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Childhood obesity a priority, says Sebelius - (USA)
Childhood obesity was front and center on Day 2 of the CDC’s conference on obesity prevention and control , The Weight of the Nation. HHS Secretary, Kathleen Sebelius, spoke at today’s meeting and said a national focus on childhood obesity is overdue. “If there was an epidemic of little kids getting cancer, it would be a national crisis,” she said. “But because it’s obesity and the damage doesn’t come until later in life, we’ve been slow to act.” To help reverse the obesity trend for chil
http://fatfightertv.com/blog/2009/07/childhood-obesity-priority-sebelius/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss
Celebrity Addicts– - (USA)
Everyone knows that some celebrities, from Winehouse to Lohan to Spears, and more particularly those who are new to the money and glitz, don’t handle it well and become somewhat cloudy of judgement with their newfound wealth, but what about those for whom it isn’t a new thing, who still find themselves overwhelmed by the sheer momentum. Why does it seem so odd to us to see them, floundering when wealthy, presumably having it all, and then losing it. What makes us watch as they piss away their
http://www.hotgossip.com/celebrity-addicts/4189/
Recreational Drugs Information Home Page - (USA)
The history, growth, medical, spiritual, and recreational uses of marijuana, hashish, mushrooms, mescaline, LSD, cocaine, opium, amphetamines, and other drugs are explored.
http://www.a1b2c3.com/drugs/index.htm
Solutions for Hard Financial Times - (USA)
During these difficult economic times, are you focusing on the problems and concerned about the future? Do you feel hopeless, helpless, or powerless? Worrying or becoming stressed about the situation will not help you feel powerful or happy. In fact, they can make you ill and then you may have doctor and drug bills. Good news! You can open to new possibilities and feel empowered by taking positive actions. The following are 12 ideas to improve your financial situation and mental state. 1. Expl
http://allinone5.blogspot.com/2009/05/solutions-for-hard-financial-times.html
Cryptosporidiosis - (USA)
Pronounced as :KRIP-toe-spo-rid-ee-OH-sis Other Name:Crypto Definition:- Cryptosporidiosis is a parasitic disease caused by Cryptosporidium, a protozoan parasite in the phylum Apicomplexa. It affects the intestines of mammals and is typically an acute short-term infection. It is spread through the fecal-oral route; the main symptom is self-limiting diarrhea in people with intact immune systems. In immunocompromised individuals, such as AIDS patients, infection can cause permanent and life-t
http://findmeacure.com/2008/11/08/cryptosporidiosis/
Eden of the East 04 - (USA)
Summary: Saki returns home, avoids helping her sister Asako at Sangetsu Breads, and wishes she could poach her brother-in-law, Ryousuke. Oosugi Satoshi has calling like crazy, and he finally reaches Saki and volunteers to accompany her to her interview tomorrow. After hanging up on the poor guy, Saki then sends a pathetic text to Akira, but not before erasing a bit of the desperation from the text. Meanwhile, Juiz won’t give Akira much useful information, so he tracks down Selecao #5, Hiura
http://www.seaslugteam.com/archives/2009/05/07/eden-of-the-east-04/
Bad Medicine - (USA)
Forbes Magazine says that about 1/3 of youthful pot smokers use marijuana to replace "legitimate" medicines because of side effects from the legal medicines or because pot is more effective. Some teens are smoking marijuana not just for recreation but to self-medicate emotional problems, sleep difficulties and pain, a new study shows. Researchers conducted in-depth interviews with 63 adolescents who smoked marijuana regularly. About a third of the teens said they used the drug as a medicatio
http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com/2009/04/bad-medicine.html
Hospitality and the Hopis: Piki - (USA)
Cincinnati, OH. My oldest son manages a pool for the city recreation department while he’s home from college. It’s a summer job that should be well-suited for him: part schmooze, part autocracy, with an appealing professional wardrobe. But the sour economy has frayed relations and raised tempers in a chronically distressed neighborhood, and my son’s gotten used to calling the police to break up fights, document overnight vandalism, and collect drugs floating in the pool at the end of the day.
