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Model Wars, PICS; Mar 20, 2011
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Low Vitamin D Linked with Heart Disease

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis unearthed some details about why low levels of vitamin D nearly double the risk of cardiovascular disease in patients with diabetes.

Carlos Bernal-Mizrachi, M.D., and his colleagues believe that in diabetic patients with inadequate vitamin D, macrophage cells - which eat more cholesterol - eventually stiffen blood vessels and block blood flow. This build-up increases the risk of heart attack and stroke.

People with type 2 diabetes are very likely to have a vitamin D deficiency, according to Bernal-Mizrachi. Worldwide, women with type 2 diabetes are one-third more likely to have insufficient vitamin D levels than women of the same age who do not have diabetes.

The skin manufactures vitamin D in response to ultraviolet light exposure. But, in much of the U.S., people don't make enough vitamin D during the winter, when the sun's rays are weaker and more time is spent indoors.

Bernal-Mizrachi believes it may be possible to slow or reverse the development of atherosclerosis in patients with diabetes by helping them regain adequate vitamin D levels.

"Oral vitamin D supplements may work best," he says, "but perhaps if people were exposed to sunlight only for a few minutes at a time, that may be an option, too."

The team's findings were published in the journal Circulation in 2009.
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And Now, Model Wars!

This group is called "Peckers Pics."  The English -  slang definition of "pecker" is to pluck at the truth. Therefore, we peck at items such as Gay Men's Health, Male Fitness, Gay (LGBT) Politics & Issues.  In this section you may peck at each photo in order to decide the winner of the "war of the fittest!"   Whereas, who is the model that may inspire you to exercise and "get fit?"  Warning: This may stoke you!
 
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Uganda lawmakers to revive "Kill the Gays" bill
Melanie Nathan / LezGetReal / March 19th, 2011

Next week a Ugandan Parliamentary Committee will be debating murder - legal killing by their government - the law will give power to Uganda to commit genocide of a minority via legislation. Despite rumors that the opposition Parties in Uganda had succeeded in preventing a vote on the controversial Anti Homosexuality Bill (AHB) - better known as the "Kill the Gays" bill, it is now reported that it will indeed be one of a few bills that members of Parliament on the Legal and Parliamentary Affairs committee are set to debate when the House resumes business next week, during what could be termed a "lame duck session."

Tabled in Parliament in 2009, by its author David Bahati, known for his homophobia and overt hate for homosexuals and lesbians, the latter masked by the right wing evangelical version of Christianity, the AHB seeks to entrench the criminalization of homosexuality, with death penalties for "repeat offenders/ aggravated homosexuality" and prison terms for gays and lesbians including those who fail to report them, beyond the current broader law "acts committed against the order of nature."

A few days ago, Congressman Barney Frank introduced legislation in Congress for law preventing further US AID to Uganda. Introduced by way of an amendment in the House Financial Services Committee, Frank said in a statement on Tuesday the amendment received unanimous backing from the legislators "although most votes in the committee have broken along party lines."

Highlighting Uganda as one of the countries where the persecution of gays is high, Frank said the committee now urges the Treasury to advocate that governments receiving assistance from the multilateral development institutions do not engage in gross violations of human rights.

While the U.S. and the United Nations has come out declaring criminalization of homosexuality as a gross violation of human rights, Bahati in his discussions with me asserts that "Uganda does not consider homosexuality a human right" and that as "a sovereign country Uganda has every right to criminalize homosexuality and provide harsh penalties."
"Every gay and lesbian person who has been lucky enough to survive the turmoil of growing up is a survivor. Survivors always have an obligation to those who will face the same challenges."
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