以下是曾裕真老師所編著的好話。不只適合小孩，大人也可以從中獲利呢！真心與大家分享
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慈濟教師聯誼會曾裕真編著
一、生活
好孩子要惜福，把飯吃光光。
生活有規矩，自己收玩具。
零嘴浪費錢，挑嘴不健康。
常常洗小手，細菌遠離我。
花木長滿地，不折才美麗。
髒話不好聽，土話沒品行。
青菜最營養，多吃保健康。
有飯有菜真美味，懂事寶寶自己餵。
躺著看電視，不雅觀、會近視。
糖果餅乾吃多多，蛀牙痛痛不好過。
二、合群
打人就是打自己，罵人就是罵自己。
輕聲細語，不發脾氣。
上學好有趣，同學像兄弟。
常笑笑、人緣好，愛哭哭、惹人跑。
我們要自愛，才會惹人愛。
生氣好可怕，張牙又舞爪。
說話音量放低低，懂事有禮笑嘻嘻。
同學像家人，不分你我他。
見人一定打招呼，禮貌周到我在乎。
多讓弟弟不吃虧，尊敬哥哥我最會。
小菩薩在一起，常說請、謝謝、對不起。
三、感恩
父母真偉大，把我養大大。
老師好辛苦，教導又照顧。
師長教訓我，因為他愛我。
每天平安歡喜，感謝父母天地。
有菜又有米，向農夫敬禮。
阿公阿婆年紀大，按摩搥背說我棒。
一飯一物一衣，來得不容易要珍惜。
別人幫助我，感恩說謝謝。
四、助人
幫助別人，別人幫我。
能服務，最幸福。
少買一種玩具，多救一個難民。
不是我的事，我也去幫忙。
看到別人的缺點，不要張揚要幫忙。
幫忙別人真快樂，大家一起笑呵呵。
五、原諒
原諒別人，快樂自己。
取笑別人不禮貌，別人笑我不計較。
小朋友打我，不是故意笑一笑。
同學對我發脾氣，扮個笑臉不生氣。
六、勇氣
勇於認錯就沒錯，承認說謊心不慌。
愚公移山真好聽，學他精神一定贏。
做錯事很正常，有勇氣不再犯。
揮棒落空三振啦，再接再厲全壘打。
七、虛心
別人有優點，我要向他學。
我是好小孩，別人也不差。
題目雖簡單，用心再看看。
龜兔賽跑誰得勝，謙虛一點事必成。
八、誠實
放羊孩子真不乖，說謊欺騙沒人愛。
偷偷拿錢錢，罰站很丟臉。
不欺騙不說謊，像朵清靜小蓮花。
謊話像曇花，美麗卻短暫。
誠實是個好習慣，模範寶寶人人讚。
九、愛心
愛護小動物，牠痛我也痛。
非洲兒童餓又冷，看了心酸又不忍。
戰場兒童沒爹娘，珍惜幸福多想想。
玩弄小蟲和螞蟻，換成是你可願意。
十、惜時
時間滴答過，分秒要把握。
時間很可貴，不能無所謂。
今天功課今天作，明天還有事要做。
有錢可買大時鐘，卻買不到一秒鐘。
花而謝了會再開，光陰過了不再來。
Friday, November 26, 2010
Friday, October 22, 2010
Harmony Prebiotic - Food for the Friendly Bacteria
异麦芽低 聚糖 （Isomalto-oligosaccharide）
Inroduction
Isomalto-oligosaccharide promotes the growth of bifidobacterium genus in human body. It’s water-soluble, low caloric value and anti-caries properties make it commonly used as functional oligosaccharide.
Main Functions:
• Improves constipation and diarrhea
When the Isomalto-oligosaccharide is ingested, friendly bacteria in the body will increase in quantity by 10-1000 times. At the same time it produces short chain fatty acids such as acetic acid and lactic acids, forming a slight acidic environment for normal intestinal function while controlling the production and growth of external bacteria or bacteria from putrefaction process in the intestine. This reduces the growth and accumulation of toxin in intestines, improves bowel movement, cleans up waste materials in the bowel, prevent and improve constipation, diarrhea and hemorrhoids.
• Lowers Blood Pressure and Blood Lipids Level
The Harmony Prebiotic is made of quality water-soluble fiber. It can effectively lower serum cholesterol, triglycerides, free-radical in the blood. It is especially suitable for improving problems such as high-blood-pressure due to high lipids in the blood, arteriosclerosis and other cardiovascular diseases.
• Protects liver
When the bifidobacterium consume the Harmony Prebiotic, it can control the activities of putrefaction process by harmful bacteria, reduce production of toxin from the harmful bacteria’s metabolism, eliminate the toxin speedily, and thus reduce the stress on liver and protect liver’s function. All these resulted in effective prevention of chronic diseases, cancer and etc.
• Detoxification and beauty
The Harmony Prebiotic is able to prevent and improve skin problems such as pimples, pigmentation, freckles, acnes due to toxicity in body, resulting in glowing skin and slow down skin aging.
• Promotes formation of vitamins
Harmony Prebiotic promotes natural formation of vitamin B-complex and folic acid, increase metabolism, strengthen immune system and increase resistance to disease
• Promotes assimilation of minerals such as calcium, magnesium and zinc
Harmony Prebiotic promotes assimilation of calcium, magnesium, zinc and other minerals as well as protein from food. It improves indigestion and promotes growth and prevents osteoporosis.
• Prevents obesity and high blood sugar
Harmony Prebiotic will not be digestion by hydrochloric acids and digestive enzymes in gastrointestinal tract, and it will not be absorbed by the body. There is no fattening effect after ingested. The sweet taste will not affect metabolism of sugar and lipid, hence it is the best health product for diabetic patients and obese people.
• Anti-cariogenic (prevents tooth decay)
Harmony Prebiotic will not be utilized by microorganism such as Streptococus mutant in the oral system, thus it has the effect of anti-caries.
Suitable for those who have:
• Constipation, diarrhea, indigestion
• Imbalance micro-flora in the bowel due to antibiotic
• Pregnant ladies, lactation mothers, children who have stomach upset
• Children with calcium deficiency, nutrient deficiency, choosy eating habit or slow development
• Those with bad breath, dull skin, pimples, and lots of skin pigmentation
• Cancer patient receiving radioactive or chemotherapy treatment, major diseases, weakness after long-term disease.
• Those who have diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity, arteriosclerosis, caries problem.
Serving suggestion
Serve method: can be mixed with warm water, or add to any liquid food. Best eaten with empty stomach, both in the morning and evening.
Serve quantity: for health maintenance – 9g/day, for healing – 18g-27g/day
Quantity varies for each person, watch out for the texture of stools, best guideline is to achieve smooth defecation and soft stools.
Extras:
Baby >1yr, ½ tsp, 4 servings a day
Adult with bowel movement problem, 40g a day for 3 months
Adult who eat lots of fruit, 30g a day
Helps hemorrhoids -> poor bowel movement cause vein under pressure and expand or if serious, protrude out from skin. Prebiotic improves bowel movement, removes the pressure and let veins slowly recover its flexibility and heal hemorrhoids.
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Omega-3 - the Essential Fatty Acids
Recently I read an article from Victoria Boutenko about greens and omega-3, and I found the answer to why Essential Fatty Acids (EFA) are important yet when over-consuming oily stuffs, we can have lots of health problems including diabetes. All these are about the ratio of omega-3 and omega-6 consumption and the state of the EFA (fresh or rancid).
While I was taking my Holistic Nutrition many years ago, I was taught that we must make sure the ratio of omega-3 and omega-6 is balanced. If the ratio is off-balance, we will have many problems to our health, mentally and physically in addition to the ability to handle pain. But the course was not thorough enough (or may be the research was not published yet...?) about the reason behind it.
In our modern society, there are many sources of EFA-rich food, such as almond nuts, walnut, sesame seeds, olive oil etc. However, their amount of omega-3 is less than Omega-6. If we only consume these products we might end up eating more omega-6 than we need and still lack of Omega-3.
I had a friend asked me once, where should we get more of the omega-3 from food other than fish/fish oil (even fishes from fish farms are being fed grain which are rich in omega-6). I had only one answer that time -- Flaxseed/flaxseed oil. But I usually received the same response: the flaxseed has less-than-pleasant-taste plus it gone rancid easily and flaxseed oil was not easily available that time.
Now, we know there are have more omega-3 rich food easily available to us -- Greens and chia seeds. Greens are easily available from any market, and chia seeds are getting more popular and easily available now. Try to include more raw greens in our diet by blending green smoothies everyday (read http://footprint-of-life.blogspot.com/2010/08/my-fav-green-smoothies.html for some tips of making green smoothie). In addition, you can add chia seeds to your drinking water to let it soaked and consume all day (read http://footprint-of-life.blogspot.com/2010/08/chia-seeds-superfood.html for the benefits of chia). Its easy and convenient to have more healthy omega-3 in our life now.
The benefits of increasing your omega-3 intake included but not limited to:
* reduce cholesterol level in blood
* lower high blood pressure
* increase physical agility
* improve mental clarity
* improve depression, anxiety and mood disorders
* prevent obesity and diabetes and etc
Well, you can still consume nuts and seeds (including the tasty almond milk!!). Just need to remember moderate is the key to health, and try to balance out with more chia seeds and greens that are rich in Omega-3 and you will do fine!
More info from Victoria Boutenko's at http://www.rawfamily.com/newsletters/green-for-life-2nd-edition
While I was taking my Holistic Nutrition many years ago, I was taught that we must make sure the ratio of omega-3 and omega-6 is balanced. If the ratio is off-balance, we will have many problems to our health, mentally and physically in addition to the ability to handle pain. But the course was not thorough enough (or may be the research was not published yet...?) about the reason behind it.
In our modern society, there are many sources of EFA-rich food, such as almond nuts, walnut, sesame seeds, olive oil etc. However, their amount of omega-3 is less than Omega-6. If we only consume these products we might end up eating more omega-6 than we need and still lack of Omega-3.
I had a friend asked me once, where should we get more of the omega-3 from food other than fish/fish oil (even fishes from fish farms are being fed grain which are rich in omega-6). I had only one answer that time -- Flaxseed/flaxseed oil. But I usually received the same response: the flaxseed has less-than-pleasant-taste plus it gone rancid easily and flaxseed oil was not easily available that time.
Now, we know there are have more omega-3 rich food easily available to us -- Greens and chia seeds. Greens are easily available from any market, and chia seeds are getting more popular and easily available now. Try to include more raw greens in our diet by blending green smoothies everyday (read http://footprint-of-life.blogspot.com/2010/08/my-fav-green-smoothies.html for some tips of making green smoothie). In addition, you can add chia seeds to your drinking water to let it soaked and consume all day (read http://footprint-of-life.blogspot.com/2010/08/chia-seeds-superfood.html for the benefits of chia). Its easy and convenient to have more healthy omega-3 in our life now.
The benefits of increasing your omega-3 intake included but not limited to:
* reduce cholesterol level in blood
* lower high blood pressure
* increase physical agility
* improve mental clarity
* improve depression, anxiety and mood disorders
* prevent obesity and diabetes and etc
Well, you can still consume nuts and seeds (including the tasty almond milk!!). Just need to remember moderate is the key to health, and try to balance out with more chia seeds and greens that are rich in Omega-3 and you will do fine!
More info from Victoria Boutenko's at http://www.rawfamily.com/newsletters/green-for-life-2nd-edition
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Harmony Prebiotic - Food for the Friendly Bacteria
异麦芽低 聚糖 （Isomalto-oligosaccharide）
简 介
异麦芽低聚糖又称分歧低聚糖，由于其可促使人体内的双歧杆菌显著增殖，具水溶性膳食纤维功能，热值低、防龋齿等特性，所以是种应用 广泛的功能性低聚糖。
功能主治
双向调节便秘和腹泻：
人体摄入本品后，体内有益菌菌群双歧杆菌数量可增值10-100倍，同时产生醋酸 乳酸等短链脂肪酸，形成肠道正常工作的弱酸环境，抑制外源致病菌和肠内固有腐败细菌的生长繁殖，减少肠内腐败物质的生长和积累，促进肠道蠕动，清除肠道垃 圾，防止和改善便秘、腹泻和痔疮。
降低血脂、血压：
本品作为一种优良的水溶性膳 食纤维，能有效降低血清胆固醇、甘油三酯、游离脂肪酸的数量，对于因血脂高而引起的高血压、动脉硬化等一系列心血管疾病有较好的改善作用。
保护肝脏：
双歧杆菌吸收本品后迅速增值，抑制腐败细菌发生作用，减少毒性代谢物的生成，并迅速将其排出体外，减轻肝脏负担，起到保护肝脏的作用，预防各种慢性病、癌症等作用明显。
排毒养颜：
它可有效预防和改善由于体内毒素而引起的面疮、黑斑、雀斑、青春痘、老年斑，使皮肤亮丽，老化减缓。
促进维生素的合成：
它可有效促进b族维生素及叶酸的自然形成，提高机体新陈代谢水平，增强免疫力和抗病力。
促进钙、镁、锌等矿物质吸收：
它可促进食物中钙、镁、锌等矿物质及蛋白质的吸收，改善营养不良，促进发育及预防骨质 疏松症。
防止肥胖和血糖升高：
它极少会被消化道中的胃酸和酶分解，极难被人体吸 收。摄入后，不会引起肥胖，有甜味且对糖和脂类代谢无影响，是糖尿病人、肥胖者最理想的健康食品之一。
防止龋齿:
它不被突变链球菌等口腔微生物利用，具有防龋齿功效。
适合人群
*功能性便秘、腹泻，消化不良者
*因服用抗生素引起 的肠道菌群失调者
*孕产妇、哺乳期妇女、儿童肠胃不适者
*缺钙、营养不良、偏食、发育迟缓的儿童
*口臭、面无光泽、暗疮、黑褐斑多者
*癌症放化疗及大病、久病后体质虚弱者
*糖尿病、高血压、肥胖症、动脉硬化、龋 齿患者。
食用方法及食用量
*食用方法：本品可以温开水冲服，也可放入流质食物中。早晚空腹食用效果更佳。
*食用量:保健用量9克/日，功能用量18克-27克 /日。由于每人体质条件不同，具体用量以排便通畅，粪便松软为好。
Probiotic - the friendly bacteria
Question:
What is friendly bacteria?
Answer:
friendly bacteria is uni-cell microorganism resides in the digestive tract, vaginal and urinary tract that helps in digestion, assimilation and metabolism. They can exist individually, in pairs or in short-chain. Friendly bacteria competes with harmful bacteria for nutrients and space in the digestive system, hence it can be the first defense barrier against diseases for human body.
Question:
What types of friendly bacteria are there in human's gut?
Answer:
Most of the friendly bacteria in human’s digestive system are Lactobacillus genus and Bifidobacterium genus. Lactobacillus usually resides and moves around in intestines and stomach. Most commonly found species are acidophilus species and bulgaricus species.
Bifidobacterium genus mostly resides and moves around in colon. Most commonly found species are bifidum species and infantis species.
Lactobacillus genus converts lactose to lactic acid that plays a role as the disinfectant of digestive system and helps in assimilation of calcium and phosphorus from the milk products.
Bifidobacterium genus competes with harmful bacteria for nutrients and space. It provides an acidic environment that are not conducive to the harmful bacteria by producing acetic acids and lactic acid.
Translate from:
http://www.natrenasia.com/questions.asp
What is friendly bacteria?
Answer:
friendly bacteria is uni-cell microorganism resides in the digestive tract, vaginal and urinary tract that helps in digestion, assimilation and metabolism. They can exist individually, in pairs or in short-chain. Friendly bacteria competes with harmful bacteria for nutrients and space in the digestive system, hence it can be the first defense barrier against diseases for human body.
Question:
What types of friendly bacteria are there in human's gut?
Answer:
Most of the friendly bacteria in human’s digestive system are Lactobacillus genus and Bifidobacterium genus. Lactobacillus usually resides and moves around in intestines and stomach. Most commonly found species are acidophilus species and bulgaricus species.
Bifidobacterium genus mostly resides and moves around in colon. Most commonly found species are bifidum species and infantis species.
Lactobacillus genus converts lactose to lactic acid that plays a role as the disinfectant of digestive system and helps in assimilation of calcium and phosphorus from the milk products.
Bifidobacterium genus competes with harmful bacteria for nutrients and space. It provides an acidic environment that are not conducive to the harmful bacteria by producing acetic acids and lactic acid.
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Wednesday, September 29, 2010
SIMILAC Infant Formula Over 50% Sugars
I have heard that most of the infant formulas in the market contain lots of sugar, but I didn't really dig on it to find out how much, nor did I expect that it would be more than 50%!
Similac, I used to think that being such highly recommended brand by pediatrician, should be better in nutritional quality than the others. I could never have been more wrong. While this is about Similac in America (not sure where our Similac is manufactured), but I don't think the formula will be much different for those Similac that we have here in Malaysia.
Every breastfeeding mothers out there, please keep up the good job in breastfeeding your baby, you are providing your child the best start in the world!
Below is the whole article from Mike Adam.
http://www.naturalnews.com/029863_Similac_infant_formula.html
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It's not the bugs in Similac that make me sick - let's recall the other ingredients (opinion)
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
(NaturalNews) It has been a few days since Abbott Laboratories, makers of Similac infant formula, issued a recall after discovering some of its products may have been contaminated with beetles (and beetle larvae). The mainstream media ran with this story and parents everywhere suddenly got concerned that their babies might be drinking beetle parts.
But are beetles really the scariest thing in Similac? Not by a long shot if you know anything about nutrition.
I purchased a 24-oz container of Similac Go & Grow soy-based formula, emblazoned with a cute teddy bear on the front label and positioned towards "9 to 24 months." It comes with the claim "balanced nutrition for older babies." But is it really balanced nutrition?
42.6% corn syrup solids
The very first ingredient, shown right on the label, is 42.6% CORN SYRUP SOLIDS.
I took a picture of the ingredients label so you can see it for yourself. Click here to see the pic: http://naturalnews.com/images/Similac-Label-Ingredients.jpg
Stop right there. Are they saying that Similac infant formula is 42.6% corn syrup solids? That's a form of highly processed sugar. Is this really what infants need -- nearly half their formula to be made of corn syrup sugars? Nutritionists would strongly disagree.
But it gets even better: The next ingredient is 14.7% SOY PROTEIN ISOLATE. Most soy protein, as NaturalNews readers already know, is derived from a hexane chemical extraction process that we've covered in previous articles: http://www.naturalnews.com/026303_soy_protein_hexane.html
Beyond the hexane question, did you know that 91% of the soy fields grown in America contain genetically modified soy? The Similac can does not say "non-GMO soy" because it's not required to be put on the label (thanks to the FDA shell game). But Consumer Reports actually bought and tested infant formula for genetically engineered DNA and found that Similac was using GMO soy in their products. (http://www.consumersunion.org/food/gefny999.htm)
The next ingredient in the Similac can I bought is 11.5% HIGH OLEIC SAFFLOWER OIL, followed by 10.1% SUGAR (SUCROSE).
If you're doing the math on this, that makes Similac 52.7% sugar (corn syrup solids plus the sucrose) with soy protein. I can hardly think of a better way to raise diabetic, obese children than to feed them a diet that's over 50 percent sugar. It also seems like a great way to get infants addicted to sugar -- a curse that will haunt them through the rest of their lives.
Next on the list is 8.4% SOY OIL (most likely from GMO soybeans, too) and then 7.8% COCONUT OIL (which is, in my opinion, the only healthy ingredient in the entire product).
Basically, then, this Similac product is sugared-up soy protein with safflower and soy oil.
Plus it has some chemical "vitamins" on the label such as CYANOCOBALAMIN, the cheapest form of vitamin B-12 available to food manufacturers. It actually binds the vitamin to a cyanide molecule, just in case you were wondering.
As wikipedia explains, "B12 refers to a group of cobalt-containing vitamer compounds known as cobalamins: these include cyanocobalamin (an artifact formed as a result of the use of cyanide in the purification procedures)."
It then adds, "the cyanocobalamin form of B12 does not occur in nature normally, but is a byproduct of the fact that other forms of B12 are avid binders of cyanide (-CN) which they pick up in the process of activated charcoal purification of the vitamin after it is made by bacteria in the commercial process. Since the cyanocobalamin form of B12 is easy to crystallize and is not sensitive to air-oxidation, it is typically used as a form of B12 for food additives and in many common multivitamins." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_B12)
Why Similac should have been recalled long before the beetle incident
With this in mind, what we really have with Similac infant formula is powered sugars, genetically modified soy protein, more sugar, safflower and soy oils, a bit of coconut oil and some vitamin chemicals made with cyanide molecules. They also throw in some DHA to make moms think it must somehow resemble breast milk fats.
Are you beginning to see why the beetles are the least of the problems with this product?
Keep in mind that ignorant moms are feeding this stuff to their babies every single day! They think it's good for their babies because they don't take the time to read ingredient labels (or they are unable to understand what the labels mean). But make no mistake: I can't think of a single informed nutritionist who would recommend feeding babies a powder that's more than 50% sugar combined with genetically modified soy protein. To do so is actually nutritional child abuse in my view.
