1. Is there an echo of this problem in the Mexican society?

2. Are the Mexican politicians worried about this news?

3. Is this a big issue in the Mexican society?

Well, it seems it is more important to give more money to the Mexican governors now than to give money to the Mexican health.. 

What a shame!

Suman un millón 594 mil los casos

México, con más niños desnutridos en América

Se encuentra en el lugar número 22 entre las naciones con más menores de cinco años que padecen esta condicciones

México está en el top 25 de los 136 países con mayor población de niños menores de cinco años que sufren cortedad de talla, debido a la desnutrición materna e infantil crónica, según el ranking mundial del informe "Seguimiento de los progresos en la nutrición de los niños y las madres", publicado ayer por la Unicef.

Este problema de salud afecta a más de 200 millones de niños en el mundo, mientras que en el país suman un millón 594 mil los casos -cifra que lo pone a la cabeza en América-, con una prevalencia de 16 por ciento, es decir, que uno de cada seis niños mexicanos no recibe la alimentación adecuada para desarrollarse correctamente.

Según apuntó ayer en rueda de prensa la directora ejecutiva de Unicef, Ann M. Veneman, mientras presentaba los 24 países con más infantes desnutridos, "México es el único de la lista que no se encuentra en África y Asia", los dos continentes donde se concentra más de 90 por ciento de los niños y niñas que sufren retraso en su crecimiento. "En el país mexicano hay por tradición una falta de alimentación de nutrientes, lo que se transmite de padres a hijos", comentó la funcionaria.

Veneman también recordó que la carencia de una adecuada alimentación en los más pequeños provoca normalmente deficiencias físicas para toda la vida, además de "afectar la capacidad cognoscitiva", reduciendo la de aprendizaje y "las posibilidades de obtener ingresos decentes", con lo que se vincula la buena alimentación con el combate a la pobreza.

Además, según el documento, en México una de cada cinco embarazadas sufre de anemia, así como un tercio de los niños menores de dos años padecen del mismo mal. En cuanto a los bebés, 8 por ciento nace con bajo peso, más de 20 por ciento no recibe alimentación de pecho y cuando cumplen seis meses sólo 38 por ciento toman exclusivamente leche materna.

Sobre la pureza del agua que toman los mexicanos, el informe destaca que 91 por ciento de la población bebe el agua potable de la llave, 4 por ciento de fuentes no seguras y sólo 5 por ciento ingiere agua purificada con métodos mejorados.

En la población rural este problema es más grave, ya que 15 por ciento de la población en estas zonas bebe agua que no fue potabilizada bajo ningún método.

Aunque en cantidad de niños desnutridos México va a la cabeza dentro del continente, en proporción las cifras no son tan desalentadoras, ya ocupa el lugar 14 de América y el 97 en el mundo con una prevalencia de 16 por ciento de menores de cinco años desnutridos; no obstante, comparado con naciones similares, aún esta por debajo de Uruguay y Colombia, con 15 por ciento; Venezuela, 12; Argentina, 8%; Brasil, 7, y Chile, 1 por ciento. También está por debajo de países con economías muy inferiores como Cuba, Jamaica o Trinidad y Tobago, que tienen una prevalencia de desnutrición infantil que oscila entre 4 y 5 por ciento.

Los países con mayor prevalencia de retrasos en el crecimiento entre los menores de 5 años en el continente son Guatemala, con 54 por ciento; Perú, con 30; Honduras y Haití, ambos con 29 por ciento. Este mismo indicador en otras partes del mundo coloca a Afganistán como la nación con más porcentaje de niños desnutridos al alcanzar 59 por ciento, seguido de Yemen, con 58; Timor Oriental, 54; República Democrática del Congo, 46, y Corea del Norte, con una prevalencia de 45 por ciento.

La situación en Asia es considerablemente peor que en América, el primer país de la lista publicada por Unicef es India, con 60 millones 788 mil casos y con un porcentaje de prevalencia de 48 por ciento. Le sigue China, con 12 millones 685 mil casos y 15 por ciento de prevalencia (inferior a la proporción que hay en México), y Nigeria, con 10 millones 158 mil casos y una prevalencia de 41 por ciento.

Además de la cortedad de talla, otra consecuencia de la nutrición inadecuada es el peso inferior al normal, lo que también impacta en el desarrollo y la salud, según indicó la directora ejecutiva de Unicef, que a pesar de la gravedad de la situación, se mostró optimista al afirmar que "es posible reducir y eliminar la desnutrición", como se ha demostrado con programas que distribuyen sal yodada y suplementos de vitamina A.

