Cancer

Nowadays there are more and more people who suffer cancer. It is one of the main causes of dead in the whole world, specially in Spain which is one of the most affected countries currently. It can be caused by some human actions or mainly by several factors of life.

Cancer can appear because of genetics, since if parents have any kind of cancer, it is very likely that their children will have this illness too.

Ageing is also another fundamental factor in the development of cancer. The incidence of this disease increases greatly with age, most likely because accumulate risk factors for certain cancers.

Another circumstance that cause cancer is the consume moderated of tobacco and alcohol that are very damage for lungs and kidneys.

In addition, most of food that we buy at the supermarket can cause cancer long-term, because all type of edible products are now plenty of chemicals like preservatives, colourants, etc. These are very harmful for our health. Therefore we have to be very aware of it.

Christmas recipe: quails in mandarin sauce and honey

            

Are you tired of eating the same food at Christmas? Do not worry. I am going to propose you a different dish to this day so special. When you think about Christmas dishes do not need to choose always the most expensive products of marked like for example the typical seafood. There are many ingredients that we usually use in our kitchen and we can give them a festive touch like these quails in mandarin sauce and honey.

Ingredients (for two people):

- 2 or 4 clean quails

- 2 medium mandarins

- 1/2 cup of broth

- 1/2 cup of white wine

- 2 tablespoons of honey

- 2 French onions

- 1 tablespoon of cornstarch

- pepper
- salt

- extra virgin olive oil.

Elaboration:

1. Wash and peel mandarins. Remove all the white part of the skin and chop into thin strips. Put in a saucepan with a finger of water, boil and strain. Repeat the operation. Replace the skins in a saucepan with honey and a pinch of salt. Heat over medium heat 2 minutes.

2. Add broth, wine and juice of the mandarins. Incorporate the onions cut into quarters, giving a blow pepper and cook over low heat 15 minutes. Peel while the remaining segments of the tangerine. Add to the sauce. Dissolve the cornstarch in cold water and then add to thicken.

3. Tie the quails' legs and cook them with a little olive oil in a frying pan or grilled until they are well browned on all sides. Serve with hot sauce to taste.

Elaboration time: 45 minutes

Difficulty: Easy

Stop dog's mistreatment

http://www.occupyforanimals.net/animal-abuse---how-to-report.html

     I am fed up with seeing on TV or on my own Facebook images of starving, injured, sad, deteriorated dogs because people who treat an animal like this are not human beings. These people should not exist. I do not know if I am against of this for loving so much dogs, but honestly I think that any person that posses use of reason would not be capable to harm an animal like dogs are. Really no matter what type of animal is, since this kind of beings mistreats any animal, but it is more widespread in dogs. When I see that pictures which I am talking to, I wonder: what blame have dogs had to finish of that way? Why? What type of being have been able to do that?

    Fortunately, the government has helped in many ways, since animals' mistreatment, specially dogs', is punishable with large amounts of money and even with jail. Furthermore, there are many animal protectors and lovers who are in charge of bringing up these animals which are mostly found almost lifeless. Thanks to people like these, dogs' life have more possibilities to survive, since most of them cannot be saved.

     I want to finish with a famous quote: dogs are the best friend of humans. Therefore, people that do this type of wild mistreatment are not a really human.

Spanish films

    I am not very keen on Spanish films because most of them have a senseless plot, sometimes difficult to follow and they usually are a copy of American movies. Moreover, they have a low cultural level and also a bad sense of humour.

    However, when people encouraged me to see the film '' ocho apellidos vascos''  last year, I was pretty surprised by it. This movie beat the record at  ticket office, since there were 9,5 million of viewers. It is a romantic comedy starred by Clara Lago (Amaia) and Dani Rovira (Rafa), Carmen Machi (Merche) and Karra Elejalde (Koldo) in which Rafa, a a Sevillian who has ever left of Andalusia, decides to leave his homeland to follow Amaia, a young Basque that resists their seduction techniques. To do this, and against the advice of his friends, he decides to travel to the town of her, Argoitia. A series of circumstances lead to the young Sevillian have to do as if he is a  Basque to achieve their purposes and marry to her.  

     I really like this film and so, last week I went to the cinema with my boyfriend to see the second part : ''Ocho apellidos catalanes''. I did not regret at all because it is as good as the first one. It has a lot of funny moments related to the Catalan context. Therefore, I recommend everybody to see it because it is worth.

I attach the trailers of the two films for whoever is interested in them.

                    ''Ocho apellidos vascos'' (First part)

                  ''Ocho apellidos catalanes'' (Second part)
         *Note: I have not found the trailer with English subtitles