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Maha Kumbh Mela 2025: UP Police focuses on vegetarian diet, alcohol abstinence and behaviour training

Maha Kumbh Mela 2025: A strict vegetarian diet, alcohol abstinence and behavioural training are among the steps the Uttar Pradesh Police is taking to ensure its personnel act as servants of faith and create a pleasant experience for the devotees gathering in this holy city for the Maha Kumbh. UP Police undergoing behaviour-focused training Police personnel to be deployed for …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

30 years later, the evangelical purity movement still impacts sex education

NPR

30 years later, the evangelical purity movement still impacts sex education toggle caption Richard Ross On July 29, 1994, thousands of teenagers gathered in Washington, D.C., to tell the nation about their pledge to remain sexually abstinent until marriage. One early version of the commitment card, developed by True Love Waits co-founders Richard Ross and Jimmy Hester, reads: "Believing that …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

Social media: Abstinence can boost self-esteem

Hindustan Times

A Canadian study has found that refraining from social media for a week can have a positive impact on one's body image. Young women are particularly vulnerable to internalizing certain ideas of beauty For many young people on social media platforms such as Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok, it's hard to escape the beauty ideals and standards that are circulating, and …

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9 months, 3 weeks ago

If we want to push back against the rising demands of beauty, we should start by abstaining from body shame

ABC

“Just say no!” Supposedly this is the way to stop all manner of bad things — drugs, drink, sex, even beauty practices. That a few women — and its nearly always women — stop body-work will do anything to slow the rising demands of beauty is not at all obvious. There are no systematic arguments for why individual resistance, abstinence, …

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1 year, 2 months ago

AA isn’t the only way to change your relationship with alcohol. Here are other options

LA Times

This story was originally published in Group Therapy, a weekly newsletter answering questions sent by readers about what’s been weighing on their hearts and minds. Maybe AA’s hard line on what counts as recovery — lifelong abstinence from alcohol and all other drugs — has actually made it harder for you to change your relationship to drinking. Both are great …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Tim Scott 2024 presidential campaign: Will the senator's Christian virgin past help or harm him?

Slate

If Sen. Tim Scott were elected president of the United States—and, given polling, that looks like a pretty big “if” for now—he would be a historic winner. “Particularly this kind of conservative, evangelical Christianity.” “White evangelical voters will say he’s someone who has lived faithfully,” said Sara Moslener, author of Virgin Nation: Sexual Purity and American Adolescence and a lecturer …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Achieving abstinence against addiction

The Hindu

Dr. V. Venkata Kiran, Professor of Psychiatry at District Mental Health Programme says, “De-addiction is a process and it needs a lot of time, patience and cooperation from the patient. It involves the collective action of three bodies— the de-addiction centre, the District Mental Health Programme service provider and the NGOs. To implement all these steps, the patient needs to …

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2 years, 2 months ago

What Happens To Your Body When You Don't Drink Alcohol For A Month

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING We’ve all heard about Sober October or Dry January, a finite period of time when people voluntarily stop drinking alcohol as a way to give their body a “break” or “reset.” Abstaining from alcohol doesn’t need to be a trend reserved only for a specific month. We spoke to a few health experts to better understand what …

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2 years, 9 months ago

India’s abstinence from UN Security Council vote on Ukraine was the right decision

Firstpost

The Indian decision to abstain from the voting was not siding with anyone; it was in its own national interest The UNSC vote on Ukraine, the US- Some media write-ups say that India should have sided with the US because with Russia under sanctions, it will be difficult for us to maintain the 70 per cent Russian equipment that our …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Delhi Bar Associations To Abstain From Work Tomorrow Over Judgment Convicting Rajiv Khosla

Live Law

The Coordination Committee of All District Court Bar Associations of Delhi today unanimously resolved to go on complete abstinence of work tomorrow in the district courts against the recent judgment convicting former Delhi High Court Bar Association President Rajiv Khosla for assaulting a woman lawyer Sujata Kohli in the year 1994. "All the members of the Co-ordination Committee unanimously resolved …

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3 years, 8 months ago

Memories and traditions of Lent abstinence and Easter decadence, drawn from five tables in India

Firstpost

Easter can be a test of artistic abilities. We go to church, although we stand outside as they cannot sit still, so we rarely get to hear much of the Easter sermon anymore!” Lavish Easter evenings “Often the only Christian family in a secular community, we celebrated with guests who came by to wish us in the evening and feast …

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3 years, 8 months ago

There's nothing wrong with being "California sober" — Demi Lovato's haters be darned

Salon

Demi Lovato is no longer hiding her truth. "I really don't feel comfortable explaining the parameters of my recovery to people," Lovato responded, "because I don't want anyone to look at my parameters of safety and think that's what works for them, because it might not." "I know a lot of people that work really hard to hold their abstinence …

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