Enjoy your meal!
Illustration by Lars Wannop
I remember when I was at school.
At 11 in the morning, as the bell rang, hundreds of pupils ran out of the classrooms to queue at the bakery.
Just one word to resume our thoughts: HUNGRY.
Sandwiches, pizzas, cakes, chocolate… those fifteen minutes were the most exciting moments of our young existence at school.
I cannot imagine what our reactions would have been at the bakery owner’s answer: “D’you prefer an apple or a banana”?
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Filed Under Food, Modern Life, Research, World Health
Public concern over the effects of climate change
The more polluting a nation is, the wealthier and the less worried its citizens are: this is the contrasting result of a recent study at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
Filed Under Environment, Research, World Health
Was it good for you?
Illustration by Lars Wannop
It has always been men’s dilemma, and I wonder if there’s ever been a girl not having faked one at least once.
Come on girls, we all know: we can imitate orgasm to please men - or just because we are tired or late! - and this fact drive our partners completely crazy.
Why?
Is it just because they want to know how macho they are? I don’t think so… there’s something deeper in this issue: first of all we are “western girls”; we are lucky because we are supposed to be not just blowup love dolls, but human beings having the right “to feel”.
Not all women in the world are so lucky.
Filed Under Diversity, Human Rights, World Health
Love your booty
A recent American study offers hope to all of us who struggle to get into our jeans every morning.
Apparently, having a big butt can actually reduce your risk of getting diabetes. It has something to do with subcutaneous fat helping improve sensitivity to insulin, in case you want to get into the details. I’m too relieved to care.
Filed Under World Health
The greenest countries are the poorest
The National Geographic Society and the polling firm GlobeScan wrote down a list of the most environmentally friendly nations. Read more
Filed Under Environment, Research, World Health
Everybody get it up!
“An active sexuality improves the quality of life,” says Gonzalo Navarrete. He is the mayor of the Chilean suburb Lo Prado.
And these wise words are the basis for a new health law which includes an avid dosage of Viagra. Read more
Filed Under Human Rights, Modern Life, World Health
By-products of a chemical disaster born in children
More than two decades ago in the town of Bhopal, India, toxic gas seeped through the atmosphere, into people’s lungs and through their pores, filtering through every atom of their bodies.
The inescapable gas was the result of the world’s worst industrial disaster at a American pesticide plant, Union Carbide, in Bhopal on December 3, 1984.
Filed Under History & traditions, Human Rights, World Health