Saturday, December 22, 2007

مأرب برس ... بالنبأ اليقين نضع الواقع بين يديك - «آية قرانية» حولت قساً أميركياً من النصرانية إلى الإسلام

«آية قرانية» حولت قساً أميركياً من النصرانية إلى الإسلام

الجمعة 21 ديسمبر-كانون الأول 2007 / مأرب برس
 

«ذلك الكتاب لا ريب فيه هدى للمتقين».. كانت تلك الآية الموجودة في أول سورة البقرة نقطة التحول في حياة القسيس الأميركي «علي قواتيمالا» من الديانة النصرانية إلى دين الإسلام وتغيير حياته بشكل أقرب ما يكون إلى الخيال.

قصة يمكن ان تكون ضربا من المستحيلات بأن تتحول من اقصى اليسار الى اقصى اليمين إثر كلمات تقع في قلبك موقع تأثير وتدفع بك الى الجهة الاخرى في وقت قد لا تتوقعه أنت.

يقول علي قواتيمالا الذي يؤدي اولى فريضة حج له خلال تواجده امس في منى «كنت قسيساً في مدينة كوين جنوب الولايات المتحدة الأميركية، وعملت على نشر، وتعليم التنصير داخل سجون تلك المدينة، مع بذل الجهد والمشقة في تنصيرهم، كوني كنت طالباً في المرحلة الأخيرة في مدرسة القسيس وهي المدرسة المعنية بتخريج القساوسة».

ويضيف علي قواتيمالا لـ«الشرق الأوسط» الذي كان اسمه سيفريدوو رويس، قبل تخرجي في المرحلة الأخيرة من المدرسة المسيحية، يتطلب منا الإطلاع على الكتب السماوية، ليكون القسيس ملماً بجميع الديانات السماوية، ومن بين تلك الكتب القرآن الكريم الذي كان نقطة تحولي إلى الإسلام، حيث فتحت أولى صفحاته، ليسقط نظري على أول سورة البقرة «ذلك الكتاب لا ريب فيه هدى للمتقين»، تنبهت إلى تلك الآية التي لم تكن تقبل التفاوض أو المزايدة لأن المتعارف عليه عند بداية أي كتاب يبدأ مؤلفه بالاعتذار في حصول التقصير أو محاولة أن تتقبل ما كتب من عبارات، إلا أن ما شدني في تلك الآية هو أنني أمام حقيقة لا تقبل الشك أو الريبة بقوله: «ذلك الكتاب لا ريب فيه».

وتابع «بدأت في قراءة القرآن إلى أن وصلت إلى معلومات تناقض ما هو موجود في ديني ما جعلني أرجع إلى القساوسة الكبار في المدرسة، الذين تهربوا من أسئلتي ونصحوني بعدم قراءة القرآن كونه من عمل الشيطان ومن أعمال المسلمين، الأمر الذي زاد من إصراري وحبي لهذا الكتاب لعدة أشهر مع إيمان أن هذا الكتاب لا يستطيع أي من البشر كتابة ما هو موجود من الجمل والآيات الواضحة فيه».

وأضاف «عدت إلى منزلي في يوم من الأيام بعد البحث والتقصي في دين الإسلام، ودعيت الله أن يلهمني الصواب ويدلني على طريق الدين الصحيح وفي تلك الأثناء خرجت من المنزل لأجد أمامي شخصا يرتدي الثوب ويسير إلى المسجد، فسألته عن اسمه فقال سالم باعقيل وسألته عن ديانته فقال الإسلام، وإنه ذاهب لأداء الصلاة في المسجد، فذهبت معه دون تردد إلى أن وصلت إلى المسجد الذي لم أجد فيها طقوسا كما هو موجود في ديانتي، والتي منها تعليق الصور، لأستنتج بأن هذا الدين ليس فيه عنصرية كغيره من الديانات، وأصبحت اذهب إلى المسجد يوميا ولمدة أسبوع دون أن يكلمني أحد، إلى ان جاء احد المسلمين وأنا جالس في المسجد وطلب أن يدربني على الوضوء، فظننت في بادئ الأمر أنه يريد تعليمي الـ(voodoo) وهو نوع من أنواع السحر، يقولها ضاحكاً، ففزعت كيف أن المسلمين يعلمون السحر، إلى أن اخبرني أنها تعني الطهارة باللغة العربية، فرضخت لطلبه وتوضأت لأعلن بعدها إسلامي ومداومتي على المسجد دون خوف أو تردد.

