Raymond's Blog
I always try to help some of the children in our tribe and this year I saw Zenni Optical on TV!!! Talk about a blessing because I can get several pairs of $8 Rx eyeglasses for the children before school starts back. I know several of the children need them too. All I can say is a big ‘High Five to Zenni Optical‘ for making it possible.
My wife got this in an email and we are very into eating as healthy as we possibly can. After reading this, now we have a new way of eating fruit. I can’t complain, at least she wants me around a little longer!!!
EATING FRUITS …….It’s long but very informative
We all think eating fruits means just buying fruits, cutting it and just popping it into our mouths. It’s not as easy as you think. It’s important to know how and when to eat. 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 whole meal rots and 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.
So please 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 – actually 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!
Graying hair, balding, 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 matter. 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 & fiber. 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 fiber, 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,warm water or warm beer after a meal.
The doctor, after an examination, sighed and said, ‘I’ve got some bad news. You have cancer, and you’d best put your affairs in order. ‘ The woman was shocked, but managed to compose herself and walk into the waiting room where her daughter had been waiting.
‘Well, daughter, we women celebrate when things are good, and we celebrate when things don’t go so well. In this case, things aren’t well. I have cancer. So, let’s head to the club and have a martini.’
After 3 or 4 martinis, the two were feeling a little less somber. There were some laughs and more martinis. They were eventually approached by some of the woman’s old friends, who were curious as to what the two were celebrating.
The woman told her friends they were drinking to her impending end, ‘I’ve been diagnosed with AIDS.’
The friend s were aghast, gave the woman their condolences and beat a hasty retreat.
After the friends left, the woman’s daughter leaned over and whispered, ‘Momma, I thought you said you were dying of cancer, and you just told your friends you were dying of AIDS! Why did you do that?’
‘Because I don’t want any of those bitches sleeping with your father after I’m gone.’
And THAT, my friends, is what is called, ‘Putting Your Affairs In Order.’
I had no idea of this and can’t swear it is true but it sure has changed the way I eat. Only butter for my family from now on!!
Pass The Butter …. Please. This is interesting . … .
Margarine was originally manufactured to fatten turkeys. When it killed the turkeys, the people who had put all the money into the research wanted a payback so they put their heads together to figure out what to do with this product to get their money back. It was a white substance with no food appeal so they added the yellow coloring and sold it to people to use in place of butter. How do you like it? They have come out with some clever new flavorings.
DO YOU KNOW.. The difference between margarine and butter? Read on to the end…gets very interesting!
Both have the same amount of calories.
Butter is slightly higher in saturated fats at 8 grams compared to 5 grams.
Eating margarine can increase heart disease in women by 53% over eating the same amount of butter, according to a recent Harvard Medical Study.
Eating butter increases the absorption of many other nutrients in other foods.
Butter has many nutritional benefits where margarine has a few only because they are added!
Butter tastes much better than margarine and it can enhance the flavors of other foods.
Butter has been around for centuries where margarine has been around for less than 100 years .
And now, for Margarine.. Very high in Trans fatty acids.
Triple risk of coronary heart disease.
Increases total cholesterol and LDL (this is the bad cholesterol) and lowers HDL cholesterol, (the good cholesterol).
Increases the risk of cancers up to five fold.
Lowers quality of breast milk.
Decreases immune response.
Decreases insulin response.
And here’s the most disturbing fact…. HERE IS THE PART THAT IS VERY INTERESTING!
Margarine is but ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC..
This fact alone was enough to have me avoiding margarine for life and anything else that is hydrogenated (this
means hydrogen is added, changing the molecular structure of the substance).
You can try this yourself: Purchase a tub of margarine and leave it in your garage or shaded area. Within a couple of days you will note a couple of things:
* no flies, not even those pesky fruit flies will go near it (that should tell you something).
* it does not rot or smell differently because it has no nutritional value; nothing will grow on it. Even those teeny weeny microorganisms will not find a home to grow. Why? Because it is nearly plastic. Would you melt your Tupperware and spread that on your toast?
Here’s to a healthy drug-free life!
Dr. Steven Alff, D.C.
