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visualize the key going into the bowl "Ah, the keys are in the bowl!"Practicing it. For short-term memories, you need to repeat the associations you form a couple of times before they'll stick. For something you want to remember over the long term (say, the name of your cousin's new husband), you need to practice every day by rehearsing what you'd like to recall or running through those visual associations. (Think "Mary's new husband is Bob, and he likes to swim" as you visualize a man "bobbing" up and down in the water.) Try repeating these associations during idle time, perhaps when you're sitting in traffic or taking a walk.Know Thy Memory EnemiesWe're born with about 23 billion neurons (nerve cells in the brain), and while individual rates of brain cell loss vary widely, it is said that we lose some 100,000 neurons a day. That number could spike higher depending on your lifestyle and health. For example, heavy drinking and prolonged stress are significant neuron assailants.One cause of neural deterioration that we have no control over is insufficient acetylcholine. This is a crucial neurotransmitter, low levels of which cause cell membranes to become brittle and disintegrate. The dietary source for acetylcholine is a fat known as lecithin, which is found in beef; safflower, corn, and soybean oils; eggs; wheat germ; and nuts if you're not getting much of these foods into your diet, you might consider taking a lecithin supplement.In addition, certain substances can damage neurons, as can lifestyle choices and health problems, including the following:Too much caffeine. A dehydrating agent, caffeine can, over time, make your neural membranes brittle. It's a double whammy, too: It can affect your ability to recall because it encourages the production of excess cortisol, the stress chemical that prepares you for "fight or flight." Too much cortisol can shrink the size of your hippocampus, which is where memories are stored in the brain. Howard says it's best not to exceed one dose of caffeine every seven hours. (A dose is one milligram per pound of body weight.) In such moderate amounts, however, some studies have shown that caffeine can, in fact, offer health benefits just be sure not to overdo it!Heavy alcohol consumption. Because alcohol is also a diuretic, it can cause dehydration, producing symptoms such as confusion and memory problems. So for every ounce of alcohol you consume, drink a glass of water, says Howard. Alcohol may also directly lead to neuronal degeneration.A sedentary lifestyle and untreated high blood pressure. Both can make you susceptible to memory lapses. A rule of thumb worth following: Anything that's good for the heart is good for the mind. That's because mental activity is dependent on blood flow (among other factors), which also supplies essential oxygen to the brain.Prolonged stress and illness. Both of these can wreak havoc on mental as well as physical functioning.Resting on your laurels. This is no time to be complacent or lazy. It's important to keep stimulating your mind to learn new things and take on new challenges. Follow the slogan Use it
or lose it!If you're worried that you're forgetting too much, here's the bottom line: Don't sweat memory stumbles. Try not to get frustrated be amused instead, suggests Howard. And it's a good idea to be humble and to enlist a "memory partner" (such as your spouse or a little notebook) to help you remember names, dates, and so on. Finally, try to keep a positive perspective: A full mind equals a full life, but remember it's not even close to capacity ye
perhaps privately published) 700+ page version of Enzyme Nutrition, quotes and/or evidence from which no one was able to produce because no one had actually seen a copy. One might as well claim that the unabridged version has credible proof that the earth is flat, i.e., such claims are pure speculation. Claims that aspire to be scientific (including the enzyme theories of Howell) require credible scientific evidence, not "vaporware" proofs based on evidence that advocates themselves admit they have not yet seen, or can produce, even at the very same time they claim it exists.Second, the supporters of Howell's theories made the common rawist error of adopting an unproven theory, and then aggressively demanding that others disprove it. By all logical standards of evidence, the burden of proof rests on those who propose a theory to provide evidence for it; a burden the rawists here would apparently have preferred to be able to reverse or escape. Thus, those who advocate speculative claims, such as the ones Howell put forward, are logically required to