The News Review:
- Chinese menus, medicine threatening wildlife
- Laughter as medicine: How it helps people lead healthier lives
- Laughter – the best medicine
- PROFNET EXPERT ALERTS: Health & Medicine
- Seychelles to swallow bitter economic reforms medicine
Chinese menus, medicine threatening wildlife
Tehran Times, Iran
legal liability, deteriorated living environment, hazardous to one’s health) instead of a ‘be compassionate’ approach could have a more immediate effect,”" the report said. The demand for medicine could also be as destructive to natural vegetation and habitats as the quest for food, in a country where traditional medicine is widely used and has also yielded valuable compounds for use in Western treatments. The country’s total exports of traditional medicine were also worth $1. 1 billion last year. Catering to this market and the demand from an expanding and increasingly wealthy domestic population is straining areas where wild plants are gathered. Up to a fifth of medicinal plants and animals are now considered endangered, Traffic said.
Laughter as medicine: How it helps people lead healthier lives
NDTV.com, India
Chuckles, giggles and snickers – "You don’t have to make a big deal of it, we’re dealing with something that we actually can do," said Michaela Schaeffner, chairwoman of the association of the German laugh-yoga therapists in Munich. The goal is to laugh without reason or inhibition. This initially seems artificial, but with a bit of training people can learn "to go into natural laughter from collective, intentional laughter". And because you can scarcely think about it while in laugh training, the relaxation is all the greater.
Laughter – the best medicine
TVNZ, New Zealand
Laughter yoga may look like a bit of a joke but one minute ofdeep belly laughter is meant to be equivalent to about 10 minuteson the rower. The activity combines breathing techniques and slightlyunconventional exercises. Experts say the brain can’ t tell the difference between a fakechuckle and a real rip snorter and participants say that when theydo all the exercises at some point natural laughter kicks in. Clinical psychologist and laughter leader Malcolm Robertson sayswhen people laugh they are exercising 400 muscles in theirbody. “Some people will see it as a little bit odd, but the benefitsoutweigh any self consciousness,” Robertson says. Laughter yoga started in India about 13 years ago and in NewZealand, clubs are sprouting up in most main centres. They may look a little silly, but with all the benefitsparticipants may yet have the last laugh.
PROFNET EXPERT ALERTS: Health & Medicine
Insurance News Net (press release), PA
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Seychelles to swallow bitter economic reforms medicine
afrol News, Norway
Amongst hard-line reforms that Seychelles will have to adopt, it will have to limit its government role in the economy and boost private sector development by further privatisation, enhanced fiscal governance and a review of the tax regime which has in past offered very lenient package benefits and exemptions. According to the IMF’s Deputy Managing Director and Acting Chairman, Takatoshi Kato, even with significant fiscal tightening envisaged, Seychelles’ public debt would remain unsustainable, saying the country would need good faith negotiations with official bilateral and commercial external creditors, in order to secure a debt restructuring aimed at re-establishing public debt sustainability, consistent with the country’s long-term payment capacity. “The comprehensive and bold nature of the authorities’ reform programme merits support of the international community. While there are risks to the programme, including from a global downturn, early and important policy reforms authorities have already undertaken are indicative of their strong ownership of the reform effort,” Mr Kato said. The IMF has already committed to helping Seychelles to implement a package of major macroeconomic and structural reforms, which will include, a fundamental liberalisation of exchange regime, involving elimination of all exchange restrictions and a float of the local currency rupee, which was introduced in early November. The programme will also look into significant and sustained tightening of fiscal policy backed by a reduction in public employment and replacement of indirect subsidies by a targeted social safety net, while also reform of monetary policy framework will focus on liquidity management based on indirect instruments. “Strong fiscal policy reforms, including removal of tax exemptions and strengthening of public financial management, need to be sustained in order to secure substantial primary surpluses over the medium term.
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