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This is interesting.
After reading this, you'll never look at a banana in the same way again.
Bananas contain three natural sugars - sucrose, fructose and glucose combined with fiber. A banana gives an instant, sustained and substantial boost of energy.
Research has proven that just two bananas provide enough energy for a strenuous 90-minute workout. No wonder the banana is the number one fruit with the world's leading athletes.
But energy isn't the only way a banana can help us keep fit. It can also help overcome or prevent a substantial number of illnesses and conditions, making it a must to add to our daily diet.
Depression: According to a recent survey undertaken by MIND amongst people suffering from depression, many felt much better after eating a banana. This is because bananas contain tryptophan, a type of protein that the body converts into serotonin, known to make you relax, improve your mood and generally make you feel happier.
PMS: Forget the pills - eat a banana... The vitamin B6 it contains regulates blood glucose levels, which can affect your mood.
Anemia: High in iron, bananas can stimulate the production of hemoglobin in the blood and so helps in cases of anemia.
Blood Pressure: This unique tropical fruit is extremely high in potassium yet low in salt, making it perfect to beat blood pressure. So much so, the US Food and Drug Administration has just allowed the banana industry to make official claims for the fruit's ability to reduce the risk of blood pressure and stroke.
Brain Power: 200 students at a Twickenham (Middlesex) school were helped through their exams this year by eating bananas at breakfast, break, and lunch in a bid to boost their brain power. Research has shown that the potassium-packed fruit can assist learning by making pupils more alert.
Constipation: High in fiber, including bananas in the diet can help restore normal bowel action, helping to overcome the problem without resorting to laxatives.
Hangovers: One of the quickest ways of curing a hangover is to make a banana milkshake, sweetened with honey. The banana calms the stomach and, with the help of the honey, builds up depleted blood sugar levels, while the milk soothes and re-hydrates your system.
Heartburn: Bananas have a natural antacid effect in the body, so if you suffer from heartburn, try eating a banana for soothing relief.
Morning Sickness: Snacking on bananas between meals helps to keep blood sugar levels up and avoid morning sickness.
Mosquito bites: Before reaching for the insect bite cream, try rubbing the affected area with the inside of a banana skin. Many people find it amazingly successful at reducing swelling and irritation.
Nerves: Bananas are high in B vitamins that help calm the nervous system.
Overweight and at work? Studies at the Institute of Psychology in Austria found pressure at wor k leads to gorging on comfort food like chocolate and crisps. Looking at 5,000 hospital patients, researchers found the most obese were more likely to be in high-pressure jobs. The report concluded that, to avoid panic-induced food cravings, we need to control our blood sugar levels by snacking on high carbohydrate foods every two hours to keep levels steady.
Ulcers: The banana is used as the dietary food against intestinal disorders because of its soft texture and smoothness. It is the only raw fruit that can be eaten without distress in over-chronicler cases. It also neutralizes over-acidity and reduces irritation by coating the lining of the stomach.
Temperature control: Many other cultures see bananas as a 'cooling' fruit that can lower both the physical and emotional temperature of expectant mothers. In Thailand , for example, pregnant women eat bananas to ensure their baby is born with a cool temperature.
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD): Bananas can help SAD sufferers because they contain the natural mood enhancer tryptophan.
Smoking &Tobacco Use: Bananas can also help people trying to give up smoking. The B6, B12 they contain, as well as the potassium and magnesium found in them, help the body recover from the effects of nicotine withdrawal.
Stress: Potassium is a vital mineral, which helps normalize the heartbeat, sends oxygen to the brain and regulates your body's water balance. When we are stressed, our metabolic rate rises, thereby reducing our potassium levels. These can be rebalanced with the help of a high-potassium banana snack.
Strokes: According to research in The New England Journal of Medicine, eating bananas as part of a regular diet can cut the risk of death by strokes by as much as 40%!
Warts: Those keen on natural alternatives swear that if you want to kill off a wart, take a piece of banana skin and place it on the wart, with the yellow side out. Carefully hold the skin in place with a plaster or surgical tape!
So, a banana really is a natural remedy for many ills.
