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fasting, a healthy practice?

As we enter the period before the spring equinox-period of intense renewal! - And, traditionally, in what the called "Lent" the time seems chosen to address a practice that exists in all civilizations, which is recommended in preference to inter-season, and which may be where many sovereign remedies fail ...


What is fasting?

It's just short of deprivation, or prolonged food. Know this, we fast every day, between meals, particularly at night. That's why, in the morning, we are fasting, and that we "de-breakfast fasting" (in English, breakfast literally means' breaking the fast "), that is to say that we break starvation in giving the body a quantity (moderate) of food. Thus, the act of fasting is often synonymous to the body at rest. This happens when we are sick, where in some cases, including indigestion, or febrile illness, we feel the need unusual "do not eat." However, this reflex occurs in some organic diseases makes us think about the virtues of fasting in restoring our balance ...


Asceticism and Renewal

The Eastern philosophies preach the regular use of fasting, considered a major way to achieve mental clarity. Many of us wonder, because we are constantly obsessed with food, and even more by the idea of running out. However, c 'is the lack of opportunity here that creates a fullness : for lack recreates a space, which the mind needs to find his balance and grow.
In India, more than elsewhere, or absorbing the loss of a certain category of food (meat, for example), is a function of religious customs. It exists in the Hindu calendar so many days of fasting, which on Thursday each week: most are linked to religious holidays. It consists either in a total deprivation of food or in a proprietary absorption of certain foods (fruits, for example), or other restriction.
Fasting in this case often a function of purification and protection from the adversities of life, as the disease. Is it simply a matter of belief?
Our Judeo-Christian tradition provides us with a few lights. In Judaism, most days of fasting are associated with mourning, and therefore to the idea of being stripped of what is "old". In Christianity it is associated with the period of forty days that Jesus remained in the desert, which coincided with the beginning of his life "public". Is a time of preparation , of acquisition of forces necessary to move towards maturity , and a resilience face "temptations". We then look
an essential aspect of fasting: the subtle balance between body and mind. Namely, our physical strength does not rest solely on external inputs ... But then, how fast does it contribute to our health?


Fasting Question

1. How fast can it contribute to our balance?

take a specific example: when we have a high fever, very often, we lose appetite, and we fast, partially or totally, for 24 to 48. Or food, for calories, such as digestion, by its action on the circulation, increases body heat. By not eating, or food very light and diuretics, the fever itself sometimes ... It is the same for many conditions of excess body.

2. Fasting is right for everyone?

No. Deprive a baby food for more one day, and he finds himself in great danger of succumbing. Similarly, under certain conditions such as diabetes, debilitating diseases (where the body is very weak) and chronic. Moreover, fasting mobilizing our reservations, individuals complexing thin tissue or with disabilities, may feel much more impaired than healthy people, and especially see their immunity to fall, increasing their nervousness, and certain hormonal functions or endocrine affected. Finally, fasting has a significant impact on heart rate.

3. What about the development of cures fast?

past few years, we are witnessing the development of cures for fasts organized group of persons conditions, age, and various backgrounds. A note of common sense: we are each unique, and unlike what is common, there is no standard diet. Our age, morphology, the fact that we are male or female, our physical activity, intellectual climate in which we live are all factors that affect our relationship with food. There is not, therefore, no standard fast, but surely a more attentive to our needs, as inputs, as in the restriction.


An alternative: mono-diet diet and

Apart from religious motivations, or even political ("hunger strike"), who wants to improve their health, regain a healthy mind in a healthy body, as said a famous humanist, must keep in proper measure everything. Thus, moderation, or "abstinence" is often preferable to deprivation.
In India, the days of fasting are actually quite often the days of mono-diet, where people eat only fruit. On this issue, Gandhi wrote about his own practice of fasting whole chapters, and allows us, through this contemporary example, understand the benefits, as the pitfalls.

