2010 年 7 月 11 日 星期日 【晴】

繼續學習

聆聽

辨別

吸收

不過有很多時候未必會每事情都會去 verify

所以多會選擇多聽多吸收

但仍保留一個改變觀念的空間

- all tomato nowadays are picked when it is still green, and ripened with ethylene gas

info quoted from video 'food inc.'

喜歡 investigative reporting

這 video/movie 也非常值得收看

video link:

http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/vYysj_5Gvt8/

希望大家在購物時

多選擇本地種植的有機蔬菜

最重要

還是好好觀察着我們的慾望

比如說我們有否買超過我們所需?

當我們選擇食品時

比如說 yogurt

我們明明能在一些比較前 expire 的日子能吃掉那 yogurt

可是卻偏偏選擇 expiry date 最遲的那個

試想想

當我們每人也只着眼自己最大的利益

而非自己的需要

又很多東西就是因為這樣浪費掉了

to make it more clear, let's give an example

let's say if you can finish a yogurt by Jul 14

and there are two yogurt in front of you in the supermarket

one will expire on Jul 17, and the other will expire on Jul 20

most people will choose the Jul 20 as they think it is fresher

true that it is more fresh

but if everyone choose the Jul 20

who is going to buy the Jul 17?

if it's lucky it will go on sale and somebody will buy it

if not it will straight to trash and got wasted

so why don't we observe and fulfill our "need" instead of our "unquenchable desire"

sometimes it is our ego that 'wanting the best thing' turn this world into a 弱肉強食的社會

i know it is kind of human nature

but i aware human nature also has the beautiful part to manifest

so lets make a change

think before we purchase

and observe our 'need' and 'desire'

>>July 11, 2010 at 5:31:32 PM GMT+8

2010 年 7 月 10 日 星期六 【晴】

又學了新的東西 :)

i love nutritional therapy


- 原來fertilizer 主要 make up of 3 minerals: NPK (nitrogen, phosphate, potassium), but soil need 52 different minerals, so when soil is deficient, the food is deficient too, so bugs come and attack the food, the farmers then use pesticide to kill the bugs. So even if we eat vegetarian food, we eat toxin. (the root cause is the fertility of the soil. We have over planting and depleted our soil, or we shall say, the root cause is our greed.)

- pesticide 是把 bugs 變成 all feminine, 所以牠們不能交配, 不能繁殖, 當人吃了這些含 pesticide 的食物後, 近年發現出生率越來越多女孩子, 而男孩子的 penis 也比以往小......

- 進食 local food rather than 外國進口的, 因為 travel time shorter, 所以營養流失較少

- when we cook our food, life enzymes in food are killed.

- 原來當東西經過 heat 來煮後, 我們的 digestive system 會出現 digestive leukocytosis (進食後白血球迅速增
加), 因為我們的身體以為那些食物是 toxin, cause the heat has changed the food structure and our body couldn't reckon it as food and thought it is toxin

- A swiss doctor, Paul Kouchakoff (1930's) first to find out that if we ate an diet which is more than 51% of cooked food, the body will react to the food as if it would being invaded by a foreign organism.

- He also demonstrate that if 51% or more of our diet is from raw food, there will be no leukocytosis. So our immune system wont be activated with the false alarm. So make sure 51% of meal we have is raw, so we wont over burden our immune system.

- 原來當 Protein 經過 heat 來煮, 當中有 50% 的 protein 會被 destroyed, 所以 plant base non cooked protein
才最為人體吸收. (e.g. spirulina. It has been consumed in mexico as the main protein source for 5000 years. It has the highest protein content food in the world. This protein is easy to be absorbed by body. While for meat, it needs massive energy to liquify it and make absorb able by your digestive system.)

- Superfood: golgi berries, raw honey, wheatgrass, spirulina, tumeric, nori, giner, maca powder, echinacea, bee pollen, coconut, durian, kelp, acai, dulse, kombu, raw cacao, wakame, golden seal, barley grass etc.

- 原來 raw cacao has the highest amount of magnesium, chromium, vitamin C and other different minerals. But all processed chocolate has no vitamin C as heat destroy vitamin C.

