Obesity and women health: from womb to tomb

Shivani Garg; Seema Grover; Nishi Garg

doi:10.18203/2320-1770.ijrcog20204336

A Study of the Seera’h of the Holy Prophet (SAW) – A Mercy for Mankind- as Exemplified by his Life

Journal of Religious Studies (UOCHJRS) ◽

10.33195/uochjrs-v2i(4)1282019 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 134-141

Author(s):

dr. badr uddin

Keyword(s):

Life History ◽

Human Beings ◽

Entire Life

The prophet of Islam, Muhammad (SAW) has been introduced by Allah, the Creator of this universe, as the “Mercy for the whole universe”. The holy Prophet (SAW) lived his entire life as a testimony to this grand compliment from Allah Almighty. His extraordinary compassion towards his followers, all other human beings is acknowledged to be worth copying and there has been no denial of the claim yet. He was an epitome of love, mercy, compassion and tolerance. He not only practiced these virtues himself, but also inculcated them in his companions, advised his followers i.e. all Muslims to practice and preach them to entire humanity at large. He forgave his worst enemies and tormentors when he subdued them, either individually, or collectively. His historic declaration of universal pardon on the conquest of Makkah has no parallel in history. His life history and teachings are replete with examples of extreme compassion and mercy. This paper is an attempt to bring home this point by presenting the evidences to support this claim.

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Towards an Understanding of the Significance of “The Dreamtime” to Aboriginal People

The Aboriginal Child at School ◽

10.1017/s0310582200013407 ◽

1984 ◽

Vol 12 (4) ◽

pp. 50-56 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

E.A. O’Keefe

Keyword(s):

Social Organization ◽

Life Style ◽

Aboriginal People ◽

Human Beings ◽

Entire Life ◽

The Earth ◽

Aboriginal Culture

To traditional Aborigines their whole concept of life, whether it is physical or spiritual survival, is centred on their belief in the Dreamtime. The Dreamtime was the period of creation when the Aborigines’ life-style was planned and the Aborigines’ entire life centred on the need to live in the style prescribed by the mythical Dreamtime ancestors.An understanding of the Dreamtime is essential to an understanding of traditional Aboriginal culture. Stanner (1979, 23–40) describes the Dreaming as pervading every aspect of life from social organization to food gathering. Not only is it the period of creation when the mythical ancestors roamed the earth, but it is also the life spirit which ties man, society and nature, both past and present, to the living now.R.M. Berndt (1980) describes the dreaming thus:The Dreaming therefore constituted a particular view of life, of the place of human beings within a preordained scheme or patterning symbolising a three-sided relationship between mythic beings, nature and people. Each was dependent on the others. People were part of nature, part of particular mythic beings, in social and personal terms.(Berndt, 1980, 14–15)Not only did traditional Aborigines believe in the Dreaming, they lived it. It is the Dreaming which provides the blueprint for life.Central to the belief in the Dreaming is the belief in the mythical beings. These beings were part human and part animal. They roamed the earth in the Dreamtime using super-human powers to create all natural features.

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To transmit genes without becoming mother: An evolutionary conflict behind denial of pregnancy

10.7287/peerj.preprints.1853 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Patrick Sandoz

Keyword(s):

Social Identity ◽

Evolutionary Biology ◽

Sufficient Conditions ◽

Human Beings ◽

Women Health ◽

Clinical Observations ◽

Social Species ◽

Evolutionary Conflict ◽

Primitive Species ◽

Pregnancy Denial

Aim: The etiology of pregnancy denial remains poorly understood. Neither necessary nor sufficient conditions can be synthesized from the risk factors identified from psychological analyses. In accordance with clinical observations, we aim to explain denial of pregnancy from an evolutionary conflict perspective. Methods: Authors investigate evolutionary biology aspects and emphasize on the transition from solitary animal species to social species. The possibility of conflicts between primitive species-perpetuation forces and subjective social-identity forces are explored. Results: As members of a social species, human beings have a dual, contradictory character of independent organisms but interdependent people. This results in evolutionary inherited conflicts that, with respect to women's reproduction, distinguish between primitive and social-identity issues: i) to transmit genes by giving birth and ii) to become mother. Authors explain denial of pregnancy as a standby-in-tension response to a conflicting attempt to transmit genes without becoming mother. It may thus be considered as temporarily adaptive response by postponing conflict resolution. This model, based on subjective internal appraisals, is compatible with a huge diversity of causative events as expected from the specificity of each woman's life course. Conclusions: The proposed etiology is consistent with clinical observations and brings prior models into agreement. From a clinical practice perspective, the ability to explain denial of pregnancy rationally may favor understanding and acceptation by concerned women. Health professionals' information may also be facilitated and psychotherapeutic follow up may gain in efficiency with reduced recidivism. More generally, this evolutionary conflict approach provides a supplementary perspective to explore psychosomatic dysfunctions.

