Thursday, April 30, 2015

THE MORE UNNATURAL THE MORE IT MAKES US SICK: How an Ailment-Free Body is Possible

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It's all so simple, really. The farther away we drift from natural food, the sicker we get and the deadlier diseases become. In fact, new, strange, and deadlier ailments will keep popping up from nowhere if we don't stop mutating the food we eat.

To rake in bigger profits, some food businesses find short cuts on how to make production have greater output at a cheaper price. It's harder and more costly to grow real apples, for instance, so what they do is chemically produce artificial products with identical tastes, put in other artificial flavors and lots of sugar and pass that off to us as an "apple drink."

Now they're changing how food products are sweetened cheaply. Instead of using sugar which requires large amounts to sweeten food, they just use aspartame. A little bit of it goes a long way, in fact, a much longer way than you think, even sending people to hospital beds for deadly diseases like diabetes or cancer, or worse, an early grave.

The more unnatural food is, the more it makes us sick--because God designed our natural bodies to take in only natural food. Your lungs, for example, are designed to take in only natural oxygen. What happens if you insist on breathing in carbon monoxide from cigarettes?

To have an ailment-free body then means we go back to natural food. We can start off by eating more fruits and vegetables and eating only home-cooked food. That way you control the amount of unnatural ingredients put into your food. For instance, you use real tomatoes and onions for sauteing instead of buying ready-to-mix or pre-mixed red sauce that looks and tastes like tomatoes.

But it doesn't stop there. Soon, you also have to plant your own organic vegetable garden and raise your own organic hens that produce organic eggs, and so on. Is this impossible? Nope, if you just get serious with it. And it's lots doable when done corporately, like in a cooperative or community or church.

The genius Thomas Edison foresaw it: "The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease."

Hippocrates once prophesied: "Let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food."


We're now seeing the need which they predicted years ago. Problem is, when do we finally seriously believe them? If you seriously want to start somewhere in this regard, try the e-book, "How to Lose Weight with God and Medical Science." To see its summary, click here.

Wednesday, April 29, 2015

WHAT HAPPENS TO LABOR DAY WHEN EVERYTHING BECOMES FULLY AUTOMATED? Good News for Humans!

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LABOR DAY is when everybody appreciates workers, especially government and private companies (supposedly). Without laborers no industry can thrive--for now--as long as industries are not yet fully automated--which big companies aim to do. And by the looks of it, they will, soon.

I wonder what Labor Day would be when that time comes--when everything is done by robots. Would they call it Robot Day in honor of machines? And would government also follow suit--employing robots instead of human employees? To some, this seems absurd, if not impossible. But I can easily envision it. What humans then would primarily do is earn a livelihood selling stuff on the Internet. No more human labor, so the logical thing to do is do a business.

You may do business offline, but a large majority of humanity will just be staying home. No point in going to your place of business physically to open it because everything will be automated. When someone wants to buy anything, he simply searches the Net and pays online. The product is sorted out and packaged by robots and delivered by the same. So business people will just stay home and manage everything by remote operation--mainly online.

I can see that by that time, owning websites and blog sites will be costly and there won't be any free sites offered anymore. Sites will become more like real estate. If you want to put up a business, you need to own a site online. So as early as now, you need to start shopping for domain names and hosting. Prepare your posterity for that time when Labor Day turns into Robot Day.

Well, probably there would still be use for a human work force--those who'd be employed online as web content providers--writing article contents and designing pages, developing web tools, accessories and apps. I don't know if robots could some day be able to write or design unique web contents. For now, they cannot do things independently or create things from their imagination. Only human writers and artists can do that--I hope.

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

HOW TO TAP INTO THE HIDDEN BOLDNESS IN YOU: The Imagination for Success

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God is fair and he put great abilities and gifts in each of us to make us all competitive in life. We all have the potential to succeed, each in his own field. God didn't create anyone to fail forever. Yeah, learning from failures is vital key to real success but no one is doomed to fail all his or her life. That I can be sure of--a Choy's Cut you can count on.

The only problem is how to tap the hidden boldness in you, the daring to take risks and keep on until you succeed, no matter the times you failed. That boldness is often hidden deep inside, especially for those who were created with a quiet disposition and are meek and too patient. Some, on the other hand, are too pessimistic to believe--due to unfortunate experiences in life--and they can't see themselves achieving anything great in their lives.

Some get too confident and lose everything, all the while deluded into thinking what great successes they are.

We all have the capacity to be brave and daring--and succeed at it. But first, we have to do some things.

Believe it: It won't happen till we believe and grab it for ourselves. Imagine if you had a full resource of boldness and daring in you more than enough to succeed in life, just waiting to be discovered, but you never used it because you never believed you had it. You never tried. You should first believe it, see yourself in your mind actually wielding boldness, daring, and success.

Be ready to fail: Prepare to succeed but be ready to fail as well. Failures, aside from being stepping stones to success, are really powerful suctions that siphon off talents and potentials buried deep within you and put on the surface. You'll never know what you've got in you till you're tested through fire like pure gold. You transform and become tough material for great accomplishments.

