Starving sea lion pups wash up on Calif. beaches

A sea lion is shown on the Columbia River near Bonneville Dam Monday, March 8, 2010, in North Bonneville, Wash. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

The Associated Press

Date: Friday Mar. 12, 2010 9:29 AM ET

LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. — Marine mammal experts say dozens of hungry and sick sea lion pups have washed up on Southern California beaches this winter and many have died at rescue centers.

Veterinarian Richard Evans said Thursday that the Pacific Marine Mammal Center in Laguna Beach has treated 27 skinny pups since December, but only 11 have survived.

Evans says nine of the 12 pups now at his center are in critical condition, "just skin and bones."

Rescuers say the El Nino ocean warming makes the sea lions' prey, squid and fish, scarce.

Evans says the last influx of starving sea lions came in 1998, which was also an El Nino year. The same weather pattern has been blamed for sickening hundreds of California brown pelicans.

common over-the-counter painkillers

CTV.ca News Staff
Date: Wednesday Mar. 10, 2010 8:55 AM ET
Regularly taking common over-the-counter painkillers could lead to hearing loss over time, especially in younger men, new research suggests.
Still, experts note that the absolute risk to any single person of suffering hearing loss from these medications is still small.
In the study, published in the American Journal of Medicine, researchers found that men younger than age 50 who regularly took acetaminophen more than twice a week had roughly double the risk of hearing loss compared to men who did not take acetaminophen regularly. Acetaminophen is commonly sold as Tylenol and other brands.
Men younger than age 50 who regularly took ibuprofen (the main ingredient in Advil) or other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID) at least twice a week had a nearly two-thirds higher risk of hearing loss than men who took NSAIDs less often.
Men who took Aspirin twice a week had a one-third higher risk.
The findings come from a review of the health data of nearly 27,000 men enrolled since 1986 in the Health Professionals' Follow-Up Study.
As part of the study, the men, who were between 40 and 74 years old at the beginning of the study, provided information on their pain reliever use, hearing loss and other factors that might affect their hearing every two years, for 18 years.
During that time 3,488 men were diagnosed with hearing loss. Among men younger than 50, the risk of hearing loss (compared to those who didn't take pain relievers) depended on which painkiller they used. Their risk was:
• 33 per cent higher in those who took Aspirin twice a week or more
• 61 per cent higher in those who took ibuprofen or NSAIDs twice a week or more
• 99 per cent higher in those who took acetaminophen twice a week or more
For NSAIDs and acetaminophen, the risk of hearing loss increased with longer duration of use.
But interestingly, the increased risks were not seen in older men. Regular Aspirin use did not raise the risk of hearing loss in men aged 60 and older, and the ties between hearing loss and regular use of NSAIDs and acetaminophen were weaker in the older men.
CTV's medical expert Dr. Marla Shapiro notes that any single individual may not experience these increased risks, even if they regularly take painkillers, and she notes that hearing loss begins for many in middle age.
"What you have to understand is that the baseline of hearing loss is about 1 per cent per year," she explained to Canada AM.
"So even when we're talking about what sound like dramatic increases… you're still looking, in absolute numbers, at a relatively small amount."
She says the concern is that prolonged use of these painkillers raises the hearing loss risk over time, particularly in younger men.
"We've known that pain medications in high doses can be toxic to hearing. For example, high-dose ASA can bring hearing loss and ringing in your ears," Shapiro notes. "Interestingly, low-dose ASA can be useful for hearing protection."
But she adds that the study should be a reminder that just because many pain relievers are available over the counter doesn't mean that they are safe to take over the long term.
She recommends that patients who are experiencing chronic pain should be talking to their doctor about the drugstore medications they are taking and whether there are other alternatives.
The study's lead author Dr. Sharon G. Curhan, of the department of medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, notes that even mild hearing loss can make it hard to understand speech in the presence of background noise.
"Given the high prevalence of regular analgesic use and health and social implications of hearing impairment, this represents an important public health issue," she said in a news release announcing the study's publication.

The birth of stars in a galaxy in the early Universe.

