Brain-Damaging Habits

Memory lapse has been becoming a common problem not only among "senior citizens" but also with the yuppies of today's generation (i myself included? hehehe). Check out if you have the following brain-damaging habits:

1. No Breakfast
People who do not take breakfast are going to have a lower blood sugar level. This leads to an insufficient supply of nutrients to the brain causing brain degeneration.

(Is this the reason why, in the good ol' days, our parents always forced us to eat breakfast even when we were already late for school? Mothers and fathers indeed know best. :)

2. Overeating
It causes hardening of the brain arteries, leading to a decrease in mental power.

(no comment...)

3. Smoking
It causes multiple brain shrinkage and may lead to Alzheimer disease.

(oh, i should stop occasional smoking! AS IF! hahahahaha!)

4. High Sugar consumption
Too much sugar will interrupt the absorption of proteins and nutrients causing malnutrition and may interfere with brain development.

5. Air Pollution
The brain is the largest oxygen consumer in our body. Inhaling polluted air decreases the supply of oxygen to the brain, bringing about a decrease in brain efficiency.

6. Sleep
Deprivation Sleep allows our brain to rest. Long term deprivation from sleep will accelerate the death of brain cells.

7. Head covered while sleeping
Sleeping with the head covered increases the concentration of carbon dioxide and decrease concentration of oxygen that may lead to brain damaging effects.

8. Working your brain during illness
Working hard or studying with sickness may lead to a decrease in effectiveness of the brain as well as damage the brain.

(what is the use of a sick leave?!)

9. Lacking in stimulating thoughts
Thinking is the best way to train our brain, lacking in brain stimulation thoughts may cause brain shrinkage.

10. Talking
Rarely Intellectual conversations will promote the efficiency of the brain

(good thing, i have a talkative officemate. from now on, i'll compete with her. hahaha!)

top 5 cancer-causing foods

i got this email for a few times already. but as a hard-headed individual that i am, i usually just take these unsolicited advices for granted. but then, i think it is time for me to think about it and get serious. what about you? read on:

Top 5 Cancer-Causing Foods

1. Hot dogs

Because they are high in nitrates, the Cancer Prevention Coalition advises that children eat no more than 12 hot dogs a month. If you can't live without hot dogs, buy those made without sodium nitrate.

(Maybe this is true.  Somebody told me that a child of one of our colleagues died for eating too much hotdog.)

 
2. Processed meats and bacon

Also high in the same sodium nitrates found in hot dogs, bacon, and other processed meats raise the risk of heart disease. The saturated fat in bacon also contributes to cancer.

 

3. Doughnuts

Doughnuts are cancer-causing double trouble. First, they are made with white flour, sugar, and hydrogenated oils, then fried at high temperatures. Doughnuts, says Adams , may be the worst food you can possibly eat to raise your risk of cancer.

 

4. French fries

Like doughnuts, French fries are made with hydrogenated oils and then fried at high temperatures. They also contain cancer- causing acryl amides which occur during the frying process. They should be called cancer fries, not French fries, said Adams .

5. Chips, crackers, and cookies

All are usually made with white flour and sugar. Even the ones whose labels claim to be free of trans-fats generally contain small amounts of trans-fats.


How cruel! All of the above-mentioned goodies are my favorites! Waaaaah!

On the brighter side however, chocolate is not one of those!  Yummy!  Hehehe! :)

 

plane crash miracle

Surviving from a plane crash is unbelievably a miracle. Just like what had happened recently with a US Airways Airbus which landed safely at the Hudson River, New York. I got that news in the internet first but I did not give much attention to it as I was thinking, it was just too good to be true. The primary cause of the engine trouble is allegedly due to - collision with a flock of birds..

But just this morning, when I saw some of the passengers of that plane were interviewed on TV, I began to realize that the miracle is indeed real. To think that the plane could have hit any of the buildings of Manhattan or the bridge and what else.. It could have been worse!

Thank you God... :)

tagaytay invades manila!

brrr! i found myself almost freezing when i woke up at around 6 o'clock this morning. yeah, "freezing" is somewhat a little bit exaggerated. hehehe. but, at this moment, i could not find any words to describe what i felt at that time.

i was even more surprised when i checked the temperature upon my arrival in the office. 21 degrees celsius! still that low at 830am?! that's the lowest temperature i've ever monitored since i transferred here in manila.

but then, tv patrol reported that manila had experienced 18 degrees celsius more than a week ago. i could say that, that still holds true to this day as i imagined how i buried myself in a bed full of pillows few minutes before reality dragged me up to my senses just this morning.

yesterday, i was strolling along the neighborhood when the cool breeze joined me in. i suddenly exclaimed (to my mind, of course!), this is just like tagaytay!

oh my! i miss my life in tagaytay! (sigh...)

Yoiks! I lost my files!

It happened just recently. Those were not actually my own files but somebody's. I felt guilty that I did not volunteer to backup her files sooner. Well, i learned my lesson.

Hey! Can you just take this survey?



Thanks for your time! Ciao! :)

false alarm!

my hands have been so full these days that i haven't had the time to update my blog much less to inform you that my yahoo email account has been restored.

yeah, i'm guilty (bring in the prisoner! the judge summoned. hehehe. but that's another story) .

anyway, back to the topic. i've overreacted. my yahoo email account was not hacked.

and the IT department kept on reassuring me that they have no power to block my email account. although i have another theory as to what had happened, it is already irrelevant. i tell you, it is nothing serious.

what the heck! what's important now is, i can peek on my yahoo emails especially during office hours. hehehe. :)

hey! i thought i am busy?!

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