- Raw cacao has the highest antioxidant content, 而 antioxidant 能 protect us from viral damage, dna damage, cancer, skin damage etc. Antioxidant 幫助我們 inhibit 細胞氧化過程 (細胞氧化會產生自由基 (free radicals) which will damage cells), 所以 低 antioxidant level 會容易 cause oxidative stress and cell damage, 而 relatively higher level of antioxidant 能減低 oxidative stress and cell damage. 而 according to research, oxidative stress might be an important part of many human diseases, including cancer and coronary disease.

- if we eat a lousy meal a day (say a steak, chocolate cake, sugar drink etc.), even we eat healthy the other day (say salad, fresh fruit), the harm we did on the first day cannot be restored. There is always a residual problem and we have to pay back for whatever we eat sooner or later. Of cause, the good food we eat also pay back in a good way too.

- large dose of vitamin C can prevent and treat illness. Some say it can cause kidney stone, but some says there hasn't been any research paper showing it cause kidney stone, so it's remain controversial.

- most doctor are not interested in patient's diet and the food served in hospital is not the cure (e.g. white bread and jam)

- Fred Robert Klenner in 1940's cure virus disease by high doses of vitamin C

- LInus Pauling (1990, a chemist who won two noble prize, one in chemistry and one in peace) suggest vitamin C could be useful against the common cold.

- One nutrient is good for many things. Example Vitamin C is good for heart disease, for healing burns, reduce seizure of epileptic. Vitamin C is anti-toxin, anti-histamine, anti-viral, helps regulate blood sugar, elevate mood in people who are depressed.

- There is about 2000 nutrients and body has countless thousands of chemical reaction, so we can expect one nutrient (vitamin or minerals) can involved with multiple reactions in body. One drug is not for one disease. When we take vitamin, it doesn't heal the body directly, but it enable the body to heal itself.

- Max Gerson (1881-1959 Gerson Therapy), think body has its own healing mechanism. It is the doctor duty to activate and re-activate the body's own healing system, the patient is heal and doesn't matter what you call the disease.

- Take more Vitamin C when are stressed out.
if you have a stressful job, or have a stressful lifestyle (e.g. got kids to take care, rushing) or if your personality is easily irritated and get angry easily, your body will be breaking vitamin C as it generating adrenaline. Andrenaline is a substance produced in the body when you are excited, afraid or angry. It makes the heart beat faster and increases your energy and ability to move quickly. Andrenaline is the link between stress and heart attack, when you are stress, the body is making andrenaline, and it draw down the level of vitamin c in the body, and cause a vulnerability of your cardiovascular system.

- Dr. Dan Rogers (both a traditional Medical Doctor M.D. and a Naturoapthy Medical Doctor N.M.D.): chronic disease is not cured because doctors are treating the symptoms but not the root cause. He saw many patients who would have been die within a few months with conventional disease, getting better and better with naturopathy.

- Dr. Dean Ornish put people who have cardiovascular disease on a vegetarian diet (plant base high fiber diet) and stress reduction meditation, the patients are able to reverse or arrest cardiovascular disease in a year. Half of our death is from cardiovascular disease, and among them, half of them, their first symptoms is death. They might not hv any symptoms and suddenly death, which is too late.

- in UK, 10,000 people die due to adverse drug effect, 9000 die from prostrate cancer, 3500 people die from car accident.

- in US, 106,000 people die from adverse drug effect (and they are prescribed) and only 10 die from vitamin C in 23 years. So why dont we use nutrition first.

- 3000mg per day of Niacin - vitamin b3, help with depression and alcoholism, 11,500mg Niacin per day for very very severe suicidal depression

- two handful of cashew can help with depression, similar effect to a prozac

- if someone is depress, the first thing is to tell him it's ok to be depressed, but dont depress anymore, go and eat good food.

- Dr. Max Gerson (1930-0s) show vitamins and large quantity of fresh vegetable juices and organic food will help to reverse cancer. He has about 50% cure rate of terminal cancer ill patient.
(Gerson Plus Nutritional therapy)

- in 1972, 220,000 die of cancer, after 25 yrs, USA today published in 1996, 560,000 people die of cancer.

