Archive for July, 2008

Boosting Your Child’s Self Confidence

Mothers contribute an important role in cultivating their children’s self confidence. Their children usually look up to them for guidance and assurance, which, when given more frequently, can put mothers on the right track in giving their children a healthy view of themselves.

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The Benefits Of Eating Eel

Do you know that eels possess substances, best for rejuvenating the body which scientists worldwide have established? Experts have found out that eel contains vitamins A, B1, B2, D and E, which are effective agent for the body’s wellbeing.

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Food Producers Encouraged To Tap Huge Halal Market

Anyone who has the business acumen in food production or exportation are duly encouraged to capture a share of a huge global halal market and trade estimated between $580 billion to $1.20 trillion. The halal business is becoming more lucrative but at the same time more complex and challenging.

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Spinal Stenosis – What You Need To Know

If you are above 50 years old, do you have back pain that was worsened by walking? Is the back pain eased by crouching or rolling into a fetal position? You may have lumbar or lower back spinal stenosis.

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Organic Farming Can Ease Climate Change

New Studies from the US and Europe confirmed that organic farming can help mitigate global warming. According to ecologists, the study gave three major reasons why and how organic agriculture can help battle climate change.

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Farm Subsidies – A Critical Issue In Global Trade Talks

In global trade talks, farm subsidies in the developed world remains a thorny issue having derailed the finalization of global trade rules under the World Trade Organization (WTO) since the Seattle debacle a few years back, may again stall this timeĀ  with the same subject.

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Alzheimer’s – Old People Are The Peculiar Victims

Senile dementia, eventually show signs of progressive confusion, memory loss and mental deterioration. In 1906, a German neurologist named Alois Alzheimer studied the brain of a woman who died after years of senile dementia. He found it odd that the cerebral cortex of the woman, the part of the brain for reasoning and memory was a knot of tangles and plaques.

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Is Paul Of Tarsus Alleged Conversion A Hoax?

Paul’s claim that he is an apostle of Jesus Christ was riddled with controversy and was staunchly opposed by the early believers of Jesus’ ministry as an enemy of the true gospel of Jesus Christ. One of the early believers, the Ebionites had been critical to the pagan inspired innovation of Paul and maintained that his alleged vision on the road to Damascus was a demonic hallucination.

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Lemon Grass Yields Essential Oil

Lemon grass or “Tanglad” as it is locally called in the Philippines, a backyard plant, is going mainstream as its oil is now being extracted for industrial use. What is abundant in the country is the West Indian lemon grass or Cymbopogon Citratus variety.

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Backpain Treatment Through Acupuncture

In a study of 1,162 adults with chronic lower back pain, forty eight percent in a group who underwent between 10 and 15 treatments with traditional Chinese “verum” acupuncture reported at least 1/3 less pain and an improvement in functional ability, with lasting benefit as compared to twenty seven percent of those reporting relief in the group undergoing drug and exercise therapy.

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