New study reveals marijuana smokers most at risk of developing lung disease or ‘short of breath’
A new study found that airway inflammation and emphysema are more common in cannabis smokers than cigarette smokers. Smoking is the most common cause of emphysema, a chronic lung condition resulting from air sacs becoming stretched and damaged. While many people smoke cigarettes, cannabis use has increased considerably, especially since...
Doctors now doubt accuracy of BMI as prime indicator of obesity and healthy living
In 1972, American physiologist Ancel Keys examined several height-weight indices and found that Quetelet’s was the best predictor of the thickness of body fat. He renamed it the body-mass index and proposed that it was a better indicator of healthy body size than were the height-weight tables commonly used at the time.
Everybody’s hiding their skeletons: A gloves-off debate on aid diversion, double standards
Shrinking government budgets and fear of a public backlash in big donor countries has heightened scrutiny on fraud and mismanagement among aid groups and donors. Recent cases of aid diversion – including in emergency responses in Somalia and Ethiopia – continue to hit the headlines. Aid groups expect donor budgets to be significantly tightened due to domestic politics and economic trends in the coming months, raising the stakes at a time when programmes are being slashed.
Revealed: Russia’s Storm-Z fighters is made up of drunkards derided as ‘meats’ deployed in Ukraine
Russian state-controlled media has reported that Storm-Z squads exist, that they took part in intense battles and some of their members received medals for bravery, but it has not disclosed how they are formed, or the losses they take.
Collective punishment: General sanctions are worsening humanitarian crisis in post-coup Niger
The World Food Programme (WFP) has estimated that 7.3 million people may be driven from moderate to severe food insecurity as a result of the latest post-coup restrictions, which hit as the country was in its traditional “lean season” between harvests.
Big Tech fraud: Social media leaves us feeling like bottomless bucket, unaware we’re turning youths into dopamine junkies
The formal science of evaluating the risks and benefits of social media appears to give the impression of balance. Some identify negative consequences of social media such as cyber-bullying, cyber-racism and issues relating to the exchange of sexually explicit content between minors.
Big Tech’s sinister agenda: Social media is about re-wiring flows of attention and information in society
The notion that dependency or addiction is created on purpose to surveil and control us, is of course just a theory. But disconcertingly, there are a lot of facts along the way that suggest that our dependency on our handsets and computers might be part of a very deliberate plan that leads humanity – at least those that conform – into a transhuman and posthuman future.
President Museveni is adept at choosing opponents, Bobi Wine seems set to tough it out with his son Muhoozi
The president was certainly not sleeping, although acting normally: loving his son the same, only disarming him while coming close to him, and even making him the best man in his recent 50-year marriage. anniversary.
Biden’s top National Security Council advisor accused of serious misconduct at NSA and White House
In the first of a series of letters to the inspector general in advance of the 2015 report, Neuberger denied the allegations against her. “I strongly disagree with the tentative conclusions of the OIG inquiry (that I sometimes failed to exercise courtesy and respect in dealing with fellow workers),” she wrote. “I firmly believe that I treated everyone with the respect and courtesy they deserved.”
Ecuadorian cocaine barons exploit poorly policed banana export routes to traffic dugs to Europe
Drug traffickers’ infiltration of the industry that is responsible for about 30% of the world’s bananas has contributed to unprecedented violence across this once-peaceful nation. Shootings, homicides, kidnappings and extortions have become part of daily life, particularly in the Pacific port city and banana-shipping hub of Guayaquil.
