This Is How Your Body Reacts To Red Bull. I Bet You’ll Never Drink One Again

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Today, people eat bad food, don’t drink enough water, and don’t sleep enough. That’s a perfect spell for constant fatigue and grogginess. To avoid the afternoon crash, more and more people are taking to energy drinks like Red Bull. But did you know that Red Bull can actually increase your risk of stroke and heart attack? 

An energy after drinking Red Bull, your blood is similar to that of a person suffering cardiovascular disease. They say drinking one of their energy drinks is the same as drinking coffee or soda, and you might have the same energy you get with coffee and soda, but the difference is that no one really knows what all the ingredients in a Red Bull are. We also don’t really know how those ingredients interact with the body.

Of course, one major ingredient is aspartame, which has been shown to be neurotoxic, allergenic, and carcinogenic. Pair that with other ingredients and you have a recipe for a vicious cycle of energy drink consumption that can be deadly.

“No less than 3.5 billion cans of Red Bull were sold last year in 143 countries. Yet, questions regarding the safety of Red Bull, as well as other energy drinks, keep cropping up at regular intervals when yet another overzealous energy-addict keels over,” says Dr. Mercola.

 

Energy drinks have even begun to outsell bottled water.

Who is at the highest risk? If you suffer any of the following, do NOT drink Red Bull:

AnxietyHigh blood pressureHigh stressCaffeine sensitivityBlood clotting disordersChronic fatigueAny cardiovascular disease.

It’s not advised to drink Red Bull if you’re pregnant too. Instead, try to improve your energy naturally. Exercise regularly, eat good foods, increase your intake of omega-3 fats and eliminate grains and sugars from your diet.

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NOT ALL PRESIDENT KNOW HOW TO SPEAK ENGLISH

Can Xi Jinping speak English?

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Although Xi can read English, he can barely speak.

Just as I mentioned in Jason Chen's answer to How did Xi Jinping rise to power? , Xi Jinping entered Tsinghua University in 1977 as one of the College Students of Workers, Peasants and Soldiers ( 工农兵大学生（学生群体）_百度百科, sorry in Chinese only). Compared with the later official full-time college students, this group's academic system and curricula were rather incomplete and inferior, let alone the unanimous teaching of English was still not resumed and there was lack in good English teacher due to the turmoils of the Cultural Revolution. I am quite sure this is the main reason Xi and his peers like Wang Qishan had not received systematic education on English.And after Xi's graduation, most of the time he was busy at working, there was little time for learning English as well.

One convincing proof was Xi and President Obama's private meeting in California  in 2013. During which they talked about sports, the Chinese interpreter made an obvious mistake by translating Xi's swimming 1 kilometer everyday into 10000 meters instead,which made Obama rather surprised and Xi had no reaction as  it was clear Xi didn't get the message.
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After that Chinese media had reported this episode and translation expert had explained this was common and not a diplomatic disaster. Furthermore, in this report, this expert Mr. Jin Canrong, Vice Dean of International Relationship School of Renmin University of China mentioned Xi could read English but had difficulties in speaking and listening, and he mentioned Xi' wife Peng Liyuan was good at speaking English too.(习近平称自己每天游泳1千米 被翻译成1万米, sorry in Chinese only).

Furthermore, although Xi did not behave in the grandstanding style of his predecessor Jiang Zemin, he often mentioned his being fond of western cultures, in particular obsession with Hollywood Blockbusters such as the Godfatherand Saving Private Ryan. Had Xi been good at speaking English, he should not have wasted the precious opportunities to prove being a true fan.

On the contrary, Premier Li Keqiang is rather good at speaking English as he learned from his wife, Cheng Hong, who is a famous professor expert at English literature and teaching, used to translate Rachel Carson's the Silence of Springinto Chinese.  Here is a report on Li's bilingual speech in Hong Kong University.

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5 Things You Should Know Before You Buy Honey

5 Things You Should Know Before You Buy Honey

Here’s a fun fact for you: more than three quarters of honey sold in American supermarkets isn’t the real deal. Much of it has been modified into a nearly unrecognizable product. This is what you should know next time you buy honey.