Never give up: It's an overused cliche but we have to keep saying it--never give up! Even people close to you may discourage you out of sincere concern. But you know what you want. Don't let other people forfeit you of your unique success. As long as it's not sin and it's not against God's Word, pursue it to the end, even if no success seems visible at the moment.

Pursue your own success: God designed us for different purposes. Some people may have somewhat the same or connected purposes so they easily understand and compliment each other, but others are for purposes completely different. Sometimes even strange and seemingly foolish. If you know deep in your heart that God put that purpose in you, pursue it and succeed in it. You're a path finder hacking your way to new frontiers which others soon will follow.

One thing I must warn you about--never be arrogant, self-conceited, or self-centered. Success or its pursuit can destroy a person if he or she is not a good steward of life. Remain simple and meek, considering others better than yourself, as you tap the hidden boldness in you to pursue your true potentials.

Monday, April 27, 2015

HOW TO BEAT FLOYD MAYWEATHER IN THE RING: In the Eyes of a Street Fight Instructor

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I don't want to title this article, "How Pacquiao Can Beat Mayweather" because I don't think anyone in the Philippines can tell Manny how to do his job. But I want to imagine what I'd do if I were to face Floyd Mayweather in a boxing ring as an amateur boxer. So I'd be asking myself--how to beat Floyd Mayweather the shortest possible time?

First, I'd be doubly fast. Sometimes, you see Mayweather fast with his hands during shadow boxing sessions but during actual fights he tends to slow down and focus more on punching power. I'd take advantage of that. I need to move in fast and release combination punches at the shortest time possible and then get out of his firing line and his reach fast. And then come back in at the right time.

Speed and Distance are Vital Here

Now that takes super footwork and punching speed. I need to close in to him rather than stay out of his reach all the time. Since he's taller than I am (I stand about as tall as Pacquiao is) and his reach is longer, I need to move in a lot. It's awkward for big guys to punch someone smaller who suddenly darts in close to them. It's more to their advantage if you engage for a while and them back off. That makes you an easier target.

Since boxing doesn't employ kicks and knee blows and take downs, I'd go charging low, watching out for his uppercuts, and then hit the kidney areas fast and hard. Once I hurt him there and he covers his lower body, that's when I suddenly hit his head.

You Get 5 Rounds at Most

Now, why did I say "the shortest possible time" in my first paragraph? Floyd Mayweather is a strong boxer and never been defeated by strong ones either. If I don't hurt him soon enough, he'd just easily exhaust me and let my own exhaustion defeat me. So, I've got to work out my strategies the first 5 rounds of the fight. Longer than that, I'm trapped. But since Floyd Mayweather is a strong guy and wouldn't succumb easily the first 5 rounds, I have to do my thing fast.

If Floyd Mayweather were just an ordinary professional boxer, you can try tiring him out if you're a strong runner like Manny Pacquiao is. Just dance around the ring evading and hitting him hard when he's tired and his guards are down. And since he looks too serious about this fight with Pacquiao, I can also put in a little Ali-style psywar to irritate him and destroy his calm and mental acuity. I've proven this effective during sparring. That is, if I were in Manny Pacquiao's shoes, which I don't think he'd do.

So, Would Pacman Win?

Who do I think would win? In my years of teaching martial arts and sparring with amateurs, all I can say is that Manny Pacquiao should be extra careful. He was knocked out by Marquez's lucky punch already (I don't remember any other professional boxer suffering like that in the ring) and it was due to carelessly putting down his center guard a bit.

Pacquiao would win if he hurts Mayweather terribly in the first few rounds and Mayweather loses his mettle and self-control because of it. He's so afraid of losing to Pacquiao that this could happen. But Mayweather would win if he proves as fast as he is during his shadow boxing sessions.

Boating and Fish Feeding at Nuvali

Relaxing during the boat ride.
Recently we had a clan trip (we were 16 in all) to Tagaytay City for a break. But before going to Tagaytay, we dropped by Nuvali for a boat ride and fish feeding. Again, before we did that, we celebrated my niece's birthday by eating snacks at the Nuvali parking lot--something new to me. We had pancit noodles, fish fillet, ice cream and cake.

Then we had the boat ride and fish feeding. The boat ride was wonderful and feeding the fish was stress-relieving. The boat was motorized so all we had to do was sit and enjoy the scenery--and got splashed with water. Fish feeding was at the dock area.

Feeding the fish. They rushed and crowded
wherever the feeds were thrown.
At Tagaytay (our favorite vacation venue), I and my dear wife had an adventurous walking trek to enjoy the cool morning and delightful sunlight. Well, before that (the day before) the afternoon was amazingly cool (a welcome change from the hot afternoons in Manila) and the night was pleasantly cold. We had dinner at a nearby Jollibee fast food store on its second floor where the cold wind gave us a tremendous chill. It was wonderful when the fact was it was the middle of a hot summer in the Philippines.

