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* If you want Vitamin C or beta carotene, don’t reach for the pill bottle. Reach for the fruit or leafy green vegetables.
* The healthiest diet you can consume is a high-carbohydrate diet. Fruits, vegetables, and whole grains are the healthiest foods you can consume, and they are made up of carbohydrates.
* Diet can cause small shifts in calorie metabolism that lead to big shifts in body weight.
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*Fat and animal protein intake are more than 90% correlated. This means the fat intake increases in parallel with animal protein intake.
*The amount of dietary fat consumed is closely associated with the incidence of breast cancer, large bowel cancer, and heart disease. These are the diseases that majority of people in the western countries.
*The people who migrated from one area to another and started eating the typical diet of the new residency assumed the disease risk of the new area to which they moved.
* The earlier the age of first menstrual period the higher the chance developing breast cancer.
* Even though fiber is not digested in the body, it is vital for good health. Increasing fiber intake does not impair iron absorption in the body as many “experts” in the US claim. High fiber intake is associated with lower levels of blood cholesterol.
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12 Rules for life. An antidote to chaos
Rule1: Stand up straight with your shoulders back.
Rule2: treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping
Rule3: Make friends with people who want the best for you
Rule4: Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today
Rule5: Do not let your children do anything that makes you dislike them
Rule6: Set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world
Rule7: Pursue what is meaningful (not what is expedient)
Rule8: Tell the truth- or, at least, don’t lie
Rule9: Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t
Rule10: Be precise in your speech
Rule11: Do not bother children when they are skateboarding
Rule12: Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street
What we (Muslims) say/believe is Islam is like a garment. We fit ourselves into it not the other way around. If we try to adjust this garment to our feelings and conditions, then each one of us Will make appropriate adjustments. At the end, each person’s garment will be unique to himself/herself and different from that of others. In this case we cannot say that we all follow one religion since we have all modified our religious practices that we don’t practice the same religion anymore. On the contrary, if we adjust ourselves to the demands of the religion, then everyone’s religion (garment) will be identical.
One might ask: who represents the real Islam? The majority of people take their understanding of Islam from the mass media, which is in the control of certain individuals with certain agenda. There individuals always present people with a escape-goat to cover the reality of the world and to cover their real plans. Anyone who reveals them will be labelled with names such as conspiracy theorist. This means that whatever the mass media feeds us is the reality and the truth. Anything else will be conspiracy and lies.
This article is a combination of summary of the book: Orientalism by Edward W. Said and my reflections on the contents of the book and today’s current world events.
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The importance of appealing to men through their minds by using their language. Having orient studies is not for entertainment but a policy. As was mentioned earlier, orients cannot rule themselves nor can they think for themselves. These must be done for them by the occidents. To be able to think for him, we need to get into his head. To control his mind, we need to learn his language. This is why we see Arabic and Islamic studies in every major North-Aemrican and western European universities. Arabic is the language of Islam. Closer a western country is to an Arabic (Muslim) country, more control they have on that country and the laws being passed in that country. Recently we have witnessed new and monumental events in the middle east such as new liberal rules and laws in the Kingdom to revelation and publicising of Arab-Israeli relations. What is incomprehensible is why this event was named as peace talks or peace treaties. Was there any war between the UAE and Israel? Or a war between Bahrain and Israel? The answer is definitely no. Then why is this treaty called a peace treaty. All these Arab countries have had relations with Israel for years. All they are doing now is making these relations public. The real war is between the Palestinians and Israel. Were the Palestinians part of this treaty or so-called peace talks? All these Arab/muslim governments are friends of the the big boss. Question is how much of these events are part of the US foreign policies? What is next?
Let’s not forget what was mentioned earlier: orients cannot represent themselves. They must be represented. Another point brought up by orientalist is the antiquity of Islam and that Islam needs to learn from the west and westerners. In another word, Islam needs to up-to-date itself since it is out-dated and needs to be revived and modernized. For this to happen, Islam need to adapt itself to the modernity of the western culture.
This article is a summary of the book: Orientalism by Edward W. Said and my thoughts and reflections from this book and current world events.
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What the orientalist thinks of an oriental is that the orientals cannot rule themselves nor can they manage their riches. The westerners (orientalist) take it upon themselves to do the job for the orient. The westerners see orientalist as incapables whose only interest is their lust. The occidents not only take it upon themselves to take over and control the riches of the oriental countries, but go further and claim that “we have to run their country for them as well”. This case is different from the colonialism in that they are not directly, or let’s say publically, running the show but some local puppets are. Puppets who are either trained in the west or trained in the east by missionaries or orientalists themselves. By riches we don’t just mean oil fields as in Iraq but oil pipes and rich mineral mines (e.g. uranium) as in Afghanistan and some African countries. The westerners pretend they respect the orient but they don’t and it is, actually, on the contrary. They look down upon the orients. To the westerners, an oriental has no value. They believe the oriental is happy as long as he has his partner and animals. In western movies, the orientals (Arabs, Muslims, Africans) are shown as the source of evil and the source of problems in the west. One example in early 90s is showing Arabs as the source of gas shortage in the US.
This article is both summary of book “Orientalism” by Edward W. Said and my reflections.
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The Success Principles
Jack Canfield
HOW TO GET FROM WHERE YOU ARE TO WHERE YOU WANT TO BE
Contents
I. The Fundamentals of Success
III. Build Your Success Team
The Success Principles Free Success Tools™
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Prologue
The brain changes as habits change.
“All our life, so far as it has defi nite form, is but a mass of habits,” William James wrote in 1892.
