by Girl on The Avenue – August 7, 2007 via GreenRoofs.WordPress.Com

Singapore is no stranger to green roofs. Green Roofs for Healthy Australian Cities president Geoff Wilson has written extensively on “food from-the-roof” technologies pioneered in Singapore, and vice-President Sidonie Carpenter has documented many Singapore roofs on her Green Roofs Fellowship blog.

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12th January 2007 via DailyMail.Co.Uk

Cool, refreshing and bursting with fruit, smoothies are the drink of choice for health-conscious Britons.

Grabbed on the go as a quick alternative to breakfast or sipped leisurely as an afternoon snack, their popularity is soaring.

But what few smoothie devotees will have realised is that many of the colourful drinks are actually more sugary than Coca-Cola.

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12th January 2007 via DailyMail.Co.Uk

Eating tofu regularly can almost halve a woman’s chances of developing ovarian cancer, according to researchers.

A study found that a daily portion of 10gm of the food, a meat substitute made from soya bean curd, cut the risk by 44 per cent.

This level of consumption releases around 3mg or more of isoflavones, the plant hormones in soya believed to protect against some forms of cancer and heart disease.

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by Steve Doughty - 5th January 2007 via DailyMail.Co.Uk

The plague of rats gripping towns and cities has been worsened by the greed of local councils, pest control firms said yesterday.

As revealed in the Mail yesterday, rat infestations have shot up by nearly 40 per cent in six years. Last night it emerged that the plague has coincided with town halls charging to send out ratcatchers.

Six out of ten of councils have stopped deploying pest control teams free of charge, said the National Pest Technicians Association.

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