Carol | April 24, 2010
Longer duration of breastfeeding reduces risk of metabolic syndrome for the mom
http://www.naturalnews.com/028646_brstfeeding_metabolic_syndrome.html
“Women who breastfeed their children longer are significantly less likely to develop the cluster of heart disease and diabetes risk factors known as metabolic syndrome…”
“The findings indicate that breastfeeding a child may have lasting favorable effects on a woman’s risk factors for later developing diabetes or heart disease…”
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Category: Health, Parenting Attachment, Parenting Breastfeeding |
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Carol | April 22, 2010
D’you remember me? Headmaster savagely beaten by ex-pupil who harboured a 20-year grudge over caning
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1267843/Headmaster-Kieran-Heakin-beaten-ex-pupil-20-year-grudge.html#ixzz0lqLF0sYR
“A headmaster has been left deaf and scarred for life by a former pupil who harboured a 20-year grudge for being caned as a child…”
“Earlier Bolton Crown Court heard how Bullen confronted Mr Heakin, saying: ‘You will remember me and you will remember my father – you used to bully me at school…’”
“David Farley, defending, said: ‘When the assault was happening, he says all he could do was picture himself at that age and he lost control.’”
Category: Parenting Discipline, Public School |
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Carol | April 22, 2010
Crying babies are at risk of brain damage, claims child expert
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1267977/Crying-babies-risk-brain-damage-claims-child-expert-Dr-Penelope-Ford.html#ixzz0lq4Wl3FL
“Dr Penelope Leach believes distressed babies who are left to cry are at greater risk of developing problems later in life.”
“She claims that fresh research proves that long periods of crying can damage developing brains, leading to learning difficulties later in life.”
“Dr Leach said young babies did not have the mental maturity to ‘learn’ to go to sleep at the right time…”
“She said: ‘A baby who is left crying for long enough will eventually stop, but not because he has learned to go to sleep happily alone, but because he is exhaused and has despaired of getting help.’”
“Dr Leach said continued crying led to the increased production of the ‘stress hormone’ cortisol. Long periods of crying produced so much cortisol that it could damage a baby’s brain, Dr Leach said.”
“‘That doesn’t mean that a baby should never cry, or that parents should worry when she does. All babies cry, some more than others. It’s not the crying that is bad for babies – but crying that gets no response.’”
Category: Health, Parenting Cry it Out |
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Carol | April 21, 2010
Contraceptive Pill Linked to AIDS
http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/2256513688.html
“‘Hormonal contraceptives — the oral pill and Depo-Provera — increase almost all known risk factors for HIV, from upping a woman’s risk of infection, to increasing the replication of the HIV virus, to speeding the debilitating and deadly progression of the disease…’”
“‘How many African women have died because their ‘free’ birth control pills cost them their lives?’”
The Pill’s Deadly Affair with HIV/AIDS
http://pop.org/201004201199/the-pills-deadly-affair-with-hivaids
Category: Abortion, Family Planning, Feminism, Health |
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Carol | April 21, 2010
New study: Breast cancer deaths lower in areas without mammograms
http://www.naturalnews.com/028530_brst_cancer_mammograms.html
“Deaths from breast cancer were lower in areas where women didn’t undergo those screening tests…”
http://learninggnm.com/documents/sp-breastcancer.html
Category: Health |
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Carol | April 21, 2010
S.E. Cupp: Liberal Media Can’t Deal with ‘Pretty, Conservative Women’
http://newsmax.com/Headline/cupp-conservatives-media-women/2010/04/16/id/356010
“‘Conservatism rightly resists the changing tide, the changing social mores. The whole idea of conservatism is to preserve what we think is good. So these flag bearers like Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann, women no less, I think are really throwing mud in the eye of the liberals who would rather see them locked up in some museum..’”
“‘CNN is pretty bad. The New York Times is pretty bad only because of the clout and influence that paper has. You would expect them to be a bit more responsible. MSNBC is terrible. Some of the talking heads there like Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, Chris Matthews — these guys really have it out for Christianity…’”
“Cupp has said Barack Obama has an ‘affinity for radical Marxist theology.’ Asked to elaborate, she says: ‘If you look at some of his own testimony about his religious education, whether in his book or his speeches, he discusses at length his decision to follow black liberation theology, the kind of Christianity espoused by Reverend [Jeremiah] Wright and a number of other well-known pastors around the country.’”
“‘Obama describes it as not particularly a Christ-driven move on his part but as sort of a recognition of the black social causes of the time. That’s what really drove him into Christianity. When you actually read about it, it’s far more radical than the Pentecostalism of Sarah Palin or the Baptism of a Mike Huckabee. Yet those folks are constantly painted by the liberal media as being fanatical and fringe.’”
“‘If anyone bothered to look at Obama’s black liberation theology, they would have no choice but to recognize that it’s an incredibly radical — and I would even say extreme — version of Christianity.’”
Category: Christianity, Media Bias Exposed, Politics Michele Bachmann, Politics Sarah Palin |
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Carol | April 21, 2010
Say sorry to your wife – it may help her live longer, according to scientists
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1266898/Say-sorry-wife–help-live-longer-according-scientists.html
“Researchers have discovered that women who receive an apology for hurtful behaviour suffer less stress and potential damage to their heart than those who don’t…”
“Unfortunately for men, a male heartbeat takes longer to recover after an apology than without, according to the research, suggesting that men become irritated when there is an admission of guilt.”
Category: Health, Marriage |
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Carol | April 21, 2010
Flouridation may not do much for cavities
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/ontario-fluoride-may-make-minor-difference/article1535873/
“‘Fluoridation is no longer effective,’ contends Hardy Limeback, head of the preventive dentistry program at the University of Toronto, who says adding the chemical to water is ‘more harmful than beneficial.’”
Category: Health |
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Carol | April 21, 2010
How Not to Raise a Bully: The Early Roots of Empathy
http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1982190,00.html
“The first stirrings of human empathy typically appear in babyhood: newborns cry when hearing another infant’s cry…”
“Simple neglect can be surprisingly damaging… Nearly 90% of brain growth takes place in the first five years of life, and the minds of young children who have been neglected or traumatized often fail to make the connection between people and pleasure…”
“The cold environment of an orphanage can be considered on a spectrum of punishment, at the other end of which is simple child discipline — an issue that sometimes confounds even the most mindful parents. How do you teach a child right from wrong without being too tough or slipping into abuse? Who among us has not raised our voice — O.K., screamed — while disciplining our children?”
“But shouting at or, worse, hitting a child results in fear, rather than an understanding on the child’s part of why he or she is being punished, say researchers. Over the long term, the routine use of corporal punishment, like spanking, not only fails to change behavior for the better but has also been shown to increase aggression in children…”
“Students are taught that a crying baby isn’t a bad baby, but a baby with a problem. By trying to figure out what’s going on, the children learn to see the world through the infant’s eyes and understand what it might be like to have needs but not be able to express them clearly…”
Category: Parenting Attachment, Parenting Discipline, Parenting Fussy Baby, Public School |
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