Add all 36 cook­ies (with crème fill­ing) to a blender or food proces­sor and vanil­la essence and process for 2 min­utes or un­til a fine­ly crushed con­sis­ten­cy. Re­serve 1/4 cups of the mix­ture as a top­ping for the fin­ished truf­fles.

Kid­ney dis­ease is a non-com­mu­ni­ca­ble dis­ease (NCD) and cur­rent­ly af­fects around 850 mil­lion peo­ple world­wide. One in ten adults has chron­ic kid­ney dis­ease (CKD). The glob­al bur­den of CKD is in­creas­ing, and is pro­ject­ed to be­come the fifth most com­mon cause of years of life lost glob­al­ly by 2040.

The kid­neys are as es­sen­tial to life as the heart yet do not get as much ap­pre­ci­a­tion and love.

As the lead­ing cause of ir­re­versible blind­ness in the world, glau­co­ma re­mains a dev­as­tat­ing af­flic­tion of our times, and is grow­ing in the num­ber of peo­ple who are af­fect­ed.

World Glau­co­ma Week (March 8-14) aims to high­light the plight of glau­co­ma which is com­mon­ly called “The Silent Thief” as it can sud­den­ly and with­out symp­toms cause ir­re­versible vi­sion loss or blind­ness by dam­ag­ing the op­tic nerve, most times due to in­creased eye pres­sure.

Chron­ic kid­ney dis­ease is a com­mon health prob­lem in the Caribbean, more so in T&T, where it is the fourth lead­ing cause of death. A per­son is di­ag­nosed with chron­ic kid­ney dis­ease (CKD) if their kid­neys are not func­tion­ing op­ti­mal­ly, which can be in­di­cat­ed by ei­ther mi­croal­bu­min­uria (which means there are high lev­els of pro­tein in your urine be­cause the kid­ney is not work­ing well to fil­ter them out) or de­creas­ing glomeru­lar fil­tra­tion rate (GFR).

Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Gary Grif­fith an­nounced on Car­ni­val Tues­day that about 100 boys had been de­tained by po­lice over the Car­ni­val pe­ri­od.

In keep­ing with Cedar Grove Pri­vate School’s trend of ac­tiv­i­ties, the school’s ad­min­is­tra­tion host­ed its stu­dents to a Car­ni­val fun day with some tra­di­tion­al Car­ni­val cel­e­bra­tions of its own.

At the height of the car­ni­val fes­tiv­i­ties, PTSC and the Min­istry of Works and Trans­port gave the peo­ple of T&T yet an­oth­er rea­son to cel­e­brate and many more op­por­tu­ni­ties to con­nect. This is ac­cord­ing to Ian Galt, TSTT’s Gen­er­al Man­ag­er En­ter­prise Ser­vices, who spoke at the launch of PTSC’s free WiFi ini­tia­tive and the com­mis­sion­ing of 25 new bus­es to add to their fleet.

Salmon talka­ri (lo­cal­ly known as tal­cur­ry) com­bines yum­my salmon sauteed to­geth­er with whole­some veg­eta­bles and aro­mat­ic herbs such as thyme, pars­ley and and chives. Try out this ap­pe­tiz­ing recipe if you are in a pinch for time. Paired with hot sa­da roti or fluffy bas­mati rice and some lime pep­per sauce and you have got your­self a de­li­cious lo­cal meal to en­joy this Lent sea­son.

Every­one wants more mus­cles and less fat, how­ev­er, in or­der to build mus­cles you must un­der­stand the work­ings of the mus­cles, the types of mus­cles and what ac­tions could help to strength­en each type of mus­cle. There are more than 600 mus­cles in the hu­man body and they can be con­sid­ered the body’s en­gine since they turn en­er­gy in­to mo­tion. Mus­cles do every­thing from pump­ing blood to en­abling you to sit and stand. They per­mit lots of move­ment and main­tain pos­ture. Mus­cles are quite ef­fi­cient since they are long last­ing and they heal them­selves too.

Ac­cord­ing to the World Health Or­gan­i­sa­tion (WHO), “re­pro­duc­tive health is a state of com­plete phys­i­cal, men­tal and so­cial well-be­ing and not mere­ly the ab­sence of dis­ease or in­fir­mi­ty, in all mat­ters re­lat­ing to the re­pro­duc­tive sys­tem and to its func­tions and process­es.” There­fore, there are many fac­tors that af­fect the afore­men­tioned. Gen­er­al good health should not be tak­en light­ly as the ab­sence of it can have dire con­se­quences on women’s fer­til­i­ty.