I received this gift on thursday from the nice people at The Bed Shop (The Bed Boutique). I was excited to try it out ever since I got their email. They’re Tempur. Tempur is the brand of the pillow I’ve been using for 8 months. It’s an amazing brand. Read my review here. So I got the tempur slipper and I used it. I didn’t feel it at first, but after a while, it felt great down there. The tempur material wraps itself around your foot and it takes it shape. It’s like memory foam for the foot. Very comfortable. You should try it for yourselves to understand. The bottom is rugged, so chances of slipping are low. Oh and it’s warm for winter times.
It’s unisex, available in dark blue only, and for KD32.
This amazing sleeping outfit plus an amazing Snoozel Green mattress is the perfect combo for a good night sleep, you should find the right mattress I recommend you to look into tips for choosing mattress firmness.
The ad says that it’ll open in it’s first branches outside of the states, in Dubai and Kuwait. The first one will be opened in Dubai on the 25th of october, in Mirdif City Center. Then it’ll open in Kuwait on november 9th and 15th, in Avenues and Marina Mall, respectively. And in December, it’ll open 3 more branches in dubai, in Emirates Mall, Dubai Mall, and Ibn Batuta Mall.
The recommendations in the Australian Dietary Guidelines and Australian Guide to Healthy Eating help us choose foods for good health and to reduce our risk of chronic health problems. Check out these prodentim reviews.
If we are carrying extra weight, the Australian Dietary Guidelines can also help us lose weight. They steer us towards foods that are high in nutrients but lower in kilojoules. These choices are nutrient dense but less energy dense and helpful for both achieving and maintaining a healthy weight.
People wanting to lose weight will also find this information useful for planning meals and snacks. Following the recommended number of serves from the Five Food Groups and avoiding the discretionary foods will result in a gradual but healthy weight loss for most people. However, some people, particularly younger men and people who are taller than average or more active, may need additional serves of the five food groups.
You can also check by taking the ‘Are you eating for health?’ quiz in the Dietary Guidelines Summary Booklet.
Eating Regularly
It’s essential for weight control and especially weight loss, to recognise and act on the feedback your body gives you about when and how much you need to eat. However it’s also important to aim for a regular eating pattern of meals, or meals and mid meals.
A planned pattern of eating is more likely to include the recommended number of serves from the five food groups. A spontaneous, unstructured eating pattern is more likely to include too many discretionary foods which means too much saturated fat, added sugars, added salt and kilojoules at the expense of fibre and important nutrients.
Don’t skip breakfast?
Breakfast skippers are more likely to be tempted by unplanned discretionary choices during the morning and large serves at the next meal or snack. Just think of how yummy those large baked muffins look at morning tea if you’ve missed breakfast!
People who regularly eat a breakfast based on wholegrain cereal or bread, low fat milk or yogurt and maybe some fruit or vegetables are much more likely to be eating well and lose weight than those who skip breakfast.
Television watching is associated with eating more discretionary choices like take-away or convenience foods and fewer foods from the five foods. It also makes it much more difficult to recognise and respond to our body’s signals about hunger and satiety.
Good meal planning and making healthy choices can sometimes be tricky but a few useful tips can make it easier.
الكويت (ا ف ب) – توفي الممثل والمسرحي الكويتي المعروف غانم الصالح الثلاثاء عن 68 عاما في لندن حيث كان يتلقى العلاج من مرض سرطان الرئة، على ما افادت عدة وسائل اعلام محلية.
وذكر موقع صحيفة الآن الالكترونية الكويتية ان الصالح توفي “في احد مستشفيات العاصمة البريطانية التي انتقل لها في التاسع من الشهر الجاري لاستكمال علاجه من التهابات حادة وشديدة في صدره انتهت إلى اصابته بمرض سرطان الرئة”.
ويفترض ان يصل جثمان الصالح الاربعاء الى الكويت حيث يوارى الثرى.