Then back at the resort hotel, the kids went for a night hike exploring the surroundings while I and my wife looked for a good program to watch on the cable TV, enjoying the cold air-conditioning and posh beds. Later on the kids had midnight snacks while I was too tired to do anything but fall asleep.

Eating snacks on the loft of our hotel room.
Early in the morning (that's when I and my wife did the adventure trek), I did some martial arts shadow boxing after our brisk walk.

Friday, April 24, 2015

HOW TO GET BETTER AS YOU AGE: Don't be Outdone by Wines

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Wines know the right principle--the better they get as they age. Why can't people see that? Are wines better than people? Definitely not. But we often choose to just take this wisdom for granted. Look at Moses and Caleb. They got the principle right and never got old as they aged. In fact, they looked better. 

Listen to this and learn something: "The aging of wine is potentially able to improve the quality of wine," says Wikipedia. Aging improves. See that? Are you getting a revelation here? God did not design aging so we can deteriorate. If he designed aging to better wine quality, how much more us? 

It's like, "If God clothes the grass of the fields which is here today and burned tomorrow, how much more us?" Of course, sin destroys. But that's exactly why God wants us holy and why he makes it possible through Christ. Grapes get wrinkled and rotten in time, but God can make them better through the aging process he provided. He provided holiness to work the same results for us.

So, how do we get better as we age? First, we get simple principles from how wines are aged. They are kept in oak barrels for years. It doesn't happen overnight. You need to keep wines in barrels or in their special bottles for years. To give them better quality, they're kept in the dark at least 5 years. 

Jesus' whereabouts during ages 12 to 30 are unknown. In effect, he was kept for 18 years to "age." At the right time he was released and he turned out the best quality "wine," like the one he created in Cana where he did his first miracle. 

Moses was kept in the desert for 40 years before he was released to best Pharaoh in a contest. Egypt's wine against God's wine. Pharaoh was placed in luxurious, "prosperous" environment, while Moses in near poverty, serving as Shepherd to Jethro (like being kept in a dark place to age well). Guess who came out winner? When God released him, he came out the best quality wine. 

The thing is to spend quiet times alone with God "in the dark," as it were, and to do it regularly for years. But the problem is, most church people just want to do church for the glamour and ignore spending quiet times with God because it cannot get them applause and recognition. 

If we stick with God as Jesus did, our design is to get better--in spiritual and intellectual maturity and physical health as we age--not get rotten as we grow old. 

Household Churches

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HISGROUP. Churches in the Book of Acts were household churches. But today, household churches are laughed at, if not belittled or considered cultic. Funny, isn’t it? Church people have become so accustomed to church buildings that they find house churches weird and even heretic.

When I tell church folks how the church God gave me just meets regularly in homes and “pastored” by parents I disciple, they find it very strange and think we’re terribly in error or just playing around. Unless they see you meeting in a building they call “church,” your church isn’t church to them. They call it a mere bible study or cell group.

It worsens when I tell them I have no intention whatsoever of registering it with the SEC or giving it an official name. To them that’s either mortal sin or plain stupid. And the number one problem they see is how I’d be able to accept donations for the church.

I didn't know that was a problem. So what if there are no donations?

My Jesus never had his church ministry registered with the government or given an official name. So with the Acts church. Church then was family affair–with a spiritual father [and mother if the father was married], brothers, sisters, and elders or “overseers” or deacons who were older brothers and sisters. Do you need to register a family like that with the SEC to enjoy it?

Today, churches are corporations, registered with the government and run by chairmen and presidents and directors and secretaries and board of trustees. I don’t know where they got the idea. And if you say your church is run simply like a family, they'd scowl at you. They'd think you're getting it all wrong and then lecture you on the correct way to do things.

God’s Last-Days Move: Going Back to Household Churches

But God is about to destroy man-invented churches to set up his one, universal glorious church which is without spot or wrinkle or any blemish, but holy and pure. This church uses no “church building” as the term means today, but meets in homes, garages, under trees, by the river, offices, parks, roof tops, business centers, malls, the marketplace.

The Jesus glorious church has no “headquarters” or office address. It’s in warm homes where dads and moms are anointed servants of God, ministering to their children, disciples, neighbors, and their communities, operating in the spoken WORD of God and his signs and wonders, and powerfully led by the Holy Spirit alone. They are closely linked in the Spirit with God’s apostles and prophets with their team of evangelists, pastors and teachers, in their locality and in the world.

God is starting to form these small groups which have discovered the incompleteness of “born-again Christian” denominations and other man-invented churches, left them, and are connected in spirit to Jesus’ invisible but real glorious church, being completely united with all similar believers in the world and made one body by the Jesus DNA in them.

Why the Household Church Concept is Vital Today

Others may think I’m majoring on minors. Why don’t I just focus on evangelism and church planting? We do focus on evangelism and church planting, but we have to do them with God’s blueprint, not man’s. The focus on corporate mega churches kills God’s concept of a true church as a family. Churches have become unthinking robots remotely controlled by corporate denominations which think like psychologists and sociologists more than like God.