Scientists have found evidence of a “catastrophic event” they believe was responsible for halting the birth of stars in a galaxy in the early Universe.
The researchers, led by Durham University’s Department of Physics, observed the massive galaxy as it would have appeared just three billion years after the Big Bang when the Universe was a quarter of its present age.
According to their findings the galaxy exploded in a series of blasts trillions of times more powerful than any caused by an atomic bomb. The blasts happened every second for millions of years, the scientists said.
The explosions scattered the gas needed to form new stars by helping it escape the gravitational pull of the galaxy called SMM J1237+6203, effectively regulating its growth, the scientists added.
They believe the huge surge of energy was caused by either the outflow of debris from the galaxy’s black hole or from powerful winds generated by dying stars called supernovae.
The research, funded by the Royal Society and the Royal Astronomical Society, is published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Observations were carried out using the Gemini Observatory’s Near-Infrared Integral Field Spectrometer (NIFS).
The Durham-led team hopes the finding could increase understanding about the formation and development of galaxies.
Properties seen in massive galaxies near to our own Milky Way suggest that a major event rapidly turned off star formation in early galaxies and halted their expansion.
Theorists, including scientists at Durham University, have argued that this could be due to outflows of energy blowing galaxies apart and preventing further new stars from forming, but evidence of this has been lacking until now.
Lead author Dr Dave Alexander, of Durham University’s Department of Physics, said: “We are looking into the past and seeing a catastrophic event that essentially switched off star formation and halted the growth of a typical massive galaxy in the local Universe.
“Effectively the galaxy is regulating its growth by preventing new stars from being born. Theorists had predicted that huge outflows of energy were behind this activity, but it’s only now that we have seen it in action.
“We believe that similar huge outflows are likely to have stopped the growth of other galaxies in the early Universe by blowing away the materials needed for star formation.”
The Durham-led team now plans to study other massive star-forming galaxies in the early Universe to see if they display similar characteristics.
Durham University leads the team building the K-Band Multi-Object Spectrometer (KMOS) for the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope. KMOS will be used to further investigate the physical and environmental processes that shape the formation and evolution of galaxies.
Source: Durham University

People with variable blood pressure at stroke risk

The Associated Press
Date: Friday Mar. 12, 2010 8:52 AM ET
LONDON — People with occasional spikes in their blood pressure could be at higher risk of having a stroke than those with regularly high blood pressure, new studies said Friday.
In four articles published in the medical journals Lancet and Lancet Neurology, European researchers suggest current guidelines for treating people with high blood pressure need to be revised.
In one of the studies, Peter Rothwell of the Stroke Prevention Research Unit at John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, Britain, tracked about 8,000 patients who had had a heart attack. They found patients who had consistently variable blood pressure rates were at least six times more likely to have a stroke than those with regularly high blood pressure.
"We tend to believe average underlying blood pressure rates and ignore occasional high rates as blips," Rothwell said. "But it turns out they are very informative and that these people, who are mostly not treated for hypertension, could be at high risk of having a stroke."
In two other studies, Rothwell and colleagues examined the effects of different blood pressure drugs. They found the drugs that reduced occasional spikes in blood pressure rates the best were the most effective at preventing strokes.
No funding was provided for any of the studies.
Rothwell estimated the findings could double the number of people being treated for high blood pressure, which accounts for about 50 percent of a person's stroke risk. High blood pressure affects more than half of all adults.
Experts have previously studied whether people with fluctuating blood pressure rates are at greater risk of having a stroke, but the Lancet studies are the first to track the risk over several years.
The American Heart Association recommends everyone with high blood pressure check their rates at home regularly, since having readings taken a few times a year in the doctor's office may not be accurate enough.
Other doctors said while Rothwell and colleagues' findings are intriguing, more evidence is needed before changing treatment recommendations.
"We can't change the guidelines every time something new comes up," said Lars Hjalmar Lindholm of Umea University Hospital in Sweden, who was not linked to the studies. "We should be a bit cautious before we change how patients are treated."
Still, Lindholm called the Lancet studies "a fantastic contribution" to our understanding of blood pressure.
Rothwell said people with variable blood pressure rates shouldn't rush to change their treatment, but should talk to their doctors. "The damaging effect of variable blood pressure takes months and years to develop," he said.
He said patients with consistently high blood pressure should continue to be monitored — and that some of them with occasionally high rates could benefit from changing their medications.
"I wouldn't want people to think if their blood pressure is stable and high, that isn't a bad thing. They definitely need to be treated," he said. "It's just that the patients we've currently been reassuring, whose blood pressure isn't high all the time, also need to be treated."