If we are ever so slightly to listen to our bodies, we realize that our appetites, or our desire to use a particular type of food varies depending on the time of day or year. This is especially true in the transition seasons are fall and more this spring. The period of Lent in our calendars, we indicate the moment when we must cease to accumulate reserves to fight the cold, and begin to change our eating habits to change as much as we can what is "heavy " "Fat" in "light" and "dry".
A partial restriction of certain foods may be beneficial, especially if we feel a spontaneous urge. We then speak of "diet" rather than fasting. Which is an alternative adaptable to each according to his condition, and its specific needs. Because we are not equal before our ability to restrict our diet, or deprive us: for some of us, it can be dangerous or cause permanent damage. In general, one major concern relates to balance the acid-base balance: the liberation of acidity (Associated with hydrochloric acid or bile, which fills the gallbladder between meals, and is related to the sensation of hunger) in all cases being harmful to the balance of body functions, such as that of tissue .

Anyway, and whatever our personal disposition with the arrival of spring, let us simply to feel intuitively what is the best way for us to prepare for the rebirth of nature. And change our habits a little bit, it is also "fast"!

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Oregon: 150 Years in 2009 (7 / 8)

Oregon: 150 Years in 2009 (7 / 8)

(A report conducted in July 2008 (Text and photos by Bernard Jacqmin)

Coast

"Ocean in sight! O joy! "Clark wrote in his diary after the incredible adventure that had just accomplished. The enthusiasm that had prevailed for him and his companions by going to the shores of the Pacific was transformed into a fast yet cruel disillusionment. In the same book we read a bit further: "At 2 o'clock, the tide came in the form of huge waves and a terrible wind. She refloated the trees ... and began to chase them here and there ... All the penalties, our fullest attention, allowed just keep our canoe being crushed by monstrous trunks including many measured nearly 60 meters long and 1 to 2 meters wide ... The logs on which we sleep go awry at every tide. Rain falls throughout the day. We wet our bedding also, and much of our equipment. ... Nothing to eat except fish bludgeoned "

almost apocalyptic vision of this coastal Northwest is not in itself surprising . This side knows it not one of the most violent surf of the world. In winter, storms launch waves against the cliffs above 6 meters high and the resulting shock is comparable to the impact of a car launched against a wall at 150 miles an hour! From Japan, no barrier reef or island groups do not break the shock of the waves pushed by the wind on what is regarded as a longer stretch of ocean in the northern hemisphere.

Nevertheless, this shore, from Astoria to Florence and dunes beyond, to California, is one of the most beautiful and wild West Coast. Ports and small towns along the beach in no way misrepresent the rugged beauty of this region.

Astoria, on the border of the State of Washington, and the end of the epic Lewis and Clark kept moreover, who takes the time to dawdle, somewhat old-fashioned charm with its its steep streets and Victorian facades they say the best after those of San Francisco. Directors like Richard Donner (The Goonies) or Ivan Reitmann (Kindergarten Cop) have seen the benefits they can derive from these key sets-to-door by integrating them into their films (at the point that they often become the most interesting!)

Founded in 1811 by a fur trader named John Astor, Astoria was also the first village worthy of the name of the West Coast of the United States. Its strategic location, since both located at the mouth of the Columbia River and along the ocean-brought him to the heroic reputation of a great trading port. Now inhabited by only about ten thousand souls, the town air somewhat dormant despite the start of some projects for tourism. Anyway, the town is more than ever a crossing point forced the West Coast for that goes to the state of Washington through the famous Astoria Bridge. Crossing the Columbia River, forming an arc of about 7 km, this work of art is also considered one of the most remarkable of the United States.

If continued, twenty miles south, still along the coast, we arrive at the small town of Cannon Beach. The place is certainly a classic local travel agencies but how not to fall in love with this small seaside town, its smart bungalows beachfront and especially its beach strewn with rocks as impressive, among others, the Haystack Rock? A kind of sugarloaf emerging at 70 meters above the waves. By itself, this is an authentic rock mass reservoir of life which frolic joyfully hermit crabs and sea stars, gulls and cormorants, puffins and ducks, harlequins.

Early this morning at low tide, the fog still shrouded the contours of the imposing monument. In retreating, the sea had left puddles all around and a blue light wind waves hemming a surprise scum dazzling. At this early hour, the beach was still deserted, or almost as in the distance, facing the sea, a young woman knelt and prayed. Who knows, maybe it was an incantation to the attention of a wyakin, one of the odd guardian angels that regularly referred the Nez Perce as they felt a threat or were facing a major test . Perhaps, in this case, an impending tsunami?! Anyway, everything here reminds this possibility and a clear signal, even on the beach, clearly indicates that the area may be subject to such phenomenon and it is therefore not expected to borrow this or that road where, if any, the ocean rages.