Consequently, churches today are more like Rotary Clubs or franchises that just help people, aim to enlarge membership [and spread office branches], and do civic works like medical missions. They don’t look anything like the Jesus church ministry or the Acts church. And for us, that’s questionable.
Make sure you are connected with a Jesus and Acts household church in these end-times.

Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Smokers Get Younger

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No kidding--smokers get younger. I mean, more and more kids smoke today. Everywhere I look I see kids--merely in high school--wasting their allowance on cigarettes. And they look like it's some kind of an achievement.

Before, kids trying to smoke hid from plain view. Today, they smoke openly in the streets and parks and some of them smoke with their parents. No kidding.

Government is trying to control this by increasing taxes on cigarettes, as if that were a solution. It's like banning parents from giving kids school allowance. You know it won't work, besides being ridiculous. I wonder why government can't plain ban cigarettes in the country when other countries are doing it?

Even funnier is how natural health supplements are not allowed to declare therapeutic claims but cigarettes are allowed to be sold in public. And yet they all admit that cigarettes can kill you.

Anyway, smoking cannot be remedied by laws or taxes. It should all start in the family, particularly with the parents (and the president of the country). If we want this madness to stop, parents should set as examples. Without this, smoking will continue to claim the young lives of our youth.

I can't imagine why folks with hardly any money can still afford to burn it by smoking cigarettes. You'd see poor folks wasting hard earned money on them. Can't they stop to think a while what the heck they're doing?

Jesus Discipleship is NOT Bible Studies

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HISGROUP DISCIPLESHIP. When you talk of discipleship, churches are likely to think of bible studies in small groups. The Jesus discipleship does use cell grouping, but it's definitely not bible studies as churches today use the term bible studies. It's not even a church program or activity, in the sense that people today use the term church. I like saying that an authentic Jesus discipleship is really camaraderie, the same camaraderie you find in a closely knit family, with the discipler getting all the support.
For instance, camaraderie in doing a project. The discipler gets a Word from God about a task he must do and all his disciples join in on it. Let's say, the discipler gets an impression that he must buy a certain book. His disciples join him buy it from a bookstore--even share a certain amount for the payment--and read it after the discipler does. It's camaraderie to help the discipler fulfill his call from God. That's authentic Jesus discipleship.
Doing bible studies together as a discipleship activity is often nothing but man's program--especially if you do it using bible study materials. Believers in the bible never had "bible study materials." They were solely led by the Holy Spirit, and with such hunger and desperation. Today, they do it to keep themselves busy and avoid boredom to set in. It's a tactic churches do to avoid losing members to other churches. That's not how Jesus did it. Jesus gathered his disciples so they could help him fulfill what the Father wanted him to accomplish. He trained them for it. He wasn't there to see how he could be of help to them. They were there to help him do things to the end.
Later on, Jesus told them to do exactly the same to their disciples. "Make disciples of all nations...teaching them everything I have taught you," he said. In a discipleship, what matters most is the discipler's call from God. Everything should be focused on that. Churches today do differently. The pastor is there to help members do what they want to make happen. I heard one famous and mega church say they ask people how the church could be of help to them. Well, people like that. No wonder their church memberships grow in leaps and bounds. Just give people what their flesh wants--make them the star of the show--and they'll stay loyal to you.
Now, when you have grown as a faithful disciple and start to have your own followers and disciples, your discipler starts releasing you to obey God's call on your life. You become discipler to your followers and their only business in life is to help you fulfill your call in Christ. In the meantime, you stay connected to your discipler, continue to give him your tithes and offering, though you now have your own discipleship. When your disciples start having their followers, you also release them, and so on. 
As disciplers release disciples, they also get new people to disciple. That's how a discipleship grows in spirit. That's how a genuine Jesus church grows.

Monday, April 20, 2015

Now You Can LOVE TO STOP SMOKING with This

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When I run early mornings, I see a weird scene in the neighborhood--folks smoking cigarettes to "exercise" their lungs with. Instead of filling up their lungs with fresh air, they fill it with deadly pollution--and look casual about it all. Even look smart.

I was buying hot pandesal one morning and there was this guy who stood a few distance away as he breathed cigarette smoke in and out, as if that was safe enough for non-smokers around him. Worse was another guy I and my dear wife saw as we were brisk walking one afternoon. He was with his small toddler as he blew his cigarette smoke on the poor kid.

What's with cigarettes that smokers risk the lives of their loved ones just to enjoy puffing them? Tell me, what benefit do you get from smoking? It's crazy, but there it is--people invest money all their lives on something that will kill them and their loved ones.

But they wouldn't buy natural health products. Strange.