That's why I say Similac should be recalled just based on what's on the label! In my opinion, this is a dangerous combination of sugars and genetically modified ingredients that are likely to promote diabetes, obesity and nutritional imbalances in babies. To feed this to babies is to nutritionally cause them harm, in my opinion... and to think that Abbott Laboratories is making money selling this sugared-up GMO soy protein to consumers just makes me sick.
I think their slogan should be something like, "Similac - Creating tomorrow's diabetics, one baby at a time."
See the ingredients label yourself right here: http://naturalnews.com/images/Similac-Label-Ingredients.jpg
Help spread the word
Please share this story and send it to moms, dads and anyone who has an infant. Don't let them feed their babies sugars and GMO soy protein!
You have my permission to post this story in full, but please give credit back to this page on NaturalNews.com and cite Mike Adams as the author.
We need to reach all the parents who are buying Similac and unknowingly feeding their babies corn syrup solids, GMO soy protein, soy oil, sucrose and other ingredients that I consider to be "pure junk." No society should allow this junk to be fed to their babies, especially if they're trying to prevent obesity, diabetes, heart disease and other chronic health problems that are already bankrupting the nation.
In my opinion, Similac might be the perfect product to raise a generation of Big Pharma customers who will need a whole battery of prescription drugs to "treat" all the degenerative health conditions caused by eating dead, processed, sugared-up and genetically modified foods. To imagine that this could somehow be a replacement for the rich, complex nutritional abundance of mother's milk is nutritionally insane.
Ridiculously overpriced
With Similac, there's also the price issue. Considering how cheap these ingredients are, this product seems ridiculously overpriced. If you really wanted to feed your baby something almost identical to this, you could just buy your own table sugar (cheaper than dirt), isolated soy protein (also cheaper than dirt), safflower oil (almost cheaper than dirt) and some coconut oil or flax oil (not so cheap, but you don't need to use much) then mix it all up and add water.
But what mom in her right mind would do such a crazy thing? No mom in her right mind would mix up 50% table sugar in a bottle and feed it to her baby, but that's essentially what she's doing when feeding her baby this variety of Similac that I purchased.
Nutritional insanity has reached a new low with Similac, I submit, and the beetles are the least of the problems with this product line that borders on "nutritional child abuse."
There should seriously be a law against infant formula being made with corn syrup solids and sucrose, not to mention GMO ingredients.
Spread the word, folks. That's the only way people will find out the truth about this and start choosing something that's healthier for their babies. If we hope to have healthy adults in the future, we have to stop nutritionally abusing them when they're infants.
Similac, I used to think that being such highly recommended brand by pediatrician, should be better in nutritional quality than the others. I could never have been more wrong. While this is about Similac in America (not sure where our Similac is manufactured), but I don't think the formula will be much different for those Similac that we have here in Malaysia.
Every breastfeeding mothers out there, please keep up the good job in breastfeeding your baby, you are providing your child the best start in the world!
Below is the whole article from Mike Adam.
http://www.naturalnews.com/029863_Similac_infant_formula.html
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It's not the bugs in Similac that make me sick - let's recall the other ingredients (opinion)
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
(NaturalNews) It has been a few days since Abbott Laboratories, makers of Similac infant formula, issued a recall after discovering some of its products may have been contaminated with beetles (and beetle larvae). The mainstream media ran with this story and parents everywhere suddenly got concerned that their babies might be drinking beetle parts.
But are beetles really the scariest thing in Similac? Not by a long shot if you know anything about nutrition.
I purchased a 24-oz container of Similac Go & Grow soy-based formula, emblazoned with a cute teddy bear on the front label and positioned towards "9 to 24 months." It comes with the claim "balanced nutrition for older babies." But is it really balanced nutrition?
42.6% corn syrup solids
The very first ingredient, shown right on the label, is 42.6% CORN SYRUP SOLIDS.
I took a picture of the ingredients label so you can see it for yourself. Click here to see the pic: http://naturalnews.com/images/Similac-Label-Ingredients.jpg
Stop right there. Are they saying that Similac infant formula is 42.6% corn syrup solids? That's a form of highly processed sugar. Is this really what infants need -- nearly half their formula to be made of corn syrup sugars? Nutritionists would strongly disagree.
But it gets even better: The next ingredient is 14.7% SOY PROTEIN ISOLATE. Most soy protein, as NaturalNews readers already know, is derived from a hexane chemical extraction process that we've covered in previous articles: http://www.naturalnews.com/026303_soy_protein_hexane.html
Beyond the hexane question, did you know that 91% of the soy fields grown in America contain genetically modified soy? The Similac can does not say "non-GMO soy" because it's not required to be put on the label (thanks to the FDA shell game). But Consumer Reports actually bought and tested infant formula for genetically engineered DNA and found that Similac was using GMO soy in their products. (http://www.consumersunion.org/food/gefny999.htm)
The next ingredient in the Similac can I bought is 11.5% HIGH OLEIC SAFFLOWER OIL, followed by 10.1% SUGAR (SUCROSE).
If you're doing the math on this, that makes Similac 52.7% sugar (corn syrup solids plus the sucrose) with soy protein. I can hardly think of a better way to raise diabetic, obese children than to feed them a diet that's over 50 percent sugar. It also seems like a great way to get infants addicted to sugar -- a curse that will haunt them through the rest of their lives.
Next on the list is 8.4% SOY OIL (most likely from GMO soybeans, too) and then 7.8% COCONUT OIL (which is, in my opinion, the only healthy ingredient in the entire product).
Basically, then, this Similac product is sugared-up soy protein with safflower and soy oil.
Plus it has some chemical "vitamins" on the label such as CYANOCOBALAMIN, the cheapest form of vitamin B-12 available to food manufacturers. It actually binds the vitamin to a cyanide molecule, just in case you were wondering.
As wikipedia explains, "B12 refers to a group of cobalt-containing vitamer compounds known as cobalamins: these include cyanocobalamin (an artifact formed as a result of the use of cyanide in the purification procedures)."
It then adds, "the cyanocobalamin form of B12 does not occur in nature normally, but is a byproduct of the fact that other forms of B12 are avid binders of cyanide (-CN) which they pick up in the process of activated charcoal purification of the vitamin after it is made by bacteria in the commercial process. Since the cyanocobalamin form of B12 is easy to crystallize and is not sensitive to air-oxidation, it is typically used as a form of B12 for food additives and in many common multivitamins." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_B12)
Why Similac should have been recalled long before the beetle incident
With this in mind, what we really have with Similac infant formula is powered sugars, genetically modified soy protein, more sugar, safflower and soy oils, a bit of coconut oil and some vitamin chemicals made with cyanide molecules. They also throw in some DHA to make moms think it must somehow resemble breast milk fats.
Are you beginning to see why the beetles are the least of the problems with this product?
Keep in mind that ignorant moms are feeding this stuff to their babies every single day! They think it's good for their babies because they don't take the time to read ingredient labels (or they are unable to understand what the labels mean). But make no mistake: I can't think of a single informed nutritionist who would recommend feeding babies a powder that's more than 50% sugar combined with genetically modified soy protein. To do so is actually nutritional child abuse in my view.
That's why I say Similac should be recalled just based on what's on the label! In my opinion, this is a dangerous combination of sugars and genetically modified ingredients that are likely to promote diabetes, obesity and nutritional imbalances in babies. To feed this to babies is to nutritionally cause them harm, in my opinion... and to think that Abbott Laboratories is making money selling this sugared-up GMO soy protein to consumers just makes me sick.
I think their slogan should be something like, "Similac - Creating tomorrow's diabetics, one baby at a time."
See the ingredients label yourself right here: http://naturalnews.com/images/Similac-Label-Ingredients.jpg
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Please share this story and send it to moms, dads and anyone who has an infant. Don't let them feed their babies sugars and GMO soy protein!
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We need to reach all the parents who are buying Similac and unknowingly feeding their babies corn syrup solids, GMO soy protein, soy oil, sucrose and other ingredients that I consider to be "pure junk." No society should allow this junk to be fed to their babies, especially if they're trying to prevent obesity, diabetes, heart disease and other chronic health problems that are already bankrupting the nation.
In my opinion, Similac might be the perfect product to raise a generation of Big Pharma customers who will need a whole battery of prescription drugs to "treat" all the degenerative health conditions caused by eating dead, processed, sugared-up and genetically modified foods. To imagine that this could somehow be a replacement for the rich, complex nutritional abundance of mother's milk is nutritionally insane.
Ridiculously overpriced
With Similac, there's also the price issue. Considering how cheap these ingredients are, this product seems ridiculously overpriced. If you really wanted to feed your baby something almost identical to this, you could just buy your own table sugar (cheaper than dirt), isolated soy protein (also cheaper than dirt), safflower oil (almost cheaper than dirt) and some coconut oil or flax oil (not so cheap, but you don't need to use much) then mix it all up and add water.
But what mom in her right mind would do such a crazy thing? No mom in her right mind would mix up 50% table sugar in a bottle and feed it to her baby, but that's essentially what she's doing when feeding her baby this variety of Similac that I purchased.
Nutritional insanity has reached a new low with Similac, I submit, and the beetles are the least of the problems with this product line that borders on "nutritional child abuse."
There should seriously be a law against infant formula being made with corn syrup solids and sucrose, not to mention GMO ingredients.
Spread the word, folks. That's the only way people will find out the truth about this and start choosing something that's healthier for their babies. If we hope to have healthy adults in the future, we have to stop nutritionally abusing them when they're infants.
Monday, September 27, 2010
Truth About Pesticides and GMO
Came across this video, speech from an 11-year-old boy. In the video below he breaks things down about our food system and nails it! An 11-year-old understands the value of health and try to do something about it, are we adults willing to make the change?
More information at the url below:
http://www.bewellbuzz.com/general/truth-pesticides-gmo/
An 11 Year Old Who Gets It!
More information at the url below:
http://www.bewellbuzz.com/general/truth-pesticides-gmo/
An 11 Year Old Who Gets It!
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Is supplement our friend or foe?
Supplements are so common now a days that we find a lot of people consume supplements daily. And the types of supplements usually we can find from the stores included antioxidant, single nutrient supplements, vitamins etc. But do all these supplements provide benefits to our body? Or will it bring harm to us?
This article from the link below was published few months ago, with the finding of high doses of artificial antioxidant being able to increase genetic abnormalities in cell that brings to cancer development.
Copy the link to read the whole article:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/100504173821.htm
Does that mean that we should not take supplements at all? Actually, supplements are encouraged by many parties in view of the highly polluted environment that we are staying in, in addition to the nutrient-poor + chemical-rich foods that we are ingesting in the modern world.
However, we should educate ourselves with the correct knowledge in choosing those supplements that works best with the nature of our body. Whole food, natural source type of supplement should be chosen, instead of artificial or extracted type of supplements.
Why choose natural whole food supplements? Simply due to our body recognizes only natural whole food and regards everything else as foreigners. When body recognizes the food, it will be able to tell the relevant system to produce the right enzymes and co-enzymes for the digestion and assimilation. If we ingest the artificially produced type of 'food', our body will regard it as foreign particle and will trigger the defense system of our body to be on guard and ready to get rid of it. In other words, the artificial supplement will trigger such stressful response instead of bringing us the benefits that we expect when we consume it. When its quantity is over the threshold of our body to handle it or when our body is too stressful after long time of handling it, it causes all sort of dis-ease and problem.
Usually we choose the natural whole food supplements that are categorized as superfoods, or foods that are densely packed with nutrients, antioxidant and phytochemicals, such as spirulina, chia seeds, maca powder, berries, chlorella, fruits/fruits powder, wheatgrass juice/powder, alfafa greens, cruciferous greens and etc. Let foods become not only our fuel and eating pleasure, but also our natural medicine. The nature has it all.
When we befriended nature, natural whole food supplements become our greatest friends!
This article from the link below was published few months ago, with the finding of high doses of artificial antioxidant being able to increase genetic abnormalities in cell that brings to cancer development.
Copy the link to read the whole article:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/100504173821.htm
Does that mean that we should not take supplements at all? Actually, supplements are encouraged by many parties in view of the highly polluted environment that we are staying in, in addition to the nutrient-poor + chemical-rich foods that we are ingesting in the modern world.
However, we should educate ourselves with the correct knowledge in choosing those supplements that works best with the nature of our body. Whole food, natural source type of supplement should be chosen, instead of artificial or extracted type of supplements.
Why choose natural whole food supplements? Simply due to our body recognizes only natural whole food and regards everything else as foreigners. When body recognizes the food, it will be able to tell the relevant system to produce the right enzymes and co-enzymes for the digestion and assimilation. If we ingest the artificially produced type of 'food', our body will regard it as foreign particle and will trigger the defense system of our body to be on guard and ready to get rid of it. In other words, the artificial supplement will trigger such stressful response instead of bringing us the benefits that we expect when we consume it. When its quantity is over the threshold of our body to handle it or when our body is too stressful after long time of handling it, it causes all sort of dis-ease and problem.
Usually we choose the natural whole food supplements that are categorized as superfoods, or foods that are densely packed with nutrients, antioxidant and phytochemicals, such as spirulina, chia seeds, maca powder, berries, chlorella, fruits/fruits powder, wheatgrass juice/powder, alfafa greens, cruciferous greens and etc. Let foods become not only our fuel and eating pleasure, but also our natural medicine. The nature has it all.
When we befriended nature, natural whole food supplements become our greatest friends!
Friday, September 17, 2010
My Fav Green Smoothies - Using Thermomix
I have been using Vitamix for almost 2 years to make all my smoothies, be it green smoothies or fruits smoothies. And I love it. But now, I have discovered a new tool to make my smoothies, THERMOMIX!! And the best thing is it does not heat up the smoothies like Vitamix!
Have been using my Thermomix for 2 weeks and love it so much! Other than using it to blend smoothies, I finally can make homemade pau/bread on my own, and it is so easy! Grinding dry seeds has never been faster and easier, and without the worry of heating the seeds up before they are ground. Cooking with less heat yielded nice tasting and juicy vegetables, plus there is no need to stand there to stir. Just dump everything in and press the button and wait for a few minutes. I even make use of the few minutes to clean up the preparation work. It saves time and energy, no oily kitchen, no fussy cleaning procedure, but delicious and nutritious homemade dishes. Really salute the person who invented the machine.
I highly recommend this to anyone who cares for their family's health and loves homemade foods. Welcome to contact me for more details.
Have been using my Thermomix for 2 weeks and love it so much! Other than using it to blend smoothies, I finally can make homemade pau/bread on my own, and it is so easy! Grinding dry seeds has never been faster and easier, and without the worry of heating the seeds up before they are ground. Cooking with less heat yielded nice tasting and juicy vegetables, plus there is no need to stand there to stir. Just dump everything in and press the button and wait for a few minutes. I even make use of the few minutes to clean up the preparation work. It saves time and energy, no oily kitchen, no fussy cleaning procedure, but delicious and nutritious homemade dishes. Really salute the person who invented the machine.
I highly recommend this to anyone who cares for their family's health and loves homemade foods. Welcome to contact me for more details.
用菩薩心教自己的孩子，用父母心愛別人的孩子
上人囑 「莫只顧自己的孩子；若別人的孩子沒有教好，將來也可能來傷害自己的孩子。所以要重視『易子而教』——教好別人的孩子，樹立典範；別的老師也會以同樣的心情，教好自己的孩子。」
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Can You Trust Chemotherapy To Cure Your Cancer?
For a mere 2.3% contribution of chemotherapy to cancer survival, will you still go for it or would you still let your loved one go through all the uncomfortable, horrible yet expensive chemotherapy process for just the 2.3% chance? Are you willing to take this slim chance by pouring all your lifetime-saved-money to the unknown people while wasting your own life away?
May be we should seek the alternative rather than follow blindly what the doctors say...
You may read the article pasted here or go to the link below:
http://www.ener-chi.com/trustchemo.htm
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by Andreas Moritz
Former White House press secretary Tony Snow died in July 2008 at the age of 53, following a series of chemotherapy treatments for colon cancer. In 2005, Snow had his colon removed and underwent six months of chemotherapy after being diagnosed with colon cancer. Two years later (2007), Snow underwent surgery to remove a growth in his abdominal area, near the site of the original cancer. "This is a very treatable condition," said Dr. Allyson Ocean, a gastrointestinal oncologist at Weill Cornell Medical College. "Many patients, because of the therapies we have, are able to work and live full lives with quality while they're being treated. Anyone who looks at this as a death sentence is wrong." But of course we now know, Dr. Ocean was dead wrong.
The media headlines proclaimed Snow died from colon cancer, although they knew he didn't have a colon anymore. Apparently, the malignant cancer had "returned" (from where?) and "spread" to the liver and elsewhere in his body. In actual fact, the colon surgery severely restricted his normal eliminative functions, thereby overburdening the liver and tissue fluids with toxic waste. The previous series of chemo-treatments inflamed and irreversibly damaged a large number of cells in his body, and also impaired his immune system -- a perfect recipe for growing new cancers. Now unable to heal the causes of the original cancer (in addition to the newly created ones), Snow's body developed new cancers in the liver and other parts of the body.
The mainstream media, of course, still insist Snow died from colon cancer, thus perpetuating the myth that it is only the cancer that kills people, not the treatment. Nobody seems to raise the important point that it is extremely difficult for a cancer patient to actually heal from this condition while being subjected to the systemic poisons of chemotherapy and deadly radiation. If you are bitten by a poisonous snake and don't get an antidote for it, isn't it likely that your body becomes overwhelmed by the poison and, therefore, cannot function anymore?
Before Tony Snow began his chemo-treatments for his second colon cancer, he still looked healthy and strong. But after a few weeks into his treatment, he started to develop a coarse voice, looked frail, turned gray and lost his hair. Did the cancer do all this to him? Certainly not. Cancer doesn't do such a thing, but chemical poisoning does. He actually looked more ill than someone who has been bitten by a poisonous snake.
Does the mainstream media ever report about the overwhelming scientific evidence that shows chemotherapy has zero benefits in the five-year survival rate of colon cancer patients? Or how many oncologists stand up for their cancer patients and protect them against chemotherapy treatment which they very well know can cause them to die far more quickly than if they received no treatment at all? Can you trustingly place your life into their hands when you know that most of them would not even consider chemotherapy for themselves if they were diagnosed with cancer? What do they know that you don't? The news is spreading fast that in the United States physician-caused fatalities now exceed 750,000 each year. Perhaps, many doctors no longer trust in what they practice, for good reasons.
"Most cancer patients in this country die of chemotherapy... Chemotherapy does not eliminate breast, colon or lung cancers. This fact has been documented for over a decade. Yet doctors still use chemotherapy for these tumors... Women with breast cancer are likely to die faster with chemo than without it." - Alan Levin, M.D.
An investigation by the Department of Radiation Oncology, Northern Sydney Cancer Centre, Australia, into the contribution of chemotherapy to 5-year survival in 22 major adult malignancies, showed startling results: The overall contribution of curative and adjuvant cytotoxic chemotherapy to 5-year survival in adults was estimated to be 2.3% in Australia and 2.1% in the USA." [Royal North Shore Hospital Clin Oncol (R Coll Radiol) 2005 Jun;17(4):294.]
The research covered data from the Cancer Registry in Australia and the Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results in the USA for the year 1998. The current 5-year relative adult survival rate for cancer in Australia is over 60%, and no less than that in the USA. By comparison, a mere 2.3% contribution of chemotherapy to cancer survival does not justify the massive expense involved and the tremendous suffering patients experience because of severe, toxic side effects resulting from this treatment. With a meager success rate of 2.3%, selling chemotherapy as a medical treatment (instead of a scam), is one of the greatest fraudulent acts ever committed. The average chemotherapy earns the medical establishment a whopping $300,000 to $1,000,000 each year, and has so far earned those who promote this pseudo-medication (poison) over 1 trillion dollars. It's no surprise that the medical establishment tries to keep this scam alive for as long as possible.
In 1990, the highly respected German epidemiologist, Dr. Ulrich Abel from the Tumor Clinic of the University of Heidelberg, conducted the most comprehensive investigation of every major clinical study on chemotherapy drugs ever done. Abel contacted 350 medical centers and asked them to send him anything they had ever published on chemotherapy. He also reviewed and analyzed thousands of scientific articles published in the most prestigious medical journals. It took Abel several years to collect and evaluate the data. Abel's epidemiological study, which was published on August 10, 1991 in The Lancet, should have alerted every doctor and cancer patient about the risks of one of the most common treatments used for cancer and other diseases. In his paper, Abel came to the conclusion that the overall success rate of chemotherapy was "appalling." According to this report, there was no scientific evidence available in any existing study to show that chemotherapy can "extend in any appreciable way the lives of patients suffering from the most common organic cancers."
Abel points out that chemotherapy rarely improves the quality of life. He describes chemotherapy as "a scientific wasteland" and states that even though there is no scientific evidence that chemotherapy works, neither doctor nor patient is willing to give up on it. The mainstream media has never reported on this hugely important study, which is hardly surprising, given the enormous vested interests of the groups that sponsor the media, that is, the pharmaceutical companies. A recent search turned up exactly zero reviews of Abel's work in American journals, even though it was published in 1990. I believe this is not because his work was unimportant -- but because it is irrefutable.
The truth of the matter would be far too costly for the pharmaceutical industry to bear, thus making it unacceptable. If the mass media reported the truth that medical drugs, including chemotherapy drugs, are used to practically commit genocide in the U.S. and the world, their best sponsors (the pharmaceutical companies) would have to withdraw their misleading advertisements from the television media, radio stations, magazines, and newspapers. But neither group wants to go bankrupt.
