I do believed in Ghost even though i haven’t seen any. Let me share you my story and my experience when i was with my Auntie in Hospital. Her Room was located at the Fourth floor which is also the last floor in that hospital. There were only four rooms in that floor; two private and two semi-private rooms. We occupied one of the semi-private room. The other semi private room was occupied by an old cancer patient while one private room is occupied by an old priest who was said to be the owner of that hospital.

There are rumors that every night, you can hear some noices of children crying. According to some nurses, they ussually hear some noices which seems like someone is walking around the corridor. They also told us that there is an incident that one of their patient saw an old nun who passed through the wall.

Despite of these scary stories and rumors, we still have no choice but to get at least a semi-Private room for my Tita. My Tita spent four consecutive days in the hospital and i was in charge to be with her on her second night.

I have an insomnia and i can’t hardly sleep at night. Good thing that there’s a tv inside the room so i still have something to watch. Suddenly , while i was watching a late-night tv program, someone knocks the door. I thought it could be one of the nurses who will monitor my Tita but surprisingly as open the door, i saw nothing. I don’t know what’s wrong with me but i decided to go outside. There are no nurses in the fourth floor station because most of them are afraid to stay in their station so they prefer to be with other nurses in the thrid floor.

It’s 1pm at that time, i decided to walk around the corridor. The door in the opposite room is closed and maybe the cancer patient was already asleep. The other room where the old priest is located is also closed. The Last room is empty and open. I feel strange and it seems that a cold wind passes by in front of me. I was so scared so i run and go inside my room again.

I really force myself to sleep and try to close my eyes and ignore the things i hear outside. Its really a great experience for me. How about you share us your ghost stories too!!

The operation was a success. My Tita (Auntie) was diagnosed to have Adenomyosis. Adenomyosis is a condition where the utesrus becomes bulky and heavier that causes painful and/or profuse menses like dysmenorrhe. I witness all her suffering due to the extreme pain brought to her by her disease. According to her doctor, there’s a big possibility that she got this illness after she gave birth to her one and only son via ceasarean section. There’s also a big possibility that this illness may lead to cervical cancer.

This is the main reason why my Tita decided to undergo medical operation as advised by her Gynecologist. However, my tita have to decide and accept the consequences of the operation. According to her doctor, Her uterus will be taken out from her which only means that she will never get a chance to have another baby. But of course, she also aske her husband about this before undergoing such operation.

The operation took a couple of hours and finally, here’s my Tita lying on her bed. It seems that she lost all her extra strength after her operation. She was very happy that she will never worry again about her condition. Despite the fact thst she will never get a chance to gave birth for a new baby, she knows she had made a right decision and God always have plans for her.

Surprisingly, a day after her operation, here’s my Tita (auntie) preparing herself to leave the hospital and very excited to meet her son. She lost weight but it seems that nothing has changed to her. Infact, she became livelier than before and we’re very happy for her.

I was with her in the hospital together with some of her relatives. I took this picture showing my Tita together with her In-laws.

Due to the global economic upheaval, local companies have become competitive when it comes to the services and products that they offer. This rings true especially to those from the business process outsourcing industry.

As a result, more has been expected from employees. After all, bigger output and better quality can always lure in more clients and customers.

With higher demands and heavier job-related pressures, SLEEP becomes less of a priority. Some even develop sleep disorders sue to stress brought about by work.

After all, why sleep is you can spend the waking hours producing more work or at less thinking of ways to improve work?

In reality though, work eventually suffers with lack of sleep. According to some specialist, a sleep deprived person is unable to mulit-task and has an impaired memory.

Studies have proven that sleep is reasonable in storing new information in the memory through a process called memory consolidation. Further studies showed that sleep-deprived people have bigger tendency to fail in newly learned tasks.

So you have to be aware of this and take a time to sleep. In some serious cases, they use sleep enhancers.

Do you beleived in Feng Shui?

Vegetables are very healthy and pretty much advisable to eat than poultry meats. They are rich in vitamins and nutrients. I prefer to buy vegetables that are sold in a department store or malls than buying them in a market.

I am assured that they are clean and free from dirt and insects. I love veggies!

Keeping our family members healthy is not a simple task to perform, it entails continously thinking of what to include in the daily meals to ensure nutrient adequacy.

Among foods that i make sure is available frequently in the family meals, is spinach. Commonly,  this will be incorporated in a soup recipe, the one with sotanghon or “misua” noodles and  sometimes mixed with boild quail eggs and broccoli flowerettes upon serving.

Just like “Popeye” , i personally feel energized after consumption of this nutrient dense food.This food is considered a nutrient-dense food because of being an excellent source of: Vitamin B, C,A, K, Manganese, Folate, Magnesium and iron. It can also be a source of Calcium, Potasium, Pyridoxine, Amino Acid, Vitamin E, Dietary Fiber, Copper, Thiamin, Protein, Phosphorus and Zinc. Whew! That was a long list of nutrients right?And so, who would not be interested to know what else can spinach give us?

Out there, Scientist have found another exciting health benefit from spinach, and this time, it’s coming from its extract. Swedish researchers have identified a compound found in green leaves (including spinach) that supresses appetite and boost weight lost in lab animals, and could one be used as a functional ingredient to help tackle obesity.

The researchers from Lunds University have identified “tylakoids”, tiny membranes in the choloroplasts and are source of minerals, proteins anf fats,  which appear to inhibit the digestion of fat.  This means the fat stays in the intestinal tract for longer time and sets off satiety signals.

In the test tube studies, experiment showed that the fat digestion was inhibited in the presense of both “tylakoids” and pancreatic lipase, a digestive enzyme. After this experiment, the researchers progressed to animal studies.

Initial test showed that, as the scientists had predicted, the rats ate less, loss weight, and the blood lipid levels decreased.

While human studies are still being planned, it is estimated that if they were to use raw spinach as a source of tylakoids, one would have to eat half a kilo of spinach a dayaccording to the researchers.

It sounds outrageous to eat that much spinach in a day, but while we can’t benefit from the satiety of the advantage yet, we won’t lose much if we can really eat more spinach.

Other that its potential to be of use in controlling thr appetite, researchers have already identified at least 13 different falvonoid compounds in spinach that function as anti-oxidants and as an anti-cancer agents. May of these substances fall into a technical category of flavonoids.  Primarily, it is these anitcancer properties spinach flavonoids (which were so impressive) that prompt researchers to create specialized spinach extracts that could be used in controlled studies.

Spinach extracts have been shown to slow down the cell division in stomach cancer cells, and in the studies  on laboratory animals, to reduce skin cancer. There was also a study on adult women iving in New England in the late 1980’s also showed intake of spinach  to be inversely related  to incidence of breast cancer.

Spinach is truly an amazing vegetable, the next time you visit your favorite supermarket, take a bundle of spinach and help your family become energized and protected!