How to Love Stopping Yourself from Smoking

I was thinking of listing down here the dangers of smoking, but do I really need to do that? Do I need to tell and convince readers that poison is bad for them? If I did that I'd be the sillier guy. That wouldn't be Choy's cut. The best to the worst--yeah, because not saying it here is the best thing and saying it here would be the worst.

But here's one breakthrough to break away from this harmful habit. Now you can love to stop smoking. All you have to do is simply watch a FREE video series from the Stop-Smoking Guru, Eric Eraly. He's helped thousands love to quit smoking painlessly, without stress--and that includes even "heads of states."

And here's the best part--it's 100 percent guaranteed! Free and guaranteed--how about that? If you hate spending money on natural health supplements but are a smoker--and want to quit without the hardships--then this is just the thing for you. The videos are for FREE!

Grab them now!

What I know is that, the thing here is to be able to convince yourself that smoking is pointless. Unless you see it that way, you'd never stop. You'd probably like to, but you wouldn't, because you love to smoke. You'd only hate something the moment you really see how stupid it is. In my case, I used to love pineapple with ketchup...

In closing, I remember this guy who was able to free himself from smoking--and died. He used candies as substitute for his chain-smoking habit. So, he ate candies a lot of times each day. In the end he had diabetes and died. At least he was freed from smoking..

This Stop-Smoking Guru does it, not with candies or anything with side effects--but mentally. No, it's not hypnotism. It's a new type of self-convincing and self-realization technique, like some psywar.

Watch the video here!

NAPS IN THE EARLY AFTERNOON: What Health Disaster Happens If You Don't Take Them

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It's official. Naps in the early afternoon are healthy--and you can't afford to do without them, especially if you are working. Actually, kids and adults both need naps. According to America's National Sleep Foundation, "A short nap of 20-30 minutes can help to improve mood, alertness and performance." We all need that regardless of age.

But what if you ignore taking naps? The worst disadvantage is that your fatigue and stress continue through the day. The Mayo Clinic Blog (.org) talked about "reduced fatigue" as among benefits of naps in one of its articles. Naps serve as time-out sessions from stressful punishments your body takes in so that your exposure is cut for a while instead of being subjected to them the whole day. 

After napping, you are greatly re-charged and your body and mind recovered to face another round of fatigue and stress. You have more fighting chances of winning against free radical damage and enjoy a bit more of delayed aging.

Stress and fatigue are not to be trivialized. They can lead to deadly ailments if left unchecked. The less your body and mind have them, the better. And enough sleep and afternoon naps are among our immune defense aids. God designed the body to need them so we can better fight off negative and unhealthy chemical reactions in us, as well as negative emotions like depression. 

But naps are supposed to be short sleeps. Don't sleep for hours in the afternoon because this would wreck your natural sleep schedule at night. Don't sleep for long hours in the morning as well. And don't take naps in late afternoons. The best napping time is an hour after lunch, about 10 to 15 minutes. I workout a bit after that (mostly pull-ups) and then continue my writing job.

Lastly, naps are not a license for sleeping late at night. Get 7 to 8 hours of sleep at night and 10 to 15 minutes of nap in the early afternoon. Do this regularly and see the good results in 3 to 6 months--no, the first month even.

Saturday, April 18, 2015

What's China Up to On Our West Philippine Seas?

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Pouring concrete on precious island reefs to build airstrips? For what? China has been destroying our maritime environment and I can't understand why when they have vast lands right in their home to build airstrips on. Strategic airstrip? Why near us? Against whom?

And why is the US too concerned over it, too? Concern for a friend? Ows?

I heard a story and it's a likely scenario. These giants (China and the US) have discovered a great source of energy that can well replace oil and fuel which are hinted to be near depletion worldwide. If this is true, no wonder Japan and Korea are making their presence felt on our west Philippine seas, too. Could Bill Gates' recent visit to Palawan also had to do with it? I'm not sure, but he was said to have donated huge sum for a "project" there or else bought property.

It's funny--the Philippines is said to sit on a vast source of natural resources vital to industrialized nations, but all we could do about it is wonder and watch our neighbors siphon them off for their sole advantage. It's like a big joke and it's on us. While our corrupt officials are in position to sell everything to foreigners to get hefty commissions. Just consider how a lot of properties today are owned by Koreans--in Batangas, Baguio, Palawan, and elsewhere, while a growing number of Pinoys are squatters.

I guess, China wants to grab that fuel alternative source all for herself. She's flexing her muscles there not just to showoff as a super power--she's after something valuable, and other super powers are also following suit. It's not just for "regional security" and for maintaining "peace and order." And as a rule, when powerful countries start talking about "unity and peace" in a certain region and making moves to that effect, you can be sure they're after a valuable resource.

In the meantime, what the Philippines should do is position strategically in world politics with a shrewd eye for gaining the best benefits and safety for the country (while also building our defense capabilities). We must maximize our presence in the ASEAN and the UN. We need real progressive nationalists at the forefront doing this for the general welfare. So, who among our leaders and politicians are fit for this? Anyone?

