YOU ARE GOD’S FAVOURITE/S

God’s LOVE is the highest relationship you need. In 1 John 4:7 Jehovah’s Love Chesed is highest loving kindness, God first loves you deeply, forgives your sins, sustains life. HIS love is a free gift lavished genuinely on you. God provides food, sunshine, rain, garments, health, family, friends and loved ones. God’s love in personal note to you in His Bible for intimate relationship with you. Celebrate romantic meals, gifts strengthen lovelife with joy, joke, laugh with a spouse but need Gods. Your maker God a husband and companion to the widows, father to fatherless, orphans and needy. God’s affection for you is HIS friendship, intimacy embraces you in lonely moment. Celebrate God in life, talk to God your personal friend through Jesus’ blood. Believers enter God’s Presence in Jesus  Name so give thanks to God for HIS LOVE and blessings. Perfect LOVE casts out fear. Honour, reverence for God is the beginning of wisdom. God loves you devote time to read and study your Bible to get to know God better. God’s love in Jesus Christ is the GREATEST LOVE OF ALL so celebrate God. None loves you more than God, Christ who laid down His life for you as your true friend in John 15:13-14. God gave Jesus in Genesis 2:8 the Seed to forgive all sin. God said its not good to be alone need special LOVE from God to adore, marry to live with, if you want it. Perfect love helps feel loved, accepted, affirmed, appreciated, confident, endorsed, fulfilled, happy, loved, true friend, loyal, faithful, dependable, reliable, trusted, instant in season as list goes on. It is God’s will people marry as great blessing if you finds the one receive God’s marital favour. Believers are bride of Christ as Bridegroom in wedding banquet of the Lamb of God.Jesus the head of the Church says love all, your wife as He loved His Church. Couples are to submit to each other in love. Psalm 91:14 says because you LOVE God HE will deliver you and set you on high. Because you KNOW God’s NAME and call upon HIM HE will bless you with full life. Trust God to help your love life because LOVE, marriage intimacy are God’s creation. God’s Biblical real love is to desire God’s kind of love. The family, Christian dating agencies help find love and others like millionaire / billionaire matchmakers clubs cater for their specific clientele. Some treat love matters as if its none of God’s business so attention shifts from Godly family approach they don’t seek God’s face. Abraham found a Godly wife Rebecca for Isaac his son. Modern methods encourage you seek the partner suitable for your standard. Then person is approved by friends and family, some not but love each other. The standard required single individual of 6 feet+ tall, handsome, has sense of humour, make laugh, healthy, fit works, earns, wealthy, rich, kind, travels, great in bed, loving, caring, six pack type of Hollywood superstar model preferred. The secular love standard is not like God’s one.Some pin-up their prince charming secretly hope and pray their dreams come true. It is not fantasy image of affection true love is from the heart. Seekers go on the hunt like women in Iceland in search for perfect love in places. Many look for a perfect mate but only God who is PERFECT. Eye contact and body language, smile, voice, good manners being important. After dates know if gut feeling of love at first sight is right propose get engaged. Others develop love slowly to know each other better passionately deep affection for relationship to last a lifetime. Some choose not to marry or impossible to find anyone up to their own standards search until they find the one. God’s LOVE manual 1 Corinthians 13 helps in decision-making for relationship, marriage and sex. God is Holy but is interested in your love life. Selflove looks out for interests of other family member commitments, responsible. To ‘forsake all others to have and hold’ is God’s standard true love is not to abandon family. To achieved this God directly inputs into your life designed on right way protect you from a turbulent world. An unbearable partner hurts themselve and others. God says be satisfied in joy, inner-peace, good success in loving marriage with spouse.
Respect and value your spouse and family as God and Jesus always forgives you. An emotional or physical looks of sex desires for intimacy can be distorted in the fantasy books like the Mills and Booms by Barbara Cartland are not deep enough to sustain today’s commitment yo love. A story book love says couples ‘live happily ever after’ is unrealistic expectation so is not perpetual honeymoon relationship. A disagreement is resolved true love does not fizzles out. It requires regular input develops, grows into mature stronger relationship. Actors depict lust as ‘love’ in romantic films but you want true love. Valentine day celebrate kindness of a girl to a priest’s life he chose to honour God helps couple marry. True measure of God’s real love helps meet needs. Some look for others to fill their love tanks do not do the same for them. GOLDEN rule is do to others what you want from them reflect in deep prayer first. Don’t let body’s carnal fleshy feelings lure you momentary lust of intimacy blind love it causes pain for life. Genuine true love from God loves one and your family loves you even if don’t say it.You are God’s favourite Love in Christ and HE preserves and strengthen your life have confidence in GOD’S LOVE. Be joyful, happy in yourself first and love others giving true love. Grow into mature love looking out for each other forever. After marriage couple grows with children if in the family. Friends, colleagues on a wedding day celebrate the marriage. Others choose partner based on romantic film drama. A real life experience includes trusted friend, therapists, support love to attain good success. Those willing to obey, eat good fruit of marriage physical intimacy consummate marriage. Attention, devotion to little things matter most with each other. God at centre of a relationship and older couple’s advise gives wisdom to younger couples. Marriage is not exclusive licence to reject others in family. Rebecca was brought by Abraham to the family to support not leave elderly father on his own. Leaving and cleaving is not to cut off other family members or love will become too close for comfort. It causes resentment as pressure mounts up if couple all things to each other and become isolated. God’s love for a married couple includes a provision of future old age. Set up a good plan with respect, honour, humility, love in a real practical meaningful way. Prepare to face reality of love. Challenging transitions adjust to relate in new ways and integrate to accommodate the family. A teachable Spirit learns to love each other like God’s Greatest love in Christ Jesus for His Bride. Covenant marriage of love in 1 Corinthians 13; Ephesians 5:22-33 is to Glory of God. A Godly marriage in Jesus Name in personal relationship with God leads to eternal life. In Deuteronomy 6:4, Matthew 22:37 Mark 12:30-31; Luke 10:27, Love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul and all your mind and strength. This is the first commandment a disciplined in Christ lives, reads and studies the Bible everyday.

PEOPLE TACKLING POVERTY

Malachi’s tooth fairy cash helps create a £5m homeless centre now opened in east London. He gave £5 donation when 5 years old to the Salvation Army with a note and prayer to “use it to buy a house for homeless” people. Now at ten-years-old Malachi’s donated tooth fairy money to Salvation Army was topped up by the Redbridge Council and Salvation Army to create Malachi’s Place on the freeland donated. The building’s 42 flats helps  homeless people get a home in Ilford in new housing for tenants. This shows no gifts are too small to help tackle poverty or homelessness in the world.