ويشير علي قواتيمالا إلى أنه بدأت تمارس عليه الضغوط العائلية، خصوصاً من أخته التي تعتنق الديانة اليهودية، والتي حذرته في بداية اعتناقه الإسلام أن المسلمين سيقتلونه، الأمر الذي جعله يتخوف ويتغيب فترة عن الحضور الى المسجد، مستدركاً أن أخته بعد أن شاهدت تغيرا إيجابيا في حياته صرحت له بأنه «لم يغشك من دعاك إلى الإسلام»، طالبة منه أن يجلب لها تذكارا من مكة، عندما علمت بذهابه إلى الحج، مضيفاً أنه بعد ضغوط نفسية ومشاعر انجذاب، أرغمته على العودة إلى المسجد والتعمق في الإسلام والبدء في الدعوة إلى الإسلام في محيط مدينته. وعن رحلة الحج ورؤيته للكعبة المشرفة التي تعتبر هي الأولى في حياته قال قواتيمالا: «إنها من أفضل الأيام التي قضيتها، خصوصا كوني أعلم أن الأماكن التي أزورها مرّ بها رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم خلال أدائه شعائر الحج، وكنت أشاهد الكعبة والمسجد الحرام من خلال التلفاز مع وجود أمنيات في داخلي لزيارتها ومشاهدتها عن قرب، ولكن عند مشاهدتي لها لأول مرة تصلبت قدماي ولم أستطع الحراك ولم أشعر بنفسي، إذ بدأت أبكي بحرقة مع شعور برعشة غريبة لم أستطع الحراك بعدها وظل ذلك المنظر راسخا في مخيلتي».

ويقول علي قواتيمالا: «منذ خمس سنوات وأنا أنام تحت تأثير المنومات، لكن عندما وضعت رأسي للمبيت في منى نمت دونها مع شعور بالراحة، افتقدته منذ زمن بعيد».

الحاج الأميركي علي قواتيمالا واحد من 17 ألف حاج مسلم كانوا على الديانة اليهودية والنصرانية وتحولوا بمحض إرادتهم الى الاسلام يجمعهم دين واحد ومخيم واحد في منى ويرددون كلمة واحدة «لبيك اللهم لبيك».


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Thursday, December 20, 2007

Green Tea Saves Erections! - It cuts off by 50 % prostate cancer! - Softpedia

Now, we know the secret of those sexual techniques from the Chinese Daoism and Indian Kamashuthra. It's in the tea!

There is a great danger threatening a man during his life: the prostate cancer. The surgery for prostate cancer leaves most patients impotent, as nerves can be touched. Moreover, this

is the second leading cause of cancer death in men: one British dies each hour due to this. One in six men is hit by prostate cancer and 28,000 men die of prostate cancer annually, in the U.S. alone.

But, the rate of prostate cancer is much lower in Asian than in Western countries, that's why a Japanese team assumed amongst other factors that this could be connected to high intake of green tea in the oriental countries. Their results revealed that five or more cups of green tea consumed daily could decrease by 50 % the risks of experiencing advanced prostate cancer.

"A research team from Japan's health ministry surveyed 49,920 men aged 40-69 across the nation in 1990 and 1993 and followed up on their health until 2004", said a spokesman of the National Cancer Center.

404 subjects have been diagnosed during that time interval with prostate cancer, 114 being advanced cases, 271 localized type, and in 19 cases, the stage was undetermined.

"An analysis found the risks of having advanced prostate cancer was 50 % lower for men who drink five or more cups of green tea a day compared with those who have less than one cup. Green tea was not associated with localized prostate cancer. Green tea may be associated with a decreased risk of advanced prostate cancer", wrote the authors.

By the moment, the researchers can only guess that a green tea chemical, called catechin, could be involved in decreasing risks, by lowering the amounts of testosterone, the male sex hormone, representing the main risk factor involved in the development of the prostate cancer.

