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ECO HVAR'S AIMS: 

To initiate, organize, promote and encourage projects to improve health in all age groups.

HOW? 

- through projects of health education for all age groups, especially the young, with special focus on promoting good balance in diet, exercise, activities, rest, relaxation and healthy lifestyle habits.

- through projects for health tourism, especially promoting activity and sporting holidays, including nature walks, bicycling, sailing, rock climbing, rowing and other water sports.

- through co-operation with organizations having similar aims in Croatia and abroad

GM, Pesticides and Hvar's Future Health

GMOs good for butterflies and wild plants?

The 'Mediterranean diet' is considered to be extremely healthy, especially in protecting against heart disease. The first commercial genetically modified (GM) crops were planted in the United States in 1994 and have aroused heated controversy ever since. When GM meets the Mediterranean diet, are the two compatible? Or will GM swallow up the concept of the 'Mediterranean diet' and spit it out, unrecognizable and indigestible?

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Tobacco, cigarettes: kick their butt?

Tobacco, cigarettes: kick their butt?

A major scientific study published in November 2016 confirmed the horrific damage cigarette smoking can cause to human health.  Cigarette smoking is associated with 17 different types of cancer and is estimated to claim more than 6 million lives each year.

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Books to Lighten the Heart

Books to Lighten the Heart

In the age before tablets, mobile phones, computers and televisions, many people used to read, and reading was a social asset. Yes, it is so. We who are old enough remember that there was a time, not so long ago, when these wonders of modern living did not exist. Children brought up in this age of instant communication across continents often wonder what we did with our time. One thing was reading. Books, newspapers, journals, magazines and comics were the main sources of passing the time pleasurably and/or educationally.

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Water, The Most Vital Human Resource

Water, The Most Vital Human Resource

Hvar is blessed in having a very good water supply. That said, piped water is not yet available across the whole island. The eastern villages between Jelsa and Sućuraj still rely on wells and cisterns filled by rainwater, although projects to connect them to the mains supply by stages are in hand, and have been since about 2010.

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Health and Healthcare in Our Times

Health and Healthcare in Our Times

Some of the concepts underlying ECO HVAR for health.

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  • Heavy rain on dry ground may cause UK floods but will not reverse drought

    ‘First meaningful rain for a long time’ is forecast but water firms continue to ask customers to restrict use

    Floods and drought could hit the UK at the same time this week, with heavy rain forecast to fall on hard, parched soil.

    While some parts of the UK will have the “first meaningful rain for a long time” in the coming days, it will not reverse widespread drought conditions that have put pressure on wildlife, farmers, firefighters and water resources.

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  • Extreme heat more dangerous for people 60 and over than previously thought

    Study finds older adults could face harmful heat stress at just 1.5C of warming above preindustrial levels

    People aged 60 and over face dangers to their health from exposure to heat at much lower temperatures than previously thought, research has found.

    Older adults will bear the brunt of increasingly frequent sustained spells of extreme heat globally as the world continues to warm up, according to a study in The Lancet Public Health.

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  • England’s ancient oak trees dying in extreme hot and dry weather

    Woodland Trust says trees struggling in drought stress, with older ‘survivors’ disproportionately affected

    England’s ancient oak trees are dying in the summer’s extreme heat and dry weather, according to the Woodland Trust, with trees and ecosystems unable to adapt fast enough to the changing climate.

    The heatwaves across much of Europe this summer have had a notable impact on crop growth and plant health. To cope with the extreme conditions, many trees are undergoing “early autumn”, wilting and losing their leaves early.

    Crow Leasow oak, Shropshire.

    Tea Party oak, Suffolk.

    King John oak, Devon.

    Enmore oak, Somerset.

    Lydham Manor oak, Shropshire.

    Old Knobbley, Essex.

    Pwllpriddog oak, Carmarthenshire.

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  • European farmers face ‘unprecedented crisis’ after successive heatwaves

    Vegetable and grain growers call for urgent action, warning of ‘catastrophic’ harvests due to continent-wide drought

    Successive intense heatwaves and an increasingly severe, continent-wide drought have left many of Europe’s farmers in an “unprecedented” crisis, with vegetable and grain growers in particular warning of “catastrophic” harvests.

