Caroline Mutoko To Kenyans:Do Not Let The Terrorists Win!

 
Caroline Mutoko is arguably one of the most meticulous and influential Kenyan media personalities of all time. With over 300,000 likes on her Facebook her influence just gets stronger. The Kiss 100 presenter takes this platform to encourage fellow Kenyans saying:

 Scanning through the TV stations I've caught images of Kenyans go about their business. It feels good. We cannot agree to be terrorized. Terrorism is an effort to bring a nation to its knees. We cannot let the terrorists achieve the objective of frightening our nation to the point where we don’t conduct business, where our children don't go to school, where people don’t shop, where we don't walk freely in our own country, where we don't live our lives.

That’s their intention. Don't let them win. If we hide in our houses; if we cancel our events; if we don't go to school; if we don't do business; if we turn on each other, if we begin to nitpick at those doing their part to help - then the terrorists have won.

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Ghafla.co.ke

LIFE IS A VICIOUS CYCLE

Bad things seem to happen to the same people over and over.

Bad things seem to happen to the same people over and over.

Soon as they get over a horrible phase and think it is time for champagne, the bigger, 'badder' brother comes knocking.

It is as if life is not about enjoying, but about fighting a terrible cycle of events that seems to evolve viciously.

That is the better stuff. Even worse, the vicious cycle transcends generations.

Can it get worse? Take a man who watched as his father repeatedly beat up his mother to a pulp.

This man, besides having constant bile against his father, would swear throughout his life how he would never lay a hand on a woman, no matter how hard that woman pushed him.

Shock and behold, he grows up to be an improved version of his father.

His children feel about him as he had about his father, but he is somehow blind to this. He fails to see himself in his children.

He is blind to the future and the fact that his children would probably grow up to be just like him and his father. How do you break this cycle?

And how is it that a child from a divorced background is always the first among his friends to divorce?

It is every child’s idea of heaven to have two parents living together in harmony and, naturally, a child who grew up with divorced parents would want to give his/her own child better.

They will spend time and energy looking for the right spouse, one who would do the distance of “till death do us part” with relative ease.

Two children down the line, there are divorce papers, court battles, and the vicious cycle makes its mark on yet another generation.

Do we become what we detest most? Does fate have a goal against all human beings – you know, just to prove who is boss, and expertly steer us towards the very path we repeatedly swear never to take?

Is the decision to be better people out of our hands?

Perhaps it is a genetic thing – like high blood pressure or diabetes; if it is in the family then you are at a risk of getting it and there is nothing much you can do about that.

These are musings triggered by watching enough people make mistakes, swear never to repeat them, then repeat them as soon as the dust settles, musings from watching many children of divorced people follow in their parents’ footsteps.

They are musings from watching enough people who witnessed their mothers’ agony from the fist of their fathers dish out the same to their spouses.

It is either genetic or we are generally a damaged race.
On a slightly lighter (ish) note, about six years ago I was in a matatu that was carjacked.

We were taken to a notorious outer Nairobi estate where we were relieved of all our possessions.

After that I swore never to set foot in that neighbourhood as long as I lived (forget the fact we were carjacked in a different estate and dumped in this particular one, but everybody loves to hate on it and I was joining the wagon).

As fate would have it, within months, I was living in this same estate as a happy wife and was not nagging the husband to move out.

Moral of my story: If you are to swear not to do something, do not do it too loudly lest embarrassment wash over you when you do exactly what you swore you never would.
 
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Want To Lose Weight? Try Eating A Big Breakfast

Many health experts recommend a balanced breakfast to start each day and new research from Tel Aviv University in Israel has shown that a ‘big breakfast’ diet can even lead to more efficient weight loss when compared to a big dinner diet.

According to their report in the journal Obesity, the Israel-based team found that when overweight and obese women were given a weight-loss diet with the same amount of daily caloric intake, those who ate more for breakfast than dinner tended to lose more weight than those who did the opposite and feasted at night.

To investigate the health effects of meal timing, the research team enlisted 93 obese women who were randomly placed into one of two groups. Both groups were told to consume a moderate-carbohydrate, moderate-fat, 1,400-calorie-a-day diet for 12 weeks. The first group was told to eat 700 calories at breakfast, 500 at lunch, and 200 at supper. The other group had a 200 calorie breakfast, 500 calorie lunch, and 700 calorie dinner. Both groups’ 700-calorie meals included the same foods.

At the end of the twelve weeks, the “big breakfast” volunteers had lost an almost of 18 pounds each, on average. They also lost three inches off their waist line. The “big dinner†group averaged a 7.3-pound weight loss and 1.4 inches of lost waistline.

The breakfast group was also found to have noticeably lower levels of insulin, glucose, and triglycerides throughout the day, which could eventually lead to a lower risk of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, hypertension, and high cholesterol, added the researchers.

They also noted that the big breakfast group also had lower levels of the hunger-regulating hormone ghrelin, suggesting that these women were more satiated throughout the day than their counterparts in the other group. The breakfast group also did not experience blood glucose spikes that often occur after a meal. Some experts consider these jumps in blood sugar levels more harmful than sustained high blood glucose levels with respect to cardiovascular disease.

According to the researchers, the results indicate that proper meal timing should be considered when attempting to manage obesity, in addition to a regular exercise regimen and proper nutrition. The study authors also suggested that people minimize late-night snacking or mindless eating in front of the television screen.

One of the study’s authors – Daniela Jakubowicz, a diabetes expert at Wolfson Medical Center in Holon, Israel – has been espousing the virtues of a large breakfast for years and even has a diet book based on the principle.

In a review of Jakubowicz’s 2009 book “The Big Breakfast Diet: Eat Big Before 9 a.m. and Lose Big for Life,” Los Angeles Times’ critic Anne Colby noted that most women would lose weight on the diabetes researcher’s recommended 1,100 calories-a-day diet. Colby added that a major drawback of the plan is that it slightly runs counter to social norms.

“The main drawback to the big-breakfast diet would seem to be the fact that people eat not just to satisfy hunger or cravings, but as a social activity,” Colby wrote in 2010. “And dinner is when they typically gather to break bread. Sure you can order up a vegetable platter or salad while others are noshing on pesto pasta and pizza, but it takes commitment.”

Source: Brett Smith for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online