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Self Defense-back To School

As millions of wide eyed teenagers prepare to leave home for the first time and head off for their freshman year of college, the anticipation of exploring new things, experimenting, and oh yes learning too, fills the hearts and minds of those teenagers. Thoughts of rape, drugs, assault, and a myriad of other hazards fill the minds and hearts of the parents and scare the living daylights out of those parents. Hardly a day goes by that a report of some kind of assault of a young woman, sexual or otherwise, on a college campus gets noticed. College officials, parents, and campus police do everything they can to take preventative measures in the dorms and on campus in general but the offenses continue to occur. Here are some statistics on college rape that most people find terrifying especially the parents of those teenage girls. --One out of four women will be sexually assaulted on a college campus. --One out of eight women will be raped while in college. --84 of women who were raped knew their assailant. --75 of male students and 55 of female students involved in date rape had been drinking or using drugs. What can parents do...

Improve Your Brain Health

As we get older, our brains get rusty. This deterioration of the brain eventually leads to Alzheimer s disease. There are ways to improve you brain health however and decrease your chances of getting Alzheimer s disease. Eating a lot of colorful fruits and vegetables is important for brain health. The brighter the colors the better, because fruits and vegetables like this contain a lot of antioxidants which help rid the body of toxins. Studies have shown that people who a lot of fruits and vegetables have a 70 lower chance of getting dementia as they grow older. Another way you can improve your brain health is by taking a vitamin B supplement everyday. Most Americans are vitamin B deficient because we consume too much alcohol, coffee, sugar and cigarettes; all which deplete the body of vitamin B. Without enough vitamin B in our diets, we are at an increased risk for Alzheimer s, as well as other frightening diseases such as depression, Parkinson s disease, cancer, heart attacks and strokes. You can also increase your vitamin B intake by eating more beans and green leafy vegetables. Having a lot of stress in your life also...

5 Tips For Successful Negotiation

It does not matter whether it is a pro or a con. The people will always have something to negotiate for. Negotiation will always come out whenever there is something to bargain for, whether you want to achieve something in your present career, when you want to deal with other people, or simply win out a good buy in a garage sale. Whatever the purpose is, an individual will always try to negotiate into something favorable, otherwise, he will never succeed in this lifetime. Most people say that negotiation is an art. It tends to bring out the individuals remarkable way of winning things on his side. It can be the most amazing thing you can do with your charm and your wits, thats why other people say it can just be all fun. Of course, negotiation is not a game that people can play anytime. When you negotiate, you should mean business all the time. When two or more people, with dissimilar wants and objectives, would like to agree on something that will render resolution to a particular subject, negotiating is the best solution. Since it involves two- way communication procedure, every negotiation is distinct from one another...