tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60448079546912687722024-02-20T19:02:04.480-08:00rebeccasworldsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09540538052123771499noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6044807954691268772.post-75158098532077561542014-01-29T10:16:00.000-08:002014-03-10T10:17:04.223-07:00How Important Is Detox to Our Bodies?<div style="text-align: justify;">
Good health, as is well known goes hand in hand with nutrition. What
we consume daily can either make or break our bodies' and their
functions. Most of what we ingest ranging from food and water are
provided by unknown sources. This is due to the unhealthy and busy
lifestyles we lead nowadays. Most of those who live in urban areas,
large towns and cities no longer have time to find their way into a
kitchen to fix themselves a homemade meal.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
People are enslaved to
eating out and the grub lifestyle due to their hectic schedules.
Everybody is fighting to make an extra coin and in the process we tend
to forget that nutrition is actually the most important aspect in living
healthy. In the end, many actually do succeed in making that pile of
money but few do live long enough to enjoy it. Why? Because we are all
absorbed in this way of life that we actually forget to nourish the same
bodies' that we tire. If only we could be as keen on watching our
nutrition as we do our finances!.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Water is a basic part of us. One
can go long enough without food but not without water. The human
circulatory system itself has a component called plasma which is made of
over 90% water. Many at times the homes we live in have tap water.
Rarely do we know the sources of the water we drink or what processing
it undergoes before it gets to our taps. Or even how clean it is. Talk
of ignorance! Tap water is treated in large tanks with large quantities
of chemicals so as to kill bacteria and viruses that are unseen to the
normal eye and which are also harmful to our health.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Chlorine,
Fluoride, Calcium Hydroxide, and other salts are just a few of the
components of the water we use. We often forget to question the routes
and pipes the water passes through to get to our taps. Those pipes are
centuries old and most probably bear more contaminants than we could
know. Same thing applies to the fast foods we partake. They are
extremely processed and spiced, too oily and overcooked. Everybody is in
the business for the money.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
It is really important to be
responsible for your own health and if at all you have to eat unhealthy,
make a habit of getting a detox every often. This helps your body
eliminate toxic wastes and leaves you feeling healthier and rejuvenated.
One can choose to detox by using pills or natural detox. Natural food
detox mainly involves cutting down on oils, caffeine, sugars and
alcohol. Always make sure to maintain hydration and up your water
consumption levels. Cut out on processed foods and take-outs. Avoid
eating in restaurants because you are never sure of how your food is
prepared. Exercise often as this helps you sweat. Sweating helps the
body release toxic wastes and salts. Completely eliminate or cut down
totally on sugar, caffeine and alcohol as these play a huge role in
adding toxic substances and unnecessary fats to our systems. Add more
fiber and vegetables to your diet. Fiber actually gives your gut
exercise and keeps it active in function. Most importantly, get enough
sleep as this helps your brain coordinate well with your body systems
and functions.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Detox pills on the other hand, are used by many to
help them shed off weight. This gets tricky since once you are off them
chances are high that one will regain their weight. The difference
between detox pills and natural food detox is that the pills are
unreliable. Detox pills are also costly as they could need
supplements.They are also low in calories and nutrients and they leave
one feeling hungry and weak. Pills work by holding back toxins in your
body instead of flushing them out.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09540538052123771499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6044807954691268772.post-8377776401443480892014-01-23T10:14:00.000-08:002014-03-10T10:16:10.391-07:00How Important Is Detox to Our Bodies?<div id="article-content">
Good health, as is well known goes hand in hand with nutrition.
What we consume daily can either make or break our bodies' and their
functions. Most of what we ingest ranging from food and water are
provided by unknown sources. This is due to the unhealthy and busy
lifestyles we lead nowadays. Most of those who live in urban areas,
large towns and cities no longer have time to find their way into a
kitchen to fix themselves a homemade meal.<br />
People are enslaved to
eating out and the grub lifestyle due to their hectic schedules.
