How Coughing Hard Could Save You from Heart Attack

Again there are many good pages in Facebook. This one is "Info for U". A friend posted this on her wall which I think is excellent information for those who fear heart attack. Yes... the simple first aid solution is to deep breath and cough hardly to bring in oxygen to the lungs and to be able to pump the heart, until help arrives.

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    HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE

  
  Let's say it's 6.15pm and you're going home (alone of course),
  after an unusually hard day on the job. You're really tired, upset and frustrated. Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that starts to drag out into your arm and up into your jaw. You are only about five miles from the hospital nearest your home. Unfortunately you don't know if you'll be able to make it that far. You have been trained in CPR, but the guy that taught the course did not tell you how to perform it on yourself..!!
  
  NOW HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE..
  
  Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack, without help, the person whose heart is beating improperly and who begins to feel faint, has only about 10 seconds left before losing consciousness.
  However, these victims can help themselves by coughing repeatedly and very vigorously.
  A deep breath should be taken before each cough, and the cough must be deep and prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep inside the chest.
  A breath and a cough must be repeated about every two seconds without let-up until help arrives, or until the heart is felt to be beating normally again.
  Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing movements squeeze the heart and keep the blood circulating.
  The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain normal rhythm. In this way, heart attack victims can get to a hospital.
  
  Rather than sharing jokes please.. contribute by Sharing this which can save a person's life!!!!

  By: Info for u

300 and 30,000

One thing I learned from St Josemaria Escriva, founder of Opus Dei is his love for the number 3 and its multiples like 6 and 9. It reminded him of the Blessed Trinity- God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. In an uncanny way, my laundry number which identifies my clothes that are sent to any laundry bears the number 913. I interpret it as "Three in One God". This week finds me looking in an awesome way at the number 3 again. This time it is 300 and 30,000.

After a complete month after the release of the "Family Festive Menu", 300 cookbooks have been sold so far. ; 150 more are in circulation (majority good as sold but not yet in cash) and 254 copies remain in my stock room. Not bad at all. Thank you Lord. I was eagerly looking for the number 300 and we reached it this week. Ladies continue to buy and get re-orders.

Remember this book? Released and sold around December 18, 2011.

It gives a different kind of euphoria when I learn that people have been using the recipes. A good number have used them for the holidays including the last early feastdays of January. I got this photo on top from facebook from my good friends, husband & wife, Norma and Louie who tried the beef tenderloin and loved it. I guess this is how authors feel when they come across people who identify themselves with his/her work. Awesome!

Another good news is that this blog is already reaching 30,000 hits since it started recording the pageviews on May 2009. As of yesterday, it already reached 29,960. The daily hits range from 50 to 300 per day, with an average of 2,500 hits per month. Honestly, I do not know the people who are following the blog, but I thank you just the same.

My only wish is I could continue to share good things to others. Whether it be in the form of a cookbook or entries in this blog. Thank you also for technology for stretching the reach of books, articles and blog items.

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Positive Outlooks and Prayer

Emotions and feelings are transitory, so we cannot make major decisions and judgments based on them alone. If we do, we often commit the biggest blunders. As a human being, I acknowledge I have those ups and downs. We can be happy and sad; joyful and angry; feel appreciated or feel neglected or betrayed. Take note, these are all transient and cannot last forever. When we feel down, we have to try our best to get out of the situation.

Believe it or not, there are lots of good prayers and encouragements we can get from Facebook. Here's a list of pages that could get you out of the blues:

1- Positive Outlooks

2- Mama Mary

3- Just Feeling Good

4- All Famous Quotes

5- Facebook Apostles

6- Simple Steps to Enjoying Life

7- Be Happy Now

8- Mother Teresa

9- Remember Me: John Paul II

Here's a beautiful prayer I got from Mama Mary this week. For those who feel uncertain with life, or simply have the blues, try this Serenity Prayer. It came to me at a time when I needed it most....

• The Serenity Prayer God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time; Enjoying one moment at a time; Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace; Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it; Trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His Will; That I may be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with Him Forever in the next. Amen.

  
  

  
  

But God is so good. Other encouragements came our way with these thank you notes. Thank You Lord for treating us as your own children... a broken reed you will not break. Prayer, if we feel down, many times this is the best remedy. God will meet us half way...