Many doctors go as far as prescribing chemotherapy drugs to patients for malignancies that are far too advanced for surgery, with the full knowledge that there are no benefits at all. Yet they claim chemotherapy to be an effective cancer treatment, and their unsuspecting patients believe that "effective" equals "cure." The doctors, of course, refer to the FDA's definition of an "effective" drug, one which achieves a 50% or more reduction in tumor size for 28 days. They neglect to tell their patients that there is no correlation whatsoever between shrinking tumors for 28 days and curing the cancer or extending life. Temporary tumor shrinkage through chemotherapy has never been shown to cure cancer or to extend life. In other words, you can live with an untreated tumor for just as long as you would with one that has been shrunken or been eliminated by chemotherapy (or radiation).
Chemotherapy has never been shown to have curative effects for cancer. By contrast, the body can still cure itself, which it actually tries to do by developing cancer. Cancer is more a healing response than it is a disease. The "disease" is the body's attempt to cure itself of an existing imbalance. And sometimes, this healing response continues even if a person is subjected to chemotherapy (and/or radiation). Unfortunately, as the previously mentioned research has demonstrated, the chances for a real cure are greatly reduced when patients are treated with chemotherapy drugs.
The side effects of the treatment can be horrendous and heartbreaking for both patients and their loved ones, all in the name of trustworthy medical treatment. Although the drug treatment comes with the promise to improve the patient's quality of life, it is just common sense that a drug that makes them throw up and lose their hair, while wrecking their immune system, is doing the exact opposite. Chemo-therapy can give the patient life-threatening mouth sores. It attacks the immune system by destroying billions of immune cells (white blood cells). Its deadly poisons inflame every part of the body. The drugs can slough off the entire lining of their intestines. The most common side effect experienced among chemo patients is their complete lack of energy. The new additional drugs now given to many chemo patients may prevent the patient from noticing some of the side effects, but they hardly reduce the immensely destructive and suppressive effect of the chemotherapy itself. Remember, the reason chemotherapy can shrink some tumors is because it causes massive destruction in the body.
If you have cancer, you may think that feeling tired is just part of the disease. This rarely is the case. Feeling unusually tired is more likely due to anemia, a common side effect of most chemotherapy drugs. Chemo drugs can dramatically decrease your red blood cell levels, and this reduces oxygen availability to the 60-100 trillion cells of your body. You can literally feel the energy being zapped from every cell of your body -- a physical death without dying. Chemo-caused fatigue has a negative impact on day-to-day activities in 89% of all patients. With no energy, there can be no joy and no hope, and all bodily functions become subdued.
One long-term side effect is that these patients' bodies can no longer respond to nutritional or immune-strengthening approaches to cancerous tumors. All of this may explain why cancer patients who do not receive any treatment at all, have an up to four times higher remission rate than those who receive treatment. The sad thing is that chemotherapy does not cure 96% to 98% of all cancers anyway. Conclusive evidence (for the majority of cancers) that chemotherapy has any positive influence on survival or quality of life does not exist.
To promote chemotherapy as a treatment for cancer is misleading, to say the least. By permanently damaging the body's immune system and other important parts, chemo-therapy has become a leading cause of treatment-caused diseases such as heart disease, liver disease, intestinal diseases, diseases of the immune system, infections, brain diseases, pain disorders, and rapid aging.
Before committing themselves to being poisoned, cancer patients need to question their doctors and ask them to produce the research or evidence that shrinking a tumor actually translates to any increase in survival. If they tell you that chemotherapy is your best chance of surviving, you will know they are lying or are simply misinformed. As Abel's research clearly demonstrated, there is no such evidence anywhere to be found in the medical literature. Subjecting patients to chemotherapy robs them of a fair chance of finding or responding to a real cure and deserves criminal prosecution.
Andreas Moritz's book, Cancer is not a Disease - It's a Survival Mechanism, explains the root causes of cancer and how to eliminate them for good.
About the author
Andreas Moritz is a medical intuitive; a practitioner of Ayurveda, iridology, shiatsu, and vibrational medicine; a writer; and an artist. He is the author of The Amazing Liver and Gallbladder Flush, Timeless Secrets of Health and Rejuvenation, Lifting the Veil of Duality, Cancer Is Not a Disease, It's Time to Come Alive, Heart Disease No More, Diabetes No More, Simple Steps to Total Health, Diabetes -- No More, Ending the AIDS Myth and Heal Yourself with Sunlight. More Information About These Books
May be we should seek the alternative rather than follow blindly what the doctors say...
You may read the article pasted here or go to the link below:
http://www.ener-chi.com/trustchemo.htm
**********************************************
by Andreas Moritz
Former White House press secretary Tony Snow died in July 2008 at the age of 53, following a series of chemotherapy treatments for colon cancer. In 2005, Snow had his colon removed and underwent six months of chemotherapy after being diagnosed with colon cancer. Two years later (2007), Snow underwent surgery to remove a growth in his abdominal area, near the site of the original cancer. "This is a very treatable condition," said Dr. Allyson Ocean, a gastrointestinal oncologist at Weill Cornell Medical College. "Many patients, because of the therapies we have, are able to work and live full lives with quality while they're being treated. Anyone who looks at this as a death sentence is wrong." But of course we now know, Dr. Ocean was dead wrong.
The media headlines proclaimed Snow died from colon cancer, although they knew he didn't have a colon anymore. Apparently, the malignant cancer had "returned" (from where?) and "spread" to the liver and elsewhere in his body. In actual fact, the colon surgery severely restricted his normal eliminative functions, thereby overburdening the liver and tissue fluids with toxic waste. The previous series of chemo-treatments inflamed and irreversibly damaged a large number of cells in his body, and also impaired his immune system -- a perfect recipe for growing new cancers. Now unable to heal the causes of the original cancer (in addition to the newly created ones), Snow's body developed new cancers in the liver and other parts of the body.
The mainstream media, of course, still insist Snow died from colon cancer, thus perpetuating the myth that it is only the cancer that kills people, not the treatment. Nobody seems to raise the important point that it is extremely difficult for a cancer patient to actually heal from this condition while being subjected to the systemic poisons of chemotherapy and deadly radiation. If you are bitten by a poisonous snake and don't get an antidote for it, isn't it likely that your body becomes overwhelmed by the poison and, therefore, cannot function anymore?
Before Tony Snow began his chemo-treatments for his second colon cancer, he still looked healthy and strong. But after a few weeks into his treatment, he started to develop a coarse voice, looked frail, turned gray and lost his hair. Did the cancer do all this to him? Certainly not. Cancer doesn't do such a thing, but chemical poisoning does. He actually looked more ill than someone who has been bitten by a poisonous snake.
Does the mainstream media ever report about the overwhelming scientific evidence that shows chemotherapy has zero benefits in the five-year survival rate of colon cancer patients? Or how many oncologists stand up for their cancer patients and protect them against chemotherapy treatment which they very well know can cause them to die far more quickly than if they received no treatment at all? Can you trustingly place your life into their hands when you know that most of them would not even consider chemotherapy for themselves if they were diagnosed with cancer? What do they know that you don't? The news is spreading fast that in the United States physician-caused fatalities now exceed 750,000 each year. Perhaps, many doctors no longer trust in what they practice, for good reasons.
"Most cancer patients in this country die of chemotherapy... Chemotherapy does not eliminate breast, colon or lung cancers. This fact has been documented for over a decade. Yet doctors still use chemotherapy for these tumors... Women with breast cancer are likely to die faster with chemo than without it." - Alan Levin, M.D.
An investigation by the Department of Radiation Oncology, Northern Sydney Cancer Centre, Australia, into the contribution of chemotherapy to 5-year survival in 22 major adult malignancies, showed startling results: The overall contribution of curative and adjuvant cytotoxic chemotherapy to 5-year survival in adults was estimated to be 2.3% in Australia and 2.1% in the USA." [Royal North Shore Hospital Clin Oncol (R Coll Radiol) 2005 Jun;17(4):294.]
The research covered data from the Cancer Registry in Australia and the Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results in the USA for the year 1998. The current 5-year relative adult survival rate for cancer in Australia is over 60%, and no less than that in the USA. By comparison, a mere 2.3% contribution of chemotherapy to cancer survival does not justify the massive expense involved and the tremendous suffering patients experience because of severe, toxic side effects resulting from this treatment. With a meager success rate of 2.3%, selling chemotherapy as a medical treatment (instead of a scam), is one of the greatest fraudulent acts ever committed. The average chemotherapy earns the medical establishment a whopping $300,000 to $1,000,000 each year, and has so far earned those who promote this pseudo-medication (poison) over 1 trillion dollars. It's no surprise that the medical establishment tries to keep this scam alive for as long as possible.
In 1990, the highly respected German epidemiologist, Dr. Ulrich Abel from the Tumor Clinic of the University of Heidelberg, conducted the most comprehensive investigation of every major clinical study on chemotherapy drugs ever done. Abel contacted 350 medical centers and asked them to send him anything they had ever published on chemotherapy. He also reviewed and analyzed thousands of scientific articles published in the most prestigious medical journals. It took Abel several years to collect and evaluate the data. Abel's epidemiological study, which was published on August 10, 1991 in The Lancet, should have alerted every doctor and cancer patient about the risks of one of the most common treatments used for cancer and other diseases. In his paper, Abel came to the conclusion that the overall success rate of chemotherapy was "appalling." According to this report, there was no scientific evidence available in any existing study to show that chemotherapy can "extend in any appreciable way the lives of patients suffering from the most common organic cancers."
Abel points out that chemotherapy rarely improves the quality of life. He describes chemotherapy as "a scientific wasteland" and states that even though there is no scientific evidence that chemotherapy works, neither doctor nor patient is willing to give up on it. The mainstream media has never reported on this hugely important study, which is hardly surprising, given the enormous vested interests of the groups that sponsor the media, that is, the pharmaceutical companies. A recent search turned up exactly zero reviews of Abel's work in American journals, even though it was published in 1990. I believe this is not because his work was unimportant -- but because it is irrefutable.
The truth of the matter would be far too costly for the pharmaceutical industry to bear, thus making it unacceptable. If the mass media reported the truth that medical drugs, including chemotherapy drugs, are used to practically commit genocide in the U.S. and the world, their best sponsors (the pharmaceutical companies) would have to withdraw their misleading advertisements from the television media, radio stations, magazines, and newspapers. But neither group wants to go bankrupt.
Many doctors go as far as prescribing chemotherapy drugs to patients for malignancies that are far too advanced for surgery, with the full knowledge that there are no benefits at all. Yet they claim chemotherapy to be an effective cancer treatment, and their unsuspecting patients believe that "effective" equals "cure." The doctors, of course, refer to the FDA's definition of an "effective" drug, one which achieves a 50% or more reduction in tumor size for 28 days. They neglect to tell their patients that there is no correlation whatsoever between shrinking tumors for 28 days and curing the cancer or extending life. Temporary tumor shrinkage through chemotherapy has never been shown to cure cancer or to extend life. In other words, you can live with an untreated tumor for just as long as you would with one that has been shrunken or been eliminated by chemotherapy (or radiation).
Chemotherapy has never been shown to have curative effects for cancer. By contrast, the body can still cure itself, which it actually tries to do by developing cancer. Cancer is more a healing response than it is a disease. The "disease" is the body's attempt to cure itself of an existing imbalance. And sometimes, this healing response continues even if a person is subjected to chemotherapy (and/or radiation). Unfortunately, as the previously mentioned research has demonstrated, the chances for a real cure are greatly reduced when patients are treated with chemotherapy drugs.
The side effects of the treatment can be horrendous and heartbreaking for both patients and their loved ones, all in the name of trustworthy medical treatment. Although the drug treatment comes with the promise to improve the patient's quality of life, it is just common sense that a drug that makes them throw up and lose their hair, while wrecking their immune system, is doing the exact opposite. Chemo-therapy can give the patient life-threatening mouth sores. It attacks the immune system by destroying billions of immune cells (white blood cells). Its deadly poisons inflame every part of the body. The drugs can slough off the entire lining of their intestines. The most common side effect experienced among chemo patients is their complete lack of energy. The new additional drugs now given to many chemo patients may prevent the patient from noticing some of the side effects, but they hardly reduce the immensely destructive and suppressive effect of the chemotherapy itself. Remember, the reason chemotherapy can shrink some tumors is because it causes massive destruction in the body.
If you have cancer, you may think that feeling tired is just part of the disease. This rarely is the case. Feeling unusually tired is more likely due to anemia, a common side effect of most chemotherapy drugs. Chemo drugs can dramatically decrease your red blood cell levels, and this reduces oxygen availability to the 60-100 trillion cells of your body. You can literally feel the energy being zapped from every cell of your body -- a physical death without dying. Chemo-caused fatigue has a negative impact on day-to-day activities in 89% of all patients. With no energy, there can be no joy and no hope, and all bodily functions become subdued.
One long-term side effect is that these patients' bodies can no longer respond to nutritional or immune-strengthening approaches to cancerous tumors. All of this may explain why cancer patients who do not receive any treatment at all, have an up to four times higher remission rate than those who receive treatment. The sad thing is that chemotherapy does not cure 96% to 98% of all cancers anyway. Conclusive evidence (for the majority of cancers) that chemotherapy has any positive influence on survival or quality of life does not exist.
To promote chemotherapy as a treatment for cancer is misleading, to say the least. By permanently damaging the body's immune system and other important parts, chemo-therapy has become a leading cause of treatment-caused diseases such as heart disease, liver disease, intestinal diseases, diseases of the immune system, infections, brain diseases, pain disorders, and rapid aging.
Before committing themselves to being poisoned, cancer patients need to question their doctors and ask them to produce the research or evidence that shrinking a tumor actually translates to any increase in survival. If they tell you that chemotherapy is your best chance of surviving, you will know they are lying or are simply misinformed. As Abel's research clearly demonstrated, there is no such evidence anywhere to be found in the medical literature. Subjecting patients to chemotherapy robs them of a fair chance of finding or responding to a real cure and deserves criminal prosecution.
Andreas Moritz's book, Cancer is not a Disease - It's a Survival Mechanism, explains the root causes of cancer and how to eliminate them for good.
About the author
Andreas Moritz is a medical intuitive; a practitioner of Ayurveda, iridology, shiatsu, and vibrational medicine; a writer; and an artist. He is the author of The Amazing Liver and Gallbladder Flush, Timeless Secrets of Health and Rejuvenation, Lifting the Veil of Duality, Cancer Is Not a Disease, It's Time to Come Alive, Heart Disease No More, Diabetes No More, Simple Steps to Total Health, Diabetes -- No More, Ending the AIDS Myth and Heal Yourself with Sunlight. More Information About These Books
Friday, September 3, 2010
Lower Your Cancer Risk With Cruciferous Vegetables
We know that broccoli is very good, but how good is it? Here's an article about all the cruciferous vegetables in general, with spotlight on broccoli.
These vegetables are easily available and not expensive. They can be added to our daily meal easily. Steamed broccoli with miso is my favorite. Enjoy the delicious dish while getting all the benefits from it in preventing diseases.
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Wednesday, October 4, 2006 - 1:35pm
By Erin Dummert RD, CD
Thousands of scientific studies prove that a diet rich in fruits, vegetables, and whole grains can prevent cancer and other diseases. Not only are these foods low in calories, they are excellent sources of vitamins, minerals, fiber, and beneficial plant chemicals. More specifically, cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, bok choy, and kale have been shown to be especially potent cancer fighters. While the sulfur-like odor of cruciferous vegetables may make them less desirable than other vegetables, the very chemical that causes this potent smell provides the most impressive protection against cancer.
Cruciferous vegetables: the benefits
Cruciferous vegetables contain many plant chemicals that are associated with a lower risk of cancer. By stimulating the body to produce enzymes which break down cancer-causing substances, these naturally occurring chemicals help slow the growth of cancer cells in the breast, endometrium, lung, colon, liver, and cervix. In addition, various studies have associated diets high in cruciferous vegetables with lower risks of lung, stomach, colorectal, bladder, and prostate cancers.
Guidelines for consumption of curciferious veggies
A small amount of cruciferous vegetables goes a long way. One clinical study showed that men between the ages of 40 and 64 who ate 3 or more half-cup servings of cruciferous vegetables a week were 41 percent less likely to develop prostate cancer. Another study among men and women ranging in age from 50 to 74 showed participants who ate an average of 3.7 half-cup servings of cooked broccoli weekly were 50 percent less likely to develop colorectal cancer as subjects who said they never ate broccoli. Researchers have also discovered that the beneficial plant chemicals in cruciferous vegetables work together to produce a greater cancer fighting effect.
Incorporating cruciferous veggies into your diet
Incorporating cruciferous vegetables into your diet is easier and more delicious than you might think. To take advantage of their cancer fighting potential, add a half-cup serving of any of the following a few times a week:
• Arugula
• Beet greens
• Bok choy
• Broccoli
• Broccoli sprouts
• Brussels sprouts
• Cabbage
• Cauliflower
• Chinese cabbage
• Collard greens
• Daikon
• Horseradish
• Kale
• Kohlrabi
• Mustard greens
• Radishes
• Rutabaga
• Swiss chard
• Turnips
• Watercress
Spotlight on sprouts: super cruciferous broccoli
In part because it contains the cancer-fighting chemical sulforaphane, broccoli always tops the list of healthiest vegetables. However, broccoli sprouts contain 20 to 50 times more sulforaphane than mature broccoli. That means a few tablespoons of broccoli sprouts contain as much sulforaphane as is found in a pound of mature broccoli. When scientists at Johns Hopkins University fed broccoli sprouts to rats for several days and then gave them carcinogens, the animals developed smaller, fewer and slower-growing tumors than the ones that did not eat sprouts.
These vegetables are easily available and not expensive. They can be added to our daily meal easily. Steamed broccoli with miso is my favorite. Enjoy the delicious dish while getting all the benefits from it in preventing diseases.
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Wednesday, October 4, 2006 - 1:35pm
By Erin Dummert RD, CD
Thousands of scientific studies prove that a diet rich in fruits, vegetables, and whole grains can prevent cancer and other diseases. Not only are these foods low in calories, they are excellent sources of vitamins, minerals, fiber, and beneficial plant chemicals. More specifically, cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, bok choy, and kale have been shown to be especially potent cancer fighters. While the sulfur-like odor of cruciferous vegetables may make them less desirable than other vegetables, the very chemical that causes this potent smell provides the most impressive protection against cancer.
Cruciferous vegetables: the benefits
Cruciferous vegetables contain many plant chemicals that are associated with a lower risk of cancer. By stimulating the body to produce enzymes which break down cancer-causing substances, these naturally occurring chemicals help slow the growth of cancer cells in the breast, endometrium, lung, colon, liver, and cervix. In addition, various studies have associated diets high in cruciferous vegetables with lower risks of lung, stomach, colorectal, bladder, and prostate cancers.
Guidelines for consumption of curciferious veggies
A small amount of cruciferous vegetables goes a long way. One clinical study showed that men between the ages of 40 and 64 who ate 3 or more half-cup servings of cruciferous vegetables a week were 41 percent less likely to develop prostate cancer. Another study among men and women ranging in age from 50 to 74 showed participants who ate an average of 3.7 half-cup servings of cooked broccoli weekly were 50 percent less likely to develop colorectal cancer as subjects who said they never ate broccoli. Researchers have also discovered that the beneficial plant chemicals in cruciferous vegetables work together to produce a greater cancer fighting effect.
Incorporating cruciferous veggies into your diet
Incorporating cruciferous vegetables into your diet is easier and more delicious than you might think. To take advantage of their cancer fighting potential, add a half-cup serving of any of the following a few times a week:
• Arugula
• Beet greens
• Bok choy
• Broccoli
• Broccoli sprouts
• Brussels sprouts
• Cabbage
• Cauliflower
• Chinese cabbage
• Collard greens
• Daikon
• Horseradish
• Kale
• Kohlrabi
• Mustard greens
• Radishes
• Rutabaga
• Swiss chard
• Turnips
• Watercress
Spotlight on sprouts: super cruciferous broccoli
In part because it contains the cancer-fighting chemical sulforaphane, broccoli always tops the list of healthiest vegetables. However, broccoli sprouts contain 20 to 50 times more sulforaphane than mature broccoli. That means a few tablespoons of broccoli sprouts contain as much sulforaphane as is found in a pound of mature broccoli. When scientists at Johns Hopkins University fed broccoli sprouts to rats for several days and then gave them carcinogens, the animals developed smaller, fewer and slower-growing tumors than the ones that did not eat sprouts.
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Ode to a Green Smoothie
Ode to a Green Smoothie was written by Victoria after ‘Green For Life’ was published in 2005. This article is a great summary of the Green Smoothie facts and benefits. I highly recommend reading this information as a helpful reminder or as an excellent introduction to any one joining the Green Smoothie Revolution.
ODE TO A GREEN SMOOTHIE
by Victoria Boutenko
As the Russian proverb says: New- is something old, that has been long forgotten. This summer I re-discovered green smoothies. What do I mean by green smoothie? Here is one of my favorite recipes: 4 ripe pears, 1 bunch of parsley and 1 big cup of water. Blended well. This smoothie looks very green, but it tastes like fruit. I like green smoothies so much that I bought an extra blender and placed it in my office, so that I could make green smoothies throughout the day. More than half of all the food I’ve had in last several months have been green smoothies. I have so much more energy and clarity that I have removed green juices from my diet. (Juicing has been something that I’ve been doing regularly for years.) Green smoothies have numerous benefits for human health.
