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Vegetarians are generally less likely than meat eaters to develop cancer but this does not apply to all forms of the disease, a major study has found.
The study involving 60,000 people found those who followed a vegetarian diet developed notably fewer cancers of the blood, bladder and stomach.
But the apparently protective effect of vegetarian did not seem to stretch to bowel cancer, a major killer.
Goodness, Truth, Beauty by Hand & Eye Letterpress
Because it has to be said: Canada’s Next Top Model is kicking Australia’s Next Top Model’s ass right now. Instead of a dirty, immature bogan, we have a youth worker who isn’t afraid to cut a bitch, a pretty sorta geeky girl who will probably win, an annoying brunette with hips like Roger from American Dad, and an Iranian immigrant who has risen from oppression. Or something.
SUCK ON THAT, YOU FILTHY KOALA LOVERS.
But most of AusNTM’s girls actually look like models and are of a better age to start modelling. I don’t understand why ANTM, BNTM and CNTM have such a hard time finding “modelesque” (sorry, only word that fits the bill) girls. Our best girl is as attractive and has as much potential as their worst. WTF.
Wow, just look at all them acronyms.
Reblogged from thatswhatimsaying
At the moment, treatment seems to be elbowing prevention off the global stage. Treatment is popular - voters smile on compassionate politicians who give out life-saving drugs, while frowning on politicians who give out condoms or clean needles that would make those drugs unnecessary.
— The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS by Elizabeth Pisani
I am here to tell you about the value of having some sort of practice. I define practice as “What you do with regularity, even when you don’t feel like doing anything else.” I firmly believe that incorporating some sort of practice, or activity, into your normal routine – whether it’s yoga, running, knitting, cooking, walking, drawing, cleaning, or anything else you can absorb yourself in – is one the best ways (if not THE best way) to help you feel a little calmer, a little clearer, more able to deal with whatever life brings.
Today’s Canada Day project was to rearrange our bedroom. Goal: Simplify!
“Before” pictures can be seen here. I’m really glad we took the TV out of there (not pictured in the before pics).
Also, I’m pretty excited about being able to upload multiple photos to Tumblr now. Love this slideshow!
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Reblogged from justojusto
A more recent example of citizens burying their heads in the sand comes from Swaziland, where 43 per cent of adults are infected with HIV. I’ve been in the AIDS business more than a decade and I still can’t get my head around numbers like that. I can’t get my head around this, either: After years of bland ‘Be aware: AIDS leads to death’ type campaigns, Swaziland’s AIDS council in 2006 endorsed a new approach. Ignoring the king’s thirteen wives, they ran a campaign that drew a clear connection between multiple partnerships and AIDS. ‘OK honey, you have a good time at the conference in Durban,’ says a cartoon businessman, before texting his secretary: ‘The wife has gone to Durban. Come over tonight and roll in the sack with me.’ His secretary texts back to reject him: ‘I am no longer your rollover.’ Pretty tame. But within weeks, the Swaziland National Network of People Living with HIV and AIDS had organized a march on parliament and got the campaign, called ‘Secret Lover’, taken off the air. According to a press release issued by the International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS: ‘A new government-sponsored HIV prevention campaign in Swaziland uses insulting language to target HIV-positive women and suggests that they are the cause of the spread of HIV.’
‘The reality is that most Swazi women “get HIV in their own bedrooms from their husbands”,’ said a member of the International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS in their press release. But epidemiologically, it is hard to see how that could be the case. Some husbands will have been infected by sex workers. But a goodly proportion will have been infected by someone’s current or future wife, including their own. HIV will only ever reach those levels of infection if a majority of the population has unprotected sex with more than one partner. Apparently, though, we’re not allowed to say that men get infected by having unprotected sex with HIV positive women, each of whom herself became infected by having unprotected sex with an HIV positive man. Here’s something else we’re certainly not allowed to say: with that kind of guidance from the very people who are most affected, it’s no wonder that more than two in five adults in Swaziland are infected with HIV.
— The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS by Elizabeth Pisani
There’s no doubt that HIV has BECOME a development problem in Africa, because we did such a rotten job with prevention. But I don’t think that HIV prevention in Africa failed initially because of poverty and gender inequality. I think it failed because most countries didn’t try very hard. As late as 1999, when 23.3 million Africans were estimated to be HIV-infected, foreign agencies provided Africa with 500 million condoms. That’s just over three condoms per year for each man aged 15-49. If you add in condoms that African governments paid for, it takes it up to a grand total of 4.6 condoms per man, enough to have protected sex once every three months.
— The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS by Elizabeth Pisani
