Thursday, 20 November 2008

NATURE
Liminka Looks For Entrepreneur To Buy Nature Centre Print E-mail
Health & Nature
By Antje Neumann   
Friday, 19 October 2007
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The town of Liminka is selling its nature centre. The centre, situated a few kilometres west of Liminka (about 30 km south of Oulu) at the Liminka Bay, an area is famous for its richness in bird species.

 Especially in spring and early summer, in the time of spring migration, large flocks of arctic geese, whooper swans, cranes, and colourful arctic dugs draw bird enthusiasts both from abroad and from inside Finland to this area.

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Getting Down With Ni(n)a Print E-mail
Health & Nature
By Nina Lah   
Tuesday, 12 June 2007

Nina Lah investigates a Nia, the latest ‘body and mind’ fitness practice to hit Oulu. It’s supposed to ‘improve your self esteem’ and ‘improve your fitness.’ But does it really work?


“Nia is a body-mind-spirit fitness and lifestyle practice,” says the official website. “Through expressive movement—The Body’s Way—Nia empowers people to achieve physical, mental, emotional and spiritual well-being.”

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A Day In Their Reality Print E-mail
Health & Nature
By Dario Crisci   
Tuesday, 05 June 2007

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Ever thought to live or work in a psychiatric house?

For the first time in my life I had the opportunity. I woke up early on Tuesday May 15 to accompany 22 year-old Anna Feletto and 23 year-old Laura Barbares, from Höyhtyä, where they live, to the psychiatric centre in Kiiminki. Two Italian nursing students, Anna and Laura spent three years at the University of Padova, then three months at Oulaskangas, and later moved to Kimiinki in the Oulu Health and Social Care district. We took the bus to Kiiminki, as they do every morning. I found myself nervous about to spend time with people suffering from problematic pathologies.

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Health Figures Alarm Nutritionists Despite `Health-OrientedŽ Food Print E-mail
Health & Nature
By Mirja Krause   
Thursday, 05 April 2007

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Nutritionists and doctors all over Finland are alarmed at deteriorating health figures, especially among younger generations. A rising number of Finnish citizens have eating disorders like bulemia and anorexia, and obesity, and decaying teeth.

On March 29, the TV station YLE commented that “one in five Finns of working age is overweight. On Wednesday, weights were measured in 150 health centers across the country. Last year, nearly half of those measured carried extra weight on their waistline. Weight carried on the midriff also increases the risk of adult onset diabetes, arterial diseases and high blood pressure.”

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Chocolate Helps Male Health say Oulu Researchers Print E-mail
Health & Nature
By Edward Dutton   
Sunday, 11 March 2007
 

ImageA long-term study, partly at Oulu University, has revealed that eating chocolate appears to help men to stay healthy into old age.

 

Researchers at Oulu and Helsinki Universities have been following a group of businessmen since the 1960s. The men were born between 1919 and 1934.

 

The research team reported in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition last month that 1367 of the subjects, aged 76 on average, responded to a recent survey. Of that group, 860 reported eating chocolate, 399 ate other confectionary and the rest no confectionary at all.

 

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