Claves

El embarazo

• La leche materna es clave para una buena nutrición, según la Unicef, pero en México uno de cada cinco niños no se alimenta con ella al nacer.

• La anemia, padecimiento relativo al bajo contenido de nutrientes en la sangre, afecta a 21 por ciento de las mexicanas embarazadas.
• Uno logro contra la desnutrición en México fue aumentar el consumo de sal yodatada de las mujeres embarazadas, que subió de 28 a 91 por ciento.

México • Redacción, Milenio Diario, Tendencias, page 39By teh  Jueves 12 de Noviembre de 2009

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Have you ever regretted doing something you should not have done or something you did not do which you have? At one time or another we probably all have. There is no time in getting depressed about it now. It is no use crying over spilt milk. However, there may be some gain in thinking about exactly what happened and why because we might be able to draw conclusions for the future. One thing we all do now and again is to lose our temper with a friend or close relatives. The odd thing is that we more often display great anger towards someone we are fond of than towards strangers. The explanation may be that we see friends and relatives as a kind of safety net, an opportunity to let off a bit of stream in a safe environment, whereas the consequences of insulting a stranger or a staff at work could be far more serious.

Being honest is usually thought as a virtue and undoubtedly this is the case. On the other hand, we have all experienced occasions when we have spoken our minds to someone, telling them exactly what we feel, and then have found ourselves overcome with feelings of guilt and remorse. Perhaps we should have kept our mouths shut.

Capital may alter hours for alcohol

By NACHA CATTAN

The News

A bill that would require all bars in Mexico City to stop serving alcohol at 2:30 a.m. passed a city Assembly committee on Wednesday.

The legislation would do away with after-hour clubs and cantinas in a bid to curb alcoholism and reduce drunk-driving accidents - one of the main causes of death among young people in the capital.

If the bill passes the full Assembly - which could happen as soon as Thursday - liquor stores would have to close up shop by midnight and nightspots will have until 3 a.m. to escort patrons out.

The bill also puts a cap on open bars, a measure that was applauded by liquor industry representatives on Tuesday, who said that unlimited and often cheap alcohol service promotes the unregulated sale of liquor beverages.

"The idea isn´t to stop young people from having fun, but to prevent their principal reason for gathering together [from being] alcohol," Isaías Villa, the assemblyman who introduced the bill, told The News.

But critics warn that barkeepers will simply bribe police to prevent their taps from running dry before 3 a.m. and hurting their business.

They note that current laws restricting watering holes from opening past 4 a.m. are often ignored.

"Police will come and owners will say, `Here is your 500 pesos,´ " said Enrique Alvarez, an education administrator from the Benito Juárez borough in Mexico City.

"Why do we have to suffer just because of a few people who get wasted and crash their cars?"

The initiative would also require all hotels to offer condoms, either for sale or for free, in case customers request them.

Another key component of the bill would give city borough officials a 10-day deadline to reject requests to open restaurants, hotels and theaters.

If the borough does not respond to a request in time, the establishments can open their doors automatically instead of waiting months for approval, Kenia López, a member of the Assembly, told The News.

"This will boost jobs," López said.

I have some questions:

5. How will " the pre-copeo" be stopped?

I am quite sure the answer to many of today´s problems is "education".

Are you numb?

This is the list of the subjective well-being in 97 countries based on reported happiness and life satisfaction, equally weighted. The rank is stated from happiest to least happy. Negative scores indicates that a majority of the population is unhappy/dissatisfied with life.

It comes from a combined data from 1995 - 2007 World Values Surveys.