And most important, we true believers in Christ should pray for God's shield on the powerless and for real righteousness to start reining in the country, beginning in the churches.

Friday, April 17, 2015

Realistic Weight Loss Breakfast for the Lower Middle Income Group

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They always say breakfast is the priority and crucial meal of all, so make sure never to miss it. And then they give us samples of a healthy, balanced, and slimming breakfast guaranteed to trim our waists and lower our weights down.

Question is, who can afford them? Only the rich. And you know who needs health and fitness more these days? Folks who belong to the middle income--particularly the lower middle income. Why? Because they make up most of the working class in this country--people who move the economy up. If they get sick, imagine what happens to the economy, even with billionaire capitalists around.

So one day, I thought of formulating a realistic weight loss breakfast for the lower middle income group--something very affordable, common, but healthy. Most folks on FB fall under this income category so spread the word around and tell them of this new health finding--a definite good news to all.

Here's what I gathered. I made a weekly breakfast schedule. After taking 3 glasses of water with one piece squeezed kalamansi (water therapy), eat:

Monday: Two boiled eggs, 3 bananas, a cup of milk, and 3 slices of wheat bread. That costs roughly P25 to P30 per person. You have protein, carbs, fibers, vitamins and minerals. That should keep you energetic and healthy.

Tuesday: Fried dilis and half cup fried rice (okay, one third cup fried rice), sliced half tomato, green tea, half boiled eggplant with crushed garlic. That costs roughly P25 per person. You get your calcium, carb, fibers, vitamins and minerals, and antioxidant,

Wednesday: A small bowl of oatmeal with some milk (no sugar), 3 slices of wheat bread, 3 bananas, and 2 small pieces dried fish. That costs about P25. You get your carbs, fibers, protein, vitamins and minerals, and calcium.

Thursday: 3 boiled sweet potatoes, 3 bananas, and a cup of Ovaltine or Milo. That's about P25. You get your protein, carbs, fibers, and vitamins and minerals.

Then repeat Monday breakfast for Friday, and so on.

What do you think? This is my personal breakfast sched.

Going Out on a Hot Night


It's Friday night and terribly hot here in Quezon City. I get out to walk the streets for a while and try to get some air. There's no wind blowing. But at least it's a bit cooler than inside the house in my office cubicle. I walk leisurely as I head for the grocery store about 3 blocks away.

The grocery glass doors are closed. That makes you think there's air-conditioning inside. But when I open them, a hot blast of air greets me. It's worse inside, but at least there are fans and piped in music. I take a can of Highland corned beef and present it at the cashier--P70 plus. I am astonished a small can of beef like that can cost so much.

I walk out the grocery and stroll along the dark street toward home. At 7.30 in the evening, people still busily go to and fro and tricycles still line up to wait for passengers. But I'm always alert, watching people around me and those walking near and far. I watch out for people riding motorcycles in tandem or cars with tinted glasses. Training in streetfighting has made me like that whenever I'm out.

Along our street, fewer folks are around--one at the small store, one at the gate of a house, and two chatting quietly in a dark portion of the street. Though I'm looking ahead and sometimes on the street asphalt, I keep an eye on them, watching them with the proverbial eyes on the back of my head. I do that automatically while also relaxed and enjoying my surroundings.

Finally, I'm back home and back to my cubicle.

That's Choy's Cut for you.

Choy's Cut is Mine: Time to Celebrate!


Wow! Praise God! Choy's Cut is now mine. It's a paid and registered blog site. It's now officially with URL address www.choyscut.com. Not anymore www.choyscut.blogspot.com. It's my first time to own a blog with my name on it.

Owning a website or blog site is like owning real estate property. That's why it's called an online domain with an address. You actually own a "property" on the Net and you "build" a house there, which is your blog, with structures and frameworks which are web templates. So now, I have a virtual residence, a house where I can secure my home. You'll find my home on the menu board. And you're all always welcome to visit.

Advantages of Owning Your Blog

Free blogs are good. I started with them and learned a lot about setting up websites and blogs using them. From scratch, I learned how to use website tools and templates and how to fix them to compose a site that has my imprint on it. Imagine how I did when I was just starting. The Internet was new to me and I always wondered how websites worked.

The first time I tried free sites was when I used webs.com and wordpress.com. I always ended up with funny looking blogs because I didn't understand how they worked and how to use their special tools. Then I discovered blogger.com which had simpler features suitable for newbies like me. I learned a lot, especially when the dynamic templates were introduced on blogspot and customization was easy but gave your blog sophisticated looks.

All from Scratch

I familiarized myself with website designs through the three free hosting sites and soon I could make a complete website with 2 or 3 articles in 30 minutes or so. To think that when I started, I didn't have any background on it. Well, I must thank Eric Holmlund and his Eric's Tips blog for giving me my first lessons on website making and affiliate marketing. It was tough learning by just following written instructions and watching videos.

Most of all, it was all God. I prayed and God led me to do all those accomplishments, learning things pretty much on my own without a mentor physically present beside me for guidance, except the "physical" presence of God, so to say. Thank you Lord for all this!