- japanese who has a low cancer rate, find to take a lot of trace element, omega 3 and drink green tea (male: colon cancer; female: breast and uterus cancer, US woman 13%, Japanese woman less than 1 %)

- instead of giving chemotherapy, you can have high dose of Vitamin C given intravenously, 30,000/ 60,000 / 100,000 mg a day or even 200,000 mg a day, nearly 0.25 in a kilo IV in 24 hours, directly into the blood stream, this will kill cancer cells. Patients may have thirst and

(most of the info above are from the video 'food matters', worth to watch)

link of video:
http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/hmWhJnWhQJU/

>>July 10, 2010 at 9:40:23 PM GMT+8

2010 年 7 月 9 日 星期五 【晴】

原來愛自己多些是這麼重要的

以前總以為愛自己是自私的行為

從少以來

我們都被教育該為人設想

該從他人立場出發

要愛人如己

但往往卻因為這樣而與真實脫了節

為何會這麼說呢

因為其實大部分人都 has a strong attachment to thyself

everyone has a strong ego that is very difficult to give up

當我們在行為上處處忽略了自己

忘記了客觀的觀察自己

和真實的自己同在時

我們很容易會因為我們表面上無私的行為

把 self ego boost up

很欣賞自己

很滿意自己的表現

也因此我們的 self ego 會得到強化

attachment to self ego 越大

忘記了 observe 自己

最後 self ego 成為了自己的主人

我們會 become the prisoner of self ego


但如果我們經常客觀觀察自己

和感受同在

看清自己行為背後真正的動機

如實的觀察

如實地和當下的自己同在

你會發現每一個行為

都會變得很 pure

不過面對真正的自己是需要很大的勇氣的



最近愛自己多了

發現開心了很多

快樂的很多部分雖然仍建築在外境上

但我知道它正在減少

我心中的 island 正慢慢形成

當然

還得提醒自己不要 develop attachment to this island

就像佛形容為過河一樣

泛舟過河後

不用把舟擱在身上帶上路

該把它停泊在一旁

讓其他有需要的人使用


以前很介意別人的看法

記得中學時候朋友取笑我拿碗的動作

我便因此改了

另外朋友談及我走路的動作

即使她不是貶義

我也因此 conscious aware 我走路的方法

原來我一直也希望得到別人的認同

希望別人喜歡自己

認為多人喜歡自己 self worth 和 self value 便會增高

最近我改變了行為

用自己喜歡的方法拿碗

用自己喜歡的方法走路

要取悅的不是別人

而是自己

當自己認為這是舒服

而又不影響他人 (this could be very subjective of when an 'affect' is an 'disturbance')

便做自己想做的

成為自己喜歡的人

讓自己喜歡自己

原來會讓我感到這麼快樂的

:)

>>July 10, 2010 at 4:20:42 PM GMT+8

2010 年 7 月 8 日 星期四 【晴】

大埔 jusco 快要結束營業

超市還有兩天便關門

有點不捨呢

對於未來的一田

還是喜歡舊的

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看到報章有關王廷歆離世的消息

有點感概

享年 99 歲

他和龔如心二人爭產多年

原來王17歲便在父親上海的公司工作

三年後接管公司

21 歲結婚

23 歲誕下長子王德輝

而龔如心原來是其父親好友的女兒

和長子青梅竹馬

後來結婚

婚後和王關係良好

直至爭產案出現

當然我作為局外人

完全不能了解當中的真相

不過從這事

看見金錢, ego, attachment of mine 真的為人帶來很多煩惱

人們說 ""欲知前世因,今生受者是,欲知後世果,今生作者是"

雖然我不知道是否真的有前世今生

但就算單看此生

我還是選擇相信 cause and effect

相信 karma

覺得相對上比較合理

盡量做一個自己希望成為的人吧


希望王老先生安息

並得到真正的快樂

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讀書真有趣

親愛的朋友們

當你們喝酒時

原來進食一些比較肥膩的食物如 pizza, hamburger, nachos

能減低酒精對你身體的傷害

因為你的胃會有多些時間把 toxic 的 alcohol 轉化為 nontoxic 的 acetaldehyde (乙醛)

另外

由於十二指腸比胃的吸收功能更強

而酒精是能溶於油的

所以進食肥膩的食物能減慢酒精進入十二指腸的速度

也因此能減慢酒精入血的速度

不過當然

酒精還是適量的喝好了

quoted from 'principles of anatomy and physiology - Tortora)

"Absorption of Alcohol:

- The intoxicating and incapacitating effects of alcohol depend on the blood alcohol level. Because it is lipid-soluble, alcohol begins to be absorbed in the stomach. However, the surface area available for absortpin is much greater in the small intestine than in the stomach, so when alcohol passes into the duodenum, it is absorbed more rapidly.

