From the perspective of Bokir, 25, manager of a motorbike-rental shop in Kuta
What are we here for?
To achieve our destiny: being happy, having a wife and children and getting money.
Do you believe in the Bing Bang theory that the now circa-13.7-billion-year-old universe and all that’s in it was created by a massive explosion of enormously [...]

By Amy Chavez
For The Bali Times
A few weeks ago, while surfing off the bukit, Bali’s most southern reaches where the population is small and the waves big, I paddled my board out among a group of three young Japanese surfers who were obviously on their holiday. They chatted among themselves, not really giving me much [...]

By Robert Goldman
For The Bali Times
Longevity News and Review provides readers with the latest information in breakthroughs pertaining to the extension of the healthy human lifespan. These news summaries are compiled by the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M; www.worldhealth.net), a non-profit medical society composed of 20,000 physician and scientist members from 90 nations, united [...]

GENEVA ~ The World Health Organisation has warned that so-called “electronic cigarettes,” which claim to be a nicotine replacement therapy, could in fact prove highly poisonous.
“It’s 100 percent false to affirm this is a therapy for smokers to quit,” WHO anti-tobacco official Douglas Bettcher told journalists.
“There are a number of chemical additives in the product [...]

GENEVA ~ The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says around half a million women die each year from complications in childbirth and 10 million more suffer life-long disabilities, while the issue of maternal mortality does not get the attention it deserves.
“Globally, more than 500,000 women die each year because of complications related to pregnancy and [...]

A chronic runny nose, taking paracetamol in infancy, and wheezing as a child are all conditions linked to the onset of adulthood asthma, a trio of studies reported.
Babies who took the over-the-counter pain reliever paracetamol in the first year of life were fifty percent more likely to show symptoms of asthma by the time they [...]

Octogenarians who walk an hour or more each day are less likely to die and or be prone to serious illness compared with less active counterparts, according to a new study.
The research was carried out among 248 Italian volunteers, living in a mountain community, whose average age was 85.9 years.
During the 24-month experiment, 12 percent [...]