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As a follow-up to the previous post, can we now see why even doctors are sucked into the madness? When you got loans barreling down your back as a primary care physician because you didn’t want to sell out as a super specialized doctor, sometimes a little give can’t hurt anyone, right?

If you know a little history about ADD and ADHD drugs, much research and journalism has exposed the massive prescription overhaul of ADD and ADHD drugs to kids because of the incentives physicians received. Ugh.

I have been saying since 2006 to fellow students, you cannot go into medicine for the money. 

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Health Benefits: Balances Blood Sugar

Maybe it’s ironic that cinnamon — that spicy-sweet favorite that cooks use to give desserts extra flavor — can help control blood-sugar problems. Or maybe — given the fact that the rate of type 2 diabetes in the United States has doubled in…

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You’re next,” the Shabab warned the girl, a frail 17-year-old who was living with her brother in a squalid refugee camp.

Several months later, the men came back. Five militants burst into her hut, pinned her down and gang-raped her, she said. They claimed to be on a jihad, or holy war, and any resistance was considered a crime against Islam, punishable by death.

“I’ve had some very bad dreams about these men,” she said, having recently escaped the area they control. “I don’t know what religion they are.”

Somalia has been steadily worn down by decades of conflict and chaos, its cities in ruins and its people starving. Just this year, tens of thousands have died from famine, with countless others cut down in relentless combat. Now Somalis face yet another widespread terror: an alarming increase in rapes and sexual abuse of women and girls.

The Shabab militant group, which presents itself as a morally righteous rebel force and the defender of pure Islam, is seizing women and girls as spoils of war, gang-raping and abusing them as part of its reign of terror in southern Somalia, according to victims, aid workers and United Nations officials. Short of cash and losing ground, the militants are also forcing families to hand over girls for arranged marriages that often last no more than a few weeks and are essentially sexual slavery, a cheap way to bolster their ranks’ flagging morale.

This is just the beginning. It’s not even a cry for help. It’s the state of being and it’s terrifying. It’s so terrifying you should probably be picking up the phone to call representatives, discuss potential economic investment in Somalia. Donating to these great organizations. And informing friends about the situation. 

Please. Our women. We. All of us. Need help and support.