Wolverhampton Wanderers donated thousands of pieces of some protective equipment to health teams in response to the coronavirus epidemic. The club and owners Fosun donated 2,300 items. Medical coveralls and 1,000 N95 masks were among items distributed to Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust and public health teams. Executive chairman Jeff Shi said the club would do “all it can” to support doctors or community workers. Landlords of pub forced to close set up a service delivering fruit and vegetables to NHS and healthcare workers. Bradley Richards and Trina Lake set up a stall by their pub in Costessey, near Norwich, on Wednesday after deciding to sell the groceries. Ms Lake said they then struck on the idea of delivering food to health workers after spotting a nurse’s plea. A  fair trade coffee roaster pays fair prices to poor lower income farmers featured in Equator set up from the home garage. Grew to unique excellent tasting coffee talked about where their coffee comes from offers kind of level of service big guys don’t. Customers responded to that so simply trying to be the local versions of big company this unique selling point helps or would be unable to compete.Fans of coffee include top US chefs and  Equator is unusual in coffee shop sector all staff have access to health insurance. “It’s expensive but health insurance is a right of all Americans,” says Helen. “Any CEO who has a private plane and people working for them uninsured is running their business wrong turned their focus to opening retail cafe to close a revenue gap created by losing La Boulange,” says Helen. In first year of business we didn’t show sales growth but added a million dollars new business that year.The first roasted coffee beans in garage but increased so Equator grown to 155 employees across eight retail stores in the San Francisco Bay Area, with three new branches opening. This shows if a door closes another opens by hardwork if willing to start all over using the skills acquired. Some retrain to improve new abilities yo adapt to current changes.This story from a new mini-series called Paths to Success of Coffee expert Willem Boot, founder of Boot Coffee, a company trains people to work in the industry. He says Equator stands against competitors because of the quality of staff. ” People working for them are coffee dedicated, socially minded, kind human beings. It is these qualities that define the essence of the Equator coffee experience.”Dan Price boss’ card payment company in Seattle introduced $70,000 minimum salary for all of his 120 staff – and took a pay cut of $1m. Five years later he’s still on the minimum salary, and says the gamble has paid off. Dan Price was hiking with his friend Valerie in the Cascade mountains looms majestically over Seattle as he had an uncomfortable revelation. As they walked, she told him that her life was in chaos her landlord had put her monthly rent up by $200 and she was struggling to pay her bills. It made Price angry. Valerie, who he had once dated, had served for 11 years in the military, doing two tours in Iraq, and was now working 50 hours a week in two jobs to make ends meet. “She is somebody for whom service, honour and hard work just defines who she is as a person,” he says. Though she was earning around $40,000 a year in Seattle t wasn’t enough to afford a decent home. He was angry that the world had become such an unequal place. And suddenly it struck him that he was part of the problem. At 31, Price was millionaire. His company, Gravity Payments, set up as a teen had about 2,000 customers and an estimated worth of millions of dollars. Though he earned $1.1m a year Valerie brought home to him lots of his staff must be struggling – and he decided to change that. Raised in deeply Christian, rural Idaho, Dan Price is upbeat and positive, generous in his praise of others and impeccably polite has become crusader against inequality in the US. “People are starving or being laid off or being taken advantage of, so that somebody can have a penthouse at the top of a tower in New York with gold chairs. “We’re glorifying greed all the time as a society, in our culture. And, you know, the Forbes list is the worst example – ‘Bill Gates has passed Jeff Bezos as the richest man.’ Who cares!?”Before 1995 poorest half of population of the United States earned a greater share of national wealth than richest 1%, he points out. That year the tables turned so top 1% earned more than the bottom 50%. And the gap is continuing to widen. In 1965, CEOs in US earned 20 times more than average worker but by 2015 it had risen to 300 times (in the UK, the bosses of FTSE 100 companies now earn 117 times salary of their average worker). Breathing in crisp mountain air as he hiked with Valerie, Price had an idea. He read a study by Nobel prize-winner economist Daniel Kahneman and Angus Deaton, looked at how much money an American needs to be happy. Promised Valerie he would significantly raise minimum salary at Gravity. After crunching the numbers, he arrived at the figure of $70,000. He realised that he would not have to slash his salary, but mortgage his two houses or give up his stocks and savings. He gathered his staff together and gave them the news. He’d expected scenes of celebration, but at first announcement floated in the room  was an anti-climax, Price says. He had to repeat himself before the enormity of what was happening landed. Five years later, Dan laughs about the fact that he missed a key point in the Princeton professors’ research. The amount they people need to be happy was $75,000. A third of workers at company’s salaries doubled Gravity transforms Headcount doubled and value of payment company processes rose $3.8bn a year to $10.2bn. Other metrics Price is more proud of is “before $70,000 minimum wage, having between zero and two babies born per year amongst team,” he says. “Since the announcement and it’s been only about four-and-a-half years we’ve had more than 40 babies.”Dan Price with his mother. More than 10% of the company have been able to buy their own home, in one of the US’s most expensive cities for renters. Before the figure was less than 1%. “There was a bit of concern amongst pontificators out there that people would squander any gains that they would have. And we’ve really seen the opposite,” Price says. The amount of money employees are voluntarily putting into their own pension funds has more than doubled and 70% of employees say they’ve paid off debt. Price did get a lot of flak. Along with hundreds of letters of support, and magazine cover labelled him “America’s best boss” many of Gravity’s customers wrote handwritten letters objected its a political statement. At the time, Seattle was debating increase to the minimum wage to $15, making it highest in the US at the time. Small business owners were fighting it, claiming they would go out of business. A right-wing radio pundit, Rush Limbaugh, Price listened to daily in childhood, called him a communist. “I hope this company is a case study in MBA programmes on how socialism does not work because it’s going to fail,” he said. Two senior Gravity employees resigned in protest. They weren’t happy salaries of junior staff jump overnight, argued it will make them lazy, company uncompetitive but it hasn’t happened.Rosita Barlow, director of sales, Gravity, says since salaries were raised junior colleagues pull more weight. “When money is not at the forefront of your mind when you’re doing your job, it allows you to be more passionate about what motivates you,” she says. Senior staff found their workload reduced. They’re under less pressure and can do things like take all of the holiday leave to which they are entitled. Price tells the story about one staff member who works in Gravity’s call centre. “He was commuting over an hour and a half a day,” he says. “He was worried that during his commute he was going to blow out a tyre and not have enough money to fix that tyre. He was stressing about it every day.” When his salary was raised to $70,000 this man moved closer to the office, now he spends more money on his health, he exercises every day and eats more healthily. “We had another gentleman on a similar team and he literally lost more than 50lb (22kg),” he says. Others report spending more time with their families or helping their parents pay off debt. “We saw, everyday, effects of giving somebody freedom,” Price says. He thinks it is why Gravity is making more money than ever. Raising salaries didn’t change people’s motivation staff were already motivated to work hard it increased what he calls their capability. “You’re not thinking I go to work because I have to make money,” Rosita Barlow agrees. “Now it’s become focused on ‘How do I do good work?'” Barlow has been with Gravity since the early days and knows Price wasn’t always so generous. And he acknowledges himself a time in the wake of 2008 financial crisis when he was obsessed with saving money. The downturn in the US economy decimated Gravity’s customer base and its income fell by 20%. Business logic would have dictated letting go about 12 of the company’s 35 staff, but instead Price focused on cutting costs. After five tense months, the company started turning a profit again, but Price was profoundly spooked, and kept salaries low. At this time Rosita Barlow was experiencing her own financial problems, secretly working at McDonald’s outside work hours. When McDonald’s offered her a promotion, she left a training manual on her desk at Gravity, and someone spotted it. Her bosses called her in for a meeting. “They sat me down and my immediate reaction was to cry,” Barlow says. She thought she is fired. Instead they told her to figure out how much money she’d need to stay on at the company and they raised her salary to $40,000. “I was impressed and proud of her and mad at myself,” Price says. It took him a few more years to grasp the scale of problem among his staff. “Most were too intimidated to come to me and tell me how a lack of pay was hurting them,” he says. Before 2015, he already begun giving employees 20% annual pay rises. But it was his conversation with Valerie that convinced him to go further. Price hopes Gravity’s example leads to far-reaching global changes in US business. He’s deeply disappointed and sad this hasn’t happened. Some did like PharmaLogics in Boston raised the minimum salary to $50,000, Rented.com in Atlanta raised theirs too. He believes by means of online lobbying influenced Amazon’s decisions to raise minimum wage. He hopes a widespread structural change takes place all over the world. It blesses the company to bring increases.  And it’s changed my perspective on things because I believed through the actions that I did and that other people could do, that we could turn the tide on income inequality.” The change has had profound effect on Price’s lifestyle. And  before taking a pay cut, Price was cliché of a young white tech millionaire, lived in beautiful house overlooking Seattle’s Puget Sound and he drank champagne in expensive restaurants. Afterwards, he rented his house out on Airbnb to help stay afloat. A group of employees became sick of watching him turn up at work in a 12-year-old Audi and secretly clubbed together to buy him a new car.A film posted on YouTube follows one of the group, Alyssa O’Neal’s schemes with her colleagues to surprise him with the car. “I feel like this is the ultimate way to say thank you for all the sacrifices he’s made and any of the negative stuff he’s had to deal with,” she says. Price walks out of the office into the car park, sees the car, starts crying. Five years later Price still on Gravity’s minimum salary, says he’s more fulfilled than he ever was when he was earning millions though it’s not all easy. “There’s tests every day,” he says. “I’m the same age as Mark Zuckerberg and in dark moments I think, ‘I want to be just as rich as Mark Zuckerberg and I want to compete with him to be on the Forbes list. I want to be on cover of Time magazine, making lots of money.’ All these greedy things are tempting.” “It’s not so easy to turn down lavish lifestyle but much happier.”This doctor sees patients in chicken shops. GP appointments of doctor seeing patients in chicken shops in BBC Three shows The Unshockable Dr. Ronx, a doctor who takes appointments out of surgery in search of people who would n’t normally see a GP. “I don’t go to GP anymore, it took so long to be believed now I feel like they are listening.” And when Bethany was 13 was diagnosed with Ankylosing Spondylitis – a type of inflammatory arthritis. She says it took years for her GP to recognise its serious symptoms. “I think they assumed I was a young teenager so I couldn’t really be having severe joint difficulties.” Despite describing some of her symptoms, like chest pain, as “very scary” Bethany says she feels too embarrassed to go back to see a GP. In the UK, 16 to 30-year-olds are the most likely age group to miss a doctor’s appointment (along with over 90s). That’s according to analysis of GP Patient Survey, suggested 16 to 24-year-olds less positive about experiences at a GP’s, compared with the older patients.  Some of the young people featured in BBC Three’s new show The Unshockable Dr. Ronx say things like embarrassment, a lack of time, using internet instead are some of the reasons that have stopped them from seeking professional medical care in the past. Dr Ronx, an A&E doctor from Hackney in London, wants young people to take their health seriously so she takes GP pop up shop to them. Ratan Tata: An unlikely friendship between a magnate and a millennial.Mr Naidu and Mr Tata watch movies together. Its not everyday octogenarian goes viral on Instagram. It’s so unusual if octogenarian billionaire businessman with a carefully cultivated reputation as a reclusive tycoon. Perhaps its the most unusual particular story of a friendship led to Ratan Tata’s India’s newest social media star. With the help of Shantanu Naidu, the 27-year-old who introduced him to social media platform and taught him about hashtag trends in the world discovered “man crush.” And Mr Naidu hopes the mix of old family pictures, snapshots of dogs and photographs of mogul’s younger days one from five decades of more than half million hits  gave people glimpse of the man behind the tycoon. The man who led the salt-to-software conglomerate Tata Group for 21 years classes of closest friends. The two of them do everything together by getting haircuts to watching films. Their “intergenerational friendship” is quite unusual, but, Mr Naidu says, it is pretty special. “He’s been a hard boss, a core mentor understanding friend,” he told the BBC. This doe-eyed and curly-haired millennial became a business assistant as best friends to India’s internationally recognised business leaders?Mr Naidu’s non-profit provide stray dog glow-in-dark collars. Mr Naidu is a fifth generation Tata employee and although family has a strong connection to Tata brand never thought he would end up working closely with man responsible for it. Mutual love of dogs brought the two together while younger man works  for one of Mr Tata’s companies in city of Pune, west India. And Mr Naidu ‘s social initiative Motopaws glow-in-dark collar for stray dog’s work highlighted in the company newsletter prompted Mr Tata to write letter inviting him to Mumbai. “Shantanu and I first met because of our common concern and affection for stray dogs,” Mr Tata in email said BBC. He led team of young college students to adopt dogs and give them affection, food, find homes for them for sense of belonging.” The meeting proved to be their first of Motopaw’s scaling up so became closer. Work emails slowly turned into asking questions about one another,” Mr Naidu said. Soon after friendship took off, Mr Naidu left India for university in US. “I was sad, I felt I just discovered a friend in Mr Tata.” The connection between the two strengthened. Mr Naidu was at Mr Tata’s alma mater Cornell University, and started work on the businessman’s dream project, building a veterinary hospital in Mumbai. The construction for this hospital is set to begin this year. Mr Tata attended his graduation. “I had mentioned it to him in passing and he said yes,” Mr Naidu recalls. “Cut to the actual day and there he was!”Mr Naidu graduated from Mr Tata’s alma mater, Cornell University. On his return to India, Mr Naidu took up a job as Mr Tata’s business assistant. Things changed in a single minute. I had never imagined my life to pan out this way. Mr Tata told BBC “I enjoy seeing Shantanu’s freshness, concern never seen in a ‘dog eat dog’ world we live in.'” What does a typical day look like? Business assistant to Mr Tata meets, takes copious notes, keeps records for future discussions. Mr Tata briefs him on happenings of day or plan and start attacking them. He’s very focused, non-stop no break,” Mr Naidu explained. The Tata Group patriarch has invested in more than 73 Indian start up ride-hailing service, Ola. Mr Tata uses Instagram profile Mr Naidu set up to connect with the youth and has shared “recipe” for successful start-up pitches. The 82-year-old shares pictures of him in his 20s a popular hashtag Throwback Thursday to set the internet alight.