Scientists wowed by Mars orbiter performance

In this image released by NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona showing a view of an inverted crater in the Arabia Terra region of Mars that is among the images taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in early 2010. (AP Photo/NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona)


he Associated Press
Date: Thursday Mar. 4, 2010 9:08 AM ET
PASADENA, Calif. — Scientists are impressed with the flood of data beamed back by NASA's most advanced Mars orbiter.
The space agency said Wednesday the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has sent back 100 terabits of information since 2006. That's equal to about 3 million songs in MP3 format.
Launched from Florida in 2005, the reconnaissance orbiter reached Mars in March 2006. It is the most powerful probe ever sent to the Red Planet.
Project scientist Rich Zurek of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory says he is blown away by the quality of the images and other tidbits that give scientists a deeper understanding of the planet.
Last year, the reconnaissance orbiter suffered several computer resets that temporarily halted science operations. It has since returned to normal.

B.C. avalanche leaves several dead and injured

Several people are dead and more than a dozen others are injured following an avalanche in the interior of British Columbia.
Numerous others may be missing and a massive search operation is underway.
Late Saturday night, three people were reported dead and 17 others were injured. Among the injured, two are in critical condition, CTV News reports.
The avalanche occurred near Revelstoke, which is in the province's rugged interior, about 200 kilometres northeast of Kelowna.
The slide occurred as about 200 people were taking part in a large snowmobile gathering on Boulder Mountain on Saturday afternoon.
Helicopters and search dogs were scouring the area on Saturday and the mountain has been shut down.
The snowmobiling event is known as the Big Iron Shootout.
CTV camera operator Rod Romano arrived at the avalanche scene about three minutes after the slide occurred around 3 p.m. local time.
"When I arrived there was a flurry of activity" he told CTV News.
"People were digging furiously."
He added that two people were recovered within about 12 minutes of searching.
However, he said that the avalanche was massive, and snowmobiles that were caught in the slide were carried hundreds of metres downhill.
"The debris field was extremely large," he said.
The RCMP said that four provincial search and rescue teams are involved in the search.
"The area has been shut down to keep people out," said Cpl. Dan Moskaluk. "They're going to continue on here with trying to remove people off the mountain in the area and tomorrow reassess where we're at."
Greg Johnson from the Canadian Avalanche Centre told CTV News Channel Saturday night that the area was hit by heavy snow on Thursday and Friday, which greatly increased the danger of a slide.
"That created a substantial avalanche risk," he said.
Johnson declined to give specifics about the avalanche rescue operation, but he did say that "there is definitely a rescue underway."
The area has seen 10 avalanches in recent days.
"The Canadian Avalanche Centre is issuing a special avalanche warning for the southern Selkirk and Monashee Mountains, the Kootenay-Boundary area, and the Southern Chilcotin Mountains," states a special warning on the Centre's website.
"We've had a lot of close calls recently and, although this new snow will be tempting, the avalanche conditions in these areas will be very dangerous."
With files from The Canadian Press

Chinese zoo blamed for death of 11 Siberian tigers

Endangered Siberian tigers fight for a wild bird at the Harbin Tiger Park in Harbin in northeastern China's Heilongjiang province, Friday, Jan. 8, 2010. (AP / Ng Han Guan)

The Associated Press

Date: Friday Mar. 12, 2010 1:39 PM ET

BEIJING — Eleven rare Siberian tigers have died at a wildlife park in a startling case that activists say hints at unsavory practices among some zoos and animal farms in China: They are overbreeding endangered animals in the hopes of making illicit profit on their carcasses.

The deaths of the tigers occurred in the past three months at the zoo in China's frigid northeast, officials and state media said Friday. Reports said the tigers starved to death, having been fed nothing but chicken bones, while a zoo manager said unspecified diseases killed the animals.

Either way, the animals had been ill-kept and ill-fed. The Shenyang Forest Wild Animal Zoo has struggled financially, even withholding pay from staff, said a woman in charge of corporate planning for the zoo who would only give her surname, Wang. The zoo had been up for auction for some time without any bidders, she said.

"You can do the math: one tiger eats 10 kilograms of beef per day and there are at least 30 of them now, and there are lions, elephants and other animals too," Wang said. "The zoo has been taking money from the staffers' salaries to feed the animals."

The food bill for the tigers ran to about US$1,320 (9,000 yuan) a day -- nearly half the food allowance the zoo gets from the local government to care for all the animals, Wang said.

