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Welcome to our fifth weekly life coaching tip. There are 10 free life coaching tips available – 1 tip for each of the 10 areas of a person’s life. Our ‘Week 5 Tip’ focuses on how you can give more.
Many religious people give and to many of them giving is a spiritual requirement. Others give, because they are asked, because they feel guilty, or may to enhance their image to be viewed as charitable, some people give because they want to make the world a better place, others give to support a cause close to their hearts. I give because I enjoy giving, it makes me feel good, and I feel more in touch and appreciate my life much more. Giving your time, money and energy will provide you with more meaning in your life.

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com

People who stop smoking often replace cigarettes with food. A new study says the weight they gain may increase their diabetes risk in the short term. Type two diabetes is common in people who eat too much and exercise too little and those with a family history of it.

Smoking is another risk factor. But quitting smoking may carry a temporary risk. The study found that smokers who quit had a seventy percent increased risk of developing diabetes in the first six years. That was compared to those who had never smoked.

The risks were highest in the first three years. And the risk returned to normal after ten years of not smoking.

The researchers say weight gain is probably to blame for the increase. But they say smokers should stop anyway — and the real message is not to even start. Type two diabetes interferes with the body’s use of insulin. The substance produced by the pancreas normally lowers blood sugar during and after eating. Over time, high blood sugar can lead to blindness, kidney failure, heart disease and nerve damage. The study is from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. It appears in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

Another American study says obesity has become as great a threat to quality of life as smoking.
It compared losses in what are called “quality-adjusted life years.” The study found that losses from obesity are now equal to, if not greater than, those from smoking.

These days, there are fewer smokers in the country but more people who are extremely overweight. The findings are based on questions about health-related quality of life in government telephone surveys. The study is from Columbia University and the City College of New York. It appears in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

And another study has linked each hour of watching television daily to an eighteen percent increased risk of death from heart disease. The study of adults in Australia also found an increased risk of death from others causes. The findings are published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.

Lead author David Dunstan at the Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute in Victoria says the body was designed to move. He says even if people have a healthy body weight, sitting for long periods of time still has an unhealthy influence on blood sugar and blood fats.

And thats the VOA Special English Health Report.

(Adapted from a radio program broadcast 13Jan2010)

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Chapter 6: Antwerp, the age of printing (1500-1560)

“…becomes the main place for trading in goods from Northern Europe…. traded against products from the Orient…. bourse becomes Europe’s main financial centre… for insurance, betting + lotteries… banking network helped finance foreign trade… essential element(s) in mercantile power…

“…first user of… innovation… in printing…. paves the way for freedom of expression, advances in individualism + reason…. and propagation of the Judaic(?) ideal…. destroys the (rule of) the Vatican + holy Roman empire… to unite Europe around the Latin language + the Catholic Church…”

“Foreigners come flocking in, accenting progress + boosting the city’s energy + vitality…”

“The wars of religion (destroy) the sea routes …cut Antwerp off from its sources of trade… the city no longer has the means… at the mercy of even the smallest financial crisis… hit by… stock market speculation…”

So the early communications technology of printed books + papers, etc, transformed society just as the internet is doing today – and freeing people from the agendas of politics, doctrines of hegemonic empires and constructed dogmas of religions – if we will but tear ourselves away from the hypnotic television ‘entertainment’ industry designed to keep us all more or less permanently asleep, uhh. Only the Catholic Church then as media corporations are now, tended to take advantage to ruthlessly capture their own market and feed them their diet of dressed-up lies, meaningless platitudes and half-truths as a cover for their own lack of spirituality whilst ever maintaining control through fear, ignorance + prejudice.

But the physical presence of people with ideas from other countries is also as significant today as no one country has a monopoly on intelligence. Thus the destructive + regressive effect of “wars of religion” today (the West is still wantonly fighting the un-Christian Crudases of 1,000 years ago) as a means of feeding the USA’s military-industrial complex instead of its relying on trade for its wealth any more. Sadly, the state of Belgium had little use for African people in its dark colonial empire days, though. “Heart of Darkness” was written about the viciousness of the 1800′s Belgian colonial regime in the Congo. So much for European ‘civilization’ and their much-touted Christianity.

Interesting contemporary comparison – “Britain has become a “brittle” society where even the smallest effect on resources risks bringing the country to its knees…” http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5172557/Britain-has-become-brittle-society-says-think-tank.html

Lesson for the Future: “A new communications technology prooves merciless towards existing powers”

Chapters 1 – 15 of Lessons for the Future (‘Leçons pour lavenir’) are presented by Jacques Attali http://www.france24.com/en/category/tags-emissions/lessons-future

Also see Antwerp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antwerp and Holy Roman Empire http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Roman_Empire

Note: (.flv) download links R freely available via the RSS feed for this topic on France vingt-quatre. BTW, I am only uploading selected chapters I wish to comment on so pls feel free to upload the rest yourself, OK. Tks, DD

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