An ocean which definitely leaves no respite nor the inhabitants of the coast or to the sailors who crossed off. God thank you, they have them valuable allies in their struggle against the elements. They are nicknamed the sentinels of Oregon. These are nine lighthouses, the border with Washington to California illuminate the night and prevent claims pitfalls. These lighthouses, designed and constructed between 1870 and 1896 by U.S. Army engineers are now part of the historical and architectural heritage of the state. All have their own style, their history, their amazing stories. Like Tillamook Rock.

Arnold, fisherman Viking to physical and incidentally owner of the fish of Yachats likes telling that around the lantern of this lighthouse, built on an island basalt about 1 miles off Cannon Beach, we had to put a fence to protect the windows against the rocks thrown into the air by the whim of the waves. Must clarify that the lantern of this lighthouse is located 42 meters above the waves! During a storm in the early twentieth century, we remember that a block of 65 pounds was thrown over 30 meters tall. He fell on the keeper's house and burst in the roof, leaving a hole six meters out. Except for the walls, almost the entire house was destroyed.

Today the lighthouse, rightly nicknamed "Terrible Tilly" is a private property and for that stunning vocation columbarium and receives only occasionally visited by people coming specifically to deposit the ashes of a loved one. One can easily imagine the atmosphere that should prevail on the rock day of the funeral!

Other lighthouses Oregonians have experienced conversions less austere. That of Heceta Head, for example, where the keeper's house has it been transformed into a charming bed and breakfast! The place is also a unique vantage point for that is involved in the observation of seabirds nesting on the many rocks scattered just off the coast. This lighthouse is also visible in the direction North, the large opening cut on the side of the cliff: the entrance to a cave. This is known as one of the largest marine caves in the world. For centuries, wolves and sea lions have made it an inevitable stop on their seasonal migration to Alaska and the Bering Strait. Strange atmosphere that gives off this cathedral whose walls navy amplify and reverberate in the loop howls of marine mammals and that of a raging sea rushing in unrestrained any crevice.

This coast, so often shredded however, offers less relief at times bitter. This is particularly true around the city of Florence. Here we enter a world of sand dunes and impressive. The story of their creation began there more than 50 million years. Upon formation of the Coast Range, glaciers and rivers, wind and rain began to grate youth summits to aggregate them into elements that were once responsible for transporting to the coast. There he remained only to leave work so that the wind sculpts these huge masses of sand dunes and convert them. Now Oregon Dune Park is the largest U.S. and forms of nearly 80 km a wall of sand over 50 meters high. In some places, some dunes can peak at over 150 meters.

It will not be surprised to learn that this show has moved from enthusiasm writer Frank Herbert. In the sixties, while working for a newspaper in the Washington, drafted in Florence sends precisely to make a documentary devoted to the advancement of the dunes and the means put in place to try to stop their progress. Back in Washington, the article, for obscure reasons, never appear, but inspired by what he experienced on this coast, Frank Herbert began writing what would become a masterpiece of absolute work of literature of anticipation. The novel's title? ... .. "Dune", of course!

meantime and until now the problem of the inexorable advance of the dunes in this region of Oregon has remained more than ever at the heart of fiery controversy. Indeed, while early in the twentieth century is thought the solution would be to plant different varieties of grasses of European origin to stabilize sandy masses, it has also gradually realized that these plants, in proliferating almost uncontrollably, irreversibly altered the landscape and habitat Unique. They moreover threatened with extinction some species such as snowy plover, a tiny wading bird about the size of a sparrow - which can only survive in open areas and sandy. Now, local environment and try out different methods to try to eradicate these herbs have become "crazy." This goes hand pulling in more radical technique such as the use of a bulldozer or .... The massive application of herbicides!

Generally reviled by conservationists, ATV enthusiasts and other motorized popular here to race down the dunes have even found a good conscience. Some of them do not they proclaim loudly that their sport has become a favorite to act as ecological significance wherever they go, the grass passes away!

(next episode February 21, 2010)

Does A Camera Flash Damaga A Cats Eye

An article that makes eyes ...

