In Norway there is a strong urbanization process going on. Most towns have not realised this yet, and are not planning for good urban development
Archive for June, 2008
Urban development
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008Do we understand health?
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008The concepts of health – healthy food, healthy living – are constantly in the media. Obesity and lifestyle problems are in the mainstream of these presentations, but people seem not to understand the nature of nutrition and physical activity fully.
A human body contains information – the metabolome – on 3000 metabolites, 1200 drugs, 3500 food components. The metabolome could be used to make up individual advice on what healthy living is. E.g. there are variations in what bacteria we have in our bodies and how people respond to food. This complicates the intake of medicine as well as the making of diets for people.
If we can catalogue the metabolome we can design what we take into our body – the old food will never be the same again – may be you should change the level of your bacteria today, maybe remove some dangerous stuff or add some that are beneficial.
The idea of food that is generally healthy is out – that depends on your metabolome!
See also The Human Metabolome Project
Metabolism: the chemical processes that occur within a living organism in order to maintain life
Energy
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008The waterfalls of Norway represents a sustainable source of energy – the cycle repeating itself year after year and producing low cost energy over and over. With care the changes in the environment can be tolerable when building these installations.
The question of sustainable energy has top priority when considering future energy production.
Oil Price
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008The oil price is working its way upwards. The consequences will slowly be entering the economies of all countries, oil producers and oil consumers in diverse ways.
After reaching US$ 140 the price is now under US$ 100, and OPEC is now reducing production.
Many interests are involved: What is the name of the real game?
The long term trend of the oil price is up. The oil will eventually run out – gradually – pushing the price – gradually – upwards. There is a brutal logic involved.