Kids will now have some ammunition when they refuse to eat their spinach. A study of “dangerous” foods – in regard to food-borne illness outbreaks – placed leafy greens in the top 10:
Leafy greens — including lettuce and spinach — top the list of the 10 riskiest foods, according to a study from a nutrition advocacy group released Tuesday.
Over the past 20 years, leafy greens caused 363 outbreaks, resulting in 13,568 reported illnesses, the center said. That’s compared to berries, No. 10 on the list, which were associated with 25 outbreaks totaling 3,397 reported illnesses.
He says the designers gave the building a chassis, made it out of polystyrene foam and covered it with glass-reinforced concrete.
“What does that do? It produces a raft; it floats,” Mayne says. “And it’s thought about as a seat belt. I mean, hopefully it never gets used. But when it gets used, it’s important.”
The NYT told readers that the investments needed to curtail global warming would cost the world $10 trillion over the years from 2010 to 2030. It would have been helpful to also note that global GDP will be around $1500 trillion over this period, so that the estimated cost of these measures would be equal to approximately 0.7 percent of GDP. This means that they would impose approximately one sixth as much of a burden on the world economy as the defense department budget does on the u.S. economy.
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