FIGHT HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE WITH SEX

BRAZIL OFFICIAL RECOMMENDS GETTING MORE SEX
FOR HEALTHY LIVING AND PREVENT HYPERTENSION

BRASILIA (AFP) - While Michelle Obama touts the health benefits of organic vegetables and federal health officials push for less sodium in fast food lunches, Brazil's health minister has a remedy for the nation's high-blood-pressure problem: More sex. One of the best ways Brazilians can stave off chronic illness is to engage regularly in physical exercise, especially sex, Health Minister Jose Gomes Temporao said. “People need to be active. A weekend football game must not be the only physical activity for a Brazilian. Adults need to do exercise: walk, dance and have safe sex,” he said. The minister gave the advice as he launched a campaign to prevent high blood pressure, which afflicts a quarter of Brazil's 190-million strong population. “Dancing, having sex, keeping weight under control, changing dietary habits, doing physical exercise” all help keep blood pressure down, he said. “It's not a joke. It's serious”, he said later, “Having regular physical exercises also means sex, always with protection of course (to prevent the spread of HIV.),” he added.

According to Brazilian authorities, the problem of high blood pressure is growing among Brazilians. A study by the Health Ministry that conducted telephone interviews of 54,000 people, showed the proportion of Brazilians who say their blood pressure is 140/90 or above rose from 21.5 percent in 2006 to 24.4 percent now. That includes the country's president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who in January suffered a high blood pressure attack, apparently brought on by stress. Minister Temporao added that he believed there was a health “time bomb” ticking in Brazil, which within 20 years could see a “gigantic percentage” of the population suffering chronic illnesses, high blood pressure, diabetes and high cholesterol.


The advice of the Minister of Health of Brazil is a big mistake which will lead to further sufferings. If people are engaged in so many sexual activities, their conscience must remain completely under the control of sexual desire, and this works against the spiritual development of society as a whole.

WHAT DO THE VEDIC TEACHINGS TELL US?

The greatest happiness for the soul starts with complete freedom: freedom from misery, unhappiness, suffering, freedom from the dictates of desires, and, ultimately, freedom from being trapped in a material body. But what keeps us ensnared in such a condition are the desires for sensual and mental pleasures. And the hardest freedom to attain is freedom from sex desire. ... If you are still entrapped by the idea of needing your sensual, emotional, or mental desires fulfilled, then you are far from being free, mentally, intellectually, and certainly not spiritually. ... But the hardest desire to be free from is the desire for sex. Complete spiritual freedom includes freedom from sexual desire.

Stephen Knapp (Nandanandana dasa) :
“Becoming Free from Sex Desire”
http://www.stephen-knapp.com/
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