Sentences with phrase «study plant health»

Scientists can use these images to study plant health, phenology, and reproduction, to track disease, and to survey human - mediated habitat disturbances.

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Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

At GFI, Isaac Emery studies the significant environmental and human health impacts of industrial animal agriculture and evaluates the reduced impact of plant - based and clean meat.

She loves the studies out there that show greater health, healing and energy associated with plant based diets.

Not much plants there and thus far the studies have shown remarkable progress with Cancer and general health.

Patented, nature - identical plant mineral complex which has been the subject of over a dozen published studies on its unique properties and potential health benefits, especially for bone, joint and cardiovascular health.

On the other hand, when studies are done properly, plants are shown time and time again to be health promoting packages.

An earlier, 2005 study, looked more generally at plant proteins and their relationship to cardiovascular health.

Case Study 3: Plantwise — An Innovative Approach to Reduce Crop Losses by Sharing Plant Health Knowledge Dr Washington Otieno, Plantwise Programme Executive, CABI

... Studies show that plant - based proteins are better for our guests» health and better for the planet.»

Numerous studies have linked diets higher in plant protein than animal protein to reduced risk of heart disease, cancer, and other health ailments.

These studies found that anthocyanins (the plant pigments that give strawberries their colour and health benefits) are undetectable in commercially prepared baby food and that anthocyanins are only present in fresh or frozen strawberries — not processed ones!

«Previous studies have also noted that the financial condition of the most troubled institutions is, to a large extent, a product of an inefficient expense structure, revenue challenges associated with a patient mix that approaches 90 percent public payers and charity care, and overwhelming liabilities (including debt issued long ago for physical plant improvements that, in some cases, are obsolete),» the health department said in its announcement.

A 2014 report to the UK Council for Science and Technology, for instance, concluded that «it is not appropriate to have a regulatory framework that is based on the premise that GM crops are more hazardous than crop varieties produced by conventional plant breeding», citing two decades of extensive studies that have not revealed significant risks to human, animal or environmental health.

Dr. Howard A. Zucker, the state health commissioner, said that the Saint - Gobain plant would be deemed a state Superfund site — giving the state the power to seek reimbursements for the cleanup costs from the source of the pollution — and that private wells in the area would also be tested for PFOA, which some studies have linked to an increased risk for cancer.

«It is the juice of the olive fruit so it is a plant product, and numerous studies have shown olive oil provides a range of health benefits due to the components found in extra virgin olive oil.»

The potential health effects of phyto - oestrogens are often studied, but no one has looked at whether humans are the only primates with a taste for plants containing the chemicals, says Michael Wasserman of McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

But the study went a step further, comparing crop yields on conventional farms to those on organic farms where cover crops were planted and crops were rotated to build soil health.

This global biological recordbased on daily observations of ocean algae and land plants from NASAs Sea - viewing Wide Field - of - View Sensor (SeaWiFS) missionwill enable scientists to study the fate of atmospheric carbon, terrestrial plant productivity and the health of the oceans food web.

Karen Hardy at the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies in Barcelona, Spain, says she would not be surprised if ancient peoples «knew how to select plant food that benefited their health».

In addition to helping farmers check crop health, the new system will be helpful for studying how plants respond to changes in growing conditions and for high - throughput phenotyping, an automated method used in crop research and development to analyze how genetic modifications affect plant characteristics such as leaf size or drought resistance in a large number of plants.

«When we examined the associations of the three food categories with heart disease risk, we found that healthy plant foods were associated with lower risk, whereas less healthy plant foods and animal foods were associated with higher risk,» said Ambika Satija, ScD, a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston and the study's lead author.

Indeed, Maria Lois has already taken steps for transferring the knowledge gained from her plant SUMOylation studies to the field of human health.

It's less costly to get electricity from wind turbines and solar panels than coal - fired power plants when climate change costs and other health impacts are factored in, according to a new study published in Springer's Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences.

The voluntary program was offered to workers, free of charge, at four of the five plants; the fifth did not participate because it used a different health insurance plan, providing a control group for the study.

A new study, published in the journal in PLOS ONE, shows which plant food supplements are most popular across Europe, with consumers using them to complement their diets or to maintain health.

«The new study adds to the evidence that closing this coal - burning power plant was beneficial to the health and future well - being of newborns there,» says Perera, director of the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health and professor of Environmental Health Sciences at the Mailman School of Public Hhealth and future well - being of newborns there,» says Perera, director of the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health and professor of Environmental Health Sciences at the Mailman School of Public HHealth and professor of Environmental Health Sciences at the Mailman School of Public HHealth Sciences at the Mailman School of Public HealthHealth.