Everybody is fighting to make an extra coin and in the process we tend
to forget that nutrition is actually the most important aspect in living
healthy. In the end, many actually do succeed in making that pile of
money but few do live long enough to enjoy it. Why? Because we are all
absorbed in this way of life that we actually forget to nourish the same
bodies' that we tire. If only we could be as keen on watching our
nutrition as we do our finances!.<br />
Water is a basic part of us. One
can go long enough without food but not without water. The human
circulatory system itself has a component called plasma which is made of
over 90% water. Many at times the homes we live in have tap water.
Rarely do we know the sources of the water we drink or what processing
it undergoes before it gets to our taps. Or even how clean it is. Talk
of ignorance! Tap water is treated in large tanks with large quantities
of chemicals so as to kill bacteria and viruses that are unseen to the
normal eye and which are also harmful to our health.<br />
Chlorine,
Fluoride, Calcium Hydroxide, and other salts are just a few of the
components of the water we use. We often forget to question the routes
and pipes the water passes through to get to our taps. Those pipes are
centuries old and most probably bear more contaminants than we could
know. Same thing applies to the fast foods we partake. They are
extremely processed and spiced, too oily and overcooked. Everybody is in
the business for the money.<br />
It is really important to be
responsible for your own health and if at all you have to eat unhealthy,
make a habit of getting a detox every often. This helps your body
eliminate toxic wastes and leaves you feeling healthier and rejuvenated.
One can choose to detox by using pills or natural detox. Natural food
detox mainly involves cutting down on oils, caffeine, sugars and
alcohol. Always make sure to maintain hydration and up your water
consumption levels. Cut out on processed foods and take-outs. Avoid
eating in restaurants because you are never sure of how your food is
prepared. Exercise often as this helps you sweat. Sweating helps the
body release toxic wastes and salts. Completely eliminate or cut down
totally on sugar, caffeine and alcohol as these play a huge role in
adding toxic substances and unnecessary fats to our systems. Add more
fiber and vegetables to your diet. Fiber actually gives your gut
exercise and keeps it active in function. Most importantly, get enough
sleep as this helps your brain coordinate well with your body systems
and functions.<br />
Detox pills on the other hand, are used by many to
help them shed off weight. This gets tricky since once you are off them
chances are high that one will regain their weight. The difference
between detox pills and natural food detox is that the pills are
unreliable. Detox pills are also costly as they could need
supplements.They are also low in calories and nutrients and they leave
one feeling hungry and weak. Pills work by holding back toxins in your
body instead of flushing them out.<br />
Unlike pills, natural food
detox can be used anytime and can fall in easily into ones lifestyle and
routine. Using detox pills is more like adding toxins to your body and
it is quite hard to exercise since your body is doing twice its' work
and receiving less. A natural detox will guarantee one better and more
satisfying results in the long run</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09540538052123771499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6044807954691268772.post-14704283009572803702014-01-13T10:13:00.000-08:002014-03-10T10:13:37.192-07:00An Offence That Didn't Happen<div style="text-align: justify;">
For the most part, on Cam Ranh Bay we never had any drills: nights,
mornings, forenoon, evenings, none at all. We drove here and there, now
and then for rifle practice, everyone sooner or later had guard duty;
some of us visited village girls, and in-between drank and smoked
ourselves to a frenzy, or virtually dead state: one or the other; and by
and by had ourselves a youthful good time, and by and large, had
honestly good meals: then back to our regular duties, happy and content
like a Minnesota Prized Hog, at the State Fair. And to add to that, one
might say, for the longest time life in a war zone was idly delicious,
per near perfect, even movies on bed sheet held tight against our wooden
outside wall, a part of our dayroom, or lounge where we usually could
find a can of warm beer after duty hours: hence, the sheet was
stretching across the wall, and we saw the latest movies, at 611th
Ordnance Company. There was little to mar it.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Then came the alarm
one day. It was reported, no, more like rumored that Charlie, the enemy
was advancing on us, here at Cam Ranh Bay, in all directions; from the
surrounding hills, - digging in for an offence. The result was near
panic among us, an all encompass concentration.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
It was by far, a rude awakening from our pleasant day, every day trance like tranquility.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
The
rumor was not definite, nothing concrete; so we didn't know what to
anticipate, where to retreat to if we had to retreat, all that was
certain was, the South China Sea was on one side of us, and in a
horseshoe shape, the inland peninsula surround us on the other side.
