A FAREWEL LETTER BY..FAMOUS WRITER GABRIEL GARCHIA

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STAY YOUNG

 

Stay Young My Friends

We all need to read this one over and over until it becomes part of who we are!



HOW TO STAY YOUNG

1. Try everything twice. On one woman's tombstone she said she wanted this epitaph: "Tried everything twice. Loved it both times!"

2. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down.
(Keep this in mind if you are one of those grouches!)



3. Keep learning: Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever. Never let the brain get idle. ' An idle mind is the devil's workshop.' And the devil's name is Alzheimer's!

4. Enjoy the simple things.



5. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath. And if you have a friend who makes you laugh, spend lots and lots of time with HIM/HER.



6.. The tears happen: Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person who is with us our entire life, is ourselves. LIVE while you are alive.

7. Surround yourself with what you love: whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever.

Your home is your refuge.


8. Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it.
If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.

9. Don't take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, even to the next county, to a foreign country, but NOT to where the guilt is.

10. Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.

I love you, my special friend!



11. Forgive now those who made you cry. You might not get a second chance.




Remember! Lost time can never be found.
Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.



Wine does not make you FAT .... it makes you LEAN .....
(against tables, chairs, floors walls )

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9 REASONS- KIDS TODAY ARE SMARTER

From: Murli dhar Gupta

  9 Reasons Why Kids Today Are Smarter Than We Could Ever Be!  

 

The other day my friend's kid rebuked me for driving a diesel car. "It's the reason we have global warming", he said. The kid is 2 and a half years old! Yes look around! Kids today are wiser, smarter and more informed than what we were at their age! By a long distance! So how has that come about? Here are 9 possible reasons.

1. They’ve Got A Search Engine!

Kids today are more independent when it comes to learning new things. They just log on to a search engine instead of bugging their moms and dads for answers to questions their parents may not even know.

2. Their Reality Is Augmented!

Kids learn things better when its audio and visual. We mugged the names of the 7 north east states for our exams but still don’t quite remember it. Our kids will have a better chance of remembering when they see a fun video of North East tourism or an augmented reality application.

3. They Are Gamifying Learning

Imagine your kid solving maths riddles while competing in real time with some kid in the US for a possible PS4 as a prize! Makes it more fun right?

4. Their Books Are On The Cloud!

When we were kids, we had to depend on the books our parents bought us or the school/public library. Imagine getting access to 1000X more books at the same cost of getting a library membership. Yes the internet and e books is making that possible for today’s kids. Plus they are learning the important lesson of conserving trees.

5. We Had 1 Teacher For 40 Kids. They Have A Personal Tutor And It’s Not Even Human!

Technology is customising teaching methods for every kid’s needs! – Google’s vice-president of research Alfred Spector once said “that research shows that even average students can reach the top 2% of a class if they have a personal tutor that can adapt their teaching methods to the student’s style of thinking and learning. If it were the case that technology could become custom tutors, then it’s possible to imagine enormous improvements in educational attainment”. Well that’s already happening with online programs such as Memrise and Cerego.

6. Language Is Not A Barrier

Kids today are learning new languages through apps such as Duo-lingo so imagine a 10 year old discussing an art assignment in French with a kid living in Paris.

7. Their Group Projects Are Global!

Kids today crowd source solutions of problems they have no answer to. The varied perspectives lead to holistic learning and of course teach the art of collaboration.

8. They Have Access To All The Important People In Their Lives

Thanks to Skype, kids today are closer to their role models than we ever were, even while living continents apart.

9. There Is No Cut-off Time For Learning

Schools shut at 2. Libraries shut at 6. But as long as you have a personal computer, an internet connection and electricity the learning can continue any time of the day or night, weekday or weekend! But of course all this depends on having an Intel powered PC at home. With their blazing fast speed, extraordinary battery life and extreme performance, Intel-powered PCs are the best friends of students who want to learn more things in less time. So this academic session make sure you get your kid one before s/he goes #backtoschool

VITAMIN D

Startling facts about vitamin D. Worth to get the levels done once.

