Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Happiness

What is happiness?

For sure, happiness is not a visual thing. Happiness is invisual feeling. However, we can read it on the face of happy people. Are there necessary conditions for happiness?. Some say that money, health and love, etc. are necessary for happiness. If we do not have some of them, would we be unhappy? Or If we do have all of them, would we be happy?

My answer is.. " I don't Know."

Feeling is a subjective thing. I think Optimistic thought can make people happy easily.
Although a pessimisitic, critical person has many thing which other peopel want to have, the person is difficult to feel happiness, satisfied.

Saturday, June 9, 2007

Pro-ana and Pro-mia web sites

source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDY1pws-kOE&mode=related&search

The reporter, Jamie Roth, interviewed the three women who suffered from eating disorder but now recovered. The reporter argued how harmful and dangerous "pro-ana" (pro-anorexia) and "pro-mia" (pro-bulimia) web sites are to people who are suffering from eating disorder. According to the interview, these website reassure people with anorexia or bulimia and aggrevate eating disorder. The pro-ana web sites show the thin commandment in their site. The content is shocking. Those are ,for instance, if you aren't thin, you aren't attractive and Being thin is more important than others. People with eating disorder visit these web sites because they are loney. and through it, they think they don't have to feel guilty. - they felt guilty about fasting and overeating and then vomiting.
Thus they become to log onto these web site obsessively. Finally, the reporter insisted these pro -ana and pro -mia web sites must disappear as soon as possible.

I know what being thin means in our society and how powerful that notion is. Even I can't deny being thin is more beautiful. Neverthless, I agree with the reporter. I think these web sites are evil to the patients and not friends.

Saturday, June 2, 2007

Should you worry about TB

source: http://www.cnn.com/video/player/player.html?url=/video/health/2007/05/30/intv.william.schaffner.tb.cnn

CNN's Nicole Lapin talked with infectious disease expert Dr. William Schaffner about tuberculosis. There have been a issue about the 31-year-old man who had XDR-TB , but travelled Europe. Nicole asked about infection risk to other people, and Dr. William answered.