When was the last time we were able to appreciate what's around us? We're always busy and have something "more important" in our minds, right? We all know this is not supposed to be the way but we are always constricted to just b like robots and follow our day-to-day routine. We don't always have the luxury of time. In the past few days, where I have time for myself, where the city is far away, where someone does the food and the apartment/hotel, and no schedule to follow but to be guided by the instant interest, I was able to see what's around me and enjoy a bit. For some of them, I was able to take some remembrance and they are below.

"People who are naturally happy appear to have a lower risk of developing heart disease or dying from heart attacks, according to a 10-year study from Canada." That's what I read from bloomberg.com. The solution? Don't worry so much, enjoy life and you'll live it longer..

Life cannot be perfect. And that's the beauty of it. We always want everything perfect and it's difficult to achieve and we get frustrated. Nature itself is not perfect, look at these photographs, they are not perfect but they don't stop being lovely, aren't thy?

In this home where I currently live, a ready bottle or box of magnesium crystals are alsways ready. I never had any of it to be honest when I was still in the Philippines. And up to the present, I do not have any idea if this is also sold in the Philippines. Or maybe it is not needed there? I just don't know. But this thing, if we feel something bad in the stomach after we have eaten something here, our relief is by drinking the magnesium.. Of course the crystals are mixed with water dissolving it....giving a sprite/seven-up like flavor. It's not so bad, right?

When I have read something about magnesium online (at www.goals-4-life.com), I decided to share what it says about magnesium. I decided to share it with you and to any reader of this thing or anyone who wants to discover something about magnesium.

As I have read from my source (mentioned above), magnesium is a mineral that is essential to many biological processes that occur in the body. It aids in the body’s absorption of calcium and also plays a key role in the strength and formation of bones and teeth. This means that those at risk for osteoporosis can benefit from taking magnesium.

Only now i have known this... so it means that calcium is useless without the help of magnesium. So what what the use of my daily milk and cheese intake here or before when I never had magnesium? I hope it ws not wasted at all.

Magnesium also is vital for maintaining a healthy heart because it helps stabilize the rhythm of the heart and helps prevent abnormal blood clotting in the heart. Moreover, it aids in maintaining healthy blood pressure levels for it can significantly lower the chance of heart attacks and strokes, and can even aid in the recovery from a heart attack or stroke.

Here is another magnesium goodness. This mineral also helps maintain proper muscle function. It works to keep muscles properly relaxed. Because of its benefits in relieving stiff muscles, magnesium can be especially beneficial to fibromyalgia patients.

Most people do not maintain proper levels of magnesium and yes, I am aware of it. It seems that this mineral is taken for granted. I don't even know what good it does to the body until I have read something from the site I have mentioned above.. For this reason, many people would greatly benefit from supplementing their diet with magnesium and i recommend that you do the same... you have read all the reasons above why you should do so...

The first time I drank wine, all my joints got warm and my ears got a burning feeling. I can attribute these effects to the fact that I was in a tropical country and I was still a child. But today, everything has changed. I never start my meal without a gulp of wine before it. And all my meals are never complete without at least one glass of wine in it.

Aside from the fact that wine helps in heating up the body in the cold European weather here, I have found a study stating its good effects. As published at CNN Healthpage, drinking a glass or two with meals may indeed help to protect against heart disease. Further support for these findings may be found in the fact that the French, who drink a lot more wine per capita than Americans do, have a third less heart disease.

Why is this so? Because wine contains phenolic chemical compunds known as flavonoids. Antioxidants are present as well due to the fact that wine is a product of fruits like grapes. These compounds and antioxidants have shown evidence to have reduce the artery-clogging propensities of low-density lipids (LDL), the "bad" form of cholesterol, as well as inhibit the formation of blood clots. Indeed, wine is good, but too much of anything is bad, so drink moderately.

As an Italian trademark, at least seven meals a week are with tomatoes. Be it a sauce with pasta or a pizza, this cute red fruit has always made its presence felt in most meals here in Italy or in an Italian restaurant or even in Pizza Hut!. And since tomatoe sauce and tomatoes are part of my daily diet here (in Italy), I am happy because I know that I am making a big favor to my heart's health. Why?

Just one serving a day of tomato-based foods such as pizza or tomato sauce could lower the risk for heart disease by as much as 30 percent, according to a new Harvard study. The diets of approximately 40,000 women from the ongoing Women's health Study, which was begun 11 years ago to follow women who, at the time, were free from cancer and cardiovascular disease were reviewed and it was found that women who consumed seven or more servings of tomato-based foods a week -- including tomato juice, tomatoes, tomato sauce or pizza -- had a nearly 30 percent reduction in risk for cardiovascular disease compared with women who ate less than one and one-half servings a week. However, further studies are needed to provide very specific results. For more details on this topic, I advise you to visit this page.