Facts about health living

• VEGETABLES AND HEALTH LIVING
  1. Eating a diet rich in vegetables and fruits as part of an overall healthy diet may reduce
     
     risk for heart disease, including heart attack and stroke.
  2. Eating a diet rich in some vegetables and fruits as part of an overall healthy diet may protect against certain types of cancers.
  3. Diets rich in foods containing fiber, such as some vegetables and fruits, may reduce the risk of heart disease, obesity, and type 2 diabetes.
  4. Eating vegetables and fruits rich in potassium as part of an overall healthy diet may lower blood pressure, and may also reduce the risk of developing kidney stones and help to decrease bone loss.
  5. Eating foods such as vegetables that are lower in calories per cup instead of some other higher-calorie food may be useful in helping to lower calorie intake.

• AMAZING

  1. Most vegetables are naturally low in fat and calories. None have cholesterol. (Sauces or
     
     seasonings may add fat, calories, or cholesterol.)
  2. Vegetables are important sources of many nutrients, including potassium, dietary fiber, folate (folic acid), vitamin A, and vitamin C.
  3. Diets rich in potassium may help to maintain healthy blood pressure. Vegetable sources of potassium include sweet potatoes, white potatoes, white beans, tomato products (paste, sauce, and juice), beet greens, soybeans, lima beans, spinach, lentils, and kidney beans.
  4. Dietary fiber from vegetables, as part of an overall healthy diet, helps reduce blood cholesterol levels and may lower risk of heart disease. Fiber is important for proper bowel function. It helps reduce constipation and diverticulosis. Fiber-containing foods such as vegetables help provide a feeling of fullness with fewer calories.
  5. Folate (folic acid) helps the body form red blood cells. Women of childbearing age who may become pregnant should consume adequate folate from foods, and in addition 400 mcg of synthetic folic acid from fortified foods or supplements. This reduces the risk of neural tube defects, spina bifida, and anencephaly during fetal development.
  6. Vitamin A keeps eyes and skin healthy and helps to protect against infections.
  7. Vitamin C helps heal cuts and wounds and keeps teeth and gums healthy. Vitamin C aids in iron absorption.

20 Amazing Facts about human beings

1.  People with higher number of moles tend to live longer than people with lesser number of moles.
2. When filming summer scenes in winter, actors suck on ice cubes just before the camera rolls - it cools their mouths so their breath doesn’t condense in the cold air. 
3. Thinking about your muscles can make you stronger.
4. Grapefruit scent will make middle aged women appear six years younger to men. The perception is not reciprocal and the grapefruit scent on men has no effect on women’s perception.
5. The world’s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
6. The colder the room you sleep in, the better the chances are that you’ll have a bad dream.
7. There are more people alive today than have ever died.
8. Women’s hair is about half the diameter of men’s hair.
9.  Women blink twice as many times as men do.
10. The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.
11. Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.
12. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
13. The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet!
14. The brain operates on the same amount of power as 10-watt light bulb. The cartoon image of a light bulb over your head when a great thought occurs isn’t too far off the mark. Your brain generates as much energy as a small light bulb even when you’re sleeping.
15. The brain is much more active at night than during the day.
16. The brain itself cannot feel pain. While the brain might be the pain center when you cut your finger or burn yourself, the brain itself does not have pain receptors and cannot feel pain.
17. The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger. And the nail on the middle finger of your dominant hand will grow the fastest of all. Why is not entirely known, but nail growth is related to the length of the finger, with the longest fingers growing nails the fastest and shortest the slowest.
18. The lifespan of a human hair is 3 to 7 years on average.
19. Human hair is virtually indestructible. Aside from it’s flammability, human hair decays at such a slow rate that it is practically non-disintegrative. Hair cannot be destroyed by cold, change of climate, water, or other natural forces and it is resistant to many kinds of acids and corrosive chemicals.
20. The acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve razorblades. Hydrochloric acid, the type found in your stomach, is not only good at dissolving the pizza you had for dinner but can also eat through many types of metal.