The deaths underscore conflicting signals in China's attempts to save its dwindling number of tigers. While extensive conservation efforts are under way, animal protection groups say zoos and wildlife parks may be deliberately breeding more animals than they can afford, hoping to sell off the carcasses onto a black market where tiger parts fetch a high price for use in traditional medicines and liquor.

"We've seen cases where tiger farms have steeped the bones from their deceased tigers in liquor to sell to visitors," said Hua Ning, project director for the China branch of the International Fund for Animal Welfare.

Other animal rights groups like the Washington, D.C.-based National Fish and Wildlife Foundation have documented stockpiled pelts and the sale of tiger wine at the Xiongsen Bear and Tiger Mountain village in south China's Guangxi region.

Hua said she didn't have any specific information about illicit sales of tiger parts by the Shenyang zoo but she and other activists said Chinese tiger farms in particular were breeding too aggressively.

"Some of these farms are raising the tigers precisely because they hope that there will be some relaxation of the ban on tiger parts and they can sell the parts and derivatives," Hua said.

Tiger parts are still available on the black market as well, probably sourced from farms or zoos since there are so few wild tigers left in China, she said.

Siberian tigers are one of the world's rarest species, with an estimated 300 left in the wild, 50 in China. But more than 5,000 are held captive on farms and wildlife parks across China.

healthy

#1: Clams, Oysters, and Mussels

Shellfish can be eaten raw, baked, steamed, fried, or made into chowder. Clams provide the most vitamin B-12 with 98.9μg per 100g serving, accounting for 1648% of the RDA. Mussels and oysters are also good sources of B12 providing 600 and 400 percent of the RDA respectively.



#2: Fish

Known for their omega 3 fats and low cholesterol levels, fish are also a good source of vitamin B12. Mackerel provides the most with 19μg per 100g serving (317% RDA), followed by Herring (312% RDA), Salmon (302% RDA), Tuna (181% RDA), Cod (167% RDA), Sardines (149% RDA), Trout (130% RDA), and Bluefish (104% RDA).


#3: Eggs

When it comes to chicken eggs the raw
yellow has most of the vitamin B-12 with 1.95μg per 100g serving (33%), however, this equates to 0.33μg per yolk or just 6% of the RDA. The eggs of other animals are higher with a goose egg providing 7.34μg (122% RDA) of vitamin B-12 per 100g serving, and a duck egg providing 3.78μg (63% RDA).



#4: Cheese

When it comes to chicken eggs the raw yellow has most of the vitamin B-12 with 1.95μg per 100g serving (33%), however, this equates to 0.33μg per yolk or just 6% of the RDA. The eggs of other animals are higher with a goose egg providing 7.34μg (122% RDA) of vitamin B-12 per 100g serving, and a duck egg providing 3.78μg (63% RDA).

#5: Lamb

Lamb is a common meat in the Middle East, Mediterranean, and most of Europe. The shoulder is the cut of lamb with the most vitamin B-12 providing 3.71μg per 100g serving (62% RDA), followed by the foreshank and leg (53% RDA), and chops (51% RDA).

#6: Liver
The liver of most any animal is packed with vitamin B-12, the highest on the list are: Lamb, beef, veal, moose, turkey, duck, and goose respectively. Lamb liver provides 85.7μg per 100g serving and 1428% of the RDA. Often appearing on the culinary scene as pate, liver can also be prepared steamed or fried with onions and herbs.



#7: Caviar (Fish Eggs)

Caviar and fish eggs are most often eaten as a garnish or spread. The eggs of whitefish contain the most vitamin B-12 with 56.4μg per 100g serving (940% RDA) while caviar contains a third of that with 20μg per 100g serving (333% RDA). Chicken eggs, by comparison, only offer 1.29μg of vitamin B-12 per 100g serving (22% RDA).

#8: Beef

The amount of vitamin B-12 in beef depends on the cut, chuck contains the most with 6.18μg per 100g serving(103% RDA) followed by sirloin (62% RDA), rib-eye(60% RDA), and ribs (58% RDA).

#9: Crab and Lobster

Crab and lobster are most commonly served baked, steamed, or in bisque. A 100g serving of crab contains 11.5μg of vitamin B12 (192% of the RDA), while 100g serving of Lobster will provide 4.04μg(67% RDA).

#10: Octopus

Popular in Mediterranean, Japanese, and Hawaiian cuisine, octopus provides 36μg of vitamin B-12 per 100g serving accounting for 600% of the RDA.

Success If you LOVE what you are doing....

