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domingo, 30 de agosto de 2015

How To Eat Right According To Your Blood Type


Can your blood type determine the way you should eat to have better health and a fuller life? Well some people believe it can. And one of them is Dr. Peter D’Adamo.

He is a very famous neuropathic medic and in his book Eat Right for Your Type: The Individualized Diet Solution for Living Longer, Staying Healthy & Getting Your Ideal Weight he describes the idea. Here is a summary of what he says on how you should eat according to your blood type.

He is believes that blood types are the most important thing when it comes to our health and well-being and that some food can be harmful for one blood type but helpful for other. Also, he claims that even the way you exercise can be closely connected with your blood type, or on the other side, your blood type can cause you some illness.

Some experts disagree with this method of nutrition, but since his book was published, the more than 7 million sold copies worldwide speak for themselves.



How Does the Blood Type Diets Works?

D’Adamo’s theory says that each person has its responses to food, which are closely connected with our blood type. He says that lectins (carbohydrate-binding proteins) can correspond to different blood type in a different way. It can be extremely dangerous on your health if certain lectins get in contact with certain blood type.
Dr. D’Adamo closely explains these side-effects and changes in his book, but, his main goal is to analyze which foods are appropriate for each blood type and the amount in which they should be consumed.
The Four Basic Blood Types:

1. BLOOD TYPE A:

Twenty thousand years ago, when agriculture was developing, this blood type had the change of a lifetime. This means that people with blood type A should concentrate on living a vegetarian way of life – this people are also known as “the agrarians”.

2. BLOOD TYPE 0:

Because it’s one of the oldest blood types, dating from more than 30 000 years ago, it requires a protein-filled nutrition, unlike any of the other blood types. The people that are blood type 0 are also known as “the hunters”.

3. BLOOD TYPE B:

The people from this blood type are known as “the nomads” because they possess the quality to be quite adaptable to dairy products and have the most versatile digestive system of all. It first appeared ten thousand years ago.

4. BLOOD TYPE AB:

Since this is the newest blood type, their diet varies between Blood type B and A. Because this blood type is just a thousand years old, the people are called “the enigmas”.

If you do not know your blood type, it can easily be determined for you by your medic or physician.



RECOMMENDED FOODS FOR EACH BLOOD TYPE:

BLOOD TYPE A:

Consume: whole grains instead of small ones (pasta or bread), vegetables. Also, consume berries, avocados, figs, nectarines and apples. Allowed proteins are nuts and soy.

Do Not Consume: Any kind of meat is not recommended as well as kidney beans and dairy products.

BLOOD TYPE 0:

Consume: Seafood, Red meat, poultry (chicken/turkey) and other proteins are highly recommended. When it comes to vegetables spinach, kale, broccoli and kelp are a good choice.

Do Not Consume: legumes (beans, peanuts, lentils), dairy and egg products, as well as grains and wheat.

BLOOD TYPE B:

Consume: green vegetables, fruits, certain grains, turkey, red meat, fish.

Do Not Consume: any kind of seeds, peanuts, chicken, lentils and corn. And try to avoid buckwheat.

BLOOD TYPE AB:

Consume: tofu, turkey, seafood and fish. Also, vegetables, beans, watermelon, figs, apples and bananas and legumes are a good option.
Do Not Consume: corn, red meat (you may experience stomach acid), buckwheat. Be careful with consuming big quantities of alcohol and caffeine.

Organic food can be applied to all blood types and a nutritionist can help you enrich your diet if necessary. Generally the food groups are strict, so you if you are dieting you don’t have to worry about calories. Also, first of all get informed about the positive and negative side-effects of your food choice. If you are dieting with your family and you all have different blood types, the Atkins diet is the recommended one for you, because it avoids entire food groups.

The nutrition in accordance with your blood type can be suitable for one person, but unsuitable for other. Reading Dr. D’Adamo’s book may be very helpful in getting a grip of the whole concept. Your nutritionist or medic can also help you with giving you proper advice on any change you want to make, especially if you are suffering from any medical condition.


Posted by HealthyFood on October 10, 2014

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sábado, 29 de agosto de 2015

Elle s’appelle Jennifer Aniston. Elle est américaine !