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Monday, December 17, 2007

yemeni jewish singerاغنيه للفنان اليمني اليهودي جولان لصنعاء

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تحرشني من الطاقة بعينه $$ ربشني اين اسير يا ناس منه

ربش عقلي ورحله من قبالي $$ وشل الحس صوته والمغاني

ابوس عينك يا روحي وقلبي

ويا هلا ويا سهلا... وفوق العين وفوق الراس

حبيب القلب قل لي اين قلبي $$$ امانة لا قدوه عندك فخبيه

فخبيه لا اي حينه خاف ربي



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احبك ...احبك ..يا ذا الحمامي $$ احبك ..احبك..يا دايم زماني

يا محسن السمرة انا وخلي $$ القلب فارح والهوى بملكي




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يا بنت يا خيزران يا عودي الريحان

ياسين على قامتش لا عارض الشيطان


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يا بنت غساني $$ ابوش وصاني

لا توزني الذهب $$ الا بميزاني !!

لا تبلسي البلس $$ الا بمستري






والله المحبة بلية يارب توبة

حبيبي حبك على عيوني

ما احب غيرك لو يقطعوني

...يا حلو يا حالي $$ دايما على بالي

اكلتك الحالي ولبستك الغالي

والله المحبة بلية يارب توبة

يا ريتني وردة على الطريق

لا ابكي على ابي ولا امي

هو لي سلاتي وحده حبيبي






يا بنية قول لي $$$ ما لعينش بتبكي

لا هربتوا عليش $$ ولا معي خل ثاني



ياوليد ياوليد $$$ حبك طبع وسط قلبي

كل ليلة وانا باب بيتك مراعي


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اغنيه يمنيه قديمه بس مطوره yemeni music 乐队在

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Friday, December 14, 2007

القات

ياهذه الدنياأفيقي وأسمعي
هذا المقوت جاء يبغي مصرعي

قد جاء يحمل في يديه شوالة
ومن الدبورمعاش مايو معي

وضع الشوال على الرصيف وقال لي
خزن فليس المرء يولد مولعي

القات نزي ولا أروم
فراقه‏
ولأن لي رازم يؤرق مضجعي

ومرتبي في الجيب يعصره الأسى
حزنا"على حزني ويشرب أدمعي

فأخذت علاقي قطل من كيسه
وسحبت سبعا"من مئات تلمعي

وسحبت أخرى ثم أخرى مثلها
وسحبت ثالثة تمام القردعي

ورجعت أدراجي وكلي لهفة"
قاتي ومائي والشعير قدهو معي

وقبعت مدكا في المكان كأنه
إيوان كسرى أو كعرش التبعي

وبدأت أمضغ ما تيسر مضغه
وسددت أخزاق المكان بإصبعي

فثملت لكن دون رشفة مسكر
وخرطت خرطا"لا يطابق‏ واقعي

وبنيت قصرا"شامخا" ومزخرفا"
وجعلته باللؤلؤات
مرصعي

نظفت عاصمتي الجميلة كلها
وعلى الطريق سبكت أيضا"شارعي

غيرت كل المفسدين بمكتبي
وكذا تحسن في الوظيفة موضعي

شيئا"فشيئا"فأستعدت هويتي
وكذا من المدكا أعالج أضلعي

وتبددت تلك الرؤى وكأنها
أخفات حلم في منامي تدعي

أدركت أني كنت أحلم صاحيا"
ربل المرتب كل ما بقي معي

وتكونت عندي القناعة أنه
ليس القطل إلا مخدر موضعي

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Monday, December 10, 2007

7 Things About Heart and Blood Vessels - Our plumbing system - Softpedia

1.All the blood vessels of the human body have a total length of 100,000 km (62,000 mi): they could encompass the Earth by 2.5 times.

2.The blood forms 8% of your body mass. For a man of 70kg (155 pounds), this means about 5.6 litters of blood.

3.The heart has the size of a fist and pumps daily about 9,500 litters of blood throughout the body. This is like lifting a weight of 10 tons to a height of 10 m (33 ft) every day!

4.The right part of the heart has to pump the blood throughout the body, to the extremities, while the left part has to pump the blood to the lungs in order to be oxygenated. That's why the right part of the heart is thicker and six times more powerful than the left part.