1. Raw honey contains bee pollen.

So what’s the big deal? Well, bee pollen has long been thought to be among nature’s most nourishing foods. It’s loaded with protein, and is thought to be able to influence weight loss and improve reaction to allergies.

2. Ultra-filtered or pasteurized honey is not a better product.

In recent decades, honey manufacturers have sold consumers the idea that ultra-filtered and pasteurized honey is better than unfiltered, raw honey. In a way, it’d make sense that honey without the combs and pollen would taste better, but filtering it removes all of the delicious, healthy bee pollen.

Not just that, the process of ultra-filtering honey removes the capability of consumers to track where the honey was produced and what pollen was gathered to make it. So you could be eating honey from a clover field right next to a coal plant in China. No bueno, friends.

3. Many companies are now adding High Fructose Corn Syrup to honey.

According to the folks over at Organics, “HFCS has been linked to diabetes, obesity, hypertension and liver damage, and leads to plaque buildup and narrowing of blood vessels.” Not only that, but HFCS is often made from GMO corn. So if you want to avoid GMOs, avoid honey with this sweetener added.

4. Finding organic honey is a task.

There are simply too many non-organic farmers out there for honey to be guaranteed as all organic. Bees often fly miles from their hives to gather pollen, so it’s one variable that is impossible to control. Additionally, the USDA has no standards for organic honey. If you see honey labeled organic, it may be a bit misleading.

5. Most supermarket honey is imported from China.

Going back to my mention of ultra-filtration filtering out our ability to track where honey came from, we have very little reason to trust the quality and safety of food coming out of China. In 2003, Smuckers recalled 12,000 cases of honey and Sara Lee recalled products that contained honey from China because it was contaminated with Chloramphenicol. Chloramphenicol has been linked to leukemia.

This is one food where vegans may have the right idea, but if you must consume honey, find it from local sources and ask where exactly it came from

HOW TO RAPIDLY EXPAND YOUR PERCEPTION WITHOUT USING PSYCHEDELICS

HOW TO RAPIDLY EXPAND YOUR PERCEPTION WITHOUT USING PSYCHEDELICS

“The door to the soul is unlocked; you do not need to please the doorkeeper, the door in front of you is yours, intended for you,  and the doorkeeper obeys when spoken to.” -Robert Bly

What if you found out there was a key that would enable you to open and close your doors of perception at will, void of psychedelics? What if you found out you not only held the key, but you were the key? Would you unlock the doors, or keep them shut?

Well, you are the key, and whether or not you choose to enter through the doors is a choice that, although invisible, is life changing. You are the vehicle for the trip, consider this but a mere travel summary.

And for a detailed itinerary?  Well, that can only be fetched by you -not the part of you reading this, but the altered dream state part of your consciousness that will travel beyond the doors of perception to the wildness of the world where there is a livingness to all things- as it can only be found in a place with exclusive access. A place where you can travel, but no one may follow -not even the conscious, waking state version of yourself scanning these very words.

If you have experimented with psychedelics, you most likely know what it is like to sense the type of “livingness” to all things of which I speak. Even if you haven’t used psychedelics, though, you almost certainly have still experienced this same livingness to all things in the world around you to a noticeable degree at least once, but probably various times as a child -a moment where the world around you took on a shimmery glow, colours suddenly appeared brighter, sounds louder and clearer, physical sensations amplified and, most notably, you could FEEL the world around you.

I am not referring to the physical, touching type of feeling, but to the intangible, energy sense of feeling where you could almost feel the luminosity of the world around you within, and you and the luminous rested in harmony as if you were one. You were present, your perceptions altered, your senses heightened. In short,  your sensory gating channels opened to some degree, a process more commonly referred to as opening your doors of perception.

Sensory Gating Explained: The Science Behind the Doors of Perception

The “doors of perception” are the part of our brain and central nervous system responsible for filtering input from all external stimuli, involving all of your senses -feeling (both physical and nonphysical), sight, sound, taste and smell. This process, known as “sensory gating,” enables us to decipher the difference between “me” and “not me.” Through sensory gating, we are able to manage and comprehend the constant stream of sensory data from the external environment. Without it, we would be unable to filter out what matters and what doesn’t, and all sensory data would touch us deeply and ultimately, we would become overstimulated and overwhelmed and go “crazy” -according to modern medicine, that is.