A story you must read

Lance Armstrong

Diagnosed with advanced testicular cancer at the age of 25, doctors gave Lance Armstrong less than a 40 percent chance of recovery. Tumors were discovered in his lungs and stomach along with multiple lesions on the brain.
His biking career was over or so everyone thought; but no one counted on the indomitable belief Armstrong had in himself and the lessons which his mother, Linda Walling had taught him.
One of the first things that he did was to acknowledge the disease that had captured him in its talons and learn everything he could about it. He devoured books, resources and found help in support groups with people going through similar difficulties.
Lance sought strength in three things his mother had instilled in him

Look up

Your past only takes you nowhere, your present is what defines your tomorrow. Don`t let your past guilt ruin your future, Arise, watch out and gain the confidence to command your tomorrow. We have been given much authority and its our mandate to use it wisely. Believe you can do the impossible and arise to any challenge. You are a hero and you are not worth any defeat.
You will get discouraged yes, but each day comes along with its special blessings. Yours is to be in the best position so as to be in a capacity of taping them. whenever you feel discouraged, here you got something to read and feel renewed. Use what you have to gain what you don`t have. Am sure that reading these quotes will give you a new and different direction in your life.
Best encouraging quotes
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
-Richard Bach
If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you.
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose,
for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.
-Mary Pickford
It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done
or how many people have tried it before;
it's important to realize that whatever you're doing,
it's your first attempt at it.
-Wally Amos
If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces,
never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.
-Flavia Weedn
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end
may also be only the beginning.
-Ivy Baker Priest
Experience is not what happens to you;
it is what you do with what happens to you.
-Aldous Huxley
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.
Live the life you have imagined.
-Henry David Thoreau
And this too, shall pass away.
-unknown
When you feel like giving up,
remember why you held on for so long in the first place.
-unknown
Instead of giving myself reasons why I can't,
I give myself reasons why I can.
-unknown
When one door closes another door opens;
but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door,
that we do not see the ones which open for us.
-Alexander Graham Bell
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity
loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
-William James
Risk more than others think is safe.
Care more than others think is wise.
Dream more than others think is practical.
Expect more than others think is possible.
-Claude Bissell
Never let the odds keep you from doing
what you know in your heart you were meant to do.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
A diamond is merely a lump of coal that did well under pressure.
-unknown
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-Benjamin Spock
Adversity is like a strong wind.
It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn,
so that we see ourselves as we really are.
-Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
When written in Chinese the word "crisis" is composed of two characters
one represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
-John F. Kennedy
It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief,
as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
-Cicero
Am sure you gonna be motivated by reading the above quotes

THE PATH TO LIFE

"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life." - John 3:16

What does this mean?

You’re Choice

God gave you life and freewill.

You are here to make a choice.

Do you choose love and accept God, or do you choose to reject Him?

Do you accept Gods will for your life, or do you reject it?

Are you willing to turn away from the evil in this world, in exchange for a relationship with your Creator?

I am calling you to Repent!

When you can answer ‘YES!’, and Repent in your heart, there is great news for you.

But first we must understand the problem.

You’re Problem:

Look at your world, something is terribly wrong.

Most choose to reject God and His will.

Most have rejected a relationship with Him, and the effects are devastating.

 Sin is in conflict with your perfect, loving and just Creator.  

Sin prevents your relationship with Him

Sin has a cost. Sin causes pain.

We are sinners, each of us. You are a Sinner.

The unfortunate result of sin is death.

A Spiritual death!  

An eternal existence in which you are separated from Him,

bearing the consequence for the pain and suffering your sin has caused.

You’re Great News

 

God has prepared a way for you who repent.

 He has prepared a way for you that reject evil, and love Him.

God made possible your salvation through His great sacrifice.  

He came to rescue you.
Our Mighty, Eternal and Loving God of all creation, came off His throne and became like you.

He humbled himself to become flesh and blood.

Emanuel means - God with us. Jesus means - God saves us.
God (Jesus) went to the cross, perfect and sinless.  

On that cross, He experienced not only physical, but spiritual death.  

Jesus bears the pain and suffering caused by your sin.

 He pays the just price for your sin.  This cleanses you.

He gives you His Holy Spirit, and with it a new and everlasting life.

This is the sacrifice God makes for you that repent.

 

If you want to know Christ, repent and The Father will reveal Him to You

"What is salvation? What is the Christian doctrine of salvation?"

Salvation is deliverance from danger or suffering. To save is to deliver or protect. The word carries the idea of victory, health, or preservation. Sometimes, the Bible uses the words saved or salvation to refer to temporal, physical deliverance, such as Paul’s deliverance from prison (Philippians 1:19).