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. —Albert Schweitzer

There are two powerful thoughts in this quote. The first destroys the widespread misconception that success is necessary for happiness [it isn’t, even though it appears to be that way]. This is evident from observing the world around us. All people who are ‘successful’ in the traditional sense of the word, are not necessarily happy. That’s because we tend to equate success with wealth, fame, power and other worldly stuff.

Schweitzer turns around the popular misconception on its head when he says that success, far from being the key to happiness, is an outcome of being happy. Happy people are always successful, though their success may not be in areas of wealth, fame or power.

Schweitzer goes on to add that when you do what you love doing, success is inevitable. There are two interpretations of this second part of the quote, both equally valid and powerful.

First: Schweitzer believes that success is about being happy in doing what you do. You can be a successful housewife if that is what you love doing. On the other hand, if you’re an extremely ‘successful’ lawyer or doctor, but you’re not happy, then are you really successful? Second: when you do what you love doing, then you are bound to succeed because you will do it more passionately and be happy doing it.

In the ultimate analysis, Schweitzer wants us to know that it is happiness that is a pre-requisite for success, not the other way around.

百墓达--地球文明的黑洞

奇妙怪异的三角水域，令人魂飞魄散。人们惊奇地发现，它们竟然处于大致相同的纬度，这里面到底隐藏着什么玄妙？
百慕达魔力无限
海是美丽的，它清澈，蔚蓝；海是博大的，它浩瀚，深邃；海是富饶的，它孕育了无数生灵；海是神秘的，它宽厚的胸怀中，拥抱着无数珍宝，无数往事……
但海也是令人恐惧的，它风平浪静间，会倏染腾起万顷波涛，吞噬掉一切生灵。百慕达就是这样一个时时蕴出悲怆剧目的摇篮。
这是一片的“陷阱水域”：大西洋中的百慕大海区。多年以来，许多临经此地的飞机船只，往往有去无回，生死不明，使这片开阔的每边长2000公里的三角形海域蒙上了难以揭开的神秘面纱。至今仍有好些科学家在这里冒着风险寻求奥秘。
百墓达海区北部是百墓达群岛，东南部是波多黎各岛，西南部是佛罗里达半岛和古巴岛。据记载，在这片“陷阱水域”，自20世纪以来已有上百架飞机和两百余艘舰船失事或失踪，下落不明的失踪者以达数千人。
从地理环境来看，百墓达海区有其特殊性。这里有势力强大的暖流经过，并多飓风。龙卷风；海底地貌复杂，大陆架狭窄，海沟幽深，地处火山与地震的活跃地带。但这些并不足以揭示百墓达水域的多事原因。
几十年间反反复复的调查表明，不少船只飞机都是无端消失在这个“魔鬼三角”海区的，且未留下任何可寻痕迹。如美国油轮“凯恩号”，船上配备有先进的自动导航和通讯设备。1963年2月3日，它在平静的百墓达海面航行中，突然中断了与陆地的无线电联系，连呼救信号也未及发出就失掉了踪影。此外，两艘核潜艇也在百墓大海域消失得无影无踪。
1945年12月5日，美国海军5架“复仇者”式海上鱼雷轰炸机，在返航途中竟一同消失在百墓达海区上空。飞机失踪前向地面指挥塔传送了令人费解的谈话：“我们不知道自己在什么地方……我们好象迷失了方向。”“……就连大海也变了样子……”“旋转发疯的罗盘……”“进入了白水。”“我们完全迷失了方向……”飞机失踪后，美国最高军事当局动员了空前规模的舰船和飞机，对包括百墓达水域在内的近200万平方公里的海陆范围进行了严密搜索，然而连一点残片和油滴都未找到。分外怪异的是，就在5架轰炸机已在百墓达海区失踪后的数小时内，仍有一个设在迈阿密的美国海军航空基地收到了来自失踪飞机那里的微弱信号。
这些莫名其妙地失踪的船舰和飞机究竟到哪里去了呢？难道百墓达水域真的会存在什么特殊的“时空域”结构么？一系列事实的出现，加深了研究者们的猜测。这使得百墓达三角海域益显神秘。
1986年，美国航空公司一架大型客机在穿越百慕达海区时，竟在地面荧关屏上失去图象达10分钟之久，尔后它却安然无恙地降落在迈阿密的机场上，抵达时间大大地提前了。机组人员虽未遭遇任何稀奇事件，但飞机上所有钟表都比陆地上慢了10分钟。显然，根据相对论，只有飞机加速到接近光速，这种情况才有可能发生。
1977年2月，一架水上飞机载了5名乘员进入百慕达水域进行现场考察，当考察人员在机舱内进晚餐时，突然发现刀叉变弯，机上钥匙变形，罗盘上指针偏离了几十度，录音磁带中出现了噪声。面对此情此景，考察人员惟有疑窦丛生。
1983年，有位女婴出生在沿百慕达海区一条由巴哈马群岛驶往迈阿密的油轮上。十几个月后，女婴竟出现怪异容貌，
1986年9月，美国佛罗里达州的一位45岁渔民，在百慕达海域因遇到风暴而漂流了两星期后获救，返回以后不到一个星期他的外表发生变化，皱纹消失，黑发复生，就像20多岁的年轻人一样。后来他被送进医院检查以期找出原因。
1988年，一对瑞典夫妇乘坐游艇在百慕达“魔鬼三角”历险。在大巴哈马岛附近，游艇发动机突然灭火，紧接着游艇慢慢地被吸入海区中心水域，但见一片浓雾笼罩。在雾中，夫妇俩闻到一股异香，听见空中爆裂声，船上的雷达及其他仪表完全失灵，指南针胡乱转来转去。但是，几分钟后游艇居然飘出蓝雾，到达百慕达三角海域之外。很怪，发动机。雷达等一切设备统统恢复了正常工作。有趣的是，夫妇俩的智商在这次神秘的百慕达经历之后都明显上升。丈夫基尔维斯丁法文基础颇差，可他居然可以看懂法文杂志了，后来又很快熟练地掌握了好几门外语，成为公认的外语学习上的“奇才”。妻子娃洛莎以前连支票余数都辩不清，现在竟可以做相当复杂的数学题。连她本人也为自己成为“数学通”而深感意外。负责对这对夫妇进行测试的科学家在力争找出这奇事的一点谜底。
1989年，一艘失踪近8年的英国游船“海风”号在百慕达水域的原失踪海面重新出现，而船上的6个人却平安无事。只是他们对消失这8年的时光毫无记忆，都感觉无非是一瞬间；为此他们无法回答其间的神秘际遇，以为“刚才”没做什么。这些人目前正在接受催民调查海船再现事件原在30年代就已发生过，但那时人们只发现了完好的空无一人的“幽灵船”。
百慕达海区正在悄悄展示它的另一面，但人们毕竟不会忘记它的危险性。应当承认，最危险的百慕达海区同时又是最具诱惑力的海域。为什么百慕达水域能够造成人体生理与智能上的变化呢？为什么船只能够失而再现呢？难道百慕达三角海区果真有什么超自然的力量存在么？抑或，百慕达“魔鬼三角”是地球上最神秘的重力变异区或时空变异区？