You see, many of the people who are now referred to as “schizophrenics” have wide sensory gating channels that they do not know how to close, causing an overload in stimulus.  In indigenous cultures, these people would have instead been called SHAMANS, and would have been taught how to control their doors of perception and open and close them as need be. There are ways to begin opening the doors of perception, or sensory gating channels, without using psychedelics. Of course, the experience will not be as intense or immediate, but nor will it be short lived.

Rather, by utilizing practices that help open your sensory gating channels to some degree by altering your state of consciousness, you learn to open the doors of perception into the metaphysical background of the world and continuously uncover deeper truths to yourself and the world around you. In essence, playing with the doors of perception in this manner, rather than through the use of mind altering substances, allows you to do more than have a life changing experience in which you see the deeper meanings to life for a brief period of time (i.e. a “trip”), but to change your life where every moment is an experience in a continuous journey into further, unexplored depths of life.

Listen to Aldous Huxley’s in depth description of the doors of perception, and the mechanisms through which the mind opens and closes them here.

Hypnosis and Meditation

“ …those who have experimented with hypnosis find that, at a certain depth of trance, it happens not too infrequently that subjects, if they are left alone and not distracted, will become aware of an immanent serenity and goodness that is often associated with a perception of light and of spaces vast but not solitary.”(Aldous Huxley, The Devils of Loudon 99).”

Practicing hypnotherapy and/or meditation on a regular basis is an excellent way to begin dabbling into the metaphysical backgrounds of yourself and of the world by tapping into your subconscious, into otherwise ignored parts of your mind.

These practices help open doors in the mind where things such as past traumas that are holding you back have remained imprisoned for years, desperately waiting for you to free them and thus yourself.

Meditation and hypnotherapy are also great tools for getting in touch with your intuition, helping you to see the bigger picture of current problems, allowing you to focus on the deeper truths and lessons they withhold rather than getting trapped in the mundane surface details of your problems. In fact, when observed in this light, they eventually cease to be problems and are instead rendered avenues of inner exploration and growth. Here are some guided hypnosis and meditation sessions that may be of benefit.

 

The Sixth Sensory Channel: The Feeling Capacity

The 6th sensory channel, also known as the feeling capacity, refers to the ability of humans to feel, as opposed to touch. It refers to the invisible type of feeling, as opposed to the feeling sense of physical touch embodying the ingredients of the five senses of human beings.

One is invisible and subjective, the other solely portrays the mostly objective experience of physical touching, of feeling the texture of a person or object.

The feeling sense referring to the ability to feel the invisibles describes the feelings that stir within as we encounter various experiences in our day to day life, sometimes called a sixth sense, or the sixth sensory channel. To better understand the sixth sensory channel, consider the following example: you come home from work and ask your partner what’s wrong.

“Nothing,” they brashly reply.

But, by the tone of their voice, you know nothing means everything, and that you better respond with something along the lines of, “please tell me what’s wrong,” unless you want to endure a silent dinner -one that also evokes a feeling sense, as the silence speaks volumes and is filled with tension, making you uneasy-  and sleep on the couch that night. Simply put, awakening to the feeling sense that is not often spoken of as it is not included in the five senses that we are taught we have, cultivates your feeling capacity, your ability to feel the invisible, unspoken and unseen meanings of situations, and of things both yourself and others do and say.

In order to develop your feeling capacity, pay attention to the way things feel. Interpret situations with your heart first, then your thoughts. For a deeper understanding of the sixth sensory channel and how you can begin  to reclaim your feeling sense, consider listening to this in this interview with Stephen Buhner.

Sources

http://www.hypnotherapycenter.com/art_mld.html

http://www.hypnos.co.uk/whitlark2.htm

http://realitysandwich.com/226580/stephen-harrod-buhner-on-reclaiming-your-feeling-sense-rewild-yourself-podcast/

http://naturalhealthtechniques.com/developing-your-sixth-sense.htm

‘Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm: Beyond the Doors of Perception into the Dreaming of Earth,’ by Stephen Harrod Buhner

‘The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell,” by Aldous Huxley

Do You Know How McDonald’s Fries Are Made? This Will Disgust You

Do You Know How McDonald’s Fries Are Made? This Will Disgust You.

