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...
Plastic and microplastic waste in the ocean is increasing in extreme areas while it is stable on the most populated coasts, despite forecasts of an overall increase. This means that it is necessary to better study the phenomena of...
Microplastics are everywhere, in the oceans, in the soil, on the Arctic glaciers and even in the rain. Now a research team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has discovered that microplastics are also invading agricultural crops.
The study,...
Human reproduction is a complex biological process that occurs from the union of two cells or gametes, the female one, the oocyte or egg cell, and the male one, the spermatozoon (fertilisation). Fertilisation gives birth to the zygote, the...
Dried fruit in its many varieties is very rich in nutrients
and brings many benefits to the body, if it becomes part of a balanced diet
based on the concept of healthy eating. The false myth that wanted the line's
dried fruit...
People living with air pollution have higher rates of depression and suicide, a systematic review of global data has found. Cutting air pollution around the world to the EU’s legal limit could prevent millions of people becoming depressed, the...
Worried about having gone too far with aperitifs and meals out during the summer and especially in the last month?
No fear ... or rather less fear than you might believe! Why? Because most of the weight gain may be...
Is it possible to guarantee a healthy diet for a future population of 10 billion people while meeting the planet's sustainability thresholds?
With a publication in the prestigious journal Nature Food, Marta Tuninetti, Luca Ridolfi and Francesco Laio of the...
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....
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...
