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Sometimes we equate health with life so that any mention of death becomes incompatible with a healthy lifestyle. But is it so? The mystery surrounding religious faith can help you understand the difference, noting how Saint Pedro of Cebu lived his life. THERE is a mystery that moves around and between the health of one’s soul and that of one’s body. And that mystery has deep implications in our lives as religious Cebuanos, as well as ardent believers of a healthy lifestyle. Today, we veer away from the stark numerical world of medical research into the realm of faith in celebration of the recent canonization of the second Filipino saint, Saint Pedro of Cebu.   But even in this subject we cannot always do away with scientific thinking, and the use of statistics as far as it can be applied.   Of the two Filipino saints—Lorenzo of Manila and Pedro of Cebu—there had been interesting similarities that can help us appreciate the religious charism of Filipinos. First, both saint

New Agers and Eastern philosophy adherents may call the soil "Mother Earth." But whether we agree on it or not, recent scientific evidence indicate that the earth can help bring well-being to mankind more than we normally thought it can.   IN THE eyes of ordinary people, the soil is a mere resource from which all plants can be harvested. In the eyes of those who studied chemicals in the living environment, it is an unlimited source of electrons that can be a key to curing maladies that infect mankind.   The 1965 Nobel Prize winner in Physics Richard Phillips Feynman wrote: “When the body potential is the same as the Earth’s electric potential, it becomes an extension of the Earth’s gigantic electrical system.”   Scientists like cardiologist Stephen Sinatra, Gaetan Chevalier and James Oschman hold that the earth’s surface is negatively charged, and contact therewith allows electrons to transfer from the earth to the body. And since our immune systems function at

One wonderful thing about nature is the balance between disease-causing and disease-preventing forces that can be easily recognized. And that is true about handling your case.   YOU can protect yourself from the “disease of kings” by eating foods for the “kings” (don't mind my play of words).Much of gout can be minimized through selectively eating foods that provide no new raw material for the production of uric acids.   First, let us cover what foodstuff to avoid. By plugging the dietary sources, you can somehow exert control on uric acid output. Here are foods with very high purine content (up to 1000 mg per 100 grams): anchovy, brain, gravy, kidney, liver, sardines and sweetbreads (thymus and pancreas).   Foods with moderately high purine levels (5-100 mg) include asparagus, bacon, beef, bluefish, calf tongue, carp, cauliflower, chicken, codfish, crab, duck, goose, halibut, ham, beans, lamb, lentils, lobster, mushrooms, oatmeal, oysters, peas, pork, sheep, shellfi

This article has been reprinted on popular demand after it came out first in March 2011 at the heel of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant accident in Japan, following the devastation that that year's tsunami wrought in the country.   THE reactor fire in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan has sent radioactivity into air, putting at high risk lives even as far away as Tokyo.   As of March 15, 2010, the International Atomic Energy Agency reported this radiation leak amounted to 400 millisievert (mSv) per hour. Exposure to over 100 mSv a year, said the World Nuclear Association, can already lead to cancer. To help control this radioactive cloud, Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) considered using boric acid. So, what’s in boric acid that can help control radioactivity from spreading? [ Read to find out.]     This article appears in SunStar Cebu newspaper on 3 October 2012.