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Why Webinars are Something Else

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Ever attended a webinar? It's an online seminar you attend in real time by simply accessing a website. It's amazing--you attend a seminar while in the comforts of home sitting comfortably in front your desktop, laptop, or what-have-you. But you feel the presence of hundreds or thousands others in the webinar like all of you were in the same lecture room.

Can you imagine that? You skip the hassles of waking up early to beat the gargantuan traffic ahead just to make it on time to the seminar. All you have to do is wake up, wash your face, take your breakfast to your desktop, switch on your PC and "attend" the seminar. My dad didn't see this. He would've marveled and preferred it over traditional seminars. He was often invited as speaker to journalism seminars.

Actually, when we were kids, we had imagined something like this. Remember? When we played hi-tech, sci-fi imaginary games, we had come across this idea in our thoughts--communicating with people far away from you through some tiny television monitor and interacting with them, like what we saw on Star Trek. We all had dreamed about this. And now it's here. And it's become common. Familiarity breeds contempt. So, if you always see it, you stop marveling about it.

Webinars are now common to me--but somehow, they still amaze me now and then. You know why? You see, right now, as I'm doing this blog article, I'm also "attending" a marketing webinar--and taking my breakfast! You save a lot of time doing worthy things, and you're practically just enjoying them. Sometimes, I "attend" webinars while working out physically. You train yourself in mutli-tasking and that can be brain health for you.

There are also replay videos of webinars which enable you to pause while you attend to other matters or replay parts of the videos in case you need clarification.

I think schooling in general will one day evolve into webinars (or webschools?) when road traffic problems become helpless and people become super fanatics about saving time.

Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Simple Push-Ups for a Muscular Body by June

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You want to be a bit athletically muscular by next school year? Start these simple push-ups now and do it daily for a chance to be fitter by month of June. It worked for me in 2 months before. It might work for you, too.

First Step: Position yourself on the floor for a regular push-up. The only difference is, you put your hands a bit closer together, about 7 to 8 inches gap between your thumbs. Feet together, push yourself further up with your tummy also fully raised up. Stomach in. This is your beginning position. Make sure no part of your body slouches.

Second Step: Bring your body down, your chest touching the back of your hands in front of you. Inhale while doing this.

Third Step: Push your body up as far as it can go, with your tummy with it. Don't let your stomach area slouch. If possible, push your tummy higher. Exhale as you do all this. Then repeat steps one to three.

Do 4 sets, with 30 repetitions each set. Meaning, do 30 or more push-ups (do them slowly and make sure you do them right each time according to the 3 steps above) and then rest for a minute or two. Then do it again, up to 4 sets. Then do it a second or third time later in the day--another 4 sets an hour after lunch and another 4 sets an hour after supper.

If you can't do 30 repetitions, just do the most number of repetitions you can make. Don't over stress yourself. Perhaps, 20 to 25 repetitions will do initially. When you have build up strength (probably after a week or two), do 30 or more.

You will begin to feel your arms, chest, and shoulder muscles improving a bit in the first 2 to 3 weeks. Your tummy muscles may develop, too. Then you're quite improved by month of June. But do continue everything until your muscles fully develop. And consult your doctor before you start this program.

Get more push-up and equipment-free workout tips from this e-book by clicking here.

Wednesday, April 8, 2015

K to 12? Is that What Our Kids Really Need? Or Are We Barking Up the Wrong Tree Again?

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When you let technocrats run government, they often come up with amazing things that bark up the wrong tree. They impose heavy tax policies on the poor and working class but let the billionaires go scot-free. They penalize new car owners with late registration when it's LTO and car companies that are to blame. They get strict with private schools but look at the sorry state of public schools.

And now they think of extending school days to improve education when what kids really need are more decent classrooms and facilities and better teachers.

I notice how most people today are just after titles--they want PhD degrees as if titles and positions are the solutions to our problems. I saw one government office where every employee is a PhD holder. Wow! But is that government office doing a good job? NO. In fact, it's among the incompetent government agencies I know.

And now there's the K-to-12 program which is supposed to improve education in the country. They think the added years in school would make the difference. But even if you added 100 years to schooling, it wouldn't do any good as long as there is a dire lack of decent classrooms and able teachers--teachers able to write and speak well in Tagalog and English.

The problem is so basic--we don't need more school days. We need more quality schools and teachers. I'm often astounded how a lot of teachers I see (public and private) cannot speak or write in English and some of them pronounce Tagalog words ridiculously. I always wonder what they teach their pupils. Reading and writing are basics and if you don't start there, you'd end up nowhere.

What You Need to Know about Weight Loss due to Flu

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Have you noticed how while having a bout with influenza or the flu, you easily lose weight? When the weather changes--cold to hot or hot to cold, wet to dry or dry to wet--that's when the flu virus seems more active and pervade. You need to drink lots more water or fresh juices.

