“My advice to young writers would be to write every day, even if it is only a few words. Get yourself on the habit of writing and it will become a lifelong one. “
~ Casandra Clare
Month: July 2021
🍎 Today’s Health Question ~ Does Vitamin D Support Your Immune System?
Not Getting Enough Sunshine? You May Want to Supplement Vitamin D
Research shows that vitamin D plays an important role in immune function, and a deficiency in it is shown to increase your susceptibility to infection. “Some studies have shown that vitamin D deficiency is even associated with greater risk of self-reported upper respiratory tract infections.”. Further, “low serum levels of calcidiol [a form of vitamin D] are also associated with higher susceptibility to infections like tuberculosis, influenza, and viral infections of the upper respiratory tract. . . . vitamin D is especially crucial for maintaining a functioning immune system that’s capable of fighting back foreign pathogens.”.
💡 Something to Think About
Take a chair and sit in the center of a room. At best, you’ll see half the room. One-half of the room will remain out of sight. This imagery is applicable to the way we look at the world. We have a partial picture. We need to listen to others to complete our picture. It’s hard work, but in the end it is worth it.
🍎 Today’s Health Question ~ Are Fat Free Foods Lower in Calories?
Watch What You’re Eating When You Eat Fat Free Foods
Remember that a calorie is always a calorie whether it comes from fat or carbohydrate. . . . Fat-free or reduced-fat food choices aren’t always low in calories. They can be high in sugar or other nutrients that increase calories. Some reduced-fat or fat-free foods provide almost the same number of calories as the regular food. They are not the solution to weight loss. This is especially true if you think you can eat more of a reduced-fat food than you would eat of a regular item. For example:
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A 30-gram serving of reduced-fat chocolate chip cookies (three cookies) contains 118 calories, while an equal serving of the regular version has 142 calories.
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A one-ounce serving of baked tortilla chips has 113 calories, versus 143 calories for the same amount of regular tortilla chips.
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Writing Advice from Stephen King
“Say what you mean. Say what you see. Make a photograph, if you can, for the reader.”
🌞 Today’s Inspiration ~ Do Something, Make a Decision, Take a Chance
Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door.
Today’s Smile 😃
Joe: “My girlfriend got a tattoo of a chameleon.”
Pete: “What’s it look like?’
Joe: “That’s just it, I can’t see it.”
🤗 A Better Life ~ Don’t Hesitate
Be ready for your next opportunity. Work hard, prepare, and when the opportunity train stops, don’t hesitate, jump aboard.
👊 Today’s Power Thought ~ Keep Digging, You’ll Find It
Each day brings ups and downs, within each down is an opportunity. Discover it, make something out of it and you’ll shine, shine bright.
🌾 Today’s Poem ~ God is Always Ready
God is Always Ready
Meister Eckhart
God is always ready,
but we are very unready;
God is near to us,
but we are far from Him;
God is within, but we are without;
God is at home, but we are strangers.