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It isn’t just business so two remain fast friends. He added they both like action comedy films such as The Other Guys and Lone Ranger series of experiences in the Israel Defence Force called Fauda is Mr Tata’s favourite Netflix binge, Mr Naidu said. Last year a radio interview with BBC met Mr Tata and Mr Naidu. It was easy to sense warm bond between the two a great degree of camaraderie and mutual respect. Mr Tata spoke of retirement plans and love for dogs. Mr Naidu continues to work on ths project that brought Mr Tata and him together. Motopaws expanded over the years and now operating in four countries it isn’t just non-profit evolving. “If something bothers me or makes me happy he is the first person I call. The foundation is the constantly blossoming tree. Mr Tata has always been there for me I do the same for him,” Mr Naidu said with a smile.

Photo exhibition showcases the people tackling the impact of poverty in 21st Century Britain. The focus of the new exhibition showcases those trying to help their struggling neighbours. And four people making a difference in their communities explain how they became involved. ‘I want to be a spark in the plug’ as Micah Lammie learned from everyone in his community. And Battersea and Brixton helped to shape Micah Lammie into the man he is today, so now he is repaying the debt. “Life was difficult as a kid from a one-parent family,” the 30-year-old said. ” defiant in trouble at school. It takes whole village to raise a child I learn from my parents, I learned from everyone in community. “These things I want to continue raising our next generation.” He worked in call centres at a funeral Brixton Soup met Kitchen founder Solomon Smith who gave him his true calling.As “I’ve known Solomon from back in the day,” Micah said. “I got involved and I’ve never looked back.”He is the centre manager of service offers food and legal advice to rough sleepers or community. “It’s a safe haven for misunderstood people. Everything starts somewhere, there’s been ups and downs but we’re helping people. I want to be a spark in the plug, I won’t change the world but I’ll invest in a person who will.”Micah is now its centre manager ‘I knew hunger.’ After experiencing a financial struggles Mary Brennan’s neighbours in Cross Green, Leeds, faced difficulties. “I knew hunger and poverty,” the 68-year-old said.

Mary Brennan started a community group in Leeds

“It used to be just families round here, then landlords started bedding seven people in four-bedroom terraced houses. I noticed they were hungry.”Image copyrightJILLIAN EDELSTEIN

Image captionShe settled in Cross Green, where she witnessed the struggles of her neighbours

So she helped set up Community Unity, a neighbourhood group that runs a lunch club at St Hilda’s Church and created a garden on a disused railway bridge where the community can pick their own food.”We don’t have many facilities round here, no shop where you can buy fresh food and [there’s] terrible problems with transport,” she added.

‘If you’re poor, you can’t afford ideas’

Steve Arnott says hip-hop has always been his love

Poverty can be a barrier to creativity because people can’t afford either the money or time to do it, according to Steve Arnott. The 44-year-old from Hull said hip-hop helped him through a tough childhood and he saw how it could do the same for others. “Hip-hop has always been my love,” he said. “There were local workshops which weren’t getting many kids because families couldn’t afford the fares into town. “I had idea of taking it to them.”The workshops were aimed at helping children in the community. In 2017, his hometown was the UK City of Culture, so he launched the Beats Bus – a mobile recording studio which he takes into the communities to attract youngsters eager to learn more about hip-hop, DJing, break-dancing and graffiti art. “If you’re poor, you can’t afford the time to create ideas,” Steve said. “The Beats Bus is trying to change that, bringing free studio time to talented kids.”Steve has a tattoo of a microphone on his forearm.

‘There’s no shame in being poor through no fault of your own’

The issues blighting the Sholes area of Wigan are being tackled by Barbara Nettleton. She previously spearheaded a residents’ association to reduce anti-social behaviour and improve services, before taking over the running of the Sunshine House community centre. The site opened in 2005, runs art groups and youth projects with a view to helping people find work. It also operates three shops in the area offering necessities including second-hand clothes and prams, toys and baby clothes.Barbara Nettleton was a bit shy about being photographed. “When the mines, steelworks and mills closed years ago, it took the apprenticeships away, broke families and industrial areas like ours,” Barbara said. There is no shame in being poor when you work hard all your life and end up poor. God judges a nation by how it treats the poor in the society. Jesus said, in Matthew 25:40-46 whoever cares for the poor by feeding them, gives them water to drink or had provided shelter for the “least of these” receives JESUS. The poor are priceless in God’s sight because HE created them in HIS OWN IMAGE AND LIKENESS. Bible says value of material possessions is not true measure of quality of human life in God’s sight as mankind thinks. Its loving care and fair share of all the resources provided by God as Marslow hierarchy shows God counts towards eternal life.This homeless couple moved in with a millionaire in America. The homeless couple moved in with the millionaire after living on California’s streets for 20 years Greg and Marie invited to stay in the home of the millionaire. The local businessman asked if they wanted to share his $4m home. A year later other rich neighbours complain so call police tells us about homelessness crisis in the Western countries. Luke 16 says a rich man enjoyed all great wealth on earth but ended in hell for abuse of the poor Lazarus who went into heaven and is comforted by Abraham. So God judges mankind by how HIS RESOURCES are shared on this earth. Gospel of Matthew 25, 34-46 34 says, KING of Kings “Jesus will say to those on His right, ‘Come in, you who are blessed by my Father God because you the fed poor and you clothe them by your kindness, you did it to me so enter heaven. You didn’t do it to show off to get praise of people but you did it genuinely from kibdness of your heart to help others. George Medal for saving Princess Anne sells for £50k.The medal sold at auction for £50,000 is a medal awarded to a boxer who helped save Princess Royal from an attempted armed kidnap has sold at auction for £50,000. Former heavyweight Ronnie Russell, 72, punched Ian Ball in the head tried to abduct princess at gunpoint in London in 1974. Mr Russell said he sold the George Medal as he had been “very unwell for quite some time.” “I want to know that I’ve done enough to pay for my own funeral,” he said. After auction, Mr Russell, who lives in Bristol, said: “For something I thought I would never sell, I never believed it will sell for this amount, I am absolutely blown away.”Ronnie Russell was awarded the George Medal for bravery by the Queen. He said he had one request for UK buyer, who asked to remain anonymous which was for them to meet in person to tell the story of what happened.Princess Anne’s car had been blocked and Ian Ball had fired shots, wounding four people Mr Russell, heading home to his wife and children in Strood, Kent, when he thwarted late-night ambush on 20 March 1974. Ball blocked princess’s car on Mall in central London and fired shots, wounding four people. Mr Russell said Ball was trying to drag Princess Anne from her car while her husband, Captain Mark Phillips, was pulling her back. “She was very, together, telling him: ‘Just go away and don’t be such a silly man’,” he said. “He stood there glaring at me with the gun and I hit him. I hit him as hard as I could and he was flat on the floor face down. “I said to Princess Anne: ‘We’re going to walk away and he’s going to have to go through me to get you’.”Ian Ball attempted to kidnap Princess Anne who telegrams RONNIE RUSSELLPrincess Anne sent Mr Russell telegram when he received medal Ball was later sent to a psychiatric hospital by an Old Bailey judge. Mr Russell was awarded George Medal for bravery by the Queen, who told him: “The medal from Queen, I want to thank you as Anne’s mother.” It was sold with a letter from 10 Downing Street informing Mr Russell of award and telegram from Princess Anne. 

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EAT 10FRUITS & VEGETABLES

Experts advise to live longer life eat 10 portions of fruit and vegetables a day. Is this realistic diet for all or the wealthy? Healthy foods three times more expensive than unhealthy foods says Anna Taylor an executive director of Food Foundation. Vegetables are cheaper but people who “haven’t got enough money for food 10 portions of fruits and veg a day in diets impossible.” The Imperial College London says increasing fruit and veg to 10-a-day can prevent 7.8 million premature deaths a year. A quarter of adults in UK eat five-a-day target. British Heart Foundation said third of UK adults struggle to afford to eat healthy. Is 10 a day affordable? It is for some says Victoria Taylor, senior dietitian at BHF for others serious thought and commitment to work out which fruit and vegetables is affordable. Five a day study found “focus on 10 moves goalpost puts people off aiming for five add more portions a day.” The British Dietetic Association says: “The benefits of eating fruit and vegetables a day is great, but 10 is even better.” Improvement in your fruit and vegetable intake is a  healthier benefit option.

Victoria Taylor says cost is not only reason not to eat enough fruit and vegetables. Numerous factors influence food choice. Cost is important so is taste, cooking skills, storage facilities and to get to and from shops. Price of food issues are interrelated. Buy seasonally checking prices online or in-store flyers before shopping. Most supermarkets do weekly fruit and veg deals, and own brand or economy fruit and veg is cheaper. Frozen fruit and veg affordable choice is ready prepared cut down waste. Buy fruits berries and cherries frozen in season and freeze. Meat is more expensive swapping pulses as alternative source of protein will save you money. Buy loose half price pre-packaged. Fruits and vegetables in season locally better value. Sell by date, use in a stew or soup not throw away or freeze it. Do not have too much fruit juice and dried fruits higher in sugar. Food Foundation conference in June bring together businesses, farmers, retailers and government departments to make it easier for people to eat vegetables. Ideas from America is food stamps spent on fruit and veg. doubled in value create incentive to spend vouchers on fruit and veg giving them more value. Other scheme sees people in early stage type 2 diabetes or are pre-diabetic prescribed fruit and veg and getting vouchers spent in local market helps to rethink diets to get on track.

People were asked to send questions about the 10-a-day diet and health team wrote the piece to answer as possible. A lot of people asked about cost to achieve a 10-a-day diet. Gary asked if the fruit and vegetables heavily subsidized by govt. encourages further consumption? A consumer habit is people consume more if it is cheaper. If economic principle applied to fruit vegetables people shopping make choice of what to buy its best value items that win. Cost of healthy eating government to subsidise fruit and veg measures in place support low income families, pregnant women and children under four’s Healthy Start Vouchers. Can be spent on milk, fresh, frozen fruit vegetables so all infant pupils now get free school meals. £10m funding a year to expand breakfast clubs in up to 1,600 schools only 70% eligible get the healthy start vouchers. And Anne Taylor said Food Foundation debate programme be expanded to lower income group or older age range at conference. Will create positive pull of demand to help strengthen a British horticulture sector too. Thinks post Brexit opportunity helps farmers increase consumer subsidies to drive up demand so horticulturalists benefit win win.