1. Green smoothies are very nutritious. I believe that the ratio in them is optimal for human consumption: about 60% – ripe organic fruit mixed with about 40% – organic green vegetables.
2. Green smoothies are easy to digest. When blended well, all the valuable nutrients in these fruits and veggies become homogenized, or divided into such small particles that it becomes easy for the body to assimilate these nutrients, the green smoothies literally start to get absorbed in your mouth.
3. Green smoothies, as a posed to juices, are a complete food because they still have fiber.
4. Green smoothies belong to the most palatable dishes for all humans of all ages. With a ratio of fruits to veggies as 60:40 the fruit taste dominates the flavor, yet at the same time the green vegetables balance out the sweetness of the fruit, adding nice zest to it. Green smoothies are simply the best tasting dishes for the majority of adults and children. I always make extra smoothie and offer it to my friends and customers. Some of them eat a standard American diet. They all finished their big cup ofgreen smoothies with complements. They were quite surprised that something so green could taste so nice and sweet.
5. By consuming two or three cups of green smoothies daily you will consume enough of greens for the day to nourish your body, and they will be well assimilated. Many people do not consume enough of greens, even those who stay on a raw food diet. The molecule of chlorophyll has only one atom that makes it different from a molecule of human blood. According to teachings of Dr. Ann Wigmore, to consume chlorophyll is like receiving a healthy blood transfusion.
6. Green smoothies are easy to make, and quick to clean up after. Many people told me that they do not consume green juices on a regular basis because it is time consuming to prepare green juices and clean the equipment after juicing, or to drive to the juice bar.
7. Green smoothies are perfect food for children of all ages, including babies of six or more months old when introducing new food to them after mother’s milk. Of course you have to be careful and slowly increase the amount of smoothies to avoid food allergies.
8. When you consume your greens in the form of green smoothies, you can greatly reduce the consumption of oils and salt in your diet.
9. Regular consumption of Green smoothies forms a good habit of eating greens. Several people told me that after a couple of weeks of drinking green smoothies, they started to crave and enjoy eating more greens. Eating enough of green vegetable is often a problem with many people, especially in children.
10. Green smoothies can easily be freshly made at any juice bar, restaurant or health food store for the great convenience of health-oriented customers. Please bring a copy of this article to your local juice bar.
I encourage the readers of this article to start playing with green smoothies, and to discover the many joys and benefits of this wonderful delicious and nutritious addition to the menu. Here are more ideas for your green creations. Some of my favorite greens to add to green smoothies: parsley, spinach, celery, kale and romaine. My favorite fruits for green smoothies are: pears, peaches, nectarines, bananas, mangoes and apples. Strawberries and raspberries taste superb in green smoothies, when combined with ripe bananas.
ODE TO A GREEN SMOOTHIE
by Victoria Boutenko
As the Russian proverb says: New- is something old, that has been long forgotten. This summer I re-discovered green smoothies. What do I mean by green smoothie? Here is one of my favorite recipes: 4 ripe pears, 1 bunch of parsley and 1 big cup of water. Blended well. This smoothie looks very green, but it tastes like fruit. I like green smoothies so much that I bought an extra blender and placed it in my office, so that I could make green smoothies throughout the day. More than half of all the food I’ve had in last several months have been green smoothies. I have so much more energy and clarity that I have removed green juices from my diet. (Juicing has been something that I’ve been doing regularly for years.) Green smoothies have numerous benefits for human health.
1. Green smoothies are very nutritious. I believe that the ratio in them is optimal for human consumption: about 60% – ripe organic fruit mixed with about 40% – organic green vegetables.
2. Green smoothies are easy to digest. When blended well, all the valuable nutrients in these fruits and veggies become homogenized, or divided into such small particles that it becomes easy for the body to assimilate these nutrients, the green smoothies literally start to get absorbed in your mouth.
3. Green smoothies, as a posed to juices, are a complete food because they still have fiber.
4. Green smoothies belong to the most palatable dishes for all humans of all ages. With a ratio of fruits to veggies as 60:40 the fruit taste dominates the flavor, yet at the same time the green vegetables balance out the sweetness of the fruit, adding nice zest to it. Green smoothies are simply the best tasting dishes for the majority of adults and children. I always make extra smoothie and offer it to my friends and customers. Some of them eat a standard American diet. They all finished their big cup ofgreen smoothies with complements. They were quite surprised that something so green could taste so nice and sweet.
5. By consuming two or three cups of green smoothies daily you will consume enough of greens for the day to nourish your body, and they will be well assimilated. Many people do not consume enough of greens, even those who stay on a raw food diet. The molecule of chlorophyll has only one atom that makes it different from a molecule of human blood. According to teachings of Dr. Ann Wigmore, to consume chlorophyll is like receiving a healthy blood transfusion.
6. Green smoothies are easy to make, and quick to clean up after. Many people told me that they do not consume green juices on a regular basis because it is time consuming to prepare green juices and clean the equipment after juicing, or to drive to the juice bar.
7. Green smoothies are perfect food for children of all ages, including babies of six or more months old when introducing new food to them after mother’s milk. Of course you have to be careful and slowly increase the amount of smoothies to avoid food allergies.
8. When you consume your greens in the form of green smoothies, you can greatly reduce the consumption of oils and salt in your diet.
9. Regular consumption of Green smoothies forms a good habit of eating greens. Several people told me that after a couple of weeks of drinking green smoothies, they started to crave and enjoy eating more greens. Eating enough of green vegetable is often a problem with many people, especially in children.
10. Green smoothies can easily be freshly made at any juice bar, restaurant or health food store for the great convenience of health-oriented customers. Please bring a copy of this article to your local juice bar.
I encourage the readers of this article to start playing with green smoothies, and to discover the many joys and benefits of this wonderful delicious and nutritious addition to the menu. Here are more ideas for your green creations. Some of my favorite greens to add to green smoothies: parsley, spinach, celery, kale and romaine. My favorite fruits for green smoothies are: pears, peaches, nectarines, bananas, mangoes and apples. Strawberries and raspberries taste superb in green smoothies, when combined with ripe bananas.
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Expectation Vs Disappointment
If you expect someone to always live up to your expectations, you'll always feel disappointed. Encourage them to live up to their own expectations and see them flourish. ~Shazzie
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Chia Seeds - The Superfood
Chia seed is an ancient superfood. It is one of the richest plant source of Omega-3 and Omega-6 at the right ratio for human consumption. It has been proven to lower blood pressure, cholesterol and other heart related diseases. The omega-3 also acts as lubricant for the joints and relieves inflammation in the body.
Chia seeds have 2 times the protein of any other seeds or grain, providing all the essential amino acids in an easily digestible form. The high protein content enhances energy and thus makes it ideal for athletes or active persons.
They are a fabulous source of soluble fiber, makes it benefit in regulating bowel movement and acts as a broom in our intestines. The fiber also slows down the absorption of carbohydrates and balances the sugar in our body. Thus diabetic patients can be benefited from chia seeds as well.
Chia has 5 times the calcium of milk, plus boron, a trace mineral that helps the body to assimilate calcium.
Chia is an excellent source of phosphorus, magnesium, potassium, iron, zinc and copper.
Chia exhibit no evidence of allergic response, even in individuals with peanut and tree-nut allergies. It is gluten-free.
Chia is packed with rich chemical-free-nutrients that are safe for consumption. With the rich fiber, protein, omega-3, calcium and other nutrients, it can slow down metabolism of carbohydrate making us feel full much longer. This is beneficial for those who are on diet or slimming, without the worries of malnutrition.
It is easily digestible and mild tasting, enable it to be added to our daily food without altering the taste of our food, yet enriching our life with much needed nutrients. In addition, it helps to regenerate and build healthy tissues and cells for better skin complexion and elasticity as well as improved skin pH balance and hydration.
Basic and simplest method to consume:
Add one tablespoon (10g) to juice or water, stir to avoid clumping and let soak for 15 minutes and enjoy.
In actual, you can use chia seeds in any way you want as chia is an incredibly versatile seed. You can sprinkle it on salads. You can mix the seeds into foods or any kind of dish that you make. You can sprinkle them onto foods. There is no specific way for consuming it therefore you can be as creative as you want to be with chia. In addition, there are no limitations to using chia in your diet as you can't eat too much of it. For me, I like to put it in orange juice or any juice that I make for the day. Just include it in your daily life anyway that works best for you.
Who could benefit from Chia?
The elderly, all family members, children, pregnant ladies, breastfeeding mothers.
below is the website for more information of chia:
http://www.eatchia.com/
We recommend you "Halvia" Chia Seeds. The truly organic chia seeds, the most powerful whole super grain in nature; highest and safest unprocessed source of Omega-3, antioxidants, dietary fiber, calcium, iron and lignans. Non-GMO and gluten free.
For information or order, pls contact me at naturalhealth.my@gmail.com
Chia seeds have 2 times the protein of any other seeds or grain, providing all the essential amino acids in an easily digestible form. The high protein content enhances energy and thus makes it ideal for athletes or active persons.
They are a fabulous source of soluble fiber, makes it benefit in regulating bowel movement and acts as a broom in our intestines. The fiber also slows down the absorption of carbohydrates and balances the sugar in our body. Thus diabetic patients can be benefited from chia seeds as well.
Chia has 5 times the calcium of milk, plus boron, a trace mineral that helps the body to assimilate calcium.
Chia is an excellent source of phosphorus, magnesium, potassium, iron, zinc and copper.
Chia exhibit no evidence of allergic response, even in individuals with peanut and tree-nut allergies. It is gluten-free.
Chia is packed with rich chemical-free-nutrients that are safe for consumption. With the rich fiber, protein, omega-3, calcium and other nutrients, it can slow down metabolism of carbohydrate making us feel full much longer. This is beneficial for those who are on diet or slimming, without the worries of malnutrition.
It is easily digestible and mild tasting, enable it to be added to our daily food without altering the taste of our food, yet enriching our life with much needed nutrients. In addition, it helps to regenerate and build healthy tissues and cells for better skin complexion and elasticity as well as improved skin pH balance and hydration.
Basic and simplest method to consume:
Add one tablespoon (10g) to juice or water, stir to avoid clumping and let soak for 15 minutes and enjoy.
In actual, you can use chia seeds in any way you want as chia is an incredibly versatile seed. You can sprinkle it on salads. You can mix the seeds into foods or any kind of dish that you make. You can sprinkle them onto foods. There is no specific way for consuming it therefore you can be as creative as you want to be with chia. In addition, there are no limitations to using chia in your diet as you can't eat too much of it. For me, I like to put it in orange juice or any juice that I make for the day. Just include it in your daily life anyway that works best for you.
Who could benefit from Chia?
The elderly, all family members, children, pregnant ladies, breastfeeding mothers.
below is the website for more information of chia:
http://www.eatchia.com/
We recommend you "Halvia" Chia Seeds. The truly organic chia seeds, the most powerful whole super grain in nature; highest and safest unprocessed source of Omega-3, antioxidants, dietary fiber, calcium, iron and lignans. Non-GMO and gluten free.For information or order, pls contact me at naturalhealth.my@gmail.com
Monday, August 9, 2010
My Fav Green Smoothies
When my friends find out that I eat lots of raw green vegetables, the first reaction is always: Yuks, how do you eat that? Can that be eaten raw?
Well, yes, you can definitely eat the greens raw. They are so much more nutritious than the cooked greens. You just need to figure out how to make it nice and tasty so that you will be eating it everyday without feeling yucky.
How I make my green smoothies?
Below is my favorite:
1 bunch of spinach (or any greens eg bok choy, choy sum, kale)
1 japanese cucumber (with peel)
1 tomato (cut into quarter)
1 apple (peel, cored and cut into slices)
Dump everything into my blender (I'm using Vitamix and I love it coz it makes blending so much easier, but the normal blender would do well if you split up the ingredients and chop them into tiny pieces), with the tomato and apple at the bottom, then blend everything up. Sometimes I add a little bit of water just to make them blend easier and a few dates to make it sweeter. Then pour into a big glass and there, its ready! I enjoy the greenish yet delicious smoothies everyday as my breakfast in addition to other fruits.
Guidelines for consuming green is:
1. alternate the type of greens, don't stick to one type for too long
2. buy organic. Organic has much more nutrients than the commercially grown vegetables, besides, you don't have to worry about the pesticide/herbicide etc
Well, yes, you can definitely eat the greens raw. They are so much more nutritious than the cooked greens. You just need to figure out how to make it nice and tasty so that you will be eating it everyday without feeling yucky.
How I make my green smoothies?
Below is my favorite:
1 bunch of spinach (or any greens eg bok choy, choy sum, kale)
1 japanese cucumber (with peel)
1 tomato (cut into quarter)
1 apple (peel, cored and cut into slices)
Dump everything into my blender (I'm using Vitamix and I love it coz it makes blending so much easier, but the normal blender would do well if you split up the ingredients and chop them into tiny pieces), with the tomato and apple at the bottom, then blend everything up. Sometimes I add a little bit of water just to make them blend easier and a few dates to make it sweeter. Then pour into a big glass and there, its ready! I enjoy the greenish yet delicious smoothies everyday as my breakfast in addition to other fruits.
Guidelines for consuming green is:
1. alternate the type of greens, don't stick to one type for too long
2. buy organic. Organic has much more nutrients than the commercially grown vegetables, besides, you don't have to worry about the pesticide/herbicide etc
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Benefits of the Sun
Most of us don't realize that exposure to the sun is actually beneficial to us, be it to our physical health, vision, mental health etc.
Many people when being told to expose to some sunlight, the response will be: nah, it will promote skin cancer!
It's really sad that we are being taught to be afraid of the sun, the source of living energy on earth. Well, its not that we are asked to be under the sun for hours until you get burnt, but at least 15 to 30 minutes of sunbathing a day is good to our health.
Here's some highlights and benefits of the sunlight to us:
1. Exposure to the sun enable our body to synthesize Vitamin D, which is a free source. You do not need to pay for the sunlight and you do not have to buy from the store/pharmacy. There is no side effect of man-made supplement.
2. Low Vitamin D level is associated with worse asthma. According to a study conducted by researchers from National Jewish Health in Denver and published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, asthmatics with low levels of vitamin D may suffer more severely from the disease than patients with sufficient levels of the vitamin.
3. Sunscreen blocks the UV radiation necessary for the body to synthesize vitamin D. And research showed that Vitamin D will decrease possibility of getting cancer by 70%.
4. Sunscreen can harm our skin and body as it contains dozens of chemicals and carcinogens that are highly absorb-able by the skin and go to our liver which become a burden for the organ to expel these toxins. And if these toxins were not able to be expelled and were accumulated near the skin, it resulted in skin cancer! (not prevent skin cancer!!)
5. Vitamin D helps to regulate immune system and prevent against chronic health conditions such as heart disease, dementia and cancer.
6. According to a study conducted by researchers from the Medical University of Graz, Austria, and published in the journal Clinical Endocrinology, by increasing circulating levels of vitamin D, sunbathing may help increase men's testosterone levels and thereby their sex drive.
7. Tanning effect is the best sunscreen naturally to block off the UV-a and UV-b.
8. Sunlight is actually beneficial to our vision. According to Bate's Method, one of the activities for vision improvement is sunning, where the head is turned towards the sun with eyes closed and let it bathed under the sun for several minutes a day.
Below is an interview with Moritz Andreas, author of "Cancer is not a Disease" about the myth of sunshine causing skin cancer.
From: iHealthTube Admin
Lack of sunshine causes skin cancer, according to Andreas Moritz. He explains why being the sun is actually good for you and your skin. Find out why your sunscreen is doing more harm than good. Also, you need vitamin D to prevent cancer.
Contributor(s): Moritz, Andreas
By maintaining healthy exposure to the sun and a balance diet comprises of lots of green vegetables and fruits while cutting down stimulating foods and artificial/process foods, we can be sure our body is nourished in the way it should be and stay healthy. And of course, another crucial element of being healthy is: Stay Happy!!
* sources for this article include:
http://www.naturalnews.com
iHealthTube
Many people when being told to expose to some sunlight, the response will be: nah, it will promote skin cancer!
It's really sad that we are being taught to be afraid of the sun, the source of living energy on earth. Well, its not that we are asked to be under the sun for hours until you get burnt, but at least 15 to 30 minutes of sunbathing a day is good to our health.
Here's some highlights and benefits of the sunlight to us:
1. Exposure to the sun enable our body to synthesize Vitamin D, which is a free source. You do not need to pay for the sunlight and you do not have to buy from the store/pharmacy. There is no side effect of man-made supplement.
2. Low Vitamin D level is associated with worse asthma. According to a study conducted by researchers from National Jewish Health in Denver and published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, asthmatics with low levels of vitamin D may suffer more severely from the disease than patients with sufficient levels of the vitamin.
3. Sunscreen blocks the UV radiation necessary for the body to synthesize vitamin D. And research showed that Vitamin D will decrease possibility of getting cancer by 70%.
4. Sunscreen can harm our skin and body as it contains dozens of chemicals and carcinogens that are highly absorb-able by the skin and go to our liver which become a burden for the organ to expel these toxins. And if these toxins were not able to be expelled and were accumulated near the skin, it resulted in skin cancer! (not prevent skin cancer!!)
5. Vitamin D helps to regulate immune system and prevent against chronic health conditions such as heart disease, dementia and cancer.
6. According to a study conducted by researchers from the Medical University of Graz, Austria, and published in the journal Clinical Endocrinology, by increasing circulating levels of vitamin D, sunbathing may help increase men's testosterone levels and thereby their sex drive.
7. Tanning effect is the best sunscreen naturally to block off the UV-a and UV-b.
8. Sunlight is actually beneficial to our vision. According to Bate's Method, one of the activities for vision improvement is sunning, where the head is turned towards the sun with eyes closed and let it bathed under the sun for several minutes a day.
Below is an interview with Moritz Andreas, author of "Cancer is not a Disease" about the myth of sunshine causing skin cancer.
From: iHealthTube Admin
Lack of sunshine causes skin cancer, according to Andreas Moritz. He explains why being the sun is actually good for you and your skin. Find out why your sunscreen is doing more harm than good. Also, you need vitamin D to prevent cancer.
Contributor(s): Moritz, Andreas
By maintaining healthy exposure to the sun and a balance diet comprises of lots of green vegetables and fruits while cutting down stimulating foods and artificial/process foods, we can be sure our body is nourished in the way it should be and stay healthy. And of course, another crucial element of being healthy is: Stay Happy!!
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Friday, July 23, 2010
Benefits of Spirulina
I made this quick benefit list for my husband, who always refuses to eat greens and whatever that is foreign to him, including fruits that he was not introduced to since childhood. To compensate the absence of greens and many good foods in his diet, I'm trying to introduce some spirulina to him to ensure he is getting some good nutrients for his health. Hopefully with the understanding of the benefits as listed below, I would entice him to consume some spirulina daily. I reckon many might be interested too so I paste it here for reference.
