Helen Stoddard

Diana Papoulis @eXXpedition "The animals out here have no choice. They're living in this stuff. They can't go to the supermarket and pick something else up. They can't decide I'm going to eat soy instead of fish because now we think fish is contaminated." 😢 #plasticpollution

Imagine owning an army of black cats 🥰

I was photographing this woodland in the fresh snow and a Pheasant appeared at the perfect moment!

This is truly one of the sweetest and most wholesome things I’ve ever seen. A man captures squirrels up close and personal. Truly an amazing glimpse into the beauty of our world.

@JamesMelville I used to go out and clear them in Broom Road in Hampton Wick/Teddington. The Council never do them… and all along the road between Bushy and Home Parks… always drains blocked. Richmond Council are useless.

During the winter weather in the UK, many streets and roads have been flooded. It might help if the drains were regularly cleaned by local councils. The lack of infrastructure maintenance in this country is ridiculous. What exactly are we paying our council tax for again?

“To those dear friends (since this may be the last time that the word ‘Pooh’ will leave my nib) May I say, ‘Thank you for having loved him.’ He will be very proud if you sing his songs, and so keep him for ever in your memory.” ~A.A.Milne 1929 #WinnieThePooh

"So if I'm reading this right, there's a new cardboard box in the house"

I spotted this overgrown blocked drain yesterday on a busy main road. I went back this morning and dug it all out, under the soil turf and litter it ran freely. Much better now

Unsung local hero at work.

Ultra Processed Food, and the system that produces it, has overtaken tobacco in terms of health and economic harms, and is also the leading cause of plastic pollution, loss of biodiversity and deforestation, and the second leading cause of emissions. This week @TheLancet published a landmark three-part series on the science, policy and politics of #UPF. thelancet.com/series-do/ultr…

Dr. James Salisbury, 1860s Civil War physician. Union soldiers were dying. Not from bullets. From dysentery, scurvy, and typhoid. The military diet: Hardtack, beans, coffee. Minimal meat due to cost. Salisbury observed: Soldiers with access to beef recovered faster from everything. Wounds healed quicker. Infections cleared. Energy returned. He started prescribing pure beef. Three times daily. Nothing else. The results were so dramatic that officers started requisitioning beef specifically for sick soldiers. Salisbury published his findings in 1888: "The Relation of Alimentation and Disease." His conclusion: Most chronic diseases stem from improper fermentation in the digestive system caused by eating starches and vegetables. His prescription: Minced beef, three times daily, with hot water. For weeks or months depending on severity. He documented successful treatment of: - Tuberculosis - Rheumatism - Mental disorders - Digestive diseases - Obesity - Gout His work was hugely influential. Salisbury steak was named after him. Originally it wasn't a convenience food. It was medicine. By 1920s: Pharmaceutical companies developing antibiotics and drugs for the same conditions. By 1950s: Salisbury's work is ignored, mocked, or forgotten. Today: "Salisbury steak" is a processed meat patty with gravy served in school cafeterias. The medical application has been completely erased from history. A physician who cured chronic diseases with beef was memory-holed because his cure couldn't be patented. The pharmaceutical industry didn't just compete with his methods. They erased them from medical history entirely.

@StayFree2030 I do stuff like this to make my area better, the shenanigans of local authorities aside I want the place to look good I can't do everywhere but I do as much as I can, see the work I do . We can live in a better place

A quick reel of Before and After shots of work from 2023 in Walsall. Stayed all clean here I check regularly for the odd small thing well worth doing. It's the broken windows theory in action. Clean up and keep it clean. It does have an effect

@mike56200 I can see you Mike. 👍🌟 I'm still following and seeing your posts.

Hope everyone can see this? I did this work last year weeding & painting. Comment if you can I am worried my account was hacked or disabled. I've had X flagging messages here. My follow counts have gone. Not sure what to do

Yet again, a volunteer having to do jobs the council are paid to do! It’s infuriating.

It's literally that simple.

The triglyceride/HDL ratio is a much better way to predict future cardiovascular risks. Mine has gone from 2.4 to 0.25. My mom's has gone from 4.5 to 1.8. All after changing our diet to red meat, eggs, & butter 🤷‍♀️

A huge pile of waste has appeared in a field in Oxfordshire, measuring 150 m (490 ft) long and 6 m (20 ft) high. It is on a site between the River Cherwell and the A34 near Kidlington, England. People are destroying the environment from the air to the soil —it’s disgusting.

🚨SHOCKING STATE OF THE RIVER CHERWELL, OXFORD UK This is an environmental catastrophe Our rivers are the lifeblood of our country's wildlife and environment HOW HAS THIS BEEN ALLOWED TO HAPPEN? The UK is literally becoming the 3rd world

🚨 SHOCKING 🚨 A HUGE illegal waste dump has appeared between the A34 and River Cherwell, linked to organised crime. Every rainfall risks toxins washing into the river. We’re calling on the Environment Agency & Cherwell Council to act NOW. Our rivers cannot wait. 👇👇