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We should eat Fruits

This is a long but very informative article.

We all think eating fruits means just buying fruits,

cutting it and popping it into our mouths..

It's not as easy as you think.

It's important to know how and when to eat them.

What is the correct way of eating fruits?

IT MEANS NOT EATING FRUITS AFTER YOUR MEALS!

* FRUITS SHOULD BE EATEN ON AN EMPTY STOMACH.

If you eat fruit like that, it will play a major role to detoxify your system,

supplying you with a great deal of energy for weight loss and other life activities.

FRUIT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT FOOD.

Let's say you eat two slices of bread and then a slice of fruit.

The slice of fruit is ready to go straight through the stomach into the intestines,

but it is prevented from doing so.

In the meantime the wholemeal breaks up, ferments and turns to acid.

The minute the fruit comes into contact with the food in the stomach

and digestive juices, the entire mass of food begins to spoil....

Eat your fruits on an empty stomach or before your meals!

You have heard people complaining –

every time I eat watermelon I burp,

when I eat durian my stomach bloats up,

when I eat a banana I feel like running to the toilet etc.

All this will not arise if you eat the fruit on an empty stomach.

The fruit mixes with the putrefying other food and produces gas and hence you will bloat!

Greying hair, going bald, nervous outburst, and dark circles under the eyes –

all these will NOT happen if you take fruits on an empty stomach.

There is no such thing as some fruits, like orange and lemon are acidic,

because all fruits become alkaline in our body, according to

Dr. Herbert Shelton who did research on this topic.

If you have mastered the correct way of eating fruits,

you have the secret of beauty, longevity, health, energy, happiness and normal weight.