Benefits of Spirulina
- Sustainable food, offering more nutrition per acre than other food
- Contains 8 essential amino acids
- Contains 10 non-essential amino acids
- Rich in enzymes
- Rich in chlorophyll
- Rich in magnesium
- Rich in potassium
- Rich in calcium
- Rich in phosphorous
- Rich in B complex vitamins, including B6, biotin, B12, pantothenic acid, folic acid, inositol, niacin, riboflavin and thiamine
- Good source of essential fatty acids, including linoleic and arachidonic acid
- Contains carotenoids (antioxidants)
- Phycocyanin – important to healthy liver function and digestion of amino acids
- Porphyrin – forms active nucleus of hemoglobin
- Low in sodium
- Low in calories
- High nutrient density
- Highly bioavailable compare with isolated nutrients supplements
- Safe to consume in large amount
- Able to suppress an overactive immune system
- Fights chronic fatigue syndrome
- Powerful anti-inflammatory
- Promote mucosal immunity, improve symptoms of nasal discharge, sneezing, nasal congestion an itching
- Found to cause regression of cancer and tumor
- Potent antioxidant (vitamins C, vitamins E, selenium, manganese, zinc, copper, iron, chromium) and body detoxifier (can reduce toxic effects of cadmium and free radicals)
- Promotes lower blood pressure and LDL cholesterol
- Improve digestive tract health (suppress bad bacteria, stimulate beneficial flora to assure protection against infection and maximum nutrition from food that is eaten)
Benefits of Spirulina
- Sustainable food, offering more nutrition per acre than other food
- Contains 8 essential amino acids
- Contains 10 non-essential amino acids
- Rich in enzymes
- Rich in chlorophyll
- Rich in magnesium
- Rich in potassium
- Rich in calcium
- Rich in phosphorous
- Rich in B complex vitamins, including B6, biotin, B12, pantothenic acid, folic acid, inositol, niacin, riboflavin and thiamine
- Good source of essential fatty acids, including linoleic and arachidonic acid
- Contains carotenoids (antioxidants)
- Phycocyanin – important to healthy liver function and digestion of amino acids
- Porphyrin – forms active nucleus of hemoglobin
- Low in sodium
- Low in calories
- High nutrient density
- Highly bioavailable compare with isolated nutrients supplements
- Safe to consume in large amount
- Able to suppress an overactive immune system
- Fights chronic fatigue syndrome
- Powerful anti-inflammatory
- Promote mucosal immunity, improve symptoms of nasal discharge, sneezing, nasal congestion an itching
- Found to cause regression of cancer and tumor
- Potent antioxidant (vitamins C, vitamins E, selenium, manganese, zinc, copper, iron, chromium) and body detoxifier (can reduce toxic effects of cadmium and free radicals)
- Promotes lower blood pressure and LDL cholesterol
- Improve digestive tract health (suppress bad bacteria, stimulate beneficial flora to assure protection against infection and maximum nutrition from food that is eaten)
聯合國通過佛教慈濟基金會成為聯合國經濟及社會理事會 特殊諮詢委員
聯合國通過佛教慈濟基金會成為聯合國經濟及社會理事會 特殊諮詢委員
紀錄:陳怡君於 2010/07/20 AM 11:13
聯合國(UN)於台灣時間昨晚（七月十九日）十一點，紐約時間（七月十九日）上午十一點鐘召開經濟及社會理事會大會，會中正式通過「佛教慈濟基金會」(Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation)成為「聯合國經濟及社會理事會非政府組織的特殊諮詢委員」（NGO in Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC)。美國慈濟基金會紐約分會執行長張濟舵出席這項大會，並將這項好消息傳回慈濟台灣總會。
經濟及社會理事會的特殊諮詢委員將可以參與聯合國經濟及社會理事會及其相關的機構的各項重要事務、計畫、預算之推動，提供諮詢與服務給聯合國秘書長，各國政府與其他非政府組織。
聯合國經濟及社會理事會這一次通過佛教慈濟基金會作為其特殊諮詢委員，是肯定慈濟在全球超過七十個國家的慈善與醫療等重大貢獻。特別是近年的海地、智利地震，四川地震、南亞海嘯等重大災難，慈濟志工都是走在最前，做到最後，以平等大愛的精神協助災後重建。
在全世界各重要的NGO組織當中，不乏具有基督教與回教精神的組織，而慈濟以務實的行動，將佛教的平等大愛散佈到全世界各個苦難的角落，這是具有其特殊的意義。聯合國經濟及社會理事會長期注意到慈濟在全球的慈善行動，這次賦予其特殊諮詢委員的地位，表示肯定，亦期許慈濟根據過去四十多年所累積的經驗、所依循的法則，繼續盡地球公民之責執行各項任務，也促使聯合國「千年發展目標」（MDG）之達成，奉獻一已之力。。
未來佛教慈濟基金會將獲准參與經濟及社會理事會的各項會議，提供口頭與書面之建議。同樣的慈濟在全球的人道慈善行動也將獲得聯合國的各相關組織之協助與必要之安全保護。
當這項消息宣佈後，美國總會透過越洋電話將訊息傳回花蓮本會。證嚴上人感動聯合國經濟及社會理事會給予的殊榮，也在今天早晨七點鐘向全球會眾開示：「慈濟人應肩負起無疆界眾生的責任，將全球發生的苦難都視為一己的使命，經由慈悲善行，體現佛陀無緣大慈的精神，將平等大愛廣披世界寰宇。
撰文者：慈濟基金會發言人何日生
報 導：慈濟基金會
紀錄:陳怡君於 2010/07/20 AM 11:13
聯合國(UN)於台灣時間昨晚（七月十九日）十一點，紐約時間（七月十九日）上午十一點鐘召開經濟及社會理事會大會，會中正式通過「佛教慈濟基金會」(Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation)成為「聯合國經濟及社會理事會非政府組織的特殊諮詢委員」（NGO in Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC)。美國慈濟基金會紐約分會執行長張濟舵出席這項大會，並將這項好消息傳回慈濟台灣總會。
經濟及社會理事會的特殊諮詢委員將可以參與聯合國經濟及社會理事會及其相關的機構的各項重要事務、計畫、預算之推動，提供諮詢與服務給聯合國秘書長，各國政府與其他非政府組織。
聯合國經濟及社會理事會這一次通過佛教慈濟基金會作為其特殊諮詢委員，是肯定慈濟在全球超過七十個國家的慈善與醫療等重大貢獻。特別是近年的海地、智利地震，四川地震、南亞海嘯等重大災難，慈濟志工都是走在最前，做到最後，以平等大愛的精神協助災後重建。
在全世界各重要的NGO組織當中，不乏具有基督教與回教精神的組織，而慈濟以務實的行動，將佛教的平等大愛散佈到全世界各個苦難的角落，這是具有其特殊的意義。聯合國經濟及社會理事會長期注意到慈濟在全球的慈善行動，這次賦予其特殊諮詢委員的地位，表示肯定，亦期許慈濟根據過去四十多年所累積的經驗、所依循的法則，繼續盡地球公民之責執行各項任務，也促使聯合國「千年發展目標」（MDG）之達成，奉獻一已之力。。
未來佛教慈濟基金會將獲准參與經濟及社會理事會的各項會議，提供口頭與書面之建議。同樣的慈濟在全球的人道慈善行動也將獲得聯合國的各相關組織之協助與必要之安全保護。
當這項消息宣佈後，美國總會透過越洋電話將訊息傳回花蓮本會。證嚴上人感動聯合國經濟及社會理事會給予的殊榮，也在今天早晨七點鐘向全球會眾開示：「慈濟人應肩負起無疆界眾生的責任，將全球發生的苦難都視為一己的使命，經由慈悲善行，體現佛陀無緣大慈的精神，將平等大愛廣披世界寰宇。
撰文者：慈濟基金會發言人何日生
報 導：慈濟基金會
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Your Baby Loves What You Eat When Pregnant and Breastfeeding
Came across this article in the internet and thought to share it here. To all my breastfeeding friends and pregnant mothers, eat whatever stuffs that you want your baby to eat :)
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Written by Sheryl Duruz
At the Monell Chemical Senses Centre in Philadelphia they were researching to see if what the mother ate affected the lifelong food and flavour preferences in their babies. Dr Mennella had a group made up of pregnant and nursing mothers carrot juice every day. Once eating food the children who were exposed to the taste of carrots through the amniotic fluid or breast milk were much keener on carrots than those whose mothers had not drunk carrot juice!
A similar study was then done on peaches and found the same result.
Then a third where breastfeeding mothers whose babies were startig to eat solids but hated green beans had a turn around once the mother started eating them too (and passed on the proof she was in her breast milk)!
Julie Mennella, who carried out the study, said: "Flavours from the mother's diet are transmitted through amniotic fluid and mother's milk. A baby learns to like a food's taste when the mother eats that food on a regular basis."
So if you want to help your children be healthy and enjoy healthy foods start early by taking excellent care of yourself!! Dr Mennella said: "If mothers want their babies to learn to like to eat vegetables, especially green vegetables, they need to provide them with opportunities to taste these foods."
Cheers (she clinks her glass of green juice)... to my future childs love of greens, peaches and all the bounty in the natural world!
Sheryl
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Written by Sheryl Duruz
At the Monell Chemical Senses Centre in Philadelphia they were researching to see if what the mother ate affected the lifelong food and flavour preferences in their babies. Dr Mennella had a group made up of pregnant and nursing mothers carrot juice every day. Once eating food the children who were exposed to the taste of carrots through the amniotic fluid or breast milk were much keener on carrots than those whose mothers had not drunk carrot juice!
A similar study was then done on peaches and found the same result.
Then a third where breastfeeding mothers whose babies were startig to eat solids but hated green beans had a turn around once the mother started eating them too (and passed on the proof she was in her breast milk)!
Julie Mennella, who carried out the study, said: "Flavours from the mother's diet are transmitted through amniotic fluid and mother's milk. A baby learns to like a food's taste when the mother eats that food on a regular basis."
So if you want to help your children be healthy and enjoy healthy foods start early by taking excellent care of yourself!! Dr Mennella said: "If mothers want their babies to learn to like to eat vegetables, especially green vegetables, they need to provide them with opportunities to taste these foods."
Cheers (she clinks her glass of green juice)... to my future childs love of greens, peaches and all the bounty in the natural world!
Sheryl
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
美國媽媽如何教育孩子
朋友電郵了這一篇文章給我，我覺得值得給自己留個提醒，所以也上載在這兒讓大家參考。
教育，確實是一件不容易但又很重要的事情。要是大人沒有抓到孩子的脾性而好好教養孩子做人的道理、好的生活習慣，孩子就無法成就一個完整獨立的人格。這樣的影響是孩子的一生。
疼愛有長遠的眼光，以樹立孩子的人格為目標
寵愛是無止境的溺愛，會讓孩子無法成長。
一個星期前，我給孩子穿褲子時他不讓，還哭得特別大聲，褲子穿好后，他還扭著哭不停，而且越哭越大聲，甚至哭喊。我本來就是不理他，以爲他哭一會了以後就會停，誰知他不停，還越哭越起勁。最後，沒有辦法，我去把他拉過來想要跟他講道理，他就是不聼，直到他的爸爸來抱他出去，找東西給他玩。那一天過後，他每晚睡覺都不安穩，尤其當半夜起來要喝奶卻等太久時，他就開始大聲的哭泣。我一時也想不到爲何他那麽不安，還以爲是不舒服了。直到前兩天我才發現，原來是那一次的經驗導致這樣的情形。我媽說，盡量不要讓他哭，他不高興的時候，就找別的東西來分他的心。先生也說孩子要哄，轉移注意力后一下子就沒事了。。。我想，每個孩子都有他自己的個性和處理事情的反應。當然，從他出世開始，大人的處世態度和方式也有直接的影響。
身教是最重要的一環。當大人有正的動作時，小孩學到的就是正像的。所以，當孩子不乖或被認爲是問題孩子時，先該反省的，應該是帶孩子的大人。
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儿子去美国留学，毕业后定居美国。还给我找了个洋媳妇苏珊。 如今，小孙子托比已经3岁了。今年夏天，儿子为我申请 了探亲签证。在美国待了三个月，洋媳妇苏珊教育孩子的方法， 令我这个中国婆婆大开眼界。
不吃饭就饿着
每天早上，托比醒来后，苏珊把早餐往餐桌上一放，就自顾 自 地忙去了。托比会自己爬上凳子，喝牛奶，吃面包片。吃饱 后，他回自己的房间，在衣柜里找衣服、鞋子，再自己穿上。 毕竟托比只有3岁，还搞不清楚子的正反面，分不清鞋子 的左右脚。有一次托比又把裤子穿反了，我赶紧上前想帮他 换，却被苏珊制止了。她说，如果他觉得不舒服，会自己脱 下来，重新穿好；如果他没觉得有什么不舒服，那就随他的 便。那一整天，托比反穿着裤子跑来跑去，苏姗像没看见一样。
又一次，托比出去和邻居家的小朋友玩，没多大会就气喘吁 吁 地跑回家，对苏珊说：“妈妈，露西说我的裤子穿反了，真 的吗？”露西是邻居家的小姑娘，今年5岁。苏姗笑着说： “是的，你要不要换回来？”托比点点头，自己脱下裤子， 仔细看了看，重新穿上了。从那以后，托比再也没穿反过裤子。
我不禁想起，我的外孙女五六岁时不会用筷子，上小学时不 会 系鞋带。如今在上寄宿制初中的她，每个周末都要带回家一大堆 脏衣服呢。
一天中午，托比闹情绪，不肯吃饭。苏珊说了他几句，愤怒 地 小托比一把将盘子推到了地上，盘子里的食物洒了一地。苏 姗看着托比，认真地说：“看来你确实不想吃饭！记住，从 现在到明天早上，你什么都不能吃。”托比点点头，坚定地 回答：“Yes!”我在心里暗笑，这母子俩，还都挺倔！
下午，苏珊和我商量，晚上由我做中国菜。我心领神会，托 比 告别爱吃中国菜，一定是苏珊觉得托比中午没好好吃饭，想让他 晚上多吃点儿。
那天晚上我施展厨艺，做了托比最爱吃的糖醋里脊、油闷大 虾， 还用意大利面做了中国式的凉面。托比最喜欢吃那种凉面，小小 的人可以吃满满一大盘。
开始吃晚饭了，托比欢天喜地地爬上凳子。苏珊却走过来， 拿 走了他的盘子和刀叉，说：“我们已经约好了，今天你不能 吃饭，你自己也答应了的。”托比看着面容严肃的妈妈，“哇” 地一声在哭起来，边哭边说：“妈妈，我饿，我要吃饭。”“不 行，说过的话要算数。”苏珊毫不心软。
我心疼了，想替托比求情，说点好话，却见儿子对我使眼色 。 想起我刚到美国时，儿子就跟我说，在美国，父母教育孩子 时，别人千万不要插手，即使是长辈也不例外。无奈，我只好保 持沉默。
那顿饭，从始至终，可怜的小托比一直坐在玩具车里，眼巴 巴 地看着我们三个大人狼吞虎咽。我这才明白苏珊让我做中餐 的真正用意。我相信，下一次，托比想发脾气扔饭碗时，一 定会想起自己饿着肚子看爸爸妈妈和奶奶享用美食的经历。 饿着肚子的滋味不好受，况且还是面对自己最喜爱的食物。
临睡前，我和苏珊一起去向托比道晚安。托比小心翼翼地问 ： “妈妈，我很饿，现在我能吃中国面吗？”苏珊微笑着摇摇 头，坚决地说：“不！”托比叹了口气，又问：“那等我睡 完觉睁开眼睛时，可以吃吗？”“当然可以。”苏珊温柔地回 答。托比甜甜地笑了。
大部分情况下，托比吃饭都很积极，他不想因为“罢吃”而 错 过食物，再受饿肚子的苦。每当看到托比埋头大口大口地吃 饭，嘴上脸上粘的都是食物时，我就想起外孙女。她像托比 这么大时，为了哄她吃饭，几个大人端着饭碗跟在她屁股后 面跑，她还不买账，还要谈条件：吃完这碗买一个玩具，再吃一 碗买一个玩具……
以其人之道，还治其人这身
有一天，我们带托比去公园玩。很快，托比就和两个女孩儿 玩 起了厨房游戏。塑料小锅、小铲子、小盘子、小碗摆了一地。 忽然，淘气的托比拿起小锅，使劲在一个女孩儿头上敲了 一下，女孩儿愣了一下，放声大哭。另一个女孩儿年纪更小 一些，见些情形，也被吓得大哭起来。大概托比没想到会有这么 严重的后果，站在一旁，愣住了。
苏珊走上前，开清了事情的来龙去脉后，她一声不吭，拿起 小 锅，使劲敲到托比的头上，托比没防备，一下子跌坐在草地 上，哇哇大哭起来。苏珊问托比：“疼吗？下次还这样吗？” 托比一边哭，一边拼命摇头。我相信他以后再也不会这么做了。
托比的舅舅送了他一辆浅蓝色的小自行车，托比非常喜欢， 当 成宝贝，不许别人碰。邻居小姑娘露西是托比的好朋友，央求托 比好几次，要骑他的小车，托比都没答应。
一次，几个孩子一起玩时，露西趁托比不注意，偷偷骑上小 车， 扬长而去。托比发现后，气愤地跑来向苏珊告状。苏珊正 和几个孩子的母亲一起聊天喝咖啡，便微笑着说：“你们的事情 自己解决，妈妈可管不了。”托比无奈地走了。
过了一小会儿，露西骑着小车回来了。托比看到露西，一把 将 她推倒在地，抢过了小车。露西坐在地上大哭起来。苏珊抱 起露西，安抚了她一会儿。很快，露西就和别的小朋友兴高采烈 地玩了起来。
托比自己骑了会车，觉得有些无聊，看到那几个孩子玩得那 么 高兴，他想加入，又觉得有些不好意思。他蹭到苏珊身边， 嘟囔道：“妈妈，我想跟露西他们一起玩。”苏珊不动声色 地说：“那你自己去找他们啦！”“妈妈，你陪我一起去。” 托比恳求道。“那可不行，刚才是你把露西弄哭的，现在你又想 和大家玩，就得自己去解决问题。”
托比骑着小车慢慢靠近露西，快到她身边时，又掉头回来。 来 回好几次，不知道从什么时候开始，托比和露西又笑逐颜开，闹 成了一团。
管教孩子是父母的事
苏珊的父母住在加利福尼亚州，听说我来了，两人开车来探 望 我们。家里来了客人，托比很兴奋，跑上跑下地乱窜。他把 玩沙子用的小桶装满了水，提着小桶在屋里四处转悠。苏珊 警告了她好几次，不要把水洒到地板上，托比置若罔闻。最 后，托比还是把水桶弄倒了，水洒了一地。兴奋的小托比不 觉得自己做错了事，还得意地光着脚丫踩水玩，把裤子全弄 湿了。我连忙找出拖把准备拖地。苏珊从我手中抢过拖把交 给托比，对他说：“把地拖干，把湿衣服脱下来，自己洗干 净。”托比不愿意，又哭又闹。苏珊二话不说，直接把他拉 到贮藏室，关了禁闭。听到托比在里面发出惊天动地的哭喊， 我心疼坏了，想进去把他抱出来。托比的外婆却拦住我，说： “这是苏珊的事。”
过了一会儿，托比不哭了，他在贮藏室里大声喊：“妈妈， 我 错了。”苏珊站在门外，问：“那你知道该怎么做了吗？” “我知道。”苏珊打开门，托比从贮藏室走出来，脸上还挂 着两行泪珠。他拿起有他两个高的拖把吃力地把地上的水拖 干净。然后，他脱下裤子，拎在手上，光着屁股走进洗手间，稀 里哗啦地洗起衣服来。
托比的外公外婆看着表情惊异的我，意味深长地笑了。这件 事 让我感触颇深。在很多中国家庭，父母管教孩子时，常常会 引起“世界大战”，往往是外婆外公护，爷爷奶奶拦，夫妻吵 架，鸡飞狗跳。
后来，我和托比的外公外婆聊天时，提到这件事，托比的外 公 说了一段话，让我印象深刻。他说，孩子是父母的孩子，首 先要尊重父母对孩子的教育方式。孩子虽然小，却是天生的 外交家，当他看到家庭成员之间出现分歧时，他会很聪明地 钻空子。这不仅对改善他的行为毫无益处，反而会导致问题 越来越严重，甚至带来更多别的问题。而且，家庭成员之间 发生冲突，不和谐的家庭氛围会带给孩子更多的不安全感， 对孩子的心理发展产生不利影响。所以，无论是父辈与祖辈 在教育孩子的问题上发生分歧，还是夫妻两人的教育观念有差 异，都不能在孩子面前发生冲突。
托比的外公外婆在家里住了一周，准备回加利福尼亚了。临 走 前两天，托比的外公郑重地问女儿：“托比想要一辆玩具挖 掘机，我可以买给他吗？”苏珊想了想，说：“你们这次来， 已经送给他一双旱冰鞋作为礼物了，到圣诞节时，再买玩具挖掘 机当礼物送给他吧！”
我不知道托比的外公是怎么告诉小家伙的，后来我带托比去 超 市，他指着玩具挖掘机说：“外公说，圣诞节时，给我买这个当 礼物。”语气里满是欣喜和期待。
虽然苏珊对托比如此严格，托比去却对妈妈爱得不得了。他 在 外面玩时，会采集一些好看的小花或者他认为漂亮的叶子， 郑重其事地送给妈妈；别人送给他礼物，他会叫妈妈和他一起拆 开；有什么好吃的，也总要留一半给妈妈。
想到很多中国孩子对父母的漠视与冷淡，我不得不佩服我的 洋 媳妇。在我看来，在教育孩子的问题上，美国妈妈有很多值得中 国妈妈学习的地方
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孩子虽然小，却是天生的外交家，当他看到家庭成员之间出现分歧时，他会很聪明地钻空子。这不仅对改善他的行为毫无益处，反而会导致问题 越来越严重，甚至带来更多别的问题。而且，家庭成员之间发生冲突，不和谐的家庭氛围会带给孩子更多的不安全感， 对孩子的心理发展产生不利影响。所以，无论是父辈与祖辈 在教育孩子的问题上发生分歧，还是夫妻两人的教育观念有差 异，都不能在孩子面前发生冲突。
如果家家都和睦，每個孩子的人格教育都能很完整，相信社會祥和很快就會實現！
教育，確實是一件不容易但又很重要的事情。要是大人沒有抓到孩子的脾性而好好教養孩子做人的道理、好的生活習慣，孩子就無法成就一個完整獨立的人格。這樣的影響是孩子的一生。
疼愛有長遠的眼光，以樹立孩子的人格為目標
寵愛是無止境的溺愛，會讓孩子無法成長。
一個星期前，我給孩子穿褲子時他不讓，還哭得特別大聲，褲子穿好后，他還扭著哭不停，而且越哭越大聲，甚至哭喊。我本來就是不理他，以爲他哭一會了以後就會停，誰知他不停，還越哭越起勁。最後，沒有辦法，我去把他拉過來想要跟他講道理，他就是不聼，直到他的爸爸來抱他出去，找東西給他玩。那一天過後，他每晚睡覺都不安穩，尤其當半夜起來要喝奶卻等太久時，他就開始大聲的哭泣。我一時也想不到爲何他那麽不安，還以爲是不舒服了。直到前兩天我才發現，原來是那一次的經驗導致這樣的情形。我媽說，盡量不要讓他哭，他不高興的時候，就找別的東西來分他的心。先生也說孩子要哄，轉移注意力后一下子就沒事了。。。我想，每個孩子都有他自己的個性和處理事情的反應。當然，從他出世開始，大人的處世態度和方式也有直接的影響。
身教是最重要的一環。當大人有正的動作時，小孩學到的就是正像的。所以，當孩子不乖或被認爲是問題孩子時，先該反省的，應該是帶孩子的大人。
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儿子去美国留学，毕业后定居美国。还给我找了个洋媳妇苏珊。 如今，小孙子托比已经3岁了。今年夏天，儿子为我申请 了探亲签证。在美国待了三个月，洋媳妇苏珊教育孩子的方法， 令我这个中国婆婆大开眼界。
不吃饭就饿着
每天早上，托比醒来后，苏珊把早餐往餐桌上一放，就自顾 自 地忙去了。托比会自己爬上凳子，喝牛奶，吃面包片。吃饱 后，他回自己的房间，在衣柜里找衣服、鞋子，再自己穿上。 毕竟托比只有3岁，还搞不清楚子的正反面，分不清鞋子 的左右脚。有一次托比又把裤子穿反了，我赶紧上前想帮他 换，却被苏珊制止了。她说，如果他觉得不舒服，会自己脱 下来，重新穿好；如果他没觉得有什么不舒服，那就随他的 便。那一整天，托比反穿着裤子跑来跑去，苏姗像没看见一样。
又一次，托比出去和邻居家的小朋友玩，没多大会就气喘吁 吁 地跑回家，对苏珊说：“妈妈，露西说我的裤子穿反了，真 的吗？”露西是邻居家的小姑娘，今年5岁。苏姗笑着说： “是的，你要不要换回来？”托比点点头，自己脱下裤子， 仔细看了看，重新穿上了。从那以后，托比再也没穿反过裤子。
我不禁想起，我的外孙女五六岁时不会用筷子，上小学时不 会 系鞋带。如今在上寄宿制初中的她，每个周末都要带回家一大堆 脏衣服呢。
一天中午，托比闹情绪，不肯吃饭。苏珊说了他几句，愤怒 地 小托比一把将盘子推到了地上，盘子里的食物洒了一地。苏 姗看着托比，认真地说：“看来你确实不想吃饭！记住，从 现在到明天早上，你什么都不能吃。”托比点点头，坚定地 回答：“Yes!”我在心里暗笑，这母子俩，还都挺倔！
下午，苏珊和我商量，晚上由我做中国菜。我心领神会，托 比 告别爱吃中国菜，一定是苏珊觉得托比中午没好好吃饭，想让他 晚上多吃点儿。
那天晚上我施展厨艺，做了托比最爱吃的糖醋里脊、油闷大 虾， 还用意大利面做了中国式的凉面。托比最喜欢吃那种凉面，小小 的人可以吃满满一大盘。
开始吃晚饭了，托比欢天喜地地爬上凳子。苏珊却走过来， 拿 走了他的盘子和刀叉，说：“我们已经约好了，今天你不能 吃饭，你自己也答应了的。”托比看着面容严肃的妈妈，“哇” 地一声在哭起来，边哭边说：“妈妈，我饿，我要吃饭。”“不 行，说过的话要算数。”苏珊毫不心软。
我心疼了，想替托比求情，说点好话，却见儿子对我使眼色 。 想起我刚到美国时，儿子就跟我说，在美国，父母教育孩子 时，别人千万不要插手，即使是长辈也不例外。无奈，我只好保 持沉默。
