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Shopping MALL - OPENS IN Paphos cyprus.

Paphos now has its very own Shopping mall for the first time… On Saturday 26th July, House President Marios Karoyian officially opened The Paphos Mall, which covers an area of 30,000 square meters at the entrance of Paphos, with retail space of 6,000 square meters and over 1,000 parking places, most of which are covered.

The Paphos Mall is easily accessible, situated on Demokratis Avenue, the main road connecting the Limassol highway with Kato Paphos / the Tourist area. This location in convenient for both visitors coming from Paphos, as well as people living in Paphos and coming from nearby towns and villages such as Polis, Peyia, Chloraka and Geroskipou.

Retail stores represent well known brands and chains, while its cafeteria is the first Costa Coffee to open in Paphos (7th in cyprus). One can enjoy Shopping and spend their money in the following stores: Orphanidies Hypermarket, Eye Deal Optical (Opticians), Germanos, Beauty Line, Scholl, BonBon, Kappa Kids, Calzedonia and Charles & Keith. A selection of restaurants will also be on the premises.

According to a press release, “The Paphos Mall has been especially designed to care for all the family’s needs and to become the single destination for a family outing. Furthermore, the meticulous design and careful selection, as well as the set up of its outlets, aims at attracting non-Cypriot customers as well.”

The opening week saw visitors being greeted by “many pleasant surprises, with a number of events held on the premises to entertain the public”.
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Shopping - http://www.hestia-group.com/news/2007/08/18/shopping-opening-hours/
Opticians - http://www.hestia-group.com/news/2008/03/06/opticians-in-cyprus/

Adopting just a couple of elements of the Mediterranean diet could cut the risk of cancer by 12%, say scientists. A study of 26,000 Greek people found just using more olive oil alone cut the risk by 9%. The diet, reports the British Journal of Cancer, also includes higher amounts of fruits, vegetables, cereals, and less red meat. A separate study found adding broccoli to meals might help men vulnerable to prostate cancer cut their risk.
 
The Mediterranean diet came under scrutiny after researchers noticed lower rates of illnesses such as heart disease in countries such as Spain, Greece and cyprus. They noticed that people living there generally ate more vegetables and fish, less red meat, cooked in olive oil and drank moderate amounts of alcohol. The latest study is one of the largest yet to look at the potential impact on cancer of the various parts of this diet.

Researchers from Harvard University persuaded thousands of Greek people of various ages to record their food intake over an eight-year-period. Their adherence to the Mediterranean diet was ranked using a scoring system, and the group with the worst score compared with those who followed a couple of aspects of the diet, and those who followed it the most closely.

The biggest effect they found - a 9% reduction in risk - was achieved simply by eating more “unsaturated” fats such as olive oil. But just two changes - eating less red meat, and more peas, beans and lentils, cut the risk of cancer by 12%.

Dr Dimitrios Trichopoulos, who led the study, said: “Adjusting one’s overall dietary habits towards the traditional Mediterranean pattern had an important effect.” Sara Hiom, from Cancer Research UK, said the research highlighted the importance of a healthy balanced diet. “It shows there are a number of things you can do, and there is no one ’superfood’ that can stop you developing the disease.”

The other study suggesting that food had the power to prevent cancer came from the Institute of Food Research in Norwich. Scientists compared the effects of adding 400 grams of broccoli or peas a week to the diet of men at high risk of prostate cancer - and in the case of broccoli found differences in the activity of genes in the prostate which other studies have linked to cancer.

Their findings raised the possibility that broccoli, or other “cruciferous” vegetables, such as cauliflower and Brussels sprouts, could help prevent or slow down the disease, particularly if the man had a particular gene variant - GSTM1. Professor Richard Mithen, who led the research, published in the Public Library of Science journal, said: “Eating two or three portions of cruciferous vegetables per week, and maybe a few more if you lack the GSTM1 gene - should be encouraged.”

Professor Karol Sikora, medical director of CancerPartnersUK, said the study was the first time in a properly controlled clinical trial that broccoli had been shown to change the expression of specific genes in the prostate gland. “Although the observation period was too short and the numbers too small to show that the incidence of cancer actually fell, it is the first clear demonstration that broccoli and presumably other cruciferous vegetables may well reduce cancer risk.”
This article was reported on BBC news, 2nd July 08.

The Karpas wild donkeys are seen as a symbol of cyprus. Recently both Greek and Turkish Cypriots have united together on their divided island to save these endangered wild donkeys… The initiative was launched by a group of people on the social networking website ‘Facebook’ after discovering 10 donkeys were found shot dead at the end of March 2008. “Let’s stop the massacre of Karpas donkeys!” says a message from the group, which has already attracted more than 2,000 members to date. The Karpas Peninsula in Northern cyprus is home to several hundred donkeys.

The Facebook group says the Karpas donkeys “are the symbol of cyprus and it is our responsibility to protect them”. The messages which are posted in both Greek and Turkish, are a new gesture of unity on the island, whose communities remain divided by a UN-patrolled buffer zone.

A group of Greek and Turkish Cypriots rallied on a beach in the Karpas Peninsula on 13 April to “Save the cyprus donkey“. The Karpas donkeys are a legacy of the 1974 Turkish invasion of northern cyprus, when Greek Cypriot farmers fled the area, leaving their animals behind, the AFP news agency reports.
 
This article was reported on BBC news, 22nd April 08.