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It was 2004, the day after Christmas, and thousands of European and American tourists flocked to the beaches of Thailand, Sri Lanka and Indonesia to escape the winter cold in a tropical paradise. At 7:59 am, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake, one of the largest ever recorded, ripped open an underwater fault in the Indian Ocean, pushing a massive column of water towards unsuspecting shores. The Boxing Day tsunami would have been the deadliest in recorded history, claiming a staggeri

The German car giant may have used highly sophisticated software to cheat in emissions tests, but other car and truck makers have been prosecuted for their ‘defeat devices’ ever since traffic pollution first became an issue VW was involved in another emissions scandal in 1973 (Getty) Almost as soon as governments began testing vehicle emissions, carmakers found ways to cheat. In the 1970s, some vehicles were found to be rigged with “defeat devices” that turned off the emissio

The term “greenwashing” was coined in the 1980s to describe outrageous corporate environmental claims. Three decades later, the practice has grown vastly more sophisticated Demonstrators protest against Nestle water bottling operations in California. According to news reports, Nestle, which operates five bottling plants in California, uses 244m gallons of water annually. Reports also said that its state water permit expired 27 years ago. Photograph: Eugene Garcia/EPA In the m

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There is a movement growing among health advocates to better understand how more nutritious food can help combat chronic illnesses and pharmaceutical drug dependency. Susan Benigas of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine and The Plantrician Project and local nutritionist Ghaida Awwad of Nature’s Clinic, based in O’Fallon, Missouri, are among those advocates. Guest host Ruth Ezell of the Nine Network talked with Benigas and Awwad about what prompted their interest in usi

Below is the transcript of the video: HAVE AT LEAST ONE PREVENTABLE... DIET-RELATED AILMENT, INCLUDING HEART DISEASE, TYPE 2 DIABETES, AND OBESITY. MANY CHRONIC DISEASES CAN BE REVERSED OR EVEN CURED THROUGH DIET AND LIFESTYLE CHANGES. BUT AS NEWS 4 TUCSON INVESTIGATOR MATTHEW SCHWARTZ REPORTS.... MOST MEDICAL SCHOOLS DON'T PROVIDE ENOUGH NUTRITION TRAINING. THIS IS STEVE NATH WHEN HE WEIGHED 370 POUNDS. THIS IS STEVE AFTER LOSING 130 POUNDS IN 18 MONTHS. THE 56-YEAR-OLD BENS

New program will ‘be umbrella for what we already have,’ CEO Dr. Paul Beaupre said. A staggering number of health problems are in some way tied to poor lifestyle choices, and a new program at St. John’s Medical Center hopes to combat them while lowering the amount of medicine patients take and procedures they undergo. Wellness Program Director Julia Heemstra briefed the hospital’s board of trustees Thursday on a lifestyle medicine program being developed in her department. “W

This is done in a clinical setting - through a doctor’s office or through community oriented programmes. For many months we have been looking at various aspects of Lifestyle Medicine – particularly addressing the common chronic diseases so often caused by our chosen lifestyles. In the last 17 articles we looked at the common chronic health problems in South Africa and how to specifically address those. Today and over the next few weeks we are going to look at Lifestyle Medic

Fifty-one billion and zero - the two numbers Bill Gates says you need to know about climate. Solving climate change would be "the most amazing thing humanity has ever done", says the billionaire founder of Microsoft. By comparison, ending the pandemic is "very, very easy", he claims. Mr Gates's new book, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, is a guide to tackling global warming. Don't underestimate the scale of the challenge, he told me when we spoke last week. "We've never made

Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old leader of a global protest against inaction on climate change, marched at a rally in New York City Friday. Around the world, millions of other people joined her. Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/AP Updated at 3 p.m. ET Millions of young people raised their voices at protests around the world Friday in a massive display meant to demand urgent action on climate change. Scores of students missed school to take part, some joined by teachers and parents. Some