那顿饭，从始至终，可怜的小托比一直坐在玩具车里，眼巴 巴 地看着我们三个大人狼吞虎咽。我这才明白苏珊让我做中餐 的真正用意。我相信，下一次，托比想发脾气扔饭碗时，一 定会想起自己饿着肚子看爸爸妈妈和奶奶享用美食的经历。 饿着肚子的滋味不好受，况且还是面对自己最喜爱的食物。
临睡前，我和苏珊一起去向托比道晚安。托比小心翼翼地问 ： “妈妈，我很饿，现在我能吃中国面吗？”苏珊微笑着摇摇 头，坚决地说：“不！”托比叹了口气，又问：“那等我睡 完觉睁开眼睛时，可以吃吗？”“当然可以。”苏珊温柔地回 答。托比甜甜地笑了。
大部分情况下，托比吃饭都很积极，他不想因为“罢吃”而 错 过食物，再受饿肚子的苦。每当看到托比埋头大口大口地吃 饭，嘴上脸上粘的都是食物时，我就想起外孙女。她像托比 这么大时，为了哄她吃饭，几个大人端着饭碗跟在她屁股后 面跑，她还不买账，还要谈条件：吃完这碗买一个玩具，再吃一 碗买一个玩具……
以其人之道，还治其人这身
有一天，我们带托比去公园玩。很快，托比就和两个女孩儿 玩 起了厨房游戏。塑料小锅、小铲子、小盘子、小碗摆了一地。 忽然，淘气的托比拿起小锅，使劲在一个女孩儿头上敲了 一下，女孩儿愣了一下，放声大哭。另一个女孩儿年纪更小 一些，见些情形，也被吓得大哭起来。大概托比没想到会有这么 严重的后果，站在一旁，愣住了。
苏珊走上前，开清了事情的来龙去脉后，她一声不吭，拿起 小 锅，使劲敲到托比的头上，托比没防备，一下子跌坐在草地 上，哇哇大哭起来。苏珊问托比：“疼吗？下次还这样吗？” 托比一边哭，一边拼命摇头。我相信他以后再也不会这么做了。
托比的舅舅送了他一辆浅蓝色的小自行车，托比非常喜欢， 当 成宝贝，不许别人碰。邻居小姑娘露西是托比的好朋友，央求托 比好几次，要骑他的小车，托比都没答应。
一次，几个孩子一起玩时，露西趁托比不注意，偷偷骑上小 车， 扬长而去。托比发现后，气愤地跑来向苏珊告状。苏珊正 和几个孩子的母亲一起聊天喝咖啡，便微笑着说：“你们的事情 自己解决，妈妈可管不了。”托比无奈地走了。
过了一小会儿，露西骑着小车回来了。托比看到露西，一把 将 她推倒在地，抢过了小车。露西坐在地上大哭起来。苏珊抱 起露西，安抚了她一会儿。很快，露西就和别的小朋友兴高采烈 地玩了起来。
托比自己骑了会车，觉得有些无聊，看到那几个孩子玩得那 么 高兴，他想加入，又觉得有些不好意思。他蹭到苏珊身边， 嘟囔道：“妈妈，我想跟露西他们一起玩。”苏珊不动声色 地说：“那你自己去找他们啦！”“妈妈，你陪我一起去。” 托比恳求道。“那可不行，刚才是你把露西弄哭的，现在你又想 和大家玩，就得自己去解决问题。”
托比骑着小车慢慢靠近露西，快到她身边时，又掉头回来。 来 回好几次，不知道从什么时候开始，托比和露西又笑逐颜开，闹 成了一团。
管教孩子是父母的事
苏珊的父母住在加利福尼亚州，听说我来了，两人开车来探 望 我们。家里来了客人，托比很兴奋，跑上跑下地乱窜。他把 玩沙子用的小桶装满了水，提着小桶在屋里四处转悠。苏珊 警告了她好几次，不要把水洒到地板上，托比置若罔闻。最 后，托比还是把水桶弄倒了，水洒了一地。兴奋的小托比不 觉得自己做错了事，还得意地光着脚丫踩水玩，把裤子全弄 湿了。我连忙找出拖把准备拖地。苏珊从我手中抢过拖把交 给托比，对他说：“把地拖干，把湿衣服脱下来，自己洗干 净。”托比不愿意，又哭又闹。苏珊二话不说，直接把他拉 到贮藏室，关了禁闭。听到托比在里面发出惊天动地的哭喊， 我心疼坏了，想进去把他抱出来。托比的外婆却拦住我，说： “这是苏珊的事。”
过了一会儿，托比不哭了，他在贮藏室里大声喊：“妈妈， 我 错了。”苏珊站在门外，问：“那你知道该怎么做了吗？” “我知道。”苏珊打开门，托比从贮藏室走出来，脸上还挂 着两行泪珠。他拿起有他两个高的拖把吃力地把地上的水拖 干净。然后，他脱下裤子，拎在手上，光着屁股走进洗手间，稀 里哗啦地洗起衣服来。
托比的外公外婆看着表情惊异的我，意味深长地笑了。这件 事 让我感触颇深。在很多中国家庭，父母管教孩子时，常常会 引起“世界大战”，往往是外婆外公护，爷爷奶奶拦，夫妻吵 架，鸡飞狗跳。
后来，我和托比的外公外婆聊天时，提到这件事，托比的外 公 说了一段话，让我印象深刻。他说，孩子是父母的孩子，首 先要尊重父母对孩子的教育方式。孩子虽然小，却是天生的 外交家，当他看到家庭成员之间出现分歧时，他会很聪明地 钻空子。这不仅对改善他的行为毫无益处，反而会导致问题 越来越严重，甚至带来更多别的问题。而且，家庭成员之间 发生冲突，不和谐的家庭氛围会带给孩子更多的不安全感， 对孩子的心理发展产生不利影响。所以，无论是父辈与祖辈 在教育孩子的问题上发生分歧，还是夫妻两人的教育观念有差 异，都不能在孩子面前发生冲突。
托比的外公外婆在家里住了一周，准备回加利福尼亚了。临 走 前两天，托比的外公郑重地问女儿：“托比想要一辆玩具挖 掘机，我可以买给他吗？”苏珊想了想，说：“你们这次来， 已经送给他一双旱冰鞋作为礼物了，到圣诞节时，再买玩具挖掘 机当礼物送给他吧！”
我不知道托比的外公是怎么告诉小家伙的，后来我带托比去 超 市，他指着玩具挖掘机说：“外公说，圣诞节时，给我买这个当 礼物。”语气里满是欣喜和期待。
虽然苏珊对托比如此严格，托比去却对妈妈爱得不得了。他 在 外面玩时，会采集一些好看的小花或者他认为漂亮的叶子， 郑重其事地送给妈妈；别人送给他礼物，他会叫妈妈和他一起拆 开；有什么好吃的，也总要留一半给妈妈。
想到很多中国孩子对父母的漠视与冷淡，我不得不佩服我的 洋 媳妇。在我看来，在教育孩子的问题上，美国妈妈有很多值得中 国妈妈学习的地方
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孩子虽然小，却是天生的外交家，当他看到家庭成员之间出现分歧时，他会很聪明地钻空子。这不仅对改善他的行为毫无益处，反而会导致问题 越来越严重，甚至带来更多别的问题。而且，家庭成员之间发生冲突，不和谐的家庭氛围会带给孩子更多的不安全感， 对孩子的心理发展产生不利影响。所以，无论是父辈与祖辈 在教育孩子的问题上发生分歧，还是夫妻两人的教育观念有差 异，都不能在孩子面前发生冲突。
如果家家都和睦，每個孩子的人格教育都能很完整，相信社會祥和很快就會實現！
Monday, July 5, 2010
Cucumber Power - Amazing!!
Cucumber Power - Blogdate 1/26/10
from http://thegardendiet.com/kidsblog/
I bet every fruit and vegetable is a miracle food on this level....
The Amazing Cucumber
This information was in The New York Times several weeks ago as part of their "Spotlight on the Home" series that highlighted creative and fanciful ways to solve common problems. �
1. Cucumbers contain most of the vitamins you need every day, just one cucumber contains Vitamin B1, Vitamin B2, Vitamin B3, Vitamin B5, Vitamin B6, Folic Acid, Vitamin C, Calcium, Iron, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Potassium and Zinc.
2. Feeling tired in the afternoon, put down the caffeinated soda and pick up a cucumber.� Cucumbers are a good source of B Vitamins and Carbohydrates that can provide that quick pick-me-up that can last for hours.
3. Tired of your bathroom mirror fogging up after a shower?� Try rubbing a cucumber slice along the mirror, it will eliminate the fog and provide a soothing, spa-like fragrance.
4. Are grubs and slugs ruining your planting beds?� Place a few slices in a small pie tin and your garden will be free of pests all season long.� The chemicals in the cucumber react with the aluminum to give off a scent undetectable to humans but drive garden pests crazy and make them flee the area.
5. Looking for a fast and easy way to remove cellulite before going out or to the pool?� Try rubbing a slice or two of cucumbers along your problem area for a few minutes, the phytochemicals in the cucumber cause the collagen in your skin to tighten, firming up the outer layer and reducing the visibility of cellulite.� Works great on wrinkles too!!!
6. Want to avoid a hangover or terrible headache?� Eat a few cucumber slices before going to bed and wake up refreshed and headache free. Cucumbers contain enough sugar, B vitamins and electrolytes to replenish essential nutrients the body lost, keeping everything in equilibrium, avoiding both a hangover and headache!!
7. Looking to fight off that afternoon or evening snacking binge? Cucumbers have been used for centuries and often used by European trappers, traders and explores for quick meals to thwart off starvation.
8. Have an important meeting or job interview and you realize that you don't have enough time to polish your shoes?� Rub a freshly cut cucumber over the shoe, its chemicals will provide a quick and durable shine that not only looks great but also repels water.
9. Out of WD 40 and need to fix a squeaky hinge?� Take a cucumber slice and rub it along the problematic hinge, and voila, the squeak is gone!
10. Stressed out and don't have time for massage, facial or visit to the spa?� Cut up an entire cucumber and place it in a boiling pot of water, the chemicals and nutrients from the cucumber with react with the boiling water and be released in the steam, creating a soothing, relaxing aroma that has been shown the reduce stress in new mothers and college students during final exams.
11. Just finish a business lunch and realize you don't have gum or mints?� Take a slice of cucumber and press it to the roof of your mouth with your tongue for 30 seconds to eliminate bad breath, the phytochemcials will kill the bacteria in your mouth responsible for causing bad breath.
12. Looking for a 'green' way to clean your faucets, sinks or stainless steel?� Take a slice of cucumber and rub it on the surface you want to clean, not only will it remove years of tarnish and bring back the shine, but is won't leave streaks and won't harm you fingers or fingernails while you clean.
13. Using a pen and made a mistake?� Take the outside of the cucumber and slowly use it to erase the pen writing, also works great on crayons and markers that the kids have used to decorate the walls!!
from http://thegardendiet.com/kidsblog/
I bet every fruit and vegetable is a miracle food on this level....
The Amazing Cucumber
This information was in The New York Times several weeks ago as part of their "Spotlight on the Home" series that highlighted creative and fanciful ways to solve common problems. �
1. Cucumbers contain most of the vitamins you need every day, just one cucumber contains Vitamin B1, Vitamin B2, Vitamin B3, Vitamin B5, Vitamin B6, Folic Acid, Vitamin C, Calcium, Iron, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Potassium and Zinc.
2. Feeling tired in the afternoon, put down the caffeinated soda and pick up a cucumber.� Cucumbers are a good source of B Vitamins and Carbohydrates that can provide that quick pick-me-up that can last for hours.
3. Tired of your bathroom mirror fogging up after a shower?� Try rubbing a cucumber slice along the mirror, it will eliminate the fog and provide a soothing, spa-like fragrance.
4. Are grubs and slugs ruining your planting beds?� Place a few slices in a small pie tin and your garden will be free of pests all season long.� The chemicals in the cucumber react with the aluminum to give off a scent undetectable to humans but drive garden pests crazy and make them flee the area.
5. Looking for a fast and easy way to remove cellulite before going out or to the pool?� Try rubbing a slice or two of cucumbers along your problem area for a few minutes, the phytochemicals in the cucumber cause the collagen in your skin to tighten, firming up the outer layer and reducing the visibility of cellulite.� Works great on wrinkles too!!!
6. Want to avoid a hangover or terrible headache?� Eat a few cucumber slices before going to bed and wake up refreshed and headache free. Cucumbers contain enough sugar, B vitamins and electrolytes to replenish essential nutrients the body lost, keeping everything in equilibrium, avoiding both a hangover and headache!!
7. Looking to fight off that afternoon or evening snacking binge? Cucumbers have been used for centuries and often used by European trappers, traders and explores for quick meals to thwart off starvation.
8. Have an important meeting or job interview and you realize that you don't have enough time to polish your shoes?� Rub a freshly cut cucumber over the shoe, its chemicals will provide a quick and durable shine that not only looks great but also repels water.
9. Out of WD 40 and need to fix a squeaky hinge?� Take a cucumber slice and rub it along the problematic hinge, and voila, the squeak is gone!
10. Stressed out and don't have time for massage, facial or visit to the spa?� Cut up an entire cucumber and place it in a boiling pot of water, the chemicals and nutrients from the cucumber with react with the boiling water and be released in the steam, creating a soothing, relaxing aroma that has been shown the reduce stress in new mothers and college students during final exams.
11. Just finish a business lunch and realize you don't have gum or mints?� Take a slice of cucumber and press it to the roof of your mouth with your tongue for 30 seconds to eliminate bad breath, the phytochemcials will kill the bacteria in your mouth responsible for causing bad breath.
12. Looking for a 'green' way to clean your faucets, sinks or stainless steel?� Take a slice of cucumber and rub it on the surface you want to clean, not only will it remove years of tarnish and bring back the shine, but is won't leave streaks and won't harm you fingers or fingernails while you clean.
13. Using a pen and made a mistake?� Take the outside of the cucumber and slowly use it to erase the pen writing, also works great on crayons and markers that the kids have used to decorate the walls!!
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Is Cows Milk Good for Us?
Do we ever see any species nourish on other species' milk? I think apart from man-made occasion, human beings is the only species on earth that is feeding our babies with milk from other species, and with claims that they are better than our own human milk.
Humans being claimed as the one with wisdom on earth, and yet we do things the reverse way... Irony isn't?
Apparently, those people who rigorously promoting cow's milk over breastmilk for infant consumption is looking for good profit because they cannot make money out of mother's milk. Yup, when we breastfeed, we save thousands of dollars from buying formula/cow's milk and from health problem cause by cow's milk. The only person making money from this is the breastpump seller, which is only one time deal throughout the breastfeeding period.
Is cow's milk not good? Definitely not, cow's milk is the best for the calf. It is just not the best for human infant.
There are more and more scientific facts about why cow's milk is not the best for human consumption over these years. These reports just couldn't make themselves easily available for the public by the big milk company.
Cow's milk is not only not the best food for human infant; it is not the perfect food for human adult as well.
Below are some facts about cow's milk:
1. China Study - animal protein/casein can turn on cancer activity in our body
2. animal protein is mucus forming (so next time when you drink orange juice and develop phlegm, don't blame it on orange juice, you now know who's the culprit)
3. Cow's milk goes through many processes such as pasteurization, heating process and homogenization that alter the protein and fat structure and affects its nutritional value as well as digestion
4. the protein content has 80% casein 20% whey, comparing with mother's milk 40% casein 60% whey, is harder to be digested by babies
5. cow's milk has high saturated fat and very low essential fatty acids that is critical for babies' growth
6. cow's milk contains little amount of vitamin E, C, B and trace mineral
7. it doesn't have good bacteria for babies' guts like mother's milk
8. cow's milk does not build bone, instead the animal protein leach calcium from the bone. Study shown that those who get the most calcium from dairy products received no benefit and actually broke more bones than those who got little or no calcium from dairy. [1]
9. cows grown for milk live under stressed condition due to over-milk, diseases and infections. Milk from these cow are often loaded with variety of hormones, antibiotics and drugs.
For those who love and enjoy drinking milk, you can try non-dairy milk such as almond nut milk, sesame/pumpkin/sunflower seeds milk instead. It provides you good fat, plant-base protein and better absorption of calcium without the negative effects of dairy products.
Note:
[1]. Feskanich D, Willett WC, Stampfer MJ, Colditz GA. Milk, dietary calcium, and bone fractures in women: a 12-year prospective study. Am J Publ Health 1997;87:992-7.
Humans being claimed as the one with wisdom on earth, and yet we do things the reverse way... Irony isn't?
Apparently, those people who rigorously promoting cow's milk over breastmilk for infant consumption is looking for good profit because they cannot make money out of mother's milk. Yup, when we breastfeed, we save thousands of dollars from buying formula/cow's milk and from health problem cause by cow's milk. The only person making money from this is the breastpump seller, which is only one time deal throughout the breastfeeding period.
Is cow's milk not good? Definitely not, cow's milk is the best for the calf. It is just not the best for human infant.
There are more and more scientific facts about why cow's milk is not the best for human consumption over these years. These reports just couldn't make themselves easily available for the public by the big milk company.
Cow's milk is not only not the best food for human infant; it is not the perfect food for human adult as well.
