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 u 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 or warm water after a meal. A serious note about heart attacks HEART ATTACK PROCEDURE’: (THIS IS NOT A JOKE!) Women should know that not every heart attack symptom is going to be the left arm hurting. Be aware of intense pain in the jaw line. You may never have the first chest pain during the course of a heart attack. Nausea and intense sweating are also common symptoms. Sixty percent of people who have a heart attack while they are asleep do not wake up. Pain in the jaw can wake you from a sound sleep. Let’s be careful and be aware. The more we know the better chance we could survive. Read this….It could save your life!!

AFTER a while, you learn the subtle difference between holding a hand
and chaining a soul

AND you learn that love doesn’t mean leaning, and company doesn’t mean security

AND you begin to learn that kisses aren’t contracts and presents aren’t promises

AND, you begin to accept your defeat with your head up and your eyes open, with a grace of an adult and not the grief of a child, and learn to build all your roads on today, because tomorrow’s ground is too uncertain for plans, and futures have a way of falling down in mid flight

AFTER a while, you learn that even sunshine burns if you get too much
SO, you plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

AND, you learn that you really can endure…
THAT, you really are strong and you rally do have worth.
AND, you learn and learn…With every good bye you learn.
M. Veronica Newton

To realize

The value of a sister/brother

Ask someone

Who doesn’t have one.

To realize

The value of ten years:

Ask a newly

Divorced couple.

To realize

The value of four years:

Ask a graduate.

To realize

The value of one year:

Ask a student who

Has failed a final exam.

To realize

The value of nine months:

Ask a mother who gave birth to a stillborn.

To realize

The value of one month:

Ask a mother

Who has given birth to

A premature baby.

To realize

The value of one week:

Ask an editor of a weekly newspaper.

To realize

The value of one minute:

Ask a person

Who has missed the train, bus or plane.

To realize

The value of one-second:

Ask a person

Who has survived an accident.

Time waits for no one.

Treasure every moment you have.

You will treasure it even more when

You can share it with someone special.

To realize the value of a friend or family member:

LOSE ONE.

The origin of this letter is unknown,

Remember….

Hold on tight to the ones you love!

Six married men will be

dropped on an island

with one car and

3 kids each for

six weeks.

Each kid will play

two sports

and either take music

or dance classes.

There is no fast food.

Each man must

take care of his 3 kids;

keep his assigned

house clean,

correct all homework,

and

complete science projects,

cook, do laundry,

and pay a list of

‘pretend’ bills with

not enough money.

In addition, each man

will have to budget

in money

for groceries each

week.

Each man

must remember the

birthdays

of all their friends

and relatives,

and send cards out

on time–no Emailing.

Each man must also

take each child to a

doctor’s appointment,

a dentist appointment

and a

haircut appointment.

He must make

one unscheduled and

inconvenient visit per

child to the A & E.

He must also

make biscuits or cakes

for a social function.

Each man will be

responsible for

decorating his own

assigned house,

planting flowers outside

and keeping it presentable

at all times.

The men will only

have access to television

when the kids are asleep

and all chores are done.

The men must

shave their legs,

wear makeup daily,

adorn himself with jewellery,

wear uncomfortable yet stylish shoes,

keep fingernails polished

and eyebrows groomed.

During one of the six weeks,

the men will have to endure

severe abdominal cramps,

back aches,

and have extreme,

unexplained mood swings

but never once complain

or slow down from

other duties.

They must attend

weekly school meetings,

church, and find time

at least once to spend the

afternoon at the park or

a similar setting.

They will need to

read a book to the kids

each night and in the

morning,

feed them, dress them,

brush their teeth and

comb their hair by 8:00 am.

A test will be given at the

end of the six weeks,

and each father will

be required to know

all of the following

information:

each child’s birthday,

height, weight,

shoe size, clothes size

and doctor’s name.

Also the child’s

weight at birth,

length, time of birth,

and length of labour,

each child’s favourite colour,

middle name,

favourite snack,

favourite song,

favourite drink,

favourite toy,

biggest fear and

what they want to be

when they grow up.

All the above must be completed whilst working

in either full time

(preferably) or part time

employment to assist in

the financial input for

the family.