When I was growing up, the McDonald’s french fry was the holy grail of fast food items. I remember a specific day when I was a preteen that my body could no longer tolerate eating them. And it’s no wonder! It turns out their french fries are junk!

French fries use Russet Burbank Potatoes, a potato that’s cheap to grow, but blemishes easily and gets Net Necrosis, a potato disease, relatively easily. So McDonald’s needs to spray it with a pesticide called methamidophos.

“That is toxic to the extent where Idaho farmers who cultivate these potatoes do not go on the fields for five days after the spraying.”

After harvesting, the potatoes aren’t even edible. They have to sit inside of a football stadium sized “atmospheric shed” for six weeks before they can be eaten

LEARNING MENs LIFE FROM THIS SHORT STORY

A man is dating three women and wants to decide who to marry. He decides to give them a test. He gave each woman Ksh 50,000 and observes what each does with the money.

The first one does a total make-over. She goes into a fancy beauty salon and does her hair, new make up and buys several new outfits. She then dresses up very nicely for the man. She says to him she has done this to make herself even more attractive to the man because she loves him so much. The man is impressed.

The second woman goes gift shopping for the man. She buys him a new smartphone, an expensive watch and very flashy clothes and shoes. As she presents these gifts to him, she tells him she spent all the money on him because she loves him so much. The man is impressed.

The third one invests the money in the stock market. She earns Ksh 200,000, and gave him back his 50k. She then re-invested the remainder in a joint account. She says she want to invest
and secure their their future because she loves him so much. Obviously the man is very impressed.

The man thought for a long time about what each woman had done with the money. In the end he married the one with the largest buttocks! Men will always be men.😂😂😂

MORDEN WAY OF INSTALLING TERRAZO FLOOR FINISHING

Terrazzo?

Surface Preparation: Surface preparation is considered to be the most important step of any resinous flooring application. Improper surface preparation could turn what seems to be a simple process into a lengthy, difficult repair. Moisture related failures can be prevented through placing new concrete over an efficient vapor barrier.Picture H1 Surface Preparation

Crack Detailing:Clear any loose concrete with shot blasting and mitigate any cracking in the concrete subfloor with a crack suppression system.Picture H2 Crack Detailing

Strip Layout:

Strip Layout can be customized to show logos, images and any creative designs. Utilize a strip for each color change, and then strips as a part of the design, and then control the expansion joints. Divider strips can be zinc, aluminum, brass or plastic in sizes of 16 ga. (1/16”), 1/8”, 1/4”. The strips should be bonded with adhesive or hot glue (no mechanically attach).Picture H3-1 Strip Layout                                           Picture H3-2 Strip Layout Finished

Mixing:Carefully measure out the “A” resinand the “B” hardener into two other containers. Always pour the “A” first and then the “B”.  Add the powder and aggregates until you get the necessary density. Utilize aggregate blend- not all one size. Aggregate Size Chart Aggregate TypesMarbleGraniteMother of PearlGlassRecycled GlassPicture 4-1 Mixing Epoxy                Picture 4-2 Mixing Aggregates with Epoxy

Pouring:The epoxy matrix is spread across the membrane with a trowel.Picture 5 Pouring

Grinding:The epoxy is ground smooth with diamonds or carborundum and plastic disks progressively from 25 to 400 grit.

Grouting:During the grinding stage, an epoxygrout is applied to remove any pinholes.

Polish and Sealer:Applying the sealer before the final wax coat and polish.So, what’s the end result of all this effort? Terrazzo installation incorporates so many steps for a very good reason. The installations we perform have at their hearts the goal of providing buildings with flooring solutions that won’t change with the seasons. Seamless installations that rely on clearly-defined metal stripping to set areas apart are more constant, remaining clean in the midst of dirty shoes and maintaining their form and shape where other substances would expand and contract. The terrazzo installation method is made to keep up appearances as well as ensure convenience. Terrazzo allows builders to approach flooring jobs in sections, leaving them with absolute control over every component. Color treatments, logos and graded variations that are impossible with the finest tile or wood flooring systems are easy to execute when terrazzo is the medium of choice. Terrazzo installations are completed simply and quickly, regardless of stain-proofing requirements, artwork inclusion or the addition of other special features. Structuring our installations so that each step is performed separately allows us to modify the end product at many points along the way. As a result, we’re able to offer our consumers low installation prices that never come at the expense of quality or the durability terrazzo is so prized for. Terrazzo is your personal gateway into the world of functional interior design. From installation to the days when your building staff permanently enjoys a clean work area that’s easy to keep up, your investment will be well-placed.

