Both men and women who are vegetarians have a 50% higher risk of suffering a hip fracture compared to people who regularly eat meat, according to the results of a large-scale study from the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom, as reported by The Jerusalem Post. It is known that vegetarian women have an increased risk of hip fractures, but the reasons for this have remained unclear, and studies analyzing the impact of a vegetarian diet on men have been conducted on a small scale and are largely inconclusive.

A true cascade of food product recalls is taking place these days in the American state of New York, all for the same reason: they contain stones. Brands of falafel, biscuits, chocolate, and broccoli cheddar soup, with local notoriety, sold by Trader Joe’s, are affected.

We recommend Amanda Little’s editorial in The Washington Post regarding the latest trends in genetically modifying crops and the fight against climate change. Amanda Little believes that Genetic Modifications of crops sell a false illusion, namely that we can permanently alter plants to adapt them to new environmental pressures (drought, winds, heavy rains, pest attacks, etc.). However, this diverts our attention from the fight against the root causes of climate change and, implicitly, from decarbonizing the economy. In reality, crop plants require numerous genetic modifications to withstand all the changes induced by climate change, while we are barely making incremental changes in the products we offer to farmers. The discussion takes place in the context of the approval in the United States of Smart Corn, a corn designed to grow shorter to withstand increasingly violent storms that have recently toppled entire fields. Essentially, scientists from Bayer have modified the corn plant with a foreign gene that inhibits the production of gibberellic acid, the plant’s growth hormone, allowing the corn to produce the same amount of fruit on much shorter, super-resistant stems. The approval follows last year’s approval of the HB4 wheat variety, produced by Bioceres, which has a drought-resistant gene transferred from sunflowers inserted into its genome.