Bonsoir ! Je m’appelle Bruno. Je suis Brésilien. J’ai 32 ans. J’étudie les langues et la littérature. Je viens du Brésil. J’habite à Florianopolis. Je parle anglais et espagnol.



As I promised you guys in my last post about my language learning process, I am writing a little bit more about this incredible experience. After some time as a French language learner, I have come to the conclusion that the French language sounds a bit more formal than the English one and its phonetics (or should I say Phonétique) makes the English language phonetics look like an easy one.

Today, I would like to share a thing or two about the classes.
First of all, I would like to introduce you some exercises we had to do in order to practice the language. Let’s introduce ourselves, shall we?

In English, we usually start a conversation by saying “Hello, my name is Bruno.” Let’s see how we could say something quite similar in French.

Bonjour, je m’appelle (your name here).

See? It is not that difficult at all!

There are many options one can use in order to introduce himself/herself in French. Let’s see only two here, okay?

This first one is a FORMAL one.

Vous vous appelez comment ?

The next one may be seen as an INFORMAL question.

Tu t’appelles comment ?

As you may have noticed, I have just written two questions. There are a lot of other ways of asking the very same question – in both formal and informal ways. But since this is not my point here, I will let them for another post, right?

Let’s talk a little bit about our nationalité in French.

As you may have realized, I started this post by saying that Je suis Brésilien. I am sure you folks are able to understand it. Therefore, that’s the way we use to state that we are from a certain country. In my case, “I am from Brazil”. So, “I am Brazilian.”

In French, it is rather simple. We just use Je suis and the nationality. Let’s learn some of them.



MASCULIN :

français
portugais
suédois
maxicain
canadien
espagnol
allemande

FÉMININ :

française
portugaise
suédoise
maxicaine
canadienne
espagnole
allemande





Have you noticed something different from the English language? I will give twenty seconds to have another look.

Ah, that’s right! You got it!
Yes, in French, the nationalities – differently from English – do not have a capital letter!

Therefore, the English word for França is French (with a capital F), but it is not the case of français, in French and so on and so forth.

There is another thing. Have you realized that in the end of the list about, say, female nationalities there is always an extra letter? Yes, the letter ‘e’. this ‘e’ states that the person is not a man, but a woman. In other words, the ‘e’ at the end means feminine.

So, we say that


Clara, c’est italien.
Ivan, c’est russe.
Yoko, c’est japonais.
Bernardo, c’est espagnol.
Olof, c’est suédois.   


Okay, but what about russe? You haven’t talked about this nationality! Well, russe is used for both – male and female. So,


Ivan, c’est russe and Sofia, c’est russe take the word russe.



In order to use the correct form of the verb Être, we have to take a look at the verb. So, let’s se présenter, présenter quelqu’un.

This is a very simple activity and don’t worry, I will give you all the answers!  


  


Completétez avec s’appelle, est, êtes, m’appelle, suis ou t’appelles.


S’appeler (Indicatif présent)
Je ……….. Paul.
Tu ………… comment ?
Il ………… Karl Rainer.
Elle ………… Isabelle.
Nous …………………… Pablo et Alexandra.
Vous ........................... Sofia.
Ils ……………. Alexandre et Barbara.  

ANSWERS:

Je m’appelle Paul.
Tu t’appelle comment?
Il s’appelle Karl Rainer.
Elle s’appelle Isabelle.
Nous nous appelons Pablo et Alexandra.
Vous vous appelez Sofia.
Ils s’appellent Alexandre et Barbara.  

Être (indicatif présent)
Je .......... canadien.
Tu ……….. belge.
Il …….. allemande ?
Elle ……………. français.
Nous …………….. espagnols.
Vous …………… russe ?
Ils …………….. canadiens.
Ells ……………….. espagnoles.

ANSWERS:
Je suis canadien.
Tu es belge.
Il est allemande ?
Elle est français.
Nous sommes espagnols.
Vous êtes russe ?
Ils sont canadiens.
Ells sont espagnoles.


Is it too much?

Well, let’s try to look at the pictures below and say where those people are from, shall we?


Elle s’appelle Jennifer Aniston. Elle est américaine !




Brigitte Bardot est française.