There are lots of ways to make it easier to eat veg beyond price and whole food environment. Fruit and veg is a strong part of encouraging us to eat it. Advertising food and soft drink spends little on fresh vegetables needs to change whole way of thinking about fruit and veg messages in to children’s TV. It’s set against delicious or junk food, cream cakes, fruit and veg is a yucky thing kids don’t want to eat. Subliminal stuff happens in kids’ TV is funny but normalising not to eating it in advertising, broadcasting not normalise that way helps understand its value and worth to the body. It can be made tasty and well seasoned to enjoy as part of healthier diet nutrition lifestyle. Tons of perfectly good food is thrown away not eaten can be reduced three days before sell by dates to encourage customers to clear them. Its sad many people are starving as food is wasted  daily buried. Unripe food declare out of date in good conditions due to computer processing it cannot be resold. Food portions are too large so companies charge high prices for profit than the waste caused its never all eaten. Its too much to eat at a time a realistic plan to not over produce to waste. Imperfect ugly shapes not good for a supermarket are thrown away. World resources are stretched draining the earth just to sell more and claim insurance by throwing food away is a lack of understanding of God’s provisions for all. Attitudes of its a private property defeats God’s purpose of leaving food at edges or ground for poor to collect. 

COOKING, WASHING, TAMES

Cooking, washing clothes, cleaning and childcare, tames men who once thought it was only the women’s job. Like most men, Jean Pierre 32 lives in Mwulire in Eastern Province in Rwanda and leaves domestic chores to his wife. Impatient, angry, demands perfection due to lack of awareness that a woman’s job is 24/7 so never ends day or night. He becomes aggressive if his wife did not meet the standards of his expectations so beats her. A grassroots intervention program trying to reduce domestic violence in Rwanda teaches men how to do household chores, and a recent study suggested it has a positive effect on communities. So Muhoza Jean Pierre used to beat his wife because he saw her as someone he married just to have children and and look after them. “I was following example of my father. My father did not do anything at home,” he said. “If ever I came home and found something not done yet I insult her. “I called her lazy, told her she was useless so must go back to her parent’s house.” But something changed after he learnt to cook and clean. It was all part of a grassroots intervention programme in Mwulire village in Eastern Province, Rwanda encouraging men’s domestic roles, including childcare. Jean Pierre says the project called, ‘Bandebereho’ or role model in Kinyarwanda helps tamed and transformed his behaviour. He took part in classes covering everything from cooking and cleaning and discuss how to challenge men’s traditional gender roles. “They asked, if a man can sweep the house, and we would say ‘he can’,” he said. “And then they would ask us: ‘Who among you does that?’ And there was no one.”

Real men shouldn’t cook

Facilitators from ‘Bandebereho’ taught Jean Pierre how to do tasks previously he believed his wife should do. He also added: “We would go home and try to put this into practice. “Then we would go back to training with witnesses who would testify they had observed some changes in us. “I know how to cook. I do laundry for the kids. I know how to peel plantains, I know how to pound dry cassava and sift the flour.” Jean Pierre and his wife have been married for 10 years and never helped her before. And making changes was not easy as Jean Pierre’s friends discouraged him from doing household tasks, telling him: ‘No real man should cook.’ “My family and friends said my wife bewitched me by giving me some magic drugs. They said no genuine man should carry a bundle of firewood in the street because that is for henpecked men,” he said. But Jean Pierre continued when he saw benefits to his family. He says his children feel closer to him and his wife now runs a banana business that has allowed them to improve their home. “The way my wife treats me now is different from the way she used to treat me,” he said. “She used to treat me badly because I was mistreating her too, but now we discuss and agree on things to do. “I set her free, now she is working and I am working too; whereas before I was convinced she had to stay home and be available whenever I would need her.” Fear and little freedom affected Jean Pierre’s wife Musabyimana Delphine who says she used to have little freedom and lived in fear. She said: “Sometimes I felt like a mere worker, and I would remember a worker has a salary. “I never thought a woman can ever have her own money, because I never even had time to think about any activity that generate money. “Now I have enough freedom in house, I go out and work for money like others. Start training young boys now so when they grow up they will help their wife and help look after the children. When both work, it’s a burden on the woman to care for the family or children alone.The ‘Bandebereho’ project taught Jean Pierre to do tasks previously believed his wife should do. Delphine leaves at 5am to sell plantains at a market, while Jean Pierre stays at home and takes care of their four young children. “I come home relaxed and find food ready,” she said. The project’s curriculum originally developed in Latin America by global fatherhood campaign MenCare believes true equality will only be reached when men take on 50% of world’s childcare and domestic work. The research looks into changing men’s attitudes towards family care and traditional domestic. It was soon realised the good impact on men. A study looking at couples taking part in the project found two years after taking childcare lessons in Rwanda men were less likely to use violence against their female partners than those who did not attend the classes. But the study suggested one in three women whose partners took part in the programme still reported experiencing intimate partner violence. National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda, released a data in 2015, around 52% of men in the country were violent towards partners. Rwanda Men’s Resource Centre, which delivered the programme in the country, wants ‘Bandebereho’ to be widely adopted by communities and country’s government. Fidele Rutayisire the chairman of centre, said: “We still have negative social norms, negative masculinity perception cultural barriers as main factors of high violence against women in Rwanda. “Traditionally men don’t take care of children here but men control sex, resources, decision-making. “When men are actively involved in the home they realise sacrifices of women in childcare so their attitude on gender changes positively, they understand the value of gender equality.” Delphine and Jean Pierre said the program benefited their family and the whole community. “We are now on honeymoon, 10 years after our wedding,” said Jean Pierre. If there is conflict or security issue in our neighbourhood our opinion is respected because they see we don’t have problem in our household. Men appreciate and help their wives and not demand they do all the housework or take care of the family, business, Church alone without support of husbands. A happy wife is a happy life and the Bible says love your wife as Christ loved His bride Church and gave His life for you. Timothy says a husband must first look after his family and own household before serving the Church. Don’t neglect your wife and the children in the NAME OF GOD leisurely talking to single women while your wife and children at home suffer. Remember your wife is that same beautiful single woman you married and used her body to give birth to your children. And don’t abandon her for fresh young woman to give birth later to become abandoned as wife. This causes baby mama problems because men want to eat their cake and have it. So wants exclusive attention of wife at the expense of the children some are jealous of. Forget their parents took great care of them as done to children. Grow up and be father to the children to mature a responsible man not manchild depending on wife as mother. For even the Son of Man Jesus did not come to be served but to serve and give His life as a ransom for many says Mark 10:45.

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WHEN WILL CLOCK CHANGE

When do clocks change and why do we use GMT and do we still need to? This year on Sunday 28th 0ctober UK clocks change an hour back. Many countries around the world change the clocks for Daylight Savings Time. As the leaves are turning, the temperatures are dropping and the sun is rising slightly later each day. In a few days’ time, the clocks will change, meaning we will have a blissful extra hour in bed. But why do we still have to go through the clock-changing rigmarole? From Sandringham Time to why we have Daylight Saving Time in the first place, you need to know about the autumn time change.

When did the clocks go back?

This year’s clocks go back early hours of Sunday October 28; at 2am, UK reverts to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) by goes back one hour, to 1am. This marks the official end of British summertime. A clever way to remember hour-change is “Spring forward, Fall back.” Relish extra 60 minutes in bed so mornings will be lighter for now, at least but the evenings will be darker. The event means making plans for the day despite prevalence of smartphones and other devices to alter time automatically, there is always one person who didn’t get the message.

When infernal darkness ends?

We won’t see lighter nights again until Sunday March 31st 2019, when clocks will wind forward at 1am and British Summer Time begins.

How dark UK gets in winter?

In the UK the maximum 16 hours and 50 minutes of daylight falls on longest day in June known as summer solstice. On shortest day, Thursday December 21, this dwindles to seven hours and 49 minutes when the sun rises at 8:03am and sets at 3:53pm in London.

Daylight Saving Idea Origin?

Edwardian builder William Willett introduced the idea of British Summer Time, also known as Daylight Saving Time, in 1907. Willett is a great-great-grandfather of Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin. A keen supporter of the outdoors, he noticed that during the summer people were still asleep when the sun had risen and wanted to stop Brits from wasting valuable daylight hours. Clocks were set to the Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) meaning light by 3am and dark at 9pm midsummer. So Willett published pamphlet called ‘The Waste of Daylight‘ to get people out of bed earlier by changing the nation’s clocks, arguing it will improve health and happiness so save country £2.5 million. He proposed the clocks be advanced by 80 minutes in four incremental steps during April and reversed same way during September. His idea was ridiculed and the Daylight Saving Bill got nowhere in Parliament but introduced in 1909. Willett, was not deterred. He spent the rest of his life trying to convince people his scheme was a good one. Sadly, he died of the flu in 1915 at the age of 58; a year before Germany adopted his clock-changing plan on April 30, 1916 when clocks were put forward at 11pm. Britain followed a month later on May 21 and Belgium, Denmark, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, and Turkey all followed. William Willett laid outserious proposition for daylight saving scheme. Britain and Germany had been fighting each other in the First World War (1914-18), and a system that could take pressure off economy and conserve fuel worth trying. So Summer Time Act of 1916 was quickly passed by Parliament and the first day of British Summer Time, 21 May 1916, was widely reported in the press. Back then hands on some clocks can’t turn back without breaking mechanism. Owners put the clock forward by 11 hours as Summer Time came to an end on 1 October 1916.

The Home Office put out special posters telling people how to reset their clocks to GMT and national newspapers also gave advice. Willett, died at his home near Bromley in Kent,  commemorated for his efforts by a memorial sundial in nearby Petts Wood, set permanently to Daylight Saving Time. The Daylight Inn in Petts Wood is named in his honour and there’s a road there called Willett Way. Willett wasn’t alone in realising the potential of utilising wasted daylight hours. As far back as 1784, Benjamin Franklin, one of America’s Founding Fathers, wrote a letter to the Journal of Paris making fun of fact people sleeping through daylight and burning candles and fuel for light at night. Franklin even suggested tax on shuttered windows or public alarm clocks to solve problem.

