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One of the world’s most popular beverages is coffee. It is not just known for its awakening taste and aroma but also for its health benefits. Several studies show that moderate intake of coffee improves an individual’s alertness and concentration that results to better performance. For this reason, we often enjoy drinking coffee in the morning or when we are feeling tired and sleepy. Below are the other health benefits of coffee:
1. Avoid Alzheimer’s disease
2. Curb Cancer Risk
3. Defend Against Diabetes
4. Reduce Workout Pain
5. Guard Against Gout
6. Deter Death from Heart Disease
7. Preserve Your Memory
8. Protect Against Parkinson’s
9. Reduce the risk of both gallstones and kidney stones
10.Lower the risk of stroke by 20%
-ref: Caroline’s Ten Surprising Health Benefits of Coffee (Nov 2009)
Be healthier this 2010! Don’t forget to buy your coffee beans, visit Ala eh…Barako, the coffee and tea center.
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Since we’re not able to write fresh stories over the holidays, we would just share to you a great new way on how to start your 2010– “The Anti-Fast Food Diet” from zenhabits (authored by Leo Babauta). Actually, this is just one of his interesting posts (for more don’t forget to visit zenhabits). Anyway, here is the excerpt of the post…
Be healthy this 2010!
This is the Anti-Fast Food Diet — a way to not only lose weight and get healthier, but to change your life to one of simplicity, moderation, and joy.
Abandon fast food, and all the values it brings: mass consumption, mass production, the exploitation of workers, the destruction of the environment, the destruction of small local businesses, the corporatization of our culture.
Instead, embrace Slow Food. Here’s how.
- Stop rushing to eat. Set aside more time for eating, for shopping and preparation, for enjoying life. Stop rushing to fast food places because it’s convenient — because it’s not so convenient to be hospitalized. Instead, make time, and take things a bit slower.
- Prepare your own meals. I know, who has the time? You do. Make the time, and cook simple meals without a lot of ingredients or preparation time. It takes 10 minutes to whip together a healthy and tasty lunch or dinner. And it can be a lot of fun (get the family or your partner involved). Preparing your own meals is healthier, frugal, and you know you’re eating good food.
- Eat real food, not processed. Buy fresh ingredients such as fruits, veggies, whole grains, nuts, beans, and the like. Use ingredients you can recognize, not things filled with chemicals. Don’t use prepared food if you can avoid it — microwaveable or boxed foods are not the best. Avoid processed food at all costs.
- Eat slowly and mindfully. Too many people stuff food down their gullets these days. It’s not healthy, and you’ve just consumed food without enjoying it. Instead, take the time to chew your food, to taste it, to be present as you eat.
- Enjoy the food. Fully savor each bite. Appreciate the miracle of the food you’re eating, and be grateful you have that bite at all.
- Take time to breathe, and smile. Before you begin to eat, smile, and take a deep breath, reminding yourself to be present and enjoy the food. Between bites, instead of rushing to the next bite, breath, relax, enjoy. Savor the moment.
- When drinking tea, just drink tea. When eating, just eat. Be fully present. Don’t read a book or surf the net or drive or work or anything else but eat and drink.
- Good conversation. OK, the exception to the above rule: eating with friends and family. Fast food has destroyed the good meal and conversation, because we’re rushing as we eat and don’t have time for a good talk. Bring it back.
- When you do eat at a restaurant, make it a good one. Avoid the fast food places, but also the chain restaurants (Chilis, TGI Fridays, Lone Star, Olive Garden, etc). Go to locally owned restaurants where they use real ingredients and really make good food. These may be more expensive, but you’re not supporting a corporation and your food will be better, and even if it means eating out less that’s OK — quality is more important than quantity.
“There are some people who eat an orange but don’t really eat it. They eat their sorrow, fear, anger, past, and future.” - Thich Nhat Hanh
“When you eat with awareness, you find that there is more space, more beauty. You begin to watch yourself, to see yourself, and you notice how clumsy you are or how accurate you are. … So when you make an effort to eat mindfully…, you find that life is worth much more than you had expected.” - Chogyam Trungpa (by: Leo Babauta, Zenhabits)
Happy New Year!
Wheatgrass, the Health Wonder!
Its juice looks like what you’d get if you put your lawn trimmings in a blender, but proponents of wheatgrass claim that it offers potent health benefits. They say it can strengthen the immune system, detoxify the body, and ward off disease. Folk medicine practitioners once used wheatgrass for everything from treating constipation to easing the pain of rheumatism.