Habits can be changed, if we understand how they work.
A community is a giant collection of habits occurring among thousands of people.
Part One: The Habits of Individuals
T H E H A B I T L O O P
First, find a simple and obvious cue.
Second, clearly define the rewards.
Why habits are so powerful: They create neurological cravings. Craving is what powers the habit loop.
“wanting evolves into obsessive craving” that can force our brains into autopilot
No one craves scentlessness. On the other hand, lots of people crave a nice smell after they’ve spent thirty minutes cleaning.”
toothpastes contain additives with the sole job of making your mouth tingle after you brush
Cravings are what drive habits. And figuring out how to create a craving makes creating a new habit easier.
THE GOLDEN RULE OF HABIT CHANGE
Why Transformation Occurs
The rule: If you use the same cue, and provide the same reward, you can shift the routine and change the habit. Almost any behavior can be transformed if the cue and reward stay the same.
Brad Dufrene: Most people’s habits have occurred for so long they don’t pay
attention to what causes it anymore.
Often, we don’t really understand the cravings driving our behaviors until we look for them.
If you identify the cues and rewards, you can change the routine.
At least, most of the time. For some habits, however, there’s one other ingredient that’s necessary: belief.
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7 – Don’t Be A “Marriage Illiterate”
According to Dr. Popenoe, failure in marriage is usually due to four causes. He lists them in this order:
• 1. Sexual maladjustment.
• 2. Difference of opinion as to the way of spending leisure time.
• 3. Financial difficulties.
• 4. Mental, physical, or emotional abnormalities.
Rule 7 of “How to Make Your Home Life Happier” is: ‘Read a good book on the sexual side of marriage.
In a Nutshell
Seven Rules For Making Your Home Life Happier
• Rule 1: Don’t nag.
• Rule 2: Don’t try to make your partner over.
• Rule 3: Don’t criticize.
• Rule 4: Give honest appreciation.
• Rule 5: Pay little attentions.
• Rule 6: Be courteous.
• Rule 7: Read a good book on the sexual side of marriage.
For Husbands
1. Do you still “court” your wife with an occasional gift of flowers, with remembrances of her birthday and wedding anniversary, or with some unexpected attention, some unlooked-for tenderness?
2. Are you careful never to criticize her before others?
3. Do you give her money to spend entirely as she chooses, above the household expenses?
4. Do you make an effort to understand her varying feminine moods and help her through periods of fatigue, nerves, and irritability?
5. Do you share at least half of your recreation hours with your wife?
6. Do you tactfully refrain from comparing your wife’s cooking or housekeeping with that of your mother or of Bill Jones’ wife, except to her advantage?
7. Do you take a definite interest in her intellectual life, her clubs and societies, the books she reads, her views on civic problems?
8. Can you let her dance with and receive friendly attentions from other men without making jealous remarks?
9. Do you keep alert for opportunities to praise her and express your admiration for her?
10. Do you thank her for the little jobs she does for you, such as sewing on a button, darning your socks, and sending your clothes to the cleaners?
For Wives
1. Do you give your husband complete freedom in his business affairs, and do you refrain from criticizing his associates, his choice of a secretary, or the hours he keeps?
2. Do you try your best to make your home interesting and attractive?
3. Do you vary the household menu so that he never quite knows what to expect when he sits down to the table?
4. Do you have an intelligent grasp of your husband’s business so you can discuss it with him helpfully?
5. Can you meet financial reverses bravely, cheerfully, without criticizing your husband for his mistakes or comparing him unfavourably with more successful men?
6. Do you make a special effort to get along amiably with his mother or other relatives?
7. Do you dress with an eye for your husband’s likes and dislikes in colour and style?
8. Do you compromise little differences of opinion in the interest of harmony?
9. Do you make an effort to learn games your husband likes, so you can share his leisure hours?
10. Do you keep track of the day’s news, the new books, and new ideas, so you can hold your husband’s intellectual interest?
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Part VI: Seven Rules for Making Your Home Life Happier
1 – How To Dig Your Marital Grave In The Quickest Possible Way.
If you want to keep your home life happy,
• Rule 1 is: Don’t, don’t nag!!!
2 – Love And Let Live
“The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is noninterference with their own peculiar ways of being happy …”
Leland Foster Wood in his book, Growing Together in the Family, has observed: “Success in marriage is much more than a matter of finding the right person; it is also a matter of being the right person.”
If you want your home life to be happy,
• Rule 2 is: Don’t try to make your partner over.
3 – Do This And You’ll Be Looking Up The Time-Tables To Reno
If you want to keep your home life happy, remember Rule 3:
Don’t criticize.
4 – A Quick Way To Make Everybody Happy
Men should express their appreciation of a woman’s effort to look well and dress becomingly. All men forget, if they have ever realized it, how profoundly women are interested in clothes.
If you want to keep your home life happy, one of the most important rules is
• Rule 4: Give honest appreciation.
5 – They Mean So Much To A Woman
Breakfast in bed to a woman does much the same thing as a private club for a man.
So, if you want to keep your home life happy,
• Rule 5 is: Pay little attentions.
6 – If You Want To Be Happy, Don’t Neglect This One
Dorothy Dix: “It is an amazing but true thing that practically the only people who ever say mean, insulting, wounding things to us are those of our own households.”
“Courtesy,” says Henry Clay Risner, “is that quality of heart that overlooks the broken gate and calls attention to the flowers in the yard beyond the gate.” Courtesy is just as important to marriage as oil is to your motor.
So, if you want to keep your home life happy.
• Rule 6 is: Be courteous.
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