When you compare it to an apple, it has four times the protein, twice the carbohydrate, three times the phosphorus, five times the vitamin A and iron, and twice the other vitamins and minerals. It is also rich in potassium and is one of the best value foods around
So maybe its time to change that well-known phrase so that we say, 'A banana a day keeps the doctor away!'
從前 有一片美麗的大地
因爲地球暖化
海鷗 不見了
企鵝 不見了
海豹 不見了
美麗的生命 正在消失
讓我們一同為地球尋找希望
There was once a beautiful land
Because of Global Warming
Sea gull disappeared
Penguins are gone
Seals are missing
Beautiful life is disappearing
Let us together find hope for our Earth
證嚴上人呼籲 :
疼惜大地,我們每個人都有責任。我希望大家都有更大的環保意識,不但要了解問題的起因,更要付諸行動,決不要輕視一己之力。只要人人一起做,全世界人類總合起來,其力量是非常大的!地球的安危,也是人類的安危;唯有地球平安,人類才能平安。
Master Cheng Yen's appeal:
Protecting the environment is a responsibility that all of us share. I hope everyone can live with greater environmental awareness. It is a simple concept, but if we can all put it into practice, the impact can be profound and far-reaching. Only when our world is free of disaster, will mankind be safe.
力行減碳333 常保地球999
333 Green Acts to save our Mother Earth
(1)飲食 Mindful Eating | ||
不肉食 | Try vegetarianism | |
吃低碳里程食物 | Purchase local food | |
| 不浪費 | Reduce food waste |
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(2)節能 Eco-Friendly Living | ||
少開車,騎腳踏車,多利用公共交通 | Drive less, ride bicycle or take public transportation | |
| 省水省電 | Conserve water, electricity |
| 惜紙 | Reduce paper consumption |
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(3)消費 Frugal Living | ||
| 不追求流行 | Do not pursuit trendy material, buy only what you need |
| 延續物命 | Extend product lifespan (repair) |
| 不使用一次性商品 | Reduce use of disposable items |
她的乳房X光攝影片並沒有顯示出任何代表硬塊的陰影,因此醫師只開了一般的抗生素以避免進一步的細菌感染。上了兩次醫院後病情卻持續惡化,醫師於是再度請她去照乳房X光攝影。這回,陰影出現了。
切片檢查後,發現了急速複製中的惡性腫瘤細胞。為了減緩細胞複製,先是化療,接下來乳房切除,然後又是一整個療程的化療以及放射線治療。九個月的密集治療之後,醫師們保證她恢復健康了!
之後整整一年的時間,她過著最充實的生活,然而這批頑強的癌細胞竟轉移到肝臟!四個療程之後她決定捨棄有著續多副作用的化療,找回生活品質。她詳細的計畫最後五個月所有的生活細節,最後的幾天在嗎啡的麻醉效果下,安祥的走了。
她死前留下了這封訊息,希望轉達給所有的女性朋友們!
女士們!請隨時注意身體細微的變化,並且,有任何不正常的情形時,請儘早尋求醫療協助!
乳房外「柏哲氏病」:
"這是一種罕見的癌前病變,以濕疹型態發生於乳頭及乳暈上。濕疹後來會形成一片邊緣有硬皮的傷口。我不曾懷疑這可能是癌症,但癌症找到了我。"
我懷疑許多的女性朋友們都不知道乳暈及乳頭上的濕疹可能象徵乳癌。(我一開始的症狀僅是乳頭上冒出一個小痘子。柏哲氏病之所以可怕的理由之一,就是因為:乳頭上那似乎無害的細菌感染或是發炎,卻在延誤就醫後一發不可收拾。)
◎ 有哪些症狀呢?
