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*Data clearly shows that a whole-foods, plant based diet can dramatically lower colorectal cancer rates. Increases exercise is conveniently associated with less colorectal cancer.
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* Risk of breast cancer increases when a woman has: early age of menarche; late age of menopause; high levels of female hormone; high blood cholesterol.
*Instead of suggesting dietary change as a solution, we spend hundreds of millions of dollars developing and publicising a drug that may or may not work and almost certainly will have unintended side effects.
* When a very potent carcinogen is put into the body, the rate at which it causes problems is mostly controlled by nutrition.
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* A true safe cholesterol level is under 150 mg/dL.
* A whole food plant based diet can prevent and treat heart disease saving hundreds of thousands every year.
* The solution to losing weight is a whole foods, plant-based diet, coupled with a reasonable amount of exercise.
* give your body the right type of food and it will do the the right thing.
* A plant based diet encourages more physical activity.
* The right diet not only prevents but also treats diabetes.
* American men died from heart disease at a rate almost seven-teen times higher than their Chinese counterparts.
* Animal food us linked to higher blood cholesterol; plant food is linked to lower blood cholesterol.
* The more animal protein you eat, the more heart disease you have.
* 3/4 of the humans on this planet have no heart disease. A fact strongly associated with diet.
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* Eating low fat, low protein diet high in complex carbohydrates from fruits and vegetables will help you lose weight.
*People who eat the most animal protein have the most heart disease, cancer, diabetes.
* Greater plant protein intake is closely linked to greater height and body weight.
* Low-animal protein, low-fat diet helps prevent obesity plus it allows people to reach their full growth potential.
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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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