TEDxStHilda'sSchool - Professor Lindsay Brown - Food as Medicine
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Lindsay Brown is Professor of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Southern Queensland. His recent research has been in the area of chronic human diseases such as obesity, diabetes, hypertension and arthritis where his research group seeks to determine whether anti-inflammatory compounds, either natural compounds or synthetic chemicals, can ... Read more
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- -: TEDxStHilda'sSchool - Professor Lindsay Brown - Food as Medicine
August 16, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Lindsay Brown is Professor of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Southern Queensland. His recent research has been in the area of chronic human diseases such as obesity, diabetes, hypertension and arthritis where his research group seeks to determine whether anti-inflammatory compounds, eit...
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- -: Shimon Steinberg: Natural pest control ... using bugs!
October 28, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com At TEDxTelAviv, Shimon Steinberg looks at the difference between pests and bugs -- and makes the case for using good bugs to fight bad bugs, avoiding chemicals in our quest for perfect produce. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED C...
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- -: Susan Kegley - Pesticide Contamination in Food
April 18, 2008 (about 16 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/03/18/Are_Pesticides_Poisoning_Our_Children_s_Future Dr. Susan Kegley, founder of the Pesticide Research Institute, discusses how susceptible various foods are to contamination by pesticide toxins. ----- Are Pesticides Poisoning Our Children's Future? Dis...
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- -: Tyrone Hayes - Pesticide Effects Can Span Generations
April 18, 2008 (about 16 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/03/18/Are_Pesticides_Poisoning_Our_Children_s_Future UC-Berkeley Professor of Biology Tyrone Hayes describes how health effects from pesticide toxins can persist among subsequent generations. ------ Are Pesticides Poisoning Our Children's Future? Discussa...
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- -: The Toxification of Planet Earth - Paul Ehrlich
August 15, 2008 (over 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/06/27/Paul_Ehrlich_The_Dominant_Animal Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich argues that widespread pollution of the environment by toxic, manmade chemicals may have major effects for the future of humanity. ---- Paul Ehrlich gives a seminar at the Long Now Fou...
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- -: Our Cousin the Killer Whale: You Are What You Eat
April 23, 2009 (about 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/04/16/Call_of_the_Killer_Whale_Jean-Michel_Cousteau Jean-Michel Cousteau shows an excerpt from his PBS special Call of the Killer Whale that compares the toxins found in orcas to those found in man. PCBs and PBDEs are among the tested toxins. ----- "I've ...
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- -: FDA Inactive on Toxic Mercury Levels? - Jane Hightower
June 23, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/06/09/Diagnosis_Mercury_Money_Politics_and_Poison Dr. Jane Hightower, author of Diagnosis Mercury: Money, Politics and Poison, reads the FDA response to reporter Sue Kwon, who documented a significant increase of mercury in her blood after twenty days of ea...
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- -: Living Technology: Could DNA-less Protocells Save Venice?
January 19, 2010 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/09/25/The_Philosophy_of_Organic_Design Dr. Rachel Armstrong discusses her work creating protocells, programmable technology that "live" but are not "alive." Armstrong explains that these cells do not have DNA and are based on the chemistry of oils. She spec...
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- -: Are You Hardwired for Gambling? - Jonah Lehrer
January 20, 2010 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/01/05/Jonah_Lehrer_How_We_Decide Author Jonah Lehrer offers his insight into the brain's chemical processes that form the roots of gambling addiction. Lehrer explains that when a gambler wins, he receives a "surprising squirt of dopamine" that stimulates th...
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- -: Sustainable Comfort Foods? Pollan Says Yes
February 16, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/02/09/Referendum_on_the_Jewish_Deli_Menu Food Rules author Michael Pollan argues that sustainability in the traditional Jewish deli is achievable. He says that industrial agriculture has changed what once was considered deli food, and favors a return to old...
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