> Nestle, Kellogg’s, and other big food conglomerates have been funding a massive misinformation campaign to make you think their foods are healthy.Their goal ...
Happy birthday to #biochemist Marie Maynard Daly (1921-2003), 1st Black woman to earn a PhD in #chemistry in the US! She made important research contributions to our understanding of the biochemisty of the cell nucleus & cardiovascular issues & the chemistry of histones & protein synthesis. She established that "no bases other than adenine, guanine, thymine, and cytosine were present in appreciable amounts" in DNA - #womenInSTEM#BlackInSTEM#histstm#printmaking#linocut#histmed#HeartDisease
"The sheer number of people waiting over 18 weeks for vital heart care shocks and saddens me – it would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. Without urgent intervention, such long waits on this extreme scale will continue to put people at unacceptable risk of death or disability for years to come.”
Dr Sonya Babu-Narayan, consultant cardiologist and associate medical director at the British Heart Foundation #HeartDisease#NHS#NHSWaitingLists#UKPolitics
A study of more than 200 people undergoing surgery found that nearly 60% had microplastics or even smaller nanoplastics in a main artery. Those who did were 4.5 times more likely to experience a heart attack, a stroke or death in the approximately 34 months after the surgery than were those whose arteries were plastic-free.
"People with microplastics and nanoplastics in plaque lining a major blood vessel in their neck may have a higher risk of heart attack, stroke or death, new research suggests.
The findings, published Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine, are the first time scientists have linked these tiny plastic particles, the result of degraded plastic pollution, to cardiovascular disease."
"Niacin, also known as vitamin B3, is a water-soluble B vitamin found in meat, fish, nuts, legumes, brown rice and fortified cereals...Being water soluble, excess levels of niacin are usually excreted in our urine. But new research from the Lerner Research Institute in Cleveland, Ohio, has suggested that two of the breakdown products of this vitamin may be associated with an increased risk of heart disease and strokes."
If we ate mostly plant based diets, nature would get around 75% of the planet's fertile land back. Our oceans would recover too. Simplest solution for carbon capture, natural world, climate resilience, food chain preservation & biodiversity. A massive step to a sustainable and safer future for humans.
Studies show that shifting to a plant-based food system would release fertile land the size of combining the entire United States, China, the European Union, and Australia.
Late 90s, early 00s, we had incontravertible proof. We can actually reverse #heartDisease, #CVD. Not attempt bypass, or slow progression with drugs, but actually restore artery function, reverse the disease.
25years on, very few of us are exposed to this information to make fully informed choices.
This #BlackHistoryMonth let’s celebrate trailblazing American #biochemist Marie Maynard Daly (1921-2003), 1st Black woman to earn a PhD in #chemistry in the US! She made important research contributions to the biochemisty of the cell nucleus & cardiovascular issues & our knowledge of the chemistry of histones & protein synthesis. 🧵1/
📰 The January issue of the IHI newsletter is out at https://europa.eu/!mmv9jK
🚀 Launched IHI calls 6 & 7
🎤 Ran the #IHICallDays
👋 Welcomed our new Director, Niklas Blomberg
🏥 UNITE4TB started a clinical trial for TB drug regimens
👧 Children with a rare disease are set to benefit from the results of IMI project EU-PEARL
📊 DRIVE evaluated the performance of different #FluVaccines
⬇ PriMAVeRa is exploring how to reduce hospital infections
💙 Meet new IHI #HeartDisease project iCARE4CVD
💙 Interested in our call 7 topic on #clinical management of #HeartDisease?
👭 Looking for partners for your consortium?
💻 Sign up for our online pitching session at 14:30 today (23/1) and hear directly from potential partners!
Register here 👉 http://bit.ly/3gRG4AI
Find out more about the call and how to apply 👉 https://europa.eu/!64yx8Y #HorizonEU
"Much of the reluctance to do what #ClimateChange requires comes from the assumption that it means trading abundance for #austerity, and trading all our stuff and conveniences for less stuff, less convenience. But what if it meant giving up things we’re well rid of, from deadly #emissions to nagging feelings of doom and complicity in destruction?
What if the austerity is how we live now — and the #abundance could be what is to come?"
"Reducing #AirPollution to #WHO guideline levels would prevent a significant number of attributable deaths in the #EU-27; 253,000 from exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5); and 52,000 from exposure to #nitrogen dioxide (NO2).
For specific diseases, the greatest harm to human health (burden of disease) is from ischemic #HeartDisease for PM2.5 and #diabetes mellitus for NO2."