Time changes body clock British Summer Time ends Sunday 28th October affects moods: SAD disorder is Seasonal Affective Disorder one of the most depressing days of the year. When clocks go back the British Summer Time ends evenings darker hour earlier. Does it make much difference? From 1968 to 1971, the UK experimented with British Standard Time the permanent summer time was used all year. Trevor Harley, a psychologist, in his book The Psychology of Weather recalls in native Scotland he felt like “it was perpetually dark. Its bad enough when sunrise around 9am, but 10am is grim prospect in winter.” It led to more traffic accidents during darker mornings, but fewer accidents in the evenings. Overall, about 2,500 fewer people were killed due to clock change.

Time difference of one hour?

Today clocks are almost always set one hour back or ahead, but in history there were several variations, half adjustment (30 minutes) or double adjustment (two hours), adjustments of 20 or 40 minutes used. A two-hour adjustment was used in several countries during 1940s and elsewhere at times. A half adjustment is used in New Zealand in the first half of the 20th century. Australia’s Lord Howe Island (UTC+10:30) of DST schedule in which clocks are moved 30 minutes forward to UTC+11, which is Australian Eastern Daylight Time (AEDT) during DST. In 1940 during the Second World War, the clocks in Britain were not put back by an hour at the end of Summer Time. Years, later clocks continued to be advanced by one hour each spring and put back by an hour each autumn until July 1945. During summers Britain was two hours ahead of GMT and operating on British Double Summer Time (BDST). The clocks were brought back in line with GMT at the end of summer in 1945. In 1947, due to fuel shortages, clocks were advanced by one hour on two occasions during the spring, and put back by one hour on two occasions during the autumn, means that Britain was back on BDST during that summer.

 

Ditching Daylight Saving Time?

Those who want change say it’s not clear if any energy savings are made, while there are also potential health risks. Critics claim the darker mornings are dangerous for children walking to school and the energy saving argument may be invalid if people switch on fans and air-conditioning units during the lighter, warmer evenings. But unlikely to bother people in the UK. In 2011, Tory MP Rebecca Harris floated a bill calling for year-round daylight savings but failed to complete passage through Parliament before the end of the session and was dropped. A YouGov poll same year found 53pc of Britons supported moving clocks an hour permanently while 32pc opposed the change. The proposals were met less warmly by the Scottish population; Alex Salmond called campaign to “plunge Scotland to morning darkness” and SNP colleague MP Angus MacNeil said any change has “massive implications for the safety and wellbeing of everyone living north of Manchester. “It is no secret Tories in the south want to leave Scotland in darkness but fixing clocks to British summertime means the dawn wouldn’t break in Scotland until nearly 9am,” he said. He had a point. Following a 1968 to 1971 trial, BST employed all year round northern Scotland saw a net increase in the number of people killed or seriously injured. The sun wouldn’t rise fully until 10am in parts of Scotland and the country’s 1,000-or-so dairy farmers, who wake up before 5am, would have to work for hours in the dark. Other farmers and construction workers, who need sunlight to perform their jobs, would end up having to work later into the evening. Some folks keen to reach a compromise have suggested the clocks change at Hadrian’s Wall and not at Calais. Philip Broom writing on the National Farmer’s Union website in 2011 said: “A definite no. Combining will not start until midday and then have to go on until 11 o’clock. Our day is long enough now.” ‘A Thomas’ writing on the NFU site, was worried “younger people having loud parties or barbecues in gardens and youths hanging around on streets make itnightmare for people getting up for work early mornings.”

A massive wind-up for some…

Spare a thought for the staff of the Royal Collection. They spend over 50 hours adjusting over 1000 clocks spread across the official residences of The Queen. Following months of planning, staff at Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle and the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh start work in the early hours of the morning to ensure that the time is set accurately. There are 379 timepieces at Windsor Castle, 500 at Buckingham Palace and 80 at the Palace of Holyroodhouse including organ clocks, astronomical clocks, musical clocks and mechanical clocks. 

Why keep Daylight Saving Time

There have been various trials over the decades from double summer time (GMT + 2 hours) during Second World War to permanent British Summer Time (GMT + 1 hour) during late 1960s but the current system of changing the clocks at the end of March and October has been in place since 1972. Those in favour say that it would reduce traffic accidents, save energy, boost tourism and encourage more people to exercise outdoors. In the 1980s, the golf industry estimated one extra month of daylight savings could generate up to $400 million (£246.6 million) a year in extra sales and fees. Daylight Savings Time “affects everything from terrorism to the attendance at London music halls, voter turnout to street crime, gardening to profits of radio stations,” said David Prerau, author of Saving the Daylight: Why We Put the Clocks Forward. This debate stretches years into the past, and the future of British time is still unclear.

Sandringham Time GMT/30mins

Added complication for Royal servants between the years 1901 to 1936 was the concept of ‘Sandringham Time’ which was introduced in by Albert, Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII. A keen fan of shooting, he wanted to make the most of winter daylight, so he ordered all clocks on the estate to be set half an hour fast. The tradition was continued by King George V after he acceded to the throne in 1925 but King Edward VIII abolished it in 1936 shortly before his abdication Sandringham House

Coping With The Time Changes

1. When the clocks first go back, mornings are lighter so ensure bedrooms are kept dark with blinds or curtains.
2. Alter bedtime by around 10 minutes over a few days beforehand to adjust to the new time.
3. Maintain bedtime routines. Get ready for bed in the same order e.g pyjamas on, tooth brushing, bedtime story.
4. Turn off all screens at least an hour before bedtime.
5. Offer a milky, warm drink to encourage sleepiness and avoid stimulating food and drink just before sleep.
6. Make sure all the clocks are correct.

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ANOREXIA DAMAGES BODY

Lizzie Porter lived with anorexia throughout her teens. Now in late 20s, she’s been discovering that those years of starvation have left a lasting imprint on her body. “You have osteoporosis in your spine and osteopenia in your hip. I’m going to put you on calcium and vitamin D and I think you should take them forever. We need to prevent breaks and fractures.” It is May 2018, and my doctor’s words jolt me out of a long-standing state of denial. They come with a set of complicated graphs, which apparently show my low bone density. I don’t understand them. But I can read the words printed next to a fuzzy X-ray-like picture of my spine: “World Health Organization classification: osteoporosis. Fracture risk: high.” For years, I have muddled along, pretending to myself that I had pretty much made a full recovery from anorexia. Yes, I was told back in 2010 that I had osteoporosis. But over the next eight years I persuaded myself that things must have improved, that the holes in my spine must have healed.

Sadly, they haven’t.

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Osteoporosis and osteopenia

• Osteoporosis is a condition in which bones lose their strength and are more likely to break
• If your bone density is between the lower end of the normal range and the osteoporosis range, you have osteopenia.

Source: National Osteoporosis Society

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I was first diagnosed with anorexia at the age of 12, and soon experienced its unglamorous consequences. As summers grew hotter, I shivered: I was like a reptile, unable to generate my own body heat. In winter, my skin cracked and bled, but would not heal, for want of nutrition. I had constipation, bloating and my hair fell out in great clumps. My life revolved around avoiding food.  Over the past 15 years, I have had two in-patient stints in hospital and taken thousands of antidepressants – anorexia is often accompanied by a low mood, sometimes even a suicidal mood is one reason it has the highest mortality rate of all psychiatric disorders. I have seen more doctors than I can be bothered to remember. I have done my best to keep what my mother calls the “anorexic minx” in my mind in check, preventing it from doing a Jack-in-the-Box-style bounce back into my life. The desire to get on with things has spurred me to give up many of my anorexic behaviour patterns. Time was, I would spend hours weighing out salad components in the kitchen, using a different knife to chop each tomato, cucumber and lettuce leaf. I no longer want to waste time on my old routines. And, mostly, I do not.

Lizzie Porter with a friend – her teeth may look healthy but have required expensive treatment

Anorexia caused my body to age rapidly and I am struggling with the disorder’s longer-term consequences. Osteoporosis involves loss of bone density, and in later life may lead to painful breakages, curvature of the spine, and loss of height. Although it has many causes and often affects post-menopausal women, anorexics are also at risk, especially girls who develop the illness at puberty when the body is trying to build a strong skeleton. For a day or so, the bone scans shake me awake. I walk around the Lebanese capital Beirut, where I live, feeling a bit sick. What am I doing to myself? The thought rolls over in my mind. I remember one elderly woman in my home village in Hertfordshire, who used to walk bent double. Osteoporosis is an old ladies’ problem, I tell myself angrily. I am only 27. Yet all too soon I return to my state of calm apathy. I pretend that my bones aren’t really thin and weak. I’m strong and perfectly healthy, I tell myself, even though I am on calcium and Vitamin D supplements for life, I get dizzy when I stand up, and blood tests show I have been suffering badly from anaemia – a lack of red blood cells or haemoglobin in the blood. To improve my bone density I should eat more and gain a little weight. But my life is “too busy” to deal with the stress of challenging the last remnants of my anorexic behaviour. I still add up my daily calorie count on a calculator, and I am prone to lash out at anyone who forces to me to eat things I am scared of, such as cake, pastry and cream. This year I have at least allowed a friend to coax me into ordering salad with oil – this fills me with pride, though at the same time I feel ashamed of years I spent worrying over salad dressing. But I need to go further. Osteoporosis is not the only long-term effect of my anorexia. The loss of bone density has also affected my teeth, which ache and easily rot. Since the beginning of the year I have spent £4,200 ($5,500) on dental treatment, including eight fillings, root canal treatment, two crowns and an implant.

 X-ray of Lizzie Porter’s teeth

“The lack of calcium and vitamin D is definitely contributing to this,” says my doctor – a GP who happens to be a specialist in eating disorders. One upshot of my weak teeth and gums is that after years of being subject to psychological barriers that restricted my diet, I now have physical ones. Anything chewy, crunchy or cold is almost impossible to eat. Can you recover from anorexia?

• A 2002 study found that 46% of patients made a full recovery, a third improved (but retained some eating disorder symptoms), and 20% remained chronically ill over the long term
• The eating disorder charity, Beat, says recovery is always possible with the right help and support – but what recovery looks like is individual to the person
• It adds that most medical complications arising from anorexia are reversible, but not all – for example, osteoporosis

It is difficult to predict how badly anorexia will affect each sufferer’s long-term health: bodies react in different ways. Other possible long-term effects can include infertility and difficulty conceiving, heart problems, and kidney and liver complications, according to the UK-based eating disorders charity, Beat. “I don’t think people realise the dangers of the illness and its physical and mental consequences, including the suicide risk. I know it frightens people, but we need to know the facts,” says Jane Smith, chief executive of the UK-registered charity Anorexia and Bulimia Care. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidelines for treating anorexia instruct doctors to explain to sufferers that the main way of preventing and treating low bone density is “reaching and maintaining a healthy body weight or BMI for their age.”If I am entirely honest with myself, I know I have to try a little bit harder if I am to minimise the long-term consequences of anorexia. I certainly cannot go backwards. I have enough purpose in my life to want to live it. I have a job as a journalist that I love, friends I trust, and parents who support my every move. One morning this May, one of my closest friends, Leila, sent me a WhatsApp message in response to one of my many rants. I was tired and fed-up with life. “I’m not going to tell you a few kilos won’t make you fat, because that’s what’s in your head,” she wrote. “I’m going to tell you that you get to choose between being ‘fat’ and functioning, or thin and bed-bound. You get to be thin but your life is over. That’s all there is to it.”

