Women Elected to Kuwait Parliament

For the first time women has been voted in Kuwait as members of parliament. Four women who contested the election were voted into parliament . The four, liberal learning candidates had been students at the American University.

16 women were among the 210 persons who contested the parliamentary elections. This is a sign of relief as the women in Kuwait can now participate in nation building and represents the country in positions of leadership.

This is a break through the country´s political glass ceiling since women were given the rights to vote and run for office in 2005. Their victories were probably aided by voter frustration with the political turmoil and religious extremism of recent parliaments.

This has been a major shift from the islamic conservative ideas against women. The world hopes that the Talibans will one day follow these footsteps.

Onyango Okeyo.

Legislation:Gay people can now adopt a child

The Åland Parliament last friday passed a legislation which will allow the gay people(homosexuals and lesbian) the privilege to adopt a child.

According to the votes casted on friday by members of Åland parliament, 108 were the total votes casted inwhich 29 voted against the legislation, 61 voted for the legislation and the rest voted blank.

Notable, according to Ålandtidning, Parliament majority leader Elisabeth Naucle’r voted for the legislation.

Åland will now join countries like Sweden, Holland and Belgium who had allowed this practise earlier.

Onyango Okeyo

From Food to Health Care, the Poor Pay More

The economics of poverty are complicated, the Habari Newsletter reports, but it boils down to this: “The poorer you are, the more things cost.” The poor spend more in time, money, hassle, and exhaustion than do the middle class or wealthy on everything from a loaf of bread to a bank loan.

Lacking transportation, the poor often shop for groceries at corner stores where a gallon of milk can cost a dollar more. Hours that could be spent working are whiled away at the laundromat.

Lacking a bank account, many of the nation’s worlds poor, living below the poverty line depend on fee-heavy check-cashing services and “payday” loans that carry an effective annual percentage rate of more than 800%.

With no credit and no down payment, the poor can’t make the important leap from renting to homeownership unless, of course, they can secure a sub prime loan.

The rich have direct deposit for their paychecks. The poor have check-cashing and payday loan joints, which cost time and money. Payday advance companies say they are providing an essential service to people who most need them. Their critics say they are preying on people who are the most “economically vulnerable.”

You have to be rich to be poor. That’s what some people who have never lived below the poverty line don’t understand. Put it another way: The poorer you are, the more things cost. More in money, time, hassle, exhaustion, menace. This is a fact of life that reality television and magazines don’t often explain.

So we’ll explain it here. Consider this a primer on the economics of poverty.

Onyango Okeyo

The top five cancer-causing foods are:

1. Hot dogs

Because they are high in nitrates, the Cancer Prevention Coalition advises that children eat no more than 12 hot dogs a month. If you can’t live without hot dogs, buy those made without sodium nitrate.

2. Processed meats and bacon

Also high in the same sodium nitrates found in hot dogs, bacon, and other processed meats raise the risk of heart disease .The saturated fat in bacon also contributes to cancer.

3. Doughnuts

Doughnuts are cancer-causing double trouble. First, they are made with white flour, sugar, and hydrogenated oils then fried at high temperatures. Doughnuts, may be the worst food you can possibly eat to raise your risk of cancer.

4 French fries

Like doughnuts, French fries are made with hydrogenated oils and then fried at high temperatures. They also contain cancer- causing acryl amides which occur during the frying process. They should be called cancer fries, not French fries.

5. Chips, crackers, and cookies

All are usually made with white flour and sugar. Even the ones whose labels claim to be free of trans-fats generally contain small amounts of trans-fats.

BRAIN DAMAGING HABITS

1. No Breakfast

People who do not take breakfast are going to have a lower blood sugar level.
This leads to an insufficient supply of nutrients to the brain causing brain degeneration.

2. Overeating
It causes hardening of the brain arteries, leading to a decrease in mental power.

3. Smoking
It causes multiple brain shrinkage and may lead to Alzheimer disease.

4. High Sugar consumption
Too much sugar will interrupt the absorption of proteins and nutrients causing malnutrition and may interfere with brain development.

5. Air Pollution
The brain is the largest oxygen consumer in our body. Inhaling polluted air decreases the supply of oxygen to the brain, bringing about a decrease in brain efficiency.

6. Sleep Deprivation
Sleep allows our brain to rest. Long term deprivation from sleep will accelerate the death of brain cells.

7. Head covered while sleeping
Sleeping with the head covered increases the concentration of carbon dioxide and decrease concentration of oxygen that may lead to brain damaging effects.

8. Working your brain during illness
Working hard or studying with sickness may lead to a decrease in effectiveness of the brain as well as damage the brain.

9. Lacking in stimulating thoughts
Thinking is the best way to train our brain, lacking in brain stimulation thoughts may cause brain shrinkage.

10. Talking Rarely
Intellectual conversations will promote the efficiency of the brain

The main causes of liver damage are:

1. Sleeping too late and waking up too late are main cause.
2. Not urinating in the morning.
3. Too much eating.
4. Skipping breakfast.
5. Consuming too much medication.
6. Consuming too much preservatives, additives, food coloring, and artificial sweetener.
7. Consuming unhealthy cooking oil. As much as possible reduce cooking oil use when frying, which includes even the best cooking oils like olive oil. Do not consume fried foods when you are tired, except if the body is very fit.
8. Consuming raw (overly done) foods also add to the burden of liver.
Veggies should b eaten raw or cooked 3-5 parts. Fried veggies should be finished in one sitting, do not store.

We should prevent this without necessarily spending more. We just have to adopt a good daily lifestyle and eating habits. Maintaining good eating habits and time condition are very important for our bodies to absorb and get rid of unnecessary chemicals according to ’schedule.’

DO TAKE CARE OF YOUR HEALTH

By Morris Okumu.