They were once considered the "bread of the poor" for their extraordinary energetic and nutritional properties. Chestnuts, a typical autumn fruit, have a high nutritional power and bring numerous benefits to the body: chestnut flour is obtained from their...
There is something uniquely special about the relationship we humans have with our pets - it’s one filled with unconditional love, licks, snuggles, and cuddles. It’s hard to put into words the emotion these animals give us - other...
We cannot avoid it, we have to eat every day. However, our eating style, which involves increasing meat consumption, has negative effects on climate change. The fight against global warming begins at the table with what we choose to...
Gloves yes, gloves no. On more than one occasion, we raised the debate, the WHO response came yesterday. The World Health Organization has clearly explained that "it does not recommend the use of gloves by people in the community....
A walk on the beach often turns into a walk through the garbage. On the shore you find abandoned plastic objects, envelopes, bottles, disposable glasses. All of us should adopt correct behaviors such as throwing away the waste in...
There are no specific therapies and no vaccines against the
new coronavirus that arrives from China. To prevent its spread, the WHO
recommends washing your hands well: a simple and inexpensive gesture that, to
be effective, must last from 40 to 60...
Among the characteristics of graphene, its possible anti-viral power has attracted particular interest in the last period: a research conducted by a team of the Department of Neuroscience of the Catholic University of Rome led by Prof. Massimiliano Papi,...
Contact with nature is good for children as well as adults. Being outdoors, in fact, compensates for many of the ailments associated with confinement in urban spaces, and especially indoors, in children and young people, and affects brain and...
While others may be dieting and hitting the gym hard to stay in shape, some people stay slim effortlessly no matter what they eat. In a study publishing in the journal Cell, researchers use a genetic database of more...
Industrial production of animal products is a source of diseases and the next pandemic might spark from poultry, say the world’s leading authorities in emerging zoonotic diseases.
Already in 2004, the World Health Organization (WHO), the Food and Agriculture Organization...
