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AMAZING HEALTH  FOR  EATING WATERMELON

1. It soothes sore muscles.

Drinking watermelon juice before a hard workout helped reduce athletes' heart rate and next-day muscle soreness. That's because watermelon is rich in an amino acid called L-citrulline, which the body converts to L-arginine, an essential amino acid that helps relax blood vessels and improve circulation.

2. It helps heart health.

Postmenopausal women experienced improved cardiovascular health after six weeks of taking commercially available watermelon extract supplements containing citrulline and arginine, according to a study published earlier this year by Florida State University physiologist Arturo Figueroa.

3. It could be a natural Viagra.

Improved circulation can benefit more than just the heart, as at least one watermelon researcher has pointed out. But you'd probably have to eat an awful lot to achieve the desired effect--and eating too much could cause unfortunate side effects, since watermelon has long had a reputation as a natural diuretic.

4. It's rich in vitamins and minerals, but low in calories.

Given its name, you might assume the fruit has little nutritional value and it is more than 90 percent water. But a 10-ounce (300-mL) wedge of watermelon packs in about one-third of the recommended daily value of vitamins A and C, as well as a modest amount of potassium (9 percent of the daily value).

5. It could even combat cancer.

Watermelon is among the best dietary sources of lycopene, an antioxidant linked to both the prevention and treatment of prostate cancer, although scientists are still investigating the details of that connection.

.......................MARIKI HEAVENLIGHT

How to Set Your Priorities Straight & Live a Life You Love

1. Take a break. Think about your life. What is really important to you?

How would you like to live your life?

Would you like to be healthy and vital? Write it down.

Would you like to have more fun with your family and feel the love? Write it down.

Write down the things that are truly important to you, the things that ten years from now will make you proud.

Now is not the time to worry whether what you are writing down is feasible or not. Just write down the things that are important.

And keep in mind that if you write down ten things or more, then you are probably mixing the urgent with the important. The important cannot be more than three to five things.

2. Think about the things you are doing every day. Write them down.

For example, wake up, eat breakfast, go to work…

Highlight the tasks that you do daily that are in line with your priorities.

For example, if you walk to the bus stop, then this step helps your health (which you mentioned in step one as important). Highlight it.

Did that?

The highlighted stuff is the important stuff that you do every day. Everything else is urgent.

3. Cut down on the urgent stuff. Or, else, clear out the clutter.

Some “urgent” activities will just need to go. Maybe you can wait until later after all to check your picture on Face book.

Some “urgent” activities will need to be delegated. Your assistant, if you have one, could actually pay that bill. Or, you could set up auto-pay with your bank, so that the system does it for you.

Some others will be better organized. You could actually make a batch of lunches every Sunday and Wednesday. This way you only have to go through this process twice, instead of five times a week.

Wonderful! Now there is some space opening up in your life!

4. Run a test week.

Now that your schedule is more open, it’s time to experience the freedom of it. Try your new life for one week. See how it works out.

Maybe you will notice that you should not have delegated some stuff, but some other stuff could actually be deleted from your life.

Try this for a week to see in practice what works for you, and then make appropriate changes.

It might take you a couple of weeks to clear the clutter from your life, testing what activities should go, stay, be delegated, or better organized, but it’s worth it!

5. Put in your life more of the important stuff.

Now that you are firmer in what goes and what stays, it’s time to start putting the important stuff in.

Go back to step one. What is it that you want? Health? Love?

Put in your schedule activities that match your priorities.

You don’t have to go over-the-top with this. For example, if you feel you still don’t have enough time to go to the gym for an hour, then don’t put that in your schedule.
Put in what you think is absolutely feasible, no matter how small or imperfect it seems.
The fact that you think you should be working out for five hours a week does not mean that you have to start doing this on Monday.
A more feasible, sustainable way is to start by doing something that is in the vicinity of where you are but in the direction of where you want to go.
For example, if twenty to thirty minutes of daily exercise is your plan to better health, but you are currently at point zero, then start with five minutes.
Five minutes is close to where you are (zero minutes) and in the direction of your dream (twenty to thirty minutes a day).
…….Done by Faith Gabriella.

THINK BIG

                             THINK BIG

Taking a look at the universe, I saw the beauty of the divine, arrangements of creations and I wondered how immense and provident this sovereign God of ours. Nevertheless, all human beings created in the image and likeness of this so good God ought to live lives of gratitude to him and as well be stewards of creation instead of its destroyers. If God created in love, why do we hate? How many people have you helped to live a fulfilled life in God and how many have you deceived and put it into a state of misery? Therefore, we are bound to be good examples and not bad ones for the offspring of a lamb should be like its mother and not like a donkey. We are offspring’s of God and we should be like him nothing more, nothing less…LETS GOD BE OUR WAY.

 ...................................MARIKI   HEAVENLIGHT

21 people killed in Tanzania road crash

21 people killed in Tanzania road crash
Zee News
Dar es Salaam: As many as 21 people were killed and nine seriously injured during an accident in a village in Tanzania Saturday night, police reported. The crash occurred in the village of Mkupuka in the coastal region when a mini-bus rammed into a lorry ...Observe the law, envoy tells Chinese nationals in TanzaniaIPPmedia.

…….By Faith Gabriella.

HOW TO LIVE PEACE LIFE

HOW TO LIVE PEACE AND A SIMPLE LIFE

In our daily lives, we often rush through tasks, trying to get them done, trying to finish as much as we can each day, speeding along in our cars to our next destination, rushing to do what we need to do there, and then leaving so that we can speed to our next destination.

Unfortunately, it’s often not until we approach our final destination that we realize what madness this all is. At the end of the day, we’re often exhausted and stressed out from the grind and the chaos and the business of the day. We don’t have time for what’s important to us, for what we really want to be doing, for spending time with loved ones, for doing things we’re passionate about.

It doesn’t have to be that way. It’s possible to live a simpler life, one where you enjoy each activity, where you are present in everything (or most things) you do, where you are content rather than rushing to finish things. If this appeals to you, here are some suggestions for living a simple, peaceful, content life.
......................................................MARIKI    HEAVENLIGHT.