provide reasonable proof, and as we shall see below, the proof provided is not adequate. With that as preface, let's now look at the main arguments by Howell "proving" that food enzymes are important for human health, and the weaknesses of these arguments. It will appear that, in fact, "food enzymes" (meaning enzymes present in foods before they are eaten, as opposed to digestive enzymes produced by the body) play a very minor role in our health, if any. CLAIM: Enzymes are not merely catalysts. They contain the "life force," which is subtle and unmeasurable. Once the body's enzyme potential has been used up, we die. Therefore, preserving our enzyme potential will ensure longevity.COMMENT: First let's note that, in the form it's asserted, the above claim constitutes assuming to be true what insteads needs to be demonstrated/proven via evidence (and not simply assumed).That there is an "enzyme potential" needs to be shown by evidence, yet here it is instead assumed at the beginning without proof. This is unfortunately a common logical fallacy in much of rawist thinking.That enzymes are held to be the "life force" is mystical, not scientific. If the author starts with these particular assumptions, one must question the scientific value of their reasonings. One of the most fundamental axioms in science is that the components of a theory must be at least in principle "falsifiable" to qualify as science in the first place. (That is, the components have to be capable of being observed and in principle testable for truth or falsity by physical observation or measurement.)If one cannot physically observe or measure something, then it is not amenable to scientific testing, and advocates can basically affirm anything they want with regard to it, no matter what experimental results are gotten, since there is no scientific way to confirm or disconfirm something allegedly immaterial. Therefore, if one claims that enzymes contain a "life force" that transcends their measurable physical characteristics, then it is by definition a mystical assertion and not a scientific hypothesis.Enzymes ARE catalysts, in
the broad sense (i.e., they speed up a chemical reaction, or allow a barrier of potential to be crossed, and are left unchanged after the reaction has occurred). The mode of action of various enzymes has been described by scientists--there is nothing mysterious. Anyone not convinced by the last statement is invited to check out a textbook about enzymes in any university library.Enzymes are not the "life force," and the idea that we have a certain "quantity of life force" at birth, and that by eating "living foods" we can increase our life potential (or at least preserve it) is naive and unproven. No one has ever measured any enzyme potential (in the sense that Howell understands it); and, according to modern theories of aging, such processes as cumulative oxidative damage to tissue, the decreasing length of telomeres with each cell division, and other known processes currently under investigation, rather than enzymes, are the most likely reasons for the process of aging.Howell postpones his proof of an "enzyme potential."It should be added that the logical organization of Howell's books suffers greatly from the fact that he postpones the "proof" that the body has a limited enzyme potential, and some arguments in the first chapters rely on that assumption. Since, as we shall see, his proof of the existence of an enzyme potential is seriously flawed, these arguments become invalidated.Side note in regard to Kirlian photos.Raw advocates often cite Kirlian photos that compare cooked and raw foods as evidence of the "life force" in raw foods. Kirlian photos do show something, but there is no evidence that they are somehow photos of a (subtle and/or mystical) "life force."The logical, plausible explanation for Kirlian photos is that they show the effects of a type of corona discharge (the same phenomenon that produces lightning). The power of such a discharge will depend on moisture content (which in humans may vary with stress, e.g., sweating) and other relevant physical factors.A corona discharge effect depends on ionized gases that result when a small electric current is applied to the object being photographed. Cooked foods have been heated, and heating can cause a loss of ions via steam and compounds dissolving into the water used in cooking (and the cooking water is usually discarded). Hence one would expect Kirlian photos of raw foods to have a stronger corona discharge than similar cooked foods.Even more telling, if Kirlian photos were actually the "life force" instead of a corona discharge effect, one would expect there to be no difference between Kirlian photos taken in a vacuum (where there are no ionized gases to create the corona discharge effect), and photos taken in normal atmospheric conditions. However, Kirlian photos taken of an object in a vacuum show no "aura." Thus we conclude that Kirlian photos do not show the "life force" or "aura," and are not credible evidence in comparing raw and cooked foods. Food enzymes act in the mouth and in the upper stomach, before our own enzymes have begun to digest the food. A few enzymes are left undestroyed