The woman credited with bringing wheatgrass into the modern health mainstream was the late Ann Wigmore, a holistic practitioner who got turned on to wheatgrass and other natural foods while battling colon cancer and wanted to spread the word. Though Wigmore’s credentials have been questioned, and her ideas are considered unorthodox by much of the medical establishment (the Massachusetts Attorney General sued her in the 1980s for making false health claims), wheatgrass caught on and became a sort of health food phenomenon.
What Is Wheatgrass?
Wheatgrass is the young grass of the wheat plant, Triticum aestivum. It grows in temperate regions throughout Europe and the United States and can live indoors or outdoors. Many people grow their own wheatgrass by putting wheat seeds in water and then harvesting the leaves.
Wheatgrass is a natural source of vitamins and antioxidants, including:
Vitamins A, E, and B-12
Calcium
Selenium
Magnesium
Iron
One ounce of wheatgrass juice is equivalent to the vitamin and mineral content of 1 ounce of fresh vegetables.
How Is Wheatgrass Used?
Most people don’t eat the wheatgrass itself because it’s tough to digest. Most often, the leaves are crushed and squeezed to make wheatgrass juice. Wheatgrass leaves also can be dried and made into tablets or capsules. Some people mix wheatgrass with water and use it as an enema to cleanse the digestive system.
People who stick to the “wheatgrass diet” — no meat, milk, or cooked foods — eat it raw because they believe cooking foods destroys the natural enzymes that provide the real health kick. In fact, people on the wheatgrass diet avoid all cooked foods, dairy, and meats.
Can Wheatgrass Treat What Ails You?
People use wheatgrass to combat a number of everyday health conditions, including colds, coughs, fevers, digestive ailments, and skin conditions. Wheatgrass has also been used to prevent and treat more serious conditions, from cancer to AIDS. Some people even claim that a wheatgrass diet can shrink cancerous tumors and improve survival.
Many people who swear by it say that the potent ingredient in wheatgrass is chlorophyll, the pigment that gives plants their green color. They claim chlorophyll acts like hemoglobin (the protein in red blood cells that transports oxygen) and increases oxygen levels in the body.
Does It Live Up to the Claims?
Despite all of the health claims, there is very little, if any, evidence that wheatgrass actually works to prevent disease, detoxify, or do any of the other cures attributed to it. Most of what little research has been conducted focuses on the effects of wheatgrass on the digestive system. Here are some of the studies that have been published: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheatgrass)
(Story by: ReyPineda)
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheatgrass
The Lakeshore, one of the projects of Central Country Estate Inc. (CCEI), remains a prime investment area in Central and North Luzon amid the growing issues on physical and economic constraints recently experienced by investors in the south.
The Lakeshore
Earlier, several business analysts projected a slump on the real estate business in the south following the destruction caused by typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng. Major developments south of Manila, particularly in Laguna and nearby provinces served as warnings to investors on the feasibility and continuity of their projects.
However, The Lakeshore is now being eyed as one of the best investment locations that offer comfort, safety and stability to investors. With its newest areas for development and sunshine industries like BPOs, The Lakeshore still remains a resilient player in the real estate business.
Aside from its strategic location in the heart of Central Luzon, The Lakeshore is likewise flood-free and very accessible as it is located along the North Luzon Expressway.
This year, The Lakeshore has added another feather on its cap with the launching of its Business Park or “Biz Park.”
Service and leisure-oriented businesses such as BPOs, restaurants, hotels and specialty shops will find the invigorating synergy of wide open spaces, outstanding amenities and natural environments a boon for their day-to-day operations.
The Lakeshore Biz Park is a rare hybrid that captures the true essentials of the ideal business location: it filters out the noise and confusion of urban congestion; ushers in the peace and old-world charm of the countryside and infuses 21st century cutting edge technology in an exclusive, elegant and secured business community. It is a one-of-a-kind versatile environment where people can work, live and play with matchless ease and convenience.
The Lakeshore Biz Park is envisioned as a mixed use eco-friendly environment ensconced in the world-class lakeside community. Your prime office space is enhanced by wide avenues and exclusive parking spaces, tree-lined sidewalks dotted with islands of greenery and wrapped in sweeping panoramic views of open sky, soothing waters and mountain-bordered fields.
Rest and recreational options include sailing, boating, racquet sports, biking, jogging, basketball and golf—all within easy strolling distance from your workspace. Businessmen can optimize their precious time and energy by opting to live in modern condominiums integrated within the business park.
The Biz Park is less than an hour from Metro Manila and a few minutes away from local and international gateways: the Diosdado Macapagal International Airport in Clark and the world-renowned port facilities of Subic.