    French vegetable production is down by “a very significant extent” compared with previous years, French growers have said, with shortfalls put at 25% for courgettes, 35% for lettuces, 40% for peas, 60% for broccoli and 50% to 100% for artichokes.

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  • Reform’s Tice accused of misinformation after urging people to enjoy heatwaves

    Nurses, medical experts and green campaigners reject party deputy leader’s dismissal of efforts to reach net zero

    Reform’s deputy leader has been accused of spreading misinformation after he dismissed efforts to tackle the climate crisis and urged British people to enjoy the warmth of the recent heatwaves.

    Richard Tice prompted a backlash from nurses, medical experts and green campaigners on Monday after he told a press conference he believed it was “arrogant” to try to stop the climate emergency, while encouraging people to focus on upsides such as better English wine.

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  • Burnham is choosing jobs over climate security. That’s a big risk | Gaby Hinsliff

    The PM’s net zero pragmatism may please some voters, but as parts of the country go up in flames, it’s an increasingly hard sell

    When the siren sounded on Friday night, my first thought was fire.

    Weeks of unrelenting sun in the normally soggy Peak District, where I was visiting my mum, have bleached green valleys a dangerously dry, crispy blond. One of her neighbours had earlier pointed out an ominous cloud of smoke on the horizon, coming from one of the wildfires raging all summer on the moor. When that harsh, discordant shriek blared from every mobile phone in the house, I was half-braced for an evacuation order, not what turned out to be a faintly melodramatic warning to the nation to lay off the barbecues. A false alarm, of sorts, but one that felt uneasily like a wake-up call.

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  • ‘Our new normal’: how marine heatwaves affect life in British seas

    As warming seas push native species to cooler waters farther north, once-rare visitors have become more common

    ‘It sounds silly but I thought it was a person in the water waving,” says Kurt Lander, skipper of the Yellowfin charter boat, based out of Brighton. But when he grabbed his binoculars, he realised the fluttering movement he had noticed in the middle of the Channel shipping lane was a pair of sunfish.

    The huge fish were lying on their sides and flapping their fins. “Apparently, they do it as a visual attraction to birds,” he says. “They’re trying to get the birds to eat the parasites off them.”

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  • ‘A new normal’: Miami faces worsening seaweed problem as piles of algae wash up on beaches

    Officials have had to remove thousands of tons of sargassum from Florida’s beaches amid the climate crisis

    Dealing with seaweed is the bulk of Chris Bumpus’s job during the summer. As chief of conservation for Miami-Dade county’s parks, recreation and open spaces department, Bumpus is in charge of cleaning sargassum off 17 miles (27km) of county beaches. But some days, the odds are stacked against him and his team.

    More and more sargassum, a kind of floating brown algae, has been washing up on the beaches of south Florida, west Africa, the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean.

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  • Iraq’s ghost villages: Islamic State drove people away – now a new enemy is preventing their return

    Nearly a decade after fighting ended in northern Iraq, the climate crisis has brought extreme heat and a water shortage, making life almost impossible

    The first thing that strikes visitors arriving in Faka, a small village in Sinjar district, northern Iraq, is the silence. No children play in the streets. No shops are open. Roofless houses stretch across the hillside, their walls pockmarked by shellfire, while weeds and wild grasses grow through collapsed living rooms.

    A decade after Islamic State (IS) swept across the region, war remains visible everywhere. But according to the people who returned, another enemy has quietly taken its place.

    Rajab Mohammed says the problem in his village of Faka is no longer Islamic State but water and jobs

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  • I tried everything to rid my yard of mosquitoes. This German-engineered trap finally worked

    After trying nearly everything to prevent mosquito bites, I tested Biogents’ traps, used by the CDC and WHO, to find if backyard results are worth $200

    Don’t get me wrong: I’m a peaceful person with compassion for all earthly creatures. Except mosquitoes, which deserve all the swats, cursing and loathing they get.

    As someone for whom a single bite brings big, red, itchy lumps that last for days, I’ve done everything imaginable for relief. I’ve removed any standing water I could find, slathered myself with Deet, picaridin and eucalyptus oil until I smelled like a chemical waste dump, and worn hats, long sleeves and shirts soaked in alleged repellants, but none of it works.

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