5.The arteries have a systolic pressure (when the heart contracts) of 100-140 mm Hg (in the case of a young person), and a diastolic pressure (when the heart is relaxed) of 60-90 mm Hg. The pressure varies from person to person, depending on the age, sex, physical or mental stress, and exhaustion level. The arterial pressure tends to be lower in women and children, and higher in elderly. When the blood enters the smallest arteries, called arterioles, the pressure is 35 mm Hg. Their diameter varies between 1 cm and 3 mm.

6.The smallest vessels, the capillaries, have a diameter of 8-10 microns, so that the red blood cells have to pass in Indian file.

7.Atherosclerosis is a main cause of death in western countries. It is caused by fatty deposits (called atheromas), resembling oat flour, in the inner part of the arteries. These deposits narrow the inner caliber of the arteries predisposing them to a total blockage when the atheroma plate breaks off. The blockage can be caused by blood clots too or by the muscular spasms of the arterial wall.


When atheroma plates accumulate on the walls of the coronary vessels that irrigate the heart muscle, the pectoral angina installs, characterized by sensations of choking or suffocating, especially after physical effort. When a coronary artery is totally blocked, the heart muscle dies, and that's the heart attack. A severe heart attack means the stop of the heart activity.



Risk factors for atherosclerosis are smoking, emotional stress, diabetes, obesity, sedentary life, hypertension, fatty diet and genetics.

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Top 6 Foods That Boost Memory - Even the onion! - Softpedia

The exam sessions mean mental and physical exhaustion. But there are some mental vitalizers helping you finish the course without problems or stress. After various hours of studying, the eyes get tired too. Tired eyes can be relieved by washing the area with fresh water, which gives a refreshing and relaxing sensation. When tired eyes are accompanied by an itchy sensation, a couple of cotton patches soaked in Eufrasia can be applied on the eyelids.



1.Lecithin is a natural complex of phospholipids encountered naturally in soy beans and also in many structures of our body, like the membranes of the brain cells. The main ingredient in soy lecithin is phosphatidyl choline, which increases the amount of choline in the body, a chemical employed by the brain as precursor of acetylcholine, a neurotransmitter that boosts memory capacity, intellectual skills and focusing. There are special types of lecithin rich in phosphatidyl cholines on the market.

2.There are various minerals and aminoacids crucial for the right functioning of the neurotransmitters and other brain functions. These minerals must be supplemented in case of intellectual effort: chrome, iron, calcium, phosphorus, potassium, copper and zinc.

3.Eat many fruits and green vegetables rich in vitamins, antioxidants and minerals. Bilberries, blackberries, grapes, fish and fish oil, eggs, spinach and almonds are also recommended.

4.Caffeine boosts memory. So, coffee and tea (black or green) are good for your memory. Caffeine proved to protect intellectual skills in older women. Female subjects who drank over three cups of coffee (or the same caffeine amount in tea) daily scored better in memory tests than those who only had one cup or less of coffee/tea daily.

5.Chocolate not only boosts serotonin, the "pleasure hormone", but also comes with large amounts of epicatechin, which improves the brain blood flow and boosts memory.

6.A recent Japanese research found a new quality of the old onion: it boosts your memory! Subjects experiencing memory loss reported improved recall abilities after ingesting lightly cooked pieces of onion. An anti-oxidant chemical in onions seems to attach to toxins in the brain, helping in eliminating them. The sulfur containing chemical is turned on when onions are slightly heated in a pan, but overcooking can damage the chemical's memory-boosting qualities. The same active chemical is also encountered in other members of the Allium genus, like garlic (Allium sativum) and leek (A. porrum).

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Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Java ist auch eine Insel - Gratis-Buch aktualisiert


Das unter Informatik-Studenten und professionellen Programmierern sehr
beliebte Buch "Java ist auch eine Insel" steht ab sofort in der siebten
Auflage zur Verfügung. Neben der gedruckten Variante für knapp 50 Euro
steht es auch online zum Lesen bereit.