واشتهر الصالح بادوار تلفزيونية ومسرحية عدة لاسيما مسرحية “باي باي لندن”، وهو يعد من رواد الحركة المسرحية في الكويت والخليج عموما.
ولد الصالح عام 1942 في منطقة صيهد العوازم في الكويت، وهو متزوج وله خمسة ابناء.
ساهم الصالح بتأسيس فرقة المسرح العربي عام 1961، وذلك اثناء عمله اعتبارا من عام 1959 وحتى 1964 في وزارة العدل بمحكمة الاستئناف العليا كسكرتير جلسة.
وعمل الصالح بعد ذلك في تلفزيون الكويت حيث اصبح مساعدا لرئيس قسم التمثيليات ثم رئيسا له. وتقاعد الفنان عام 1983.
We all know about the Afghan girl who was disfigured by her husband after her act of ‘mutiny’ against him and his family.
A quick background:
She was promised by her father to be married to a Taliban at the age of 12. She got married at 14. She was abused by her husband and his family, verbal and physical, they even forced her to sleep with the animals.
She fled her husband’s house, but was captured soon after. Her husband and his brother took her to a hill, held her down, and with a sharp knife they cut off her nose and both of her ears, and then left to die alone. She passed out, and in the middle of the night woke up, and tried to find someone to help her. She went to her grandfather who alerted her father, who inturn took her to an american medical facility. They took care of her for 10 weeks.
Now:
She just revealed her new prosthetic nose to the public. This is how her new nose would look like after a year of intensive reconstructive surgeries. Before commiting to surgery, you may be wondering how much is a nose job?
I think she’s a beautiful and a strong woman. May God avenge her.
The first time I came near drowning was way back in 1990 in a swimming pool in Spain. My older brother ‘saved’ me. The second time was just 2 months ago, in Sharm AlSheikh, while in full diving gear.
We were diving in Shark’s Bay. The Shark’s bay’s name sounds dangerous, but I’ve never seen a shark over there. The dive was a shore dive, which means you wear your gear and walk to the sea and slowly get submerged under the waters as you walk further in. Cool place to dive since even when your feet could still touch the ground, you can see all the corals, fish, and lovely blue depths ahead. The water’s beauty over there is intoxicating.
It was an early dive, the bus was coming to pick us up and we were still in our beds. Sulaiman being the most disciplined person in the group passed by our room earlier and woke us all up and headed to the breakfast buffet. The breakfast was essential prior to every dive. You had to have something to eat before a dive, that’s what we were taught. That morning however, we barely had enough time to pack our gears and wear our shorts. There was always a time shortage when we’re in Sharm. We walked out of our rooms and headed to the car, Sulaiman met us half way. He was coming to yell at us for being late, as always.
We got to Shark Bay in 10 minutes, wore our gear and were in the water soon after. I was hungry and excited, my excitement totally overshadowed me being hungry, and that, my friends, is rare in my case. We walked into the water, wore our masks, then walked in a littler deeper, and finally peeked under the surface. It was beautiful down there. The Corals, colored fish, crystal clear waters.. You could see that we were excited about this place as soon as we looked back up. The guide ordered us all to empty the air in all of our BCDs (vests) and start the dive. We happily did.
The ground’s slope at this location is amazing. You can touch the ground with your feet one minute, and the next minute you’re 15 meters under the surface. Amazing. We started going deeper and deeper, I had a weird feeling going through me only 10 minutes after the dive. I didn’t know what it was. I ignored it cautiously. The dive was getting better, we were nearing a canyon, and I haven’t seen this canyon when I came to this same spot last year. As we were taking our time to get to the canyon, that weird feeling started to bother me and I felt that something bad was about to happen. I didn’t know what was going on, I didn’t know what that feeling was, It just felt like my heart have just received some really bad news; I felt heavy hearted.
