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A modern woman strives for beauty and in 2018 that is a smooth and hairless skin. This is the reason why many women shave, wax and/or use laser hair removal on their legs, armpits, bikini lines, toes and sometimes even their arms.  Research shows that most people, both men and women, shave in order to feel more handsome and attractive. Nevertheless, gynaecologists caution women not to shave off all the hair in their bikini area. I think it’s safe to say that shaving the armpits, legs and bikini line is a regular beauty ritual of every woman.  No matter how you remove these hairs: it’s always a sacrifice due to, for example, the ingrown hairs or the cuts. Although this is all quite normal, more and more doctors emphasise that the natural hair cover is extremely important for maintaining good health. In fact, it is a protective barrier that women should leave alone! The reason why? 1. Protects against germs. Pubic hair protects the skin from vario...

Every true parent will confirm this: raising a child is the most difficult task in life. And they are right! Raising a child is something special, sacred and powerful, just like the bond between the parents and their children. However, to keep this bond alive, both parents and children must invest a lot of time and emotion and maintain communication. The way our parents deal with us plays an important role in the formation of our personality. The way we are raised shapes our behavioural and emotional profile and that is something that is stored deep within us.  However, parents sometimes make mistakes. Every parent who really loves their child will do anything to make the world a better place for their loved ones. Not every parent chooses the right way to do that 1. Big boys/girls are never afraid! This is just not true and you know it. If you say this, your children will only become afraid to show their feelings. You have to support your children and exp...

It is very interesting to follow developments in the present day Western world especially in the USA. Just last week we had its Secretary of State on a tour of Africa. But waking up in the middle of this week that Secretary of State, Mr Rex Tillerson had been abruptly sacked for reasons best known by his employer, US President Donald Trump. This seems to be the unpredictable trend of the Trump Administration since assuming power. A notable number of senior officials of this Administration have either resigned or been sacked by their boss abruptly. For us, people in the developing world, our nervousness of what is up next on the agenda on this new Republican Administration is heightened because of the unpredictability of the man at the helm of this unipolar power. But this is beside the point of the thrust of this perspective, although factors are inter-related and connected as we reflect on what the sacked US Secretary of State said in regard to Africa and its r...

The Russian chemist who revealed the existence of the novichok family of chemical agents to the world has dismissed the notion that a non-state actor could be behind the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury, England, earlier this month. Vil Mirzayanov, 83, said the chemical was too dangerous for anyone but a “high-level senior scientist” to handle and that even he – who worked for 30 years inside the secret military installation where novichok was developed and gained extensive personal experience in handling the agent – would not know how to weaponize it. He said he did not see how a criminal organization or other non-state group could pull off such an attack. “It’s very, very tough stuff,” Mirzayanov told the Guardian at his home in New Jersey, where he has lived in exile since 1996. “I don’t believe it. “You need a very high-qualified professional scientist,” he continued. “Because it is dangerous stuff. Extremely dangerous. You can...

President John Magufuli stated that the move would go a long way towards narrowing the unemployment gap in the country. He made the announcement  when laying a foundation stone of the 7trn/- worth 426km-long line whose construction is implemented by the Turkish based firm Yapi Merkezi and supervised by the State-run Tanzania Railways Corporation (TRC). While acknowledging that the country faced a serious unemployment problem, his administration was resolutely determined to ease it by investing in more development projects. President Magufuli outlined other mega projects as the Rufiji hydropower project, roads networks as well as rural electrification projects. He called on wananchi not to be too selective but seize whatever job opportunities came up. The new standard gauge railway project which is projected to take at least 30 months, will smoothen the flow of goods, people and services within and outside the country. The project is billed to boost trade and e...

   Hundreds of Dar es Salaam residents yesterday turned up at the offices of the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) contractor to request for jobs, barely a day after President John Magufuli launched the second phase of the project. Youth from the region camped at the Turkish company, Yapi Merkezi offices for a better part of the day with hope that they would probably grab employment opportunities in the ongoing SGR project from Dar es Salaam to Morogoro and the newly launched second phase of the project from Morogoro to Dodoma. Speaking on Wednesday in Dodoma when laying a foundation stone of the 7trn/- worth 426km-long SGR line, Dr Magufuli announced that thousands of jobs will be created by the ongoing huge projects, including the Statefunded construction of the country’s first ever SGR line from Morogoro to Dodoma, representing 30,000 new direct jobs and 600,000 indirect ones. The Turkish-based Yapi Merkezi is implementing both projects and supervised by T...