http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/?p=4826
Cold blooded liquor store killer's place is behind bars - (USA)
They just don't make cold-blooded killers like they used to. After 21 years of acknowledging his role in the 1974 murder of Carthage Airport Liquor Store owner James Stemmons, John Steven Martin, in an obvious ploy to gain his freedom invented a new version of the truth during an Aug. 19, 1998, parole board hearing in Potosi. At that time, Martin insisted he was performing a mercy killing when he shot Stemmons three times in the back of the head. It was Martin's partner in crime, Leslie Sander
http://rturner229.blogspot.com/2009/07/cold-blooded-liquor-store-killers-place.html
THE DAILY BLADE: The First Earth Day - (USA)
An unintentionally hilarious piece in The New Yorker casts a nostalgic eye on the origins of Earth Day: The first celebration of Earth Day, on April 22, 1970, was a raucously exuberant affair. In New York, Fifth Avenue was closed to traffic. People picnicked on the sidewalk; dead fish were dragged through midtown; and Governor Nelson Rockefeller rode a bicycle across Prospect Park. Students in Richmond, Virginia, handed out bags of dirt (to represent the “good earth”); demonstr
http://thestilettoblog.com/2009/04/22/the-daily-blade--the-first-earth-day.aspx?ref=rss
Destroying our Youth Through Popular Culture - (USA)
By Mister FoxOne of the weapons used to destroy our young people is what is known as the “Culture Wars.” Modern, popular music transmits raw uninhibited energy, emotion and excitement often with catchy tunes but is negative and corruptive. Those who doubt this should listen to, say, “Heavy Metal” or “Rap” then perhaps some Tudor church music and compare the feelings and images that are aroused. The first produce the desire to hurt or mistreat others, the second, an uplifting spiritual sense and
http://isupporttheresistance.blogspot.com/2008/11/destroying-our-youth-through-popular.html
Real Simple Magazine's Second-Annual Life Lessons Contest - (USA)
When did I first realize I became a grown-up ? First, let me begin by distinguishing the difference between a grown-up and an adult. I’ve come to define a grown-up as someone who has forgotten how to be a child, or has dis-owned their childhood, and yet still continues to act like one – and I have come to define an adult as someone who can manage themselves and their happiness while fulfilling the promises and responsibilities they have imposed upon themselves. Most of us flip-flop between thes
http://www.authspot.com/Thoughts/Real-Simple-Magazines-Second-Annual-Life-Lessons-Contest.922989
Parents Educate Themselves On Teenage Gambling Addiction - (USA)
Parents now realize if their teenager develops a compulsive gambling addiction their future course of action and time involvement is unknown. This isn’t something that is here today and gone tomorrow. Compulsive teenagers with a gambling addiction have one or more of the following in common: 1. School grades drop 2. Social development decreases 3. Low self esteem 4. Self destructive behavior 5. Asking you why this happened to them? 6. Thinking suicide is the only way out. 7. Stealing
http://yourinfoguide.com/parents-educate-themselves-on-teenage-gambling-addiction/
Racism: Glorified Hyperbole In America - (USA)
Each week, I write well-researched, straightforward and hard hitting editorials on the state of immigration, environment, politics and many other accelerating dilemmas facing America. Those op-eds expose politicians, presidents, ecological decline, the War on Drugs, etc. Yet, the United States, led by its current president, a black man named Barack Obama as well as a white dominated U.S. Congress continue leading this nation on a destructive path while pretending to make things better for Ame
http://novakeo.com/?p=4504
Founder of Second Chance Program Attacks Recidivism with Drug Rehab while Cultivating Self Respect w - (USA)
Rick Pendery has spent the last 30 years working in substance abuse programs and feels that he’s got the keys to reduce recidivism. Rick Pendery founded and ran a six year pilot of the Second Chance Program in Ensenada and Tijuana, Mexico as well as an other pilot in for nearly two years in Puerto Rico. The Second Chance Program free d over 6000 inmates from the interminable treadmill of drug addiction that leads to more crime and re-incarceration. He has now success fully opened a 600
http://www.lookurl.com/marketing/founder-of-second-chance-program-attacks-recidivism-with-drug-rehab-while-cultivating-self-respect-with-inmates.html
Technology Review: Blogs: Simson Garfinkel's blog: Are Virtual Drugs a Gateway to the Real Thing? - (USA)
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/garfinkel/17591/
Stay Safe on the Seas When Boating - (USA)
by Celeste Izon Humans are land mammals, but we sure love our time in the water. People will go to great lengths to travel to cool northern lakes in the summer, and hot southern beaches in winter. A vacation just isn’t the same without spending time in the water. Boating provides fun and exhilarating sport, and it can be a relaxing hobby. Whether you’re speeding along with the surf slapping wildly at the helm, or floating lazily on an inflatable raft, the water provides a beautiful and fascina
http://www.cvntravel.com/?p=601
18 arrested in raids on violent Richmond gang - (USA)