Es richtet sich sowohl an Einsteiger und Profis. Es behandelt
die zahlreichen Gebiete der Java-Programmierung sehr kompakt aber
trotzdem verständlich. Neben den Grundlagen der Programmiersprache
werden auch die mehr ins Detail gehenden Themen behandelt,
beispielsweise Sicherheitskonzepte, Datenbankmanagement sowie
JavaServer Pages und Servlets.


Die neue siebte Auflage enthält erstmals Informationen zur kommenden
Java-Ausgabe 7. Zudem wurden die Kapitel über die Themen
Objektorientierung, Swing und JSP überareitet. Außerdem geht der Autor
Christian Ullenbooms auf die Änderungen in den Entwicklungsumgebungen
Eclipse 3.3 und NetBeans 6 ein. Das Buch umfasst inzwischen 1492 Seiten
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HTML-Version online zur Verfügung.




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Wednesday, November 21, 2007

14 Reasons Why You Should Drink More Water

Over
70 % of the adult body is made of water. Our body cannot function
without water: a human will die faster of thirst than of hunger. A 68
kg person has about 40 liters of water in the body. 23-26% is found
inside the cells, 7,5 % in the space between the cells and up to 4
liters in the blood. This volume must be kept constant. Food does not
deliver enough moisture; doctors say we should drink two liters of
water daily, since our body eliminates water through urine, sweat (we
sweat even when temperature is under 0), feces and breath.



Water is never enough: you will compensate for the body's ability to
eliminate water (a state called hyperhydration) only by drinking over
7.5 liters of water in 24 hours. Here are 14 reasons why you should
drink a sufficient amount of water daily:



1. Dehydration (lower water amount) affects body functioning



- Digestion, excretion and the constant maintenance of the body
temperature cannot be ensured if water is under the normal levels in
the body. The water balance is connected to the electrolyte levels
(mineral salts blood ratio). The sodium level in the blood is the
source which can ‘tell’ us the hydration level in our body.
When there is too much sodium in the blood, the body retains water to
dilute the sodium excess and less urine is produced.



2. Thirst - this is a sensation forming in the brain nuclei, which can
be easily ‘cheated’. That's why dehydration may not cause
immediate thirst. You may be dehydrated without being thirsty. When
you're thirsty, you're already dehydrated. Dehydration and thirst are
more connected when you practice sports.



3. Diet - Dieting means eating less, and since foods can be an
important source of water for our body, you must replace the water
ingested through food by drinking that equal amount.



4. Temperature - Heat boosts the required amount of water, as you sweat
more to cool down the body. Water consume must increase during summer.
The same happens during exercising: muscular contraction releases heat,
the body temperature increases, and so does sweating. An adult needs
one extra liter of water for each hour of exercising.



5. Kidney - Chronic dehydration has been connected to the development
of kidney calculi. This works also for chronic urinary infections. Also
the kidneys work better with abundant water.



6. Skin - Aging skin loses water. Hydrated skin is smoother and
healthier. Water feeds the skin and cleans the body of toxins,
that’s why hydrated skin looks healthy and shiny.



7. Toxins - Water is involved in all the metabolic reactions. Diets
rich in proteins require higher amounts of water, because higher
amounts of toxic nitrogen compounds form and they are easier to be
eliminated by the organism in the presence of abundant water (because
kidney and sweat glands work faster).



8. Diuresis - Water ingestion speeds up the elimination of liquids and drugs from the organism.



9. Aging - In case of elder people, the sensation of thirst decreases,
especially if they are sedentary or suffer from dementia. Their kidneys
lose more water and they should drink a cup of water every two hours.



10. Slimming – Water has no calories. Drink water before eating,
and it will decrease the sensation of an ‘empty stomach’,
the hunger sensation. Do not drink water after eating! This will dilute
the ingested food, which will pass faster through the stomach and
hunger sensation will return earlier. Also, water dilutes the digestive
juices in the stomach.



11. Vomits. People may not realize that through vomiting they lose huge
amounts of water and electrolytes. Diarrhea and fever (through sweat)
too have the same effect and the body loses sodium and potassium, which
are very important in the water balance. Up to 4 liters daily can be
lost through severe vomiting or diarrhea, that's why salts must have a
replacement. Isotonic drinks or alkaline solutions are recommended,
too.