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To transmit genes without becoming mother: An evolutionary conflict behind denial of pregnancy

10.7287/peerj.preprints.1853v1 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Patrick Sandoz

Keyword(s):

Social Identity ◽

Evolutionary Biology ◽

Sufficient Conditions ◽

Human Beings ◽

Women Health ◽

Clinical Observations ◽

Social Species ◽

Evolutionary Conflict ◽

Primitive Species ◽

Pregnancy Denial

Aim: The etiology of pregnancy denial remains poorly understood. Neither necessary nor sufficient conditions can be synthesized from the risk factors identified from psychological analyses. In accordance with clinical observations, we aim to explain denial of pregnancy from an evolutionary conflict perspective. Methods: Authors investigate evolutionary biology aspects and emphasize on the transition from solitary animal species to social species. The possibility of conflicts between primitive species-perpetuation forces and subjective social-identity forces are explored. Results: As members of a social species, human beings have a dual, contradictory character of independent organisms but interdependent people. This results in evolutionary inherited conflicts that, with respect to women's reproduction, distinguish between primitive and social-identity issues: i) to transmit genes by giving birth and ii) to become mother. Authors explain denial of pregnancy as a standby-in-tension response to a conflicting attempt to transmit genes without becoming mother. It may thus be considered as temporarily adaptive response by postponing conflict resolution. This model, based on subjective internal appraisals, is compatible with a huge diversity of causative events as expected from the specificity of each woman's life course. Conclusions: The proposed etiology is consistent with clinical observations and brings prior models into agreement. From a clinical practice perspective, the ability to explain denial of pregnancy rationally may favor understanding and acceptation by concerned women. Health professionals' information may also be facilitated and psychotherapeutic follow up may gain in efficiency with reduced recidivism. More generally, this evolutionary conflict approach provides a supplementary perspective to explore psychosomatic dysfunctions.

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Animals in Walden

English Language and Literature Studies ◽

10.5539/ells.v7n3p43 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 7 (3) ◽

pp. 43

Author(s):

Qin Liu

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Henry David Thoreau ◽

Human Beings ◽

Red Squirrels ◽

Entire Life ◽

American Writer ◽

Man And Nature ◽

The Relationship ◽

Simple Life

Henry David Thoreau is a great American writer of transcendentalism and the pioneer of modern environmentalism. Being an ardent lover of nature, he devoted his entire life to studying the relationship between man and nature, and bequeathed a legacy of works in this field. He believed that nature was the symbol of spirit, and had a far-reaching influence on man and his character, and human beings should live harmoniously with nature for the long sustainable development. In Walden which is his masterpiece He endows the animals with human characteristics. Thereupon, Thoreau often describes the similarities between animals and people he comes across. People can be just as greedy and shallow as the marmot of the prairie, or as naughty and clumsy as red squirrels, or as lazy and cunning as chickadees, or as loyal as gundogs in Thoreau’s writings. Thoreau spent two years living a simple life at Walden on his own. He recounted in details the living habits of these animals, from woodchucks, loons to mice and hawks.

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TOSANGSEREKAN, A Theological Reflection on the Integrity of Creation in the Torajan Context

10.31219/osf.io/v5u8e ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Rannu Sanderan

Keyword(s):

Living System ◽

Theological Reflection ◽

Self Control ◽

Human Beings ◽

New Paradigm ◽

Moral Value ◽

Entire Life ◽

Cultural Life ◽

Inner Self ◽

Basic Attitude

What is the aboriginal concept of Tosangserekan itself? The philosophy of Tosangserekan in Aluk to dolo concept: All creatures (the ancestors) were made by Puang Matua, The material for producing those ancestors was gold, The tool to forged–to form was a pair of bellows (sauan sibarrung). And all ancestors were made (forged) in the sky, therefore the tosangserekan is not just merely a philosophy of human beings (moral value) nor culture, but it is more like an integration of cosmic living system (intact, interrelatedness and wholeness). The consequence is Tosangserekan as a cosmic system is very close with natural law (organic holism). The entire life dimension CANNOT be separated; everything is in oneness of intact union. The Theology of Life and the Philosophy of To Sangserekan: theology of restoration with ecological spirit, so humans are aware and have a self-control base on their cultural life, especially when it involves nature. One thing that is certain is: this earth is only one, and our planet is in a problem and then it is going towards to destruction. And the most responsible for this damages one is human beings. Because he is given an authorization to manage nature wisely (Theocentric-holistic). Nature or creatures has been treated arbitrarily, without having a pity, and unfairly. The fact that a lot of species of plant and animal have totally disappeared. The requirements are not only the conservation techniques and the knowledge on the environment but primarily more to the basic attitude, which is expressed from the deepest inner self. This basic attitude then will give the influence to the viewpoint on nature. Even it could be able to shift and form a new paradigm or a new ethic on the environment.

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Metaphors and Dehumanization Ideology

Chinese Semiotic Studies ◽

10.1515/css-2019-0021 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 15 (3) ◽

pp. 349-377

Author(s):

Chaoyuan Li

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Economic Development ◽

Gender Ideology ◽

Women's Status ◽

Human Beings ◽

Representation Of Women ◽

Women Health ◽

Women’S Status ◽

Advertising Discourse ◽

Women's Magazine

Abstract Rich literature on the representation of women in advertising has repeatedly concluded a message in keeping with a GDP-promoting agenda: with economic development and modernization, women’s status has been elevated and they appear in professional and other settings beyond domesticity. Amid this optimism, the present study cautions that women’s elevated status and transformed roles should not give way to the exuberance on display in many sectors. Motivated by the unusual persistence of women’s decorative role against the background of pro-egalitarian industrialization and modernity, this study, drawing on advertising discourse in Cosmopolitan, the world’s leading women’s magazine, aims to investigate the gender ideology that dehumanizes women by exploring the various dehumanizing metaphors and the visual and linguistic codes deployed to construct the metaphors. In identifying and analyzing two major dehumanizing metaphors – WOMEN ARE OBJECTS and WOMEN ARE ANIMALS – this study outlines a critical metaphorical landscape that goes beyond the warfare metaphor which is popular in various fields (e.g. women, health care, and economy), and highlights HUMAN BEINGS ARE THINGS metaphors as a major instrument in constructing dehumanizing discourse and ideology.

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