Healthy Living

Healthy Living Program
RRFW wants young women to respect their bodies and have access to practices and tools that will help them maintain a healthy life – emotionally, mentally, and physically. Young women who feel healthy and are more in tune with what their body needs to function positively are more likely to feel confident in themselves. By fully understanding what it takes for them to create their own healthy living, young women get the chance to build a solid foundation for their growth and feel more secure in their decisions and actions. Young women who feel healthier and respect their bodies as fullyas possible are more likely to treat others with respect and lead confidently.
Proper Nutrients for Personal Growth
RRFW will work with young women to guarantee healthy living so that they may grow up with confidence and maintain a positive body image,while exercising control and will power. Working in alignment withMichelle Obama’s anti-obesity campaign, Let’s Move, participants will learn nutrition and the benefits of an active lifestyle. Participants willl earn how to respect different eating requirements and dietary and activity choices made by others, while being encouraged to decide for themselves what their body wants and needs. Nutritionists, dieticians, and physical therapists/trainers will educate participants on the importance of a healthy balanced lifestyle, and help them pave a promising future.
Participants will also learn:
Balanced eating methods
How to be an educated consumer in grocery stores
The effects of media on persuading people to eat “junk food”
How to read and interpret the nutritional information on foodlabels
How to exercise safely and effectively – and have fun while doing it

Healthy Sexual Lifestyle Choice
RRFW wants to encourage young women to embrace their sexual identityas part of their whole selves, and work with each other to gain self respectand respect from peers as they begin to explore and understand theirsexuality. Sexual health is an important part of reproductive health, andparticipants will learn to see it as part of their overall, comprehensivewell-being. As this is often a very confusing—and even scary—period oflife, participants will work together to understand how to channel theirfeelings and thoughts in productive, healthy manners – such as throughconversations in a safe space, the arts, and writing. Participants will alsowork together on gaining the sexual confidence to consent or not, andto be respected sexually by others. With the help of sexual educationcounselors and Planned Parenthood representatives, participants willsupport and respect each other in feeling able to make safe and informedsexual decisions.
Participants will also learn:
Sexual behaviors and methods that prevent dangerous activities that can provoke Sexually Transmitted Infections and unwanted pregnancies
Forms of birth control, like barrier methods, hormonal methods, and abstinence
Sexual health hygiene
The differences between sexual preferences
Sexually Transmitted Infection risk factors, symptoms, preventionmethods, and treatment options
Water & Sanitation
RRFW will ensure that young women understand their water rights and responsibility to promote and practice good sanitation behaviors.  Participants will explore and understand the necessities of access to clean water and how to confidently advocate for it in their communities. Participants will also work together on gaining better hygiene habits and best practices that improve health and livelihood. With the help of water specialists, hygienists and medical professionals, participants will support each other in feeling able to make mature and well-educated decisions on them and their family’s hygiene.
Participants will also learn:
The importance of domestic chores being done cleanly and thoroughly
How to clean water affordably
The prevalence of water-borne diseases and prevention through hygiene
The importance of water in health and on earth
Why the water crisis exists and its impact on communities
Nutrition
RRFW will work with young women to guarantee healthy living so that they may grow up with confidence and maintain a positive body image, while exercising control and will power. Working in alignment with the UN MDGs and UN standards of nutritional requirements, participants will learn about necessary caloric consumption and the necessity for balanced diets. Participants will learn how to respect different eating requirements and different financial abilities that drive others’ eating abilities.  Nutritionists, dieticians, and physical therapists/trainers will educate participants on the importance of a healthy balanced lifestyle, and help them pave a promising future.
Partners will also learn:
Balanced eating methods
How to be an educated consumer in creating meals for families
The affects of media on persuading people to eat junk food
The different nutrients and benefits/disadvantages to locally available foods

What is Viagra?

Viagra (sildenafil) relaxes muscles and increases blood flow to particular areas of the body.

Viagra is used to treat erectile dysfunction (impotence) in men. Another brand of sildenafil is Revatio, which is used to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension and improve exercise capacity in men and women.

Do not take Viagra while also taking Revatio, unless your doctor tells you to.

Important information

You should not use Viagra if you are allergic to sildenafil.

Do not take Viagra if you are also using a nitrate drug for chest pain or heart problems. This includes nitroglycerin, isosorbide dinitrate, and isosorbide mononitrate. Nitrates are also found in some recreational drugs such as amyl nitrate or nitrite ("poppers"). Taking Viagra with a nitrate medicine can cause a sudden and serious decrease in blood pressure.

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Contact your doctor or seek emergency medical attention if your erection is painful or lasts longer than 4 hours. A prolonged erection (priapism) can damage the penis.

Stop using this medicine and get emergency medical help if you have sudden vision loss.

