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Can someone stay married yet divorced at same time? Yes, in Japan, that\'s possible
christiantoday.com
For Christians, marriage is a sacred vow between a man and a woman in the eyes of God and the public. This holy union was sanctified by God in the story of Creation, as told in Genesis 2:23-24 of the Holy Bible.
This Bible verse on marriage reads: "The man said, 'This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called "woman," for she was taken out of man.' For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh."
In the modern day and age, however, more and more people are choosing to set aside marriage, and choosing divorce instead. Interestingly, some Japanese couples have found a way to live apart to fulfill their lifelong dreams, while staying married.
This practice called "sotsukon" is becoming more and more popular in Japan, which has an ageing population.
According to a report on CNN, "sotsukon" is for couples who are still in love with each other but have decided to live apart to achieve their dreams separately.
The idea was first raised in 2004 by Japanese author Yumiko Sugiyama in her book "Sotsukon no Susume—Recommending the Graduation from Marriage."
For instance, 66-year-old Yuriko Nishi chose to live separately with her husband to pursue her lifelong goal of becoming a fashion designer. The couple nevertheless stayed married, for the sake of their three grown-up sons.
"We started wondering what path we should be walking on," Nishi told CNN. "We told our children it was a good chance to evolve our family."
Her husband, a former cameraman, meanwhile chose to go back to his home town and became a rice farmer.
"He visits me once a month. I visit him for a week at a time, too... Our marriage is in good shape," she said.
Graduating from marriage in Japan CNN
Couples in Japan are "graduating from marriage" -- sotsukon -- to fulfill their individual dreams in retirement
Due to a declining birth rate and long life expectancy, the longest period in a woman's life is now after her children have left home
The trend reflects a growing individualization of the family in Japan
(CNN)When Yuriko Nishi's three grown-up sons left home, she asked her husband of 36 years an unusual question: Was there any dream married life had prevented him from fulfilling?
"We started wondering what path should we be walking on," says Nishi, 66. "We told our children it was a good chance to evolve our family."
Like many others in Japan, the couple decided to graduate from marriage -- or "sotsukon."
This was not divorce.
Sotsukon is for couples still in love, who decide to "live apart together" in their sunset years to achieve their separate dreams.
In a nation with an aging population, the idea has taken root.
Living apart together
Yoshihide Ito, 63, after working for decades as a cameraman in Tokyo, told his wife he wanted to escape city life and return to his home prefecture of Mie, in southern Japan, to become a rice farmer.
Yuriko Nishi and her husband Yoshihide Ito with their children before sotsukon.
Yuriko Nishi and her husband Yoshihide Ito with their children before sotsukon.
Nishi wished to continue her career as a fashion stylist in the capital.
"He visits me once a month. I visit him for a week at a time, too," Nishi says.
Distance, she explains, helps the couple to miss and appreciate each other; they now plan date nights for the time they spend together.
"Our marriage is in good shape. We share two totally different lifestyles."
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Stop Wasting Money on Vitamin Supplements
Brady Hartman longevityfacts
Summary: A panel of physicians says vitamin supplements and multivitamins are generally a waste of money for the average, healthy person, and some vitamin supplements can be unhealthy. [Author: Brady Hartman. This article first appeared on the LongevityFacts.com website. ]
Advice on vitamins frequently changes, with one report contradicting the next. In 2013, a group of physicians decided to answer the question “are multivitamins necessary?” and put an end to the controversy. After reviewing the mounting evidence against multivitamins and vitamin supplements, the group published their conclusions in the Annals of Internal Medicine (AIM), a top medical journal. In an editorial titled “Enough is Enough – Stop Wasting Money on Vitamin & Mineral Supplements,” the physicians declared that supplement usage was usually ineffective and sometimes harmful.
Article In A Nutshell
In case you are short of time, here’s a short summary of this article.
After analyzing studies of nearly 500,000 people, the AIM editorial concluded that daily use multivitamin and other vitamin supplements don’t help well-nourished people with healthy diets. Taking multivitamins, minerals or vitamin supplements didn’t reduce heart disease, cancer or the risk of death.
The authors of the AIM editorial didn’t analyze the benefits of vitamins on people with vitamin deficiencies or at-risk of deficiencies. They mainly focused on people who were already well-nourished and also taking vitamin supplements.
The AIM study authors said that some vitamins shortened lives when consumed in excess.
Americans Can’t Seem To Get Enough Multivitamins
Americans have been taking multivitamin and mineral supplements since the products arrived on the market in the early 1940s. Multivitamin and mineral supplements, called multivitamins for short, are popular supplements taken by approximately one-third of all Americans. Multivitamins comprise 40% of all supplement sales.
Researchers have had a difficult time studying the effects of multivitamin consumption because no there is no standard definition as to what actually constitutes a multivitamin supplement. No definition declares what product must contain nor at what levels. Therefore, the term multivitamin refers to ‘multivitamin /multimineral products with widely varying compositions’.
The AIM Review of Vitamin Supplements
For the general population, the AIM panel concluded that taking vitamin and mineral supplements was a hazard to some and a waste of money to most. The panel of physicians, led by Edgar Miller, M.D., a professor of medicine and epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University (JHU), analyzed over 40 long-term clinical studies on vitamins and supplements with a combined total of around 500,000 study participants.
The AIM panel conducted a study of studies, called a systematic review, in which they systematically analyzed all the published evidence on vitamins and supplements, and then pooled the results. Systematic reviews are among the strongest forms of evidence because they average the results of large numbers of research reports with different conclusions.
The AIM Study Conclusion
The AIM panel got the bulk of their evidence from an earlier investigation on supplements performed by Fortmann and colleagues for the USPTF, which had reviewed the supplementation trials of 400,000 participants. The AIM panel summarized their conclusions in a short paragraph, stating:
The message is simple: Most supplements do not prevent chronic disease or death, their use is not justified, and they should be avoided. [emphasis mine]. This message is especially true for the general population with no clear evidence of micronutrient deficiencies, who represent most supplement users in the United States and in other countries [emphasis mine]
The panel members concluded the editorial declaring that supranormal doses of vitamin E, beta-carotene, and vitamin A supplements are harmful to one’s health, stating: “In conclusion: beta-carotene [supplements], vitamin E [supplements], and possibly high doses of vitamin A supplements are harmful.” The authors added that other common vitamin supplements, such as “other antioxidants, folic acid and B vitamins, and multivitamin and mineral supplements” are ineffective when used by the general population for the purposes of improving health, living a longer life, or preventing chronic diseases.
The AIM panel said that while there may be exceptions for vitamin and supplement usage by certain small subgroups of the population, their conclusion was:
“supplementing the diet of well-nourished adults with (most) mineral or vitamin supplements has no clear benefit and might even be harmful. These vitamins should not be used for chronic disease prevention. Enough is enough.”
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