NICK COLLINS, Science Correspondent - Telegraph (U.K.)
Stephan: This is an excellent piece of dietary advice that will literally add years to your life. However, I ask you with great seriousness to chose sustainable fish, when you do eat fish. Here is a list of fish that can be eaten ethically, as well as fish to be avoided.
http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/cr/SeafoodWatch/web/sfw_regional.aspx
Omega 3 fatty acids, which are found in oily fish and seafood, are good for the heart and reduce the risk of dying from heart disease by up to 35 per cent.
This contributes to an overall decrease in the risk of early death by 27 per cent in older adults and extends life by an average of two years and ten weeks, researchers found.
The link between Omega 3 and heart health is well established, but the new study by experts from the Harvard School of Public Health was the first to examine the direct link between levels of the fatty acids in the blood and death rates.
Researchers studied 16 years’ worth of health records for 2,700 healthy American adults, all of whom were aged 65 or over and in good health.
The participants regularly gave blood samples, underwent physical examinations and diagnostic tests, and answered surveys on their medical history, lifestyle and overall healthy.
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TOM JACOBS, - AlterNet (U.S.)
Stephan: Yet further evidence, if such were needed, that developing the daily practice of meditation, or mindfulness if you prefer, can change your life for the better. (See: Meditation-The Controlled Psychophysical Self-Regulation Process That Works: http://www.explorejournal.com/article/S1550-8307%2811%2900236-9/fulltext for a simple non-religious technique that you can easily do.)
Studies reporting the benefits of mindfulness training keep rolling in-not quite with the regularity of those distracting thoughts that keep popping up in your head, but at a good clip nonetheless.
The latest, from a team at the University of California, Santa Barbara, reports even a short, two-week course in focusing the mind can lead to immediate, tangible results: higher scores on tests measuring reasoning and comprehension.
‘Our results suggest that cultivating mindfulness is an effective and efficient technique for improving cognitive function, with wide-reaching consequences,
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ABDULLAH SHIHRI, - The News Tribune/The Associated Press
Stephan: It is hard to credit that this story could be true, but sadly it is. This is what happens when a nation allows religion and the state to become intertwined, and religious beliefs determine social policy. We should take it as a cautionary tale of the American Theocratic Right
RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA — A Saudi newspaper says the kingdom’s religious police are now allowing women to ride motorbikes and bicycles but only in restricted, recreational areas.
The Al-Yawm daily on Monday cited an unnamed official from the powerful religious police as saying women can ride bikes in parks and recreational areas but they have to be accompanied by a male relative and dressed in the full Islamic head-to-toe abaya.
Saudi Arabia follows an ultraconservative interpretation of Islam and bans women from driving. Women are also banned from riding motorcycles or bicycles in public places. The newspaper didn’t say what triggered the lifting of the ban.
The official says women may not use the bikes for transportation but ‘only for entertainment’ and that they should shun places where young men gather ‘to avoid harassment.’
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Thursday, April 4th, 2013
PATRICE HILL, - The Washington Times
Stephan: I have been following the rise in home prices for sometime wondering how so many Americans can be at or below the poverty line, middle class incomes keep going down, yet housing sales are going up. This may be the answer.
Housing has emerged as the brightest spot in the economy this year, but some analysts are questioning whether the market’s recovery is built to last.
Home prices, sales and construction have increased sharply in the past year after six years of relentless declines, suggesting a classic recovery and adding fuel to a broader economic expansion. For the first time since the Great Recession, the housing sector started adding jobs in areas such as construction over the past few months in a sign of a dramatic market turnaround.
But a close look at the numbers reveals that much of the housing activity is driven by abnormal conditions stemming from the housing crisis.
Much of the pickup in sales and prices has been powered by investors who, convinced that the market is bottoming, are scooping up bountiful supplies of distressed and foreclosed properties at bargain prices and often paying with cash.
With investors targeting lower-priced homes that they intend to purchase and rent out, they have been crowding out many first-time buyers who are having difficulty getting mortgage loans and are at a disadvantage when competing with well-heeled buyers. Cash sales to investors now account for about one-third of all home sales, according to the National […]
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Thursday, April 4th, 2013
DAVID EDWARDS, - The Raw Story
Stephan: The temptation with the Theocratic Right, particularly its Southern manifestations, is to think of these people as ignorant buffoons. I don't think of them that way. I see these people as the American Taliban, and as dangerous to the national health of America, as their Afghanistan counterparts are to that country. Here is an example of what I mean.
It goes without saying that this is a Republican effort.
Click through to see a video worth your attention.
Republican lawmakers in North Carolina have proposed a bill that they say would allow to the state to establish an official religion and defy the Constitution of the United States.
Nine state House members joined with Republican state Reps. Harry Warren and Carl Ford of Rowan County to sponsor House Bill 494 in response to a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) last month that sought to stop Christian prayers at official Rowan County government meetings.
In 2009, a court found that the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners had violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment by using sectarian prayers to open official meetings.
In his ruling, Magistrate Judge Trevor Sharp wrote that Forsyth County prayers ‘display a preference for Christianity over other religions by the government
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