strong coffee and sweet chocolate

Sometime last September, I was in Manila for a certain appointment. On my way back to my home, I dropped by to this coffee shop for a sip of coffee while waiting for my plane. I ordered just a cup of coffee and two different slices of chocolate cakes: Double Chocolate Walnut brownie and Chocolate Peanut Butter Bar.

Double Chocolate Wlanut brownie.........Chocolate Peanut Butter bar

While having coffee and some cakes

Hmm, the coffee is great! and the chocolates taste delicious!... Minutes passed, as I was about to finish taking my coffee and mucnhing the cakes, I feel something bad.. Gosh, I got an awful headache.. I wonder what causes the terrible ache, does it because of the caffeine, which both chocolate and coffee have it, or maybe I was just anxious of my whole day activities....

Forgive and be forgiven…

On our day-to-day life, we do the basics – that is, meeting our physiological needs such as breathing, elimination, even sex.. As part of our daily activities, we sometimes, if not often, commit mistakes. The church call it “sin” – may it be big or small.

Since we are human and we are not perfect, and committing sin sometimes is inevitable, I always remind myself to a bible verse from 2Corinthians, chapter 2, verse 7-8 which states that “When people sin, you should forgive and comfort them, so they won’t give up in despair. You should make them sure of your love for them”. As always preach, God will be happy for us if we know how to forgive those who have sinned to us. If we can forgive others, hence, others will also forgive us on our trespasses.

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7 anti-aging super foods

Read on to find out more about the 7 foods to keep you young:

1. Chocolate, from cocoa, which is unusually rich in flavanols that help preserve the healthy function of blood vessels, thus, slows the rate of heart disease. Maintaining youthful blood vessels lowers risk of high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, kidney disease and dementia.

2. Blueberries : Research found that some compounds in blueberries (and other berries) mitigate inflammation and oxidative damage, which are associated with age-related deficits in memory and motor function.

3. Fish is an abundant source of omega-3 fats, which help prevent cholesterol buildup in arteries and protect against abnormal heart rhythms.


4. Nuts are rich sources of unsaturated fats, so they offer benefits similar to those associated with olive oil. They’re also concentrated sources of vitamins, minerals and other phytochemicals, including antioxidants.


5. Wine - Drinking alcohol in moderation protects against heart disease, diabetes and age-related memory loss. Any kind of alcoholic beverage seems to provide such benefits, but red wine has been the focus of much of the research. Red wine contains resveratrol, a compound that likely contributes to its benefits-and, according to animal studies, may activate genes that slow cellular aging.

6. Olive oil - Four decades ago, researchers from the Seven Countries Study concluded that the monounsaturated fats in olive oil were largely responsible for the low rates of heart disease and cancer on the Greek island of Crete. Now we know that olive oil also contains polyphenols, powerful antioxidants that may help prevent age-related diseases.


7. Yogurt - In the 1970s, Soviet Georgia was rumored to have more centenarians per capita than any other country. Reports at the time claimed that the secret of their long lives was yogurt, a food ubiquitous in their diets. While the age-defying powers of yogurt never have been proved directly, yogurt is rich in calcium, which helps stave off osteoporosis and contains “good bacteria” that help maintain gut health and diminish the incidence of age-related intestinal illness.


source: Shine from Yahoo
by Michelle Edelbaum
Eating Well Magazine

children's health1

If you are in the US and has kid/s, you might be interested on reading this. Or even if you are outside the US, and your child is suffering a certain disease and you think your child needs special help and attention, you may would like to consider the following hospitals below.

2008 "Best Children's Hospitals"
U.S. News & World Report Lists Top 30 U.S. Children's Hospitals

Here is the list of the best children's hospitals for general pediatrics:

1. Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
2. Children's Hospital Boston
3. Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
4. Johns Hopkins Children's Center (Baltimore)
5. Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital (Cleveland)
6. Texas Children's Hospital (Houston)
7. Children's Hospital Denver
8. Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center (Seattle)
9. Childrens Hospital Los Angeles
10. Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
11. New York-Presbyterian Medical Center (New York)
12. Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford (Palo Alto, Calif.)
13. Children's National Medical Center (Washington, D.C.)
14. Children's Hospital Cleveland Clinic
15. Nationwide Children's Hospital (Columbus, Ohio)
16. Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA (Los Angeles)
17. St. Louis Children's Hospital
18. Children's Memorial Hospital (Chicago)
19. Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
20. UCSF Children's Hospital (San Francisco)
21. Massachusetts General Hospital for Children (Boston)
22. Primary Children's Medical Center (Salt Lake City)
23. Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt (Nashville)
24. Arkansas Children's Hospital, Little Rock
25. Children's Medical Center Dallas
26. C.S. Mott Children's Hospital (Ann Arbor, Mich.)
27. Duke Children's Hospital and Health Center (Durham, N.C.)
28. Children's Hospital at Montefiore (Bronx, N.Y.)
29. Schneider Children's Hospital, North Shore-LIJ Health System (New Hyde Park, N.Y.)
30. Children's Hospital of Wisconsin (Milwaukee)

source:
By Miranda Hitti
WebMD Health News

Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD

The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Feast Day

September 8th

The Feast of the Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary has been celebrated in the Church at least since the 8th Century. The Church's calendar observes the birthdays of only two saints: Saint John the Baptist (June 24), and Mary, Mother of Jesus.

John the Baptist is considered especially sanctified even before his birth. His birth to Elizabeth and Zachariah is foretold in the first chapter of Luke, and it is also recorded (Lk 1:41) that Elizabeth felt the infant John "leap in her womb" when Mary approached her soon after the Annunciation.

The birth of Mary was also miraculous. She was conceived without sin as a special grace because God had selected her to become the mother of His Son (the feast of her Immaculate Conception is celebrated on December 8). The dogma of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary, though generally believed throughout the Church for many centuries, was formally declared by Pope Pius IX in 1854.

There is nothing contained in Scripture about the birth of Mary or her parentage, though Joseph's lineage is given in the first chapter of the Gospel of Matthew. The names of Mary's parents, Joachim and Anna, appear in the apocryphal "Gospel of James", a book dating from the 2nd Century AD, not part of the authentic canon of Scripture. According to this account, Joachim and Anna were also beyond the years of child-bearing, but prayed and fasted that God would grant their desire for a child.

According to one tradition, the house in which Mary was born in Nazareth is the same one in which the Annunciation took place. By another tradition, the Annunciation site is beneath the Crusader church of Saint Anna in Jerusalem, under a 3rd Century oratory known as the "Gate of Mary".

In celebrating the nativity of Mary, Christians anticipate the Incarnation and birth of her Divine Son, and give honor to the mother of Our Lord and Savior.

An Excerpt from: Women for Faith & Family – www.wf-f.org