from: The White
Donkey Society
February
2, 2005
~TRAILS
of INSPIRATION~
LET GO LET
GOD
http://wandascountryhomeinspirational.com/bleeding-heart/index.html
THEREâS
A REASON
http://www.sandysworldonline.com/reason.html
~TRAILS
of WISDOM~
Do not let what you cannot
do interfere with what you can
do. -John
Wooden
Charity sees the need; not
the cause.
-- German Proverb
You can chase a butterfly
all over the field and never catch it. But if you sit quietly in the grass it
will come and sit on your shoulder.
--Unknown
A candle loses
nothing by lighting another candle.
--Erin Majors
The best of all things is
to learn. Money can be lost or stolen, health and strength may fail, but what
you have committed to your mind is yours forever. --- Louis
L'Amour
Let us not be
content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make
the right things happen. -Peter Marshall
A clear conscience sleeps during thunder.
-- Jamaican
Proverb
~TRAILS of
KNOWLEDGE~
Peanut Butter Packs a Healthy
Punch
Kelli Miller Stacy & Kathleen Zelman
- Eating two
spoonfuls of peanut butter straight from the jar may seem like a guilty
pleasure, but new research shows it could be a healthy habit. Researchers from
Pennsylvania State University found that men, women, and children who ate a
daily dose of peanuts or peanut butter were better able to meet the Recommended
Daily Allowance (RDA) for vitamins and nutrients than those who steered
clear.
A single serving of peanut butter is equal to two
tablespoons.One ounce of nuts equals one serving. Including peanuts and peanut
butter daily in a calorie-balanced diet can help meet nutrient goals set by the
U.S. government, nutritionist and study researcher Penny Kris-Etherton, PhD, RD,
says in a news release. The study was funded in part by The Peanut
Institute.
In recent years peanut butter and nuts have been shown to be part of a healthy
diet. A Harvard
study in 2002 showed that women who regularly ate peanut butter and nuts had a
reduced risk of type 2 diabetes. And the more they ate, the lower their risk
was. Stop
Diabetes
There is an epidemic of type 2 diabetes in the U.S., but research suggests that
nuts may lower the risk. Women who eat nuts at least five times a week had a 30%
reduction in diabetes risk over women who never ate nuts, according to a study
in the Nov. 27, 2002, issue of The Journal of the American Medical
Association.
When you add nuts to your diet, you add the health benefits but you
also add calories. A 1 oz serving of nuts contains between 160 and 200 calories,
most of which come from the heart-healthy, monounsaturated
fat.
The size of a 1 oz serving of nuts also varies depending on the type of nut.
That's about 47 shelled pistachios, 30 peanuts, 24 almonds, 20 pecan halves or
hazelnuts, and 14 walnut halves.hat meet the FDA's requirement can now carry the
following
claim:
"Scientific evidence suggests but does not prove that eating 1.5 ounces per day
of most nuts, as part of a diet low in saturated fat and cholesterol, may reduce
the risk of heart disease." An ounce and a half serving of nuts is about a third
of a cup or a small handful. --- WebMD Medical
News
~TRAILS of
HE-HAWS~
#
1
Say, Bill," a man said
to his pal, "how do you
like your new job?"
"It's the worst job I ever had."
"How long have you
been there?"
"About three long months."
"Why don't you quit?"
"No way.
This is the first time in 20 years I've
looked forward to going
home."
#2
A young private sought
permission from his Commanding Officer to leave camp the following
weekend. "You see,"
he explained, "my wife`s expecting."
Oh..." said the Officer, "I understand. Go ahead and
tell your wife that I wish her luck. The following week the same soldier was
back again with the same explanation: "My wife's expecting."
The Officer looked surprised. "Still expecting?" he said,
"Well, well, my boy, you must be pretty bothered. Of course you can have
the weekend off.
"When the same soldier appeared again the third week, however, the
Officer lost his temper. "Don't tell me your wife is still expecting!" he
bellowed.
"Yes sir!" said the soldier resolutely, "She`s still expecting." "What on
earth is she expecting?" cried the Officer. "Me." said the soldier
simply.
#3
An
8-year-old girl went to her dad, who was working in the yard. She asked
him, "Daddy, what is
sex?"
The father was surprised that she would ask such a question, but decided that if
she was old enough to ask the question, then she was old enough to get a
straight answer. He proceeded to tell her all about the 'birds and the
bees'. When he finished explaining, the little girl was looking at him
with her mouth hanging open. The father asked her, "Why did you ask this
question?"
The little girl replied, "Mom told me to tell you that dinner would be
ready in just a couple of secs."
#4
There was a hound dog laying in the yard. An
old man
in overalls was sitting on the porch.
"Excuse me, Sir, but does your dog
bite?", the
tourist asked. The old man replied, "Nope."
So the tourist
stepped out of his car. The dog ran over
snarling and growling and bit him
on his arms and legs.
As the dog was dragging him away the tourist
was
flailing around in the dust and yelled, "I thought
you said your dog didn't
bit!"
The old man replied, "Ain't my
dog."
#5
A Sunday school
teacher asked, "Johnny, do you think Noah did a lot of
fishing when he was on
the Ark?"
"No," replied Johnny. "How could he, with just
two worms."
