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This is simplistic and missing the mark. The issue isn't eating white rice, but rather what a typical diet high in rice is missing.

White rice and sugary beverages are absorbed quickly by the body, but much of your digestion is handled by the bacteria in your digestive system. This bacteria is known as your "micro biome". Your micro biome is important for the overall health of your body and you can't survive without it. A proper diet feeds this micro biome as well as your body. Sugar and meat don't feed this ecosystem (and too much meat creates other issues, such as throwing your bile out of balance by creating too much).

To feed the micro biome, you need fiber. Most Western diets don't meet the suggested minimum in fiber, which leaves the bacteria to feed on the cells of the walls of your digestive system. As the bacteria eats away at the walls, your digestive system becomes porous and food particles may leak into your bloodstream. The body then attacks these particles as invaders, triggering inflammation as an immune response (AKA, leaky gut syndrome). This response can cause all sorts of issues with your body and could be a partial cause of many modern diseases.

Additionally, doctors in the Philippines have an issue with being too quick to prescribe antibiotics. And the mindset of Filipino's doesn't help. At least in the U.S. doctors are aware of problems of bacterial resistance due to over-prescribing antiobiotics. I don't go to hospitals often, but when I got sick as a kid I remember that I would usually get tested for a bacterial infection before receiving a prescription. In the Philippines, I always hear "have you taken your medicine?" when I tell people I'm sick. People can't seem to grasp that antibiotics don't do anything for a viral infection and the kids I watched after never got tested for an infection. And doctors are an authority and high status here, so foreigners should just know their place and shut up.

The problem with antibiotics is that it affects the essential bacteria as well as that which you are trying to get rid of. One prescription of antibiotics can throw off your micro biome for a year, which can lead to weight gain and other problems.

Advice on diet fails because it doesn't take the whole picture into account. You may adjust on advice, but you then miss the core problems. This article is addressing symptoms. For a proper diet, balance is key.

The science around the micro biome is recent. The above is my understanding, which may be off. Take a look at the linked article. There is a lot of great material out there for further reading. If you want to get to the full understanding of dieting, look at the micro biome.

What Your Food Is Really Doing to Your Body

 

UPDATE on three kittens. They have been such a delight, sadly one died, too young to make it, the other 2 are now our family indoor pets. Playful, making friends with the dogs and litter trained after a few days.

 

Happy Armistace day Jack and all peoples from Commonwealth countries. To Americans today is called Veterans Day. Happy Veterans day to all Americans!

Background:
In Flanders Fields

by John McCrae, May 1915

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

Inspiration for “In Flanders Fields”
Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, 1st Brigade Canadian Field Artillery. (1)

During the early days of the Second Battle of Ypres a young Canadian artillery officer, Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, was killed on 2nd May, 1915 in the gun positions near Ypres. An exploding German artillery shell landed near him. He was serving in the same Canadian artillery unit as a friend of his, the Canadian military doctor and artillery commander Major John McCrae.

As the brigade doctor, John McCrae was asked to conduct the burial service for Alexis because the chaplain had been called away somewhere else on duty that evening. It is believed that later that evening, after the burial, John began the draft for his now famous poem “In Flanders Fields”.

For the story behind the inspiration for “In Flanders Fields”, see our page at:

Inspiration for In Flanders Fields

 

You are allowed $10.000 in cash, or another denomination to that equivalent. anything over has to be certified by bank Certificate, if you are caught with excess it will be confiscated. Period!
My Friend for me I would not take the Chance, there is no need for Large amounts of cash to be carried, banks and ATM's on every Corner. Said with tongue in cheek here but if it's hooky money, that's what they are looking for. Carrying very Large amounts to me is just too silly.

Just saying.
Jack

 

had this forum recommended to me by Jack Petersen, that is a good enough thumbs up for me. Living in Thailand with Filipino gf, would rather be there. But Phils is our ultimate destination.
Dumageute has been recommended as a good place to hang up the sign.

 

Wish I was that fortunate mate, had the snip when I was 30 something. Since then Divorced, married again, tried IVF that failed. when I eventually retire here,
we are looking to adopt. I admire your outlook on life. Keep fighting on mate, you will win.

 

In light of the current world situation, Natural disasters, wars and unrest that holds the media attention, it begs the question, what's the future looking like for our children and our grandchildren.
Can we really offer them hope for a better world to live in.

I search for answers to the hatred and non forgiveness that exists, the greed of the rich and powerful who put no value on human life.
Egotistical attitudes of some world leaders who stand back while innocent people suffer, at the same time they roll out the red carpet for the Tyrants.
Religious indifferences is no excuse for
those who choose to use violent means.
or hatred towards their fellow man.

I fear for the people I love and will leave behind, as my time on this earth eventually comes to an end.
I truely wish I could offer them hope and a future filled with understanding and peace.
May those who's lives have been stolen from them, in the recent horrific circumstances, rest in peace.

 

As the Philippines start their New year celebrations, may I wish you all good health and a peaceful year. Best wishes to all the forum members, and visitors to the website, JB