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Zinc is an important part of the human diet. You get it in Cashews, spinach, beef, shrimp, flax seed, Oysters, garlic, lima beans peanuts, turkey, Salmon, Pork, Brown rice and other foods. These are not listed in any particular order.

Zinc, is an important mineral in human health, that appears to affect how the immune system responds to stimulation, especially inflammation, new research from Oregon State University shows.

Zinc deficiency could play a role in chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, cancer and diabetes   that involve inflammation. Such diseases often show up in older adults, who are more at risk for zinc deficiency.

“When you take away zinc, the cells that control inflammation appear to activate and respond differently; this causes the cells to promote more inflammation,” said Emily Ho, a professor and director of the Moore Family Center for Whole Grain Foods, Nutrition and Preventive Health in the OSU College of Public Health and Human Sciences, and lead author of the study.

The UN's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) said Friday (20 March) that three pesticides, including the popular weed killer Roundup, were "probably" carcinogenic and two others, which have already been outlawed or restricted, were "possibly" so.

IARC classified the herbicide glyphosate – the active ingredient in Roundup – and the insecticides malathion and diazinon as "probably carcinogenic" on the basis of "limited evidence" of cancer among humans.

La Agencia Internacional de la ONU para la Investigación del Cáncer (IARC), dijo el viernes 20 de marzo, que tres pesticidas, incluyendo el popular herbicida Roundup, eran "probablemente" cancerígenos y otras dos sustancias, que ya han sido proscritos o restringidos, eran "posiblemente" así .

Mutiny on the Bounty is a tale about the Royal Navy ship Bounty. On April 28, 1789, Fletcher Christian led sailors in a mutiny against their captain, Lieutenant William Bligh. So the story goes, the captain was set afloat in a small boat along with crew members who were loyal to him, while the mutineers settled on Pitcairn Island or Tahiti and burned Bounty off Pitcairn to avoid detection.

Today Pitcairn island’s population is about 50 people, including descendants of Fletcher Christian, and the surrounding waters where the Bounty supposedly went down in flames has just become the world’s largest contiguous ocean reserve.

This is great news for the sanctity of the Pacific ocean and its inhabitants.

El hielo del mar Ártico se redujo al nivel más bajo en invierno jamás registrado, según los datos publicados hoy por el Centro Nacional de Nieve y Hielo con sede en EEUU. El registro de nivel más bajo de hielo sigue a la noticia de que el 2014 fue el año más caluroso desde que se iniciaron los registros.

Un inusualmente cálido febrero en partes de Alaska y Rusia contribuyó al mínimo histórico de hielo. El hielo del Ártico se redujo 1,1 millones de kilómetros cuadrados en comparación con el...