Take a look at this: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/9660827/Elixir-of-life-could-be-real-according-to-British-experts.html          

YES: Role-models and who we aspire to are indicative of this.  Children as young as 6 aspire to people like Katie Price - is this what the world is coming to?  Governments want to seem they are doing something and actually give a toss about our health and have the our/ public's interest at heart. But we all know the reason why they haven't banned the promoting of smoking in disadvantaged countries and the children being manipulated for profit- because of the INCOME/MONEY!!!! NO: well, you decide!

The critics and health experts seem to release 'new diet info' every day, which has apparently been 'scientifically proved' But many like the Atkins diet have been proved to cause cancer/ increase your risk.  Furthermore, once a 'health expert' releases some sort of 'evidence' the world of commerce suddenly grasps the opportunity to create a storm of so called 'health products' which BENEFITS WHO? What do you think? Should they get away with it?

Rob Lachenauer wrote an article which expressess his view of the discrimination against people with mental illness'  What do you believe should be done? A few pointers ANYONE CAN SUFFER FROM A MENTAL ILLNESS Even in Britain we do not have adequate means to support or help people with mental illness - they are treated as prisoners who have committed major offences and locked up/ tortured. Estimated that over 450 million people worldwide suffer form mental illness 1 in 4 people will experience mental illness during the course of their life People with money can get help, but those less fortunate often never get better due to the lack of resources and acknowledgment- WHAT EQUALITY? According to data collected by the U.S. Department of Justice, in mid-2005 there were 2,186,230 prisoners in local jails and state and federal prisons in the United States. Estimates of the percentage of prisoners who have severe psychiatric disorders have ranged from 7 percent to 16 percent; the latter figure comes from a widely cited but methodologically questionable federal study. The best studies suggest that approximately 10 percent of prisoners have severe psychiatric disorders. Thus, approximately 218,000 individuals with severe psychiatric disorders are incarcerated in the nation’s jails and prisons at any given time. This number is equivalent to the population of such cities as Akron, Ohio; Madison, Wisconsin; Montgomery, Alabama; Richmond, Virginia; or Tacoma, Washington. Thus, the nation’s jail and prisons have become, de facto, the nation’s largest psychiatric hospitals. There are now more severely mentally ill individuals in the Los Angeles County Jail, Chicago’s Cook County Jail, or New York’s Riker’s Island Jail than there are in any single psychiatric hospital in the nation. Anecdotal examples show how staggering the numbers are.

Every year taxpayers pay approximately $51 billion each year. (Blincoe et al., 2002).  Many people including drinkers, druggies and smokers have put themselves into hospital - and the worst thing is that they often re-offend . The system does not teach them and enough has been done to educate them even SMOKING KILLS! Is printed on cigarette boxes. How long can this go on? People (us) taxpayer's work hard to earn our money, why should some irresponsible person who knows what they are doing exhaust limited/ precious resources that could be spent on more deserving and urgent needs of others? Can we not propose a new system - whatever it takes, tax on drink will not amend the costs but a new card system may e.g. car licence with points where the first time you are pardoned but if you keep re-offending the offenders should pay for it themsleves!!

Anthony Robbins said: "Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers" Some people with Autism suffer in silence as they don't know how to comunicate how they feel with specific words.  http://www.sowhatireallymeant.com/2011/11/01/transformational-vocabulary-%E2%80%9Ci%E2%80%99m-angry-totally-confused-and-an-emotional-mess-over-these-overwhelming-problems-%E2%80%9D/ The above link is interesting....