All Blog Posts Tagged 'health' (2)

Food shortages never seem to materialize here at least

Seems like food is a bargain compared to the rent or mortgage costs that most people have to pay. I'm lucky because my rent is fairly reasonable, but folks I know are nearly broke just writing out their rent checks.

As oil gets more expensive, it seems like food is what people think about first. They say it's going to make food, which uses fossil fuel in its production, scarce. Strategies for dealing with this situation revolve around growing more of our own food and even…

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Added by Robert Ashworth on January 17, 2011 at 9:51pm — 1 Comment

Childhood deaths, often preventable, US improving much slower than other wealthy nations

Nothing is sadder than and child's death, for a parent or for a society. So why is it that they are so invisible to us in the US?

A recent review of childhood deaths shows that the number of deaths among children less than 5 will drop below 8 million for the first time in 2010. In 1990 there were 11.9 million deaths in this group. The decline in the US is slower than all other wealthy nations, it is on a par with Kazakhstan and Angola (really and literally) with 6.7… Continue

Added by Frank James on May 25, 2010 at 12:21am — 3 Comments