I was looking at 2 of my friends infront of me, they were beginners. I was observing the air bubbles coming out of their mouths. Aziz was getting better at controlling his air intakes, while Mohammed was only getting worse. Unbroken chains of bubbles were rising from his mouth. He was basically draining his air tank, and at this rate, we’ll be forced to end our dive and get out in no time. We hate that. I, on the other hand, was great at controlling my breathing.
While observing their bubbles, That weird feeling started to get the best of me. I felt I was being suffocated.
There is something you learn instinctively, as you get into diving, and it’s really important: You don’t get into the water or plan a dive unless there is someone around who you trust 100% and could count on. That someone that day was Sulaiman. I motioned him over, he came close immediately. I took his white board and wrote ‘Madry Shfeeny’ on it (I don’t know whats wrong with me). He took my hand and we swam together. I didn’t want to ruin their dive, it was a nice one and everybody seemed to enjoy it, so far.
You shouldn’t bother trying to be unselfish when you’re under water. This was something I learned the hard way.
That weird feeling didn’t leave me for one bit, and it started to really take over me in a suffocating way. We have reached the canyon.
The canyon was narrow; it looked like a narrow crack through big sharp edged walls. The walls on the insides met at the top, forming the canyon’s cracked ceiling. Claustrophobics worst nightmare.
At that point, I was carefully observing my movements, my reactions, and overall the way I was thinking. I was told that nitrogen intoxication (sikir la3maq) have specific symptoms: You don’t think straight, you get dizzy, you’re reactions get slower, and you end up taking off your mask and regulator (oxygen) in frenzy. I feared that. That was why I had Sulaiman close, so I could have someone taking care of me in case I go crazy for a minute. On top of that, I was paying close attention to myself. That was also scary in itself. That you had to observe your ‘self’ and stop it from doing something crazy.
We went into the canyon, the guide first, followed by Aziz, then Mohammed, then Me, and then Sulaiman. Mohammed was slow, he was holding me back. At that time I was officially suffocating. I couldn’t breath. There was air coming in and out of my lungs, but for some reason it wasn’t registering, like I wasn’t getting enough air in. Somehow water got into my mouth and I swallowed.
I was drowning.
I should keep it together; I should pay attention to what I’m doing. I should all do that.. while suffocating. Also I shouldn’t cause any freak out. We’re in a narrow canyon; we’re nearing its end. We’re going up to its exit. Hold on a litte more. Wait your turn to exit. It’s finally my turn to go up. More water swallowed. Mohammed is too damn slow! I rush behind him.. and thats when I received a major kick from Mohammed’s fins. My mask goes off and I can’t see. Uncontrollably I start swallowing more water. I try to keep it cool and not freak out. I’m going up behind Mohammed, I’m swallowing even more water, I’m adjusting my mask, I try to navigate away from the sharp edges of the canyon, all that while suffocating and gasping for air. For one moment there I was ready to put an end to it all, shove them all and climb my way back to the surface and take in all the air and just BREATH IT ALL IN. But I couldn’t.
Mask is back on, we’re out of the canyon, the guide is checking on all of us. He’s checking on all of my 3 friends, and I’m just waiting for my turn to be checked on. It was just getting crazier and crazier. Imagine someone drowning, and is trying to be polite and wait for his turn to be checked on. That was me. Stupid. When it finally was my turn, I couldn’t keep together any longer; I raised my thumb pointing to the surface, while my other hand on my throat making the ‘kill/dead’ gesture, and started to kick my way up. The guide came rushing, and stopped me from acting on my own. I wanted to go up. I’m not kidding, I’m drowning, and I’m not getting enough oxygen! Maybe there is something wrong with the tank! I need oxygen! Get me out! yup I reached that point after many attempts to stay cool and act professional. I was held down in spite of all what I was feeling. I had to comply and stop in my place. I rested and took as many inhales as I could, air was rushing in and outta my lungs.
