Microbes are your friend

Hannah Whitaker for The New York Times

Last week NYTimes article by Michael Pollan brought a fascinating research result from the frontier of Health Science. The gist of the article basically said that our rampant use of antibiotics, our diet of processed foods, environmental toxin and generally less "microbial pressure" (i.e. sterile environment) in everyday life affects the biodiversity of microbes in our gut. Because of this, we're more susceptible to condition like allergies, asthma and diabetes. Who is up for fecal transplant when sick?

What mother eat affect the breast-milk

Another sad case where a vegan-couple who didn't take Vit B12 and Vit A on their diet and have their baby fully breast-fed. The baby died malnourished. This is a strong case that while plant-based diet shown to be healthy, strict veganism is not!

What the world eats?

Time's article featured photos by Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluision from their book "Hungry Planet". Their portraits feature pictures of each family with a week's worth of food purchases. We soon learn that diet is determined by largely uncontrollable forces like poverty, conflict and globalization, which can bring change with startling speed. Thus cultures can move, sometimes in a single jump, from traditional diets to the vexed plenty of global-food production. People have more to eat and, too often, eat more of nutritionally questionable food. And their health suffers.

Mexico

Britain

North Carolina, USA

Australia

Germany

California, USA

Italy

Canada

France

Japan

Texas, USA

China

Luxembourg

Poland

Kuwait

Mongolia

Turkey

Mali

India

Bhutan

Chad

Ecuador

Guatemala