1. Denmark (4.24)
2. Puerto Rico (4.21)
3. Colombia (4.1 )
4. Iceland (4.15)
5. North Ireland (4.13)
6. Ireland (4.12)
7. Switzerland (3.96)
8. Netherlands (3.77)
9. Canada (3.76)
10. Austria (3.6 )
11. El Salvador (3.67)
12. Malta (3.61)
13. Luxemburg (3.61)
14. Sweden (3.5 )
15. New Zeland (3.57)
16. U.S.A. (3.55)
17. Guatemala (3.53)
18. Mexico (3.52)
19. Norway (3.50)
20. Belgium (3.40)
21. Britain (3.39)
22. Australia (3.26)
23. Venezuela (3.25)
24. Trinidad (3.25)
25. Finland (3.24)
26. Saudi Arabia (3.17)
27. Thailand (3.02)
28. Cyprus (2.96)
29. Nigeria (2.82)
30. Brazil (2.81)
31. Singapore (2.72)
32. Argentina (2.69)
33. Andorra (2.64)
34. Malaysia (2.61)
35. West Germany (2.60)
36. Vietnam (2.52)
37. France (2.50)
38. Philippines (2.47)
39. Uruguay (2.43)
40. Indonesia (2.37)
41. Chile (2.34)
42. Dominican Republic (2.29)
43. Japan (2.24)
44. Spain (2.16)
45. Israel (2.0 )
46. Italy (2.06)
47. Portugal (2.01)
48. Taiwan (1.83)
49. East Germany (1.7 )
50. Slovenia (1.77)
51. Ghana (1.73)
52. Poland (1.66)
53. Czech Republic (1.66)
54. China (1.64)
55. Mali (1.62)
56. Kyrgyzstan (1.59)
57. Jordan (1.46)
58. Greece (1.45)
59. South Africa (1.39)
60. Turkey (1.27)
61. Peru (1.24)
62. South Korea (1.23)
63. Hong Kong (1.16)
64. Iran (1.12)
65. Bangladesh (1.00)
66. Bosnia (0.94)
67. Croatia (0.87)
68. Morocco (0.87)
69. India (0.85)
70. Uganda (0.69)
71. Zambia (0.6 )
72. Algeria (0.60)
73. Burkina Faso (0.60)
74. Egypt (0.52)
75. Slovakia (0.41)
76. Hungary (0.36)
77. Montenegro (0.19)
78. Tanzania (0.13)
79. Azerbaijan (0.13)
80. Macedonia (-0.06)
81. Rwanda (-0.15)
82. Pakistan (-0.30)
83. Ethiopia (-0.30)
84. Estonia (-0.36)
85. Servian Bosnia (-0.45)
86. Lithuania (-0.70)
87. Latvia (-0.75)
88. Romania (-0.8 )
89. Russia (-1.01)
90. Georgia (-1.01)
91. Georgia (-1.01)
92. Bulgaria (-1.09)
93. Iraq (-1.36)
94. Albania (-1.44)
95. Ukraine (-1.69)
96. Belarus (-1.74)
97. Moldova (-1.74)
98. Armenia (-1.80)
99. Zimbabwe (-1.92)

The score only showing the American nations:

1. Puerto Rico
2. Colombia
3. Canada
4. El Salvador
5. USA
6. Guatemala
7. Mexico
8. Venezuela
9. Trinidad
10. Brazil
11. Argentina
12. Uruguay
13. Chile
14. Dominican Republic
15. Peru

People in most countries around the world are happier these days, according to newly released data from the World Values Survey based at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research.

Data from representative national surveys conducted from 1981 to 2007 show the happiness index rose in an overwhelming majority of nations studied.

"It's a surprising finding," said U-M political scientist Ronald Inglehart, who directs the World Values Surveys and is the lead author of an article on the topic to be published in the July 2008 issue of the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science. "It's widely believed that it's almost impossible to raise an entire country's happiness level."

The 2007 wave of the surveys also provides a ranking of 97 nations containing 90 percent of the world's population. The results indicate that Denmark is the happiest nation in the world and Zimbabwe the unhappiest. The United States ranks 16th on the list, immediately after New Zealand.

During the past 26 years, the World Values Surveys have asked more than 350,000 people how happy they are, using the same two questions.

"Taking all things together, would you say you are very happy, rather happy, not very happy, not at all happy?" And, "All things considered, how satisfied are you with your life as a whole these days?"

Combining responses to these two questions, Inglehart and colleagues constructed an index of subjective well-being that reflects both happiness and general life satisfaction.

In the 52 countries for which a substantial time series is available (covering 17 years on average), this index rose in 40 countries and fell in only 12. The average percentage of people who said they were "very happy" increased by almost seven points.

"Most earlier research has suggested that happiness levels are stable," Inglehart said. "Important events like winning the lottery or learning you have cancer can lead to short-term changes, but in the long run most previous research suggests that people and nations are stuck on a 'hedonic treadmill.' The belief has been that no matter what happens or what we do, basic happiness levels are stable and don't really change."

The new findings from the World Values Surveys not only show that during the past 25 years, happiness has in fact risen substantially in most countries. Fully as important as the fact that happiness rose is the reason why. In recent decades, low-income countries such as India and China have experienced unprecedented rates of economic growth, dozens of medium-income countries have democratized and there has been a sharp rise of gender equality and tolerance of ethnic minorities and gays and lesbians in developed societies.