40 minutes later, we were sitting in a cafe that overlooked the beach. We were discussing what happened. The guide asked whether I had something to eat or not? That was one of the 2 possible reasons for what happened; I was diving on an empty stomach. The other reason was: I was too conservative with my tank. I tried to be economical and control my intake until I literally suffocated myself. I managed to prolong my tank’s life till I reached a point where I had too little oxygen in me to keep me going, that’s when I had my “Hyper ventilation.”
Lesson learned & Reaffirmed:
1- Have a great buddy around.
2- Eat properly before a dive.
3- Being polite could kill you sometimes.
4- Live, Learn, and don’t let bad experiences affect your future ones.
AN Australian inventor has taken out one of the world’s most prestigious design awards with a bazooka that saves lives, rather than claims them.
He won for his modified Bazooka, which shoots a tablet that inflates the moment it touches water into a life saving foam unit. There shouldn’t be any concerns when it comes to debris or sharp stuff, coz this unit is made of expandable foam.
I heard that lots of people were annoyed that this hasn’t come to Kuwait yet, and they’ve struggled over the years to buy it off the net and import it and stuff. Well Bath & Body Works is opening soon at the avenues, near D.Lush, so rejoice!
It’s brought over by AlShaya group, and I’ve been told that AlShaya owns it’s right for the whole Middle east. If that proves to be true, then expect it to pop all around the gulf area.
The Mutubtub campaign team for child obesity have sent us the following to share it with you guys:
Obesity has ranked Kuwait on the charts among the top ten most obese countries in the world. To fight this, Mutubtub the national child obesity campaign is going to be launching soon and you should take part in it. 40 percent of Kuwaiti children and 74.2 percent of the whole population are diagnosed with obesity and should be on diet pills. Let’s help before it’s too late.
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Mutubtub is currently recruiting MUTUBTUB MINIONS (volunteers). If you have the time, dedication, and passion, we’ll be glad to have you on the team.
Managing your weight is a big part of your health. When you are overweight or obese, you’re at risk for medical conditions like heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure (hypertension) and diabetes. Weight loss can often be achieved through a healthy diet and exercise. In some cases, weight loss surgeries are used, but these also involved changing your lifestyle to keep the weight off. Prevent most tooth decay conditions easily with steel bite pro.
What is weight control?
Weight control is a term used to discuss managing and maintaining a healthy body weight. Having a healthy body weight can mean different things for different people. The traditional way this weight is calculated is with the body mass index (BMI). Your BMI uses your height and weight to figure out your ideal weight range. This number can vary, but typically, you are considered obese if your BMI is over 30.
Your waist line can also be a sign of obesity. For a woman, a healthy waist measurement should fall below 35 inches. For a man, it should be less than 40 inches. This measurement is called your waist circumference.
When talking about waist circumference, it’s also good to discuss body shapes. People have all different body shapes. Some are an hourglass, with shoulders and hips around the same size but a smaller waist. Some are pear-shaped, with smaller measurements on the top and larger on the bottom. If you have an apple-shape — also nicknamed ‘potbelly,’ ‘spare tire’ or ‘muffin-top’ — you carry more fat in and around your abdominal organs. Having this extra fat in your abdomen can increase your risk of many serious medical conditions that are linked to obesity.
What’s the difference between being overweight and being obese?
Both terms mean that you have excess body fat, but they are two different levels of a similar thing. Being overweight means that you have some extra fat. Although you are higher than your goal weight, you don’t have as much body fat as the next level — obesity. When you have high levels of body fat, it’s considered obesity.This is typically determined by your primary care physician during an appointment. Talk to your physician about the differences between being overweight and obese and what that means for your body type. Check out the latest exipure real reviews.
Why does obesity happen?
Obesity happens when your calorie intake is higher than the amount of energy you burn off each day. Think of the food you eat as fuel. This fuel is meant to power you and as you move throughout your day, you burn off this fuel. However, if you take in too much fuel, it isn’t burned off. This just sits in your body, not serving its purpose.
There can be many reasons why weight gain happens, and often it’s more than one reason at a time. Some of the factors that can add to weight control issues include:
Environmental factors: Lifestyle behaviors, like what you eat and how active you are on an average day, can impact your weight.
