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In addition to its popular use as a mildly acidic juice, passion fruit has been found useful in providing both soluble and insoluble fibers to the body, a proven diet that brings down bad cholesterol from the body and consequently protects the person from circulatory diseases later on.  AT TIMES passion is a fruit of love. Although the same is true the other way around.  What I love about passion fruit (Passiflora edulis) though is the sweet citrus taste that is milder compared to regular orange or calamansi. Eating it, however, is another story.  I tried extracting the juice directly in my mouth the way I usually eat poncan oranges, pulp and all except for the seeds.  Yet passion fruit can be unwieldy that way. I ended up feeling less satisfied in relation to the effort I put in getting the juice into my mouth. Thus I decided to proceed the usual way: place sufficient amount of scraped juice-filled seed-sacs into a glass of water, add a small amount of water and s

A DATE on Saint Valentine’s Day will be great if you have one. But even if you don’t, you will not be alone. Perhaps you will even be in an “exalted” company. With all their number-crunching statistics, medical scientists find it difficult to form relationships. A scientist himself, D. J. Williams wrote in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (2004): “It’s undoubtedly true that a statistically significant proportion of medical science nerds have difficulty forming intimate relationships.” “Many of us are more comfortable pursuing intimate relationship with our computers than with a fellow human being. We busily collect and analyze complex data for mind-numbing research reports and journal articles, but can’t seem to figure out the fundamentals of love,” he added. The reason apparently for this disconnect with love or romance is that their world revolves on the quantitative. And the language of love is, by nature, qualitative. So Williams ventured to study this phenomenon though