12. Diabetes – the only symptoms of the diabetes insipidus are
the exaggerated thirst and the excessive amount of urine. It can start
gradually or suddenly at any age and it is the result of a deficiency
of antidiuretic hormones, which limit the production of excessive
urine. A person can drink enormous amounts (4 to 30 liters) of liquid
to compensate the loss produced by so much urine.



13. Coffee and tea – caffeine is a mild diuretic, speeding up the
urination cycle, but at the same time, it "steals" the calcium and
electrolytes (that are eliminated through urine). Coffee also increases
water loss through feces, since it functions as a laxative.



14. Alcohol – you say that you're going to get hydrated with a
beer. That's false: you're going to lose more water. It's not only
about the diuretic effect of the beer. After a drinking bout, on
average 3 glasses of water are required to rehydrate your body. Because
by drinking you lose many fluids, going to bed dehydrated will make the
body unable to eliminate the alcohol, and (in concentrated levels) the
alcohol will induce nasty effects in time.


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Monday, November 12, 2007

Top 14 Effects That Coffee Has on Your Health

Some
are trying hard to show the beneficial effects that coffee has on our
health, others see it as the devil’s beverage. Others say it’s rather a
bogus. Read on and decide for yourself who’s right!



1. Some say that the energy boosting effect of the morning coffee is
only in your mind and you should sleep more. The caffeine eases
withdrawal symptoms accumulating overnight, but does not make people
more alert. Only people who do not regularly drink coffee will get a
‘push-up’ from caffeine, while the British Coffee Association insists
that regular drinkers do feel more alert.



Regular coffee drinkers swear that their morning caffeine wakes them
up, and in case they don’t take it, they feel they have no energy and
will surely be less efficient in their activities. Researches show that
a first caffeine intake does not make the individuals more alert than
those who do not drink coffee are.



Others insist that moderate coffee consumption of four to five cups per
day is perfectly safe for the general population and has a beneficial
effect on alertness and performance even in the case of regular coffee
drinkers.



Caffeine, the main active chemical of coffee, blocks adenosine, a
chemical that makes you naturally drowsy, increasing concentration and
reaction speed. But the long term effects can be really tricky. Once
the temporary stimulation stops, the brain cells start needing caffeine
for stimulation and a sudden neural sluggishness installs.



2. Caffeine has been found to prevent cognitive decline in the elderly
women. Women aged 65 and older who consumed over three cups of coffee
(or the same caffeine levels in tea) daily scored better over time on
memory tests than women who drank one cup or less of coffee/tea daily
did. The memory benefits of the caffeine rise with age – coffee
drinkers being 30 % less exposed to memory impairment at age 65 and 70
% less over 80. Still, caffeine consumers did not have lower rates of
dementia.



Caffeine seems to slow the dementia process rather than prevent it. Why
caffeine has a slightly different effect on women than it does in men
is a puzzle.



Caffeine has been found also to protect against Parkinson’s disease and
depression, and this could be linked to its inhibiting effect on
adenosine receptors. Depression is eased because caffeine increases
dopamine, the "happy feeling" hormone, in your brain.



3. Italian researchers found that coffee defends against blepharospasm,
an involuntary eye spasm which makes patients blink uncontrollably,
which may turn into a severe vision impairment, and in severe cases,
this can make the patients functionally blind (despite intact eyeballs)
as they cannot impede closing their eyes. One to two cups daily have
this effect. The blepharospasm onset age was delayed by coffee
drinking, with 1.7 years for each extra daily cup, and this could be
due to caffeine's effect on the adenosine receptors.



4. Everybody knows the laxative effect of coffee. Brewed coffee also
contains soluble cellulose fibers, which help the body absorb vital
nutrients, keep a lid on cholesterol and fight constipation. The
amounts are of 0.47-0.75 grams of fiber per 100 ml. Freeze-dried coffee
came out on top. Men comsume on average about 38 g of fiber a day and
women around 25 g. A 240 ml cup of coffee could contain as much as 1.5
g of fiber (3.2 cups means 5 g of fiber).



5. High coffee consumption (more than three cups per day for years)
increases loss of bone mineral density. Caffeine is a mild diuretic,
speeding up the urination cycle, but "steals" calcium which is lost
through urine. Long term, heavy caffeine use leads to a rapid
development of osteoporosis.