Psychological factors: Eating can be linked to your emotions. We eat to celebrate something good and we eat to grieve something sad. The emotional side of food can lead to things like eating due to depression, anxiety, boredom and binge eating. Binge eating is when you eat a large amount of food at one time, while often feeling out of control of how much you eat.
Genetic and Environmental factors: Obesity can run in your family. This means that if you have family members who are overweight or obese, you might have an increased risk. It’s unclear if this is from your genetic code, or lifestyle behaviors (diet and exercise) that are passed down through generations. However, many people with family members who are overweight are not themselves overweight.
Medical conditions: Sometimes, a medical condition or medication can actually lower your metabolism (ability to burn calories into energy), which can cause obesity. Medications like steroids and antidepressants can cause weight gain. Medical conditions can include:
Hypothydroidism.
Cushing’s syndrome.
Depression.
Certain neurologic problems.
Can being overweight lead to medical problems in the future?
Your weight can play a large role in your health over time. Being overweight is linked to several health problems, including:
Heart disease and stroke.
High blood pressure (hypertension).
Diabetes.
Certain cancers.
Gallbladder issues and gallstones.
Osteoarthritis.
Gout.
Breathing problems, such as sleep apnea (when you stop breathing for a short amount of time during sleep).
Generally, the more obese a person is, the higher the risk of developing a medical condition. A person who is 40% overweight is twice as likely to die prematurely as an average-weight person. This typically happens over a number of years with a higher weight (10 to 30 years). Losing the weight can really benefit your health, both now and in the long term.
Many physicians who specialize in obesity believe that people who are less than 20% above their healthy weight should try to lose weight if they have any of the following risk factors:
A family history of certain chronic diseases: These can include conditions like heart disease and diabetes.
A pre-existing medical condition: Health conditions like high blood pressure (hypertension), high cholesterol and high blood sugar levels are all warning signs of some obesity-associated diseases.
Having a body shape that’s considered apple-shaped: If you carry excess weight around your abdomen, you could be at a higher risk of developing heart disease, diabetes or cancer than people of the same weight who are pear-shaped.
Registration for AC Milan Soccer School had just started. The AC Milan
Soccer School in Kuwait is affiliated with LoYAC’s Soccer Academy. The
collaboration between Milan School and LoYAC Soccer Academy will provide the youth of Kuwait with innovative and personalized training method from world class AC Milan Trainers.
Many of the players of this club are going to be part of the upcoming Qatar World Cup, this means that maybe one day your kids will be playing in the most important event of the FIFA
Aim:
Provide the youth with an open environment in which they can get training and development in soccer from willing and well qualified coaches.
Help youth foster a positive attitude towards their peers and life.
Help the youth grow in the area of social development.
Instill youth with the willingness to be health conscious, for a healthier
upcoming generation.
Camp Features:
Training Location: Abul Field – Dasma
Training: 90 minutes sessions three times a week
Training season from October 2010 – May 2011
Two official AC Milan Coaches
Three students will be selected to play in AC Milan tournament abroad
“I can officially say I’m a Real Madrid player. My professional link with AC Milan finishes now, but my sentimental link will never end,” he said.
Real Madrid intend to build a great team, with historic players that have the most Champions League titles. For me, the sporting project (at Madrid) is interesting and will be an important boost to continue my career in the highest level.”
“Kaka could now become the first of a new wave of ‘Galáctico’ signings, with the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo, Xabi Alonso, David Villa and Franck Ribery all linked to the Spanish giants since Perez’s unopposed re-election as the club’s president last week.”
Registration terms:
Young boys from 6 to 16 years from all nationalities.
I thought there is a rule about a minimum of 3 months till expiry for items to be still at shelves for sale? coz this item pictured had only 2 months till it expires and it’s still sitting on the shelves.
I just searched around in the internet and couldn’t find anything about it. Is there a rule about expiry dates in Kuwait?
