Here, I interview Paula Baker-Laporte, principal architect at EcoNest Architecture1 in Ashland, Oregon, and co-author of “Prescription for a Healthy House: A Practical Guide for Architects, Builders and Homeowners.” She offers design and consulting services through EcoNestArchitecture.com.2 While overlooked by many, the materials used in the building of your home can have a significant impact… Read More »
Dr. Dean Ornish, clinical professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), is perhaps best known for his pioneering work in how to use food and simple lifestyle strategies to improve health. This is also the topic of his book, “Undo It! How Simple Lifestyle Changes Can Reverse Most Chronic Diseases.” Ornish… Read More »
Hanau – VAC and GM announced plans for VAC to build a plant in the U.S. that will manufacture permanent magnets for the electric motors used in GM’s electric vehicles using Ultium-Platform. The new plant would plan to use locally sourced raw materials. “We are building a resilient and sustainable EV manufacturing value chain in… Read More »
The ultimate health and wellbeing of an adult depends on the factors that shape us when we are children. A new, deep report from the OECD, Measuring What Matters for Child Well-being and Policies, spells out the many domains of experience that, together, bolster our whole health as we grow from child to adult. The first… Read More »
You may have heard it before. Or seen it. Talk to enough people at the gym about leg training, and somebody will eventually mention the “teardrop.” To bodybuilders and gym junkies, this is the stuff of leg-day legend, the muscle they all want to develop with their lower-body training. And to get it, they have… Read More »
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s health minister said on Wednesday that the country’s attempts to purchase thousands of ventilators from China to fight a growing coronavirus epidemic had fallen through and the government is now hoping Brazilian companies can supply the devices. Brazil’s Minister of Health Luiz Henrique Mandetta attends a news conference, amid the coronavirus… Read More »