Uruguay president calls Suarez ban ‘eternal shame’ for football

(AFP) – Uruguay’s President Jose Mujica said
Friday that the four-year ban against star striker
Luis Suarez for biting a World Cup opponent
would become an “eternal shame” on football’s
history.


Mujica strongly condemned the way FIFA,
football’s global governing body, carried out the
sanction after Suarez bit the shoulder of Italian
defender Giorgio Chiellini.


“We think this will be remembered, this will
remain among the worst moments in the history
of football. This will be an eternal shame in the
story of World Cups,” Mujica said in his weekly
radio address.


But the Uruguayan leader, who said after the
incident that he had not seen a bite, did not
condemn the four month ban on all football
activities ordered against the 27-year-old
Uruguay striker.

“In a certain way, it can be understood,” said the
79-year-old left-of-centre leader. Mujica said he
had met Suarez after his return to Uruguay on
Friday to offer “a humble accolade.”
“We cannot understand the form, the procedure
applied” in making the sanction, the president
added.

Suarez bit Chiellini in a World Cup match as
Uruguay beat Italy 1-0 to secure a place in the
last 16. FIFA ordered a four month ban on all
football activities, a nine match international
suspension and a 100,000 Swiss francs
($112,000, 83,000 euro) fine.

Suarez flew back to Uruguay on Friday.

4 KEY AND NATURAL WAYS TO MAINTAIN YOUR BLOOD PRESSURE

Nutrition First
-Cutting down on your sodium intake, helps
lower your blood pressure. Study and research
your foods, because manufacturers don't always
tell you the truth for the ingredients on their
labels. Try to always pick stuff to eat where you
get less than 400 mg of sodium a day.


-Next, eat some foods with potassium in them,
daily. They give you energy and they help
balance your sodium intake. It's well known
that banana has a lot of this in it, and as well
as
papaya
prune juice
raisins
mango
kiwi
orange
pear
diced honeydew melon


-Eat wholegrain and heart healthy foods, plus
supplementing with Omega 3 acids will help
assist in lowering your blood pressure. Ask
your doctor about what supplements to add
first.


-Some of the herbs that help lower your blood
pressure are garlic, basil and cinnamon. Garlic
relaxes your blood vessels causing them to
dilate. This creates a relaxation that lowers your
pressure.


-When you drink alcohol, cutting your drinks
down to twice a week will also save your life
and lower your blood pressure. Drinking some
of it, has a lifesaving effect. This does not mean
that if you didn't drink alcohol before, that you
rush into this to get to the lifesaving effect. If
you do that with high blood pressure, your body
goes into shock for the many years that it didn't
have alcohol before. This shock can send your
blood pressure through the roof, causing a
stroke or heart disease. In this case, you are
better off not consuming alcohol.

-Eliminating refined sugars and creating a
negative caloric balance, aids in losing weight
that lowers your blood pressure. These are
important. They are amongst your natural
remedies for high blood pressure.


Stop Smoking
If you are diagnosed with high blood pressure
and you are a smoker, that makes it worse.
Please stop smoking. It can be hard at first, but
you can still do it. Consult your doctor as
needed. This is on the top of the list for smokers
of natural remedies for high blood pressure.


Exercise
This is on the top of the list of natural remedies
for high blood pressure. Being over weight
creates stress on your body and your joints.
This, in turn, causes your blood pressure to go
up. If this is not taking care of properly, you can
get heart disease or a stroke.




So it is very important to eat right and exercise
every week. If you are just beginning to exercise,
start off with three times a week for thirty
minutes. Do this until your joints and your
muscles get used to this. Then increase it. You
want to work up to doing sixty minutes of
exercise at least five times a week.


Exercise will help you tone your muscle, burn fat
and relieve stress. You should include low or
high impact cardio workouts at least three times
a week. They help lower your LDL, the bad
cholesterol too. This, in turn, lowers your blood
pressure.


Rest
Make sure that you get enough sleep. When you
are sleeping and resting for your eight hours or
so, your blood pressure is going down. After
around four hours of sleep, your body enters into
it's REM sleep where it sends out growth
hormones to heal you.


This all comes down to exercise, nutrition and
rest along with you working with your doctor.
Keep yourself healthy by lowering your blood
pressure. Be happy and be there for your loved
ones.

Unborn Baby Becomes Pregnant While Still Inside The Womb

A pregnant woman in Portland, Oregon was
hospitalized this week with extreme stomach
pains, and doctors were extremely shocked at
what they discovered.


Mary Lambert, who is 8 months pregnant, went
to Silverstein Memorial Hospital in Portland when
she thought she might be going into labor.
Doctors examined her, and initially could not
figure out what was causing Lambert’s pain.
After an ultrasound to check on her baby, they
were taken aback to find that her unborn
daughter was also pregnant.


“I have never in my life seen anything like this.”
Said Dr. Joseph Goldsmith, a pediatric surgeon at
Silverstein. “I don’t think anyone has. This is the
first time that an unborn baby has become
impregnated. It’s so far beyond rare that we
didn’t know it was possible.”


Up until now, the youngest person to ever
become pregnant was Lina Medina, a Peruvian
girl who was just under 6 years old when she
gave birth. Doctors were shocked at Medina’s
diagnosis at the time, but it was later discovered
that she had entered into Precocious puberty,
which is a rare disorder that causes puberty in
extremely young children. It won’t be possible to
test Lambert’s unborn daughter for Precocious
puberty until she is born. Even if she is found to
have the rare disorder, it will still make her the
youngest person to ever become pregnant.
Lambert and her husband, Carl, are naturally very
worried about the safety of their baby.


“Doctors told us it was safe to have sex while I
was pregnant. Several of my girlfriends told me
that they did, and there were no problems at all.”
Said Lambert. “We never thought this would
happen. Carl is going to be a dad, and a grandpa
all at once? I don’t – I mean, who can
understand all this? I just worry that my baby
won’t make it. Even if she does, I’m too young to
be a grandmother.”


Lambert’s doctors say, unbelievably, that both
babies seem to be very healthy. When Lambert
gives birth to her baby next month, she will be
about 6 months pregnant, and is looking at
spending her first several months of life in the
hospital as doctors determine how best to handle
the situation.


“At this point, we don’t know whether Mary’s
daughter will survive if she continues to sustain
another life inside her.” Said Goldsmith. “All we
know is that this is a very rare, very unusual
case, and we are taking it day-by-day. So far,
Mary and babies are doing fine.”


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