Thus, the longer the alcohol remains in the stomach, the more slowly blood alcohol level arises. Because fatty acids in chyme slow gastric emptying, blood alcohol level will rise more slowly when fat-rich foods, such as pizza, hamburgers, or nachos, are consumed with alcoholic beverages.

Also, the enzyme alcohol dehydrogenase, which is present in gastric mucosa cells, breaks down some of the alcohol to acetaldehyde, which is not toxicating.

When the rate of gastric emptying is slower, proportionally more alcohol will be absorbed and converted to acetaldehyde in the stomach, and thus less alcohol will reach the bloodstream.

Give identical consumption of alcohol, females often develop higher blood alcohol levels (and therefore experience greater intoxication) than males of comparable size because the activity of gastric alcohol dehydrogenase is up to 60% lower in females than in males. Asian males may also have lower levels of this gastric enzyme."

>>July 9, 2010 at 9:14:22 AM GMT+8

2010 年 7 月 7 日 星期三 【晴】

發現自己 self discipline 很差

有待改進

今天又下午4時才開始溫習...........

>>July 8, 2010 at 2:48:43 PM GMT+8

2010 年 7 月 6 日 星期二 【晴】

西班牙

唔該幫我贏咗德國佢

3q

>>July 7, 2010 at 7:45:08 AM GMT+8

2010 年 7 月 5 日 星期一 【晴】

今天外出看見很多漂亮的男女

特別是靚仔

大埔突然多了很多 o 仔

發生了甚麼事?

>>July 7, 2010 at 7:36:51 AM GMT+8

2010 年 7 月 4 日 星期日 【晴】

喪玩了兩天

是時候收拾心情讀書了

>>July 5, 2010 at 6:39:13 AM GMT+8

2010 年 7 月 3 日 星期六 【晴】

從昨天晚上到今天

所有東西也是在 last minute 才決定

原本不打算去 kayak 了

因為才睡了三小時

但起床後看見天氣超好

朋友的車又讓人很有度假 feel

所以臨時去了

不過由於太遲

朋友們一點半已經出艇

去了很遠

我也不想這個時候出發

所以在沙灘 hea 至三點半才出

自己一人去了沙嘴

玩了兩小時再回岸跟他們會合

好舒服喔~~~~~~~~~~~

很開心呢~~~~~~~~~~~

沒有想過原來自己去 kayak 也會這麼 enjoyable 的

也因為這樣認識了一位新朋友

之後我們大塊兒去了吃東西

再回家去

洗過澡侯

倒頭大睡

現在 0000 剛醒過來

我真的很喜歡大自然

希望我們大家一起保護這個世界吧

:D

>>July 4, 2010 at 4:57:41 PM GMT+8

2010 年 7 月 2 日 星期五 【晴】

支持 argentina

不過居然 4 比 0

很 down

差不多想哭

朋友分別致電來

我的聲音也沒哂 mood

朋友找我去兜風

好吧

去了大美督

原本打算回家

後來 ad hoc 去了吃宵夜

之後明明已經回家

卻因致電 hy 問他們是否沙灘後過來看波

發現他們才剛到沙灘不久

hy 叫我去找他

碰巧朋友住在港島

可以 give me a lift

所以便臨時決定去南灣找他們

原本打算吹吹水見個面便算

朋友卻率先脫了衣服

在海中暢游泳

玩到 5 點

再去 frying pan 吃早餐

哈哈哈哈

很好玩喔

去了他家睡覺

喔

九年了

我們對上一次共用一所洗手間已經是 frankfurt 的事了

我們的友誼能維持這麼久

真難得

祝友誼永固

:)

>>July 4, 2010 at 5:07:42 PM GMT+8