Clashes in central Somalia between Somali army troops and al-Shabab militants have left at least 12 people dead, witnesses say. The clashes Thursday started after armed al-Shabab members tried to impose taxes on residents of villages around the town of Mahas, in the Hiran region. Resident Dahir Muse Osoble said, Somali that government soldiers backing cattle herders engaged in more than six hours of battle with the militants. "The fighting started at around 11 a.m. local time when heavily armed militants simultaneously entered into the villages of Kaadiley, Lebi Butale, Bulucle and Muse Geel, ordering pastoralists to hand over some of their livestock as a zakat demand, or tax. Then we took up arms to defend ourselves and our livestock from the militants' flagrant aggression, with the backing Somali National Army," Osoble said. Somali government officials in Mahas, confirmed the army had moved in to back up the cattle herders. "The pastoralists a...

The technology now exists to make the pink meats we love in a less damaging form, which raises the question of why the old kind is still so freely sold.  Ever since the “war on nitrates” of the 1970s, US consumers have been more savvy about nitrates than those in Europe, and there is a lot of “nitrate-free bacon” on the market. The trouble, as Jill Pell remarks, is that most of the bacon labelled as nitrate-free in the US “isn’t nitrate-free”. It’s made with nitrates taken from celery extract, which may be natural, but produces exactly the same N-nitroso compounds in the meat. Under EU regulation, this bacon would not be allowed to be labelled “nitrate-free”. “It’s the worst con I’ve ever seen in my entire life,” says Denis Lynn, the chair of Finnebrogue Artisan, a Northern Irish company that makes sausages for many UK supermarkets, including Marks & Spencer. For years, Lynn had been hoping to diversify into bacon and ham but, he says, “I wasn’t going t...

The most amazing thing about the bacon panic of 2015 was that it took so long for official public health advice to turn against processed meat. It could have happened 40 years earlier. The only time that the processed meat industry has looked seriously vulnerable was during the 1970s, a decade that saw the so-called “war on nitrates” in the US.  In an era of Ralph Nader-style consumer activism, there was a gathering mood in favour of protecting shoppers against bacon – which one prominent public health scientist called “the most dangerous food in the supermarket”. In 1973, Leo Freedman, the chief toxicologist of the US Food and Drug Administration,confirmed to the New York Times that “nitrosamines are a carcinogen for humans” although he also mentioned that he liked bacon “as well as anybody”. Advertisement The US meat industry realised it had to act fast to protect bacon against the cancer charge. The first attempts to fight back were simply to ridicule th...

  How do you choose a pack of bacon in a shop, assuming you are a meat eater? First, you opt for either the crispy fat of streaky or the leanness of back. Then you decide between smoked or unsmoked – each version has its passionate defenders (I am of the unsmoked persuasion).  Maybe you seek out a packet made from free-range or organic meat, or maybe your budget is squeezed and you search for any bacon on special offer. Either way, before you put the pack in your basket, you have one last look, to check if the meat is pink enough. Since we eat with our eyes, the main way we judge the quality of cured meats is pinkness. Yet it is this very colour that we should be suspicious of, as the French journalist Guillaume Coudray explains in a book published in France last year called Cochonneries , a word that means both “piggeries” and “rubbish” or “junk food”. The subtitle is “How Charcuterie Became a Poison”. Cochonneries reads like a crime novel, in which the proce...

  There was a little cafe that did the best bacon sandwiches. They came in a soft and pillowy white bap. The bacon, thick-cut from a local butcher, was midway between crispy and chewy. Ketchup and HP sauce were served in miniature jars with the sandwich, so you could dab on the exact amount you liked. That was all there was to it: just bread and bacon and sauce. Eating one of these sandwiches, as I did every few weeks, with a cup of strong coffee, felt like an uncomplicated pleasure. And then, all of a sudden, the bacon sandwich stopped being quite so comforting. For a few weeks in October 2015, half the people I knew were talking about the news that eating bacon was now a proven cause of cancer.  You couldn’t miss the story: it was splashed large in every newspaper and all over the web. As one journalist wrote in Wired, “Perhaps no two words together are more likely to set the internet aflame than BACON and CANCER.” The BBC website announced, matter-of-fac...