Economic growth, democratization and rising social tolerance have all contributed to rising happiness, with democratization and rising tolerance having even more impact than economic growth. All of these changes have contributed to providing people with a wider range of choice in how to live their lives---which is a key factor in happiness.

The people of rich countries tend to be happier than those of poor countries, but even controlling for economic factors, certain types of societies are much happier than others.

"The results clearly show that the happiest societies are those that allow people the freedom to choose how to live their lives," Inglehart said.

As an example, Inglehart points to the tolerant social norms and democratic political systems in Denmark, Iceland, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Canada all of which rank among the 10 happiest countries in the world.

"The events of the past 25 years have brought a growing sense of freedom that seems to be even more important than economic development in contributing to rising happiness," Inglehart said. "Moreover, the most effective way to maximize happiness seems to change with rising levels of economic development. In subsistence-level societies, happiness is closely linked with in-group solidarity, religiosity and national pride. At higher levels of economic security, free choice has the largest impact on happiness."

He also notes that the largest recent increases on the subjective well-being index, measuring both happiness and life-satisfaction, occurred in the Ukraine, followed by Moldova, Slovenia, Nigeria, Turkey and Russia.

"While most ex-communist countries show low levels of happiness, many of them show large recent increases in subjective well-being," Inglehart said. "The collapse of communism was generally followed by a sharp decline in well-being, which tended to rise again with economic recovery."

August 28th, 1963

And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"

In 1950's America, the equality of man envisioned by the Declaration of Independence was far from a reality. People of color — blacks, Hispanics, Asians — were discriminated against in many ways, both overt and covert. The 1950's were a turbulent time in America, when racial barriers began to come down due to Supreme Court decisions, like Brown v. Board of Education; and due to an increase in the activism of blacks, fighting for equal rights.

Martin Luther King, Jr., a Baptist minister, was a driving force in the push for racial equality in the 1950's and the 1960's. In 1963, King and his staff focused on Birmingham, Alabama. They marched and protested non-violently, raising the ire of local officials who sicced water cannon and police dogs on the marchers, whose ranks included teenagers and children. The bad publicity and break-down of business forced the white leaders of Birmingham to concede to some anti-segregation demands.

Thrust into the national spotlight in Birmingham, where he was arrested and jailed, King organized a massive march on Washington, DC, on August 28, 1963. On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, he evoked the name of Lincoln in his "I Have a Dream" speech, which is credited with mobilizing supporters of desegregation and prompted the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The next year, King was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

June 3rd, 2008

Posted at 11:15 PM ET, 06/ 3/2008

Obama Claims the Democratic Presidential Nomination

Obama also made a direct appeal to Clinton supporters, especially women, who may be unhappy about the tenor and the results of the Democratic primary. "At the end of the day we aren't the reason you came out and waited in lines that stretched block after block to make your voice heard," said Obama. "You didn't do that because of me or Senator Clinton or anyone else."

Barack Hussein Obama 1961-

Born: August 4, 1961 (Hawaii)
Lives in: Chicago, Illinois
Zodiac Sign: Leo
Height: 6' 1" (1.87m)
Family: Married wife Michelle in 1992, 2 daughters Malia and Sasha
Parents: Barack Obama, Sr. (from Kenya) and Ann Dunham (from Kansas)
Religion: United Church of Christ
Drives a: Ford Escape hybrid, Chrysler 300C
Education:
- Graduated: Columbia University (1983) - Major: Political Science
- Law Degree from Harvard (1991) - Major: J.D. - Magna Cum Laude
- Attended: Occidental College
Career: U.S. Senator from Illinois sworn in January 4, 2005
Government Committees:
- Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee
- Foreign Relations Committee
- Veterans Affairs Committee
- 2005 and 2006: served on the Environment and Public Works Committee
Books:
- Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (1995)
- The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (2006)
- It Takes a Nation: How Strangers Became Family in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina (2006)

Will McCain win the presidential

elections?

JARA

The following contribution is of a friend of mine whose name is Mellisa Trouyet Camil. She is part of the Dove Self-Esteem Fund.

Did you know that...

Only two percent of thousands of women from 10 countries around the
world consider themselves beautiful?

What is the effect of living in a global society that consistently
bombards us with narrow definitions of what it means to be beautiful? The effect
of these trends is that too many girls develop low self-esteem from
hang ups about looks and consequently fail to reach their full
potential in later life.

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