BY ATTY. BATAS MAURICIO
 
FAST FOOD PRODUCTS SHOULD BE AVOIDED: This is now the third installment of Dr. Gary Sy’s Facebook article “Foods that should be avoided this Christmas.” Read on for better health: “Fats---food that is rich in fats should be avoided. Foods high in fat are as follows: fats and oils, like margarine, butter, lard, salt pork, meat drippings, gravy.

“Cream, ice cream, whole milk, most pies, pastries, cakes, most cheeses (like cream cheese, cheddar cheese), many snack foods (like nuts and chips), fatty meats like corned beef, regular ground beef, ribs, sausage, hot dogs, bacon, bologna, salami, fried foods like French fries and fried chicken, most cookies contain high fat content, and many fast foods are also rich in fats.

“Caffeine intake: the evidence from the literature is rather conflicting and the effects of caffeine seem to depend on multiple variables such as daily dose, preexisting Blood pressure and coffee drinking habits….” More to follow.

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CANADIANS SEPTUAGENARIANS SHARE MILLIONS IN LOTTO WINNINGS: Allen and Violet Large, septuagenarians from Canada, are more likely to spend the rest of eternity with God now, after they shared with others 98 percent or so of the US$11 million that they won from a Canadian lottery in July 2010.

“The money was a headache,” the couple told reporters, and so they decided to give up almost all of it to family members, and then “to groups they had decided on, including the local fire department, churches, cemeteries, the Red Cross, the Salvation Army, hospitals in Truro and Halifax and organizations that fight cancer, Alzheimer's and diabetes,” Yahoo reported.

Indeed, what better way is there to show compliance with the command of the Lord Jesus Christ “to love our fellowmen as we love ourselves” than to share what we have with the needy and the less fortunate, as what Allen and Violet did? If we say we are followers of God and yet do not share our bounty with others, are we really His followers?

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WILL TRAVEL OF CONGRESSMEN TO WATCH PACQUIAO FIGHT MAKE PINOYS HAPPY? What is it to us if 54 or more of our congressmen from the House of Representatives would be flying to the United States to watch the November 13, 2010 unprecedented and historic fight of Sarangani Representative and people’ champ Manny Pacquiao against Antonio Margarito?

Nothing, if we believe that these lawmakers and their relatives and associates traveling with them will be spending their own money. Plenty, if it is government money they will use.

But over and above the money, would not this travel in horde of our lawmakers work to confirm once more the yawning gap between the haves and the have-nots, and the privileged and the underprivileged, and the rich and the poor classes in Philippine society? Would this travel make ordinary Filipinos happy with their lawmakers?


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Masaya ba ang Pinoy sa biyahe ng mga kongresista?


    MGA PAGKAING FAST FOOD DAPAT IWASAN: Eto na po ang pangatlong bahagi ng artikulo sa Facebook ni Dr. Gary Sy na pinamagatang “Mga pagkaing dapat iwasan sa Pasko.” Pakibasa po para sa mahusay na kalusugan: “Taba---ang mga pagkain matataba ay dapat iwasan. Ang mga pagkaing ito  ay ang mga sumusunod: mantika, langis gaya ng margarine, butter, lard, maalat na karne, gravy.

“Ganundin ang cream, ice cream, gatas, mga pies, pastries, cakes, mga cheese (gaya ng cream cheese, chedda cheese), mga snack foods gaya ng nuts at chips, mga matatang karne gaya ng corned beef, ground beef, ribs, sausages, hot dogs, bacon, bologna, salami, at iba pang mga piniritong pagkain gaya ng French fries, fried chicken, cookies…

“Caffeine: ayon sa mga sinulat ng mga dalubhasa, hindi pa talos kung ano ang tunay na epekto ng caffeine sa tao, at ito ay nakasalalay pa rin sa maraming bagay, gaya ng dami ng caffeine, blood pressure at mga kaugalian sa pag-inom ng kape…” Mayroon pa pong dagdag ito.

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MGA MATATANDANG CANADIANS IPINAMIGAY ANG LOTTO WINNINGS: Tila sigurado ng sa piling ng Diyos ang tutunguhan nina Allen at Violet Large, mga matatandang Canadians, matapos nilang ipamigay ang halos 98 porsiyento ng pinanalunan nilang US $11 milyon mula sa isa loteria noong Julio 2010.

“Ang pera ay sakit ng ulo,” sabi ng mag-asawa sa mga reporters, kaya naman nagdesisyon silang ipamigay na lamang ito sa kanilang mga kamag-anak at sa mga grupong nangangailangan gaya ng fire department, simbahan, sementero, Red Cross, Salvation Army, mga ospital sa Truro at Halifax, at mga organisasyong lumalaban sa kanser, Alzheimer’s at diabetes,” ayon sa ulat ng Yahoo.

Tunay nga, ano pa bang paraan ang magpapakita na tumutupad tayo sa utos ng Panginoong Jesus na mahalin natin ang ating kapwa gaya ng pagmamahal natin sa ating sarili kundi ang pagbabahagi ng mga biyayang tinanggap natin sa mga mahihirap at maliliit, gaya ng ginawa nina Allen at Violet? Kung sinasabi nating tagasunod tayo ng Diyos pero di naman tayo nagbibigay sa iba, tunay ba tayong tagasunod?

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MASISIYAHAN BA ANG PINOY SA BIYAHE SA US NG MGA KONGRESISTA? Ano ba sa atin kung bibiyahe nga ang 54 o higit pa nating mga kongresista mula sa House of Representatives upang panoorin sa US ang makasaysayang laban sa Nobyembre 13, 2010 ni Sarangani Reprepresentative at people’s champ Manny Pacquiao laban kay Antonio Margarito?

Wala lang, kung maniniwala tayong sariling pera ng mga mambabatas ang kanilang gagastusin sa biyahe, pero, marami ang epekto, kung pera ng gobyerno ang kanilang gagamitin.

Pero maliban sa isyu ng pera, hindi ba ang biyaheng ito ng sabay-sabay n gating mga mambabatas ay kumukumpirma minsan pa sa katotohanang may pagkakaiba ang mayayaman at mahihirap sa Pilipinas, ang mga malalakas at ang mga mahihina sa lipunan? Nasisiyahan kaya ang Pilipino sa biyaheng ito ng kanilang mga kinatawan?               

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