Today’s mind sharpening anagram is a two or three word phrase. Can you unscramble the anagram to discover the two or three word phrase? It’s time to exercise your brain!
Today’s Anagram:
Month: April 2024
Today’s Inspirational Quote: Never Give Up!
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. ~ Marilyn vos Savant
in the rain ~ A Poem by e. e. cummings
in the rain
e. e. cummings
In the rain-darkness,
the sunset
being sheathed i sit
and think of you the holy
city which is your face
your little cheeks the streets
of smiles
your eyes half-
thrush
half-angel and your drowsy
lips where float flowers of kiss
and
there is the sweet shy pirouette
your hair
and then
your dance song
soul rarely-beloved
a single star is
uttered, and i
think
of you
Get Healthy: Fact or Myth – Are Eggs a Healthy Food?
I asked the AI program Consensus what is true and what is myth about eating whole eggs?
The debate surrounding the consumption of whole eggs involves various aspects of health, including cardiovascular health, cholesterol levels, and the risk of chronic diseases. Here’s a summary of what the research suggests, differentiating between the truths and myths associated with eating whole eggs:
Health Effects of Eating Whole Eggs:
- Eggs and Metabolic Syndrome: Eggs contain bioactive compounds that may exhibit immunomodulatory, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, anticancer, or antihypertensive effects. Consumption may protect against metabolic syndrome by increasing HDL-C levels and reducing inflammation, despite concerns about cholesterol content leading to cardiovascular diseases (Sanli̇er & Üstün, 2021).
- Cardiovascular Diseases and Type 2 Diabetes: High-quality intervention studies found no significant effects of increasing egg consumption on risk markers for cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and type 2 diabetes (T2D) in healthy subjects and those with T2D. The risk associations found in observational studies are likely attributed to a dietary pattern often accompanying high egg intake rather than the egg consumption itself (Geiker et al., 2018).
- Overall Nutritious Food: Recent evidence from randomized controlled trials (RCT) and meta-analyses suggests that eggs are a nutritious food and include them in the diet does not have adverse effects on cardiovascular risk factors, even at intakes higher than currently consumed by European populations (Myers & Ruxton, 2023).
- Egg Consumption and CVD Risk in Diabetics: There’s no unanimous agreement on the impact of egg consumption on people with preexisting cardiovascular conditions or diabetes mellitus (T2DM), with studies showing mixed results. Moderate consumption (1 egg/day) might not be associated with adverse cardiovascular effects in subjects free of CVD or T2DM (Chrysant & Chrysant, 2020).
Conclusion:
Eating whole eggs appears to have several health benefits, including potential protective effects against metabolic syndrome and no significant impact on the risk markers for CVD and T2D in both healthy individuals and those with T2D, when consumed as part of a balanced diet. However, the relationship between egg consumption and health is complex, affected by overall dietary patterns and individual health conditions. The evidence suggests that moderate egg consumption can be part of a healthy diet, debunking myths that eggs are universally harmful due to their cholesterol content.
Today’s Joke: Joe’s Blind Girlfriend Gives Him a Message
Joe: “My blind girlfriend told me she is seeing someone.”
Pete: “What did you say?”
Joe: “I said, ‘That’s either really bad news or really great news.”
Today’s Thought: Stronger Than You Realize
You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice. ~ Bob Marley
NOTE: The real test of human strength isn’t in how much weight one can lift over one’s head. Our strength is measured when we’re faced with a choice to either stand up and do what’s right, no matter the personal cost, or to slink away and hope no one notices. History is replete with people who faced these types of choices and took a stand. Some became martyrs. Some saints. Some heroes. History doesn’t mention ordinary people like the man or woman who works two jobs to feed his or her family. It doesn’t mention the man or woman who takes their parenting role seriously. It doesn’t mention the stranger who stops on the highway to help a person injured in an accident. We are stronger than we realize and we are using our strength in ordinary ways to make a difference.
It’s Time to Exercise Your Brain – Take the Anagram Challenge
Today’s mind sharpening anagram is a two or three word phrase. Can you unscramble the anagram to discover the two or three word phrase? It’s time to exercise your brain!
Today’s Anagram:
Today’s Inspirational Quote: It Takes Heart
There’s no magic to running far or climbing Everest. Endurance is mental strength. It’s all about heart. ~ Bear Grylls
The Quality of Mercy ~ A Poem by William Shakespeare
The Quality of Mercy
William Shakespeare
The quality of mercy is not strain’d.
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:
It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes.
‘Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown.
His scepter shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute to awe and majesty,
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;
But mercy is above this sceptered sway;
It is enthroned in the heart of kings;
It is an attribute to God himself;
And earthly power doth then show likest God’s
When mercy seasons justice.
Today’s Inspirational Quote: A Fool’s Day
April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four. ~ Mark Twain