Penélope Cruz est espagnole.



Maria Sharapova est russe.



Gisele Bündchen est Brésilienne.

 I hope you liked it.
Salut ! 
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quarta-feira, 26 de agosto de 2015

Sex Pills



Listening (here)

Sex Pills

— "Doc, you've gotta help me! My wife just isn't interested in sex anymore. Haven't you got a pill or something I can give her?" "Look, I can't prescribe..."
— "Doc, we've been friends for years. Have you ever seen me this upset? I am desperate! I can't think; I can't concentrate; my life is going utterly to hell! You've got to help me."
— The doctor opens his desk drawer and removes a small bottle of pills. "Ordinarily, I wouldn't do this. These are experimental; the tests so far indicate that they're VERY powerful. Don't give her more than ONE, understand? Just ONE."
— "I don't know, doc, she's awfully cold..."
— "One. No more. In her coffee. Okay?"
— "Um... Okay."
— The guy expresses gratitude and leaves for home, where his wife has dinner waiting. When dinner is finished, she goes to the kitchen to bring dessert. The man hastily pulls the pills from his pocket and drops one into his wife's coffee. He reflects for a moment, hesitates, then drops in a second pill. And then he begins to worry. The doctor did say they were powerful. Then inspiration strikes he drops one pill into his own coffee. His wife returns with the shortcake and they enjoy their dessert and coffee. Sure enough, a few minutes after they finish, his wife shudders a little, sighs deeply and heavily, and a strange look comes over her. In a near whisper and a tone of voice he has never heard her use before, she says, "I...need... a man..."
— His eyes glitter and his hands tremble as he replies, "Me... Too..."

Vocabulary Help

  • awfully - terrivelmente
  • dessert - sobremesa
  • worry - preocupar
  • drop - colocar
  • shudder - tremer
  • sigh - suspirar
  • deeply - profundamente
  • whisper - suspiro
  • glitter - brilhar

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domingo, 23 de agosto de 2015

Sherlock Holmes




listening (here)


Sherlock Holmes
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of the world famous detective, Sherlock Holmes, was not above telling tales about himself in which he was the laughing stock. Here is one of those stories.
As he tells it, he was waiting at a taxi stand outside the railway station in Paris.
When a taxi pulled up, he put his suitcase in it and got in himself. As he was about to tell the taxi driver where he wanted to go, the driver asked him:
"Where can I take you, Mr. Doyle?" Doyle was flabbergasted. He asked the driver whether he knew him by sight.
The driver said: "No Sir, I have never seen you before." The puzzled Doyle asked him what made him think that he was Conan Doyle.
The driver replied: "This morning's paper had a story about you being on vacation in Marseilles. This is the taxi stand where people who return from Marseilles always come to. Your skin colour tells me you have been on vacation. The ink spot on your right index finger suggests to me that you are a writer. Your clothing is very English, and not French. Adding up all those pieces of information, I deduce that you are Sir Arthur Conan Doyle." Doyle said:
"This is truly amazing. You are a real life counter part to my fictional creation, Sherlock Holmes."
"There is one other thing," the driver said.
"What is that?"
"Your name is on the front of your suitcase."

Vocabulary Help

  • tales - histórias
  • laughing stock - objeto de gozação, riso
  • railway station - estação ferroviária
  • flabbergasted - surpreso
  • puzzled - surpreso, espantado
  • skin - pele
  • ink spot - marca de tinta
  • clothing - vestuário
  • amazing - surpreendente

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sábado, 22 de agosto de 2015

Comment vous appelez-vous ?



Samedi le 22 (vingt-deux) Aôut

Bonjour. Comment vous appelez-vous ? Je m'appelle Bruno, et vous ? Enchanté. J'habite à Florianopólis.

  
Je ne parle pas français! il y a là quelq'un qui parle le français ?

If you are a regular visitor to this site, you have probably seen my posts about my Spanish language lessons (read here). It’s been many years ago since I last published something of that kind here.

Well, from now on, I will be posting – every Sunday – my experience with another language – French.

My objective? Learn more by sharing my impression about how it is to be a language learner again.

That’s all I want to say today. Stay tuned!

Au Revoir
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