Consious eating (a must-do)

Working at a local market, selling local fruit and gifts with a smile ah yes, memories from about six summers ago. It was here I learned more about fresh food then ever before.

It was here I ate my first, local blueberry the size of a quarter.

Conscious eating is one of the key elements to a healthy lifestyle. With a simple concept, you are conscious of what you are eating that is, savouring each bite, knowledgeable of health benefits, and truly learning to enjoy food. I knew, as the bulbous blueberry squished in my mouth, sending my taste receptors over the roof and filling my body with vitamin C, fibre and antioxidants, that I was hooked.

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Indigenous groups helped to fend off climate-change health risks

Climate change is very much here and now, for those peoples around the world intimately connected with the natural world. Whether it’s the Innuit of the Canadian Arctic, the Shipibo and Shawi of Peru’s Amazonian rain-forest, or the Batwa Pygmies of Uganda – all depend for their survival on the known patterns of the seasons, and the ebb and flow of life through an environment they are an intrinsic part of. But a warming globe is shifting those patterns, and so threatening these indigenous peoples – unless they adapt.

And such adaptation is what a new health research project, Indigenous Health Adaptation to Climate Change (IHACC), is hoping to help achieve.

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Kaiser wins Pharmacy Quality Alliance award

Kaiser Permanente Hawaii has received an award from the Pharmacy Quality Alliance for its measures of medication safety.

Kaiser Permanente Hawaii was one of three health plans selected for the award, which recognizes the plans for gaining top ratings in medication safety in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Star Rating program, according to a statement.


Making investments makes sense

Thinking about the future is one step closer to becoming a little greener. We need to be prepared on what is to come, and working alongside the energy sector is a great way to start.

Before you dive in, consider picking up the utmost comprehensive guide to the energy sector.

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