It’s summer, the time when many of us fire up our grills. But grilling isn’t always a safe way to cook. Ruining a piece of meat isn’t the only thing you need to worry about if you’re cooking at high temperatures: high heat can also produce chemicals with cancer-causing properties. But there are ways to AVOID that problem.
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While unprecedented flooding cripples Britain and Texas andhundreds die in Asian ‘rain bombs,’ the western UnitedStates is experiencing drought so extreme that thousands ofsquare miles of desert and forest are burning, and thepersistence of the weather patterns suggest that they areindicators of fundamental climate change.
Flooding in Britain has left three quarters of a millionpeople in Britain without drinkable water and 50,000 morewithout power. Not even the great flood of 1947, which wasthe benchmark for the past hundred years, was greater thanwhat is happening there now.
Rivers are overflowing, whole towns are cut off, vast areasare under water, and the country’s entire infrastructure isthreatened if the waters do not soon receed.
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After The Day After Tomorrow was released, climatologists fell all over their own feet trying to claim that sudden climate change isn’t all that sudden, really. Shortly thereafter, the Byrd Polar Research Institute published studies of Peruvian glaciers showing that permanent climate change had taken place there in literally a matter of minutes. And now studies of bog sediments in England present a disturbing picture of what happens there when the Gulf Stream stops.
Unknowncountry.com has been publishing stories for some time about the slowing of the Gulf Stream, and the UK and northern Europe’s mild, rainy summer is a indication that the process is well under way right now.
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You’re walking or jogging regularly–and maybe you’re even biking, swimming and playing tennis too. If so, you may be reading Anne Strieber’s diet book. You’re ALSO growing new brain cells!
In LiveScience.com, Jeanna Bryner reports that exercise stimulates the growth of new brain cells–in rats anyway. Scientists assume it does the same for us humans. Research is increasingly showing that aging doesn’t automatically result in a steady erosion of brain cells. Rather, older adults who work their brains can develop new connections between brain cells.
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