Archives » October, 2006

Effluent to be turned into drinking water? No thanks - tap water is already a health hazard as it is!

Friday, October 20th, 2006

Water is becoming an increasingly precious commodity. This week the Institute of Civil Engineers in the UK suggested that one way to help combat this is to recycle effluent to make drinking water. Doesn’t sound like a great idea, health-wise, does it? Actually, most of tap water is already comes from a [...]

More evidence that eating fish does more good than harm

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

Today’s edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association publishes yet another study in the tide of research focusing on the health effects of consuming fish [1]. Researchers from the American School of Public Health discovered that eating fish once or twice a week is associated with a 36 per cent reduced risk [...]