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More and more people are over 100 years of age. Trends predict that the number of centenarians would rise to an astonishing number.
Want to join this trend? Doctors, psychologists, and researches who study the subject have identified some simple strategies for living longer and better.
1. Eat healthfully.
A larger number of people weigh more than they should than ever before, while increasing scientific evidence links being overweight with a variety of health problems. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) urges people to plan meals following these guidelines 6 to 11 servings per day of bread, pasta, cereals, and rice; 3 to 5 servings of vegetables; and 2 to 4 servings of fruit. The USDA recommendations reverse eating habits which emphasize dairy and meat products.
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For the past early part of this year, the news about a porcine (pig)-related disease have been the new attention-getter for health-conscious people. Pigs, mostly in the Luzon province like Pangasinan has been said to be hit by swine flu (swine influenza). Now, the disease is threatening us humans although the Department of Health assured that no cases of Human Swine Flu have been recorded so far in the Philippines.
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The field of medical technology has been in a long battle to discover latest drugs to cure some of the most complicated diseases that have emerged for the past decades. While science has been in its notable effort to find a way to alleviate suffering of mankind from terrible diseases that toll the lives of millions every year, it would seem that more hard work and studies have to be done in order to come up with ultimate solutions to these diseases.
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More than 1 billion people on the planet don’t have access to clean drinking water. For $20 a person, non-profit charity: water funds clean water solutions like shallow wells, deep wells, rainwater harvesting systems, and spring protections to provide people in need with clean and safe drinking water.
Find out how you can help give one person clean drinking water at charitywater.org
This very inspirational video charity: water’s latest promo video features the well-drilling work we fund in the forgotten Central African Republic. Directed by Simon Willows, “Time Bomb” track donated by Beck.
When you find yourself in the shower too long, think about these people and stop wasting water! And don’t you dare be taking a bath or using a Jacuzzi…
A nicely-combed hair coupled with its shiny and silky appearance is certainly a splendor to look at. They say that a man or a woman’s hair enhances his or total appearance. Nothing can be further from this truth. We certainly give importance to our hair. Some of us frequent a hair salon to have a consistent degree of care to our hair. We feel very conscious if our hair fades or loses its natural attractiveness. While some of us have a good hair growth and texture; others experience hair loss even at an early age. Heredity may account for an early hair loss. But certainly, there is a way to remedy hair loss. The researches and procedures in the field of dermatology and hair science have been very intensive for the past years. Hair technological procedures like hair restoration, hair transplant and the like have been the present vogue in restoring hair from total loss.
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Ours is an age when practically all our knowledge and information are acquired through mass media. Mass communication involves a vast audience extending around the world and even includes future generations of readers and viewers.
Ordinarily, much communication of ideas, information and attitudes is carried on through mass media. All forms of mass media have the same primary functions, namely to disseminate information and news happenings both at home and abroad, to comment editorially by analyzing news and stating opinion about the meaning of the news, to serve as an advertising medium and to entertain through such devices as special features, columns and comic strips.
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