1. 乳頭有持續的紅腫、不明分泌物以及導致搔癢及灼熱感的硬皮剝落。(我一開始的時候除了一邊乳房有硬皮剝落外,沒有其他症狀)。
2. 乳頭上有無法癒合的傷口。
(我當初的傷口分布在乳暈,乳頭中央並且有白色濃稠分泌物 )。
3. 通常只有一邊乳房被感染。
這怎麼判斷呢?您的醫師會在觸壓檢查以後,建議您立刻做兩個乳房的X光攝影。因為正常皮膚炎的症狀為紅腫、硬皮剝落以及不明分泌物,所以醫師只有在症狀僅產生於單一乳房時,才會懷疑癌症的可能性。屆時進行發炎部位的病理切片,就能找出病因。
請嚴肅的看待這封信,並且盡你所能的轉寄給親朋好友;它可能拯救許多人的生命。
我的乳癌在無數化療、28個療程的放射線物理治療,以及持續服用抗雌激素後,依舊轉移到骨隨。如果能早點診斷出乳癌,說不定就不會發生這種事情了…。
致所有的讀者:
女性同胞不知道「柏哲氏病」是非常讓人難過的消息。為了幫助四周所有的女人,請將此訊息轉發給周圍的人,使其他人知道這潛在的危險。
如果方便的話,拜託您務必將此信轉發給所有你所知道的人,尤其是您的家人及朋友。一個小麻煩可能拯救一個生命。
作者:蒂埃里.蘇卡
原文作者:Thierry Souccar
譯者:陳懿禎
出版社:商周出版
出版日期:2007年10月27日
語言:繁體中文 ISBN:9789861249421
內容簡介
自然醫學博士王宥驊醫師
癌症權威、暢銷書作家姜淑惠醫師
自然醫學研究會長江晃榮博士
腦科權威、抗癌名醫許達夫醫師
風車女性健康管理機構董事莊靜芬醫師
全球華人防癌長鏈倡導人梅襄陽醫師
各界名醫.鄭重推薦
牛奶,真的能讓你喝出一身病!
沒錯,牛奶能讓你在三十歲達到骨密度的高峰,
代價卻是中老年以後骨質多孔的風險!
喝牛奶就像替細胞安裝了加速器,它讓你長得高又壯,卻同時加速腫瘤的生長!
是誰綁架了你的健康,你還能裝作不知道嗎?
這本大爆食品工業內幕的書將會使你大開眼界!作者鎖定農產食品市場區塊最大種類──乳製品,大膽挑戰揭露這個龐大產業試圖隱瞞的內幕。
這本書包含科學證據和國際級的好資料,很難找到漏洞來攻擊作者的論點。在書中將能了解到,由於過量攝取牛奶中生長因子所產生的全部壞處,甚至會看到過量攝取乳製品可能會讓骨質疏鬆症的病情更嚴重。作者以研究作為支持,披露乳品工業和營養學論述是如何運用一些錯誤的觀念誘導大眾購買越來越多的牛奶。然而,究竟牛奶的營養價值到底為何?是否真的喝越多越好?這本書也將從正反兩方的研究數據,告訴大家真相。
作者意圖不在於告訴大家不要喝牛奶,而是希望能讓大家知道牛奶工業的行銷手段,這個強大的牛奶遊說團如何說服官方,創造普遍認為牛奶是營養飲料的迷思。在知道牛奶真相之後,你可以因它的美味選擇喝它,但絕不要因為是被規定。況且,過量攝取牛奶反而可能提高罹患心血管、糖尿病、前列腺癌的機率。這些引發各種疾病的事實,對於必須愛惜身體健康的我們,也是不得不注意的。
本書最後也從最新的科學文獻取材,提出另一種營養配方,讓大家不用猛灌牛奶也能預防骨質疏鬆和其他文明病。作者對於牛奶工業歷史引人入勝的撰寫,以及對牛奶引發疾病始末的描述,精采好讀,注重健康飲食的你我一定不可錯過
作者簡介
蒂埃里.蘇卡( Thierry Souccar)
法國知名科學線記者,《新觀察家》(Le Nouvel Observateur)周刊「健康新知」專欄主編,長期為《科學與未來》(Sciences et Avenir)月刊撰述與健康和營養議題相關的論文,也是「美國營養學院」的會員之一。
《牛奶,謊言與內幕》推薦序二:是時候打破牛奶神話了!文 /王宥驊(本文作者為自然醫學博士)
長期以來牛奶廠商結合了西方醫學以及媒體,創造出了牛奶神話。他們找來了明星和名人來代言,每個人的唇上都長了白亮亮的牛奶鬍子。彷彿是害怕世人不知道牛奶是萬靈丹,提醒大家喝了可以治百病。
姑且不談牛奶商人荷包滿滿,明星名人各個因為高額的代言費笑不攏嘴;西方醫學人士更因為病人喝了牛奶而使身體更加糟糕,看診開藥更是使他們的收入暴增。然而背後的真相到底有誰知道了呢?大眾的病苦又有誰真正去了解問題的根源了呢?