When you need to drink fruit juice - drink only fresh fruit juice, NOT from the cans.

Don't even drink juice that has been heated up.

Don't eat cooked fruits because you don't get the nutrients at all.

You only get to taste. Cooking destroys all the vitamins..

But eating a whole fruit is better than drinking the juice.

If you should drink the juice, drink it mouthful by mouthful slowly,

because you must let it mix with your saliva before swallowing it.

You can go on a 3-day fruit fast to cleanse your body.

Just eat fruits and drink fruit juice throughout the 3 days and you will be

surprised when your friends tell you how radiant you look!

KIWI: Tiny but mighty.

This is a good source of potassium, magnesium, vitamin E & fibre.

Its vitamin C content is twice that of an orange.

APPLE: An apple a day keeps the doctor away?

Although an apple has a low vitamin C content, it has antioxidants

& flavonoids which enhances the activity of vitamin C thereby helping to

lower the risks of colon cancer, heart attack & stroke.

STRAWBERRY: Protective Fruit.

Strawberries have the highest total antioxidant power among major fruits &

protect the body from cancer-causing, blood vessel-clogging free radicals.

ORANGE : Sweetest medicine.

Taking 2-4 oranges a day may help keep colds away, lower cholesterol,

prevent & dissolve kidney stones as well as lessens the risk of colon cancer.

WATERMELON: Coolest thirst quencher..

Composed of 92% water, it is also packed with a giant dose of glutathione,

which helps boost our immune system.

They are also a key source of lycopene - the cancer fighting oxidant.

Other nutrients found in watermelon are vitamin C & Potassium..

GUAVA & PAPAYA: Top awards for vitamin C.

They are the clear winners for their high vitamin C content.

Guava is also rich in fibre, which helps prevent constipation.

Papaya is rich in carotene; this is good for your eyes.

Drinking Cold water after a meal = Cancer! Can you believe this??

For those who like to drink cold water, this article is applicable to you.

It is nice to have a cup of cold drink after a meal.

However, the cold water will solidify the oily stuff that you have just consumed.

It will slow down the digestion.

Once this 'sludge' reacts with the acid, it will break down and be absorbed by

the intestine faster than the solid food. It will line the intestine.

Very soon, this will turn into fats and lead to cancer.

It is best to drink hot soup or warm water after a meal.

A serious note about heart attacks HEART ATTACK PROCEDURE. (THIS IS NOT A JOKE!)

Women should know that not every heart attack symptom is going to be the left arm hurting.

Be aware of intense pain in the jaw line.

You may never have the first chest pain during the course of a heart attack.

Nausea and intense sweating are also common symptoms.

Sixty percent of people who have a heart attack while they are asleep do not wake up.

Pain in the jaw can wake you from a sound sleep.

Let's be careful and be aware.

The more we know the better chance we could survive...

Funny Stories Job Zoo

One day an out of work mime is visiting the zoo and attempts to earn some money as a street performer. As soon as he starts to draw a crowd, a zoo keeper grabs him and drags him into his office. The zoo keeper explains to the mime that the zoo's most popular attraction, a gorilla, has died suddenly and the keeper fears that attendance at the zoo will fall off. He offers the mime a job to dress up as the gorilla until they can get another one. The mime accepts. So the next morning the mime puts on the gorilla suit and enters the cage before the crowd comes. He discovers that it's a great job. He can sleep all he wants, play and make fun of people and he draws bigger crowds than he ever did as a mime. However, eventually the crowds tire of him and he tires of just swinging on tires. He begins to notice that the people are paying more attention to the lion in the cage next to his. Not wanting to lose the attention of his audience, he climbs to the top of his cage, crawls across a partition, and dangles from the top to the lion's cage. Of course, this makes the lion furious, but the crowd loves it. At the end of the day the zoo keeper comes and gives the mime a raise for being such a good attraction. Well, this goes on for some time, the mime keeps taunting the lion, the crowds grow larger, and his salary keeps going up. Then one terrible day when he is dangling over the furious lion he slips and falls. The mime is terrified. The lion gathers itself and prepares to pounce. The mime is so scared that he begins to run round and round the cage with the lion close behind. Finally, the mime starts screaming and yelling, "Help me, help me!", but the lion is quick and pounces. The mime soon finds himself flat on his back looking up at the angry lion and the lion says, "Shut up you idiot! Do you want to get us both fired?"