by the stomach acids and are absorbed by the intestine. Thus, eating raw food will preserve the enzyme potential. The impact of pre-digestion by salivary enzymes is small.Tortora and Anagostakos [1981, p. 628] note: Even though the action of salivary amylase may continue in the stomach, few polysaccharides [carbohydrates] are reduced to disaccharides by the time chyle [the mass of food and digestive fluids in the stomach] leaves the stomach. Also, Tortora and Anagostakos [1981, p. 629] report that 90% of all nutrients are absorbed in the small intestine. Further, digestion in the small intestine relies on bile and pancreatic enzymes, as a large part (but not 100%) of the food enzymes are destroyed in the stomach prior to the food reaching the small intestine. The above quote, coupled with the 90% absorption figure, suggests by extension that enzymes in raw food are of very limited nutritional significance.Certainly cooking destroys enzymes in food, but may improve digestibility for other reasons.Indeed, as we saw earlier, cooking sometimes alters the cell structure so that the nutrients become more accessible to our own body's digestive enzymes (such as by gelatinizing starch), or destroys anti-amylases or anti-proteases. Thus, in many cases, cooked food actually requires less enzymes for digestion than raw food.Digestive enzymes, like any catalyst, are reused/recycled multiple times.Thus, any supposed "savings" (of energy, or of a proposed "life force") in the production of digestive enzymes to make up for food enzymes lost to cooking (assuming the latter are of much use to digestion in the first place) would be very small and mostly illusory given that enzymes are reused during digestion anyway. (Note: Tortora and Anagostakos [1981, pp. 46-47] discusses reuse of enzymes.)Instances of decreased digestibility from cooking are primarily due to reasons besides enzymes.It should be added that, when cooking does decrease digestibility, it's often not because food enzymes have been destroyed. There are many examples (see above) of foods whose protein digestibility decreases only at temperatures much higher than 100C (212F). But obviously, enzymes are already destroyed at 100C. Also, protein availability may decrease (slightly) because of the Maillard reaction, which has nothing to do with enzyme denaturation. So it is not true that cooking necessarily demands more enzyme production by the body, and it's also not true that, in the cases where cooked food is less digestible, the effect can be attributed to enzyme destruction.Finally and more importantly, the idea that the body has a limited enzyme potential is, to say the least, dubious. Digestive enzymes in food are just what they are: a possible help in digestion. Obviously enzymes do indeed help--inside or outside the body: ripening of fruits, sprouting of seeds, legumes and grains, and aging of meat are examples of important actions of enzymes that occur prior to consumption. But some types of food processing can also improve digestion, including cooking in some cases.
a pobreza de acordo com o que julgamos necessarios a nossa existencia.Nao faco apologia a miseria, enfim todos nos, aqueles que buscamos a conquista do pao de cada dia com dignidade, somos detentores do direito de termos aquilo que almejamos, seja diamante ou carvao.Todavia e preciso deixar de lado o vil metal e trancorrer essa definicao para uma outra esfera; o intangivel.Ser honesto, ter carater, moral e etica sao apenas alguns dos bens nao palpaveis que julgo serem NECESSARIOS.Esqueca o ouro e a prata, voce nao os levara ao ceu, acreditando ou nao que o ceu existe.Tudo e vaidade diria o rei Salomao.Precisamos refletir sobre a verdadeira pobreza.A pobreza de espirito.Esta sim, doi, enfraquece, envergonha, indigna, amarga a alma e destroi o homen. E sera carregada em nossos ombros por toda a existencia.A pobreza que nao se extermina com o dinheiro, mas sim com a evolucao do ser.A riqueza que nao se acumula em cofres, mas se conquista com atitudes.Rico ou Pobre? Quem e voce?Abracos