Below are some facts about cow's milk:
1. China Study - animal protein/casein can turn on cancer activity in our body
2. animal protein is mucus forming (so next time when you drink orange juice and develop phlegm, don't blame it on orange juice, you now know who's the culprit)
3. Cow's milk goes through many processes such as pasteurization, heating process and homogenization that alter the protein and fat structure and affects its nutritional value as well as digestion
4. the protein content has 80% casein 20% whey, comparing with mother's milk 40% casein 60% whey, is harder to be digested by babies
5. cow's milk has high saturated fat and very low essential fatty acids that is critical for babies' growth
6. cow's milk contains little amount of vitamin E, C, B and trace mineral
7. it doesn't have good bacteria for babies' guts like mother's milk
8. cow's milk does not build bone, instead the animal protein leach calcium from the bone. Study shown that those who get the most calcium from dairy products received no benefit and actually broke more bones than those who got little or no calcium from dairy. [1]
9. cows grown for milk live under stressed condition due to over-milk, diseases and infections. Milk from these cow are often loaded with variety of hormones, antibiotics and drugs.
For those who love and enjoy drinking milk, you can try non-dairy milk such as almond nut milk, sesame/pumpkin/sunflower seeds milk instead. It provides you good fat, plant-base protein and better absorption of calcium without the negative effects of dairy products.
Note:
[1]. Feskanich D, Willett WC, Stampfer MJ, Colditz GA. Milk, dietary calcium, and bone fractures in women: a 12-year prospective study. Am J Publ Health 1997;87:992-7.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
How does MSG and Aspartame Affect our Health - Summary
I realized that the previous write up on summary from Dr. Blaylock about MSG is too long for some people to finish reading it. Here’s the simple conclusion I made from the article, to enable easier guidelines for everyone:
1. MSG can cause obesity, diarrhea, upset stomach, irritable bowel or reflux in mild effect.
2. MSG can cause serious problem such as sudden cardiac death, destroy nervous system, dementia and brain atrophy.
3. MSG can be camouflaged in other names such as yeast extract/enzymes, soy protein isolates, hydrolyzed protein and caseinate, soy extract, soy broth, that are found in many vegetarian health foods as well as infant and toddlers foods.
4. Soy Infant formula contains unhealthy fluoride level, manganese level and glutamate levels. Mothers of vegetarian/lactose intolerant-babies, please be extra careful when choosing soy infant formula. Breastfeeding is the best!!
5. Glutamate from natural food, when consumed as whole food (not extracted) is harmless.
6. Most of the local restaurants add MSG in their cuisine. If any restaurants said “free of MSG” it only means they didn’t put in there themselves. This is due to many sources/flavoring they buy are with unknown ingredients.
7. Aspartame is linked to lymphoma and leukemia related cancer.
8. Aspartame is DNA damaging and make cancer grow very rapidly
Please make an effort to avoid taking food with MSG and aspartame for our own health sake. Natural whole food is the best and home cuisine is the best!
1. MSG can cause obesity, diarrhea, upset stomach, irritable bowel or reflux in mild effect.
2. MSG can cause serious problem such as sudden cardiac death, destroy nervous system, dementia and brain atrophy.
3. MSG can be camouflaged in other names such as yeast extract/enzymes, soy protein isolates, hydrolyzed protein and caseinate, soy extract, soy broth, that are found in many vegetarian health foods as well as infant and toddlers foods.
4. Soy Infant formula contains unhealthy fluoride level, manganese level and glutamate levels. Mothers of vegetarian/lactose intolerant-babies, please be extra careful when choosing soy infant formula. Breastfeeding is the best!!
5. Glutamate from natural food, when consumed as whole food (not extracted) is harmless.
6. Most of the local restaurants add MSG in their cuisine. If any restaurants said “free of MSG” it only means they didn’t put in there themselves. This is due to many sources/flavoring they buy are with unknown ingredients.
7. Aspartame is linked to lymphoma and leukemia related cancer.
8. Aspartame is DNA damaging and make cancer grow very rapidly
Please make an effort to avoid taking food with MSG and aspartame for our own health sake. Natural whole food is the best and home cuisine is the best!
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Bring on the learning revolution!
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
每週證嚴法師說故事 - 石頭與軟玉
雖然眼、耳、鼻、舌、身等五根，易與塵境相合而造惡業；但五根也有增上力量，善加運用，就能為自我生命創造出價值。
一名年輕比丘跟隨師父修行，常問師父：人生的價值為何？一日，師父拿出一顆石頭，要他拿到市集讓人出價。
某甲出價兩元，某乙看見說可做秤錘，出價十元；翌日比丘再到市集，多人圍觀讚歎石頭很美，當場有人出一千元高價，旁邊的人馬上出更高價錢競爭……最後，竟然喊到十萬元！
比丘不解，回去向師父報告。師父藉此機緣開示：「任何東西都有價值，包括石頭在內，端看如何運用。人生價值的高低，也不在於外在眼光，而在於我們給自己的評價——要具備珠寶商的眼光，發現自身寶藏，創造人生價值。」
多年前，一位居士送一顆方形的蛇紋石來花蓮；因精舍簡陋無處置放，就擱在大殿外的草坪。一位泰國法師來到精舍參訪，看到這塊「軟玉」，讚歎好美！遂以此致贈法師，他十分歡喜，說要帶回泰國雕成一尊玉佛。
人生的價值在於自我創造，這塊「軟玉」若一直閒置，永遠只是一塊石頭；雕成佛像讓人敬奉，價值就能發揮。
若根塵和意識糾纏、貪戀，模糊了判斷，會糟蹋自己內在最有價值的佛性。生命的價值可以擴大、可以加深，端看自我能否時時多用心！
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喜歡這一句：要具備珠寶商的眼光，發現自身寶藏，創造人生價值。
上人有句靜思語：不要小看自己，因爲人有無限可能。也許東方人的教育關係，我發現，當我們問一個人他有什麽長處時，普遍上，大家都比較容易說出自己的很多缺點，而數不出自己的優點。謙虛、縮小自己是美德，但是，往往在這樣的教育下，我們忘了自己的價值而沒有好好發揮良能。
願人人都是自身珠寶商，發現自己的寶藏，發揮無限的良能，服務和奉獻人群。
一名年輕比丘跟隨師父修行，常問師父：人生的價值為何？一日，師父拿出一顆石頭，要他拿到市集讓人出價。
某甲出價兩元，某乙看見說可做秤錘，出價十元；翌日比丘再到市集，多人圍觀讚歎石頭很美，當場有人出一千元高價，旁邊的人馬上出更高價錢競爭……最後，竟然喊到十萬元！
比丘不解，回去向師父報告。師父藉此機緣開示：「任何東西都有價值，包括石頭在內，端看如何運用。人生價值的高低，也不在於外在眼光，而在於我們給自己的評價——要具備珠寶商的眼光，發現自身寶藏，創造人生價值。」
多年前，一位居士送一顆方形的蛇紋石來花蓮；因精舍簡陋無處置放，就擱在大殿外的草坪。一位泰國法師來到精舍參訪，看到這塊「軟玉」，讚歎好美！遂以此致贈法師，他十分歡喜，說要帶回泰國雕成一尊玉佛。
人生的價值在於自我創造，這塊「軟玉」若一直閒置，永遠只是一塊石頭；雕成佛像讓人敬奉，價值就能發揮。
若根塵和意識糾纏、貪戀，模糊了判斷，會糟蹋自己內在最有價值的佛性。生命的價值可以擴大、可以加深，端看自我能否時時多用心！
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喜歡這一句：要具備珠寶商的眼光，發現自身寶藏，創造人生價值。
上人有句靜思語：不要小看自己，因爲人有無限可能。也許東方人的教育關係，我發現，當我們問一個人他有什麽長處時，普遍上，大家都比較容易說出自己的很多缺點，而數不出自己的優點。謙虛、縮小自己是美德，但是，往往在這樣的教育下，我們忘了自己的價值而沒有好好發揮良能。
願人人都是自身珠寶商，發現自己的寶藏，發揮無限的良能，服務和奉獻人群。
Monday, June 21, 2010
Noni Fruit Juice - Is it really good for us?
I accidentally came across some articles and comments about noni juice last week and 2 days later, I received an email from a well-hearted friend sharing an article on the benefit of drinking noni fruits. It leads me to writing this...
Below are some of the websites that talked about Noni and commented that it is not as good as it claimed...
http://www.fredericpatenaude.com/blog/?p=52
http://www.livescience.com/health/061017_bad_juice.html
http://noni.worldwidewarning.net/index.php
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art4883.asp
It seems that the actual 'real' noni juice is very horrible tasting and the Tahitian only eat it for medical purposes. The juice is prepared by putting these weird-smelling noni fruits in a jar and let them ferment for several days before collecting the fermented juice. The smell is equalized to the smell of liquid that formed at the bottom of a trash container!! However, it is made palatable by adding a lot of sugar and unknown stuffs and sell it with very high price with claims of great values to justify for the price.
I have heard of noni juice since many years ago from friends and relatives. However, I was never paying any attention to it and never have a taste on it before. Anyhow, with so many claims that it is good for health, for years, I thought it is a good product for health until recently. Learning nutrition and in the path of looking for a natural way to achieve healthy living, this leads me to open my eyes to many products selling in the market to distinguish the bad from the bundles.
I personally do not have any experience with Noni Juice. Just would like to provide more information for everyone as reference. With so many scam and false information out there, we really need to choose carefully and wisely before spending our hard-earned money on things that might not benefit us, or could even cause harm to us.
Below are some of the websites that talked about Noni and commented that it is not as good as it claimed...
http://www.fredericpatenaude.com/blog/?p=52
http://www.livescience.com/health/061017_bad_juice.html
http://noni.worldwidewarning.net/index.php
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art4883.asp
It seems that the actual 'real' noni juice is very horrible tasting and the Tahitian only eat it for medical purposes. The juice is prepared by putting these weird-smelling noni fruits in a jar and let them ferment for several days before collecting the fermented juice. The smell is equalized to the smell of liquid that formed at the bottom of a trash container!! However, it is made palatable by adding a lot of sugar and unknown stuffs and sell it with very high price with claims of great values to justify for the price.
I have heard of noni juice since many years ago from friends and relatives. However, I was never paying any attention to it and never have a taste on it before. Anyhow, with so many claims that it is good for health, for years, I thought it is a good product for health until recently. Learning nutrition and in the path of looking for a natural way to achieve healthy living, this leads me to open my eyes to many products selling in the market to distinguish the bad from the bundles.
I personally do not have any experience with Noni Juice. Just would like to provide more information for everyone as reference. With so many scam and false information out there, we really need to choose carefully and wisely before spending our hard-earned money on things that might not benefit us, or could even cause harm to us.
Friday, June 18, 2010
How does MSG and Aspartame Affect our Health
MSG (monosodium glutamate) is a common name that most people familiar of. It is known that adding some MSG in the food during cooking can make the dish so much more delicious, and I suspect almost all foods that we buy from any restaurants and hawker stalls are MSG-added. The advertisements said it enhances the taste of the dishes while providing us amino acids that are needed by our body. Is it really so? Is it really harmless to our health?
Monosodium Glutamate is a sodium salt naturally occurring from non-essential amino acid, glutamic acid. However, the sodium salt is nothing but natural to our body when it is ingested in this form.
Aspartame is an artificial sweetener that many uses as substitute of sugar in health products and diet foods. I have even seen many candies in the market that are using aspartame now a days instead of sugar, which is happily ingested by kids in daily basis, and 3-in-1 coffee that is very commonly consumed by working class and students.
I was reading the interview of Dr. Blaylock with Mike Adams [2] on the topics about MSG and Aspartame and I think many might be interested in the information revealed by him. Below are the extract from his sharing:
MSG:
1. When cancer cells were exposed to MSG, they become more mobile and that enhances metastasis or spread --> started moving through tissues
2. If a person has low level magnesium in his body, ingesting MSG will cause the level of glutamate in the blood rise as high as 20 to 40-fold and he is prone to sudden cardiac death. Other milder effects are diarrhea, upset stomach, irritable bowel or reflux.
3. Many food manufacturers substitute MSG with hydrolyzed protein and caseinate, soy extracts, soy broth, that are actually also source of glutamate. Some were even found in infant and toddlers foods.
4. Glutamate destroys nervous system
5. Early observation with exitotoxicity of glutamate is obesity. MSG-exposed animals is found to prefer carbohydrates and sugar-rich foods.
6. Yeast extracts, soy extracts and soy protein isolates, which are found in lots of vegetarian health foods, contain high levels of glutamate.
7. In a 25-year study done, people who consumed the most soy products were followed for 25 years and did serial CT scans of their brain. It is found that the people who consumed the most soybean products had the greatest incidence of dementia (癡呆） and brain atrophy (shrinking brain that might bring to decrease in functionally of the brain).
8. In natural food (such as tomatoes), all types of glutamate are bound in amino acids grouping and we absorb it slowly as combined amino acids that is broken down in the liver where it's released in very low concentrations that the body can deal with.
9. When we hydrolyze these proteins or use yeast extract/enzymes to break down these proteins into free released amino acids, they are no longer natural. When they enter our GI tract, they are absorbed as free amino acids and cause the glutamate level in the blood goes up significantly. Our body and blood brain barrier is not constructed to handle such high levels of glutamate.
10. Magnesium can block glutamate receptor and naturally reduces toxicity. Antioxidant is powerful at inhibiting excitotoxicity. Combination of B vitamins also block excitotoxicity.
11. Usually restaurants buy their sauces in bulk with no ingredients listed. "Free of MSG" means they didn't put in there themselves.
12. Infant formula: concern about fluoride level, manganese level and the glutamate levels in the soy infant formulas.
13. we are all exposed to toxins in the modern living -- mercury, aluminum, pesticides, herbicides that produce brain damage through an excitotoxic mechanism. When we add MSG to the foods, we tremendously accelerate this toxicity. That's why we see this explosion in neurodegenerative diseases; Alzheimer's and autism and Parkinson's.
Aspartame:
1. When animals being fed with aspartame throughout their lives and let them die a natural death, a dramatic and statistically significant increase in the related cancers of lymphoma and leukemia is found. This is the same effect as exposure to the same doses of formaldehyde (classified by WHO in June 1994 as a known human carcinogen associated with nasal sinus cancer and nasopharyngeal cancer, and possibly with leukemia [1])
2. If you just drink a single diet cola today or sweeten something with NutraSweet (a brand of aspartame), you are accumulating damage everyday. Eventually you are going to produce this necessary pattern of DNA damage to initiate the cancer. Then the aspartic acid component of aspartame will make the cancer grow very rapidly. --> Aspartame causes cancer, and making the cancer multiply very rapidly.
Advice from Dr. Blaylock:
We need to abstain from all these things. Aspartame is not a necessary nutrient and neither is MSG. If you want to avoid obesity, metabolic syndrome, neurodegenerative diseases and cancer, and if you don't want to make your cancer more aggressive, then you need to stay away from these products. The damage affects pregnant women, unborn babies and newborns. It can produce changes in the brain that are irreversible, depending on when it is stopped. It is found it reprograms the wiring of the brain, particularly the hypothalamus, so it doesn't function normally. These children are abnormal for the rest of their lives in terms of their physiological function.
References:
[1]Wikipedia - formaldehyde
[2] The Truth About Aspartame, MSG and Excitotoxins, An Interview with Dr. Russell Blaylock with Mike Adams, Truth Publishing.
Monosodium Glutamate is a sodium salt naturally occurring from non-essential amino acid, glutamic acid. However, the sodium salt is nothing but natural to our body when it is ingested in this form.
Aspartame is an artificial sweetener that many uses as substitute of sugar in health products and diet foods. I have even seen many candies in the market that are using aspartame now a days instead of sugar, which is happily ingested by kids in daily basis, and 3-in-1 coffee that is very commonly consumed by working class and students.
I was reading the interview of Dr. Blaylock with Mike Adams [2] on the topics about MSG and Aspartame and I think many might be interested in the information revealed by him. Below are the extract from his sharing:
MSG:
1. When cancer cells were exposed to MSG, they become more mobile and that enhances metastasis or spread --> started moving through tissues
2. If a person has low level magnesium in his body, ingesting MSG will cause the level of glutamate in the blood rise as high as 20 to 40-fold and he is prone to sudden cardiac death. Other milder effects are diarrhea, upset stomach, irritable bowel or reflux.
3. Many food manufacturers substitute MSG with hydrolyzed protein and caseinate, soy extracts, soy broth, that are actually also source of glutamate. Some were even found in infant and toddlers foods.
4. Glutamate destroys nervous system
5. Early observation with exitotoxicity of glutamate is obesity. MSG-exposed animals is found to prefer carbohydrates and sugar-rich foods.
6. Yeast extracts, soy extracts and soy protein isolates, which are found in lots of vegetarian health foods, contain high levels of glutamate.
7. In a 25-year study done, people who consumed the most soy products were followed for 25 years and did serial CT scans of their brain. It is found that the people who consumed the most soybean products had the greatest incidence of dementia (癡呆） and brain atrophy (shrinking brain that might bring to decrease in functionally of the brain).
8. In natural food (such as tomatoes), all types of glutamate are bound in amino acids grouping and we absorb it slowly as combined amino acids that is broken down in the liver where it's released in very low concentrations that the body can deal with.
9. When we hydrolyze these proteins or use yeast extract/enzymes to break down these proteins into free released amino acids, they are no longer natural. When they enter our GI tract, they are absorbed as free amino acids and cause the glutamate level in the blood goes up significantly. Our body and blood brain barrier is not constructed to handle such high levels of glutamate.
10. Magnesium can block glutamate receptor and naturally reduces toxicity. Antioxidant is powerful at inhibiting excitotoxicity. Combination of B vitamins also block excitotoxicity.
11. Usually restaurants buy their sauces in bulk with no ingredients listed. "Free of MSG" means they didn't put in there themselves.
12. Infant formula: concern about fluoride level, manganese level and the glutamate levels in the soy infant formulas.
13. we are all exposed to toxins in the modern living -- mercury, aluminum, pesticides, herbicides that produce brain damage through an excitotoxic mechanism. When we add MSG to the foods, we tremendously accelerate this toxicity. That's why we see this explosion in neurodegenerative diseases; Alzheimer's and autism and Parkinson's.
Aspartame:
1. When animals being fed with aspartame throughout their lives and let them die a natural death, a dramatic and statistically significant increase in the related cancers of lymphoma and leukemia is found. This is the same effect as exposure to the same doses of formaldehyde (classified by WHO in June 1994 as a known human carcinogen associated with nasal sinus cancer and nasopharyngeal cancer, and possibly with leukemia [1])
2. If you just drink a single diet cola today or sweeten something with NutraSweet (a brand of aspartame), you are accumulating damage everyday. Eventually you are going to produce this necessary pattern of DNA damage to initiate the cancer. Then the aspartic acid component of aspartame will make the cancer grow very rapidly. --> Aspartame causes cancer, and making the cancer multiply very rapidly.
Advice from Dr. Blaylock:
We need to abstain from all these things. Aspartame is not a necessary nutrient and neither is MSG. If you want to avoid obesity, metabolic syndrome, neurodegenerative diseases and cancer, and if you don't want to make your cancer more aggressive, then you need to stay away from these products. The damage affects pregnant women, unborn babies and newborns. It can produce changes in the brain that are irreversible, depending on when it is stopped. It is found it reprograms the wiring of the brain, particularly the hypothalamus, so it doesn't function normally. These children are abnormal for the rest of their lives in terms of their physiological function.
References:
[1]Wikipedia - formaldehyde
[2] The Truth About Aspartame, MSG and Excitotoxins, An Interview with Dr. Russell Blaylock with Mike Adams, Truth Publishing.
Monday, May 31, 2010
Five Ways You Can Gain Health and Vitality for Free (or Nearly Free)
(NaturalNews) They say the best things in life are free, and when it comes to your health it couldn't be more true. Sure, anyone can spend a fortune on superfoods, detox treatments and natural cleaning products. And while all of these can be beneficial, sometimes it's more than our budgets can handle. We have to prioritize and do what we can to live a healthy lifestyle in whatever place we are in life. Fortunately, good health doesn't have to cost an arm and a leg. Here are five ways anyone can boost their health and vitality without spending a dime (or maybe just a few dimes):
1. Sunlight
Thank goodness Uncle Sam hasn't figured out how to patent and tax the health benefits of a daily dose of sun. Spending 10-20 minutes in direct sunlight every day is the perfect way to boost your vitamin D and serotonin supply. It can help regulate your circadian rhythm as well. Your physical health and your mental well-being will thank you.
2. Dry Skin Brushing
One of the most effective - and inexpensive - detox treatments imaginable is dry skin brushing. All you need is a simple natural-hair brush and a few minutes before you hop into the shower each morning. Dry skin brushing stimulates detoxification through lymphatic circulation. It also gently exfoliates, leaving skin soft and supple. Read more about dry brushing here:
http://www.naturalnews.com/025240.html
3. Hot Baths
Right up there with dry skin brushing, a comfortably hot bath is a simple and inexpensive way to detox. Not to mention 20 minutes in the tub is a perfect way to relax and unwind after a hectic day. And why not light a few candles and put on your favorite music while you're at it? Add apple cider vinegar, baking soda, sea salt or epsom salt to your bath to really facilitate detoxification.
4. Warm Water and Lemon in the Morning
Breakfast may be called the most important meal of the day, but before chowing down, try this: have at least 8 ounces of warm water with a slice of lemon or just some lemon juice shortly after waking in the morning. This rehydrates the body after a long night and supports the kidneys as well as the digestive system. Then have breakfast a half hour later. Now that's the way to start the day.