We have the floor down in the upstairs and all of the walls in except for the wiring and the drywall. We decided to put registers in the floor for the heat to come upstairs from the downstairs and you can close them off in the summer and open the vents on the wall to let the cool air in the room. I just hope the people will do that. It will save a lot on the electricity. One of the men from one of the churches is an electrician and he’s donating everything including materials and labor to wire everything. What a great thing he is doing.
We also have the garage doors off and the walls and doors framed in. We have already but up the outside walls and have the siding on them along with the front doors installed. Of course everyone took the weekend off and will be back bright an early Monday morning. I’m amazed at how fast everything is coming together.
My wife and I were discussing the issue of so many homeless people around here and she came up with an idea that I thought was wonderful. We have a three car garage that is separate from the house that we don’t even use in all honesty because there’s a two car garage attached to the house that we park our cars in. The other was built for the kids cars. It’s tall enough to make a room upstairs in too.
What my wife wants for us to do is to close in each bay of the garage and take down the garage doors, close that in and make three small apartments for people that have become homeless. She said that we could give them the first month free to help them get back on their feet and then just charge $100 a month to cover the extra electricity that it will cost us. It wouldn’t take very much to do just that. The upstairs could be the bedroom easily. Now all I have to do is check with the county and see if I can get a permit to do what we want. I really hope we can. I bet I can find a lot of help with it too from our neighbors.
Easter will be coming soon and when the children were all still living at home, we always planned a ‘spring break’ vacation. Since the children have moved out, we haven’t done that and she mentioned that she misses that the other day. Well I have a surprise for her for ‘spring break’. You can find some amazing prices for a cruise right now and I have found a great deal on a cruise for just the two of us. It will be sort of a second honeymoon too since our anniversary isn’t very far away either.
I’m a smart man and I know that if I am going to make this as special for her as I hope it will be, then I better let her help pick out the cruise!! Carnival cruise lines has some great cruises like to the Bahamas, or the Caribbean or even Hawaii but I think I’ll leave it all up to her as to which cruise we choose. Besides, it’s going to be fun picking out the perfect ‘spring break’ with my wonderful wife. She deserves so much better than I can give her but I thank God everyday that she chose to be my wife. I am a lucky man and I know it.
It’s very hard to let your child fall. A parents first reaction is to reach out and catch them but there are times when you have to let them fall. Once they have fallen, a parents first reaction is to reach down and pick them up but sometimes the best thing is to let them get back up on their own. I have a hard time trying to let my children learn a hard lesson that they have put themselves into but one thing I have also learned from these lessons my son has to learn, and that is that I have to let him learn them or he never will. I have to let him learn the hard way and I can keep running to get him out of what ever mess he has gotten himself into anymore.
He has spent over 2 months in jail and will be getting out on the 23rd he told me today. When he gets out, it’s on his own totally. I did not pay for his bail, I did not pay for a lawyer, I did not pay to get his truck out so he walks out with the clothes on his back and whatever the wife of someone who is also in jail with him was able to get out of his truck. That hurts me so much but he has to learn or he will end up in prison for a long, long time. I can’t stand the thought of that and neither can he so hopefully, with the help of God, he has learned.
Well my son has been sending me letters from jail and I am beginning to really hear or read a difference in each and every letter. He is finally starting to realize that he has gotten himself in this mess and he’s going to have to do what he has to do to get himself out of it. He’s finally realizing that Mom and Dad can’t fix everything anymore.
It hurts me to have to teach him this lesson but if he doesn’t learn it now, he’s going to end up somewhere he really doesn’t want to be and somewhere I don’t want him to be either. In all reality, he’s teaching himself a hard lesson.
Well the truck is gone now. Today is the day that it had to be paid for or they keep it. I don’t have $1300 to pay for getting his truck out. Besides, it’s a 1991 and probably not worth that much to begin with. He’s just going to have to figure out a way to get a job so he can earn the money to get another vehicle on his own. The amazing thing is he’s not mad. He’s beginning to realize that he is the one at fault here and no one else. He did wrong and now it has cost him his truck.
Dear God I hope he finally realizes that he can’t walk in the middle of the street and be doing right. Sure sometimes he’s on the right side of the street but then he manages to get back in the middle of the road again and before you know it, he’s on the wrong side of the street again if only for a moment or two. Life doesn’t work that way and he’s got to learn everything the hard way unfortunately.