Education

Coconuts Are Amazing

I have done a great deal of research on the topic of COCONUTS

and have come to the conclusion that

Coconuts Are Amazing!

The two basic items necessary to sustain life are sunshine and coconut milk.

Dustin Hoffman 

The coconut palm (also, cocoanut), Cocos nucifera, is a member of the family Arecaceae (palm family). It is the only accepted species in the genusCocos.^[2] The term coconut can refer to the entire coconut palm, the seed, or the fruit, which, botanically, is a drupe, not a nut. The spellingcocoanut is an archaic form of the word.^[3] The term is derived from 16th century Portuguese and Spanish coco, meaning “head” or “skull”,^[4] from the three small holes on the coconut shell that resemble human facial features. ~ wikipedia

The Coconut Tree has been commonly referred to not only as the“Tree of Life”, but also as the “Jewel of the Tropics”; “the King of Trees”; “Tree of Abundance”; “Tree of Heaven” and the“Signature Tree of The Tropics”. In Sanskrit, coconuts are called“Kalpa Vriksha”, which means: “the tree that gives all that is necessary for living”.

Potential impact on human health of this amazing natural coconut elixir:

“The recent discovery of other medicinal values of coconut water signifies a good potential in improving human health. Better insights and understanding of the functions and properties of the individual components of coconut water will, therefore, help us to better utilize this marvelous and multidimensional liquid with special biological properties from nature.” Jean Yong

Best “Sports Drink”

Along with plain water, coconut water is one of the best and safest option to rehydrate yourself after a strenuous workout. If you need the electrolytes, it will provide them. If you don’t need them, then it certainly won’t hurt you. And as you’re learning, coconut water has a mountain of other health benefits in addition to rehydration, which no commercial sports drink in the world can provide.

Quotes about the Amazing Coconut:

“He who plants a coconut tree plants food and drink, vessels and clothing, a home for himself and a heritage for his children”

- South Seas saying

“One of these nuts is a meal for a man, both meat and drink”

- Marco Polo

My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father’s head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.
Alice Walker 

I’m just taking care of myself: Eating less, exercising more, drinking a lot of coconut water.
Jennie Garth 

I drink a lot of coconut water. It balances out all the other toxic stuff I put into my body.

Rihanna 

The Scientific 7-Minute Workout

Exercise science is a fine and intellectually fascinating thing. But sometimes you just want someone to lay out guidelines for how to put the newest fitness research into practice.

The Scientific 7-Minute Workout may be just what the doctor ordered!

Perform each exercise for 30 seconds ~ very intense.

Rest 10 seconds!

An article in the May-June issue of the American College of Sports Medicine’s Health & Fitness Journal does just that. In 12 exercises deploying only body weight, a chair and a wall, it fulfills the latest mandates for high-intensity effort, which essentially combines a long run and a visit to the weight room into about seven minutes of steady discomfort — all of it based on science.

“There’s very good evidence” that high-intensity interval training provides “many of the fitness benefits of prolonged endurance training but in much less time,” says Chris Jordan, the director of exercise physiology at the Human Performance Institute in Orlando, Fla., and co-author of the new article.

Work by scientists at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, and other institutions shows, for instance, that even a few minutes of training at an intensity approaching your maximum capacity produces molecular changes within muscles comparable to those of several hours of running or bike riding.

Interval training, though, requires intervals; the extremely intense activity must be intermingled with brief periods of recovery. In the program outlined by Mr. Jordan and his colleagues, this recovery is provided in part by a 10-second rest between exercises. But even more, he says, it’s accomplished by alternating an exercise that emphasizes the large muscles in the upper body with those in the lower body. During the intermezzo, the unexercised muscles have a moment to, metaphorically, catch their breath, which makes the order of the exercises important.

The exercises should be performed in rapid succession, allowing 30 seconds for each, while, throughout, the intensity hovers at about an 8 on a discomfort scale of 1 to 10, Mr. Jordan says. Those seven minutes should be, in a word, unpleasant. The upside is, after seven minutes, you’re done.

