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ALCOHOL

Television, movies, cinemas and billboard advertisements show alcohol as necessary for success. Everyone important is using it, they say. At least, that is what these media show. Parents, friends, peers may use alcohol. Even young children are introduced to its use in the home. Many think they can find happiness through its use. But many do not show the other side of the picture.

Health-promoting grains or fruits are allowed to ferment to produce alcohol (jard). Many of these products are further processed to increase the alcoholic content (raksi). The original product gives the drink its flavor; the alcohol from the fermentation process gives it the 'bite.'

Physical Effects:

No matter the drink, alcohol in all its forms is poisonous. Every drink destroys thousands of brain cells. It fogs the brain, lowers the inhibitions (the ability to do things that would not be done if alcohol was not in the system). Often a person becomes talkative, but memory and reason are affected. Permanent brain damage can occur. With large quantities of alcohol in the blood, hallucinations, loss of brain function and then death may occur.

Alcohol damages other parts of the body as well. The liver is the primary organ that detoxifies alcohol. It takes more than 1 hour for the liver to break down the alcohol from 1 drink. Vomiting, bathing, drinking tea or coffee, exercising or eating food will not get rid of alcohol in the blood any faster. Eating will slow down the rate of absorption but will not slow down the rate of breakdown. It takes time for the liver to process the alcohol. But the alcohol also damages the liver. Cirrhosis of the liver, an irreparable disease, may occur with repeated use. The liver isn't the only organ damaged. Alcohol raises the blood pressure, causes stomach ulcers and bleeding, causes inflammation of all parts of the digestive tract, increases cancers of the mouth, larynx and esophagus and many other diseases.

Social Effects:

But the damage to the body is only one part of the problem. Social, psychological, and financial problems can be even greater. While a drinker may feel he is happier, more free and friendly, yet often alcohol can lead him to arguments, violence and aggression. The home is often the scene of quarrels, fights and abuse. Children and spouses may be neglected or harmed. The place that should be the happiest place in the world becomes a place of disappointment, misery and fear. How much better if alcohol did not enter the home.

Alcohol breaks down the inhibitions, leading to behavior that would not be considered if sober. Unwanted pregnancies, risky sex, rape and murder are committed more frequently by those under the influence of liquor.

Prenatal Effects:

Alcohol also affects adversely (badly) the unborn baby. Whatever the mother eats or drinks is eaten and drunk by the baby. The problem is, the alcohol must be removed by the liver from the mother's blood before it can be removed from the baby's blood. The baby's liver is not sufficiently developed to remove the alcohol from its own system, so it must depend on its mother's liver to break down the alcohol. Her liver breaks down the alcohol from her blood first. Then the alcohol from the baby passes back through the placenta to the mother's blood where it is processed. Thus the baby remains drunk longer than the mother. All the time the alcohol is in the baby's blood it is doing damage. It is damaging the brain, organs and body.

Many times a woman drinks alcohol before she realizes she is pregnant. It is during the first three months of pregnancy that the baby's development is most affected. It can cause bone deformation, facial changes, mental damage, and smaller birth weight and smaller brain size. Often the child is mentally retarded all the rest of its life. Also, he will find it much easier to use alcohol as he grows up. The damage done to the child is called Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. This is a totally preventable disease. No woman of child-bearing age should drink alcohol.

Also, the father can pass on his thirst for alcohol to his children through his genes. A man who wants the very best for his children should never drink alcoholic beverages. His addiction to alcohol may be passed on to his children and grandchildren. Because of his influence and heredity, he may make it very hard for his children to not have a thirst for alcohol.

Mental Effects:

Drinking impairs the judgment. A person may think he is very much in control of himself, but with every drink his ability to do 2 things at one time is greatly lessened. Especially the ability to drive a vehicle is greatly impaired. Driving requires many skills and lots of good judgment, where many decisions need to be made. Even one drink affects the mind and the ability to think, drive and make good decisions. Never should alcohol be used by anyone going to drive a vehicle or run equipment. There are many other lives besides his own that he is responsible for. Many highway accidents are caused by drinking drivers.

Alcohol is an addictive drug. Once the habit is formed, it is difficult, but not impossible, to overcome. Often it requires strong determination, assistance from family and friends, and sometimes professional help to master this addiction. Divine help from God is often the major key to breaking this health, body and soul-destroying poison.

Because of the emotional effects on children and family members as they see, hear and feel the affects of alcohol abuse, a strong appeal is made to every victim of alcohol to give up this poison and join those who are educating children, youth and adults to be alcohol-free.