Eighteen people, including a Richmond parks and recreation employee, were arrested Thursday in connection with a crackdown on a violent street gang in the city, authorities said. Kaisha Hill, 29, who works as a juvenile group counselor with the parks department, was found at a home on the 400 block of Eighth Street with a kilo of cocaine and three guns, one of which was a MAC-11 automatic weapon, investigators said. Hill is an associate of a Richmond gang called Deep C or Deep Central, authori
http://keepingitreal.typepad.com/keepingitreal/2008/11/18-arrested-in-raids-on-violent-richmond-gang.html
Felix Dennis IS Gollum! - (USA)
Photo by MartWard Maybe it’s all the expensive French wine that Felix keeps bragging about drinking while he was writing How to Get Rich (which I finally finished), or maybe it’s his Napoleon complex (colleagues and ex-employees call him the “Bearded Dwarf” behind his back). But, now that I’ve finished reading it, I feel a little like I’ve been in a tiny codependent relationship with the author. He’s battered me and the world with petty insults … for wanting to be rich, then
http://shanelyang.com/2009/04/24/felix-dennis-is-gollum/
My Digest - (USA)
Watson & Miss Piglet Location: Silt, Colorado , USA Watson , top, was named for a beloved childhood cat and Miss Piglet named because of her fondness of food (once she was strong enough to eat on her own). Piglet was the runt of a feral litter and too weak to be interested in food. My daughter, Molly, insisted she nurse from a bottle and within days the little girl was a regular chow-hound. From a feral litter of four The Daily Kitten • 1 hour ago
http://madhavgopalkrish.wordpress.com/2009/08/06/my-digest/
Dope - (USA)
When I was a youth, use of certain psychoactive drugs -- specifically cannabis and hallucinogens -- was associated with a rich countercultural movement that posed a radical, moral challenge to the political establishment; set out to reinvent social relationships and the individualistic and material values of the dominant culture in the U.S.; and to create new forms of spirituality based on metaphysical exploration. The drugs were not seen as mere recreation or escape, but as tools for insight a
http://healthvsmedicine.blogspot.com/2008/11/dope.html
Marijuana Issue Reaches Tipping Point - (USA)
There are some advocates out there that believe we’ve reached a “tipping point” with overturning the current cannabis laws. Despite the same rhetoric from government officials on the war on drugs, it does feel like there is a change in the air in regards to marijuana. After all, more and more television shows and feature movies are becoming more and more popular. Keith Stroup, founder of NORML, the organization that fights for marijuana legalization, sees a tipping point. He refers to a 2002
http://thefreshscent.com/2009/05/07/marijuana-issue-reaches-tipping-point/
Concussion (Traumatic Brain Injury): Symptoms, Causes, Treatments - (USA)
Concussion (Traumatic Brain Injury): Symptoms, Causes, Treatments The most common and least serious type of traumatic brain injury is called a concussion. The word comes from the Latin concutere which means "to shake violently." According to the CDC, as many as 3.8 million sports- and recreation-related concussions occur each year in the U.S. Other causes include car and bicycle accidents, work-related injuries, falls, and fighting. How can you tell if you have had a concussion? Is
http://www.medicalgeek.com/health-lifestyle/14024-concussion-traumatic-brain-injury-symptoms-causes-treatments.html
Mason Tvert: Obama: Stop Driving Americans - and White House Guests - To Drink - (USA)
At a press conference in California last week , President Barack Obama's new drug czar, Gil Kerlikowske declared: "Marijuana is dangerous and has no medicinal benefit." Meanwhile, the President was at the White House trying to defuse the situation surrounding the controversial and highly publicized arrest of his friend, Harvard Professor Henry Lewis Gates, Jr., by inviting him and the arresting officer, Sgt. Jim Crowley, to the White House for a beer. Yes, that's right. Just after Pr
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mason-tvert/obama-stop-driving-americ_b_246283.html
Milton Friedman's Role and His Influence on the Two Worst Regimes in US History - (USA)
As recently as 2005, Milton Friedman was still singing the praises of utterly failed economic policies that had been put to the test by Ronald Reagan and Bushes Sr and Jr. Friedman's policies have been found tragically lacking. Friedman is enamored with policies that bankrupted the nation, made terrorism worse, created the longest, deepest recession since the crash of 1929, exported jobs abroad and resulted in the destruction of the American labor movement and, as a result, the loss of employee
http://existentialistcowboy.blogspot.com/2008/11/milton-friedmans-role-and-his-influence_27.html
ADD: Myth or Fact? Part Three - (USA)
by Rebecca Walther What if your child is diagnosed? Do they need Ritalin or another dangerous drug? In short, no. There are many different means of controlling ADHD, the first and probably more important being discipline. Most children in today’s society are not taught discipline, respect, or self-discipline. Remember when you were a kid and you wanted to scream in the restaurant, I bet your mother did not allow you for even a second. You would have been taken outside, perhaps spanked or given
http://www.jrseocontest2008.com/add-myth-or-fact-part-three/
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