Posts for 'Health' Category

I recently offered free copies of my new book on brain health in return for a review. Guess what... over 70% of the respondents were women. A surprising result...? No not really!

Compared with men...

Women are more willing to ask for help and not afraid to admit if they don't understand something. Women like to do research, gather information and get to the facts. Women are less likely to require instant solutions and more prepared to do 'what it takes' to get the result they want. All-in-all women seem far more sensible and courageous than most men when it comes to confronting and addressing health issues!.

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The Kofi Annan's challenge above is a mean one; a clarion call to every citizen of the world to do their bit, their very best, in the quest for a poverty-free world. To us, Africans , the call must be taken seriously to guarantee better future devoid of deprivations of essentials of life. Yet we see the probability of eradicating poverty in Africa soon, most especially in sub-Saharan Africa, as a mirage based on daily worrisome happenstances around us. Let's for example examine two of these disturbing trends of events that are giving many of us sleepless nights: belief in witchcraft and witch-killing or witch-stereotyping.

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For if resources are which determine the richest of a people then African countries like Nigeria, Angola, Sudan, Tanzania, and DRC Congo would be some of the richest in the world and countries like Israel, Singapore or Hong Kong would be some of the poorest.

Empirical evidence  however demonstrates that it is the country that have embraced technology( the adequate exploitation of their mind resource), who have done  better than those even more endowed with oil, gold, diamonds and even platinum.

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A Small boy was wandering bare footed on the road, His Sparkling but innocent eyes were looking for something. As he has lost his some very precious thing. Suddenly his eyes stoped at the place full of garbage. he shouted with joy "Hey I GOT IT !!!!!!!!"Very next moment he has a rotten peace of bread in his hand which was covered with fungus.

On very next moment his emotions changed, A piece of bottle entered in his foot and now he was crying his innocent sparkling eyes turned into tears. This is the common sean often seen of our roads and satreests.

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Living In Poverty: Imagine, if you can, living in a one-room hut with a dirt floor, little or no shelter from the elements, no running water or electricity, in a community that has only dirt roads, no doctors or medical facilities, no police protection, no schools, no employment, where the average annual income is often as little as a dollar  a day, starvation and death are constant companions and grinding deprivation is so severe that parents are often forced to sell their children into servitude or prostitution, and infant mortality is extremely high. It’s truly a bleak picture.

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Modern human is like a human. He is degraded by the modern captilistic system. Childern are forced to work due to poverty. In third world country majority of people are living below poverty line. Now the intelectuals  have to introduced a word which shows the conditions below poverty. The basic needs of life are food, shelter and water. But on this globe so many people are lacking such things.

When the existance of one came into threat then he can do any thing. At that time one has no questions about respect or humilations. His focus is only on the fight for survival. The poverty is the basic root cause for the decline of moral values. But some people are forced to poor condition due to captilist.

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The smaller the paycheck, the bigger the belly, say many researchers who study poverty and obesity. It might seem like a paradox, but not having enough money for food doesn't mean the poor are skinny. The opposite appears to be true: The lower-income are more likely to be heavy than the well-to-do. "Obesity is an economic issue," said Cyndi Walter, manager for the California Department of Public Health obesity-prevention program, Project LEAN. Eating well is beyond the reach of many California residents, she said.

It's easy to make the connection in the central San Joaquin Valley. At least 20% of adults in the region live in poverty, and about 30% are obese. Statewide, 13% are poor and 23% are obese, according to U.S. Census data and the 2007 California Health Interview Survey.

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Poverty has been defined as being "like a punishment for a crime you didn't commit." Millions of children in need around the world are being punished every day - and their only "crime" was being born into poverty. Despite a world that seems to hang on every word that falls from the lips of the top names on the Fortune 500 list, the truth is there are millions of children in need who know nothing of the bright lights and affluent lifestyles of the rich and famous. Their only concern is surviving each day as it comes.

Fourteen million American children are hungry or at risk of hunger - that's 30 percent of the population. These statistics prove that child poverty isn't just a problem in the developing world; it's a problem on our own shores, too. Yet child poverty in the United States could be alleviated for $45 billion, according to the National Center for Children in Poverty. Although that sounds like a huge amount of money, it is in fact less than the amount of money given in annual tax breaks to the wealthiest Americans during the 1980s and '90s.

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Poverty compelled parents to leave a year and half old female child in the local hospital of Karachi that was taken to Edhi Center.

"We received the report that in Sindh government hospital situated in Korangi no: 5, a year and half old female child was left by unknown person.

I went to the hospital and took possession of the child," told Abdul Sattar Edhi, head of Edhi Foundation. He said that now female child was.

In Edhi Center along with other children. Poverty has made it difficult for the poor people to make both ends meet easily.

Oppressed by war and poverty for generations, the Sudanese have struggled with terrible hardships. But the people of this vast country have a narrow window of hope to achieve progress by ridding both their nation and the world of a horrible disease forever.

With support from The Carter Center and others in one small targeted area where cases remain, Sudan - the last stand for Guinea worm disease - could quickly eliminate this parasitic infection contracted from contaminated drinking water.

Guinea worm victims endure the horror of a thin worm, up to 3 feet (1 meter) long, emerging slowly through a burning blister in their skin over the course of about a month after the parasite has incubated inside them for a year. This can be stopped by educating people to filter all drinking water and to stay out of water sources when they have a worm emerging to keep it from discharging new larvae back into the water.