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Hungry Girl

HungryGirl.com is a website that is dedicated to all those girls who always watch their calories and are also love eating food. Looks like an oxymoron statement, doesn’t it ? But looks like HungryGirl.com is here to the rescue. It is a website devoted to the food lovers out there who are calorie conscious and wanting to watch what they eat, but at the same time, not having to give up the foods they love.

HungryGirl contains lots of recipes that are delicious but at the same time keep a check on calories. For each recipe that is available in the website at the end of it they also mention how many calories you are going to add into your system plus all other info like fats, sodium, carbs, protein, fiber, sugar. What more do you need?

They compare a food that is available with the recipe of their own to show you how much carbs and calories you can cut on without having to avoid eating it. Thats really GREAT!

You can subscribe to their daily newsletter to receive daily updates, new recipes to your email.

I think this site is gonna be a HIT!

Visit : http://www.HungryGirl.com

Teenage Pregnancy

For many, this statement is authentic. In the United States, teenage pregnancies are decreasing. The reasoning ranges from safe sex programs and the parents being an operational part in their child’s life. There are ample of reasons why teenage pregnancies are decreasing in the last few years in the United States. When the statistics reveal that these figures are decreasing, many jump for joy at the probability that more teenagers are being safe and smart about sex. Many feel this is the help of many entities that their children are being safe. Some of the reasons why this is happening amongst teenagers in America are:

1. Public Attention – This is through programs such as: Purity camps, Condom distribution at schools and other programs that the public have stepped in and took over for the parents who refuse to teach their children. Yes, talking with your children about sex is difficult, but how much more difficult will it be to take care of a baby when you are too old to do it? That is why the public is stepping in.

2. Easy information – Fliers, pamphlets, and books are educating children more about the different diseases that are spread through intercourse and other forms of sex. Children are reading this and taking more initiative to protect themselves when they have sex. When teenagers were in the past, there was not that much information to give to people who were sexually active. This caused many outbreaks of AIDS and other harmful diseases.

3. Better policies – Different laws being passed in order to help rape victims or unfit mothers use abortion to solve the pregnancy problem are being implemented in many cities to reduce the amount of children born to unfit parents. There are many teenagers who look at these programs and feel that getting pregnant when you are not ready is a very bad idea.

When children have pregnancies, it can be dangerous. This is a big reason why teenagers are avoiding getting pregnant today. With the many advances in medical science, it makes it easier to solve the teenager’s problems with labor. However, the pains of delivery are what make many teenagers escape getting pregnant through improper safe sex methods. Keeping the information ready to the teenagers will keep the decrease the same. When you give out information to the children, it is their choices to whether or not they are going to follow them. You cannot force the methods upon them.

Monkey Born from Two Mothers

The strangest of the strange has happened. This is what happens when you give a bunch of monkeys to Scientists. But yes, this is really advanced science. Looks like scientists have managed to produce monkeys with genetic material from two mothers. This would really help mothers having inheriting diseases give birth to a healthy child. Now that the good part is over, it will also led to a lot of legal problems, ethical and social concerns.

The monkeys were produced using cloning related techniques, where they found a way to replace the most of the genes in the eggs of one monkey with genes from another monkey. Then they began to fertilize the eggs with a sperm, transfered them back to the animal’s womb and produced healthy off-springs. This would’t have made the news if the off-springs were deformed, which the scientists somehow always manage to do.

“We believe this technique can be applied pretty quickly to humans and believe it will work,” said Shoukhrat Mitalipov of the Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, who led the work, published online Wednesday by the journal Nature.

“This is of great importance. This approach will be beneficial to many families,” said Jan Smeitink, a professor of mitochondrial medicine at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands.

“With this you have potentially three genetic parents,” said David Magnus, director of Stanford University’s Center for Biomedical Ethics. “This will create the potential for legal and social conflicts.”

They say they have developed it for the benefit of women with DNA disorders who pass them to their off-springs also. But to me it just looks like they were playing with the genes and EUREKA! they managed to do something and made up a story.

Well, if it is indeed beneficial them its good. But they need to carry out more tests to confirm it. Cause this is just the output of one successful test. They are lots of chances for the off-springs to become deformed when they grow.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) is urging people around the world to brace themselves for a second wave of the swine flu pandemic as the heavily populated northern hemisphere edges towards the cooler season when flu thrives.

“The WHO is still mobilised and worried,” spokesman Gregory Hartl said as the global health watchdog kept an anxious eye on some “mysterious” patterns of illness associated with the new A (H1N1) virus that appeared in April.

WHO Director General Margaret Chan warned on Friday that there had been second and third waves in previous pandemics.

“We cannot say for certain whether the worst is over or the worst is yet to come,” Chan said in a videotaped address to a symposium on flu in the Asia-Pacific region.

“We need to be prepared for whatever surprises this capricious new virus delivers next,” she added.

Some 1,799 people have died since the A(H1N1) was uncovered in Mexico and the United States nearly six months ago, according to the WHO.

By comparison, an estimated 250,000 to 500,000 people die around the world every year from seasonal flu, and overall the symptoms of the new pandemic virus have proved to be mild in the great majority of known cases.