It’s the tortoise life for me!

Just a Little Heart Attack

 There’s a lot of talk about inequality between men and women, but one area in particular where women are leading in record numbers: heart disease. It’s the No. 1 killer of women and is more deadly than all forms of cancer.

For more information about Go Red For Women and Heart Disease check out:

http://www.goredforwomen.org/home/about-heart-disease-in-women/

What are the Most Asked Questions in the World?

Have you ever wondered what the most asked questions are?

Besides what to get your Mother for Mother’s Day?

1. What is the meaning of life?

2. Is there a God?

3. Will I get laid tonight?

4. Why is there suffering and death?

5. Is there life on other planets?

6. Which are better, dogs or cats?

7. How can I lose weight and keep it off?

8. Do I really have a soul Mate?

9. When will the world end?

10. Why do men lose their hair?

Answers to follow when I get them!!!

Bonus:

One of the most asked and difficult question to answer…

Why are women so difficult to understand??

Happy Big Wind Day April 12

Why do we have a BIG WIND DAY?

Bet you didn’t know there was a WIND DAY?

The answer is blowing in the wind… or Gone with the wind…

On April 12th, 1934, surveyors at the observatory on Mt. Washington in New Hampshire, recorded the highest velocity natural wind ever measured on Earth. The “big wind”, which reached 231 miles per hour. This date is commemorated each year as BIG WIND DAy.

Today, a team of individuals live in the observatory at the 6,000-ft. summit and monotor the weather 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Summit Volunteer

Spend a Wednesday to Wednesday shift on the Summit of Mount Washington mainly cooking and cleaning as well as helping the crew with daily chores, research work, or other special projects. Experience the “world’s worst weather” first hand and for free!

Learn more at: http://www.mountwashington.org/about/volunteer/

The wind is like the air, only pushier.

Look what the wind blew in….

Quotes About the Wind

“Madame, bear in mind that princes govern all things–save the wind.”

Victor Hugo

“A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.” ~ Lewis Mumford

I hear the howl of the wind that brings
The long drear storm on its heavy wings.

William Cullen Bryant

“I’ve learned that everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but that all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.”
~Andy Rooney

“A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.” ~ Catherine the Great

“Faeries, come take me out of this dull world, 
For I would ride with you upon the wind, 
Run on the top of the dishevelled tide, 
And dance upon the mountains like a flame.” ~ W. B. Yeats, The Land of Heart’s Desire

“-She is like the wind, open and free. If I cage the wind, would it die? 
-Then don’t cage it, Mikhail. Trust it to stay beside you.” ~  Christine Feehan, Dark Prince

“A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.” ~ Jean Genet

“A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.” ~ Anne Bronte

“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” ~ Jimmy Dean

Farmer Brown: “Did you lose much in that last tornado?”

Farmer Jones: “Lost the henhouse and all the chickens. But that’s OK ’cause I ended up with three new cows and a pick-up truck.”

Happy 79th Big Wind Day

Stephen Hawking Inspirational Quotes

NATIONAL ANTHEMS, LYRICS AND FLAGS FROM AROUND THE WORLD

FOR A LIST OF NATIONAL ANTHEMS, LYRICS AND FLAGS

FROM AROUND THE WORLD

CHECK OUT ANTHEMWORLD

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AnthemWorld.com has one of the best collections of Anthems on the Internet. You can quickly find Anthems and National Anthem lyrics and can easily download free National Anthem mp3 files.

Browse their library of anthems from around the world.

Choose a continent or select from the alphabetical listings below:

Smart one!

When is Earth Day 2013?

Earth Day 2013 is Monday April 22

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Earth Day 2013: For Earth Day 2013, we’ll tell the world the stories of people, animals and places affected by climate change – and of those stepping up to do something about it.

More information at:

http://www.earthday.org/

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