Newswise – In the midst of widespread fears about a bird flu pandemic, some health experts are advising that if you cook poultry and eggs thoroughly, you have little chance of contracting avian flu. In the US, we have already been warned to avoid undercooked chicken, since all of our poultry is infected with the salmonella virus, which is destroyed by high heat.
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A vast drought threatens to kill the Amazon rain forest in Brazil, and as it dries up and becomes a tinder box, the likelihood of devastating fires predicted in Whitley Strieber’s 1984 book Nature’s End become greater and greater. Scientists in the UK are warning that dramatic changes may soon occur in Africa’s vegetation in response to global warming, on a similar scale to the last Ice Age and the African forest decline 2,500 years ago. How will these faraway events affect us?
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Newswise – Daily gargling with plain water will ward off colds. You don’t even need to gargle with a disinfectant mouthwash. Just in time for the cold and flu season, Japanese researcher Dr. Kazunari Satomura has discovered that the common cold can be prevented over 30% of the time just by daily gargling with water. Kazunari?s team studied 387 healthy volunteers, age 18 to 65. They were randomly assigned to gargling water or gargling with an antiseptic or doing nothing.
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British author Graham Hancock, author of Talisman, Underworld, Heaven’s Mirror, Fingerprints of the Gods and, most recently, Supernatural will be speaking at the 2nd Annual Conference on Precession and Ancient Knowledge that will take place November 11-12 at the Hilton Hotel in Sedona, Arizona. To get tickets and learn more click here.
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