What can I say? Most of me knows she is right.

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IRON DEFICIENCY ANAEMIA

Do you get enough iron from your diet? If not, liver red meat, green vegetables, nuts and seeds are good dietary sources of iron. And if you often feel tired, short of breath or you feel you heart beating faster inside your chest go for check up from your doctor. If friends commented you look unusually pale iron deficiency anaemia, is the world’s most common nutritional disorder in UK, common among young women. Analysis by the government’s Scientific Advisory Committee Nutrition (SACN) on iron and health in 2011 indicated 21% of women aged between 19 and 34 had below recommended level ferritin of iron is stored in the body. I recently suggested to a friend with the symptoms to get herself checked out by her GP. A blood test revealed she was so anaemic it was surprising she could still walk upstairs. A few iron tablets sorted her out. It’s worth adding that you should talk to your GP if you’re considering taking them – you might not need them and your symptoms could be caused by something else. The body can’t produce iron, so you have to get it in your diet whether through foods that naturally contain it or those fortified with iron, such as white bread and breakfast cereal. The problem is not all of iron is in a form you can actually absorb.To get iron from food eat leafy green vegetables raw, steamed, but do lightly boil your spinach. Eat or the fruit juice containing vitamin C with meals And a fermented bread is best for ealth. The Trust Me I’m a Doctor asked nutrition scientist Prof Paul Sharp, from King’s College London, to find the foods you should be eating to boost iron levels naturally. Red meat is rich in the sort of iron bodies find easy to absorb but these days many people are either cutting back on red-meat consumption or cutting it out altogether. And there are good sources of iron in dark-green leafy vegetables, such as kale and spinach, and pulses, such as peas and lentils. The problem is you don’t absorb as much iron from plant sources as you do from red meat. Then, there is the iron you can get from fortified bread and breakfast cereals, though again it is not always in a very absorbable form. To demonstrate this, a neat party trick is to grind up the cereal, add some warm water and you can actually use a magnet to draw the iron filings out of the mush. Wait for your coffee. How you prepare your food and what you drink with it can change how much iron you absorb. To demonstrate this, Prof Sharp carried out experiments to mimic human digestion. The tests mimicked the effect of the enzymes involved in digesting food and the chemical reaction that occurs in human gut cells to show how much iron would be absorbed. Prof Sharp showed that if you drink orange juice with your fortified breakfast cereal you absorb much more iron than when eating the cereal on its own – because orange juice contains vitamin C, makes it easier to absorb iron from food. Disappointingly, if you drink coffee with your morning bowl of cereal, then that will mean you absorb significantly less iron.Raw cabbage anyone? According to Prof Sharp, it’s because coffee is full of chemicals called polyphenols that are very efficient at binding to the iron and making that iron less soluble. So, if a fortified cereal is your breakfast of choice, then having a small glass of orange juice or an orange will help increase your iron uptake. You might also want to consider postponing your morning coffee until at least 30 minutes after you’ve eaten.But what if you prefer getting your iron from more natural sources? Raw cabbage is a good source of available iron but we found that steaming it lessened the amount of available iron while boiling reduced it even further. That’s because, like oranges, cabbage is rich in vitamin C – and when you boil it, the vitamin C is released into cooking water. If you want to get the maximum nutrients from your cabbage, eat it raw (an acquired taste) or steam it. The same is true of other veggies that contain both iron and vitamin C, such as kale, broccoli, cauliflower and watercress. But, strangely enough, spinach is completely different. We found that when we boiled the spinach, it actually released 55% more “bioavailable” iron than when eaten raw. Prof Sharp says: “Spinach has compounds, called oxalates, and they basically trap the iron. “When we cook spinach, the oxalate is released into the cooking water, and therefore the iron that remains will be more available for absorption.” Finally, what about the bread? We found the best bread for delivering iron was sourdough bread. That’s because wheat contains a chemical called phytic acid that slows down iron absorption by body. When sourdough bread is made, the fermentation process breaks down the phytic acid so the iron that remains is more available for absorption. There are more diet tips on the Trust Me website.

Trust Me I’m a Doctor continues on BBC Two on Wednesday, September 12, at 20:00

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VEGAN FOOD BEYOND MEAT

The Vegan BEYOND MEAT founder Ethan Brown wants people to eat less meat for healthy eating to save environment. BBC’s weekly The Boss series profiles a different business leaders in the world. This week Ethan Brown, the boss and founder of vegan food company Beyond Meat is featured. Ethan Brown’s 12 year old son eats a burger almost every day. It may not sound like a diet a parent would want for their child, but Mr Brown has no concerns, because the burger patties come from his own company, Beyond Meat. And they are made entirely from plants. “My son gets clean protein and no cholesterol,” he says. “He’s growing like crazy right now so I want him to have that protein.” Mr Brown says he is on mission to redefine the word “meat.” The 40-something’s Los Angeles-based business makes vegan burger patties, chicken strips and sausages from plant proteins. They are formulated to mimic the taste, texture and look of beef, chicken and pork.Beyond Meat asks supermarkets to stock Beyond Meat Burgers next to their packs of meat. Stocks of the company’s flagship Beyond Burger product quickly sold out after launch in the US in 2016, helped by a positive article in the New York Times. And more than 25 million Beyond Burgers have been sold and this summer the company launched product in UK and also mainland Europe. Their High-profile investors are Microsoft’s Bill Gates, Twitter founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams, and actor Leonardo DiCaprio. “There’s no mystery to meat,” says Mr Brown. “It’s amino acids, lipids, trace minerals and water. “And if you can deliver those four things in same blueprint or architecture as muscle – why can’t that be called meat?”Mr Brown is concerned about effects of environmental impact farming animals has causing ozone methane gas and the amount of resources used per cattle. So before launching Beyond Meat in 2009, Mr Brown worked in alternative energy sector as a hydrogen fuel cell developer. While he liked that work because of its potential for lowering vehicle emissions he decided to make bigger contribution to society focusing on trying to reduce the environmental impact livestock has on the planet. He also wants people to eat less meat for animal welfare and the health issues. Mr Brown set up Beyond Meat, and began researching how you can use plant materials to replicate the composition of the proteins and fats in meat. Getting in touch with scientists at the University of Missouri who were doing research on plant-based meat substitutes, he began working with them on creating a viable product.Beyond Burger uses beetroot extract to give it a blood-like colour. Put together by the best scientists on this [challenge], Mr Brown says. He understands meat more than anyone else in the world, so and build it bit by bit using plants.” Mr Brown spent all his savings on venture, raised money from family and friends. “I truly begged family members,” he says. “It’s amazing what do to make it work.” The first product Mr Brown and the team of scientists came up with was Beyond Chicken Strips. After repeatedly phoning grocery Whole Foods, “almost to the point of indecent behaviour”, he says he managed to get a meeting that resulted in the store stocking product from 2013. However, Mr Brown wasn’t happy with the early recipes. “We got the vegetarians by the droves, but we didn’t get the mainstream consumer,” he says. “We had to go back to the drawing board.” Team of biochemists, biophysicists and biomedical scientists got to work on making products even closer to real meat. With improving the formulations Mr Brown says the biggest challenge is people to stop thinking of it “fake meat.” I would never call it that,” he says. A mobile phone is not a fake phone it’s better phone than landline so people need to think about it this way. The best-selling Beyond Burger patties “bleed” like beef burgers, thanks to the addition of beetroot juice. They include pea protein, coconut oil, potato starch, and the company asks supermarkets to stock them beside the raw beef products by chilled counters. The product is now stocked by 8,000 supermarkets across US, and in thousands of the country’s restaurants. In the UK it is served at burger chain Honest Burger. It was also due to be on sale at supermarket chain Tesco from last month, but that has now been delayed until later in the year. Beyond Meat says it’s because it was struggling to keep up with existing demand, both in the US and overseas.UK chain Honest Burger sells the burger made Beyond Meat’s patty. Consumers are coming round to the notion of plant-based meat substitutes that aim to look and taste like the real thing. More than a quarter of Britons (26%) say they find idea of products appealing, according to research group Mintel.“So this company Beyond Meat is in a strong position to capitalise on current interest in limiting meat intake,” says Mintel’s UK food and drink research director Kiti Soininen. So just how good does company’s products taste? A trawl of online food blogs show reviews are mostly positive. While some reviewers say burgers taste unnervingly like real beef, others say they definitely don’t. While Beyond Meat has many rivals, including US start-up Impossible Meat and the UK’s Moving Mountains, Mr Brown says that Beyond Meat is struggling to keep up with demand. “We are trying as hard as we can to catch up,” he says. The company, started with 10 people operating from a kitchen in a former hospital, now employs 200.A number of other companies make vegan burger patties that replicate beef as closely as possible, as this offering is from Impossible Burger. And it has just opened its second production facility in Columbia, Missouri, which it says will create a further 250 jobs. In addition, it has launched a new research lab in Los Angeles. This expansion is been funded by external investment in the business that now totals $72m (£56m). Mr Brown won’t reveal the stake he retains in the company, but calls it “decent share.” Mr Brown, who spent his childhood outside Washington DC, says he approaches his every working day like an athletic event eating well, exercising and meditating. At work, he admits, his focus is intense, and there’s “not much chitchat time.” “I tell my son this all the time,” You ‘re not going to get extraordinary outcome if you don’t put an extraordinary amount of work in.”

