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Laughter may be best medicine — for brain surgery

February 7, 2019 by Captain Organic Planet

Neuroscientists at Emory University School of Medicine have discovered a focal pathway in the brain that when electrically stimulated causes immediate laughter, followed by a sense of calm and happiness, even during awake brain surgery. The effects of stimulation were observed in an epilepsy patient undergoing diagnostic monitoring for seizure diagnosis. These effects were then […]

Filed Under: Health Tagged With: brain, brain surgery, laughter, surgery

Chernobyl Heart and the children of Chernobyl

February 6, 2019 by Captain Organic Planet

On April 26, 1986, the worst nuclear accident in history occurred when a reactor exploded at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, releasing 90 times the radioactivity of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Sixteen years later, award-winning filmmaker Maryann De Leo took her camera to ground zero, following the devastating trail […]

Filed Under: Cancer Tagged With: cancer, Chernobyl, documentary, nuclear, radiation

100% Orange Juice May Play an Important Role in Supporting Intake of Certain Underconsumed Nutrients

February 5, 2019 by Captain Organic Planet

Orange juice may do more for children’s diet and overall health than you think, according to results of a recently published study in Nutrition Research. Data from this study suggest children (ages 2-18 years) who drink 100 percent orange juice tend to have improved nutrient adequacy and diet quality, as well as certain diet and […]

Filed Under: Health Tagged With: juice, orange juice, oranges

Fillet Oh Fish! Is farmed salmon one of the most toxic foods in the world?

February 5, 2019 by Captain Organic Planet

You may be shocked to discover that farmed salmon has more in common with junk food than health food. This is the grim reality revealed in Nicolas Daniel’s documentary “Fillet-Oh-Fish,” which includes exclusive footage from fish farms and factories across the globe. Among the experts featured is Kurt Oddekalv, a respected Norwegian environmental activist who […]

Filed Under: Health Tagged With: documentary, fish, junk food, salmon

Japanese persimmons exported to the United States for the first time

February 4, 2019 by Captain Organic Planet

After lifting the ban on the export of persimmons from Japan to the United States from October of last year, Fukuoka prefecture is now working on the production of persimmons for the US. The exportation of the Fukuoka-produced Taishu variety of persimmons to the US began in October. People were able to taste the sweet, […]

Filed Under: Fukushima Tagged With: fruit, fukushima, japan, produce

Microplastics discovered in human stools across the globe in ‘first study of its kind’

February 2, 2019 by Captain Organic Planet

Microplastics have been found in the human food chain as particles made of polypropylene (PP), polyethylene-terephthalate (PET) and others were detected in human stools, research presented today at the 26th UEG Week in Vienna reveals. Researchers from the Medical University of Vienna and the Environment Agency Austria monitored a group of participants from countries across the […]

Filed Under: Environment Tagged With: disease, microplastics, plastic, pollution, stool, water

Opposite effect: Protein widely known to fight tumors also boosts cancer growth

February 2, 2019 by Captain Organic Planet

Search for a description of “p53” and it becomes clear that this human protein is widely known for its cancer-fighting benefits, leading to its renown as “the guardian of the genome.” Scientists at the University of California San Diego have published a new study challenging that description. Studying the “wild type” version of p53 (WTp53), […]

Filed Under: Cancer Tagged With: cancer, protein, tumors

Fasting ramps up human metabolism

February 2, 2019 by Captain Organic Planet

Fasting may help people lose weight, but new research suggests going without food may also boost human metabolic activity, generate antioxidants, and help reverse some effects of aging. Scientists at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) and Kyoto University identified 30 previously-unreported substances whose quantity increases during fasting and indicate a […]

Filed Under: Health Tagged With: antioxidants, fasting, metabolism

Tokyo Contaminated & Not Fit for Habitation

January 30, 2019 by Captain Organic Planet

I am standing here to tell you that the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe is not over. I evacuated to Kansai three years after the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident. Where do you think I evacuated from? I evacuated from Tokyo. Do you know that Tokyo has serious radioactive contamination? Tens of millions of people in East […]

Filed Under: Fukushima Tagged With: cancer, environment, fukushima, japan, nuclear, radiation, Tokyo

France takes Roundup weed-killer off market after court ruling

January 24, 2019 by Captain Organic Planet

French authorities on Tuesday banned the sale of a form of controversial weed-killer Roundup following a court ruling that regulators failed to take safety concerns into account when clearing the widely used herbicide. Roundup, owned by Germany’s Bayer after its purchase of US agro-giant Monsanto last year, contains glyphosate which environmentalists and other critics have long believed […]

Filed Under: Monsanto Tagged With: Bayer, cancer, carcinogenic, herbicide, monsanto, Roundup, weed killer

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