鳴笛小妹在日本... Ohayou, Mindy in Japan2009-04-27T15:33:24+09:00himindy朋友就是在天寒地凍的時候,想起來心中含有一絲絲暖意的人。Excite Blog九枚奧運金牌得主--卡爾·劉易斯是个素食者http://himindy.exblog.jp/10130147/2009-04-27T15:28:00+09:002009-04-27T15:33:24+09:002009-04-27T15:29:57+09:00himindy菜根香healthy food
He got one Golden Medal one year after he had decided to become a vegan and more medals after that.
在速食店吃飯您必須特別當心。在有害健康的速食消費增加的同時,肥胖也增加了,現在,在美國這是僅次於吸煙的第二大死亡原因。Eric Schlosser在速食國家(Fast Food Nation)中報道:今天美國兒童肥胖的比率兩倍於二十五年以前。此外,似乎不管在哪里,人們吃了有害健康的速食,腰圍就開始擴張。例如,在1984到1993之間,速食店的數量在英國增加了大約一倍。成人肥胖的比率也增加了大約一倍。在日本超重的人曾經稀有。速食店三十年前到了這裏,今天全部日本人的三分之一在三十歲時超重
<---]]>Long time no writehttp://himindy.exblog.jp/9965786/2009-04-02T17:27:33+09:002009-04-02T17:29:00+09:002009-04-02T17:29:00+09:00himindy菜根香healthy food
Yeah, long time no write.
Recently, busy with my work but enjoy my teaching job.
Students are kind to me.
Busy work makes me feel not out of date anyway.
Also, I learn lots of Japaneses from my work, too.
Still, I am keeping a vegetarian diet everyday and
enjoy being healthy.
Speaking of vegetarian food,
I try to make some spring rolls by the left of dishes
sometimes. The recipe is easy. Just chop the left of
dishes yesterday and chop some fresh cabbages and
put them into the spring roll skin and then wrap them.
Fry the spring rolls and then you will have tasty
spring rolls for snacks or meals.
It is wonderful to see or talk to old friends from time
to time. They remind you things that you have not
finished or not thought of.
]]>十年后的相聚--很开心很温馨http://himindy.exblog.jp/8677331/2008-09-28T00:09:00+09:002008-09-28T00:11:07+09:002008-09-28T00:09:58+09:00himindy感性 Something in mind
十年后的今天再续,大家都长大了,
所以,你家中的「獨特風格」可能是從錯誤開始的。同樣的,在自己身上、在配偶
身上,或在整體的生命中,你們所認為的錯誤也將可以成為「獨特風格」,豐富你
這段時光—一旦你停止專盯著它們看的時候。〈---
]]>Ten reasons to be a vegetarianhttp://himindy.exblog.jp/7966738/2008-05-19T11:40:00+09:002008-05-19T11:46:12+09:002008-05-19T11:40:49+09:00himindy菜根香healthy food
http://www.yeeyan.com/articles/view/12538/5271/dz
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Richard Dawkins on Vegetarianism
“What I am doing is going along with the fact that I live in a society where meat eating is accepted as the norm, and it requires a level of social courage which I haven’t yet produced to break out of that. It’s a little bit like the position which many people would have held a couple of hundred years ago over slavery. Where lots of people felt morally uneasy about slavery but went along with it because the whole economy of the South depended upon slavery.“
Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop has said bad eating habits are the main cause of 70 percent American deaths. Consuming more fresh fruits, vegetables, and grains are the best source for living a healthy, more enjoyable life.
By being a vegetarian you are not only helping your body but you also help the environment by reducing pollution created from animal agriculture. Also, you may appreciate your healthy meals even more knowing that no animals suffered along the way.
There are literally hundreds of great reasons to green with your diet but here are our top 10.
1. Live Longer
A study from the Loma Linda University has found that vegetarians live about seven years longer, and vegans live about 15 years longer than meat eaters. These studies are further supported by the Chinese Health Project (the largest population study on diet and health to date). They found Chinese people who eat the least amount of fat and animal products have the lowest risk of cancer, heart attack and other diseases.
Further proof comes from a British research that tracked 6,000 and 5,000 meat eaters for 12 years to find that vegetarians were 40 percent less likely to die from cancer during that time and 20 percent less likely to die from other diseases.
2. You’ll be more “regular.”
Vegetables are the ultimate source for fiber, which pushes waste out of the body. Meat contains no fiber. Studies done at Harvard and Brigham Women’s Hospital found that people who ate a high-fiber diet had a 42 percent lower risk of diverticulitis. People who eat vegetable rich diets also tend to have fewer incidences of constipation, hemorrhoids and spastic colon.
