102 days after the birth

This news article explains about two monthers that got given the wrong baby and that two months after the birth, they knew officially there had been a mistake.

Both women are called Lyudmila Alexandrovna and were given Caesarean operations with just one minute of difference. 

From the first minute, they realized there was something wrong and one of the women said her marriage was almost wrecked because the DNA didn't belong to her husband.

Both DNA's proved that there was an error but the hospital insisted until the last minute there wasn't. Just last week they accepted there was a mistake.

It was obvious for them because they exchanged photos of the daughters and one of the women noticed the other baby was more or less exactly as her older daughter. And the same happened with the other one, who saw the other baby was similar to her son.

When the hospital accepted the mistake, they decided to change the babies and keep the one they gave birth to, but they also decided to stay in contact and according to them, they have became great friends even though they live away from each other.

Now, they are staying together in the same hospital suite, helpling each other get to know their real babies and they are receiving hellp from a psychologist and so are the babies, to check everything is fine with them.

This is not the first time this happens. Once two mothers discovered their 12 years old daughters weren't theirs. But the girls didn't exchange family because one is Muslim and the other Christian. 

100 outdoor challenges

Parents from the UK noticed their two daughters were spending a lot of time watching TV and playing games. They didn't like this, so they decided to make a list of 100 outdoor challenges to do, which cost under £500. 

The girls are 10 and eight, and they ended up prefering, doing and planing things other than watching TV.
Some things they did was walking on high ropes, cooking their mum a dish, sleeping under the stars and seeing a meteor shower on a beach, climbing the Eiffel Tower... The girls parents said some of the things were a bit dangerous and scary but the truth is that they -parents and daughters- are who instigated the ideas.

While they were doing it, they documented it on a website with the intention of encouraging people to be more active. Now, the girls talk in front of people of any age about their adventures.

They are currently working on a new list of 100 activities to complete by the end of next year. 


I find this new very interesting because many childs around the world are used to be or watching TV or in the computer or with the mobile phone or playing Play Station, etc... They wake up and go to sleep using that. Since the first hour of the morning they are using one of those things and this lasts until they go off to bed. Parents "lost control" with their children (in a way) because now not many boys and girls can enjoy or know how to enjoy without these kind of things. 
I think the parents had a good initiative and are making their daughters get used to be more active. 

                              

What does your smile say?

A professor of psychology, Matthew Hertenstein, did some research to see if by just looking at children's childhood school photographs, he could predict who would get divorced sometime in their lives. To do this he looked at photographs in hundreds of school yearbooks (childhood and adolescent photos) of people who are now 55. With this he saw that children who looked unhappy were the people who got divorced, not like the ones that smiled. Of course many children can fake smiles, so he checked if when the child smiled, the muscle that pulls up the lip was contracted, as well as the orbicularis oculi (because the muscle that makes the smile can be seen in the eye). But Matthew conceded that this is not completely true. The smile, or lack thereof, do not define exactly if your life is going to be one way or another.

I was really surprised when I saw this. I had never thought before that your smile can define (in a way) your future. But I don't agree with this a lot. Everyone can have bad days; you can look horrible in the picture, when actually you were happy. Or you could have had a bad day the day before and then you took the picture and you looked horrible. Or maybe you were always sad but that special person you married made you change and it lasted for ever. I know this is a study and so everything is real, and that a smile can hide many things, but I don't think it can describe our future.

                                                                   

Breakfast: yes or not?

Some recent reports linked skipping breakfast to obesity, diabetes and others things like catching flu. In addition, men who don't have breakfast are more likely to suffer heart attacks or heart disease. 

According to an expert, Dr Neil Standley, when we wake up our body gets ready for daytime so the hormones release and that makes us feel hungry. But this is more common to people who normally go to sleep at the same time and more or less soon, because to people that stay up late and then have problems to wake up, don't feel hungry until some hours later, so it's recommended to go to sleep every night at the same time.

Breakfast is one of three important daily meals and that's why, if you'd skip it, then you would be hungry at mid-morning and then you would get a snack. As you would have eaten not many hours ago, you wouldn't be hungry for lunch, so you wouldn't have a proper meal and you would be hungry by mid-afternoon. Then you would have another snack and this would be always the same, because not eating the enough energy and food makes us need it and feel uncomfortable, and this has its consequences because when you get snack, most of the times isn't a healthy one. 

In one study they noticed when someone didn't have breakfast, they ate 20 per cent more at lunch because they were hungry and were more likely to seek unhealthier and high-calorie foods. This is because humans, after a priod of fasting, are primed to seek sugary and fatty foods.

Some examples of breakfast that are shown in the text and that have less than 300 calories (enough number of calories to stop you overeating later) are: 

-bowl of porridge with honey

-bowl of Special K cereal with milk 

-boiled egg with a slice of wholemeal toast

I really recommend you to read this report because it's very interesting and helful. I found it simple, but effective.

Here it is: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2487340/Is-really-true-skipping-breakfast-make-ill.html?ico=health^headlines