"One has to grow hard but without ever losing tenderness."

Severe Effects Of Poor Nutrition

Poor child nutrition still causes major problems in the developing world. A third of deaths in children under five in certain developing-world countries are linked to poor diet, a report by UNICEF suggests. It also reveals 195m children (one in three) have stunted growth, even though rates have fallen since 1990. Rates of stunted growth are higher because while some children may be a normal weight - in fact some can even be overweight - the food they are getting is of such poor quality that they have growth problems. Experts warn that such a condition is often irreversible and effectively condemns children to a lifetime of poor health.

Read Article: Reuters

Non Phixion - Say Goodbye to Yesterday

I bumped this album hard my sophomore year of HS, 2005.

“I’m from a place where some mothers sell they babies for crack
Where young cats buy gats, shoot and never look back
Where the whites live with the whites, and the blacks live with the blacks
But somehow we unite, through the culture of rap
I’m from Brooklyn, word to the Dodgers
Where thugs bust guns, and sons are raised without they fathers
We do away with has-beens, rock the latest fashion
The rule’s never rat - what you want to know, or who’s askin’
Just some habits of highly effective MC’s
Y’all is pussy rap, my speech made you weak in the knees
But talk’s cheap, I’m straight from the streets
I’m action-oriented when I’m screamin’ KILL CORRUPT POLICE
I read books, reap intelligence to compromise my bad looks
I roam with God-bodies and crooks
But when I rest my head at night, I’m just happy that I made it
‘Cause someone could take your life, be it my friends or my neighbors
Whether, you police or a thug on the streets
Whether, you look for beef or you livin’ in peace
Whether, you back down or you stand strong bold
Yo we never know what tomorrow gon’ hold”

You're never going to make it with the normals, so fuck it. Cut your own path and judge your achievements by your standards and nobody else's. Then you can only ever fail yourself.

Alcohol Good for Men's Hearts

Drink up fellas, it’s good for you—or for your heart at least, says a new study. Drinking cut heart disease risk by 35% to 50% in the survey conducted in Spain. It followed 15,500 men and 26,000 women, and found that daily heavy drinking did wonders for the men’s heart health. Women benefited to a much smaller extent. The type of alcohol didn’t matter much.

The more men drank, the greater their risk fell, with the heaviest drinkers—those taking three to 11 shots a day—seeing an average 50% drop. The researchers say they isolated out anyone who’d quit drinking because they were already in poor health; such “sick abstainers” have been used to explain away similar results in the past. Health experts rushed to criticize the study, pointing out that drinking increases the risk of other diseases, and in general isn’t very good for you.

Source: BBC News