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Rural, Poor Women and Children in Middle East Lagging Behind in Access to Basic Healthcare

UNICEF in this news piece has announced that although a number of countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have made...

How Moms Risk Their Daughters’ Health: The Inheritance of Tanning Hazards

Tanning beds are NOT the way to get your Vitamin D fix. Last year, the Israeli Ministry of Health issued a statement that tanning beds...

Mind-Blowing Effects of Coffee and Sex

That cappucino may not put a smile on your face if you are at risk for a stroke. A new study from The Netherlands...

Palestinian Coal Kilns Blow Dust on Israeli Meat Eaters

We pay for barbecued meat with our health Every year the air pollution rises steeply during Israel's Independence Day, where even people with vegetarian (or...

Argan oil for hair and food is nut oil broken by a goat’s butt

Before modern times, the Berbers or Amazighs (indigenous people of Morocco) of this area would collect undigested argan pits from the waste of goats which climb the trees to eat their fruit. The pits were then ground and pressed to make the nutty oil used in cooking and cosmetics.

Tel Aviv’s Social Economic Academy Teaches Food Politics

With so many food options and food movements out there, what do you choose? Food is a major factor in human health, and in environmental...

How Saudi Arabia Plans To Win The Food War

Saudi spends billions to win the food war. Without its oil wealth, Saudi Arabia's 27 million inhabitants would eventually starve. At a recent social event,...

Zam Zam Holy Water Is ‘Unsafe for Human Consumption’

A recent report by the BBC has revealed that holy water from Mecca known as 'Zam Zam' is contaminated with high levels of arsenic It...

US Study: Toxins in Kids Costing the Economy Billions

Thanks to a new US study, the world has a benchmark on how environmental pollution is toxic to our babies. Green Prophet's Sophie had her...

A “Fresh” Arab Spring Flows Through Auja, Palestine

A visit to Auja, Palestine can open the world's eyes to sustainable peace through water. It starts with water and ends with a Debka dance:...

PETA Offers To Support Green Synagogue- But Only If They Promote Going Vegan!

PETA, the animal rights organisation, has offered to make a donation to the world’s first green synagogue which is currently under financial strain but...

Are “Sick Chicks” Poisoning Israel’s Ground Water?

Something afoul? 1.5 million sick chickens illegally buried Following last year's mass poultry culling in the Tulkarem area of the West Bank, due to fears...

Legislation Banning Public Smoking Lingers On In Lebanon

Smoking has become the norm in downtown Beirut. Last month, a group of women activists posing as pregnant women with faces covered with masks, staged...

Egypt To Get 3% Of Africa’s Thousand Slow Food Gardens

<The "Thousand Gardens" project hopes to restore local crops and a healthier lifestyle throughout Africa. As part of the "Terra Madre" project, the Italian Slow...

World-Renowned Author Dishes on GINKS, Green Sex and Making Love to Planet Earth

Stefanie Iris Weiss advocates for a greener shade of love and intimacy in her 2010 book, Eco-Sex: Go Green Between the...

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