«In addition to identifying the impacts of the emissions from this particular coal - fired power plant on fetal health, the usefulness of this study's identification strategy is its potential application to other studies examining the impact of upwind states» power plant emissions, which have been the target of a series of environmental regulations, such as the EPA's Cross-State Air Pollution Rule,» adds Yang.

The results should be interpreted with caution because the study relied on the participants» self - reporting what they ate and because participants consuming higher amounts of plant - based foods may be more health conscious in general.

The effects of increased temperatures and atmospheric CO2 concentration have been documented concerning shifts in flowering time and pollen initiation from allergenic plants, elevated production of plant - based allergens, and health effects of increased pollen concentrations and longer pollen seasons.15, 16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26 Additional studies have shown extreme rainfall and higher temperatures can lead to increased indoor air quality issues such as fungi and mold health concerns.27, 28,29,30

Researchers then used models to estimate changes in ambient pollutant concentrations due to the presence of coal - fired plants in the region and estimated health impacts using peer - reviewed methodologies used in similar studies around the world.

The study underscored just how necessary microbial activity is to plant health and productivity.

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It has been known that high levels of carbon dioxide in the air causes health and environmental hazards, but a new study shows that high concentration of Carbon dioxide might actually be helping plant cycles, resulting to a greener earth.

In addition to Fabrick and Tabashnik, the following authors collaborated on the study: Jeyakumar Ponnuraj from the National Institute of Plant Health Management in Hyderabad, India, who studied pink bollworm resistance as a visiting scholar in Tabashnik's lab; Amar Singh and Raj Tanwar of the National Centre for Integrated Pest Management at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute in New Delhi; and Gopalan Unnithan, Alex Yelich, Xianchun Li and Yves Carrière from the UA Department of Entomology.

Back to the film... What I love about Forks Over Knives is, in addition to hearing from incredible doctors like Colin Campbell (author of The China Study) and Caldwell Esselstyn, is that the film tells inspiring stories of real people, from all walks of life, who've embraced a plant - based diet and have thus reversed chronic health conditions like heart disease, cancer, and diabetes.

In the study, the patients who followed a plant - based diet demonstrated the turning off of genes favoring inflammation and artery damage, and the turning on of genes favoring healing and health.

Stevia as the green plant that you can grow in your backyard or find as dried leaf or tincture form is considered safe and has even been studied and found to have health benefits.

But, she said, «as a registered dietitian my response to this study is that it, like so many others, shows why it is important for us to continue to shift from animal protein choices to plant - based choices to improve overall health.»

NPR's health blog conceded that studies show a plant - based diet can lower the risk of obesity, diabetes, and heart disease.

This study is yet another piece of evidence that when it comes to diabetes nutrition, a low - fat, plant - based, whole - food diet is an incredibly effective technique for improving beta cell function and maximizing diabetes health.

They chose to study a plant - based diet because of ample evidence showing that reducing animal product intake (high in nutrients known to promote insulin resistance, including fat, protein, and heme iron) can not only improve diabetes health, but reverse diabetes altogether (8 — 14).

«A shift to a dietary pattern higher in healthful plant - based foods, such as vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, nuts, and seeds, and lower in animal - based foods, especially red and processed meats, can confer substantial health benefits in reducing risk of type 2 diabetes,» said Frank Hu, professor of nutrition and epidemiology at Harvard Chan School and senior author of the study.

• Learn from studies of indigenous cultures • Good & Bad Fats: the roll they play in immune health, mineral absorption and joint health • Cultured foods: good bacteria, healthy digestion • Remove naturally occurring plant toxins in grains, nuts, & legumes • Experts show you step - by - step how to make these timeless foods • Tasty samples of everything presented!

NutritionFacts.org has five dozen videos on women's health, including many others on breast cancer, suggesting that a plant - based diet may be beneficial in preventing, slowing, and treating breast cancer, despite flawed or deceptive studies to the contrary.

Herbal Medicine is the study of plants with medicinal properties to promote health and healing.

Consuming a plant - based diet — especially one rich in high - quality plant foods such as whole grains, fruits, vegetables, nuts, and legumes — is linked with substantially lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes, according to a new study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Dr. Collin Campbell a pioneer in the plant based revolution brought this to life with his book the China Study, a book i would recommend to anyone who wants to see the research on animal foods and their many affects on our overall health.

Let's take a look at the recent studies that have evaluated how this uncommon plant can support brain health and stress management.

Research hints that both of these groups of plant compounds may be beneficial to health by reducing heart disease and cancer risk, but studies are not conclusive by a long shot.