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Posts by Helen Batty

Europeans managed nutrition & cuisine
well enough before 1492
Solanine containing foods like tomatoes 🍅 (esp if unripe)
peppers 🌶️ esp ( if green)🫑
Potatoes 🥔 overexposed to light during storage (turns skin green) all risk toxicity reactions in many people when eaten
These “nightshade family” food

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Look at most recent nutrition research from Ty Beale PhD
Then start with economical foods maximally dense with healthy nutrients:
Offal
Bivalves
Cabbage
Yes,that translates to liver and kidney (quick and easy to cook)
clams 🦪 and mussels,
CABBAGE 🥬 & butter 🧈
oh, did I mention whole sardines?! 🐟

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Goldfinches
Ruby crowned kinglet
Darting about among the yellow daffodils and bright forsythia
The greening of our precious northern spring season

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Tom Longboat 🇨🇦 legacy honoured
At Boston Marathon, Indigenous runner hopes to channel the icon in his bloodline

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FYI
@picardonhealth.bsky.social

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FYI
@choosingwiselyca.bsky.social

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FYI
#ChoosingWiselyCanada

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Metabolic psychiatry targeting metabolic dysregulation in mental health - Nature Mental Health This Review synthesizes current evidence on the link between metabolic dysfunction and mental health outcomes, highlighting the importance of integrating metabolic screening into psychiatric care.

Brain benefits of Keto nutrition
#EBM
#MentalHealth
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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Ask a Scientist: Are Farmers Wasting Money on Fertilizer? UCS analysis shows farmers are using much more fertilizer than necessary. With prices spiking, this practice is bad for wallets and for the environment.

ASK A SCIENTIST: Why are farmers overapplying fertilizer to crops? UCS’s Precious Tshabalala and Omanjana Goswami respond.

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You need to see this, folks talkingpointsmemo.com/news/staff-a...

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These idiots are so embarrassing to us.

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Why this NASA climate scientist wants you to stay angry “I don’t think we rebuild science without getting mad.”

"Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are."

One of my favourite quotes, attributed to St Augustine and embodied by @drkatemarine.bsky.social today.

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People do not appreciate what a vast, fundamental sea change batteries are bringing to the electrical system.

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‘Visible from space’: why Spain has the world’s biggest concentration of greenhouses Andalusia houses ‘Europe’s vegetable garden’ – a laboratory of development and innovation producing vegetables for all of Europe

Grow more leafy greens?! 👀 Research Food Compass by Ty Beale & need for healthy livestock balance www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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The UK Covid Inquiry has laid bare the avoidable horror of the second Covid wave It is becoming ever clearer both how devastating the second wave of winter 2020/21 was, and how much of that devastation could have been avoided.

Incredible substance here from @chrischirp.bsky.social. The 2nd wave of COVID-19 in the UK was a) devastating and b) avoidable. Take time to play the clip of Prof Kevin Fong who breaks down when describing the scale of death and its impact on ICU staff.
christinapagel.substack.com/p/the-uk-cov...

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BMA members with placards and a big banner saying Doctors against division

BMA members with placards and a big banner saying Doctors against division

With BMA colleagues at the March against the far right.

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How Finnish supermarkets are central to the country's defence The chains all have detailed plans to follow in the event of the nation going to war.

Happiness = safety should Canada follow Finland ?
www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

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My quote of the day

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

William Butler Yeats

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Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pill: What to Know Dr. Anne-Marie Amies Oelschlager answers common questions about Opill, the first over-the-counter (OTC) daily birth control pill in the history of the United States.

Finally on the shelf birth control Pill
www.acog.org/womens-healt...

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The Moral Injury Report: How Much More Distress and Disrespect Can American Physicians, Nurses and Medical Residents Take? Physicians for a National Health Program partnered with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to study how the privatization of U.S. healthcare has caused Moral Injury

Physicians for a National Health Program are releasing a report on the moral injury caused to healthcare workers by a healthcare system placing profits over people.

I asked for confirmation that anyone can attend their upcoming webinar, and the response was:

“All are welcome. All”. Deets below.

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Association Between Inflammatory Bowel Diseases and Celiac Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis There is controversy over the association between celiac disease (CeD) and inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis to assess evidence for an association b...

Gluten risk?Association Between Inflammatory Bowel Diseases and Celiac Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis - Gastroenterology www.gastrojournal.org/article/S001...

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That’s right! Diverting food & feed crops (or the land needed to grow them) to meet increasing biofuel targets or mandates means that other lands somewhere else need to be brought into production. And clearing forests, savannas, grasslands, and wetlands for crop production causes…

CO2 emissions.

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The @saferairproject.bsky.social argues that airborne diseases remain a major health & economic burden - calling for national IAQ performance standards, real‑time monitoring, & ventilation upgrades across public spaces to reduce infections & protect those vulnerable.
@burnetinstitute.bsky.social‬

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First Peer-Reviewed Expert Consensus on The Use of Ketogenic Therapy for Serious Mental Illness | Metabolic Mind A new Delphi consensus outlines expert recommendations for using ketogenic therapy alongside standard treatments in serious mental illness.

Keto Rx EBM supported for serious #MentalHealth www.metabolicmind.org/resources/li...

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Remember Beyond Meat had to fix their ingredients label after losing a legal suit related to their claim of high nutritional protein levels #bioavailabilitycounts

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Fructose excess intake likely significant underlying root cause MASH.
Should the fix be
$$Rx altering enzymes of mitochondria genetics?
Or
⬇️maize in foods made w ⬆️fructose
corn syrup
cornstarch&
sweet corn kernels?-not traditional Asian cuisine ingredients but cheap substitutes from the Americas…

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It was Ontario Conservatives’ plan to support multiple naive private (friends?) start -ups in parallel competition free enterprise to allow “the market” to determine winners- as expected we all lost! UK NHS excellent pre-existing example totally ignored

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Pap smear test excuse is gone now HPV testing is finally antigen based ( and could be self administered as Finns 🇫🇮 proved 2 decades ago)…ASA probably riskier than current OCP #thePill ?

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And also Japan?

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