Blog for Youth

A recent survey has disclosed that obesity was setting in before adolescence phase and an increasing number of children have a high body mass index ratio than the ideal.

Body mass index (BMI) is a key indicator of overall fitness and is directly related to obesity-related malaise with low BMI ratios having direct correlation to immunity-related malaise.

From Timesofindia.indiatimes.com:

The study was built into the curriculum of 21 schools in 15 cities. It involved a cross sectional study across 4098 children (2200 boys and 1898 girls).

Children were measured on Body Mass Index, aerobic (measured by making children run/walk for 600 meters) and anaerobic capacities (making children cover a 30 meter sprint), Muscle strength (measured by Sit & Reach activity, Sit Ups, Standing Long Jump), endurance and flexibility.

Reshma Nayak, Programme leader, Yenepoya School, Mangalore (a school that participated in the study) said lifestyles of children have become more passive and space constraints in cities have resulted in children not having an opportunity to play enough and becoming prone to health hazards.

However, a nine month, in-curriculum, controlled fitness-led physical education program in their respective schools on 667 children, showed improvement on fitness indicators assessed on like endurance, abdominal strength, increase in percentage of children with right BMI and flexibility.

The survey by Bangalore-based EduSports, a sports-management company, suggested that a whopping 42 percent of surveyed children didn’t possess ideal BMI ratios.

Tags: adolescence, BMI, BMI ratios, body mass index, fitness indicators, obesity

If it is time for you to end your love relationship and you are not sure how to reveal the fact before your partner, here are some tips for avoiding an ugly scene.

It is important for us to realize that not every relationship in this world last a lifetime and it is better to move away before things start getting ugly.

From Timesofindia.indiatimes.com:

Don’t break up at a public place:

While you may have gotten used to the idea of breaking up your girlfriend/boyfriend may need sometime to get used to the idea. So ensure that there’s some privacy when you are breaking up. You wouldn’t want to be a part of an ugly scene or fight and be a spectacle for those at the joint.

Don’t get into it at your usual hang out:

Break-ups can be messy, so don’t opt for a place that you are likely to frequent. In case you don’t part of absolutely amicable terms at least people who know you won’t be a witness to any kinds of fight.

Don’t be too casual:

Don’t break up while you are doing some mundane task like picking up groceries or chomping on a huge burger. Give your relationship and your partner some respect and plan how you want to go ahead with it.

Breaking up over sms or email:

While this may work for some, it may prove to be hara-kiri for others. Those who cannot express themselves may find the options of writing an email or a letter very appealing and it’s not a bad option considering it allows you to elaborate your feelings. Also, it’s prefect for those who prefer to avoid confrontation. Breaking up over SMS, however, can be highly insensitive. After all 160 characters can’t be enough to end a relationship. However, breaking up over SMS too has its share of fans and has worked for many people.

In all, breaking up can be made graciously so that a beautiful relationship does not come to end with an ugly scene.

Tags: boyfriend, break up, girlfriend, love relationship, relationship

A British study has suggested that Western prisons can root out militant Islamismism among the prison inmates by adopting more imaginative approaches to prisoners used in parts of the Middle East and Asia.

Some of the measures that were proposed in the study of prisons in fifteen countries included the provision of helping prisoners cultivate non-extremist social networks and religious advice.

From in.news.yahoo.com:

Britain’s chief prison inspector said last month the treatment of Muslim inmates by prison staff as potentially dangerous militants risked driving them into the hands of radical groups.

Prisons occupy a central place in the history of militant Islamist groups such as al Qaeda which see them as valued centres of learning, recruitment and indoctrination.

Creative programmes can turn the tide, argues the study of prison militants in Afghanistan, Algeria, Britain, Egypt, France, Indonesia, Israel, Netherlands, Pakistan, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Spain, the United States and Yemen.

For example in Singapore, alleged terrorists are systematically re-educated in prison, said the report by London’s International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence (ICSR).

A team of trained religious advisers helps them go through the Koran, showing how critical passages need to be read in context, and how extremist notions about violence are often based on misreadings and misinterpretations, the report says.

Peter Neumann, study author and director of ICSR based at London University’s King’s College, said that prisons can be a place for reform and radicalization.

Tags: al Qaeda, militant Islamismism, reform, social networks

If you want to stay ahead of the rest at the workplace, these inspiring quotations for success seekers will be useful to you in more than just a way.

Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us.  We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly. – Benjamin Franklin

Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls and to-tomorrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better. -Glenda Jackson

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her. – David Brinkley

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage.  Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort. – Sydney Smith

They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers. - Christian Bovee

I was thinking of my patients, and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of their own fate. It was not a matter of bad or good luck. When they could no longer blame fate, they were in despair. – Anaïs Nin

Tags: good luck, inspiring quotations for success seekers, talent

Want to make Strawberry Parfait for feeding the hungry stomach? If yes, this is one YouTube video that will not only help you learn and cook Strawberry Parfait but also to delight guests with this low calorie dessert.

Tags: low calorie dessert, Strawberry Parfait, YouTube video

If you think that a promotion or pay hike would cheer you up then observations of an expert are here to prove you wrong.

Srikumar Rao, a Columbia University professor and author of “Happiness at Work“, has suggested that happiness at the workplace is all about attitude and nothing else.

From in.news.yahoo.com:

“The single biggest obstacle to workplace happiness is the belief that we are prisoners of circumstance, powerless before the things that happen to us”, she said.

“To change your job, you must change the way you think about it. We create our own experience.”

Melbourne-based life coach Marion Lawrence agreed, saying people who subscribe to an “if I get a promotion/pay rise/quit my job, then I will be happy” attitude will never be fulfilled.

“That kind of attitude relies on an external reward to trigger happiness. The problem is, when those things you have aimed towards arrive, the happiness doesn’t last because you are conditioned to look to the next goal,” she said.

It was suggested that employers can play a critical role in turning their employees happy and help them increase the productivity levels by emphasizing upon relaxation and ensuring that employees are focused on their individual wellbeing.

Tags: attitude, employees, employers, happiness, Happiness at Work, pay hike, promotion, relaxation, workplace happiness