From Hindustan Times:
“Women require a balanced diet, rich in calcium and Vitamin D. Women, particularly after menopause, are at higher risk and should maintain a good diet. They should exercise regularly, or at least take to brisk walking, jogging, dancing or simple weightlifting exercises.”
“Along with vitamin-rich food, sunlight too plays an active role in maintaining the right balance. However, both burqa-clad women and those sitting indoors most of the time do not get the necessary sunlight and as a result, they suffer from osteoporosis,” he said.
Osteoporosis is only the end of the line. Before the introduction of enriched foods, full-blown ricketts (a bone disorder caused by Vitamin D deficiency) was very common among girls in Muslim countries where total body covering is the prescribed way of life.
Females are not mushrooms, and should not be treated as such.
It's not just ostoporosis, rickets, a disease of deprivation from my mothers childhood has made a comeback because of it. Leaving aside the euphemisms "Asian" and "traditional" we can realise what this doctor is talking about.
From a report on a survey done with Asian women in Manchester last year.
http://www.theasiannews.co.uk/news/s/191/191552_mums_get_cripple_warning.html
"Vitamin D deficiency leads to brittle bones. Later in life women with the condition suffer from severe aches and pains in the joints. Multiple fractures are also common. Another danger is rickets - severely bowed legs, a result of the bones being unable to carry bodyweight.
Even more sinister, mothers who have a vitamin D deficiency, can pass the condition on to their children through breast milk."
Kafira, great minds have been thinking alike.
Who cares? They're just women.
More to the point Isabella, they are just women who by then are past the breeding stage and no longer serve a purpose to the ummah. And with typical muslim fatalism their response to this issue will be it must be the will of allah.
Cousin-cousine marriages, polygamy and its attendant necessary inattentiveness of mother to children who are more likely to harm themselves and others when there are 10 or 15 running around, the burga as leading to vitamin D deficiency -- this is all in the realm of what, physically, Islam can do in stunting physical well-being.
But what about Islam as a Complete Regulation of Life and Total Explanation of the Universe, fixed in amber more than a thousand years ago. What about those effects of Islam, by which, to the degree that it is accepted, Islam permanently stunts mental growth?
They also get very, very spotty! Dat der burqah ain't 'alf damn unhealthy!
Hey Gran,
News Flash: All Asians are not Muslims unless ur talking in PC-talk.
Vikrant - Newsflash - that was Granny W's point. The clue is in the word 'euphemism'.
Other euphemisms include 'terrorist', 'extremist', 'militant', 'rioter', 'activist' and 'youth'.
The last one is particularly interesting, as some of these youths are past 30. Why, a hook-handed 'youth' of 44 is being detained at the moment, leaving his poor wife to fend for herself on £1,000 a week of benefits in a £600,000 house with a new fitted kitchen. (Poverty - that's another word that means something different in Islam-speak.)
Muslim age groups are a funny thing, when you think about it. A nine year old girl is an adult. A strapping 17 year old 'Palestinian' man advancing towards you with a hand grenade is a 'child', and Sheikh Yassin was 'elderly', despite, at 67 being ten years younger than that stripling Ariel Sharon.
As for the burkha, well, it's liberating, innit? Muslims usually say, ah but all 'your' women (love that) 'go around in bikinis'. There is, apparently nothing in the Muslim psyche between a burkha and a bikini. Just as there is nothing between youthful and elderly.
Latest News from Bali: "Muslim groups outraged over Michelle Leslie wearing 'revealing' clothes and 'consuming alcohol'- upon departure from Bali
When are muslims ever not outraged?
Quick make-over for Michelle Leslie
Liam Houlihan and Clare Masters
21nov05
MUSLIM leaders are outraged that model Michelle Leslie ditched her headscarf for singlet and champers as she flew to Singapore after being deported from Bali as a convicted drug user.
They branded the bodypaint-to-burqa convert a fake.
"We've got no time for these pseudo-Muslims," said Dr Ameer Ali, head of the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils.
"I'd like to tell her: you can't have it both ways."
Dr Ali said it was obvious Leslie was using Islam for her own convenience.
"If she wants to give up, she should publicly declare she is no longer Muslim."
Leslie, 24, sipped champagne and read an Australian women's magazine during the short flight to freedom after serving three months' jail on ecstasy charges.
She was set to fly to Sydney yesterday but was waylaid in Singapore by TV and magazine executives.
Channel 9's 60 Minutes and A Current Affair were at the centre of discussions with women's magazine New Idea also trying to cut a deal.
"It's just blood money and it is disgraceful," said Australian Family Association chief Bill Muehlenberg.
"There is a good reason we have drug laws -- drugs kill, and it is just wrong for people like her to make money out of it. The whole case is confusing for young people, but one thing is clear -- she is not a great role model."
Leslie arrived in Singapore early yesterday after catching her flight to freedom.
"I'm so exhausted. I'm really excited to be going home and I'm just really relieved to be out of Indonesia," she said.
"And I'm really thankful to all the people that have supported me and sent me emails and letters and phone calls during my time in Bali."
The outcry over Leslie's plans to seal a lucrative media deal came as federal Justice Minister Chris Ellison appeared to leave the door ajar for the underwear model to profit from her ordeal.
Senator Ellison backed away from earlier reports he would block such a move, insisting the decision rested with Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions, Damian Bugg, QC.
Under recently introduced amendments, any Australian found guilty of a crime in Australia or overseas cannot make a profit by telling of their exploits.
Professor Margaret Hamilton, co-chair of Prime Minister John Howard's own drug advisory committee, questioned whether media outlets should be allowed to buy Leslie's story.
"The offers should not be made in the first place -- there are clear legal issues involved but also moral issues," Prof Hamilton said.
