Is Bacon Killing Us Also?

From Smart Planet: “A team under epidemiologist fellow Renata Mischa looked at 20 studies from 10 countries with over 1.2 million participants. What they found was as little as two slices of bacon a day could raise patients’ risk of heart disease by 42%, and raise diabetes risk by...

World's Hungry Population Continues to Rise

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations recently reported that the number of hungry people have risen to 963 million, up from 923 million in 2007. “For millions of people in developing countries, eating the minimum amount of food every day to live an active and healthy life is a distant dream. The structural problems of hunger, like the lack of access to land, credit and...