Afternoons with Relebogile Mabotja

EFF spokesperson Mbuyiseni Ndlozi joined Azania Mosaka on the show today for a light hearted conversation that steered away from politics. Mbuyiseni, also dubbed ‘the people’s bae’ revealed his taste in music, citing 2 Pac and the Notorious B.I.G and Riky Rick as some of his favourite rappers. To end off a wonderful interview, Mbuyiseni even sang for 702 landers.

Using existing statistics as well as new data, the research team considered how many units of alcohol, calories, cubic metres of space and brain stimulation each guest needs to achieve the perfect state of happiness. The project, also considered the type and style of food and drink people prefer, the importance of their surroundings, as well as the best way to communicate corporate messages.Industry professionals were given the opportunity to have their input at an Event Laboratory gathering at the museum where they were able to experiment with different drinks, food and environments.

In the first experimental study to find evidence that smartphone interruptions can increase levels of inattention and hyperactivity -- both symptoms of ADHD -- the University of Virginia carried out a two-week experimental study of 221 students at the University of British Columbia with a team of researchers from the University. However lead author of the study, Kostadin Kushlev, did stress that ADHD is a complex neurodevelopmental disorder, and is not simply a result of using a smartphone, adding, "The findings simply suggest that our constant digital stimulation may be contributing to an increasingly problematic deficit of attention in modern society."

The silent treatment may be a common response to conflict in relationships, but it is also one of the most destructive. The silent treatment is one form of "withdrawal" in a demand-withdrawal pattern, which occurs when one person asks or demands something, for example attention or affection, and their partner rejects these requests by refusing to engage or ceasing communication all together.

First coined by Dr Jon Kabat-Zinn from the University of Massachusetts Medical School, the term mindfulness was initially characterised as a state of mind that would enable someone to pay “attention on purpose” to the present moment. Modern secular society seems to have embraced it as a form of meditation. Everything from exercise to breathing now has an associated mindfulness manual attached.

Sleep apnea (AP-ne-ah) is a common disorder in which you have one or more pauses in breathing or shallow breaths while you sleep. Breathing pauses can last from a few seconds to minutes. They may occur 30 times or more an hour. Typically, normal breathing then starts again, sometimes with a loud snort or choking sound. Sleep apnea usually is a chronic (ongoing) condition that disrupts your sleep. When your breathing pauses or becomes shallow, you’ll often move out of deep sleep and into light sleep. As a result, the quality of your sleep is poor, which makes you tired during the day. Sleep apnea is a leading cause of excessive daytime sleepiness.

There is a commonly held view that eating disorders are a lifestyle choice. Eating disorders are actually serious and often fatal illnesses that cause severe disturbances to a person’s eating behaviors. Obsessions with food, body weight, and shape may also signal an eating disorder. Common eating disorders include anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating disorder.

The Panama investigation has  featured a network of like-minded journalists in a range of countries. The network has been built up over a series of multinational collaborations. Among the organisations involved are The Guardian and BBC TV's Panorama programme, which have a longstanding relationship with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) which is at the heart of this operation. The material is reported to have been leaked to the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung from the database of Mossack Fonseca, the world's fourth biggest offshore law firm.

University campuses are prime locations for rape culture. In the 1980s Mary Koss, an expert on gender-based violence, did a seminal study at 32 university campuses in the US. She found that university campuses are the perfect site for “sexual aggression and victimisation” of women because they are closed institutions, much like the military and prisons. People live, study, work and play in the same environment. A university campus is a closed environment with particular norms and practices to which its community is constantly exposed. Within such settings it is very hard to counter whatever is considered normal and acceptable.

Asthma is a chronic disease involving the airways in the lungs. These airways, or bronchial tubes, allow air to come in and out of the lungs. If you have asthma your airways are always inflamed. They become even more swollen and the muscles around the airways can tighten when something triggers your symptoms. This makes it difficult for air to move in and out of the lungs, causing symptoms such as coughing, wheezing, shortness of breath and/or chest tightness. For many asthma sufferers, timing of these symptoms is closely related to physical activity. And, some otherwise healthy people can develop asthma symptoms only when exercising.