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Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Did Erap not vote for Binay?
abs-cbnNEWS.com
Posted at 05/10/2010 2:13 PM | Updated as of 05/10/2010 7:11 PM

MANILA, Philippines (1st UPDATE) - Did former President Joseph Ejercito Estrada vote for his running mate, Makati City Mayor Jejomar Binay?

Allegations that Estrada didn't vote for Binay arose after video footages taken of his ballot indicated that he did not shade any oval in the vice-presidential rows.

Videos footages of his ballot have gone viral, with one such video claiming it was from ABS-CBN. (Click here for link to video.)

However, Estrada's spokesman Margaux Salcedo denied reports that the former president did not vote for a Binay.

Estrada voted at an elementary school in San Juan City in Metro Manila at high noon Monday.

Binay is running under his old party, PDP-Laban and has allied with the Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino standard-bearer.

Estrada, wearing an orange checkered polo and a white jacket, shaded his ballot with his left hand in a polling precinct at the Pedro Cruz Elementary School.

The former president was surrounded by the media and employees.

Estrada said he always votes at high noon because he believes he's luckier if he votes while the sun is at its brightest.

Before voting, the former president went to Antipolo City in Rizal province to hear Mass. He also visited his parents’ graves at the San Juan Cemetery.

Estrada is seeking a comeback to Malacañang after his 6-year term was cut short following a military-backed people's revolt in 2001 known as Edsa Dos.

He was jailed for several years and convicted of plunder. He was pardoned and released in October 2007.

Estrada has urged his loyal supporters to bring him back to Malacañang so he can finish his pro-poor programs that were cut short after President Arroyo succeeded him. -- with a report from ANC

Thursday, May 6, 2010

Lack of sleep linked to early death

Lack of sleep linked to early death: study

LONDON (AFP) – People who get less than six hours sleep per night have an increased risk of dying prematurely, researchers said on Wednesday.

Those who slumbered for less than that amount of time were 12 percent more likely to die early, though researchers also found a link between sleeping more than nine hours and premature death.

"If you sleep little, you can develop diabetes, obesity, hypertension and high cholesterol," Francesco Cappuccio, who led research on the subject at Britain's University of Warwick, told AFP.

The study, conducted with the Federico II University in Naples, Italy, aggregated decade-long studies from around the world involving more than 1.3 million people and found "unequivocal evidence of the direct link" between lack of sleep and premature death.

"We think that the relation between little sleep and illness is due to a series of hormonal and metabolical mechanisms," Cappuccio said.

The findings of the study were published in the Sleep journal.

Cappuccio believes the duration of sleep is a public health issue and should be considered as a behavioural risk factor by doctors.

"Society pushes us to sleep less and less," Cappuccio said, adding that about 20 percent of the population in the United States and Britain sleeps less than five hours.

Sleeping less than six hours is "more common amongst full-time workers, suggesting that it may be due to societal pressures for longer working hours and more shift work"

The study also found a link between sleeping more than nine hours per night and premature death, but Cappuccio said oversleeping is more likely to be an effect of illness, rather than a cause.

"Doctors never ask how much one sleeps, but that could be an indicator that something is wrong," said Cappuccio, who heads the Sleep, Health and Society Programme at the University of Warwick.

Research showed no adverse effects for those sleeping between six and eight hours per day.