I remember that I almost drowned once, back in 1990, and I was ‘saved’ by my brother, who later amused everybody by throwing jokes at my expense. I remember that I didn’t yell or scream for help, I just kept flaling my hands in the air as I swallowed more and more water and gasped for air, if you were there and saw me you’d see a kid splashing water and looking up at the sky, you wouldn’t really be alarmed if you were 10 meters away.
That memory was brought about when I read the aricle below. It’s about drowning people, and how they don’t look like they’re drowning. This article must be read, you could save a life one day.
Article:
“The new captain jumped from the cockpit, fully dressed, and sprinted through the water. A former lifeguard, he kept his eyes on his victim as he headed straight for the owners who were swimming between their anchored sportfisher and the beach. “I think he thinks you’re drowning,” the husband said to his wife. They had been splashing each other and she had screamed but now they were just standing, neck-deep on the sand bar. “We’re fine, what is he doing?” she asked, a little annoyed. “We’re fine!” the husband yelled, waving him off, but his captain kept swimming hard. ”Move!” he barked as he sprinted between the stunned owners. Directly behind them, not ten feet away, their nine-year-old daughter was drowning. Safely above the surface in the arms of the captain, she burst into tears, “Daddy!” Read the rest of the article
Just got an sms telling me that Rabab the Iraqi singer has passed away. Alah yer7amha.
“توفيت الفنانة العراقية رباب مساء أمس، بعد إصابتها بنزيف حاد بالمخ أدخلها في غيبوبة منذ 3 أيام.
وقالت مصادر مقربة من الفنانة الراحلة إن رباب توفيت في الساعة التاسعة من مساء أمس، بعد فشل الأطباء في محاولة إيقاف النزيف الحاد في المخ.
وكانت مديرة أعمال الفنانة الراحلة قالت لـ”الإمارات اليوم” في وقت سابق، إن صحة رباب تدهورت بشكل مفاجئ منذ ثلاثة أيام فــقط، ظلت فيها حبيسة غرفة العناية الفائقة، بسبب ارتفاع شديد في ضغط الدم تسبب في نزيف داخلي وبشكل خاص في المخ، مؤكدةً أن سوء حالتها جعلت الأطباء يفضلون عدم التدخل جراحياً بانتظار معجزة الشفاء.” – Source
Kuwait is ranked #39 in this year’s Global Peace Index. Kuwait is slowly but steadily moving up on the list of most peaceful countries: #46 in 2007, #45 in 2008, #42 in 2009, and finally #39 in 2010.
Arab Countries rankings:
15 Qatar (The highest among Arab countries)
23 Oman
37 Tunisia 39 Kuwait
44 UAE
49 Egypt
56 Libya
58 Morocco
68 Jordan
70 Bahrain
107 Saudi Arabia
115 Syria
129 Yemen
134 Lebanon
146 Sudan
149 Iraq
The top 10 countries are:
New Zealand.
Denmark.
Norway.
Iceland.
Austria.
Sweden.
Japan.
Canada.
Finland.
Slovenia.
The Bottom 10 are:
Iraq.
Afghanistan.
Somalia.
Israel (Palestine is no where to be found on the list).
Turinah is an Indonesian woman who claims to be 157 years old. She’s from a small village in Sumatra and despite being so old, has no problems with her sight, hearing nor memory, and she speaks fluent dutch.
She has no official papers to prove her age, but going by her adopted daughter’s age, which is 108, there is a good chance she might be telling the truth about her own age. Which could mean she broke the age record that was set by Jeanne Calment who died in 1997 at the age of 122.
Rue McClanahan, famous for her role as the mischievous Blanche Devaraux in the famous sitcom Golden Girls, has passed away thursday morning after a major stroke.
“McClanahan is the third of the four “Golden Girls” costars to pass away; Estelle Getty died at 84 in 2008 and Bea Arthur died at 86 in 2009. Betty White is now the sole surviving Girl”
