Suma Qamaña or Living Well Together: A Contribution to Biocultural Conservation

High blood pressure, or hypertension, can cause serious health problems. It makes your heart work harder and can damage your blood vessels even if you feel okay. Everyone should have their blood pressure checked regularly. If you have certain risk factors, you are more likely to have high blood pressure. This 6-page fact sheet is a major revision that discusses risk factors and ways to reduce risk.

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Living well through food: Examining messages about food in popular Kenyan media

10.15868/socialsector.37229 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Kristie O'Neill O\'Neill

Keyword(s):

Living Well

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Disequilibrium and Divinity Salience as Invariant Structures in The Halal Executives’ Experience of Eudaimonia

ADVANCES IN BUSINESS RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL ◽

10.24191/abrij.v5i1.9995 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 109

Author(s):

Jalilah Ahmad ◽

Rosmimah Mohd. Roslin ◽

Mohd Ali Bahari Abdul Kadir

Keyword(s):

Data Analysis ◽

Lived Experience ◽

Status Quo ◽

The Self ◽

Phenomenological Method ◽

Sustainable Practices ◽

Muslim Population ◽

Living Well ◽

Hard Skills ◽

Invariant Structures

The global Halal industry is large and continues to grow as the global Muslim population increases in size and dispersion. There are 1.84 billion Muslims today spread over 200 countries and is expected to increase to 2.2 billion by 2030. The industry will be worth USD6.4 trillion by the end of 2018 with more non-traditional players and emergent markets. The stakes are high with pressures to generate novel and sustainable practices. This goes beyond systems and hard skills as it needs to cut into the self – the person of virtues in virtuous acts, not because they “have to” but because it is the purpose of humankind or his telos - to be “living well” and “acting well” or eudaimonia. This study seek to explore Halal executives’ lived experience of “eudaimonia.”. Using Giorgi’s descriptive psychological phenomenological method for data analysis, the study elicits two distinct invariant structures – ‘disequilibrium in status quo’ and ‘divinity salience’.

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