Here’s Why You Should Stop Eating Pork Immediately

Here’s Why You Should Stop Eating Pork Immediately
Sep 30, 2015

It’s no secret that many religions consider the pig to be an unclean animal. For those who don’t follow the faiths in question, it probably seems a little bit silly. But is there something to the idea that the pig is unclean?

In the wild, pigs are scavengers. They’ll eat just about anything, including feces, rotting food, carcasses, and they’ve even been found to chew tumors off of one another and eat them. The digestive system of the pig is rather impressive, but it can’t always filter out the toxic stuff the pig eats. The pig’s digestive system completes the digesting of food in only 4 hours, so the toxins the pig eats are stored in its fat. Those toxins may be harmless to a piggy, but for us, it’s different.

According to a Consumer Reports investigation of 200 raw pork samples, 69% were contaminated, containing dangerous bacteria like Yersinia enteroclitica, which causes extreme sickness. Ground pork is even worse, containing other contaminants like ractopamine, which is a controversial drug banned in China and Europe.

According to the report: “We found salmonella, staphylococcus aureus, or listeria monocytogenes, more common causes of foodborne illness, in 3 to 7 percent of samples. And 11 percent harbored enterococcus, which can indicate fecal contamination and can cause problems such as urinary tract-infections.”

Pigs are also host to numerous parasites which can be directly transmitted to humans, such as Taenia solium, an intestinal parasite that causes infection and loss of appetite and viruses like Hepatitis E and Trichinella. Improperly cooked pork can expose you to all of these health problems.

According to Consumer Reports, if you are going to consume pork:

When cooking pork, use a meat thermometer to ensure that it reaches the proper internal temperature, which kills potentially harmful bacteria: at least 145° F for whole pork and 160° F for ground pork.Keep raw pork and its juices separate from other foods, especially those eaten raw, such as salad.Wash your hands thoroughly after handling raw meat.Choose pork and other meat products that were raised without drugs. One way to do that is to buy certified organic pork, from pigs raised without antibiotics or ractopamine.Look for a clear statement regarding antibiotic use. “No antibiotics used” claims with a USDA Process Verified shield are more reliable than those without verification. Labels such as “Animal Welfare Approved” and “Certified Humane” indicate the prudent use of antibiotics to treat illness.Watch out for misleading labels. “Natural” has nothing to do with antibiotic use or how an animal was raised. We found unapproved claims, including “no antibiotic residues,” on packages of Sprouts pork sold in California and Arizona, and “no antibiotic growth promotants” on Farmland brand pork sold in several states. We reported those to the USDA in June 2012, and the agency told us it’s working with those companies to take “appropriate actions.” When we checked in early November, Sprouts had removed the claim from its packages.

Are you going to stop eating pork? Why or why not? Let us know in the comments 

Reason for American youth develop faster than African youth with simple solution

The Biz is a game of nos. How is not important. The only thing that's important are the nos.

Like i said there are 2 ways of make this nos.

*The American system and
*The African system

The Americans don't have time for much of events and events are much costly. Due to security reasons.

So they simply make use of Internet, pasting cards on notice boards, dropping cards in phone booth's etc

But the most common and effective system is the internet and calls.

All they do is mass recruiting. And let them enjoy Spillovers, they enjoy Matching Commission.

*African system ... Because we believe in seeing, so event and one-on-on makes it better to build a system and team, instead of mass recruiting.

KWA MAELEZO ZAIDI BONYEZA HAPA

I am analysing this because some ppl go against mass recruiting and only believe in someone who is going to put some effort.

But I want you to understand that our dream is to get active members but we can hardly know who is going to be active until they get onboard.

I have about 4 networkers onboard who are not doing a thing, for one reason or the other.

I am only saying there is no perfect way, just choose the method that's best for you.

Numbers are all we need ... Just design a way suitable for you to get the nos.

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