6. The effect of coffee on the cardiovascular health is controversial:
some say it’s good, others that it is a risk factor. Caffeine blocking
adenosine constricts the brain's blood vessels. The heart beats rate
increases, muscles tighten, the blood pressure booms, blood vessels
near the surface constrict and more blood flows to the muscles.



Researches show that blood pressure and heart rate spurred in healthy
sedentary adults drinking two cans of caffeine containing drinks daily
by up to 11 %.



But if you're going to practice sports, the heart beats can increase up
to a dangerously high level, while triggering extremities shivering and
nausea. On the long term, the unnatural heart racing is unhealthy, and
can trigger heart conditions.



7. Caffeine causes sleep disturbances. Don't even think about drinking
coffee or other caffeine containing beverages before sleep. And
remember that the alkaloid needs 12 hours to be completely eliminated
from your body.



8. A new research has found that coffee could cut the risk of skin
cancer. 6 cups of caffeinated coffee daily lowered the likelihood of
developing skin cancer by 35 %, while 2-3 cups lowered it by 12 %.
Caffeine is believed to impede cells dividing in the tumor, or to work
as an antioxidant. One research found coffee and exercising fight
against sun-induced skin cancer by 400 %.



Other researches suggest that coffee could be beneficial also against breast cancer.



9. Coffee fights gout symptoms! The beverage lowers uric acid levels on
short term, easing the most common and excruciatingly painful
inflammatory arthritis in adult males. Drinking 4-5 cups of coffee
daily significantly decreases the risk of gout by 40 % and over 6 cups
per day by 59 %. Tea (which contains caffeine) has no impact on gout
incidence, thus other chemical than caffeine induces this effect; the
main suspected being the phenol chlorogenic acid, a powerful
antioxidant.



10. Two cups of coffee reduce significantly post-gym muscle pain.
Caffeine consumed one-hour before going to the gym induces a 48 %
decrease in pain; those who drink caffeine before the near-maximum
force test have 26 % drop in soreness. Caffeine boosts endurance, and
one study discovered caffeine to decrease pain during
moderate-intensity cycling. By blocking the receptors for adenosine,
released in response to inflammation and implied in pain sensation,
coffee could have this effect. Caffeine seems to be more efficient than
conventional pain and soreness reliever drugs, like naproxen (the
active ingredient in Aleve), aspirin and ibuprofen.



11. Caffeine mixed with acetaminophen (paracetamol),



one of the most common painkillers used in the US and Europe could harm
your liver. The caffeine was discovered to triple the quantity of a
toxic byproduct, N-acetyl-p-benzoquinone imine (NAPQI), produced by the
enzyme that breaks down the acetaminophen. Still, the effects would be
determined by the daily consume of 20-30 cups of coffee.



12. Caffeine gets women in the mood for sex, especially in moderate
amounts and when the women are not heavy drinkers. The chemical is also
known to increase excitability in men.



Interestingly, female rats that received the middle dose of caffeine
had quicker return visits to the males than the highest dose tested.



13. Researches show that the consume of unfiltered coffee increases the
level of cholesterol. Why? Because coffee contains a substance called
cafestol which triggers the rise of cholesterol levels. The cafestol
blocks a receptor in an intestinal pathway crucial for cholesterol
regulation, and is the most potent food chemical to do this.



By pouring hot water over the ground coffee, the cafestol is extracted.
The same thing happens when the ground coffee is boiled in water by
several times, like in the case of Turkish coffee or Scandinavian brew,
or a paper filter is employed, like in French coffee. If the coffee is
made without the filter, the cafestol remains in the prepared beverage.




A cup of unfiltered coffee contains up to 4 milligrams of cafestol that
can raise the cholesterol level by 1 %. The espresso coffee contains
cafestol, as it is not prepared with a filter. Still, this type of
coffee can increase less the cholesterol if you use a small cup. Less
espresso means less cafestol, probably just 1-2 mg per cup. Still, 5
cups of espresso can raise the cholesterol by 2 %.



Decaffeinated coffee contains cafestol, since removing caffeine does not influence the other compound.



