Killing Us Softly 4 :Advertising's Image of Women

      In this new, highly anticipated update of her pioneering Killing Us Softly series, the first in more than a decade, Jean Kilbourne takes a fresh look at how advertising traffics in distorted and destructive ideals of femininity. The film marshals a range of new print and television advertisements to lay bare a stunning pattern of damaging gender stereotypes - images and messages that too often reinforce unrealistic, and unhealthy, perceptions of beauty, perfection, and sexuality. By bringing Kilbourne's groundbreaking analysis up to date, Killing Us Softly 4 stands to challenge a new generation of students to take advertising seriously, and to think critically about popular culture and its relationship to sexism, eating disorders, and gender violence.

 

8 March - International Women's Day

EMPOWER RURAL WOMEN –  END HUNGER AND POVERTY.

“Invest in rural women. Eliminate discrimination against them in law and in practice. Ensure that policies respond to their needs. Give them equal access to resources. Provide rural women with a role in decision-making.”

                                                                                            Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

     Recognizing the critical role and contribution of rural women, the theme of International Women’s Day 2012 is Empower Rural Women – End Hunger and Poverty.
     Key contributors to global economies, rural women play a critical role in both developed and developing nations — they enhance agricultural and rural development, improve food security and can help reduce poverty levels in their communities. In some parts of the world, women represent 70 percent of the agricultural workforce, comprising 43 percent of agricultural workers worldwide.

Documentary : "Sugar: The Bitter Truth" by Dr. Lustig

 Robert H. Lustig, MD  - Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, in the Division of Endocrinology Director of the Weight Assessment for Teen and Child Health (WATCH) Program at UCSF

Dr. Robert Lustig lectures on the perils of sugar, Fructose in particular.He talks about how obesity has risen at the same time as fat consumption has decreased, how soft drinks and the invention of High-Fructose Corn Syrop are two of the larger culprits and the biochemistry of Fructose.

Inside LSD-Full Length Documentary

Brief Overview 

     Lysergic acid diethylamide, abbreviated LSD or LSD-25, also known as lysergide and colloquially as acid, is a semisynthetic psychedelic drug of the ergoline family, well known for its psychological effects which can include altered thinking processes, closed and open eye visuals, synaesthesia, an altered sense of time and spiritual experiences, as well as for its key role in 1960s counterculture. It is used mainly as an entheogen, recreational drug, and as an agent in psychedelic therapy. LSD is non-addictive, is not known to cause brain damage, and has extremely low toxicity relative to dose, although in rare cases adverse psychiatric reactions such as anxiety or delusions are possible The psychedelic drug/entheogen LSD was first synthesized by the Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann in the Sandoz (now Novartis) laboratories in Basel, Switzerland on November 16, 1938. It was not until five years later on April 16, 1943, that the psychedelic properties were found.

March 2012- Health Observations and Events

March 2012 Health Current Events - Months

Awareness Event	Coverage	Related Organization
Mouthguard Awareness	Australia	Australian Dental Association
National Kidney Month	Canada	The Kidney Foundation Of Canada
Help Fight Liver Disease Month	Canada	Canadian Liver Foundation
National Epilepsy Month	Canada	Epilepsy Canada
No Smoking Day	United Kingdom	No Smoking Day
National MS Education and Awareness Month	United States	Multiple Sclerosis Foundation
National Nutrition Month	United States	American Dietetic Association
National Brain Injury Awareness Month	United States	Brain Injury Association of America
Red Cross Month	Worldwide	American Red Cross

March 2012 Health Current Events - Week

Event	Date	Nation	Organisation
National Eating Disorders Awareness Week	24th Feb - 1st Mar	United States	National Eating Disorders Association
National Eating Disorders Awareness Week	25th Feb - 2nd Mar	United Kingdom	Beat Eating Disorders
Endometriosis Awareness Week	2nd Mar - 8th Mar	United Kingdom	Endometriosis UK
National Sleep Awareness Week	5rd Mar - 11th Mar	United States	National Sleep Foundation
Prostate Cancer Awareness Week	10th Mar - 16th Mar	United Kingdom	The Prostate Cancer Charity
National Poison Prevention Week	16th Mar - 22nd Mar	United States	Poison Prevention
Mental Health Action Week	23rd Mar - 29th Mar	United Kingdom	Mental Health Foundation
Arthritis Awareness Week	27th Mar - 2nd Apr	Australia	Arthritis Victoria

March 2012 Health Events - Days

Event	Date	Nation	Organization
World Water Day	22nd Mar	Worldwide	UN Water
World TB Day	24th Mar	Worldwide	The Stop TB Partnership
American Diabetes Alert Day	25th Mar	United States	America Diabetes Association

March 2012- Health Observations and Events