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The following summarizes efforts and a grant that seek reduce racial health care disparities.
Albany, N.Y.: The Albany Times Union on Aug. 23 profiled the Rev. Oscar McLaughlin, a local pastor and a chaplain at Hudson Correctional Facility and a local arranger for the national HIV/AIDS advocacy group The Balm in Gilead. McLaughlin, motivated by the high HIV/AIDS rates in the black community, organized a committee at his church that seeks to educate its members on HIV/AIDS and held its first wellness fair this summer, where 14 mass were tried (Albany Times Union, 8/23).
North Carolina: The North Carolina Health and Wellness Trust Fund over the adjacent three long time will prize $7.5 million in grants to agencies and initiatives that seek to reduce health disparities between black and white residents, the Winston-Salem Chronicle reports. The trust fund last week began to live with applications from eligible organizations that have documented have and success in developing and implementing services to reduce health disparities. Funds also are available for programs that aim to increase cultural competency among local health care providers and ameliorate quality of services provided to minorities. Proposals and other application materials ar available on the group's Web website and all applications must be received by Oct. 1 (Winston-Salem Chronicle, 8/27).
Pittsburgh: Five women in the U.S. each have received a $5,000 Cheerios Sisters Saving Hearts grant from the Congressional Black Caucus and Cheerios for raising heart disease knowingness among blacks, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 8/28). The initiative recognizes individuals for their sentience efforts in the pitch-black community. Heart disease is the leading cause of death among women in the U.S., and black women ar disproportionately affected by the disease (Cheerios Sisters Saving Hearts Web site).
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Tuesday 9 September 2008
Wednesday 20 August 2008
Damon Albarn: 'Children Should Be Forced To Read Music'
Former Blur frontman Damon Albarn says children interested in medicine should be �forced� to learn how to take it.
"If you don't study to say music, and so there's a whole custom that becomes very exclusive and shouldn't be," Albarn told a BBC magazine.
His comments fall in reception to a report that suggested children could obtain an A-grade in GCSE music without knowing staff notation.
"The estimate of it being completely absent from the to the highest degree important exams of your childhood is disgraceful," Albarn, who of late staged his Opera, Monkey, at the Royal Opera House in London, said.
"I used to write for small orchestras when I was 15. I sold my soulfulness to the devil and became a pop star and forgot about it, but in the past few years I give got support into orchestration after an almost 20-year hiatus.
�I'm so slow now, and if I'd just kept it [up]. I think anyone interested in music should be forced to watch that discipline.�
Teachers have argued that staff notation is less crucial for the increasing number of children who ar keen to learn less traditional instruments.
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Sunday 10 August 2008
AICR Reminds Mothers Of Additional Breastfeeding Benefit: Cancer Protection
� As World Breastfeeding Week (August 1-7) draws to a close, the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) urges new mothers to consider one more benefit to breastfeeding their babies: added cancer protection for mother and child.
"AICR is the first cancer organization to issue an official recommendation advocating breastfeeding in order to lessening risk of developing cancer," said AICR Nutritionist Sarah Wally, MS RD.
Based on evidence collected in AICR's landmark expert report, Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity, and the Prevention of Cancer: a Global Perspective, women ar advised to breastfeed exclusively for up to 6 months and then add other liquids and foods as capture.
Research Reveals Protective Benefits
The evidence examined by AICR's international panel of experts showed, convincingly, that breastfeeding protects women against both pre- and postmenopausal breast cancer. The enquiry also finds that breastfeeding probably decreases the likelihood that a child will be corpulence (at least during the early long time of childhood).
Protection from weight gain is of particular importance, as childhood overweight tends to uphold into adulthood, where overabundance body fat is tight linked to cancer development.
According to experts, hormonal changes in a woman's body and physical changes in breast tissue cells are likely responsible for the added protection seen in mothers. Infants' benefits are gained from the chemical paper of breast milk as well as the advancement of self-regulated feeding that is a natural part of the breastfeeding process.
AICR is proud to stand with other national and international health organizations this hebdomad, including UNICEF, WHO and the American Academy of Pediatrics, in celebrating the benefits - both physical and emotional - that are gained through breastfeeding.
AICR as well acknowledges that some women are not able or may prefer not to breastfeed. These women can benefit from other lifestyle changes that the comprehensive AICR report found to be protective, among them: increased physical activity, minimum consumption of alcohol (if any at all), and maintaining a healthy weightiness.