"In relation to tea, coffee, tobacco, and alcoholic drinks, the only safe course is to touch not, taste not, handle not. The tendency of tea, coffee, and similar drinks is in the same direction as that of alcoholic liquor and tobacco, and in some cases the habit is as difficuolt to break as it is for the drunkard to give up intoxicants. Those who attempt to leave off these stimulants will for a time feel a loss and will suffer without them. But by persistence they will overcome the craving and cease to feel the lack. Nature may require a little time to recover from the abuse she has suffered; but give her a chance, and she will again rally and perform her work nobly and well." E.G. White, Health and Happiness, p. 139.

Written by Terri Horner

Lifestyle Education Center

Mungpoo, India

With God all things are possible, including living life without wordly conformity and compromise. Resolve now by His grace to stand on the Rock and resist the waves of compromise that are sweeping God´s children from the shores of salvation. And always remember that when you take a stand, you do not stand alone. JESUS STANDS WITH YOU!

CONFIDENCE : Once all village people decided to pray for rain. On the day of prayer all people gathered and only one boy came with an umbrella...... that's Confidence...

TRUST: Trust should be like the feeling of a one year old baby when you throw him in the air; he laughs.....because he knows you will catch him........ That's Trust............

HOPE: Every night we go to bed, we have no assurance to get up alive in the next morning but still we have plans for the coming day..........that's Hope..........

Lapland business trip

organic forrest -> organic berries

Blueberries were incredibly big and sweet. All of my free time I spent in forrest grasping fresh air and eating those big berries :)

Crowberries (kukemari) are not eaten in Estonia, but in Finnland they are used in candies and juices. Good source of fitamin C. there were lot of lingonberries, crowberries, blueberries instead of snow.

Arctic hotel
Mahepõllumajanduse valdkonna Põhja- ja Baltimaade kontrollorganisatsioonide 15-ndal kohtumisel olid esindatud Taani, Soome, Norra, Rootsi, Läti ja Eesti. Teisipäeval ja komapäeval juhtisid arutelusid nende riikide esindajad. Arutelude käigus anti aru nende riigi hetkeseisust mahepõllumajanduses. Käsitleti teemasi, nagu mahe metsa sertifitseerimine, mis on väga levinud Soomes. Sellega seoses mahe marjade korjamine, vahendamine, müük. Kuna soomlased ise ei taha madala palga eest töötada on nad muretsenud Aasiast odavat tööjõudu. Pohla liitri eest nad saavad keskmiselt 1 euro ja mustika liitri eest 2 eurot.
Üks õhtu olid mõned mahetootjad tulnud hotelli oma toodangut tutvustama. Nad pakkusid marmelaadi, mis olid valmistatud kukemarjadest, huvitav avastus, sest Eestis ei tehta kukemarjast midagi; kuivatatud põdrapõhjade liha, kuivatatud kartuli segud; ravimteed jm. huvitavat.
Käsitleti veel teemasid nagu loomade heaolu (otsest loomade heaolu kontrolli ei ole laialdaselt tehtud), mahe restoranide sertifitseerimine (nõudlus mahe restoranide järgi mõnedes riikides suur, sertifitseerimis ja kontroll meetodi kallal töötavad nii Norra kui Soome), mahe sööda saadavus (selles vallas on see aasta kõigil probleeme, kuna ilmad on olnud kehvad)
Ekskursioonil käisime vaatamas väikest mahe tootjat, kes tegi põhjapõtrade lihast palju tooteid ja metsmarjadest kastmeid. Sai kohapeal marja kastmeid proovida ja mulle meeldis kõige rohkem muraka kaste, seega ostsin selle kohe kohalikust väiksest mahepoest.
Kohtusime mahemarjade vahendajaga, kes ostis sisse koolitatud mahemarjade korjajatelt erinevaid marju ja müüs ettevõttele edasi. Sealsamas kõrval oli ka mittemahemarjade kokkuostja, ning temal olid samad kokkuostu hinnad kui mahedalgi. Ettevõtja määrab marjade hinna. Erinevus on neil vaid selles, et mahevahendaja töö on treenida oma korjajaid vastavalt maheseaduse nõuetele.
Mahemetsadel on suured kaardid, mida siis korjajad peaksid oskama lugeda.
Põhjapõtru nägime ka ära, pruune ja valgeid :)

Piknik Sakus!!

Trip to Denmark

My friend Kirsten made me such a nice food
( French, Chinese, Egyptian etc.)



University were I studied a year ago(Life Science University) has a nice garden as always.
On the main street there were so many entertainers!! Here is one of them!
I had such a wonderful Sabbath day with my dear friends in Svanevej adventist church:)) Miss you all!!

Bike that wasnt useful for somebody was useful for this cuty bird.


