Deaf Tranquil Life

Food Pyramid... Beautiful!

I came across one particular food pyramid aimed to reduce the chances of inflammation of the heart... I am copying and pasting it on my blog (hat tip to both my primary doctor's blog, http://drmaliareckons.posterous.com/dr-weils-anti-inflammatory-food-pyramid,  and Dr. Weil's blog, http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/ART02995/Dr-Weil-Anti-Inflammatory-Food-Pyramid.html.)  Both blogs I highly recommend for you to follow... yes, I have Dr. Malia as my doctor and he's awesome... he's the kind of doctor who'd spend an average hour with you, instead of a rushed 10 minutes... :-)

                            

For more information about this pyramid, check this link out:

http://www.drweil.com/drw/ecs/pyramid/press-foodpyramid.html

What catch my eye... DARK CHOCOLATE and RED WINE at the top of the pyramid :-)  But I am not too keen on fish and seafood, though.  It's interesting to make a note that there is no mention of white meats or red meats...so I'd add them to the pyramid, only in a sparingly small amounts, like once or twice a week.

Plus, I am venturing out to experiment with different kinds of grains.  Recently I made chocolate chip cookies, using only splet flour and almond flour, avoiding wheat flour.  It came out DELICIOUS... almond flour makes a lot of different, giving off a sweet moist taste.  Almond flour needs to be refrigerated.  Wheat products are one of the leading causes for health problems of Americans (white flour, mostly.)

For ones who want to compare this new food pyramid (it's NOT approved by the medical professional association) to the one we already have nowadays, here is the SAD's (S-Standard; A-American; D-Diet) food pyramid:

                                                                  

The problem with this SAD's food pyramid is the amount of wheat products... too much wheat products lead to diabetes 2, which we are seeing an alarming increase in Americans with diabetes 2 nowadays.

For more information about food pyramid, especially the one from Harvard U. which Dr. Malia recommends in his blog:

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/what-should-you-eat/pyramid/index.html

 

Apple Cider Vinegar and Fruit Flies

My daughter came home with a bag of grapes that one of her classmates gave to her, stating that the classmate grew grapes at his home.  Of course, I quickly rinsed them and put them in the salad bowl in the dining room for anyone to snack on.

Well, the next day...small, black, lazy fruit flies were drunkenly hovering around the grapes... Uh oh, I rinsed the grapes more thoroughly and tossed out the bad grapes.  Of course, I should have taken the kitchen garbage out right there and then... but I didn't.  Hence more fruit flies the next day.  Wow, they reproduce fast! I Googled on it and learned that they lay hundreds of eggs in their short lives and that the eggs hatch after 24 hours.  Ohhhh.... we must have eaten some of larvaes in the grapes, ew.

For more data about reproduction:

http://www.orkin.com/flies/fruit-fly/fruit-fly-reproduction-rates-data

So yesterday we tried using insecticide... no luck.  I Googled up for the quick, natural way to get rid of the flies and I came across:

http://lifehacker.com/5635971/lifehacker-labs-capture-fruit-flies-with-a-cup-and-apple-cider-vinegar

Hmmm... why not?  I bought a jar of apple cider vinegar and followed the directions.

 

Just pour a little amount of vinegar into the plastic bowl and add a few drops of dishwasher soap and put the bowl in the area where there are more fruit flies.  The directions say leave the bowls for 2 days.

 

 

An hour late, I took a peck at the bowl and holy cow, there are several drowned fruit flies!  You can see the dark dots at the bottom of the red bowl.  I am leaving a few bowls around the house alone... hopefully ALL fruit flies will be gone by then by the end of two days.

Stephen Hawkins and God

I just read an article about his stance on God's involvement in the creation of the universe:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100902/lf_nm_life/us_britain_hawking

So, I take that in his point of view, it is impossible to create anything from the gravity.  He did state that the Big Bang theory was just a theory, not a fact... I am not going into the debate whether God exists or not; for now, I will wait for Stephen's book The Grand Design to come out so that I will read it and be judge of it.

Still I look outside, and see the tree's leaves gently trembling against the soft humid breeze and there is a orange cat lazily watching me watching her.  There are the interactions going on, displays of causes and effects.  Such as the burning bushes outside is starting to "burn" more, changing from green leaves to red leaves, especially at the top.

Seems there's a need for interrelationships, which are created by causes and effects...  If there's no God or whatever being man likes to call, there'd be no rules... no rules means no life cycles.  Hmmm... you noticed from the photos of fractal art depicting chaos, one would see cleverly repeated designs, there's an order in the mess.

 

Tree's dying stage...

See all the gray/black mushrooms encircling the tree?  This tree did sprout the leaves this year and looked and still looks alive, but...

At the base of the tree, about 3/4 of the bark is gone.  Recently the mushrooms just popped up, slowly consuming the base of the tree, gently aiding it in its dying, decomposing...for the purpose of enriching the environment.  Take a look at the most of the cemeteries... notice how healthy and rich the trees look?  Thanks to the work of decomposing of the human bodies.

'Tis life.