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Eating cured meats may lead to an increased risk of leukemia in children and young adults, according to a Harvard School of Public Health study recently published in the BioMed Central Cancer journal. The study found an association between consuming smoked or cured meat and fish more than once a week and an increased risk of acute leukemia. Conversely, researchers concluded that subjects who ate vegetables and tofu regularly along with cured meats showed reduced risk for leukemia. The population-based case-control study, conducted in Taiwan, looked into the dietary habits of 515 subjects who ranged in age from...
...village of Panidhar is a cluster of 18 mud, brick and bamboo houses in a poor, wet corner of eastern India. Its problems will sound familiar to anyone who has traveled through the country's thick rural darkness. Panidhar's 195 residents live on rice and fish from the surrounding paddy fields and ponds; lucky children get vegetables and lentils, too, but few go to school. The brick factory across the Ichamati River sends boats to fetch a few of the young men; the rest have left for cities many miles away...
...crazy enough that someone can get paid $1 million for catching a fish--the angler who wins the championship tournament on the largest professional bass-fishing circuit in the country takes that awfully sweet bait. But it's certifiably insane that someone else can sit on his or her butt and win a million bucks by predicting (actually, more like guessing) which fisherman will hook the biggest bass...
...argues that the mondo prizes will draw new fans to fishing and thus are a long-term investment in the health of the sport. The strategy might just work. Why wouldn't fans spend hours watching a guy fish if they knew they could catch a cool million...
There are other potential solutions - like putting a cap on fish catches, allocating shares in the quota and allowing fishermen to trade or sell those shares - which research suggests can lead to more sustainable fishing. But ultimately, Pitcher argues, we'll need a new enforceable legal agreement to govern the oceans. "We are approaching a point of no return for many of the world's fisheries," he says. "I know it's hard to get new international agreements, but we can't give up." Not unless we want to live - perish the thought - in a world without sashimi...