Posted on July 3, 2008 06:55:34 AM
Three Stages of Love
Love is like a magnet that attracts happiness, it’s a feeling that beckons you, makes your heart grow fonder and you enjoy the magic of living with your partner. Love wins one and all. It transcends across geographical boundaries. When your heart goes racing, and your hands are clammy, then you are in love. These are some of the outer signs if one falls in love. But there are great chemical changes that take place when the neurons of the brain cells receive signals that you are in love. Falling in Love involves three stages. Initially it is the LUST that attracts individuals; then comes the stage of romance or ATTRACTION, and finally it is the unconditional bond and ATTACHMENT that produces the ultimate vibes for living and loving. To enjoy the love life, understand the biochemistry of your body when you pass through different phases of it.
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Posted on July 1, 2008 10:28:28 PM
Parents are generally considered as a fist teacher and role models for a child. But, a study has shown a hard and bitter fact of today’s parents – “you’re responsible for your kids’ lack of basic moral values”.
Recently in Britain, based on research and study, a very sad fact has been highlighted that children are not attaining basic moral values nowadays because today’s parents are poor role models for their children.
This fact has been carried out when researchers questioned 1.176 people and as a result they found that two thirds of the adults believe that the moral value of young people have declined significantly since the time when they were young. Celebrity cultures, lack of moral awareness, living in nuclear families are among the major reasons being discouragement traditional moral values among young generation.
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Posted on June 30, 2008 12:39:57 PM
Public speaking is an art that not many are inborn with. However, it is something that one can acquire with regular practice. The main drawback faced by individuals, who have to give a speech of some kind to an audience, is the fear of speaking in public. Once you get over this fear then the rest comes naturally making you comfortable to be on the dais or stage.
To get the attention of your audience you have to keep them interested in what you have to say and so your speech should be interesting with anecdotes. It should be something that enthralls the audience and also shows that you are confident and have a complete knowledge about your subject.
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Posted on March 30, 2008 02:18:09 PM
Premarital relationships are viewed differently among different cultures. Western countries have more of a liberal and tolerant approach whereas Islamic countries clearly look down upon any form of premarital associations. Growing exposure to media and a gradual change in attitudes have made dating, affairs and to a certain extent even premarital sex acceptable in developing countries as well.
Some may live in an environment where parental disapproval or pressure from society is not much of a hurdle, but others who do face this problem are constantly watching their backs and conducting premarital affairs on the sly. Some of these young people even find the whole experience of hiding relationships challenging and exciting .Lies are told, meetings arranged in far out places, classes are missed and the thoughts of getting caught are brushed under the carpet as overwhelming needs of adolescence take over.
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Posted on March 13, 2008 05:40:31 AM
Seven years ago, when Denise Faustman found that she had a cure for type-1 diabetes in mice, she was denied the opportunity to start clinical trials on humans by the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. Nor did she receive any support from pharma companies.
In 2003, Faustman successfully treated more mice with type-1, but her application was rejected again by the JDRF. However they did finance three rivals to test her theories. In March of 2006, these tests proved Faustman to be right; about 1/3 of the mice were cured.
Juvenile or type-1 diabetes is marked by the lack of insulin production by the pancreas, often due to immune cells erroneously destroying the beta cells in the pancreas that produce insulin. Without insulin breaking down ingested sugar, glucose mounts up in blood, so diabetics have to take injections to replace the insulin that the body is not generating, and keep on blood sugar levels. Diabetes can lead to many other problems like cardiac arrests, strokes, kidney failure and nerve damage that results in amputation.
Faustman produced her remarkable results by giving the animals Bacillus Calmette-Guerin or BCG. Used for over four decades as an anti-TB vaccine, Faustman found that BCG wipes out immune cells named killer T-cells. This prevents the immune system from consuming beta cells, and the latter restored themselves enough to create insulin to cure diabetes in the mice.
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