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Empowerhouse: New Model for Green, Affordable Housing, Now Open - Dexigner

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DexignerEmpowerhouse: New Model for Green, Affordable Housing, Now OpenDexignerEach unit of the two-family house is designed as a "site net-zero" system (producing all of its energy needs), but each achieves peak efficiency when joined.

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What caused the obesity crisis in the West?

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When and why did food became an addiction? And is fat consumption or sugar consumption the greater culprit? Jacques Peretti (pictured above) investigates.

 

"Genetically, human beings haven't changed, but our environment, our access to cheap food has," says Professor Jimmy Bell, obesity specialist at Imperial College, London.

 

"We're being bombarded every day by the food industry to consume more and more food."

 

One of the biggest changes in our modern diet stems back to the 1970s when US agriculture embarked on the mass-production of corn and of high-fructose corn syrup, commonly used as a sweetener in processed foods. . . .

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