personal one

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Reconnect and revive our sensorial pathways into awareness

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Sir Wayne McGregor, a choreographer renowned for his trailblazing innovations in performance. His ongoing enquiries into movement and the body have radically defined dance in the modern era. Over the past three decades, he has discovered that our intelligence lies not only in our brains, but in our bodies too. McGregor dislocated his knee in his early twenties, as he was immobilised and forced to relearn how to balance and co-ordinate. He discovered swiftly how his body could adapt and reconfigure itself when attention was redirected. Injury, becomes an accidental laboratory for understanding what McGregort calls “ physical intelligence”: the … Continue reading Reconnect and revive our sensorial pathways into awareness

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 Pharmaceutical revolution

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Off the Scales is the inside story of the creation of Ozempic and its revolutionary impact on public health. The Pharmaceutical industry have long been searching for a cure for obesity, one that seemed unattainable until recent breakthrough in type 2 diabetes research which led to the development of Ozempic, a weight loss medication that activates a hormone in the4 stomach called GLP-1, making people feel fuller for longer.These wonder drugs bearing names such as Wegovy, Zepbound and Mounjaro, all tackles obesity and also cut the risk of downstream diseases such as heart disease and stroke. One in eight Americans … Continue reading  Pharmaceutical revolution

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The drug that made people feel fuller for longer

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With the advent of the New Year, everybody is desperately searching for a new person, with sudden stabs of self-improvement of the sort that are popular at this time of the year after overindulging ourselves during the festive season perhaps a stint in the cross-trainer which might help. The fact remains no one goes out to dinner for health, and restaurant reviews are not the place for fitness tips.  Events leading to the creation of Ozempic and its revolutionary impact on public health. Pharmaceutical industry has long been seeking a cure for obesity even though one that seemed unattainable until … Continue reading The drug that made people feel fuller for longer

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MRI scan to predict 10 years before they have a heart attack

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Researchers at the University of Dundee made a breakthrough by analysing data from 5, 015 volunteers who had a history of cardiovascular disease, in the Tayside area collected between 2008 and 2013, a simple MRI scan, scientists are able to identify people at risk of heart disease 10 years before they have a heart attack or stroke. When the ream looked at the data a decade on, It became apparent that an increased mass of heart’s left ventricle was a “clear indicator” of a risk of future cardiovascular disease. This was the case even when the organs are functioning correctly at … Continue reading MRI scan to predict 10 years before they have a heart attack

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Mindful nature of human identity

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Masud Husian, a neuroscience professor at Oxford university, whose emotionally powerful book delves deeply into the nature of individual human identity and how this relates to our belonging to a supportive social group. Husain examines, the way injury and disease transformed the lives of seven patients  with very different experiences. The thread uniting them is that all were “confronted by the very real possibility of social exclusion, because their behaviour had changed so significantly. As a consequence of the cognitive effects of their brain disorder, they were no longer considered acceptable within their social networks” he writes. The resulting isolation exacerbated … Continue reading Mindful nature of human identity

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Smells evoke strong memories

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The smells evoke such strong memories? How much body odours control who you fall in love with. How sensitive is the human sense of smell? Ability to arouse hunger, thirst, attraction and disgust The modern man collectively underestimate the power and importance of our sense of smell -and its role in enriching our lives in ways we rarely think  about. Stockholm University, psychology professor, John Olofsson, has been engaged in olfactory research for 20 years, and his work has inspired a mission to lead a “smell revolution” and elevate the status of his favourite sense in an age overwhelmingly dominated by … Continue reading Smells evoke strong memories

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How to Manage your Thyroid?

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The function of the thyroid is to regulate all the processes of energy release within individual cells and in the body as a whole, as metabolism is the rate at which we produce and use energy. The release of energy from life process in its simplest term is the combination of oxygen from the air we breathe, with hydrocarbons from our food. These are molecules made up of chains of carbon and hydrogen atoms. Sugar and the carbohydrates we eat are turned into the sugar glucose, as well fats and proteins can also be turned into glucose when required. Individual … Continue reading How to Manage your Thyroid?

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Stay Productive, motivated, and Happy

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How many times you have set New Year resolutions only to break them within days. People think that when you want to change your life, you need to think big. Renowned habits expert James Clear has discovered another way. He knows that real change comes from the compound effect of hundreds of small decisions, doing two push-ups a day, waking up five minutes early, or holding a single short phone-call. He urges to transform your life with tiny changes in behaviour, starting now, by calling them atomic habits. Clears reveals how these minuscule changes can grow into such life-altering outcomes. … Continue reading Stay Productive, motivated, and Happy

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Opioid overdoses quadrupled in the US

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Greed to Do Good, is the untold story of Centre for Disease Control and Prevention’s disastrous war on opioids, as CDC announced that overdose deaths had quadrupled in ten years, hitting a record high of 90, 000 in 2020, but overdose deaths rocketed to 100,000 in 2021 and 110, 000 in 2022.  Between 2006-2012, Purdue Pharma, which promoted OxyContin along with other Big Pharma companies, sold 76 billion opioid doses. Overdoses shot up almost in parallel manner. In 2022, the death toll from overdoses exceeded auto and firearms deaths combined. To stem the tide, the CDC decided to focus on … Continue reading Opioid overdoses quadrupled in the US