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Correlation Between Eating Habits and Mental Health: From Food to Mood — Egyptian Streets

Source: Flickr “I love food, it makes me happy and my life revolves around it,” enthuses 22-year-old Salma*. Salma* has noticed that what she eats highly impacts her mood and how she feels. She says that she had been aware of the effect, although she never fully focused on the correlation until a few years…

Correlation Between Eating Habits and Mental Health: From Food to Mood — Egyptian Streets

Russia reports new daily record for coronavirus cases | New Europe

The government’s national task force reported 12,846 new cases over the previous 24 hours, bringing the number of cumulative cases to nearly 1.3 million. Russia currently has the world’s fourth-highest toll after the United States, India, and Brazil.

Source: Russia reports new daily record for coronavirus cases | New Europe

‘Five Eyes’ alliance demands ways to access encrypted apps

No need to worry about TikToc, your own government wants a back door into your email…

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The Five Eyes alliance on Sunday demanded that tech companies allow access to law enforcement agencies to encrypted apps.

The intelligence alliance is comprised of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States.

“There is increasing consensus across governments and international institutions that action must be taken”, the alliance said in a statement, warning that the growth of end-to-end encrypted apps that make official oversight impossible – like Signal, Telegram, FaceBook Messenger and WhatsApp – “pose significant challenges to public safety.”

The group, therefore, called on tech companies to “embed the safety of the public in system designs”, providing access to law enforcement “in a readable and usable format”.

The statement was also signed by India and Japan, which cooperate in intelligence with the group.

Pro-privacy advocates have warned that encoding the means for law enforcement to access a user’s communications can empower dictatorial governments. The Five Eyes, however, stressed that its proposal would require safeguards and oversight so that authorities cannot take advantage of their access.

Netanyahu: If we give into interest groups, we’ll have a third lockdown

“I emphasize, our Torah is a Torah of life, it sanctifies life, so tell your communities to obey the rules, and save lives,” said the prime minister. 464851
“I emphasize, our Torah is a Torah of life, it sanctifies life, so tell your communities to obey the rules, and save lives,” said the prime minister.

Who are the ultra-Orthodox community fooling, who are they killing? – The Jerusalem Post

Doctors and scientists still do not fully understand this virus, but there are some things they know. They know that avoiding large groups save lives. They know that wearing masks save lives. They know that social distancing saves lives. And they know the importance of hand-washing. It’s not rocket science, but it is science. Maybe, just maybe – if we all do our best to follow the advice of the health professionals and others who know what they’re talking about – by next Purim we will be able to sing and dance and dine and rejoice with no fear of spreading the virus.

Source: Who are the ultra-Orthodox community fooling, who are they killing? – The Jerusalem Post

Bending the Curve: The Restorative Power of Planet-Based Diets

via aleksey godin – good post and information.

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Today World Wildlife Fund released a new report, Bending the Curve: The Restorative Power of Planet-Based Diets, exploring how a global shift toward PLANET-based diets, high in human-health benefits and low in environmental impacts, can restore nature and improve health. A supplement to this report, Why we need to shift to a Planet-Based Diet in the US (and how we can get there, together), discusses the specifics of a PLANET-based diet in the US—what it could look like, what impacts it would have, and what other actions are needed to transform our food system.

“Taking a look at our food system today and seeing hunger, inequity, and environmental devastation, you might think it’s simply impossible to feed 8-10 billion people without destroying the planet. But that’s not the case; in fact, the opposite is true. Not only can we feed the entire population of Earth, we can do it in a way that improves human health globally and allows nature to recover from the damage we’ve caused. A global shift in diets to prioritize nutrition hand-in-hand with sustainability—something that will look different in every country—has the potential reverse biodiversity loss, combat climate change, and save human lives.” –Brent Loken, Global Food Lead Scientist, World Wildlife Fund

“The US food system is one of the most important levers we have for solving climate and biodiversity crises, and what we eat and how much we consume matters. Even simple changes to our diets, like eating in line with National Dietary Guidelines, would take us a long way toward positive outcomes for both human health and the environment. And if you can combine these efforts with others—a shift to regenerative and resilient agricultural systems, a less wasteful supply chain, and policies that incentivize producing food with human nutrition and planetary-health at the forefront—we will see positive impacts for people and planet at a global scale.” Melissa D. Ho, Senior Vice President, Freshwater and Food, World Wildlife Fund

Ozone hole increases in size

Via Aleksey Godin – Scientists from the European Union’s Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) say the hole which forms each year over the South Pole has reached its maximum size for 2020 as one of the biggest in recent years.

The return of a large hole after an “unusually small and short-lived” ozone hole in 2019 shows the need to continue enforcing the global Montreal Protocol, which banned chemicals such as CFCs that deplete ozone, experts said.

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Ozone hole increases in size

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6th October 2020

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