14. Coffee can kill you! Just as any other drug, in small amounts,
caffeine (and coffee) is a stimulant. But the coffee plant synthesizes
the alkaloid with the purpose of killing…its natural consumers. The
grazer eating too much coffee will die. We, too, may be killed. The
uncontrolled heart beats are the prelude of a heart attack.



Over 400 mg of caffeine (found in 4-5 cups of brewed coffee) can cause
caffeine intoxication. Some even snort caffeine powder, which results
in a more rapid and intense reaction. The symptoms are just like those
induced by any other drug: restlessness, nervousness, excitement,
insomnia, face flushing, increased urination, gastrointestinal
disturbance, muscle twitching, a rambling flow of thought and speech,
irritability, irregular heart beat, and psychomotor agitation.



Deadly coffee doses have not been tested on people, but in rats the
average lethal dose (LD50) of caffeine is 192 mg/kg: 50 % of the rats
died after consuming this quantity. In humans, however, the value would
be linked to weight and each one's sensitivity, to about 150 to 200
mg/kg of body mass.



So, you have to drink 80 to 100 cups of coffee very quickly to die...
This also varies with the coffee variety, and cup size, as this
determines how much caffeine enters your body. Actually, cases of death
caused by coffee drinking have not been reported yet (at least from
rapid drinking; the chronic effects are another story) but caffeine
pills (just 2 g) are much more effective and have been proven lethal.


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Wednesday, October 10, 2007

No Matter What Kind of Alcohol a Woman Drinks, This Will Destroy Her Boobs

After small quantities of alcohol have been considered to improve heart health for such a long time, recent researches show that this also can increase the risk of breast cancer. And one of the largest individual researches focusing on the effects of alcohol reveals that it does not matter what a woman drinks: wine, beer or spirits (liquor)…there will still be a risk of breast cancer.

It's all about the quantity of alcohol and having three or more alcoholic drinks daily has the same effects on increasing the risk for breast cancer as smoking at least one pack of cigarettes daily.

"Population studies have consistently linked drinking alcohol to an increased risk of female breast cancer, but until now there has been little data, most of it conflicting, about an independent role played by the choice of beverage type," said Dr. Arthur Klatsky, researcher at Kaiser Permanente Division of Research in Oakland.

The study was made on the drinking habits of 70,033 multi-ethnic women who were monitored between 1978-1985. By 2004, 2,829 of these women experienced breast cancer. The team compared the total alcohol intake among women who preferred one specific drink to those who had no clear preference. Another analysis took into consideration the possible independent role of the frequency of drinking a specific beverage type.

The researchers also investigated the role of total alcohol intake, compared with women who consumed less than one alcoholic drink daily. When focusing on the link between breast cancer risk and total alcohol ingestion, the researchers discovered that women who drank 1-2 alcoholic drinks daily faced a risk of breast cancer which was 10 % higher, as compared with light drinkers (less than one drink per day).

The danger of breast cancer rose by 30 % in subjects drinking over 3 drinks a day. The risk was the same for age or ethnicity categories.

"Statistical analyses limited to strata of wine preferrers, beer preferrers, spirits preferrers or non-preferrers each showed that heavier drinking – compared to light drinking – was related to breast cancer risk in each group. A 30 % increased risk is not trivial. To put it into context, it is not much different from the increased risk associated with women taking estrogenic hormones. Incidentally, in previous research completed at Kaiser Permanente, we have found that smoking a pack of cigarettes or more per day is related to a similar (30 %) increased risk of breast cancer," Klatsky said.

Even if breast cancer has a genetic path and a low percentage of women are heavy drinkers, 30 % higher risk of breast cancer from heavy drinking could mean about 5 % more women developing breast cancer due to their habit.

"We think that the heart protection benefit from alcohol is real, and is probably derived largely from alcohol-induced higher HDL (‘good’) cholesterol, reduced blood clotting and reduced diabetes. None of these mechanisms are known to have anything to do with breast cancer. The possible but unproven additional coronary benefit from drinking wine (red or white) may be related to favorable drinking patterns common among wine drinkers or to the favorable traits of wine drinkers, as evidenced by other United States and Danish studies," Klatsky said.