Botanical garden

A healthy attitude

The relation that exists between the mind and the body is very intimate. When one is affected, the other sympathize. The condition of the mind affects the health to a far degree than many realize. Many of the diseases from which man suffer are the result of mental depression. Grief, anxiety, discontent, remorse, guilt, and distrust, all tend to break down the life forces and to invite decay and death.
Courage, hope, faith, sympathy, and love, promote health and prolong life. A contented mind, a cheerful spirit, is health to the body and strength to the soul. "A merry (rejoicing) heart doeth good like a medicine."(Proverbs 17:22)
The effect of mental influence should not be overlooked. By the exercise of the will power in placing themselves in right relation to life, patients can do much to cooperate with the physician´s efforts for their recovery. Often invalids can resist disease simply by refusing to yield to ailments and settle down in a state of inactivity. Rising above their aches and pains, they should engage in useful activity suited to their strength. By such exercise and the free use of air and sunlight, many an ivalid might recover health and strenght.
We are in a world of suffering. Difficulty, trial, and sorrow await us all along the way to the heavenly home. But there are many who make life´s burdens doubly heavy by continually anticipating trouble. Thus they bring wretchedness upon themselves and cast a shadow upon all around them. Let them look away from the dark picture to the benefits which God has strewn in their pathway, and beyond these to the unseen and eternal.
When the sunlight of God´s love illuminates the darkened chambers of the soul, restless weariness and dissatisfaction will cease, and satisfying joys will give vigor to the mind and health and energy to the body.

Vegan cheese cake

"O.K.-Cake"
Ingredients:

For the Oatmealcrust 2 Cups of Oatmeal

1.5 Cups brownflour

1 Cup shredded almonds or Cashews

1/2 teaspoon salt

2 teaspoons Coriander

2 teaspoon Vanilla powder

1/2 cup of margarine or oil

2 tablespoon of fruitjuice

6 tablespoon of maple sirup or brown sugar

Preparation:

1. Mix the dry ingredients.

2. Add margarine or oil, and liquids and mix it well.

3. Press the mass tightly into a medium deep tray.

4. Bake at 160 - 170 Celsius (depending on the oven) for 10-12 minutes, till the crust looks golden.

Filling:

1 cup of millet

4 cups of hot water

1 teaspoon of salt

2/3 cups of Cashews

2/3 cups of lemon juice

2/3 cups of maple sirup

2 teaspoon of vanilla powder

Preparation:

1. Wash the millet in a strainer under poring water.

2. Add to the boiling water salt and millet. Cook it for about 1 minute on highest heat. Put the heat back on low till the millet haas finnaly sucked the water (about 40 minutes).

3. Blend Cashewnuts, lemonjuice, maple sirup and vanilla powder till very fine.

4. Add the hot millet to it. Blend the mass till it is creamy and has no more clumps. Immediately pour the filling on top of the cooled down crust.

5. Let the filling cool down till it has become thickened over night.

6. Cover the filling with fresh cutted fruits, or deep frozen fruits or pour a layer of strawberry cream over it like following:

Strawberry cream covering:

2 cups of apple juice1 cup of fresh, frozen or from the can strawberries

8 tablespoons of cornstarch

3 tablespoon of raw sugar

Preparation:

1. Cook the apple juice, cornstarch, and the raw sugar till the mass is thickened. Stirr comstantly.

2. Take it from the stove and add the strawberries.

3. Pour the "strawcover" over the filling and let it rest till it is cooled out.

Lord calls

The Lord calls for many more to engage in the canvassing work. . . . For Christ's sake, my brethren and sisters, make the most of the hours of the new year to place the precious light of present truth before the people. The Angel of the covenant is empowering His servants to carry the truth to all parts of the world. He has sent forth His angels with the message of mercy; but, as if they did not speed on their way fast enough to satisfy His heart of yearning love, He lays on every member of His church the responsibility of proclaiming this message. "Let him that heareth say, Come." Every member of the church is to show his loyalty by inviting the thirsty to drink of the water of life. A chain of living witnesses is to carry the invitation to the world. Will you act your part in this great work? {CM 18.1}
Both Men and Women.--Jesus is calling for many missionaries, for men and women who will consecrate themselves to God, willing to spend and be spent in His service. Oh, can we not remember that here is a world to labor for? Shall we not move forward step by step, letting God use us as His helping hand? Shall we not place ourselves on the altar of service? Then the love of Christ will touch and transform us, make us willing for His sake to do and dare.--Review and Herald, Jan. 27, 1903. {CM 18.2}
Many, both men and women, can do an excellent work by canvassing for books that are full of direct, simple instruction on practical godliness.--Manuscript 81, 1900.

A Call to Youth.--The Lord calls upon our youth to labor as canvassers and evangelists, to do house-to-house work in places that have not yet heard the truth. He speaks to our young men, saying, "Ye are not your own. For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's." Those who will go forth to the work under God's direction will be wonderfully blessed. Those who in this life do their best will obtain a fitness for the future immortal life.--Review and Herald, May 16, 1912. {CM 19.1}