Ando preocupado, as coisas nao andam muito bem.Com tantas redes de relacionamentos, encontros virtuais, tribos e afins, a verdade e uma so, estamos cada dia mais carentes.Carentes de um aperto de mao, de um obrigado, um bom dia e ate mesmo de um simples olhar.Por que?Sera o capitalismo? Sera o consumismo? Sera o egoismo?Uma mistura de tudo isso e ausencia de uma unica coisa: amor!!!Ausencia da simplicidade, do obvio, do natural, do essencial.Essa troca de bondade, de respeito e carinho e salutar e somente enobrece a alma, mas entao por que nao cultiva-la?VERGONHA !!!Vergonha de ser diferente, de ser natural, autentico, verdadeiro, vergonha de ser simples.Me preocupo com esta situacao, afinal, qual o legado a ser deixado?Estar na moda ou nao ser idiota?Faca sua escolha.Abracos Ele e o cara !Nelson Mandela, Luther King, Hurricane, Malcon X.....passado !!!O nome e OBAMA....queniano ? americano ? negro ? democrata ?Nao !!!Cidadao do mundo, homem do povo, revolucionario, o ultimo dos moicanos ou O Messias ???Hoje ele representa uma unica palavra - Mudanca.E incerto qual o futuro do mundo, mas e unanime, a esperanca vem de um homem negro, quanta ironia!?O negro, pouco tempo atras expurgado da sociedade, rejeitado, acorrentado, desclassificado, ele mesmo, ancestral de muitos, a raca mais acoitada da historia e hoje simbolo da esperanca, do sonho americano e de todo o mundo globalizado.Assassinado ? Nao sei, talvez um novo Kennedy, mas certamente o NOVO.Tenho minhas duvidas, meus receios e cautela, mas e certo, desejo ver a mudanca.Como diria o velho Obama: "We can"Ver pra crer ? Nao sou Sao Tome, mas desta vez sera muito gratificante ver a mudanca, por isso - creio pra ver!!!Abracos Ola,Depois de tanto tempo em silencio, to de volta.....com os mesmos principios e conceitos....mas em constante crescimento.E so assim que as coisas mudam, quando nos mudamos.Batalhando, correndo atras e deixando o que nao agrega mais valor de lado.Pois e, em 2007 aprendi muito sobre a vida e sobre mim mesmo, neste ano estou tentando trazer o aprendizado pra vida real......dificil viu !!!Mas enfim, se o que voce quer e uma vida melhor, precisa fazer algo acontecer, caso contrario a vida continua.A noite cai, a madrugada quase sempre fria embala nossos sonhos, mas quando o dia nasce precisamos acordar.....e acordados e que podemos decidir, deixar os sonhos em nosso berco esplendido ou faze-los acontecer.Se e o novo que voce quer, seja novo !!!De volta pro futuro.....Abracos As vezes distante das postagens, mas sempre presente na vida...correndo atras!Pois e, to aqui pra fazer um pouco de barulho e quem sabe acordar alguem.Se voce le o minimo necessario e assiste ao menos a TV GLOBO, a maior formadora de opiniao do Brasil, deve saber que estao de olho no Brasil.Isto nao e novidade, porem ha alguns anos, esta informacao era privilegio de poucos, hoje divulgada a todos.O Brasil e o proximo IRAQUE, e isso mesmo....estudos, artigos, tabloides, enfim todo tipo de midia possivel, vem sendo utilizada pelo governo americano, visando um unico e exclusivo objetivo, voltar a atencao do mundo ao Brasil, ou melhor a AMAZONIA.Na ultima semana, a maquina manipuladora
americana vem publicando constantemente a AFIRMACAO, isso mesmo, de que a Amazonia e patrimonio mundial, nao tenho duvida disso, mas porque nao afirmam que os morros cariocas tambem sao ? Engracado? Nao, e obvio....querem tomar o que e nosso e provavelmente irao, a menos que o nosso governo deixe de ser omisso e nosso povo deixe de ser mercenario, o brasileiro espertalhao, adepto a politica do dinheiro facil.Nao sou pessimista, pragmatico ou ate mesmo um revolucionario, sou apenas realista....ate canditados a eleicao americana como o "bom moco", Obama, ja estao de olho no que e nosso.Precisamos urgentemente lutar pelo pais!!!Como ?Podemos comecar por exemplo, exigindo certificados de madeiras oriundas de reflorestamento, denunciando queimadas criminosas e ate mesmo deixando de comprar aquele papagaio contrabandeado, o seu "loro" de estimacao.Seu? Daqui alguns anos nao sera de ninguem, pois morrera assim como os outros mil que morrem no caminho ate que o seu consiga sobreviver....Nao sou candidato, mas peco encarecidamente que nas proximas eleicoes voce nao se deixe levar pelo sentimento de satisfacao pessoal....se o seu primo nordestino ou amigo sulista, sim no RS o Lula e unanimidade, foi beneficiado pelas "bolsas miseria" fornecidas pelo nosso governo, pense um pouco maior, pense na nacao, na soberania de Estado e tudo mais que o nosso governo deixa de cumprir e exercer e vote com um pouco mais de consciencia, caso contrario, em pouco tempo teremos no maximo 25 estados....e isso mesmo, nao mencionei, mas Roraima esta sendo americanizada......estamos prestes a perde-la....e voce continua dormindo.Acorda Brasil !!!