"They should not pay for these stories but I would not comment on whether Ms Leslie should benefit or not," she said.
While in jail, Leslie went from sarongs to the Muslim headscarf, or hijab, and even a head-to-toe black burqa, claiming to have found Allah a year ago.
She denied her conversion to Islam was a ploy to manipulate public and judicial sentiment.
Not all Muslim leaders condemned Leslie for her sudden change of garb yesterday.
Islamic Council of Victoria spokesman Waleed Aly said her failure to wear traditional dress on her release did not mean she was not a true Muslim.
"You can't see what is in someone's heart. We're not judges. We take their claims at face value. Muslims regularly do things that are contrary to the requirements of Islam.
"Islam is not a fashion parade. I think it's a bit tragic there's so much focus on that.
"If she is using it -- it's between her and God."
Leslie was arrested in Bali on August 20 after police found two ecstasy tablets in her handbag outside a Kuta dance party.
She was convicted on Friday and sentenced to three months' jail but released on Saturday because she had already served that time while awaiting trial.
The model has vowed that once back in Australia she will speak publicly about her arrest, after allegations police covered up the fact she was with the sons of powerful Indonesian families on the night of her arrest.
Leslie is expected to return to Sydney this week.
© Herald and Weekly Times
I wonder if she 'has time' for these Muslim 'leaders?'
If the whole Muslim business was a ploy, as one hoped, let her sell her story. If it wasn't, and she is sticking with Islam, then don't let her profit from her story. That's an easy one.
Tear!
But really, who cares? With osteoperosis they'll be less able to transport explosives.
Vikrant, Interested.
Indeed. The report said "Asian" women but it was clear from the content that wearers of saris, cheongsams, sarongs, jeans and batik were not at particular risk. Or no more than the crimpline and cardi brigade I mix with.
I must have told you the story of a friend of mine, a well qualified and experienced nursing sister who applied for a job in a community health clinic - "Asian Nurse wanted for women's health project"
She didn't get an interview and demanded feedback. You didn't fit the criteria. The advert clearly stated "Asian nurse"
She replied, I was born in Malaysia (which was called Malaya then) of Mandarin Chinese parents. The last time I looked both countries were in Asia! Wrong sort of Asian, you see.
It isn't really raining rain, you know, it's raining violets. It isn't really Asian, you know, if it's not Muslim. The BBC and most of the rest of the media are fanatically wedded to their euphemisms these days. When I marched against the Vietnam War, a militant was somebody who came to all the demonstrations. A trade union militant faithfully marched on the picket line. Nowadays, a militant is a mass murderer for the sake of jihad. How times change!!
Now, if Granny, Kafira, and Isabella and the other girls want to do something to help women, think of the five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death in Libya for deliberately infecting children with AIDS. They have been sitting in jail for several years now. The final decision to murder them may be given soon, if there is not enough outside protest. As a sign of how fake the charges are, outside investigators showed that AIDS was prevalent in the particular hospital in Libya where they were working before they got there. But Arabs/Muslims need to find outsiders to blame for what ails them. They have also put an Arab physician on trial on the same charge. But he is a Palestinian Arab not a Libyan. Funny we don't hear any "human rights" campaigners such as Amnesty or Human Rights Watch defending these victims of injustice, of a kangaroo trial. After all, one of them is a sacred "Palestinian"!!
Another sign of how fake the case is, is that one of Kaddafi's sons asked the Bulgarian govt to pay five million $$ [I think this is the sum] to the families of the AIDS suffering children in order to obtain release of the nurses. This was reported on Israel Radio--Network B [Reshet Beyt] yesterday, 20 November 2005.
Shiva posted here about the Bulgarian nurses falsely accused back in March http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/005517.php during a thread about Measles vaccinations. The compensation request was being mooted then.
I didn't keep a copy of the letter of protest I wrote then, (which I think was by e-mail) but the postal address of the Libyan People's Bureau is 61-62 Ennismore Gardens, London, SW7 1NH. Other posters, you boys as well, could write to the delegation in their own countries.
OT - Granny W - as someone who likes to raise a glass now and then, how do you feel about this latest pile of crap in The Guardian:
They really are pushing their luck, aren't they?
Interested
The whole d*** piece is surrounded by links to islam this, islam that, islam the other.
I don't see Hindus or Sikhs getting so anguished as to how to get British society to their liking, they are too busy working hard. I know the mass slaughter of cattle re BSE saddened many Hindu's on a profound emotional level over and above everybody's concern for the farmers ruined livlihoods and the animals early demise. Most Methodists and Baptists abhor drink. Buddhists are very pro vegetarian, but we have learned to live with each other. Indeed the most sensible comment about vegetarianism I ever heard came from a British Buddhist who was visiting my Father-in-law to discuss pastoral business. He said that his prefered food was vegetarian and he really apppreciated the vegetarian meal my Mother-in-law had served. But that it was better for his soul for him to accept a meat meal when visiting, than cause hurt by rejecting the hospitality and welcome, by rejecting the meat.
That attitude is worth thinking about.
Granny Weatherwax , Interested
I work in a team which has 2 Indian Hindus and a sikh. We do go out for the occasional Friday aftenoon drink session at the pub down the road. The Indians do not drink alcohol and prefer fruit juices - but they do NOT complain about me drinking what I want ...
I do not think that someone who is a guest has got any right to feel 'outraged' about our customs - the door is still open - GET OUT
Good point granny... In all Indian cultures drinking alcohol is frowned upon. Many Hindus are vegitarians... while most (like me) eat meat only occasionally. We're arent allowed to eat meat on religious days and eating meat before visiting a temple is also considered uncultured. But hell we dont go on insisting for beef bans, infact many Hindus in UK have started eating beef.