More often, the word “salvation” concerns an eternal, spiritual deliverance. When Paul told the Philippian jailer what he must do to be saved, he was referring to the jailer’s eternal destiny (Acts 16:30-31). Jesus equated being saved with entering the kingdom of God (Matthew 19:24-25).

What are we saved from? In the Christian doctrine of salvation, we are saved from “wrath,” that is, from God’s judgment of sin (Romans 5:9; 1 Thessalonians 5:9). Our sin has separated us from God, and the consequence of sin is death (Romans 6:23). Biblical salvation refers to our deliverance from the consequence of sin and therefore involves the removal of sin.

Who does the saving? Only God can remove sin and deliver us from sin’s penalty (2 Timothy 1:9; Titus 3:5).

How does God save? In the Christian doctrine of salvation, God has rescued us through Christ (John 3:17). Specifically, it was Jesus’ death on the cross and subsequent resurrection that achieved our salvation (Romans 5:10; Ephesians 1:7). Scripture is clear that salvation is the gracious, undeserved gift of God (Ephesians 2:5, 8) and is only available through faith in Jesus Christ (Acts 4:12).

How do we receive salvation? We are saved by faith. First, we must hear the gospel—the good news of Jesus’ death and resurrection (Ephesians 1:13). Then, we must believe—fully trust the Lord Jesus (Romans 1:16). This involves repentance, a changing of mind about sin and Christ (Acts 3:19), and calling on the name of the Lord (Romans 10:9-10, 13).

A definition of the Christian doctrine of salvation would be “The deliverance, by the grace of God, from eternal punishment for sin which is granted to those who accept by faith God’s conditions of repentance and faith in the Lord Jesus.” Salvation is available in Jesus alone (John 14:6; Acts 4:12) and is dependent on God alone for provision, assurance, and security.

It's your time

It all starts with one's decision buh the calling we received all. What makes the difference is our reaction in response to that call, Christ died for our sins and we have got no excuse about that. John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that He gave His only son, that whomsoever believeth in Him shall not perish but have eternal life" this verse may be too obvious to most of us but i challenge you to analyse it verse by verse and experience the power it posses. God is gracious and His mercies are new every morning. Lamentation 3:22-23 Because of God's great love, we are not consumed, for His compassion never fails. I say to myself, The Lord is my portion, therefore i will wait for Him. Making that decision to live for Christ is now, this might be the only chance you got. Know Jesus know peace! No Jesus, No peace! God loves you, great is His faithfulnes! Shallom

It's your time

It all starts with one's decision buh the calling we received all. What makes the difference is our reaction in response to that call, Christ died for our sins and we have got no excuse about that. John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that He gave His only son, that whomsoever believeth in Him shall not perish but have eternal life" this verse may be too obvious to most of us but i challenge you to analyse it verse by verse and experience the power it posses. God is gracious and His mercies are new every morning. Lamentation 3:22-23 Because of God's great love, we are not consumed, for His compassion never fails. I say to myself, The Lord is my portion, therefore i will wait for Him. Making that decision to live for Christ is now, this might be the only chance you got. Know Jesus know peace! No Jesus, No peace! God loves you, great is His faithfulnes! Shallom

Set Apart

We all have got different strengths and talents but we are a family, strong together and i assure you you can feel the love even when distance separates you. these young men and women are enthusiastic and zealous for Christ, you might think we are crazy but testifying what Christ has done to us we are not ashamed. Christ is our everything.

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I asked God for strength, that I might achieve.

I was made weak, that I might learn humbly to obey . . .

I asked for health, that I might do greater things.

I was given infirmity, that I might do better things ...

I asked for riches, that I might be happy.

I was given poverty, that I might be wise ...

I asked for power, that I might have the praise of men.

I was given weakness, that I might feel the need of God .. .

I asked for all things, that I might enjoy life.

I was given life, that I might enjoy all things ...

I got nothing I asked for--but everything I had hoped for.

Almost despite myself, my unspoken prayers were answered.

I, among all men, am most richly blessed!

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Who is JAZ

JAZ is an acronym for Jesus my A to Z. It is a contemporary youth Christian ministry that professes the lordship of Jesus Christ and emulating the person of Jesus Christ in all areas of life.

We, the members of JAZ acknowledge the supremacy of the Holy Trinity (God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit), we are committed to the study, practice and teaching of the Word of God, believe in the fellowship of believers, determined to promote kingdom values in accordance to the Word of God.