Isso mesmo !!!E bem simples, nao tem segredo: so de valor ao que realmente tem valor....O materialismo impera nos dias de hoje, mas sera que seu carro tem todo o valro que voce da?Seu relogio, sua casa.......nao sei, acho que nao.Hoje visitei uma casa de criancas deficientes.....um lugar que ja frequento ha tempos, mas que a cada visita me faz repensar sobre meus valores e conceitos.Ali nao existe dinheiro, pois o dinheiro por si so nao pode trazer o que aquelas criancas precisam, amor.Olho em cada rosto e vejo a inocencia estampada na face de cada um deles....ali ninguem sabe o que e dinheiro, poder ou status, mas reconhecem a distancia o que realmente tem valor....o amor.Um gesto, um sorriso, muitas vezes timido, representam a gratidao e o carinho....sem palavras, so gestos.Hoje estaremos reunidos com nossos entes queridos, mas desejo de coracao que que este sentimento unico permaneca ao longo de nossas vidas....Ame o simples, o essencial, o verdadeiro....o amor.Um grande abraco e Feliz Natal !!! No caminho havia uma pedra...Sem duvida, aquele que se preocupa apenas com o destino nao ve as pedras e nada aquilo que o caminho pode nos proporcionar.Arrisco-me a dizer que o caminho em certas circunstancias e muito mais prazeroso do que o fim do trajeto, pois no fim talvez tudo aquilo que se viu e aprendeu foi o que realmente importou.Claro, nao seguimos um caminho sem conhecer o seu destino ou termos ideia do que nos aguarda na chegada, mas o fato e que nem os meios justificam os fins assim como os fins nao justificariam os meios, ambos sao necessarios em nossa jornada.Sempre gostei de viagens longas, aquelas em que se pode olhar pela janela, criar desenhos nas nuvens, enxergar montanhas verdes e casinhas nas colinas, tentando imaginar quem ali vive, o que faz e que certamente seja uma daquelas pessoas simples que vivem felizes longe da pseudo felicidade criada na imaginacao daquele que com certeza nunca viajou.As imagens, os sons, os odores, as cores e as luzes do caminho transformam a sinestesia criada no trajeto no verdadeiro sentido da viagem.Confesso, pensei muito no destino e deixei muita coisa passar pelo caminho, hoje, sempre me preocupo em olhar as pedras.Jose de Alencar Sinceramente nao sei...Ser desonesto?Ser infiel?Ser mesquinho?Enfim, ser totalmente o oposto do que prega a etica e a moral?Me questiono sobre as injusticas desumanas, sim, nao acredito que um verdadeiro ser humano possa aceitar certas situacoes.Sera essa a lei da vida?Olho por olho, dente por dente?Nao creio.A vida e pura matematica, embora nao seja um expert nesta ciencia, e facil saber que 1+1 sao 2 e nunca 3!!!Devemos ser exatamente aquilo que acreditamos que seja o correto e entao analisar o resultado final.Credito ou debito?Esta sera a resposta.Abracos Voltamos a falar sobre um dos maiores problemas da vida social - EleicoesProblema ? Por que problema ?Problema pelo simples fato de termos a necessidade de decidir quem nos representara politicamente pelos proximos quatro anos. Quem sera responsavel por decidir o futuro de nossa cidade ou bairro, tendo em vista que falamos de eleicoes municipais.Mas antes
de qualquer coisa, e preciso saber qual o papel destas figuras socio-politicas diante do nosso municipio, o que faz um vereador, ate onde vai o poder de decisao de um prefeito ?E dificil aceitar, mas nao sabemos nem mesmo quantos e como e estabelecida a quantidade de vereadores por cidade, por isso nao farei a mesma pergunta que a maioria conhece: Voce lembra em quem votou na ultima eleicao ? Voce nem sabe qual o papel de um vereador !O povo precisa entender um pouco mais de politica e nao aceitar promessas como a de internet gratuita ou uma free way ! O povo precisa comer, ter saude e educacao, isso e o basico, e dever do Estado, pagamos por isso, antes de novas promessas, vamos criar sustentacao para entao caminharmos a uma sociedade mais evoluida e moderna.Nao farei lobby para qualquer candidato, pois escolher seu representante e um direito constituicional e um dever de cidadao, intransferivel.Quero apenas lembra-lo de que e necessario entender as regras do jogo e tracar o objetivo, para entao montar seu time.Vamos usar nosso poder de decisao, pois no proximo domingo, voce tem a mesma importancia que qualquer outro cidadao de nossa cidade, mas apos a escolha do novo "time", isso pode mudar.Boa sorte a todos e que venca o mais preparado !!!Abracos