Daily walk prevents breast cancer

New research has found women who walk an hour every day can reduce their risk of developing breast cancer. Even more encouraging, more frequent and vigorous exercise was found to provide additional protection.

The study, published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention followed more than 73, 000 women over 17 years. Researchers found a 14 per cent reduced risk when compared to women with sedentary lifestyles.

Exercise consisting of over seven hours per week was associated with a 25 per cent reduced risk.

This is encouraging news for women who aren't very active or sporty. "The nice message here is, you don't have to go out and run a marathon to lower your breast cancer risk, …go for a nice, leisurely walk an hour a day to lower risk," says Alpa Patel, senior epidemiologist.

Walking appears to help cut down the amount of body fat that is directly linked to cancer-stimulating hormones such as insulin and oestrogen. Being physically active can improve insulin control and burn fat in high-risk areas of the body. Excess fat around the waist may affect one's breast cancer risk more than the same amount of fat around the hips or thighs.

Strength training (exercising with weights) is also beneficial to help burn off abdominal fat. Spot exercising, such as doing sit-ups, can tighten abdominal muscles, but is not an effective way to lose belly fat according to Harvard Medical School.

"Diet is also important. Pay attention to portion size, and emphasize complex carbohydrates (fruits, vegetables, and whole grains) and lean protein over simple carbohydrates such as white bread, refined-grain pasta, and sugary drinks," they added.

Unhealthy saturated and trans fats have also been linked to abdominal obesity and one's breast cancer risk. Saturated and trans fats are commonly found in highly processed foods that are often high in energy and low in essential nutrients.

All fats are not harmful to one's health and are actually needed to lose weight, balance hormones and fight cancer. Unsaturated, or healthy fats are found in polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fats. These fats are found primarily in fish, plant oils, seeds and nuts – all of which have been
shown to lower one's risk of developing breast cancer.

Drastically cutting the amount of energy in one's diet, especially while engaging in regular exercise is not recommended. Too little units of energy can force the body into starvation mode, slowing one's metabolism and ironically storing more fat around the mid-section.

The best weapon in overcoming breast cancer is the ability to prevent it from occurring in the first place. It's important to apply proactive lifestyle habits in one's life versus reactively trying to treat or reverse cancer when it could be too late.

Couillard is an international health columnist that works in collaboration with the World Health Organization's goals of disease prevention and global health care education. Views do not necessarily reflect endorsement.

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A British queen & 3 kings in waiting: The first photograph to show 4 sovereigns together since the Victorian period

The dress code was lounge suits, the protocol low-key. But if Prince George's christening hardly smacked of a state occasion, it will certainly be regarded as a momentous one by posterity.

For this photograph is the first time the world has seen the Queen alongside the next sovereign, the one after that and the one after that.

Here is monarch number 40 with numbers 41, 42 and 43 in the post-1066 chart.

Line of succession: The Queen is flanked by William holding George and Charles. The first time a British monarch has been pictured with three heirs since Queen Victoria

This official picture is more than just an enchanting family scene. It will appear in every history book on the British monarchy years after everyone featured in it has gone.

And the historians will not only be focusing on the baby. They'll be talking about the Queen.

It is an image with instant and obvious echoes from an earlier age. Because just one other monarch in history has had the pleasure of looking three successors in the eye — the Queen's great-great-grandmother.

That moment was captured when Queen Victoria attended the christening of Prince Edward of York — the future Edward VIII — at White Lodge in Richmond Park in 1894.

Queen Victoria holds the future King Edward VIII with Edward VII (left) and George V (right) at White Lodge in Richmond Park in 1894

He lies on Queen Victoria's lap — a baby who will live to see the Moon landings, held in the arms of a woman born in the reign of George III.

Behind the severe-looking great-grandmother (despite producing nine children, Victoria famously detested small babies), stand the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VII, and the Duke of York, the future George V.

Now reflect on the span of history in the photo from Prince George's christening.

Here is a (much happier) Queen, born in the year of the General Strike, alongside a great-grandson who, when he reaches her age, will be leading the monarchy into the 22nd century.