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BIBLE ON EATING IN DREAMS

In Acts 10: 13-14 God said to Peter Rise, kill and eat.14 Peter said, no LORD I do not eat anything common, unclean, sacrificed. God used the dream to eat animals as food to tell Peter salvation is for all nations because Jesus sacrificed His life for Gentile, common unclean, defiled, forbidden, people in Mark 7:2 Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14. Food was on Peter’s mind so he dreamt in vision at lunchtime and understood God’s message. The vision is sign from heaven Jews were no longer to call Gentiles unclean. The Jews and Gentiles are grafted in Christ equal to Father God breaking down Peter’s prejudices. Food on Peter’s mind God used to approve foods to eat. The mind replays food in dreams but he understood differences between dreams from God and craving food in dreams. Bible says in Joel people will dream dreams and see visions in the last days to prophesy. God told Peter to kill and eat in a dream message to teach him all people are accepted by God saved. In Acts 10:1-11:18 God gave meaning of dream of eating of the animals to change Peter’s attitude. God gave permission to eat sacred food and animals. God’s food variety signals change to faulty thinking towards people of four corners of the world. God set HIS table before Moses and the 73 elders of Israel to impart God’s Holy Spirit Power to lead HIS people and prophesy in Numbers 11:16-30. The 73 elders near God’s throne in Heaven, Moses’ helpers God approved them, so gave them meat to eat. In the Gospel Jesus fed thousands of people. Check if eating in dream is from God to gain victory over evil foods. God used food to teach Peter to accept Gentiles but the devil copies God using food in dream. Person eating from evil source in dream must get victory over enemy. God supplies food to feed to satisfy stomach of Christians with shining glory so God’s food gives health. Peter’s dream manifested in real life sent to visit Gentiles who received Holy Spirit and were baptised. Jehovah God provides food to nourish body for victory. It food in dreams God gave to Joseph to save the whole world. Eating in dream can affect breakthrough if food stops spiritual growth,  stunting life. As serpent fed Adam and Eve apple in daytime to disobey God to separate them from God’s rich, abundant supply in Garden of Eden. The devil wants Christians to miss out on plans and purposes of God in their lives. Dreams in real life can bring joy, sorrow, pain or death. Colossians 1:13 says God delivered us from “powers of darkness and translated us into Kingdom of HIS dear Son Jesus Christ.” God’s Power in Psalm 11:3 stops enemy attack to reach God. Dreams of food from God to Joseph delivered a nation from seven year’s famine. God revealed to Joseph his future in dreams. Joseph dreamt his parents and siblings binding sheaves of grain in field his sheaf up sibling’s sheaves bow to Joseph.” Joseph given coat of many colours by Jacob shows Joseph’s sovereignty and leadership over all his other sons. In a patriarchal age, Semitic chiefs wore coats of many colours an insignia of rulership. Jacob didn’t foresee negative effect sibling rivalry. Favouritism of Joseph made his father Jacob a victim of the dysfunctional family. Rebecca favoured Jacob his father Isaac favourite Jacob’s older brother Esau. Its caused animosity between these two brothers. Jacob did not learn from his parents’ mistakes. Jacob’s mistakes of his unhealthy parent-child relationships affects many generations today. God gave Joseph a gift dreams and interpretations. The dreams reveals Joseph’s future exalted position. But his sharing dreams with his brothers fueled their jealousy. Already angry their father’s favourite son of his favourite wife Rachel, Joseph needed to learn humility. He gained it in painful, difficult trials God positioned him to fulfill. Jacob sent Joseph to check on brothers watching sheep His jealous siblings plotted to kill Joseph. Reuben protests told them throw Joseph into a pit so secretly will rescue him later. Reuben was away so could not save Joseph. Judah said sell him to the Muslim Ishmaelite caravan traders. Sinlingd said to him, “Do you intend to reign over us? After a dream his father Sun, mother moon, siblings stars bowed to Joseph’s sheaves of grain in Genesis 37:9-28. Hid dreams came true in Egypt Joseph became Prime Minister so his brothers went to buy food grain from Joseph years later. In Genesis 41 the king of Egypt dreamt standing by Nile River. 2 Saw seven fat healthy cows from the river eating grass along bank. 3 Seven ugly, skinny cows out of river 4 ate the fat healthy cows. Then the king woke up. 5 The king slept again in a second dream saw seven full heads of grain stalks. 6 Seven heads of thin grains swallow 7 seven full heads so king woke up. Joseph dreamt grains bowed to his grain by family. Joseph interpretes dream of grain and cows to king as famine to prepare against. King’s dreams of lean cows swallow fat cows stock up food as Joseph said. Joseph’s family move to Egypt from Canaan Israel due to a famine. God used Joseph’s food grain dreams to save his family so siblings bowed to Joseph. Food grain dream real in their lives Joseph was in Egypt. Food dream Joseph told butler in jail: three clusters of grapes of wine for Pharaoh came true. Joseph told butler in three days released from jail will serve Pharaoh wine. Happened three days by power of God back to his job so made wine served at Pharaoh’s birthday party. Joseph told the butler to tell Pharaoh of his innocence he forgot him. The baker in jail dreamt three baskets of bread baked for Pharaoh on his head a top basket fed birds. Joseph said, in three days released from jail his head cut off happened birds ate his corpse. God’s message of death of baker was food he dreamt about. God used dream to warn baker of death not a prestigious job. As Pharaohs baker in palace his life was cut short ruined by birds eatinb his bread in the dream. Change required to be set free from the past is repent by God’s forgiveness. Don’t judge your parents so forgive their mistakes they had to put with you. Eternal Spiritual new beginning is in freedom Jesus Messiah .No food harms in dream as Bible says if you eat any poison it will not harm you in Mark 16:18. Food dreams from God gives message or warnings to a person or a nation’s future. People hungry dream of eating Peter dreamt of food when he was very hungry, God used food to give him an assignment. If a person sleeps hungry he dreams of food and people dream of food when fasting. If food on their mind dream of favourite food, meat or meals to eat. God answers prayer gives exact foods in real life. Isaiah 29:8 says if a hungry man dreams he eats but wakes up empty; drinks but is thirsty, hunger is not satisfied or thirst quenched. Jeremiah 29:8 says, LORD God of Israel warns don’t let prophets or diviners to deceive you to fear dreams. Joseph’s dreams from God warned people against famine and they stocked up food in Egypt. God’s dreams bless as God told Peter to eat in Acts 10:9-15. Christ Jesus sanctifies us by the word of God and prayer no weapon formed against you will prosper from dreams in real life. God reveals enemy’s plans so all tongues rising against you in judgment is condemned in Jesus Name. This is the heritage of servants of the LORD’S righteousness. In Luke 10:19 God gives POWER to tread on serpents and scorpions and all power of enemies nothing will hurt you. God gives meanings of dreams. Confess sins, repent and be delivered from dream sent to hurt you. Bakers dream in jail warned him about Nebuchadnezzar’s dream in Daniel 4. In Mark 9:29 says fast to ensure your dreams manifests in good ways. Joseph prayed for meanings of dreams. Your life is to advertise Jesus as living sermon in Christ. The blood of Jesus in Revelation 12:11 cleans evil food dreams. Monitor dreams, soak your body, soul, spirit in the blood of Jesus, praise and worship God, confess all sin, repent and forsake sin. Ask God to forgive your sins in His mercy pray to overcome negative dream. God used dreams to speak to Babylon kings. In Daniel 4:20-37, Nebuchadnezzar dreamt and saw a large tree reaching heaven and seen in the whole earth. 21 It had beautiful leaves, fruits, provided food for people and shelter to wild animals, nesting birds. 22 The tree extended into all parts of the earth. 23 God said, ‘cut tree down, leave stump bound with iron in field and root in the ground. 24 The most High God is against the king 25 is driven to live with wild animals to eat grass like ox with dew. After seven years humbled, God put him over all kingdoms on earth. 26 The stump of the tree his kingdom was restored after repentance. 27 God forgave him as he renounced sin. 28 God blessed King Nebuchadnezzar. 29 But due to pride he said in the palace in Babylon 30 The great Babylon and royal residence was built by his mighty power. 31 Nebuchadnezzar’s royal authority was taken from him. 32 So driven to live with animals to eat grass as ox seven years. God Almighty Most High Sovereign is LORD over all kingdoms on the earth. 33 Nebuchadnezzar ate grass like ox. His body drenched in dew of heaven his hair feathers of eagle, nails like claws of birds. 34 After  seven years Nebuchadnezzar’s sanity was restored. He honoured and glorified God who lives forever, God’s dominion of eternal kingdom endures generation to generations.
35 God does what HE pleases in heaven none tells HIM what to do. 36 Nebuchadnezzar’s sanity was restored, glorified God. Advisers and nobles sought him restored to throne. 37 Nebuchadnezzar praised and exalted God King of heaven. All who walk in pride God humbled. God’s large tree fed the nations but Nebuchadnezzar thought he was powerful without God. Lord Jesus humbled Himself to save us pray dreams don’t destroy you. Ask God to restore years locusts, cankerworm, caterpillar, palmerworm ate in Jesus Name. God forgives arrogant people. The BLOOD of Jesus washes evil dreams in Jesus Name. And reject evil dreams ask the LORD for POWER over enemy to command evil to loose hold over your life in Jesus Name. PRAY morning and afternoon ‘drink’ blood of Jesus by Holy ghost fire burn evil foods eaten in dreams in Jesus Name. Pride hurts others so ask Father God to stop evil food dreams in Jesus Name, household powers using food in dreams in Jesus Name. Food against life, destiny, scatter by fire in Jesus Name. LORD as I drink water evil foods in body flush out by the BLOOD of Jesus. LORD purge evil food effect in life and family in Jesus Name. I break evil covenants, satanic foods against progress and marriage by BLOOD of Jesus in Jesus Name. Joseph prayed for the baker but his job was not restored or his life spared. The butler got his job back to serve Pharaoh. Both had food dreams the butler made it, but baker didn’t, perished. Joseph prayed with both but not pardoned by Pharaoh. To live is Christ to die gains Christ. He died but will live in eternal life in Jesus Name. Dreams of butler, baker of foods and drinks restores or destroys life.

