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The Parents Television Council, in late 2010, polled U.S. Teenagers, aged 13-18 and found the following:

61% would like to be virgins when they get married
82% believe God intended marriage to last a lifetime
79% have never had sexual intercourse
84% said they have never seen a pornographic movie or magazine
"Today's teens are seeing through the lies and deceit of pop culture pundits, but we must act together to help them follow their beliefs and resist premarital sexual activity."

Yet... 64 % of all TV shows contain sexual content -- the spectrum from flirting to intercourse, and
69% of teens watch MTV on a weekly basis; and 62% believe truth is relative...

It is "difficult for young people to resist the temptation of sexual activity in our media saturated society..."

If you are a neighbor, friend, relative, classmate, teacher, or co-worker tell the teens you know that THEY ARE WORTH THE WAIT!!

Encourage them to be modest in dress, and to Abstain to avoid the Pain!

With Sexual Abstinence, there are No Regrets.

As teens grow to understand the life-giving power of their sexuality, they will come to understand the power of the marriage bond, and the tremendous gift of family, which is the basic unit of civilization as we have known it.

www.abstinence.net
www.humanlife.org
[Human Life Alliance, April 2011 letter]

 
Stem Cells Reduce Stroke Damage (10/02) PDF Print E-mail
Stem Cells Ethically Derived from Umbilical Cord Blood Cut Scope of Stroke by 40%, research finds -- Stem cells derived from umbilical cord blood can help reduce stroke damage, claims a study by scientists at the Medical College of Georgia and the University of South Florida.
In research with laboratory animals, the scientists found that when the umbilical cord-derived stem cells were given intravenously along with the drug mannitol, which can penetrate the brain's protective blood-brain barrier, stroke size was reduced by 40 percent.
There was also a significant reduction in resulting stroke-related disability, according to the study [published in the October 2002 issue of Stroke].

"What we found was interesting, phenomenal, really," study author and neuroscientist Dr. Cesario V. Borlongan said in a prepared statement.
"We have two potential routes of delivery, intravenously through the jugular vein or directly transplanting the (stem) cells into the brain," Borlongan said.
Initial studies that compared the two approaches found the intravenous delivery was ineffective until used in combination with mannitol.
Another study in the same issue of Stroke found that 10 times or more the number of umbilical cord blood-derived stem cells would be needed to produce similar results if the stem cells were injected without mannitol.

Mannitol is a sugar alcohol and diuretic. Its uses include helping chemotherapy drugs reach the brain.
[Medical College of Georgia, news release, Sept. 24, 2002; 29Sept02, HealthDayNews; 2002 ScoutNews]

 
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