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert taken in May 1854. Victoria famously detested small babies

What the scene underlines, in a typically understated way, is the fact that our Queen is right up there alongside Victoria in the pantheon of the greats.

In any hereditary organisation — or business for that matter — the primary duty of the boss is to hand it on in at least as good a state as he or she found it.

For if a constitutional monarchy stands for anything, it is for continuity, for permanence.

Victoria certainly achieved that, though that little baby in her lap would go on to inflict untold damage to the Crown when he abdicated four decades later.

Yet, there would be a similar christening scene just two years after this one. The only surviving photograph of that event, however, shows only two monarchs — Queen Victoria holding the Duke of York's second son, Prince Albert.

He, of course, would go on to succeed his reckless elder brother as George VI, restore the monarchy's good name and leave it in extremely safe hands.

The Queen has led the institution through all manner of change in a turbulent world.

When she came to the throne in 1952, Britain was a monocultural society that went to church on Sundays, still regarded itself as an imperial power and was in the early stages of the Cold War.

Her first act at her first investiture as Queen was to pin a Victoria Cross on Private Bill Speakman of the Black Watch for heroism in Korea.

Since then, society has changed at a faster pace than any previous monarch has known.

Be it 24-hour mass media, the rise in life expectancy, the end of deference or demographic change on an unprecedented scale, Britain has undergone a greater social and cultural transformation under Elizabeth than even under Victoria.

And that has presented great challenges to an institution rooted in tradition.

But while Victoria sealed herself away from the outside world for much of her life, Elizabeth II has not only adapted to change, but embraced it, too.

The official portrait for the christening of Prince George Alexander Louis of Cambridge, photographed in The Morning Room at Clarence House in London yesterday

She has opened up palaces and royal treasures, launched royal websites, balanced the books, redefined the entire role of the modern monarchy and created a household run on merit rather than pedigree.

In doing so, she has quietly but steadily built secure new foundations beneath the throne for those three successors.

Opinion polls show that the monarchy is as popular today as it was more than 60 years ago, and that is no small achievement.

Because her success has been achieved slowly and without much  noise, we have tended not to take much notice — beyond the occasional Jubilee.

We continue to take it for granted that the Queen will just carry on turning up and doing her stuff because she always does.

In less than two years, however, she will pass another milestone (there are still one or two to go).
In September 2015, she will overtake Queen Victoria to become the longest-reigning sovereign in our history.

While she will refuse to mark the occasion in any way, the rest of the world will surely acknowledge what it means.

The history of Britain is segmented and punctuated by the comings and goings of its Royal Family, by births, marriages and deaths.

Wednesday's happy christening scene will command pride of place among the souvenirs and photographs jostling for space on the Queen's famously crowded desk.

But it will be much more than a picture of a baptism. It will be the portrait of a reign.

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10 Strategies to Help Solve Your Marriage Problems

Many good marriages slip into crisis because we don't or won't believe how much work it takes to keep relationships humming at optimal levels. Another reason is a simple failure in imagination.

But—if successful courting requires commitment, hard work and imagination to pull off … then why does it surprise us when neglect hurts relationships after we walk down the aisle? She wouldn't have married you if you took her for granted—why risk everything now?

There are many good strategies if we want to restore a problematic—or "under the weather"—marriage. All Pro Dad suggests the following 10 for men who want to get the ball rolling:

1. Pray for your spouse. Chances are you launched your marriage with both promises and prayers. Pray for your spouse, and ask for guidance as you pledge to make the kind of effort that simply won't float without turning to God every day.

2. Surround yourselves with people in healthy relationships. Some of those negative patterns involved friends. Hook up with a faith community where marriage is valued and there's widespread support for making yours work.

3. Choose to love. Love may have come easy when it was brand new. But love over the long haul is as much a choice as it is an emotion. Choice is an act of maturity and it has a much better track record than emotion left to make its way on its own.

4. Act as if your spouse's happiness is more important than your own.  Putting our spouse first nurtures trust, gratitude, generosity and affection. It can also lead to kissing!

