Archive for July, 2007

Indigenous teenagers selling sex for cigarettes

TEENAGE indigenous girls are prostituting themselves to white men for beer and cigarettes in the middle of Darwin. Former ATSIC regional council leader Kimberley Hunter said the scenes he has witnessed at night on Parap Rd, Parap, disgusted him and proved sexual abuse is not only performed by Aboriginal men. “Cars drive up and down [...]

Jul 09, 2007 | 0 comments | View Post

Study: Chocolate lowers blood pressure

Here’s some good and bad news for chocoholics: Dark chocolate seems to lower blood pressure, but it requires an amount less than two Hershey’s Kisses to do it, a small study suggests. The new research from Germany adds to mounting evidence linking dark chocolate with health benefits, but it’s the first to suggest that just [...]

Jul 04, 2007 | 0 comments | View Post

Nights out ‘harm hearing of many’

*70% of clubbers have symptoms of hearing damage after a night out, says RNID* Nine in 10 young people aged 16-30 experience signs of hearing damage after a night out, research suggests. The charity RNID found 90% of pub, club and gig-goers experienced dullness of hearing or ringing in the ears after a night on [...]

Jul 02, 2007 | 0 comments | View Post