Thursday, January 7, 2010
Northern Ireland sees violence once more
For someone who looks really really really Irish I'm mostly Austrian and I connect with my Austrian heritage more than my Irish heritage. I don't really know much about the violence in Ireland and was told not to ask my Nana because shes 100% Irish and doesn't like to talk about it. So maybe anyone who reads this blog can inform me whats up with this situation? Who fighting who? Why are they fighting? Heres the article I got it from please help me understand this family taboo discussion.
Obama's Brother
Even though Obama is my president the leader of my country and my military I know little about him personally and more about his clean cut political appearance. I know he lived with his white mom, he went to Harvard, he has a wife and kids, and hes admitted to doing coke. But besides that I didn't really know that much about him. I wasn't shocked to find out that he had a half brother because if his dad got his mom pregnant and then left, I feel if he could do that to someone he wouldn't have that much trouble in doing it to someone else. What did shock me was that he lived in the slums of Kenya and his brother who technically has the wealth of a nation and defiantly has influence over many of the nations wealthiest has not helped his half brother out. George Obama lives in the slums of Kenya, he was briefly imprisoned, and got out and started an orginization for the youth of the ghettos of Kenya to go play soccer. In the article you can see subtle hints of pain and jealousy that his brother has not supported him and gotten him out of Kenya but on the other hand they never knew each other and he doesn't owe him anything
Im not telling you to have tons of sex but...
I finally found an article that I didn't find remotely boring!!! I was going on CNN and found this article. Its based on this study of a married couple having sex everyday for a whole month in an attempt to quit their bad habits. They found out that there was many health benefits to having sex on a regular basis. Here they are;
1. A longer life
In a British study, men who had intercourse at least twice a week lived longer than men who had sex less than once a month. A U.S. study had similar findings, and a Swedish study examining the sex lives of 70-year-olds found that men who died before their 75th birthday had ceased having sexual intercourse at earlier ages.
The Swedish study didn't find that women lived longer if they had sex more frequently, and neither did a study in North Carolina. However, in the North Carolina study, women who reported enjoying sex more lived longer than those who didn't report enjoyment.
2. A healthier heart
In a British study, people who had intercourse twice a week or more were less likely to have heart attacks and other fatal coronary events. Those who had sex less than once a month had twice the rates of fatal coronary events, compared with those with the highest frequency of intercourse.
3. Lower blood pressure
In a study published in the journal Biological Psychology, people who had sex more often tended to have lower diastolic blood pressure, or the bottom number in a blood pressure reading. Brody's experiment, in which more sexually active study subjects had markedly less dramatic blood pressure spikes when they were put under stress, also supports the benefit.
4. Lower risk of breast cancer
A French study found that women who have vaginal intercourse not at all or infrequently had three times the risk of breast cancer, compared with women who had intercourse more often.
5. Lower risk of prostate cancer
A Minnesota study found that men who'd had intercourse more than 3,000 times in their lives had half the prostate cancer risk of those who had not. While it's not clear why this would be true, studies have found that men who had more intercourse tended to have better prostate function and eliminated more waste products in their semen. "These differences could conceivably impact prostate cancer risk," Brody writes in his article.
6. Pain relief
Whipple and others have conducted studies suggesting that more sexual activity helps relieve lower back pain and migraines.
7. A slimmer physique
A study of healthy German adults revealed that men and women who had sex more frequently tended to be slimmer than folks who didn't have as much sex. Sex burns 50 to 60 calories per encounter, Whipple says, so sex three times a week for a month would burn about 700 calories -- or the equivalent of jogging about seven miles.
8. Better testosterone levels
A group of men being treated for erectile problems saw greater increases in testosterone when, along with the treatments, they had frequent sex. Specifically, men who had sex at least eight times per month had greater increases than those who had sex less than eight times per month.
9. Fewer menopause symptoms
Menopausal women in Nigeria experienced fewer hot flashes when they had sex more frequently. Brody says this may be because sexual activity helps regulate hormonal levels, which in turn affect the symptoms of menopause.
10. Healthier semen
In three studies, men who had frequent intercourse had a higher volume of semen, a higher sperm count and a higher percentage of healthier sperm, compared with men who tended to participate in other sexual activities.
Aquaboon
I had several choices to who I was going to donate the proceeds to. At first I wanted to donate the proceeds to a bay area arts program but then I was approached by an Aquaboon representative who goes to Acalanes so I thought it would tie in better with the school and help others that are more impoverished. I wanted to give you guys some more info on aquaboon so people could understand it better. Aquaboon is a non profit organization which I like. Its goal is to clean water of impoverished indian children because thousands die of waterborne disease and to keep good hygiene. Something that we really take for granite and i wanted to give back on a larger scale.