5. Put the relationship ahead of everything, including your children. It's unfortunate, but time has a way of eating away at our priorities. "You're the most important thing in my life" gives way to "My work … the family business … the children … my aging parents … even golf, football or drinking …" Marriages don't work well when our partner plays second fiddle to anything – even the children. It's a fact - the happiest kids are those with parents who love one-another best.

6. Start over from scratch. Ask her out. Make sure you remember why you did the first time and build from there. When did you last talk for hours, hold hands at a movie, or smooch behind a plant in the mall? Get silly about one-another. If you don't feel like it, do it anyway- then you'll remember why.

7. Stop taking one-another for granted. Say "thank you" for that cup of coffee. Celebrate obscure anniversaries. Tell her how much it means to you that she cooks a great meal—or vice versa. Notice the haircut. Ask her out. Clean her car. Pay attention to the little things and act like someone who values the relationship.

8. Get counseling. You say you can't afford it? Believe us, it's cheaper than divorce! Most counseling simply involves a few sessions to get the communication flowing again. For guys, a willingness to talk in that context sends a huge positive message to your spouse.

9. Follow the counseling with an action plan. Just like a personal fitness program, counseling comes with homework and an action plan over time. Draw up the plan, ask friends you trust to help hold you accountable, then follow through. When both spouses take responsibility, anything is possible.

10. Change the patterns. Do you always come home angry? Then stop the car a block away and pray about it first. Does she always nag you when you leave dirty clothes on the floor? Try getting changed in a different room and initiate a new reflex. Do you always fight about discipline? Try agreeing with her decisions and supporting her 100 percent—you may find the kids act better because you're not fighting. You've heard the old joke:

 - Patient: "Doctor, it hurts when I do that …"

- Doctor: "Well, don't do that anymore!

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Mike Bickle: How I Overcame a Boring Prayer Life

God is going to fill the church with enjoyable prayer that is refreshing and invigorating.

I probably know more about boring, unanointed prayer than any other person on Earth--or I ought to. I've engaged in enough of it during my lifetime! Though I have felt called for more than 20 years to be a person of prayer, it was not until recently that I learned the true secret to a successful prayer life.

I started searching for the secret in my college days, but it eluded me. I read books on prayer and the deeper life in God, but when it got down to actually praying, I was an absolute failure.

I religiously scheduled time to spend alone with God. Yet my efforts at praying were frustrating and unfulfilling.

I dreaded prayer time. I'd made a vow to God that I'd pray an hour every night, and I made up my mind to stick to it, regardless. But after months of drudgery, I told Him, "Lord, I really love You, but I don't enjoy praying."

I still remember the awful condemnation I felt. A sense of defeat nearly overwhelmed me as I shook my head and sighed, "Lord, will I ever like talking to You?"

At the time, I was living in an apartment with three other Christian guys. Every night around 8:45, my roommates would notice that I was starting to get uptight because my prayer time, which I had designated as 9 to 10 p.m., was approaching. I hated going into my room to pray! I knew the next hour was going to be lifeless and boring.

Who would ever have guessed that eventually I would enjoy prayer so much I would resign as pastor of my church to lead a 24-hour-a-day prayer ministry?

My journey to enjoyable prayer began with a study of the tabernacle of David (see Acts 15:16-17). The tabernacle of David refers in part to a 24-hour prayer ministry that King David established. David put musicians and singers before the ark in place of the veil that Moses had used (see 1 Chr. 25:1-7). He valued the prophetic spirit (spirit of inspiration) resting on the singers and musicians that inspired the intercessors to soar in power.

David's model for what I call "intercessory worship" grew out of his primary life desire--"to behold the beauty of the Lord" (Ps. 27:4, NKJV; see also 145:5). The desire to dwell in the beauty realm of God is a vital foundation for intercessory worship in the spirit of the tabernacle of David.

Isaiah prophesied about a paradigm of prayer marked by joy. The Lord promised, "'I will...make [you] joyful in My house of prayer'" (Is. 56:7). Imagine the implications! God is going to fill the church with enjoyable prayer that is refreshing and invigorating.

