The foremost thing we should learn from the Japanese is “Have a healthy diet to live longer.”
The Japanese Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry showed that the average life expectancy of Japanese women stood at 85.81 years in 2006, remaining the longest in the world for the 22nd year in a row. Life expectancy measures the expected length of life of an individual.
One reason for this is their healthy lifestyle including their traditional Japanese diet which is based around fish, rice and vegetables, and is very low in red meat, dairy products and processed foods. The Japanese foodways were also presented to the American public as a nation benefiting from all the dietary paradigms deemed politically correct.
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Last February, J.K. Rowling announced that the seventh and final book of the Harry Potter series, entitled “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” will not be available as e-books. This was already the case of the previous books of Harry Potter.
Two reasons were cited by Rowling for not releasing electronic copies of the book:
1. She was concern about online piracy (which has never been a major problem for the Potter books),
2. And the desire for readers to experience the books on paper.
Although the first reason has minimized the online piracy of the book, it did not totally eliminate it. Copies of the previous versions, available in pdf and other e-book formats, were made available for downloads through P2P sharing programs. These were all user-made.
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The Commission on Higher Education will be increasing its funding for student loans to P4 billion from P215 million, the Philippine Daily Inquirer reports. Due to this, student loans may soon be available from the government of as much as P30,000 per year to finance their education. This will serve as financial aid to less fortunate students and they can pay it later.
The funds could be availed of as early as the second semester of the current school year which begins in November. The student loan program’s bank is the Land Bank of the Philippines which has committed itself to providing some P1 billion in funding.
Further, the qualification standards will not be that strict so everyone can avail to it. The program will be available by the second semester this year and will be fully implemented by 2008.
With this increase in budget for student loans, the CHEd will be able to provide about P30,000 per year (or P15,000 per semester) to each of almost 200,000 student beneficiaries.
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A YouTube video was posted (but deleted after few hours) capturing Beyonce fell in an Orlando concert last Tuesday when she stepped on her trench coat and then tumbled head-first down 12 steps at the Amway Arena. The video was leaked despite her request to the fans not to get it posted at YouTube or any video-sharing networks. However, one fan had uploaded a video capturing this moment in YouTube.
This video is no longer available in YouTube due to a copyright claim by Sony BMG but the video has spread to other video-sharing networks.
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The Philippines had several reported cases of oil spills such as the one in Guimaras which has threatened the living of the people as well as the small sea creatures. Bioremediation was the proposed treatment but it seemed that it was not at all implemented.
The new type of highly porous gel was said to soak up heavy metals may be useful for environmental cleanup, such as in oil spillage or mining spills accidents. It serves as a molecular sieve that can trap large metals present in a solution.
The researchers placed the gel in a solution containing smaller metal ions and larger, highly toxic metal ions such as mercury. The aerogel removed almost all of the mercury from the solution and also a number of organic compounds.
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The August 2007 Philippine Licensure Exam for Physicians is fast approaching. How do you prepare for it? Here are few tips you can follow:
1. Follow these tips from The House Officer’s Survival Guide: Rules, Laws, Lists and Other Medical Musings, by Lawrence Martin, M.D for It is written for doctors in training, but will also be of interest to medical students, and practicing physicians who must take recertifying exams.
2. Get good reviewers and focus on one study material per subject area. This way, you can concentrate more and it won’t take more of your time. Of course you will still need the “big” text books for clarification of some points you can’t understand while taking the review.
3. To attend to review center or not? Some successful passers do not advocate attending review center while others do. It would depend on the person’s preference.
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