Sildenafil

Sexual dysfunction
The primary indication of sildenafil is treatment of erectile dysfunction (inability to sustain a satisfactory erection to complete intercourse). Its use is now standard treatment for erectile dysfunction in all settings, including diabetes.[2]

People on antidepressants may experience sexual dysfunction, either as a result of their illness or as a result of their treatment. A 2003 study showed that sildenafil improved sexual function in men in this situation.[3] Following up reports from 1999,[4] the same researchers found that sildenafil improved sexual function in female patients on antidepressants as well.[5]

Pulmonary hypertension
As well as erectile dysfunction, sildenafil citrate is also effective in the rare disease pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). It relaxes the arterial wall, leading to decreased pulmonary arterial resistance and pressure. This, in turn, reduces the workload of the right ventricle of the heart and improves symptoms of right-sided heart failure. Because PDE5 is primarily distributed within the arterial wall smooth muscle of the lungs and penis, sildenafil acts selectively in both these areas without inducing vasodilation in other areas of the body. Pfizer submitted an additional registration for sildenafil to the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and sildenafil was approved for this indication in June 2005. The preparation is named Revatio, to avoid confusion with Viagra, and the 20 milligram tablets are white and round. Sildenafil joins bosentan and prostacyclin-based therapies for this condition.[6]

Altitude sickness
Sildenafil has been shown to be useful for the prevention and treatment of high-altitude pulmonary edema associated with altitude sickness such as that suffered by mountain climbers.[7][8] While this effect has only recently been discovered, sildenafil is already becoming an accepted treatment for this condition, in particular in situations where the standard treatment of rapid descent has been delayed for some reason.[9]

Dosage


Viagra
Viagra pills are blue and diamond-shaped with the word "Pfizer" engraved on one side, and "VGR xx" (where xx stands for "25", "50" or "100", the dose of that pill in milligrams) engraved on the other. It is taken not more than once per day between 30 minutes and 4 hours prior to sexual intercourse.

The dosage for pulmonary arterial hypertension (Revatio) is three times a day. Revatio pills are white, round, film-coated tablets imprinted with "RVT 20" embossed on one side.[10]

Gambling in casinos

Most jurisdictions worldwide limit gambling to persons over the age of license (16 to 21 years of age in most countries which permit the operation of casinos).[5]

Customers gamble by playing games of chance, in some cases with an element of skill, such as craps, roulette, baccarat, blackjack, and video poker. Most games played have mathematically-determined odds that ensure the house has at all times an overall advantage over the players. This can be expressed more precisely by the notion of expected value, which is uniformly negative (from the player's perspective). This advantage is called the house edge. In games such as poker where players play against each other, the house takes a commission called the rake. Casinos sometimes give out complimentary items to gamblers.

Payout is the percentage of funds ("winnings") returned by players.

Casinos in the USA say that a player staking money won from the casino is playing with house money.

Video Lottery Machines (slot machines) have become one of the most popular form of gambling in casinos. As of 2011 investigative reports have started calling into question whether the modern-day slot-machine is addictive.[6]

History of gambling houses

The precise origin of gambling is unknown. It is generally believed that gambling in some form or another has been seen in almost every society in history. From the Ancient Greeks and Romans to Napoleon's France and Elizabethan England, much of history is filled with stories of entertainment based on games of chance.

The first known European gambling house, not called a casino although meeting the modern definition, was the Ridotto, established in Venice, Italy in 1638 to provide controlled gambling during the carnival season. It was closed in 1770 as the city government perceived it to impoverish the local gentry.

In American history, early gambling establishments were known as saloons. The creation and importance of saloons was greatly influenced by four major cities; New Orleans, St. Louis, Chicago and San Francisco. It was in the saloons that travelers could find people to talk to, drink with, and often gamble with. During the early 20th century in America, gambling became outlawed and banned by state legislation and social reformers of the time. However, in 1931, gambling was legalized throughout the state of Nevada. America's first legalized casinos were set up in those places. In 1978 New Jersey allowed gambling in Atlantic City, now America's second largest gambling city.

Casino

The term "Casino" is of Italian origin, the root word being "Casa" (house) and originally meant a small country villa, summerhouse or pavilion. The word changed to refer to a building built for pleasure, usually on the grounds of a larger Italian villa or palazzo. Such buildings were used to host civic town functions – including dancing, music listening, and gambling.

There are examples of such casinos at Villa Giulia and Villa Farnese. In modern day Italian, this term designates a bordello (also called "casa chiusa", literally "closed house"), while the gambling house is spelled casinò with an accent.[2]

During the 19th century, the term "casino" came to include other public buildings where pleasurable activities, including gambling, and sports took place. An example of this type of building is the Newport Casino in Newport, Rhode Island.

Not all casinos were used for gaming. The Copenhagen Casino was a theatre, known for the use made of its hall for mass public meetings during the 1848 Revolution which made Denmark a constitutional monarchy. Until 1937 it was a well-known Danish theatre.[3] The Hanko Casino located in Hanko, Finland - one of that town's most conspicuous landmarks - was never used for gambling. Rather, it was a banquet hall for the Russian nobility which frequented this spa resort in the late 19th century, and is presently used as a restaurant. The Catalina Casino,[4] a famous landmark overlooking Avalon Harbor on Santa Catalina Island, California, has never been used for traditional games of chance, which were already outlawed in California by the time it was built.

In military and non-military usage in Spanish and German, a casino or kasino is an officers' mess; curiously, in Italian - the source-language of the word - a "casino" is either a brothel, a mess, or a noisy environment, while a gaming house is called a "casinò". A confusing linguistic false friend for translators.