Enjoy 20% off purchase of $60 or more at Benefit Cosmetics

Use Code, BENEBABE between now and 10/13/08.

pink is for breast cancer awareness

Help save our breasts!

I don’t know what it is with breasts, but everyone loves them! Men, women, and especially babies. They are important to us, after all they feed and nourish future generations. Let’s do what we can to fight for a cure, a cure against cancer!

You can do your part by self examine your breasts. If performed properly self examination may help early detection of some types of cancers. However, self examination is not most efficient way for screening. If you don’t have hands, I am sure most guys will be willing to check them for you. All kidding aside, if you feel a new lump in one of your breasts, please see a medical professional immediately.

Unfortunately, many women cannot even afford a yearly mammograms, which is the most effective way of screening for breast cancer. You should start getting yearly mammograms after the age of 35. If breast cancer runs in your family, you may want to start getting mammograms at the age of 30.

By going www.thebreastcancersite.com and clicking the big pink button you can help fund mammograms to those that are less fortunate. You don’t need to send money, just open your browser and click away.

For the Yoplait yogurt eaters. For every pink lid you send in by December 31, 2008. Yoplait will donate 10 cents to the Susan G. Komen Foundation. See package for mailing details.

www.SavingMothers.org

The word mother is synonymous with the word life. I once saw a documentary that showed that mothers (and women) have the power to stop wars, and give life. Women are vital for the procreation of future generations. In America, many have the luxury to go to a clean hospital to give birth. However, those in Sierra Leone and other rural areas are not as fortunate.

Sierra Leone has the highest maternal and child mortality rates in the world. These deaths are caused by unsanitary conditions and lack of delivery supplies. Many of these lives can be saved by providing access to clean birthing kits that will promote hygienic births. Studies have shown that women using similar birthing kits were 3.2 times less likely to develop puerperal sepsis (an infection) and newborns birthed with the kits were 13.1 times less likely to develop umbilical cord infections.

In November, one of the co- founder’s as well as a group of doctors from Mount Sinai Medical Center will be going to Sierra Leone as well as Liberia to deliver clean delivering tools to rural areas that lack medical facilities.

Give future generations as well as mothers, a chance at life.

Saving Mothers’ goal is to raise at least $5000 to prevent maternal and neonatal deaths. Donations are also tax deductible and 100% of donations will go directly towards this project.

For more information.

Donations are welcomed here.