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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
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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You find in many fields many specialists, but you don’t find practical people. People who can solve problems. You have many engineers, experts in various fields, and professors. Yet your economy has been going down. Yet the unemployment rate is on the rise while you live in one of the most resourceful countries on this planet. Why is it that those who are talented in field are not used in that field? On the contrary, those who occupy crucial positions are ordinary and sub-ordinary individuals. Is money to be blamed for this? Our prophet (PBUH) has been reported to have said: if you have a mountain of gold, you would wish for a second. And if you have the second mountain, you would wish for the third. The desires of human being are limitless while the resources of this world are limited. Pursuing this world greedily never ends. The greedy one is not satiated until he dies and is turned to dust. Will this kind of individual ever feel happy? A true feeling of happiness when one feels upon helping a fellow human being. Never forget your share from this world, but always be content with what you have.
This is a combination of summary, notes, and some reflections from the book: The Idiot by Dostoevsky.
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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.