3. Have a good heart
Fruits and vegetables are full of antioxidant nutrients that protect the heart and its arteries. Plus, produce contains no saturated fat or cholesterol.
Cholesterol levels for vegetarians are 14 percent lower than meat eaters. American diet that’s filled with saturated fats and cholestrol from meat and dairy has made cardiovascular disease the number one killer in the United States.
4. You’ll avoid toxic chemicals.
95 percent of pesticide residue in our diet comes from meat, fish and dairy products (according to EPA estimates). Fish, in particular, contain carcinogens (PCBs, DDT) and heavy metals (mercury, arsenic; lead, cadmium) that cannot be removed through cooking or freezing. Meat and dairy products are also laced with steroids and hormones.
5. You’ll give your body a spring cleaning.
Fruit and vegetable juices contain phytochemicals that help us detox naturally. Giving up meat helps rid the body of toxins (environmental pollutants, pesticides, preservatives) that overload our systems and cause illness.
6. You Will Look Better And Skinnier
On average, vegetarians are slimmer than meat eaters. Vegetarian diets are much lower in calories than the standard American diet. Vegetarians are also less likely to suffer from weight-related disorders like heart disease, stroke and diabetes.
7. Think of The Money You Will Save
Replacing meat, chicken and fish with vegetables and fruits is estimated to cut food bills by an average of $4,000 a year.
8. Help the environment
You’ll help reduce waste and air pollution. Circle 4 Farms in Milford, Utah, which raises 2.5 million pigs every year, creates more waste than the entire city of Los Angeles. And this is just one farm. Each year, the nation’s factory farms, collectively produce 2 billion tons of manure, a substance that’s rated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as one of the country’s top 10 pollutants. And that’s not even counting the methane gas released by cows, pigs and poultry (which contributes to the greenhouse effect); the ammonia gases from urine; poison gases that emanate from manure lagoons; toxic chemicals from pesticides; and exhaust from farm equipment used to raise feed for animals.
9. More Efficient
Right now, 72 percent of all grain produced in the United States is fed to animals raised for slaughter. It takes 15 pounds of feed to get one pound of meat. But if the grain were given directly to people, there’d be enough food to feed the entire planet. In addition, using land for animal agriculture is inefficient in terms of maximizing food production. According to the journal Soil and Water, one acre of land could produce 50,000 pounds of tomatoes, 40,000 pounds of potatoes, 30,000 pounds of carrots or just 250 pounds of beef.
10. Its The Right Thing To Do
“Our task must be to free ourselves… by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty. Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances of survival for life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.”
- Albert Einstein
Did you know 22 million animals are slaughtered to support the American appetite for meat? Its a great feeling to finish a health meal knowing that no beings have suffered.
<------]]>Being a vegetarian is helpful for the environmental protection 素食可以帮助环境保护http://himindy.exblog.jp/7966658/2008-05-19T11:23:00+09:002008-05-19T11:32:24+09:002008-05-19T11:23:59+09:00himindy菜根香healthy food
http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/1284-The-environmental-benefits-of-vegetarianism
<------]]>Thanks, C.K.http://himindy.exblog.jp/7966586/2008-05-19T11:05:00+09:002008-05-19T11:10:32+09:002008-05-19T11:06:09+09:00himindy菜根香healthy food
Thank you for your comment
and I feel great that there are
people out there
appreciating vegetarian dishes.
I have not written the new article
about
"Being vegetarians is helpful for
the environmental protection"
yet.
But I will try my best to post it later.
Thanks for waiting.]]>念經迴向d的意義http://himindy.exblog.jp/7123165/2008-01-22T00:17:00+09:002008-01-22T00:20:55+09:002008-01-22T00:17:28+09:00himindy好康分享 Share
為什麼要念經迴向--
累世的業障,人人都有。
人的身口意所造的惡業,
累世欠下的業障冤欠有很多,是自己看不到的,
後學自己的業障冤欠一定也很多,因爲脾氣毛病習氣
(貪嗔痴慢疑)還是存在,也還是容易造惡業。
所以後學需要再多自我觀照反省,修行去掉。
人萬般帶不去,唯有業隨身。
釋迦摩尼佛在世的時候說過--
我無法替衆生消業,自己造的業,
必須自己受它的果,也必須自己去還--
那自己要如何去還這些冤欠的債呢?
