In this story researchers found a key to what might cause autism. They found something different in one autistic kid's blood that wasn't in any other normal kid's. They then tested 75 autistic children and 75 regular children and everyone of the autistic kid's had the same distinct quality and not one of the other healthy kid's. They discovered that the blood in autistic kid's have unusually low amounts of the antioxidant glutathione in their blood cells. This antioxidant normally binds to heavy metals, and the body the targets the metals or elimination. The researchers suspect that autism develops under the combined effect of several gene mutations that destroy glutathione and of exposure of a child to heavy metals or other poisons.
This is a very remarkable discovery for mankind. This could lead to a scientific breakthrough for the cure to autism. I really think this is an amazing discovery. This could be the start of something very, very big.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Monday, November 17, 2008
Australians Advised to Eat Kangaroos to Help Environment
The Story
What makes an eco-friendly meal? It's a question that has caused many heated arguments. Some say vegetarian, or even vegan, meals are the best way to lead a green lifestyle, since the livestock industry causes a plethora of environmental problems, from massive-scale deforestation to air and water pollution. Others argue that the large-scale production of corn and soy (a popular substitute for meat products) are just as bad for the environment.
In Australia, the debate has taken an interesting turn. Professor Ross Garnaut, a government adviser on climate change, is urging his fellow Aussies to serve kangaroo meat in place of beef or lamb, because the marsupials produce negligible amounts of environmentally damaging methane gas. On the other hand, cattle and sheep, according to Garnaut's 620-page study, produce a considerable amount of methane gas through belching and flatulence, and are among the millions of livestock responsible for approximately 67 percent of agricultural greenhouse gas emissions. In order to help the environment, he proposes that Australia, which is one of the world's largest per-capita producers of greenhouse gas emissions, should decrease its cattle and sheep populations by seven million and 36 million respectively, and increase its kangaroo numbers from 34 million to 240 million by 2020. The study cites other benefits, too: kangaroo meat is low in fat and high in protein levels, and the animals survive better in times of drought.
The plan may sound good in theory -- after all kangaroos were a prime source of meat for much of Australia's 60,000-year human history, Garnaut points out -- but whether Australians will play along is another matter. Although 58 percent of Australians have eaten kangaroo (a seven-percent increase from a decade ago), eating marsupial meat is still controversial and makes many squirm because of the kangaroos' elevated status in Australia -- they're even on the country's coat of arms. And the head of the Northern Territory Cattlemen's Association calls Garnaut's proposal "ridiculous," arguing that kangaroos are not the answer to the greenhouse emission problem and that replacing livestock with them would cause more harm than good when it comes to land management and jobs.
Summary
Lately the world has become very much polluted and it's getting much and much warmer every day. So Professor Ross Garnaut in Australia is urging people to eat more kangaroos to try and stop agricultural green hous gas. Many people have tried marsupial meat so maybe the Professor Garnaut will help to start something pretty new. We still do not know if people will go along with it, seeing as how eating marsupials has not been often done, but it never hurts to try.
What I Thought of The Story
I thought the story was very interesting becaus i did not know that animals emmited greenhouse gases. I thought it was kind of hard to believe that kangaroos produce about 67 percent of that because to me, there seems like there are a lot more cows and sheep and pigs in the world than there are kangaroos and other marsupials. Maybe someday I might try some marsupial meat, but for right now I think I'll pass.
What makes an eco-friendly meal? It's a question that has caused many heated arguments. Some say vegetarian, or even vegan, meals are the best way to lead a green lifestyle, since the livestock industry causes a plethora of environmental problems, from massive-scale deforestation to air and water pollution. Others argue that the large-scale production of corn and soy (a popular substitute for meat products) are just as bad for the environment.
In Australia, the debate has taken an interesting turn. Professor Ross Garnaut, a government adviser on climate change, is urging his fellow Aussies to serve kangaroo meat in place of beef or lamb, because the marsupials produce negligible amounts of environmentally damaging methane gas. On the other hand, cattle and sheep, according to Garnaut's 620-page study, produce a considerable amount of methane gas through belching and flatulence, and are among the millions of livestock responsible for approximately 67 percent of agricultural greenhouse gas emissions. In order to help the environment, he proposes that Australia, which is one of the world's largest per-capita producers of greenhouse gas emissions, should decrease its cattle and sheep populations by seven million and 36 million respectively, and increase its kangaroo numbers from 34 million to 240 million by 2020. The study cites other benefits, too: kangaroo meat is low in fat and high in protein levels, and the animals survive better in times of drought.
The plan may sound good in theory -- after all kangaroos were a prime source of meat for much of Australia's 60,000-year human history, Garnaut points out -- but whether Australians will play along is another matter. Although 58 percent of Australians have eaten kangaroo (a seven-percent increase from a decade ago), eating marsupial meat is still controversial and makes many squirm because of the kangaroos' elevated status in Australia -- they're even on the country's coat of arms. And the head of the Northern Territory Cattlemen's Association calls Garnaut's proposal "ridiculous," arguing that kangaroos are not the answer to the greenhouse emission problem and that replacing livestock with them would cause more harm than good when it comes to land management and jobs.
Summary
Lately the world has become very much polluted and it's getting much and much warmer every day. So Professor Ross Garnaut in Australia is urging people to eat more kangaroos to try and stop agricultural green hous gas. Many people have tried marsupial meat so maybe the Professor Garnaut will help to start something pretty new. We still do not know if people will go along with it, seeing as how eating marsupials has not been often done, but it never hurts to try.
What I Thought of The Story
I thought the story was very interesting becaus i did not know that animals emmited greenhouse gases. I thought it was kind of hard to believe that kangaroos produce about 67 percent of that because to me, there seems like there are a lot more cows and sheep and pigs in the world than there are kangaroos and other marsupials. Maybe someday I might try some marsupial meat, but for right now I think I'll pass.
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