Consequently, we were sitting ducks-so was our circumstances; but we all
tried to maintain an attitude of laisser-faire, to put up a front of
not yielding to the unknown.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
And so the captain, Captain
Rosenboum, yielded the point and called a counsel of war, for one and
all, all being 160-soldiers in or Ordnance Company.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
The question
was: do we fight or retreat, which is more like running. Nobody appeared
to have even a guess to offer, but the Captain.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
He explained in a
few chosen, and well selected words, calm and slow: "Insomuch as
Charlie approaching us in the hillside, in fox holes only big enough to
breathe out of, we know he is there, but will he attack in force?"</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
And
we all looked at one another, our course was simple, there was no
direction to go in-; the Captain's face how true this was. It was now
decided that we would stand our ground, right here, never fall back
because, back was into the sea, although we had ships out there,
somewhere, wherever.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
And so our rifles and our magazines were full of ammunition and were within a hand's reach; close to that anyways.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
The
hills were rough and hilly and rocky, with lots of foliage. And into
them the night always grew very dark, and rain began to fall. So surely
if they were to attack it would be burdensome, if not troublesome,
struggling and stomping along the narrow muddy pathways in the dark to
get to us; and we all slept with our arms and legs ready to jump up and
out of bed to the muddy slop in front of our campsite; of course, we
were half drunk, or if not drunk, missed up by dope of some kind. And
there was among voices dismal to hear and take part in, low voices. And
the enemy maybe coming at any moment. And so the growling and
complaining continued night after night, unabated.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09540538052123771499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6044807954691268772.post-84462742503186274632014-01-06T10:12:00.000-08:002014-03-10T10:12:44.657-07:00An Old Traveler's Ways (an Essay)<div style="text-align: justify;">
These nights are a hundred years long for me, perhaps for any old
travelers accustomed to being on the road, or in the sky. I lay awake
and miserable till that hour every night arrives that I must be put to
sleep; and grow older and more rickety waiting through the silent,
stone-still hours of the night, forever and a day waiting and waiting,
as the clock-strikes each hour, on the hour, to fall to sleep.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
This is no life for old seasoned men like me of travel.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
It
was four years ago now, when I last traveled, when at last it was with
something very like joy that I could afford to put the enemy to rest,
and get on track again and travel, that year I went to Cape Horn
(Chile), and Argentina, and then to Israel, with a new kind of birth of
the old warrior spirit in me; it all sprang out of me like I was in the
line of battle, back in Vietnam, back in '71.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
This kind of thing
sounds odd to many, and perhaps impossible to some, to travel at will, I
have done it all my life, but there is no surprise in it for me when it
comes around, at the time. On the contrary, it is a perfectly natural
thing to do, for me.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
I have traveled to fifty-six countries. It
is-so I feel, quite within the probabilities of most people I know to do
this, if indeed, they put heart and soul, and one third of their bank
account money into it. And I figured it out early in life, it didn't
take a lot of money to travel, I was a modest-salaried person,
professional later in my life, it takes some savings that is all, and
the act of letting go of those savings, and planning.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
I'm from
Minnesota, a Midwestern boy. Often times when I travel, have traveled,
as to India, or Egypt, or some far-off destination like Iceland, the
first hours upon arrival, if not the first full day, my inners get a
deep woodsy stillness, it nearly overcomes me: it is a kind of an
excitement, strong enough to enable me to mark a destination and go
directly to it, as in Egypt, I went right to the Pyramids when I got off
the plane. As when I went to Lisbon in 1998 for the World's Fair,
within three hours off the plane I was walking the grounds of the Fair.