C 'is noting peaks Courrier International I found this little article today, as controversy about the medicinal uses of lead. Despite a reputation as a bit "leaded" by the ravages of lead poisoning, contracted most often in contact with old pipes, lead would seem it, virtues demonstrated by the use of the oldest cosmetics of the world .. . kohl.

The Kohl is known to us, to us, Western women pressed in the form of pencils, dark makeup, a little fatter than the others, which are used to border the eye, and to take a look ember. However, the origin, Kohl seems to have rather served to "appease" evil eye, rather than stoke their fire!


As we stated in this article:

The practice of medicine in ancient Egypt was already under a consolidation push. Evidenced in this papyrus found in 1862 in Luxor. It brings together, in 877 paragraphs, the knowledge already accumulated in the seventeenth and fourteenth centuries before the Christian era. So on ophthalmology: "Other [cure] to remove the exudate-Khent which is in the eye: galena: 1 / 32; juice of balm: 1 / 16, scale: 1 / 16; red ocher [tjerou]: 1 / 64; mineral-sia South: 1 / 64. [This] is ground finely, homogeneous mass prepared and placed in the eye until they heal completely. " The challenge for researchers wishing to verify the effectiveness of these remedies and it inspired - as in ethnopharmacology - is to determine the exact nature of the ingredients cited in the manuscripts. (...)
Review Analytical Chemistry concludes that the lead that entered the composition of kohl, far from threatening the health of Egyptians as suggested by modern toxicology, gave them protection against eye infections. "We left the bottles" , explains Philippe Walter (Centre for Research and Restoration of Museums of France, CNRS), who with his colleagues analyzed residues found in dozens of "make-up kits" Egyptian collections of the Louvre. They show that four compounds containing lead entering the composition of kohl: galena, which ensures the black tones and bright white and three subjects, the cerussite, and phosgenite laurionite. The presence of these two compounds is a surprise, because they do not exist in nature. Roman authors such as Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD) or the Greek Dioscorides (40-90 AD) that they were intentionally synthesized for their medicinal properties. "Some crush a pound of salt with an equal amount of silver foam (oxide of lead or litharge), under the sun, with water until it settled become white " even specifies it in its De Materia Medica . Operating Time: forty days ...


From North Africa to the borders of Asia, each country has its "own" recipe Kohl. In India, Khajal , Kohl's cousin, for several centuries of living together with the refinement of the Mughal and Muslim culture, has an interesting twist, unique to prégnant influence of Hinduism and Brahmanical culture. Whose basic ingredient, culinary, medicinal, but as sacred, is ghee, or clarified butter. The
Kajal , India, is made from ghee oxidizer. In most cases, women used the rest of the wick oil lamps (whose fuel is ghee) to make their Kajal. It used them to both men, for women as for children, whose eyes often prone to mood, could attract insects, and become the starting point for more serious conditions. The richest store in small silver boxes, and applied it with a small gold pin end ...
pharmaceutical or cosmetic industry, inspired by the Ayurvedic tradition, offers small pallets Kajal based ghee, and medicinal plants. Economical (no more than 10 rupees per jar), the mixture will keep for a long time, and provides highly effective protection in the Contaminated Sites ... Keep an eye!

To make yourself your Kajal

Coat a piece of string, or, preferably, a piece of cotton thread or DMC, clarified butter. In a small container with a capacity of up to 5 ml, manufactured as a small lamp, which is poured the equivalent of 2 teaspoons of ghee liquiéfié, and when it leaves the bit to build on one of the edges and slowly make its combustion.On can associate it with a little powdered rose, or sandalwood.
Apply Kajal then using a blender, a fine cotton swab, or even the finger. You'll notice a little unusual effect by applying it as ghee, refreshing nature, strengthens the eyes, and relaxes the eye ...
Normally, ghee can be stored for months and months. But our standards of hygiene we will prefer a short shelf: a week to 15 days after manufacture.

You can also find Kajal in some Indian stores (for Paris) or in some food stores, with the brand Lakshmi (more expensive, but good quality). These products, usually without preservatives or chemical additives, are good alternatives for sensitive eyes and for all those who suffer from various allergies manifested by irritation of the eyes.



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February 8, 2010 Photo credit, Dr. K. Graham flick