Revelation tells us "the 24 elders around the throne fall down before Jesus, each having a harp and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints" (5:8). The harp speaks of worship; the bowl speaks of intercession. When the harp (worship music) comes together with the bowl (intercession), a spiritual dynamic occurs that enhances our enjoyment of prayer.

God ordained that the worship music around the throne flow interactively with intercession. God's songs and God's prayers flow together. This is the secret to the "enjoyable prayer" that Isaiah prophesied about.

I believe the Holy Spirit is orchestrating a global prayer strategy in these days that will far eclipse any other prayer movement in church history. He is raising up 24-hour-a-day "prayer furnaces" that are vital to the Great Commission. These full-time prayer ministries will be the key to reaching unchurched peoples all over the world and the foundation for the full restoration of the tabernacle of David in the generation in which the Lord returns.

I am now the director of one such prayer ministry, called the International House of Prayer, in Kansas City, Missouri. Much of our structure and the principles on which the ministry is based are posted on our Web site (www.ihopkc.com). We try to follow the pattern established by David, in which worship and intercession go hand in hand and are inspired by holy fascination with God.

With this model, I don't expect prayer ever to be boring again.

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Nigerians now purchase any vehicle directly from eBay through MicoStar Mall

MicoStarMall.com has partnered with eBay to enable Nigerians purchase any vehicle directly from US. Nigerians can now buy vehicles for the exact same price being sold on eBay and get it delivered to their doorstep in Nigeria. Their goal is to make it possible for Nigerians to purchase quality vehicles directly from US at affordable prices.

All you need to do is log onto MicoStarMall.com, and fill out a request form with vehicle of your choice from their auto section.

MicoStar Mall.com started over 15 years ago with their auto division MicoStar Motors. MicoStar Motors is known to be the pioneer of selling pre-ordered vehicles from US to customers in Nigeria. For the past 10 years , they had more Nigerian customers who pre-ordered vehicles from Nigeria and had them shipped from US to Nigeria than any other auto dealer in Nigeria.

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Inspired: Meet the teenager who launched a jewelry company at age 14, now set to rake in $250 million

Entrepreneur: Bella Weems, 17, was just 14 when she launched custom jewelry company Origami Owl, which is set to earn $250million this year

It's not every day a new start-up company rakes in $250million in a year; it's even rarer when that company was launched by a 14-year-old.

Bella Weems, from Chandler, Arizona, is now 17, but she was only 14 when she thought up the idea for Origami Owl - a direct sales jewelry company that connects independent associates, referred to as 'designers', with buyers.

After launching in 2010, Origami Owl has grown rapidly into a multi-million dollar enterprise, taking on thousands of different designers nationwide, and is expected to rake in a whopping $250million this year.

Bella says she came up with the idea for Origami Owl at age 14, after she asked her parents for a car for her 16th birthday.

They told her that she should earn the car herself, perhaps by starting a business, so she started brainstorming ways to earn money and decided to make and sell jewelry.

She started brainstorming ways to earn money, and decided to make and sell jewelry.

Her parents matched the $350 she had earned for babysitting, and she enlisted her friends as buyers.

Then she began selling her signature jewelry items – which she now calls Living Lockets – at every opportunity, including house parties, boutiques and local jewelry shows.

'I have always believed that you can do anything you set your mind to,' Bella writes on her website.

'With a focus in sight, I spent hours hosting jewelry parties instead of hanging out with friends,' and ultimately, 'the product started selling itself,' Bella told Forbes.

In 2011, the company adopted a direct sales platform, raking in about $280,000. The following year, sales multiplied by a whopping 86 times.

Now, Origami Owl has over 25,000 independent designers selling pieces at Jewelry Bars – private parties at their homes or other venues around the country.

Those who sign up as designers get to choose from several different starter kits with various lockets, chains and supplies for launching their small businesses.

