Your Guide to an Anti-Cancer Diet
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by Thomas Gomersall
4M ago
Cancer. We’ve all heard of it. We all worry about it to some extent. Many of us have even been unlucky enough to have had it ourselves, or to have known (or worse still, lost) people who have had it. Knowing the suffering caused by this life-threatening disease and its almost equally punishing treatments, many wonder about what steps they can take to avoid getting it in the first place. While it isn’t possible to fully eliminate one’s risk of cancer, the good news is that there is plenty that one can do to reduce it. In fact, according to the American Institute for Cancer Research and th ..read more
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A Healthy Fix for Unhealthy Cravings
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by Thomas Gomersall
6M ago
Eating healthily isn’t always easy, particularly given how tempting it is to do the opposite. No matter how hard you try to be disciplined, there always seems to be that part of you that just has to have that one bag of potato chips, or those two scoops of ice cream, or that one helping of onion rings. As anyone who’s been on a diet will tell you, resisting the urge to eat these foods is very difficult and chances are, sooner or later you will eventually succumb to it. Junk food is addictive by design. Michele Wisla Previous Next This is no accident, nor necessarily a reflection of wea ..read more
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5 ways that AI is helping to save the Planet
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by Thomas Gomersall
8M ago
Love it or hate it, there is no denying that artificial intelligence (AI) –systems or machines that perform tasks traditionally done using human intelligence, and can learn and improve themselves over time based on collected information– is playing an ever-bigger role in our lives and societies. Able to solve problems and perform functions much faster and more efficiently than traditional means, AI is now used in all sorts of sectors for all sorts of tasks, from helping to diagnose cancer early, to preventing credit card fraud, to deciding what goes in your Netflix queue. Now, environmenta ..read more
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Teen’s Key: Unlocking the Future for Hong Kong’s Vulnerable Young Women
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by Thomas Gomersall
8M ago
Hong Kong has a problem when it comes to vulnerable young women. According to recent research, of the 5,400 crisis pregnancies that occur here each year (at a conservative estimate), the majority happen amongst single women younger than 25 years old. In many cases, these women come from disadvantaged backgrounds that force them to work in sexually exploitative jobs to earn money for themselves and their families – a scenario that has become more common thanks to COVID-related job losses. And due to a still prevalent stigma towards young unwed mothers in Hong Kong, many are reluctant to reach ..read more
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5 ways you may be stressing out your pets, and how to avoid them.
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by Thomas Gomersall
11M ago
We see it all the time. Cats and dogs wearing human clothes, being carried in handbags and baby buggies, even eating human food. It looks cute and has made for many a popular Instagram post and TikTok video. Now, perhaps having been influenced by such social media posts, you might be thinking of trying the same things with your pets. But ask yourself, should you? This might be fun for you. But most of the time, it's not for your pet. There is a tendency for humans to treat our pets more like playthings, accessories or even surrogate children. In doing so, we tend to forget that they are ..read more
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Before the Well Runs Dry: 5 Ways to Save Water (and the Planet)
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by Thomas Gomersall
1y ago
Alongside the latest devastating IPCC report on climate change, another environmental alarm bell was sounded by the United Nations, this one warning about an impending global water crisis. Over 3 billion people are struggling to meet their water needs. According to the latest edition of the UN World Water Development Report, water scarcity is becoming increasingly common across the world due to overconsumption and pollution. Already, about 10% of the global population lives in areas dealing with high or critical water stress, with up to 3.5 billion people experiencing it for at least one m ..read more
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Aquanauts: The Media Company pushing for a Sea Change
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by Thomas Gomersall
1y ago
As far as environmental filmmaking is concerned, few would consider Hong Kong a place of great prestige. Many would more likely think of the English city of Bristol – affectionately nicknamed the ‘Green Hollywood’– home to the BBC Natural History Unit and countless independent studios behind some of the most stunning and influential documentaries in recent years, including Our Planet and Planet Earth. But while Hong Kong certainly isn’t about to dethrone Bristol as an environmental filmmaking hub, it may possibly find itself with its own fledgling industry one day. At least, if more filmma ..read more
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Civic Conservation: 4 ways to get involved with Citizen Science in Hong Kong
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by Thomas Gomersall
1y ago
In just over two months, the annual City Nature Challenge (CNC) –a global effort where cities compete to record the most biodiversity with the phone app, iNaturalist– will once again be held from the 28th of April to the 1st of May, 2023. As noted in a previous article, the CNC and iNaturalist use in general are not just fun recreational activities, but can also an important source of supplementary data on the photographed species. This data can then be used by scientists to determine anything from their distribution to their response to climate change. The City Nature Challenge is an ann ..read more
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Online Animal Abuse: How to Spot it and Stop it
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by Thomas Gomersall
1y ago
Imagine you’re surfing the internet and you come across a video of an animal doing something that seems amusing. Maybe it’s a dog walking on its hind legs, or a slow loris being tickled, or a monkey wearing clothes and showing its teeth in an ostensible grin. Seems cute, even funny, doesn’t it? But for the animals, it is anything but. Previous Next Unbeknownst to many, behind the scenes of most videos like these lies a much darker side of psychological torment, maternal deprivation and even serious physical abuse, both intentional and unintentional. While a large percentage of onl ..read more
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A Green Romance: How to love the Planet this Valentine’s Day
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by Thomas Gomersall
1y ago
February is the month of love for many people. But for the planet? Not so much. Millions of cut flowers are thrown away every year after Valentine's Day Like all highly commodified holidays, Valentine’s Day ironically does a lot of harm to the environment thanks to the staggering amount of waste generated within as little as a day afterwards. In the USA, this amounts to 36 million heart-shaped boxes, 180 million greeting cards and 198 million roses. Delivering these Valentine’s gifts alone produces more carbon emissions than driving around the world 3,993 times. Factor in the environmental ..read more
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