The kids vote them off

the island

based on performance.

The last man wins only if…

he still has enough energy

to be intimate with his

spouse at a moment’s

notice.

If the last man does win,

he can play the game over

and over and over again

for the next 18-25 years

eventually earning the

right

To be called Mum!

After you get done laughing,

send this to as many

females as you

think will get a laugh

out of it and as many

men as you think

can handle it!

Just don’t send it back

to me….

I’m going to bed.

Doctrines In voodoo there is a supreme creator god whose gender is not defined and who is called Mawu. Voodoo worship and ritual practices, however, are directed to the loas (or voodoos), which are spirits, deities, spirits of nature, divine beings such as ancestors, monsters or deceased foetuses of royal lineages.

The loas can be divided into two families: the rada and the Petros. The loas that belong to the rada family tend to be rather calm; the Petros tend to be rather aggressive, and are sometimes used in witchcraft.

Inside these two families there are sub-families each of whose members is represented by a particular place -such as a tree, the sea, a river, a mountain-, or other things such as special days of the week, a specific colour, a song, a rite.

The loas protect those who serve them, and communicate with them by possessing them through trance dreams or entering into the person and, in doing so, take a human form. Each voodoo is served by a wife (the voodoo-si). Because it is the role of the women to serve, women are deemed to be particularly worthy of being possessed by the voodoo, once they have been properly inititiated into the religion.

The ceremonies take place in a temple known as the “houmfò” and are open to anyone. In the houmfò there is a hierarchy that starts with the hougan (priest)-many of whom claim to descend from the loas. The female counterpart of the hougan is the mambo (priestess). The group of hounsi are believers that put themselves under the authority of a priest – they worship and serve the deities. The initiation rites of the hounsi are restricted to the hounsi alone.

The rites follow a certain structure: first the initial greetings, then the parade of the loa flags, invocations, libations, drawing of the loa signs in the floor, rites of orientation – cardinal points, animal sacrifices, offerings and finally the trance. The trance, which is the impersonation of the loa in the hounsi can also happen sometimes in the participants.

All of these stages are followed by specific forms of dancing and singing with the purpose of invoking each loa family. Each new stage is marked by the rhythmic playing of drums according to the instructions given by the hougan.

History Haitian Voodoo is the result of the importation of African slaves into the Antilles. The Africans were people from different classes in the society. Among them there were priests as well. The difference in the background of the slaves has helped integrating believes, rites, songs and dances of different tribes to create a syncretic religion.

From the beginning the authorities already suspected that the meetings organized by the slaves, even the ones connected to the dancing meeting were related to religious (actually, witchcraft) practices. To avoid that there was in 1704 an ordinance prohibiting the slaves to have night assemblies even under the justification of dance. Because this one was not efficacious other prohibitions followed this one.

The slaves were baptized as soon as they arrived in the country, as their conversion was the main justification for the trade.

Because the first slaves were from Guinea golf (Daomé and Nigeria) the structure of the religion is mostly daomenian. It was, however, altered by the arrival of the slaves originated from Congo and Angola. Since then, it became more complex.

Voodoo is a religion basically rural where the strength lies in the lacou, however, because of the transformations in the rural area such as the decadence of the Lacou, nuclearization of the extended family, disappearance of the societies of mutual aid -connected to the voodoo, general impoverishment rendering difficult monetary contributions to the ritual costs. The substitution of the Lacou – socio-economic and religious center- by a system of neibouhooring that was not well articulated, collaborate to the creation of regional centers and therefore of big temples – sometimes with capacity for two thousand people.

Voodoo was an important factor in the independence of Haiti.

Since the first Haitian constitution, during the colony, the voodoo was prohibited. However, after the war for independence tried to recuperated the voodoo. Many times it is attribute to the voodoo a secret character, this is explained by the fact that for very long voodoo had to survive in a clandestine way.

From the beginning to the present days there is coherence in the possessions and in the ritualistic aspect of the rite. However, the adoration of the serpent that seemed to have been quite common, disappeared in the 19th century.

Symbols There is almost no anthropomorphic representation of the loas, that are rather represented by fetishes such as: stone, vases, piece of metal.