TN

 

Important Information About Vitamin D!   Vitamin D prevents osteoporosis, depression, prostate cancer, breast cancer,and even effects diabetes and obesity.    Vitamin D is perhaps the single most underrated nutrient in the world of nutrition. That's probably because it's free: your body makes it when sunlight touches your skin.      Fifteen facts that are important to know about vitamin D and sunlight exposure:   1. Vitamin D is produced by your skin in response to exposure to ultraviolet radiation from natural sunlight.    2. The healing rays of natural sunlight (that generate vitamin D in your skin) cannot penetrate glass. So you don't generate vitamin D when sitting in your car or home.    3. It is nearly impossible to get adequate amounts of vitamin D from your diet. Sunlight exposure is the only reliable way to generate vitamin D in your own body.    4. A person would have to drink ten tall glasses of vitamin D fortified milk each day just to get minimum levels of vitamin D into their diet.    5. The further you live from the equator, the longer exposure you need to the sun in order to generate vitamin D. Canada, the UK and most U.S. States are far from the equator.    6. People with dark skin pigmentation may need 20 - 30 times as much exposure to sunlight as fair-skinned people to generate the same amount of vitamin D. That's why prostate cancer is epidemic among black men - it's a simple, but widespread, sunlight deficiency.    7. Sufficient levels of vitamin D are crucial for calcium absorption in your intestines. Without sufficient vitamin D, your body cannot absorb calcium, rendering calcium supplements useless.    8. Chronic vitamin D deficiency cannot be reversed overnight: it takes months of vitamin D supplementation and sunlight exposure to rebuild the body's bones and nervous system.    9. Even weak sunscreens (SPF=8) block your body's ability to generate vitamin D by 95%. This is how sunscreen products actually cause disease -by creating a critical vitamin deficiency in the body.   10. It is impossible to generate too much vitamin D in your body from sunlight exposure: your body will self-regulate and only generate what it needs.    11. If it hurts to press firmly on your sternum, you may be suffering from chronic vitamin D deficiency right now.    12. Vitamin D is "activated" in your body by your kidneys and liver before it can be used.    13. Having kidney disease or liver damage can greatly impair your body's ability to activate circulating vitamin D.    14. The sunscreen industry doesn't want you to know that your body actually needs sunlight exposure because that realization would mean lower sales of sunscreen products.    15. Even though vitamin D is one of the most powerful healing chemicals in your body, your body makes it absolutely free. No prescription required.    On the issue of sunlight exposure, by the way, it turns out that super antioxidants greatly boost your body's ability to handle sunlight without burning. Astaxanthin is one of the most powerful "internal sunscreens" and can allow you to stay under the sun twice as long without burning.    Other powerful antioxidants with this ability include the super fruits like Acai, Pomegranates (POM Wonderful juice), blueberries, etc.    Diseases and conditions cause by vitamin D deficiency:   * Osteoporosis is commonly caused by a lack of vitamin D, which greatly impairs calcium absorption.    * Sufficient vitamin D prevents prostate cancer, breast cancer, ovarian cancer, depression, colon cancer and schizophrenia.    * "Rickets" is the name of a bone-wasting disease caused by vitamin D deficiency.    * Vitamin D deficiency may exacerbate type 2 diabetes and impair insulin production in the pancreas.   * Obesity impairs vitamin D utilization in the body, meaning obese people need twice as much vitamin D.    * Vitamin D is used around the world to treat Psoriasis.   * Vitamin D deficiency can cause schizophrenia.    * Seasonal Affective Disorder is caused by a melatonin imbalance initiated by lack of exposure to sunlight.    * Chronic vitamin D deficiency is often misdiagnosed as fibromyalgia because its symptoms are so similar: muscle weakness, aches and pains.    * Your risk of developing serious diseases like diabetes and cancer is reduced 50% - 80% through simple, sensible exposure to natural sunlight 2-3 times each week.    * Infants who receive vitamin D supplementation (2000 units daily) have an 80% reduced risk of developing type 1 diabetes over the next twenty years.      Shocking Vitamin D deficiency statistics:   * 32% of doctors and med school students are vitamin D deficient.    * 40% of the U.S. population is vitamin D deficient.    * 42% of African American women of childbearing age are deficient in vitamin D.    * 48% of young girls (9-11 years old) are vitamin D deficient.    * Up to 60% of all hospital patients are vitamin D deficient.    * 76% of pregnant mothers are severely vitamin D deficient, causing widespread vitamin D deficiencies in their unborn children, which predisposes them to type 1 diabetes, arthritis, multiple sclerosis and schizophrenia later in life. 81% of the children born to these mothers were deficient.    * Up to 80% of nursing home patients are vitamin D deficient.