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The National,Thursday June 30th, 2016

SOMETHING we picked out from the World Health Organisation website that must be shared. Overweight and obesity are defined as abnormal or excessive fat accumulation that may impair health. Body mass index (BMI) is a simple index of weight-for-height that is commonly used to classify overweight and obesity in adults. It is defined as a person’s weight in kilograms divided by the square of his height in metres (kg/m2).
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SOME key facts to remember: Worldwide obesity has more than doubled since 1980; in 2014, more than 1.9 billion adults, 18 years and older, were overweight. Of these over 600 million were obese; 39 per cent of adults aged 18 years and over were overweight in 2014, and 13 per cent were obese; most of the world’s population live in countries where overweight and obesity kills more people than underweight; 41 million children under the age of 5 were overweight or obese in 2014; and obesity is preventable.
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WHEN negative circumstances align, accidents happen – that’s what British psychologist James T. Reason asserts with his Swiss Cheese model of accident causation, a model used in the risk analysis and risk management of human systems. Essentially, the model, which has been applied to healthcare, aviation safety, and emergency service organisations, states that a system produces a failure when all of its “holes” momentarily line up.
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COMPILED by official Roman Catholic censors, Index Librorum Prohibitorum – “List of Prohibited Books” – was a catalogue of works considered dangerous to the faith or morals of Catholics. The Index was never a complete catalog of forbidden reading; rather, it contained only works that the ecclesiastical authority was asked to act on. The first catalogue of banned books to be called an index was published in 1559.
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IT is said that St. Peter and St. Paul were both martyred on June 29, and, for this reason, their names have been linked in various observances around the world. In Peru, the Día de San Pedroy San Pablo is celebrated in fishing villages because St. Peter is the patron saint of fishermen. Processions of decorated boats carrying an image of the saint are common, and sometimes a special floating altar is set up.
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THE world’s most famous case of art theft – the removal of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in 1911– was solved when museum employee Vincenzo Peruggia tried to sell the painting to a gallery in Italy. He had kept the masterpiece in his apartment for two years after having simply walked out of the museum with it hidden under his coat.
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QUOTE of the day:  A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion. – Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
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