5. Mother Nature
Similar to the first suggestion but not quite the same, spend some time in nature as much as possible. A few minutes a day can work wonders. People weren't meant to spend life indoors under fluorescent lights and in front of computer screens. Escape to a park, a garden or your own backyard. Even houseplants can help. The presence of natural water, such as a lake, stream or ocean, is especially soothing and revitalizing. If this is something you can't do every day, then try to make a block of time for nature on a weekly basis instead.
1. Sunlight
Thank goodness Uncle Sam hasn't figured out how to patent and tax the health benefits of a daily dose of sun. Spending 10-20 minutes in direct sunlight every day is the perfect way to boost your vitamin D and serotonin supply. It can help regulate your circadian rhythm as well. Your physical health and your mental well-being will thank you.
2. Dry Skin Brushing
One of the most effective - and inexpensive - detox treatments imaginable is dry skin brushing. All you need is a simple natural-hair brush and a few minutes before you hop into the shower each morning. Dry skin brushing stimulates detoxification through lymphatic circulation. It also gently exfoliates, leaving skin soft and supple. Read more about dry brushing here:
http://www.naturalnews.com/025240.html
3. Hot Baths
Right up there with dry skin brushing, a comfortably hot bath is a simple and inexpensive way to detox. Not to mention 20 minutes in the tub is a perfect way to relax and unwind after a hectic day. And why not light a few candles and put on your favorite music while you're at it? Add apple cider vinegar, baking soda, sea salt or epsom salt to your bath to really facilitate detoxification.
4. Warm Water and Lemon in the Morning
Breakfast may be called the most important meal of the day, but before chowing down, try this: have at least 8 ounces of warm water with a slice of lemon or just some lemon juice shortly after waking in the morning. This rehydrates the body after a long night and supports the kidneys as well as the digestive system. Then have breakfast a half hour later. Now that's the way to start the day.
5. Mother Nature
Similar to the first suggestion but not quite the same, spend some time in nature as much as possible. A few minutes a day can work wonders. People weren't meant to spend life indoors under fluorescent lights and in front of computer screens. Escape to a park, a garden or your own backyard. Even houseplants can help. The presence of natural water, such as a lake, stream or ocean, is especially soothing and revitalizing. If this is something you can't do every day, then try to make a block of time for nature on a weekly basis instead.
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
生機飲食是健康的重要因素之一
http://www.naturalnews.com/023401.html
從這個實驗，我們真得可以看到，正確的飲食方法的確可以讓我們的身體自我康復，還於我們健康年輕的身體，清晰的思路還有雀躍的心情。
隨著社會的繁榮和進步，人人的生活逐漸富裕，健康卻漸走下坡。最近發現，這一兩年來，越來越多的人開始尋找健康之道，更開始可以接受健康從改變飲食開始的看法。而生機飲食，是一個已經被證實可以帶給人們健康的飲食方式。
由於傳統中醫的影響，對於華人來説，生吃似乎是不平衡的飲食方式，所以很難被接受。在這樣的情形下，我想，尋找一個平衡點是一個不錯的方法。對於華人，完全生吃好象是不可能的事，因爲中醫常說生吃會寒。但是,食物中有些属寒,也有些是属温性的,只要吃得均衡就不会有问题。更重要的事，我们不能每天都吃着同样的几样菜而已，而是应该轮流将所有菜的种类都加入我们的食谱中，吃得均衡，吃得多姿多彩，也吃得更健康。
從這個實驗，我們真得可以看到，正確的飲食方法的確可以讓我們的身體自我康復，還於我們健康年輕的身體，清晰的思路還有雀躍的心情。
隨著社會的繁榮和進步，人人的生活逐漸富裕，健康卻漸走下坡。最近發現，這一兩年來，越來越多的人開始尋找健康之道，更開始可以接受健康從改變飲食開始的看法。而生機飲食，是一個已經被證實可以帶給人們健康的飲食方式。
由於傳統中醫的影響，對於華人來説，生吃似乎是不平衡的飲食方式，所以很難被接受。在這樣的情形下，我想，尋找一個平衡點是一個不錯的方法。對於華人，完全生吃好象是不可能的事，因爲中醫常說生吃會寒。但是,食物中有些属寒,也有些是属温性的,只要吃得均衡就不会有问题。更重要的事，我们不能每天都吃着同样的几样菜而已，而是应该轮流将所有菜的种类都加入我们的食谱中，吃得均衡，吃得多姿多彩，也吃得更健康。
Monday, May 17, 2010
對食物充滿好奇的十三個月
寶寶已經超過十三個月大了。現在的他，忽然對我們的盤中的食物很有興趣。只要是我們放進嘴巴吃的，他都會一直念“mum mum"，看著盤裏的食物，要求我們給他吃。如果我們沒有理他，他就會開始大聲抗議。他饞嘴的樣子真的好可愛！
但是，我這個推動生機飲食的媽媽就開始頭疼了。因爲我們家裏的大人，都還不能完全生機飲食，這樣就無法給寶寶一個很好的榜樣，那該如何是好？
之前，我還可以事先在家準備好他的食物，帶在身邊，當我們外出用餐時，寶寶也有他自己的一份餐點可以吃。但是，現在的他好聰明，只選擇我們吃的東西，我們沒有吃的他都不要。
唯一的辦法，就是盡量讓自己吃的都是適合寶寶吃的食物，那就可以減少讓他進食低能量、沒有營養的食物。比如，外出晚餐，我就要一份生菜做的三明治、或是水果、蔬菜沙拉、果汁或酸乳酪果汁等，這樣我邊吃，還可以邊喂他，這樣的晚餐寶寶會很滿意，大人也會很吃得很安心、開心。
在馬來西亞，其實我們可以很方便的買得到好多健康的食物，比如椰子、榴蓮、芒果、木瓜等。。。這些都是可以在街邊、巴刹買得到的很普遍的食物。對於小孩，甚至剛開始吃固體的小寶寶，都是很好的選擇和營養來源。只要媽媽們稍微用點兒心思，寶寶也可以吃得很健康。更重要的是，大人們要做孩子的好榜樣，千萬不要在寶寶面前吃垃圾零食（如果真的非吃不可，可以不在寶寶的視線範圍内吃），因爲這樣的榜樣也會養成寶寶將來吃零食的習慣。假如真得要吃零食，可以自己在家準備健康的零食，比如葡萄乾、乾果、葵花子、水果、小番茄、黃瓜（切便）等。大人和小孩都可以隨手拿來吃，那樣就可以減少吃垃圾零食的機會了。
但是，我這個推動生機飲食的媽媽就開始頭疼了。因爲我們家裏的大人，都還不能完全生機飲食，這樣就無法給寶寶一個很好的榜樣，那該如何是好？
之前，我還可以事先在家準備好他的食物，帶在身邊，當我們外出用餐時，寶寶也有他自己的一份餐點可以吃。但是，現在的他好聰明，只選擇我們吃的東西，我們沒有吃的他都不要。
唯一的辦法，就是盡量讓自己吃的都是適合寶寶吃的食物，那就可以減少讓他進食低能量、沒有營養的食物。比如，外出晚餐，我就要一份生菜做的三明治、或是水果、蔬菜沙拉、果汁或酸乳酪果汁等，這樣我邊吃，還可以邊喂他，這樣的晚餐寶寶會很滿意，大人也會很吃得很安心、開心。
在馬來西亞，其實我們可以很方便的買得到好多健康的食物，比如椰子、榴蓮、芒果、木瓜等。。。這些都是可以在街邊、巴刹買得到的很普遍的食物。對於小孩，甚至剛開始吃固體的小寶寶，都是很好的選擇和營養來源。只要媽媽們稍微用點兒心思，寶寶也可以吃得很健康。更重要的是，大人們要做孩子的好榜樣，千萬不要在寶寶面前吃垃圾零食（如果真的非吃不可，可以不在寶寶的視線範圍内吃），因爲這樣的榜樣也會養成寶寶將來吃零食的習慣。假如真得要吃零食，可以自己在家準備健康的零食，比如葡萄乾、乾果、葵花子、水果、小番茄、黃瓜（切便）等。大人和小孩都可以隨手拿來吃，那樣就可以減少吃垃圾零食的機會了。
每週證嚴法師說故事 - 公平分配財產
每週證嚴法師說故事 - 公平分配財產
在百喻經中有一則很有趣的短文──有一位父親，年老多病，但是他很有錢、財產很多。老人有兩個兒子，當他病重時很掛慮那些財產，於是說：「將來我要把財產分給這兩個兒子，不過，一定要分得很公平。」到底要怎麼分法？他說：「請我們族裡年齡最長的長輩來做公平的見證人。」交代之後老人就過世了。
他的兒子想，父親交代過財產要好好公平分配，必須趕快請長輩來做公證人，看如何能公平分配。老人來了就說：「要把任何事都處理得很公平，唯有一個方法，就是把每樣財產（物品）都分成兩半。」這聽起來似乎很有道理。於是就請人來幫忙，把每樣東西都分兩半──衣服撕成一半一半的，碗、盤也都切分成兩半，傢俱也分兩半，一切都分成兩半。
這雖是一則短文，但是意義深遠。世間物究竟要怎麼才能分毫不差而且完整又公平呢？實在是不可得啊！世上無法做到這樣的程度，若一定要如此，那一切都要被破壞，不得完整啊！人與人之間多方計較，有什麼能保持完整呢？
心能知足，一切就會公平；心能知足，會覺得一切都很富有，所以一切唯心啊！學佛就是要學這一點──心中覺得一切都很富有、很滿足，不管是增或減，都應該很歡喜地接受。
今生能聚在一起，是累積過去生的那份緣與情，未來還有很長的路要走，所以，大家要很珍惜現在的這份緣，彼此之間要互相關懷、互相敬愛，常常自我警惕！不要計較，計較就是吃虧，愈是計較，所得的愈不完整，計較到後來，什麼都得不到！
後記 小小心得：
總覺得只有生活得不計較，才能輕安自在。
小時候，自從我有自己的一閒睡房開始，記得自己總是很計較有沒有人進過我的房間、動過我的東西。每天放學回來，縂要先看看房間有沒有不一樣，就是害怕姐妹會進來亂動我的東西。對於‘我的’都很執著。這樣的情形一直維持到我上大學后，由於長時間不在家，很多東西放著沒用，而且也顧不到了以後，忽然才對這‘屬於我的’的觀念放開了。到後來，甚至把房間讓給了小妹用。那個時候，由於來回家裏和讀書的地方，慢慢地覺悟很多事情都不是恒常的，也不專屬自己的，我們只能發揮我們的使用權。所以心胸也就開闊了很多。
現在，我們家的生活當中已經少了這一分的計較，更重要的是讓物品發揮它的良能，大家都懂得惜物惜福，生活真得輕鬆自在許多。
在百喻經中有一則很有趣的短文──有一位父親，年老多病，但是他很有錢、財產很多。老人有兩個兒子，當他病重時很掛慮那些財產，於是說：「將來我要把財產分給這兩個兒子，不過，一定要分得很公平。」到底要怎麼分法？他說：「請我們族裡年齡最長的長輩來做公平的見證人。」交代之後老人就過世了。
他的兒子想，父親交代過財產要好好公平分配，必須趕快請長輩來做公證人，看如何能公平分配。老人來了就說：「要把任何事都處理得很公平，唯有一個方法，就是把每樣財產（物品）都分成兩半。」這聽起來似乎很有道理。於是就請人來幫忙，把每樣東西都分兩半──衣服撕成一半一半的，碗、盤也都切分成兩半，傢俱也分兩半，一切都分成兩半。
這雖是一則短文，但是意義深遠。世間物究竟要怎麼才能分毫不差而且完整又公平呢？實在是不可得啊！世上無法做到這樣的程度，若一定要如此，那一切都要被破壞，不得完整啊！人與人之間多方計較，有什麼能保持完整呢？
心能知足，一切就會公平；心能知足，會覺得一切都很富有，所以一切唯心啊！學佛就是要學這一點──心中覺得一切都很富有、很滿足，不管是增或減，都應該很歡喜地接受。
今生能聚在一起，是累積過去生的那份緣與情，未來還有很長的路要走，所以，大家要很珍惜現在的這份緣，彼此之間要互相關懷、互相敬愛，常常自我警惕！不要計較，計較就是吃虧，愈是計較，所得的愈不完整，計較到後來，什麼都得不到！
後記 小小心得：
總覺得只有生活得不計較，才能輕安自在。
小時候，自從我有自己的一閒睡房開始，記得自己總是很計較有沒有人進過我的房間、動過我的東西。每天放學回來，縂要先看看房間有沒有不一樣，就是害怕姐妹會進來亂動我的東西。對於‘我的’都很執著。這樣的情形一直維持到我上大學后，由於長時間不在家，很多東西放著沒用，而且也顧不到了以後，忽然才對這‘屬於我的’的觀念放開了。到後來，甚至把房間讓給了小妹用。那個時候，由於來回家裏和讀書的地方，慢慢地覺悟很多事情都不是恒常的，也不專屬自己的，我們只能發揮我們的使用權。所以心胸也就開闊了很多。
現在，我們家的生活當中已經少了這一分的計較，更重要的是讓物品發揮它的良能，大家都懂得惜物惜福，生活真得輕鬆自在許多。
Monday, April 12, 2010
花很多錢卻尋找不到健康？
昨天晚上差不多入睡的時候，忽然腦海裏出現一個建議。。。既然那麽多人對我的生機飲食有興趣，也許我可以辦一些示範課程把我所學會的和大家一起分享，同時可以讓大家了解生機飲食其實可以很容易且經濟地融入生活當中。或許這樣可以鼓勵更多的人吃得更健康，活得更歡喜。
開始對營養有興趣，應該是在大學時代吧！那時零零碎碎的讀些報章的資料，還有Ann Wigmore的書，開始有些啓發。但是那個時候常常遇到不同的資料來源有互相衝突的意見，不曉得該聼誰的。直到工作以後，一直嘗試尋找一個可靠的營養課程來進修。但是普通上的營養課程就是現在科學研發出來的，並不是生機飲食的營養。。。尋找了許久后，才找到管道開始較有系統的學習。這些年來，從基本對人體的知識了解后，懂得分析怎麽樣的飲食才是真正對健康有益，什麽樣的營養道理是不圓滿或不需要顧慮的等等。
最近這兩年，因爲自己不斷的研修，對生機飲食的實踐更有了進一步的發展。也在這兩年，很實在的運用了我這一方面的知識，同時看到很好的效果。懷孕、生小孩、哺乳這些過程，也讓我明白了普遍上西醫給於關於營養的意見，其實不需要太在意的，因爲西醫的營養學問在求學時期只佔了醫學係的很小很小的學分，而且也是根據西醫的營養觀為出發點，並不能真正的給于我們很大的幫助。我在細心觀察自己的身體下，就是跟著生機飲食的方法度過這幾個過程。如今，寶寶已經一嵗了，還在哺乳，而且寶寶在媽媽的哺乳和生機飲食的照顧下，健康且活潑，這也足以證明了，真正的健康，來自于我們的飲食習慣，而不是西藥和人造營養補助品的照顧，蔬菜水果只要用得法，可以是我們的健康的來源。
常常看到很多的媽媽，因爲寶寶或家裏的小孩病了又病，看了醫生，抗生素未吃完，又要再去看醫生，吃更多的抗生素；而大人爲了讓小孩沒完沒了的病快快好起來，把一顆又一顆的抗生素和西藥往寶寶嘴裏塞；如此，不只錢花多了，對寶寶的健康沒有真正的幫助，同時寶寶難過，大人也辛苦疲勞。聼了也心疼。。。
健康，本是人人應該擁有的財產。可是，自從西方科技發達，人們的生活變得更文明以後，健康卻成了奢侈品，生病似乎變成了大家的生活伴侶；不知不覺中，人們開始把自己的健康交給了陌生的醫生和西藥，醫藥費成了一個家庭必須要承擔的其中一個生活開銷。問題到底出現在哪裏？我們如何再次把自己的健康找回來？其實，答案很簡單，就在我們的生活和飲食習慣中。
開始對營養有興趣，應該是在大學時代吧！那時零零碎碎的讀些報章的資料，還有Ann Wigmore的書，開始有些啓發。但是那個時候常常遇到不同的資料來源有互相衝突的意見，不曉得該聼誰的。直到工作以後，一直嘗試尋找一個可靠的營養課程來進修。但是普通上的營養課程就是現在科學研發出來的，並不是生機飲食的營養。。。尋找了許久后，才找到管道開始較有系統的學習。這些年來，從基本對人體的知識了解后，懂得分析怎麽樣的飲食才是真正對健康有益，什麽樣的營養道理是不圓滿或不需要顧慮的等等。
最近這兩年，因爲自己不斷的研修，對生機飲食的實踐更有了進一步的發展。也在這兩年，很實在的運用了我這一方面的知識，同時看到很好的效果。懷孕、生小孩、哺乳這些過程，也讓我明白了普遍上西醫給於關於營養的意見，其實不需要太在意的，因爲西醫的營養學問在求學時期只佔了醫學係的很小很小的學分，而且也是根據西醫的營養觀為出發點，並不能真正的給于我們很大的幫助。我在細心觀察自己的身體下，就是跟著生機飲食的方法度過這幾個過程。如今，寶寶已經一嵗了，還在哺乳，而且寶寶在媽媽的哺乳和生機飲食的照顧下，健康且活潑，這也足以證明了，真正的健康，來自于我們的飲食習慣，而不是西藥和人造營養補助品的照顧，蔬菜水果只要用得法，可以是我們的健康的來源。
常常看到很多的媽媽，因爲寶寶或家裏的小孩病了又病，看了醫生，抗生素未吃完，又要再去看醫生，吃更多的抗生素；而大人爲了讓小孩沒完沒了的病快快好起來，把一顆又一顆的抗生素和西藥往寶寶嘴裏塞；如此，不只錢花多了，對寶寶的健康沒有真正的幫助，同時寶寶難過，大人也辛苦疲勞。聼了也心疼。。。
健康，本是人人應該擁有的財產。可是，自從西方科技發達，人們的生活變得更文明以後，健康卻成了奢侈品，生病似乎變成了大家的生活伴侶；不知不覺中，人們開始把自己的健康交給了陌生的醫生和西藥，醫藥費成了一個家庭必須要承擔的其中一個生活開銷。問題到底出現在哪裏？我們如何再次把自己的健康找回來？其實，答案很簡單，就在我們的生活和飲食習慣中。
Monday, April 5, 2010
生命的第一年
今天孩子滿一周歲了。
時間真得過得很快，轉眼槺已經一嵗了。
去年的今天，記憶猶深。
看著他一天一天的長大，每天學會一些新東西，
這樣的經驗，還蠻有趣的。
一嵗的他，今早起床后，知道媽咪爹地還未醒來，他還懂得輕聲細語自己玩。
過後，知道媽咪已經醒來了，才來找媽咪要喝奶。
時間真得過得很快，轉眼槺已經一嵗了。
去年的今天，記憶猶深。
看著他一天一天的長大，每天學會一些新東西，
這樣的經驗，還蠻有趣的。
一嵗的他，今早起床后，知道媽咪爹地還未醒來，他還懂得輕聲細語自己玩。
過後，知道媽咪已經醒來了，才來找媽咪要喝奶。
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
時間與記憶
一直都很想要寫一個屬於自己的部落格，摘錄心情和際遇，但是，遲遲未有行動。。。也許有太多的藉口可以用吧！今天，多虧一個朋友的鼓勵，終于行動為自己開啓了一個屬於自己的電子空間。
好久沒有動筆寫文章了。寫起來，感覺怪怪的，也一時之間不曉得要寫些什麽。
時間的飛逝，總是那麽的無情。想要記錄下來的生活的那一刹那，過了以後，就是等待、等待，然後就漸漸被遺忘了。
孩子出生的時候，想寫部落格記錄當時初爲人母的心情。。。沒有行動。。。
孩子滿月了，也想寫下孩子的點點滴滴。。。沒有行動。。。
孩子學翻身了，很想記錄那一刻的興奮與情景。。。沒有行動。。。
孩子長牙齒了，好想記下來那兩顆牙齒帶給我們的歡喜。。。沒有行動。。。
孩子學會坐起來了，想要為孩子記下他的成長過程。。。沒有行動。。。
孩子牙牙學語，嘗試和我們溝通了，那一份期待的心情很想寫下來。。。沒有行動。。。
。。。
就這樣，一年過去了。。。
原來，
時間可以纍計囘憶，
也可以淡化記憶。。。
好久沒有動筆寫文章了。寫起來，感覺怪怪的，也一時之間不曉得要寫些什麽。
時間的飛逝，總是那麽的無情。想要記錄下來的生活的那一刹那，過了以後，就是等待、等待，然後就漸漸被遺忘了。
孩子出生的時候，想寫部落格記錄當時初爲人母的心情。。。沒有行動。。。
孩子滿月了，也想寫下孩子的點點滴滴。。。沒有行動。。。
孩子學翻身了，很想記錄那一刻的興奮與情景。。。沒有行動。。。
孩子長牙齒了，好想記下來那兩顆牙齒帶給我們的歡喜。。。沒有行動。。。
孩子學會坐起來了，想要為孩子記下他的成長過程。。。沒有行動。。。
孩子牙牙學語，嘗試和我們溝通了，那一份期待的心情很想寫下來。。。沒有行動。。。
。。。
就這樣，一年過去了。。。
原來，
時間可以纍計囘憶，
也可以淡化記憶。。。
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