Focus on Health

World No Tobacco Day, proclaimed by the WHO, takes place on May 31st. Before we deal with partly alarming, partly delightful facts about this, we would like to broaden the focus and look at breathing. As with the heartbeat, the special thing about breathing is that, seen from the outside, it simply “does”, the heart […] Read on...

This planet Earth is “custom made” for us humans; it offers everything we need for our survival and our wellbeing. At least, this is the case for what nature provides for us, for it is especially civilisation – cities, traffic, industry and so on – that causes problems for us, for example in the form […] Read on...

Nearly 85% of New Zealanders are smoke-free. But New Zealand is aiming even higher: The New Zealand Government has set the goal that by 2025 fewer than 5% of New Zealanders will be smokers. To this end, on 9th December 2022, Associate Minister of Health Dr Ayesha Verrall launched a new legislation, Auahi Kore Aotearoa […] Read on...

First of all, the good news: Between 2007 and 2019, the number of adult smokers has declined steadily. However, 1.3 billion people worldwide still use tobacco today (of which 1.1 billion are smokers, with another 200 million turning to other tobacco products). Five companies dominate 80 percent of the market. While they are promoting increasingly […] Read on...

Earth Day provides the occasion to connect with Mother Earth in a calm way and to become aware of what Nature gifts us day in and day out. Nature’s bounty has no limits, and we are still far from having experienced and explored everything. All things in nature have their own purpose and their destiny. […] Read on...

Our body responds always and anytime to our environment. Solar flares, for instance, create significant fluctuations in the Earth’s magnetic field and affect biological systems on Earth. Moon phases also cause biological reactions in nature and noticeably influence some people in their well-being, e.g. through their sleep or hormonal system. A weather change, triggered and […] Read on...

Until now, environmental factors have been ignored as a possible trigger or reinforcer of Covid-19 disease. Politics, research and public health have focused exclusively on the SARS-CoV-2 pathogen and consequently on vaccination as the supposed only way out of the crisis. This is despite the fact that radiation from wireless communication technologies is known to […] Read on...

In the Northern hemisphere of the Earth, autumn is slowly making its appearance. With the days getting shorter and the cooler temperatures, sometimes your nose itches or your throat gets scratchy. Then it is certainly a good idea to give the immune system a helping hand. The ingredients for a strengthening immune potion, which can […] Read on...

In 2018, the European Union launched a roadmap to which all of its citizens would need to carry proof of vaccination by 2022. The so-called pandemic of SARS-Cov-2 has given the EU nations and many other countries the opportunity to accelerate this agenda. Israel has introduced the Green Pass certificate to its vaccinated citizens which […] Read on...

Since the outbreak of the so-called Covid-19 pandemic, countries around the world have rushed to find ways to identify the SARS-Cov-2 virus. Key to stopping a virus spreading, it is thought, is to find people who are displaying symptoms, to get confirmation that the individual is infected via a test, and then to isolate that […] Read on...