Multi-million dollar enterprise: Now, Origami Owl has over 25,000 independent designers selling pieces at Jewelry Bars – private parties at their homes or other venues around the country

Ambition: 'I have always believed that you can do anything you set your mind to,' Bella writes on her website

It may have been Bella who founded the company in the first place, but today she relies on members of her family to help run it while she goes to high school.

Her mother Chrissy is co-founder and helped establish Origami Owl's design team, and her two uncles and an aunt help with IT and marketing.

Robin Crossman, the company's chief executive officer, said of the young entrepreneur: 'She's definitely hands-on, but we want her to have as normal a life as she can and to have the opportunity of college.'

Not only has Bella's ambition paid off, but it also helped her achieve her original goal: in 2012, she acquired a white Jeep, which she affectionately named Alice.

Read more: Daily Mail

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The shout-and-scream employer: 5 ways to deal with your FIERY boss

by the Metrognome

Make your protest known. Do not be cowed down by their attitude – if you think they have been unfair to you, request a meeting with them and discuss the matter without arguing or getting emotional.

1) The shout-and-scream boss: Some bosses lose their tempers very quickly, and they deal with their tempers by raging and shouting. "No person can raise his voice on anybody at work, especially if he is a senior," says Prajakta Sule, an HR professional. "If your boss yells at you, remain silent and don't answer in more than monosyllables. Do not look at the ground as if you are guilty, make eye contact. When he or she calms down, pretend that the shouting episode didn't happen at all. Your calmness will probably shame your boss into not repeating such behaviour again."

2) The curt and rude boss: Smriti Goradia worked at a fashion magazine in Mumbai, where her boss never spoke to the staff. "Whenever you requested five minutes, she would curtly say she didn't have time to spare. You couldn't discuss anything with her." Such bosses tend to put up a wall around themselves so that they don't have to deal with pressing matters. "The way to approach an unapproachable boss is to politely ask what time they would be free for a short meeting. Promptly arrive at the time that they give, and say what you have to say in a few sentences. As a follow up to the meeting, instead of approaching them again, email them or text them on their mobile," Prajakta says.

3) The no-you-can't-have-a-holiday boss: There are bosses who never sanction leave for their employees, no matter how urgent the need. "It was always 'No, you can't go on leave," Smriti recalls. "A colleague once had to leave town urgently for a family emergency, but my boss said that leave would not be sanctioned. Finally, her pay was cut for the week that she went on leave." No boss can refuse to grant you leave if you have enough leaves pending, and if you are giving sufficient notice. "Sick leaves can never be refused. For long leaves, a sufficient notice helps," says Foram Engineer*, an HR professional with a national newspaper. "If your boss refuses to grant leave and tries to cut the number of days of holiday, remind him or her that you need the full number of days that you applied for and that you have pending leaves. When you apply for leave, CC a copy to your HR head as well." There are bosses who do not sanction compensatory leaves for overtime. "Again, remind them that you worked on a holiday or after hours. As such, they cannot refuse your request," says Foram.

4) The exclusive boss: These bosses normally have a sycophantic clique comprising their favourite colleagues, and everyone else is an object of derision. "Such bosses will promote only their clique, praise only those within the circle and be nasty to everyone else. Though it is unfair to be passed over for a promotion or a pay raise, you just have to grin and bear it," says Foram. "Make your protest known. Do not be cowed down by their attitude – if you think they have been unfair to you, request a meeting with them and discuss the matter without arguing or getting emotional. State all the facts, discuss your performance, and make a case for why you should be rewarded."

5) The public shaming boss: These bosses insult the staff in full hearing of the office, use offensive language and never have a kind word to say to anyone. "This type of boss is drunk on his or her power in the office. The behaviour stems from insecurity or a sense of persecution from employees, especially if he or she is aware of personal shortcomings," says Prajakta. "When the language gets abusive, draw the line yourself. It may not improve his behaviour, but at least you will have made yourself clear. If the behaviour continues, go to his superior of the HR head and lodge a complaint." However, lodging a complaint against one's boss is also considered unacceptable, so keep it as a last resort.

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