Monthly Archives: October 2012

Using a computer is a job no matter if you are making the great effort to deliver the project and meet a deadline or playing computer games all day long. In all the cases the interaction with the computer has the same effect on you body. The computer operators are affected by their work in one and the same way no matter if they work in an office or at home.

The vivid example of software affecting the human health is the computer gaming addiction. There are a lot of scientific articles on this topic describing the experiments and the research carried out by the specialists. But have you ever thought how does gaming affect the hand joints?

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Muslim wedding rituals and ceremonies haven’t been changed for many ages already. According to the Holy Writings of the Muslims Koran all the people have the right to have either a wife or a husband and extend their families.

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Have you ever met an overweight Chinese? No? This question fickles many people. It is interesting to learn the secrets of ancient Chinese cooks and use them in our daily cooking routine. Perhaps we do something wrong and that’s why our problem of excessive weight appear. In the Chinese culture they disapprove of overeating but they also nave no such concept as “healthy food”. The average Chinese salary men eat three times a day until they feel full. Meanwhile they don’t have any other shacks or bites during the day. One of the basic principles of the eastern meal is food diversity on the table. They have no main course. Each type of food is served on the small plates and bowls in a random order so that every participant of the meal may put a little of each kind of food on his plate.

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The first to speak about the advantages of eating raw food was the inventor of muesli, Maximilian Bircher-Benner who has cured from jaundice with the help of green apples. Modern rawfoodists claim that during heat treatment the products lose important enzymes and become useless for our body. However, dietarians have some arguments against the healthiness of this method.

Raw Food Diet forbids using pasteurized or UHT milk. However, if you refuse from dairy products completely you are deprived of protein. Vegetarians in this case eat beans but you are not likely to chop raw haricot beans.

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If I had an opportunity to classify the music bands according to musical styles, I will include “Keane” in the group of British rock fro botanists meaning botanists in the best sense of the word – intellectual people with wide outlook, dreamers and philosophers of big cities.

English pop-rockers “Keane” founded the band in 1995 when they were at school and took the name “Lotus Eaters”. Originally, there were three members of the band – Tim Rice-Oxley, Richard Hughes and Dominic Scott. Tom Chaplin who later became a front man of the band came to his fellow musicians two years later. It was then that the name of the group was changed to “Keane”. The voice of Tom Chaplin is often compared with the voices of front men of “Radiohead” and “A-ha” but at the same time it bears its own unique charm.

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Homophobia may be either explicit of implicit. There are the ones who declare all the homosexual to be the human beings of the lower quality. Just think of the idea to kill all the people playing another league. But how can one wish to kill anybody only because the last loves the person of the same sex? According to the statistical data the number of aggressive homophobes is nearly equal the number of homosexuals. But these aggressive homophobes don’t only speak up but also take some violent measures. Apart from these mean people there are a large amount of those who suppose single-sex relationships to be abnormal and unhealthy. These ones also do a lot of harm diminishing the dignity of the people and making them develop numerous fixations and phobias.

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