Just read an old post over at The Ethicurean about a talk given by Italian socialist food ethicist Carlo Petrini. I’m not going to weigh in on the larger issues covered by Mental Masala and Dairy Queen. I did want to comment on this idea:
Petrini used the metaphor of “metabolism” to explain the earth’s ecosystem: [...]
Archive for the ‘environment’ Category
metabolic metaphor?
Posted in diet, environment, evolution, soil on June 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Pesticides and Parkinson’s
Posted in Parkinson's, agriculture, environment on June 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I found this through The Michael J. Fox Foundation website.
Adjusted logistic regression analyses showed significantly increased odds ratios for Parkinson’s disease/parkinsonism with an exposure-response relationship for pesticides (low v no exposure, OR 1.13, 95% CI 0.82-1.57, high v no exposure, OR 1.41, 95% CI 1.06-1.88) and ever knocked unconscious (once v never, OR 1.35, 95% [...]
Radio Lab: Zoos
Posted in environment, neurogenesis on June 5, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The Frontal Cortex links to the latest episode of Radio Lab. The subject is Zoos and happens to have a segment regarding Elizabeth Gould, Fernando Nottebohm, and their research into the effects of environment on neurogenesis.
Antidepressants and Neurogenesis
Posted in Fluoxetine, Serotonin, depression, environment, neurogenesis on May 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A good article on the history of neurogenesis and on environmental factors in brain development. I don’t like the casual use of the word self, which has come to fashionable use in the service of popularizing neuroscience. Journalists, especially, like to throw the term around. I’m not now going to go into all the problems [...]
Pesticides and Parkinson’s
Posted in Dopamine, environment on May 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Past exposure to low levels of pesticides that linger in the environment might accelerate the development of Parkinson’s, which would put baby boomers and millions of other aging Americans at risk of developing the brain disease earlier in life.
At the American Chemical Society meeting in San Francisco last week, researchers presented new findings that link [...]
contacting the solid ground of sanity
Posted in Serotonin, agriculture, depression, environment, schizophrenia, soil on May 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Obviously, the last topic is being put on hold. I’m not going to go into the reasons for the hiatus, but I do want to dust this blog off. I’m heading back to school, and I’m expecting that, in time, this will become my primary blog.
The ultimate focus of this blog will be on how [...]
B12: Available or Not?
Posted in B12, DMT, Melatonin, diet, environment, vitamins on August 21, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Some time ago, I came across a website (I’ll post it later) which examined the widely held belief (among those who pay some attention to these things) that the vegan diet is prone to deficiencies in B12. The author claimed the vitamin was critically lacking in most foods found in the American food chain, including [...]
