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The ethics of eating. Food and drink prohibitions.

There's a lot of different cultures around the world. They concern different aspects of life, including eating. The style of eating also evolved over the centuries. We know that our genetic ancestors ate raw meat and fresh plants and fruits. But over the years it has changed. We usually eat pre-prepared meat (excluding steak tartare or sushi). But today I want to ask if it is really ethical? In an age when we know that animals have (at least) the emotions, they feel the pain, whether it is appropriate to without a second thought eat their meat? In many countries there's a lot of different food prohibitions often determined by religion and they usually concern meat. For example: Judaism strictly forbids eating amphibians and reptiles, bats, bears, eagles, vultures, ospreys, camels, horses and of course humans .                                                     Anyway the Fore people of Papua New Guinea saw nothing wrong with cannibalism until recently. Most count

How much is your body worth?

Organ Trade The commercial trade in human organs, including trafficking in persons for organ removal has developed into a global problem. Each year in the world are carried out 10 000 illegal surgeries. Before 2000, the problem of trafficking in human organs (mainly kidneys) was primarily limited to the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. Nowadays trafficking in organs is spread all over the world.  It is connected with the growing demand for organs in highly developed countries. Thanks to the development of medicine we have a new treatment options, but unfortunately some people see them only as profit. Every tenth organ is illegal. Why it is so common? „Corruption is an essential ingredient and prerequisite for trafficking in organs. The trafficking in persons for the purpose of organ removal on a larger scale would not be possible without the assistance of corrupt police officials, customs officers, officials giving out visa and travel documents, and sometimes off

Healthy lifestyle.

Nowadays it is a hot topic. Everybody want to be slim, muscular and healthy. People have a special diet, go to the gym and do a lot of different things to look good. When it comes to women the most popular in our country is virtual coach. Of course I am talking about „Polish women’s coach“ who is: EWA CHODAKOWSKA Important role have also : ANNA LEWANDOWSKA Men prefer rather a gym. Women want to look like this: …and men want to look like this: Everything is possible. Just wish! Want to live a healthy lifestyle? There are plenty of things you can do,  from following a healthy diet to getting plenty of exercise. GOLD TIPS FOR YOU! 1.     Healthy foods. You should choose foods that contains minimal amounts of unhealthy fats. Foods that are high in saturated fats include pizza, cheese, red meat, and full-fat dairy products. Select foods that are low in both sugar.         Minimize y

Alternative medicine

Alternative medicine mostly may be associated with some old lady living in small wooden house in the forest which try to cure people by using herbs and it also may be true. Fact is that this is much more popular than many may be thinking. Some areas of it are – in opinion of many – completely useless but another are quite popular.  It is also known as unconventional medicine and it is about keeping balance in our body. It sees illness as something separate from sick person and lead to imposition human body into perfect internal balance which may have impact on health. There are some of most popular areas of unconventional medicine: HOMEOPATH  focuses on deep hided cause of illness and gradually excise it. This method was created around two hundred years ago by German doctor which were claiming that best way to cure somebody from something is using thing that made him sick (with practicing strictly selected doses). Homeopath is not only condition analysis but also mental health.

How to get by with stress

People often don't know what is tress. But definition is easy. This is stimulus from our mind which we can control. Reaction for it is depentent from us. There are a lot of situations when we get stressed. I think that going to nwe school is the most mtressful situation in our life. We don't know what kind of people we can meet or if we meet in general. We don't know have difficult our studies will be. I think I can help you. I'll give some examples hove tp get by with stress. 1. Recognize a stressful situation and eliminate unnecessary stress We have to know what kind of situations are stressful for us. We have to know the source so the best idea is to write our situations in a piece of paper and band for two groups: those which we can easily eliminate for example before pirst classes or first meeting with new people and those which are complicated fo example before exam. In situation like this we have to do a plan and step by step write what we have to st

Ubiquitous advertising of medicines

Ubiquitous advertising of medicines                 Nowadays, we can watch lots and lots of advertisements different kinds of drugs, medicines and pills for everything. Yes, we can, but do we want to? It's very popular, and what's worse - it works. A lot of people can get caught up in it and buy drugs from advertisements. Because their stomach/head/back/leg/arm/brain hurts too... Poor them! :( It's obviously not that this medicament doesn't work. They often feel better - but in most cases it's a placebo effect. Dietary supplements                 Wake up! You don't need this! - This should be the new slogan of government's social campaign.  One of the medicine producers said in an advertisement that his product contains a "C.O.X" Inhibitor - but the problem is that it doesn't exist! The narrator read it in an incorrect way and a lot of doctors objected against this kind of mistake in medicinal advertisements.