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That chocolate bar will cost you 42 minutes of running | by treehugger.com

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A new kind of food label hopes to fight obesity by stating how much exercise is required to burn it off.

Nutrition labels on packaged foods can be a tricky thing to navigate. There are so many nutrients and numbers that, unless you’re an expert in dietary science, it can feel daunting to decipher them. There have been numerous attempts to simplify nutrition labels – some more successful than others – but a new suggestion has potential to make a difference.

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Community outrage as rural Brazilian schools go vegan | by independent.co.uk

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It is a surprising paradox of life here: Brazil, the world’s number one exporter of beef – a country where cows outnumber people, and a party isn’t a party without a barbecue – also has one of the highest rates of vegetarianism,

Squeezed into plastic chairs, hand fans going full tilt, hundreds of parents listen in the summer heat. The planet is in big trouble, they are told, and the time has come for their community in rural Brazil….

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How [Plant] Phytoestrogens Can have [Beneficial] Anti-Estrogenic Effects | NutritionFacts.org

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When the Women’s Health Initiative study found that menopausal women taking hormone replacement therapy suffered “higher rates of breast cancer, cardiovascular disease, and overall harm,” a call was made for safer alternatives.

Ideally, to get the best of both worlds, we’d need what’s called a selective estrogen receptor modulator—something with pro-estrogenic effects in some tissues like bone but at the same time anti-estrogenic effects in other tissues like the breast.

Drug companies are trying to make these, but phytoestrogens, which are natural compounds in plants, appear to function as natural selective estrogen receptor modulators.

An example is genistein, which is found in soybeans, which happen to be structurally similar to estrogen. How could something that looks like estrogen act as an anti-estrogen?

Source: How Phytoestrogens Can have Anti-Estrogenic Effects | NutritionFacts.org

Sasha Duerr is a Natural Dyer, Artist & Alchemist | by The Planthunter

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A chat with natural dyer extraordinaire, Sasha Duerr.

For this California-based artist, designer and educator, the world of plants and the myriad colours that can be extracted from them, provide an endless source of inspiration and wonder, experimentation and play. The author of several books on the subject of natural dyeing and a passionate voice for slow-fashion and regenerative design, Sasha is widely regarded as one of the leading voices working within the world of plant-based palettes. We recently caught up with her during her sabbatical in Morocco to find out all about her life of colour.

Source: Sasha Duerr is a Natural Dyer, Artist & Alchemist – The Planthunter