The first time I was in Paris I hardly knew what I was doing, I spent
$240-dollars on taxies in 24-hours, back in 1997. I was dazed with
excitement, hardly audible the first hours, when directing the taxi to
where I wanted to go. My first time in Rome, it was an uncanny kind of
excitement; late night smells, dim lights cafes, restaurants; afternoon
heat, all rising and pervading.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
When you travel alone, everyone
seemingly has a reproachful look, shadowy eyes, but it is not really so,
people are just people and most folks never did me any harm. Even
though a few tried in China, and Greece, and Germany, and Spain and
Lisbon.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09540538052123771499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6044807954691268772.post-71028402000420652902014-01-02T10:11:00.000-08:002014-03-10T10:11:53.307-07:00A Long Monstrous Sleep (1960)<div style="text-align: justify;">
The sun was down some when we reached the fairgrounds, Lamoure and I,
it was after five o'clock. We laid there in the grass behind the iron
fence, and a building, the building somewhat hiding us, in the cool
shade, it had been a hot day, and we had both told our parents we were
staying over at each other's home, and taken off to find a new
adventure, and so here we were, snug as a bug, in the fairgrounds,
camping out, thinking of things, and getting rested for the night, and
rather at ease and satisfied.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
I could see the sun going down at
the other end of the fairgrounds, looking through an opening in the
branches and leaves of a nearby tree, while laying on my back, and the
moon fading into sight, with its gloomy gray interior.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
There were
arc lights from the streets that spiffed light through the iron bar
fence, and down and across our faces, somewhat breaking up as it
bartered its way around the fence's open spaces. And from somewhere came
a little breeze. A couple of gray doves, were perched on a branch of a
tree nearby, jabbering as if in trying to settle a dispute.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
I was
potently sluggish, tired and for the most part lazy, and comfortable-I
didn't want to move from this spot. Didn't want to get up. Well, after a
half hour of this laziness and Lamoure and I talking about this and
that eating some beef-jerky and drinking some water from my canteen,
Lamoure dozing off, we both thought we hear something, "Perhaps a bum!" I
said to him. He stirs some, rouses up and looks about. A moment later, I
hear it again, and Lamoure looks down the street some, towards the
midway area, we're both smoking Camel cigarettes. He looks at me as if
he knows what the matter is now.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
"Police!" he said.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Well I knew, no police came into the fairgrounds, it had to be the grounds man I figured.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
I
could see his white shirt, as I tried to sit upright, to greet him. So I
sat there cross-legged and waited. Thinking how it always happens,
adults come around once you get comfortable, and spoil your fun. I knew
he'd chase us out. But I had a good enough time I figured up to now, and
just seeing him coming quicksilver trying to figure out how he was
going handle this, that is, to chase us out of here, was worth the wait,
I was too tired to run, and I suppose that's what he expected.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
So,
says I, when he got a few feet in front of me, and Lamoure standing up
looking awkward as a jaybird trying to find his nest, "I suppose we got
to leave?"</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
"Yup, but what in tarnation are you doing here in the first place?" He asked, in a rather friendly tone.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
I
changed to a more humble posture, thinking maybe we're in luck, he'll
let us sleep here for the night, so I says, "We're just camping out, and
we're not going to disturbed anyone!"</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
He wasn't very well satisfied with that, and there wasn't any doubt in his face now, we were leaving. And we left.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
With
our canteen, and jackets, and a blanket, we trekked down alongside,
outside, the fairgrounds fence, it must have been a mile, and a few past
that, we were per near five miles from home. I was pretty hungry, but
it weren't going to do for me to start complaining, neither one of us
had any money, just a pack of smokes between us. Then when we got down a
ways, by the University Farms, it was pretty late, and we found a
carrot garden, and we didn't lose no time, we pulled a half dozen of
those carrots from their roots, we went and looked for a place to sit
down, found an old log, at the edge of the garden, looked out across the
field, the sky looked black as driftwood, the stars twinkling, like
little lanterns, then wiped those carrots clean and ate them as if they
were T-bone steaks.</div>
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