Free Brochure Offers Research-Based Advice to New Mothers
In observation of World Breastfeeding Week, AICR is offer it's modish free leaflet, What You Should Know About Breastfeeding . The 12-page brochure summarizes AICR's recommendation regarding undivided breastfeeding and cancer prevention, explains the science behindhand the passport in clear up, concise language and provides frequently asked questions on common breastfeeding concerns.
The American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) is the cancer charity that fosters research on the relationship of nutrition, physical activeness and weighting management to cancer risk, interprets the scientific literature and educates the world about the results. It has contributed more than $86 gazillion for advanced research conducted at universities, hospitals and research centers across the country. AICR has published two landmark reports that interpret the accumulated research in the field, and is attached to a process of continuous reexamination. AICR besides provides a wide range of educational programs to help millions of Americans learn to make dietary changes for lower cancer risk. Its award-winning New American Plate program is presented in brochures, seminars and on its site, http://www.aicr.org. AICR is a member of the World Cancer Research Fund International.
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"AICR is the first cancer organization to issue an official recommendation advocating breastfeeding in order to lessening risk of developing cancer," said AICR Nutritionist Sarah Wally, MS RD.
Based on evidence collected in AICR's landmark expert report, Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity, and the Prevention of Cancer: a Global Perspective, women ar advised to breastfeed exclusively for up to 6 months and then add other liquids and foods as capture.
Research Reveals Protective Benefits
The evidence examined by AICR's international panel of experts showed, convincingly, that breastfeeding protects women against both pre- and postmenopausal breast cancer. The enquiry also finds that breastfeeding probably decreases the likelihood that a child will be corpulence (at least during the early long time of childhood).
Protection from weight gain is of particular importance, as childhood overweight tends to uphold into adulthood, where overabundance body fat is tight linked to cancer development.
According to experts, hormonal changes in a woman's body and physical changes in breast tissue cells are likely responsible for the added protection seen in mothers. Infants' benefits are gained from the chemical paper of breast milk as well as the advancement of self-regulated feeding that is a natural part of the breastfeeding process.
AICR is proud to stand with other national and international health organizations this hebdomad, including UNICEF, WHO and the American Academy of Pediatrics, in celebrating the benefits - both physical and emotional - that are gained through breastfeeding.
AICR as well acknowledges that some women are not able or may prefer not to breastfeed. These women can benefit from other lifestyle changes that the comprehensive AICR report found to be protective, among them: increased physical activity, minimum consumption of alcohol (if any at all), and maintaining a healthy weightiness.
Free Brochure Offers Research-Based Advice to New Mothers
In observation of World Breastfeeding Week, AICR is offer it's modish free leaflet, What You Should Know About Breastfeeding . The 12-page brochure summarizes AICR's recommendation regarding undivided breastfeeding and cancer prevention, explains the science behindhand the passport in clear up, concise language and provides frequently asked questions on common breastfeeding concerns.
The American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) is the cancer charity that fosters research on the relationship of nutrition, physical activeness and weighting management to cancer risk, interprets the scientific literature and educates the world about the results. It has contributed more than $86 gazillion for advanced research conducted at universities, hospitals and research centers across the country. AICR has published two landmark reports that interpret the accumulated research in the field, and is attached to a process of continuous reexamination. AICR besides provides a wide range of educational programs to help millions of Americans learn to make dietary changes for lower cancer risk. Its award-winning New American Plate program is presented in brochures, seminars and on its site, http://www.aicr.org. AICR is a member of the World Cancer Research Fund International.
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Tuesday 1 July 2008
Stephanie Tanner Signs Forearm -- How Not Rude!
Of all the cast members of "Full House," why would the crazy autograph tattoo lady chose Jodie Sweetin's John Hancock to get permanently inked into her forearm?
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Thursday 26 June 2008
Good Vibrations: Brian Wilson joins Newport lineup
NEWPORT, R.I. —
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The Newport Folk Festival is picking up good vibrations.
The festival producers plan to announce Monday that Brian Wilson, a founding member of the Beach Boys, is joining the festival's lineup. He'll headline an evening performance on Aug. 1 at the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
The festival continues Aug. 2-3 at Fort Adams State Park.
Wilson is the latest big-name act added to the festival, which already includes Jimmy Buffett, Trey Anastasio, the Black Crowes and reggae artists Stephen and Damian Marley.
The festival is under new management and has branched out beyond more traditional folk this year. Organizers are hoping their roster of popular performers can produce a sellout.
The festival marks its 50th anniversary next summer.
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