Swine flu has spread swiftly into 177 countries, proving to be more infectious than seasonal flu and more durable through warmer months. Some 182,000 people worldwide are known to have caught swine flu based on laboratory confirmed cases, but the WHO has long advised countries to give up counting; the true number may in the millions, according to some experts

Britain has finally woken up for the call from the soldiers who are battling for the dignity of their nation.

Many soldiers are getting hurt serving the nation and not well looked up. To honor the soldiers, Uk government has opened up an Army Recovery Center, UK first ever in Edinburgh.

The centre will have a 12 bed facility unit. You may wonder why is this necessary. Well,  the reason behind is, a soldier gets badly hurts and he goes to home. Some take  months to recover. After recovery, its been very hard for them to catch up with the unit. Their Skills will be also lead to questioning.

In order to avoid this , the army center is opened which is to say Appreciable.

A spokeswoman for the centre said: “This new extension to the Erskine home aims to bridge the gap between hospital and Army life.

“It is state of the art, with a gym, internet cafe and individual bedrooms with specially adapted bathrooms.”

This is the first purpose-built convalescing centre to be launched in the UK and is being used as a pilot scheme.

If it proves successful, the scheme will be rolled out across the UK.

Computer Eyeglass

 Computers are part and parcel of everyone’s life. They are very informative and useful in all fields. When there is a benefit automatically there has to be some draw backs too!!

When the computers give useful and latest information it also provides unwanted and destructive and damaging information too!! This is an irreversible and very hard to accept fact. Apart from this computers have a very bad and negative impact on the health of the person using it. If used occasionally the negative effects may be minimal and negligible, but when used for long duration the effects can be harmful and damaging too!!

Among the computer user related sicknesses the most common is eye related problems. This is commonly known as Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS). Prolonged use of computer may give strain to the eyes and may affect the normal development of the vision both among adults and children.

The most common symptoms of CVS are:

1. Headaches

2. Tired eyes

3. Burning in the eyes

4. Watering of the eyes

5. Neck and shoulder pain

6. Loss of focus

7. Double vision

8. Blurred vision

The strain to the eyes while reading from a computer screen is much more than the strain that one feels while reading a text from a printed paper. Words on a computer screen are created by combinations of tiny points of light (pixels), which are brightest at the center and diminish in intensity toward their edges. This makes it more difficult for our eyes to maintain focus on these images. Therefore the strain is more. An eye specialist will detect this problem and give the corrective measures. This is very essential for those who work on computers for a long hours and whose profession demands such a task.

There are anti glare filters for the computer screens but they may give relief but may not reduce the visual problem. To get relief from visual problem, one will need computer eyewear. An anti-reflective coating is highly recommended for computer eyeglasses. AR coating reduces reflections on the front and back surfaces of the lenses that cause glare and interfere with your ability to focus on images on your screen.

Studies suggest that most computer users experience some level of eye discomfort from computer work, it is reasonable to say that most people who work on a computer more than a couple hours daily could benefit from computer eyewear. If you experience tired eyes, overall fatigue or discomfort when working at your computer, schedule a computer vision exam. Your eye doctor can help you decide if computer eyeglasses are right for you.

Research says that CVS affect productivity, accuracy and causes discomfort. With computer glasses you can read and work for a long time before you even get tired. Therefore another benefit of computer glasses is that it helps you work effectively, accurately and without discomfort and you are more productive. Computer glasses will give you more than just relief from headaches and tiredness. There is no better feeling like being alert and attentive even after 8 hours of working. After using these glasses you will realize that a simple thing as wearing glasses can do a lot for you.

No one can put an amount on the ability to see clearly. Actually seeing better is definitely priceless. One should realize that there is a big difference between computer glasses and reading glasses. This difference should not be ignored. Should one need glasses for reading and work on a computer on a daily basis, one should not substitute computer glasses for the reading glasses. This could cause long-term damage to the eyes.

Not every computer user needs computer eyeglasses, but most people who use the computer frequently throughout the day will stand the chance of experiencing negative symptoms. Computer eyeglasses can be beneficial in the long run by reducing excessive focusing demands on the eyes. They may also be useful in preventing or retarding development of any eye conditions that could result from computer usage.

Therefore it is advisable to give a thought to the use of computer glasses. But it is advisable that one should think of it only after consulting an eye specialist (Ophthalmologist).

Massage helps up Mother-baby bond

I am sure many mothers love to massge their baby. Now a new research proves that massge has to do more than just to develop a baby’s muscles, it also allows the infant to feel and sense his or her mother’s affections via her fingers, says a leading expert.

Health experts have already acknowledged that breast-feeding enhances the bonding between mother and child and also helps the child to grow healthy.

Now, there is another way to simulate and promote a baby’s growth. The answer is by massaging the infant. The development of the infant’s muscles and orientation are crucial towards asisting the child to stand and walk. 

Consultant paediatrician Dr Zulkifli Ismail says: “Caressing is a magical touch between a parent and the child. The infant can feel and sense the mother’s affections via her fingers and this works the other way round. The mother can also feel the infant’s response via the touches.”