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Carbon Addict slides (Jan 2009)
by Frances Mortimer | Wed, 11/02/2009 - 09:31
"Mitigation and Health Improvement" Slide Pack (Mar 09)
by Frances Mortimer | Fri, 23/01/2009 - 12:06Carbon Addict
by Frances Mortimer | Tue, 02/12/2008 - 07:49Published by:
The Climate Connection & The Campaign for Greener Healthcare
Publication date:
2 Dec 2008
Resource type:
evidence base / teaching tool
Brief description:
The fabulous new online guide to medical management of "Carbon Dependence Syndrome".
Do your patients report lengthy showers, meat bingeing and/or compulsive purchase of consumer goods? Asthma? Mental distress? Diabetes? Problem use of carbon-based fuels is now recognised as a disabling medical syndrome.
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Medical school climate connections mental health slides
by Frances Mortimer | Mon, 17/08/2009 - 08:13Health: quality or quantity?
by William Bird | Tue, 05/05/2009 - 08:45
At what point do we stop extending lives? Like economic growth extending life year on year is taken for granted as a measure of success. But is success a population that is no happier? Is success an environment being destroyed by the consumption of drugs? Is success more people bedbound with severe health problems and minimal quality of life?
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Screening for Carbon Dependence Syndrome hailed a success!
by Frances Mortimer | Fri, 27/03/2009 - 16:44
Screening for carbon dependency was a great success at the UKPHA conference!
Carbon Dependency damages your health!!
by Frances Mortimer | Fri, 20/03/2009 - 15:49
Delegates at the UK Public Health Association’s 17th Annual Public Health Forum will be offered 'screening' for the debilitating Carbon Dependence Syndrome in Brighton next week.
Jenny Griffiths: Ten Steps
by Frances Mortimer | Tue, 10/03/2009 - 22:19Published by:
The Campaign for Greener Healthcare
Publication date:
28 Jun 2008
Resource type:
podcast interview
Brief description:
Jenny Griffiths is quizzed on the "Ten Practical Steps for Doctors to Fight Climate Change" (published in the BMJ 28.6.08), the relevance of climate change to diet, and on the last time she bought new clothes.
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Unhealthy foods and greenhouse gas emissions
A discussion of the links between greenhouse gas emissions in the food sector and unhealthy foods
Many of the foods that are the most polluting in terms of greenhouse gas emissions (red meat, highly processed foods) are also contributory factors to poor diets in individuals. Therefore, initiatives aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the food sector by reducing consumption of energy intense foods may result in public health improvements such as reductions in saturated fat intake and obesity levels.
I am a researcher in the Department of Public Health at University of Oxford and I am investigating the association between greenhouse gas emissions of individual foods and the 'healthiness' of those foods (measured using a nutrient profile model). I will be presenting my work at the UKPHA conference in Brighton in March.
I would like to know if there are other people who have investigated the links between greenhouse gas emissions in the food sector and unhealthiness of foods or diets. Also, I would be interested to know of any datasets of greenhouse gas emissions for foods that have been calculated for foods consumed in the United Kingdom. Any thoughts on this area would be most welcome!