冤欠所要的就是功德,替他們製造
功德的方法有很多,念經是其中的一個方法。
(其他方法,以後有機會再貼)
冤欠因爲沒有人身,所以難以修行及佈施,
我們人如果能爲他們念經,讓他們
能夠早日看開解恨,了解靈魂存在
的意義(修行消惡業,提升心靈的層次),
不執著於這些恨,讓他們能嚮往投身
易於修行的地方,那就是替他們造下
無量功德。
這就是為什麼,要請法師來助念,為
亡者超度的原因--一方面是念給往生者聽,
一方面是要念給往生者的冤欠聽,讓冤欠
不要去干擾有心往生善趣的往生者投生
善趣。
家人為往生者念經,或為疾病所苦的家人念經,
就是一件非常體貼的事情。為不認識的人念經,
就是一件慈悲的事情。許多宗教界的人士,為
不認識的人或動物祈禱或念經,就是爲了盡一點
修道人的本分。
後學的表達能力不是太好,
以上不易了解的地方,或詞不達意之処,
尚請海涵指正。
]]>今天談談吃素爲了健康--For Health to be a vegetarianhttp://himindy.exblog.jp/7058195/2008-01-07T17:59:00+09:002008-01-08T22:42:51+09:002008-01-07T17:59:24+09:00himindy菜根香healthy food
Today, let's talk about -->
for health, one should be a
vegetarian.
有人認爲吃素很不營養,
Some people think that to be vegetarians
is not good for health,
會缺乏許多營養素,
and might be lack of some nutritions.
其實,吃素和吃葷,如果不注意營養均衡,
In fact, no matter being a vegetarian
or not, one might lose balance of
nutritions if he does not pay attention
to what he eats.
都有可能會不均衡。
吃素的人,必須注意,
A vegetarian should
要盡量攝取各種顔色的食物,
try to eat food with different colors.
白,黃,紅,綠,黑,紫。。等等各種顔色
He should try to eat food with white,
yellow, red, green, black, purple, ..., or
any other kind of colors.
的食物如果都攝取,那麼,營養不均衡的問題
就不用擔心了。
If so, one does not have to worry about
the problem of losing balance of nutritions.
蛋白質的部分--可由納豆,包心菜,海帶,豆腐,
堅果類。。等等來補足。
One can obtain protein---from
Nattou (Japanese fermented soy beans),
cabbages, seedweeds, toufu, and nuts.
鈣質--可吃綠色花椰菜,小松菜,
小蘿蔔 (日本的Kabu),Lettuce。
Calcium--from broccoli, radish, and lettuce.
維生素 B2 --可吃 tomato番茄,豆芽菜,
紫蘇(日本的Shiso),芋頭,春菊(臺灣的茼蒿),
日本的Shi-me-ji(一種菇類),紅蘿蔔,
Vitamin B2-- from tomatoes, bean sprouts,
Japanese Shiso, taro, carrots.
維生素B1--可由茄子,枝豆,tomato番茄,番薯,
芋頭,紅蘿蔔來補充。
Vitamin B1--from egg plants, tomatoes,
sweet potatoes, taro, and carrots.
鐵質--可吃包心菜,豆芽菜,Lettuce,小松菜,
菠菜,蓮藕來攝取。
Iron--from cabbages, bean sprouts,
lettuce, spinach, lotus rhizome.
素菜如果作得好,不吃葷也能習慣。
If one can cook good vegetarian
dishes, then he will get used to
being a vegetarian.
下次再談--吃素可以環保的觀念。
Next time, let's talk about
being a vegetarian, one can
help with global environmental
protection.]]>終於抽出時間再寫新文章囖 http://himindy.exblog.jp/6887307/2007-12-03T17:28:00+09:002007-12-03T17:43:01+09:002007-12-03T17:28:58+09:00himindy菜根香healthy food
Finally, I have got time to sit back
]]>期許http://himindy.exblog.jp/6799486/2007-11-16T16:06:19+09:002007-11-16T16:06:19+09:002007-11-16T16:06:19+09:00himindy感性 Something in mind
常常在想,自己是不是能夠在紛擾的
花花世界裏,仍能抱有一份赤誠之心,
不執著於自己的物質享受,而能夠
好好地做心性上的提升。在許多的人和事裏,
即使落於是非的漩渦裏,仍然能不為是非所動,
且能識是非為一個考驗,來磨練自己的心性。
古人說,境上磨,境上磨,太有道理了。
沒有踫到過的苦厄境,
自己如果碰上了,會有什麼樣的反應。
仍能保持不怨天尤人的心嗎?
還是落入苦厄境的漩渦裏爬不出來呢?
煩惱即菩提。這是今後對自己的期許。
]]>城市人http://himindy.exblog.jp/6785874/2007-11-13T22:35:00+09:002007-11-13T22:32:49+09:002007-11-13T22:31:17+09:00himindy活絡腦子 Sharpen me up
我們的生活已經變成這樣了嗎?
要檢討自己了~
鄉下人最嘲笑城裡人的幾件事-----有意思!