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The Coastal Street Artist Näutil Breathing Life and Poetry into Blockhaus Walls (15 Photos!)

Ignorance, Pregnancy and Health – CRAIN’S COMMENTS

Simple point: Whatever your age, you can take active management of your body and your health, or your health will manage you. That’s not usually a good thing.

After 71 years of life, it’s difficult for anything to shock me — but these findings from a Medscape article did the trick:

  • Some anti-seizure medications reduce the effectiveness of birth control pills.
  • Roughly half of all pregnancies in the US are unplanned and this rate is higher among women with epilepsy.(1)

Ignorance goes beyond that. With pregnancy, folic acid supplementation reduces the risk of brain and spinal defects in the infant by 50%.(2) That’s a huge number, but less than one-third of pregnant women seem to be aware of it.

Birth defects occur within the first 3-4 weeks of pregnancy. So it’s important to have folate in your system during those early stages when your baby’s brain and spinal cord are developing.(2)

Folic acid is a type of Vitamin B and a cheap fix to an emotionally devastating and expensive problem. To have it in the system in the first four weeks of pregnancy, you have to start taking it before becoming pregnant.

And we wonder why infant mortality is so high in the US.

Then again, despite access to the internet:

  • 17% of women who say they do not want to become pregnant are not using contraception of any kind.
  • Only 30% of women say they had sufficiently complete information on contraception options when they chose what they would do.(3)

Writers tend to blame this lack of information on doctors not providing it. However, the problem may run deeper. Many women in their teens and 20s don’t see doctors with any regularity if at all, but the internet is there for almost everyone. Parents may neglect connecting their children (male and female) with the needed information and may even obstruct obtaining this information.

We don’t in truth know how common this behavior is any more than we understand the incidence of child sexual abuse. Honest numbers are hard to come by when lying is an accepted practice.

Source: Ignorance, Pregnancy and Health – CRAIN’S COMMENTS

सच की कीमत / Cost of Truth – Kaushal Kishore

 

नए साल पर उसने सच बोलने की क्या ठानी,

दोस्त छूटने लगे, जैसे पेड़ से पत्ते गिर जानी…

उसके बदले रूप को सब लगे थे दोषी ठहराने,

सच के लिए, वह लगा था अब कीमत चुकाने…

🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀

He vowed with the New Year to always speak true,

But friends fell away like leaves from tree bid adieu…

They blamed his new self as they drifted apart,

Yet he embraced the cost, truth filling his heart…

.

—Kaushal Kishore  

Source: सच की कीमत / Cost of Truth – Kaushal Kishore

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