牛奶是給牛喝的。這在自然醫學內已經是國民生活需知般穩固,如鋼鐵般堅硬的法則。簡單來說,牛奶裡面的蛋白質跟養分都是專門為了使小牛成長而設計,跟人類一點關係都沒有。也因此人體的免疫系統會對這些不適合人體的蛋白質產生過敏的現象,例如:鼻塞、腹瀉、紅疹等等。
牛奶裡面也含有大量的細菌病毒、荷爾蒙、抗生素、感染源及化學藥劑等,喝多了容易提高婦科問題發生機率,也會增加身體毒素的累積。
牛奶因為是產酸性的食物,也因此身體為了中和由蛋白質所產生的酸性,必須損耗身體裡面的鈣質,最後導致骨質疏鬆的問題。過多的乳製品攝取會讓身體變成酸性,而酸性體質是形成所有疾病和問題的基礎,更會造成身體排毒的問題。比較輕微的會有過敏症狀,嚴重的,則會有心臟冠狀動脈疾病、神經系統疾病、傳染疾病、糖尿病,還有腫瘤的形成。
東方人因為體質的不同,乳糖不耐症的比例比白種人高出很多,約有百分之九十的人有這樣的問題。(人類斷奶後沒有辦法分解乳糖更是人體不需要攝取奶類的鐵證!)基本上有乳糖不耐症的人一喝牛奶就會過敏而且腹瀉,牛奶裡面即使有再豐富的鈣質也都付諸流水了,又怎麼會補充到身子裡呢?
如果喝牛奶可以補充到鈣質的話,試問為什麼美國、英國、瑞典、芬蘭這些在全世界消耗牛奶最多的國家,卻也同時是骨質疏鬆症最嚴重的國家呢?
人體吸收鈣質的過程是很複雜的,到目前為止仍然沒有有力的證據指出喝牛奶能真正補充到鈣質。但真正要補充到鈣質還有很多方法:像是多吃蔬菜水果,尤其是深綠色葉菜、魚類、豆類,適當的運動也可以預防骨質疏鬆的問題。
這世界上已經有太多關於牛奶的謊言了,然而事實的真相卻一直被那些既得利益者想盡辦法瞞天過海,為的只是讓自己銀行存款尾數多加幾個零。更可悲的是號稱為人民健康把關的西醫們也從來沒有真正思考過關於牛奶的來龍去脈,只是盲目地崇拜著先人錯誤的結果。
很高興有記者蒂埃里.蘇卡先生把血淋淋的真相寫出來,也感謝商周出版把這麼一本珍貴的書翻譯成中文,讓全球華人有機會接觸到正確的知識。當大多數西醫都是盲目的時候,從客觀角度、經過追根究柢精神所寫出來的書,這本警鐘想必會在保守的醫學界投下一顆震撼彈。或許下次去看醫生時,可以送一本《牛奶,謊言與內幕》給他╱她。更可以大聲的對牛奶鬍子說不!
如果看完了書,您還是不相信乳製品對人體的壞處,不妨試試自然醫學中的「七日牛奶排毒法」。方法很簡單:只要在短短的七天內,完全不攝取牛奶跟乳製品即可(包含起士、冰淇淋、巧克力、優酪乳等)。只要這麼做,大約四公升的黏膜就會從您的腎臟、脾臟、胰臟、還有其他的部位排出。您會發現身體內部好比做了一場大掃除!大部分的人只要進行七天牛奶排毒計畫,都能很快發現到明顯的不同,無論是身體或是心理的狀態,比如睡的比較安穩、比較有精神、情緒比較穩定、性慾增強等。
挑戰一下自己,只要七天就可以讓自己煥然一新,何樂而不為?您可以仔細的記錄好與不好的過程與變化來做比較。如果您懷疑七天後所感受到的改變,或認為這只是個巧合,只要您夠勇敢的話,大可以在七天牛奶排毒計畫後開始攝取奶類製品。開個party,點些pizza,享受一下冰淇淋。在十五個小時內,保證不舒服的老毛病都會回來!