“Oh, my goodness, you could grow potatoes in those ears — wash them again!” It’s an old saying, but one some parents are sure to admonish their children with at bath time, repeating what they heard as kids from their own parents once upon a time. And many of those adults still adhere to the notion that the only clean ear is an ear devoid of wax. But doctors say wax […]
Powerful people, intelligent people, wise people, the most grounded people, all do one thing that most others don’t: They talk to themselves. They’re not crazy. In fact, they’re quite the opposite. Powerful individuals understand that nothing in their lives, themselves included, is stable continuously forever. Things change. People change. The only way to stay atop of it all is to constantly talk to yourself, constantly ask yourself questions to understand […]
Herat, Afghanistan (CNN) — As we stroll down a dusty back street in Herat, Afghanistan’s third-biggest city, a high gate made from sheets of rusted corrugated iron and a door that’s bolted shut confronts us. On the other side of this fortress-like barrier we can hear children’s voices and playful laughter. When we knock the voices fall silent and a young man comes to the gate. He asks for our names […]
Monique Pool first fell in love with sloths when she took in an orphan from a rescue centre. Since then many sloths have spent time in her home on their way back to the forest – but even she found it hard to cope when she had to rescue 200 at once. It all began in 2005 when Pool lost her dog, a mongrel called Sciolo, and called the Suriname […]
Top 5 Oils For Optimal Health and Weight Loss Have you ever just picked up a bottle of vegetable oil, soy oil, canola oil or corn oil to cook with and not realizing how damaging it is to your health? If so, those 4 oils are wreaking havoc with your health. These oils are either processed and/or contain a high amount of omega 6 fats that in excess create low-level […]
Elsa the lion captured the public imagination in Born Free. But her memory lives on in Kenya, and in the work of conservationist and former hellraiser Tony Fitzjohn As Tony Fitzjohn approaches the lion cub, he does two things. First, he holds out a clenched fist. He is giving the cub a chance to have a good sniff at him. Then he crouches down and leans in until their heads […]
Editor’s note: CNN contributor Amanda Enayati ponders the theme of seeking serenity: the quest for well-being and life balance in stressful times. Follow her on Twitter or Facebook.(CNN) — New research shows that some students are doing more than three hours of homework a night — and that all that school work may be literally making them sick. It may be tempting to dismiss this latest research, conducted in upper-middle-class […]
A string of farmers have committed suicide in western India after freak hailstorms and rains destroyed winter crops worth millions of dollars, activists and politicians said Wednesday. The unusual weather struck parts of western Maharashtra state, of which Mumbai is the capital, from late February and went on to badly damage crops. A source from the Maharashtra chief minister’s office told AFP that seven suicides had been confirmed, with more killed by […]
Large numbers of people do not know there is a lot they can do to reduce their exposure to risk. The globe is facing a “tidal wave” of cancer, and restrictions on alcohol and sugar need to be considered, say World Health Organization scientists. It predicts the number of cancer cases will reach 24 million a year by 2035, but half could be prevented. The WHO said there was now […]
Abdominal pain is one of those pains with which each and every individual suffers once or more in a life time. At times people get scared of it due to its high intensity but bear in mind that having strong pain does not always mean that it is serious. As seriousness of this pain cannot be determined on the basis of mere intensity as there are many other contributing factors […]