VICTORY OVER EATING IN DREAMS Ask God to arise and deliver you from eating in dreams in the Name of Jesus. Stop pollution to your life eating in dream clean by BLOOD of Jesus to stop foundational powers forcing to eat in dream day or night be destroyed by fire in the BLOOD of Jesus. Jesus came to destroy all works of evil in my life delivered me from all my destructions in Jesus Name. I break and loose myself from evil covenant in the Name of Jesus. God arise stop dream problems in the Name of Jesus. If any spirit feeds my soul in dreams be purged by the BLOOD of Jesus. Holy Ghost release me from evil food in my dreams in the Name of Jesus. Power using foods in Jesus Name I destroy you by fire and thunder. I break the yoke of eating in dream in the Name of Jesus. At midnight 12am – 2am I cover myself with the Blood of Jesus and break generational curses through food in dreams. Be broken by fire in the Name of Jesus, scatter by fire in the Name of Jesus. I hold my stomach evil foods time up in my body I command you in the Name of Jesus come out by fire. The idol of family house destroying destiny with food I cancel in the Name of Jesus. The ancestral powers frustrating me through food fall, die in the Name of Jesus. Family pattern eating in dream break in Name of Jesus. I recover my things enemy stole from food dreams in the Name of Jesus. The powers in my father or mother’s house planting sickness in my body backfire in the Name of Jesus. Any evil food eaten in dream to drag me backward in life return to sender in Jesus Name. Spiritual sickness and weakness afflicting my life due to dreams die in the Name of Jesus. By fire by force I shake off evil things in my body from spirit spouse and unfriendly friends in the Name of Jesus. God Arise put your fire in my bone and blood in the Name of Jesus. All evil foods of poverty, be purged by the blood of Jesus. The evil foods of struggling without end be erased from my destiny in the Name of Jesus. Fresh POWER of God stops dreams in the Name of Jesus, covenant of wicked to eat in dream break by fire in Name of Jesus. Blood of Jesus go deep in my roots to uproot sources of all evil dreams. The power in my dream delaying God’s manifested blessings in my life die by fire in Name of Jesus. The defilement in my body come out with all your roots and die. Food assigned to kill my virtue and work die by fire in the name of Jesus, get out of my body by the BLOOD of Jesus. I set ablaze the spiritual restaurant in Name of Jesus. Any power using dreams to steal children in family die by fire in Name of Jesus. Blood of Jesus repair my body from all foods damaging my system in Name of Jesus. Stop evil food in dream in Name of Jesus. BLOOD of Jesus stop effect of foods in dreams in the Name of Jesus. EATING WITH STRANGERS IN DREAM: If you eat food outside pray on your food. Don’t eat food if it doesn’t belong to you, strangled sacrificed food; beg food, steal food, eat late at night to overcome attacks of evil food. Give your life to Christ if backslided rededicate your life to Christ. Repent of sins, confess them to Jesus Christ. Identify foods you saw in dream and apply BLOOD of Jesus against food’s effects in your life. Get fresh anointing oil to purge your life by fire in Jesus Name. Stop recurs of dream patterns in the family. Declare 21 times I DRINK BLOOD OF JESUS. Read Psalm 18:44, Psalm 91 before you sleep. Ask God to give meaning of foods. Go for deliverance if dream persists. Break evil link between you and the covenant power in Jesus Name. Fast, pray, anoint with oil, read 2 Timothy 2:21. At midnight pray: 12 am to 2 am. Read Psalms 3, 27, 30. PRAYER POINTS: You strangers of darkness against my freedom I bury you alive in Jesus Name. Any power of foods in dream I feed you back in the Name of Jesus. Father God Glorify your NAME and deliver me from the bondage of evil food today in the Name of Jesus. By the BLOOD of Jesus I destroy evil covenant in my life in the Name of Jesus. Every evil foundations feeding my life receive fire of destruction in the Name of Jesus. Every evil foundation from family feeding my life receive fire of destruction in the Name of Jesus. Every sin responsible for feeding in my life receive fire of destruction in the Name of Jesus. Every legal ground for access in my life receive fire of destruction in the Name of Jesus, link to my body, soul spirit break by fire in the Name of Jesus. The stronghold of powers operating in my life receive fire of destruction in Name of Jesus. Every networks controlling my life receive fire of destruction in the Name of Jesus. We destroy the mark in the body attracting evil in the Name of Jesus. The root of evil dream be destroyed in my life in the Name of Jesus. I command coven dreams to catch fire and burn to ashes in the Name of Jesus. An agent of evil in dreams receive fire of destruction in the Name of Jesus. You caterer destroying life in evil food receive fire of destruction in Name of Jesus. I release God’s Spiritual truth and command strange spirits invading my privacy to be consumed by fire in the Name of Jesus. All curses behind evil feeding break by BLOOD of Jesus. BLOOD of Jesus destroy evil deposited in my body through food in dreams in the Name of Jesus. The forces of my family background in evil eating receive fire of destruction in the Name of Jesus. I come against and destroy you with the Holy Ghost fire in the Name of Jesus. Consuming fire of God destroy evil in my life in dreams in the Name of Jesus. I destroy all evil hands feeding me evil food. Catch fire and burn to ashes in the Name of Jesus. All curses of the eating in the dream break by fire and by the BLOOD of Jesus in the Name of Jesus. The agents of darkness controlling my destiny through evil food receive fire of destruction in the Name of Jesus. I command evil food in my life to catch fire burn to ashes in Name of Jesus, evil food in my system affecting my glory and destiny catch fire burn to ashes in the Name of Jesus. A spirit accessing my life and spirit catch fire and burn to ashes in the Name of Jesus. The BLOOD of Jesus flush out of my body spiritual poison foods in my life via dreams. The evil objects in my body via dreams catch fire and burn to ashes in the Name of Jesus. I cut off evil hand using food by fire in the Name of Jesus. All foods used in the dream be purged out of my body the BLOOD of Jesus in the Name of Jesus. All the substances in my spirit, soul or body receive the fire of the Holy Ghost and burn to ashes. If caterer food in dream want downfall, die by fire in the name of Jesus. If a power calls my spirit and soul receive fire of destruction in the Name of Jesus. Any evil attacking my spirit, soul, break by fire all the unconscious initiation in my life by food in dream break by fire in the Name of Jesus. All agents from my father or mother’s side feeding my food to birds in dreams die by fire, weakness in my life of evil be destroyed by fire BLOOD of Jesus flow in my body by fire purge out evil rubbish in my stomach in the Name of Jesus. The fire of the Holy Ghost fall upon me and begin to destroy evil marks and signs in my life in the Name of Jesus. Any spirits living in my body come out by fire in the Name of Jesus. The covenant enforcing food dreams, break by fire in the Name of Jesus. The spirit monitoring my dreams to destroy God’s food receive fire of destruction in the Name of Jesus. Every curse on my life causing food in dream to be served to birds break by fire by BLOOD of Jesus. I soak my spirit soul, body, with the BLOOD of Jesus. By the BLOOD of Jesus, I close every spiritual door spirits use to destroy my food in the Name of Jesus. By the BLOOD of Jesus I am forbidden zone for kingdom of darkness in my life and family in the Name of Jesus. I draw Jesus bloodline round my family with the BLOOD of Jesus. Fire of God in my body, soul, spirit, destroy birds eating my food in dream be consumed by fire in the Name of Jesus. I declare total freedom in my life from forces influencing evil in the Name of Jesus. Angels of LIVING God send back evil feeding in the name of Jesus I command stolen virtues in my life to be returned and restored back in the Name of Jesus. The power of disfavour in my life receive fire of destructions in the Name of Jesus. My glory be restored by the BLOOD of Jesus in Jesus Name. Spirit of delay in life in evil foods, receive fire of destruction in the Jesus Name. My life takes shape from today by Grace and POWER of God in Jesus Name I drink olive oil, saltwater commands poisons out of my body in Jesus Name. I draw Jesus bloodline round my family with the BLOOD of Jesus. Amen! Thanks to God, Thank you Jesus and thank you Holy Spirit.

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UGLY FOODS THROWN AWAY

Quality foods grown with precious time and resources are thrown away because these foods do not look PERFECT to the buyer. A third of farmed fruits and good vegetables never reaches supermarket shelves because its misshaped or wrong size according to new research. Though billions of people starve everyday, these foods are not donated to people as Olio App does helping save good foods. It is a sad thing that a mere aesthetic shape of a nutritious food is thrown while people including children die from starvation. It is necessary to stop using these foods, provided by Almighty God to feed all the people as weapon of power to deny feeding people or those who can it turn into cooked food for the homeless. This is gone on for far too long as tonnes of perfect food is buried everyday but the human beings die from starvation. This is an issue can help save farmers from bankruptcy as their crops are wasted. No matter how perfect a food crop is, it is cut to shape or mashed depending on the recipe. Often finished food product served looks beautiful regardless of the shape before cooking. Food waste must stop because even hard-working people cannot afford expensive ingredients in the supermarkets anymore. Setting up a department for lower incomes to buy is frowned upon because of fear it might undercut profit margins if cheaper food is sold alongside “perfect glamourised” shapes selected in name of customers. It is argued customers “prefer” the perfect fruits and vegetables shapes only. But a lot of ordinary people struggling to feed their families do not mind the shape of an ingredient. Cooking foods or eating a misshaped fruit does not affect people in any way. It is unacceptable excuse so volunteers can organise the distribution to people listed to buy vegetable boxes regularly or receive it as the donations to homeless Charities to cook. There is more than enough food to feed all the people living on earth but this sort of actions deprives billions of food globally each day. It does not make any sense to throw good away because of its shape. .A University of Edinburgh study found more than 50 million tonnes of fruit and vegetables grown across Europe were discarded each year. This was in part because they did not “meet consumers’ expectations” of how they should look. The study was published in the Journal of Cleaner Production. It examined food loss and waste in European Economic Area and examined how much food was discarded each year before it reached the point of being sold. The researchers attributed losses to strict government regulations, supermarket high standard as well as customer expectations of how produce should look. They found that the farmers contracted to supermarkets typically grew more food than obliged to supply, to allow for a proportion that would not be deemed fit to sell. The researchers suggested that greater awareness among consumer movement towards shopping encourage the sale of more ugly vegetables. Stephen Porter, of the University of Edinburgh’s School of GeoSciences, said: “Encouraging people to be less picky about how their fruit and vegetables look could go a long way to cutting waste, reducing the impact of food production on the climate, and easing the food supply chain.” In recent times, UK supermarkets are making more space for increasing amounts of less-than-perfect produce. Last year, Sainsbury’s campaign encourages use of blemished bananas, while Morrisons introduced a new “wonky” range that included avocados. Others, including Waitrose, Tesco and Asda, branched out into selling misshapen fresh items. A lot of unemployed people can organise sale of cheaper food produce schemes to help solve food waste. Billions of people starve everyday even in these advanced countries in Europe but food is thrown away everyday. The golden rule is to be each other’s keeper so feel good helping others and saving food from wastage. 

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• University of Edinburgh

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