I received an email today with some information on cancer and how it thrives in the body. It’s from someone who works at the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). It’s a copy/paste job from my email so it doesn’t look very pretty, but it’s the info that counts!

Every person has cancer cells in their body. These cancer cells do not
>show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few billion.

>When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells in
>their bodies after treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect
>the cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable size.
>
>Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person’s

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From www.healthmatters.org.uk ….

Carolyn Stephens writes about our consume/waste lifestyles and the link between sustainable development and the developed/third world gap. Click to read “We must not go on like this” 

From Big Picture TV (www.big-picture.tv)…

Manfred Max-Neef is a Chilean economist widely respected for his work on international development. In 1981 he wrote the book for which he is best known, “From the Outside Looking in: Experiences in Barefoot Economics.” It describes his experiences practising economics “as if people matter” among the poor in South America. In that same year he founded the Centre for Development Alternatives (CEPAUR). He is currently Rector of the Universidad Austral de Chile in Valdivia. Read the rest of this entry »

Back when I was about 9 or 10 years old I read a book called ‘Fear is the key’ by Alistair Maclean. Although just a novel, the concept of how fear can be used as an effective weapon was well impressed upon me.

No better example than what happened at the UK airports over the last week or so. Kudos to the security services for foiling the plot but I think the psychological Read the rest of this entry »

Yesterday, S and I did something new - we went fruit & vegetable picking! This may not sound like much but it was a great day out - the weather was just right and the fruit is the best we’ve had in a long time. Beats the supermarket quality hands-down.
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With over 230 events nationwide, yesterday, 2nd July, was the turn of the North London fundraisers with an estimated £360,000 raised for Cancer Research UK!

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