Oops! Christmas is Just Not Over Yet!

Yup, Christmas isn't over yet. Tomorrow is the feast of the Epiphany of our Lord, where Jesus manifested himself as God, not to the whole world but to the Three Kings. We remember the gifts given by the 3 kings of the east to Jesus--gold, frankincense and myrrh. In many countries in Europe, the Christmas gift giving actually happens on this feast.

The 3 kings or the 3 wise men from the east, presented the gifts to Jesus after searching for him and finally being led by a star to the stable at Bethlehem.

And, this is also a good day to come up with more gimmicks on the table like the one above. I recovered this picture from my collection of the years 2003-05. We made use of 3 different sizes of wine bottles and covered them with different colors of napkins and put a ball on top of each of them. They obviously looked like 3 kings. We also gave some little knick-knacks as give aways...as if from the three kings. Some Disney ballpens, pad papers for little kids and old alike.

So, Happy Three Kings. Enjoy the last days of Christmas!

How to Make Easy Sun-Dried Tomatoes

This is what we served on New Year's Eve with the two-sausage pasta. It's actually a fake sun-dried process, because we bake the tomatoes in an "indeliberate way". After turning the oven off after baking our breads, we put in our sliced tomatoes drizzled in olive oil to cook it. . They end up flat and exactly like those you buy in the groceries which could be a bit expensive.

Sun-dried tomatoes give a new character to your pasta and salads which makes it more attractive. I hope you try making them for this new year!

New Year Countdown: Counting our Blessings

We just wrapped up our food shopping for the New Year.... Being the first day of a long holiday in the Philippines, the streets of Tagaytay were clogged again. Tagaytay is now the second summer capital of the country. Thank God we made it back home by 11am. Now it's practically waiting for the New Year, 2012 to arrive.

Most of us have heard in a Christmas song by the Ray Conniff singers that "we should count our blessings instead of sheep". Tomorrow is the last day of the year 2011, and we're somehow faced with a reckoning about the year that just ended. Maybe we could take the advice of that song "to count our blessings" and tell God, "Thank You Lord for the all the graces you have given us this year, even those that we were not aware of". This is also the advice of a modern day saint, St. Josemaria Escriva, whenever he was faced with saying good-bye to the old year-- "Thank You Lord".

Now about our New Year's eve menu. It's actually quite simple. Only 3 main dishes that are easy to do.

Sausage pasta with olive oil and basil...

Herb bread....

...and chocolate fondue with fruits & sponge cake.

For sure, we will be watching year-ender shows on TV, and just having this simple but filling New Year's eve meal is enough to thank God that we made it to another year.

Happy New Year everyone!

Spirit and Matter for Christmas

Matter...

This is the spiritual preparation. Looking and praying at the Belen.

So we’re finally at the brink of Christmas, December 24. It’s not yet late too contemplate the true meaning of Christmas which is the birth of Jesus Christ, our savior. Today especially, I wish to put myself in the scene of Bethelehem, which like in the previous years was represented with the Belen or the creche. I am accompanying Mary and Joseph looking for the cave now, where the child is to be born, and I anticipate the bursting of joy of the couple and the host of angels who will say “Gloria in Excelsis Deo”—“Glory to God in the highest!”. Two marvelous creatures, Mary and Joseph were entrusted to take care of the birth and upbringing of Jesus. How much they must have prepared themselves materially and spiritually for his birth. I wish to do the same thing now, with just hours before Christmas eve.

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This is the material preparation: Stuffed Chicken for Lunch tomorrow. Take note: they're jumbo chicken with bread and apple stuffing.

The Menu for Christmas Eve: Bam-I noodles, a little ham, butterscotch (like brownies), polvoron, chips, nuts, beer

The Menu for Christmas Lunch: Canapes, Pringles, Sparkling Grape Juice

Mixed Greens with Shrimps and Mangoes and Strawberry

Vinaigrette

Stuffed Chicken

Chocolate Christmas Log

All the recipes for Christmas Lunch is in this blog posted last year (Tested Christmas Recipes 2010), and also in my book.

A Blessed Christmas to everyone!