Health Archive

How to feed the world ? from Denis van Waerebeke on Vimeo.

Infographic of the Day: How the Global Food Market Starves the Poor

via model citizen

“Tied Together is an epic journey in response to a global health crisis, HIV/AIDS. NIKE and (RED) want you to Lace Up and Save Lives by moving through the streets of New York, London, Milan, Berlin and Paris, to help fight this disease.

The Tied Together community is invited to participate in the last hour of the race in each of the 5 cities. It is an open call: come to your local Nike Stadium to join the race and pass the baton.

Our 24 ambassadors in each city and their teams will run for 120 consecutive hours starting today at 8pm EST.”

Register here.

via highsnobiety

via LikeCool

On May 18, 2010, the shareholders of Shell will celebrate their $9.8Bn profits. Here’s to hoping that they’ll also talk about the human cost of their activities in the Niger Delta, and how to change it. To find out more information about this global issue, read the report found here.
Read the rest of this entry »

The legendary Bad Brains teamed with ROIR Records for an amazing leukemia awareness tee. “The shirt features our dear friend Kenneth Brimer’s Unite And Fight Leukemia artwork on the front and the Heart In Hand art on the back. The shirt is priced at $35 including shipping and all proceeds go toward Kenneth Brimer. Please help out and show support for Kenneth as well as awareness on leukemia.” The shirt will be available for purchase on Solitary Arts’ website today at 9AM PST (noon EST).

via high snobiety
Read the rest of this entry »

Mark Reigelman designed these “Bite” silverwares to draw attention to the ongoing problem of global hunger. “Each day millions of individuals lay in hunger while millions more are wastefully overeating,” Reigelman says. “This set of ‘bitten’ silverware highlights the daunting reality of both worldly plagues.”

via like cool

The United Nations Foundation presents a film by Bobby Bailey: When The Night Comes

Bobby Bailey, co-founder of Invisible Children, takes us on an epic journey into the heart of humanity’s greatest killer. Tracking three years of friendship, adventure and investigation, his friends, writer Michael Hobert and model, Jodie Smith, see the effects of malaria for the very first time. Follow this unusual trio to Northern Uganda on a trip that is as emotional as it is enlightening, and see firsthand the effects of a plague that has ravaged humankind since the beginning of time. Malaria.”

Visit the When The Night Comes site here.
Find out more about malaria and what you can do to help end the disease at the Nothing But Nets website.

This article from the October issue of GQ is really interesting and definitely worth the read. Check it out:

“Let’s say you run a multibillion-dollar football league. And let’s say the scientific community—starting with one young pathologist in Pittsburgh and growing into a chorus of neuroscientists across the country—comes to you and says concussions are making your players crazy, crazy enough to kill themselves, and here, in these slices of brain tissue, is the proof. Do you join these scientists and try to solve the problem, or do you use your power to discredit them?” … read the rest here…

via gq magazine

Man, this is crazy, and it just goes to show that we need to be educated about what we’re eating and make better choices with food.

via girl you so well spoken