Why do you lose weight during a bout of flu?
  • Your appetite is often affected, so you eat less.
  • Body and mental stress burns up fat.
  • Loss of fluid
  • Excess perspiration during recuperation period
  • Frequent body chills doubly burn up fat
Thus, it's sometimes wonderful how you lose weight and slim down after a bout of flu. To people who find it hard to lose weight, this is good news. But not for long. Remember, the weight loss here was due to an ailment. Once your body starts recuperating, it needs nutrients to recover. Your appetite recovers as well and you start craving for food. If you don't watch out, you may end up gaining more weight than how you weighed before the flu set in.

I've watched folks who slimmed down dramatically after suffering flu and then quickly gained weight a few days after. They became too confident that the slimming effect would be permanent. There's this feeling that once you slim down it would take a lot of eating to make you gain weight again. You feel the weight loss is somewhat permanent. But later, you get the surprise of your life. Presto--you become fatter faster!

So the trick here to sustain the weight loss is to eat more vegetables, fruits and proteins and especially consume more fresh fruit juices (without sugar). These foods are nutrient rich and help your body recuperate as it also retains its slimness. 

Recovery from Ailment and Maintaining Weight Loss Via Spiritual Means?

Now, when you have just recovered from sickness and still somewhat feeling weak, bible passages can help you recover both spiritually, emotionally, and physically. If you know the apt passages to ponder on, you'd be strengthened bodily and get discipline to retain the weight loss you gained from the ailment, like what flu does to your weight. Read all about it on my CS Blog by clicking here!

Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Cartoons and Comics Make Your Imagination Soar: A Summer Escapade

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They're gone. I and my dear wife often wonder where have all the Tagalog comics gone? And the rare few I see around cost so much that Tagalog comics have ceased to be reading materials for the masses.

It seems everything around us are designed for the enjoyment of foreigners. You see English comics a lot but no Tagalog comics for the masses. Even schools plan to start classes on rainy days to consider schooling schedules abroad. Hotels and resorts are all priced for foreign tourists (and it's just incidental that some local tourists manage to afford them).

Well, at least they're "Tagalizing" English movies on TV, so you can credit that as a move for the masses, though I seldom like them.

But I wish they'd put Tagalog comics back in circulation and very affordable again for us ordinary folks. Comics help your imagination soar and it's during hot summers like this that their value is easier appreciated. Imagine--reading stacks of Wakasan, Hiwaga, or Liwayway comics under the cool, breezy shed of your mango tree while sipping on a tall iced glass of fresh mango shake with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top!

I remember enjoying summer vacation extra well when my Uncle Tony used to supply us with loads of vernacular comics every weekend. I especially enjoyed humors in full native colors. Contemporaries, do you remember the following?
  • Max and Jess
  • Ping at Pong
  • Boogey
  • Smolbateribols
  • Asyong Aksaya
  • Siopawman
Well, some newspapers and tabloids still feature Tagalog comics but only in short strips. I miss the magazine types that invaded street comics stands decades ago.

In my elementary and high school days, I did a comics story with my flair for composing stories and drawing cartoons. Click here to see what it's about on my CS Blog for more.


How Successful Online Marketers Make Money

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Okay, first things first. This is NOT about MLM or network marketing. Are you still on?

In my online existence, I've come to know 5 guys who really make BIG money online and they've been serving as mentors to me. They email me regularly to coach me on how to master this trade--I'm intent on making this a real, serious career for me. I'm always so excited about it.

Each man has a career he loves till death. And if he gets God's will for him, God gives him a wife that fully supports him in his career all the way. My wife is like that. And she sees to it that I become successful in my career because she realizes my success is hers, too. And I'm serious with online marketing through blogging, second to inspirational blogging.

My mentors taught me 7 ways to be successful with marketing-blogging, and the good news here is, it's a good prospect even for non-writers. You think you're not a writer but you want to make money legitimately online? Then marketing-blogging may be just the thing for you. In fact, I'm beginning to earn extra money through this. I just got my second check from my Google AdSense.

Of course, I'm not satisfied with that--nor with the other online incomes I now start to enjoy. I want to master it and make profits as big as my mentors do. One of them, a Filipino, got his first hundred thousand profit in his first 6 months and his first P20 million after 6 years--and the income just keeps coming. It involves real hard work, but one that pays lucratively.

If you want to see more, check it out on my CS Blog by clicking here!

Thursday, April 2, 2015

It Still Puzzles Me: Why Jesus Chose to be Son of a Poor Carpenter

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HISGROUP DISCIPLESHIP. It's all over the Old Testament--God blesses people who serve him--spiritually, physically, and materially--especially materially. We're all familiar (even network marketers know this today) with Deuteronomy 8.18--"But remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your ancestors, as it is today." The bible has lots of verses to this effect.

In fact, it was precisely why God got them out of Egypt in the first place--for prosperity reasons. God got them out of bondage to slavery and poverty to bring them to a land flowing with milk and honey and where there was plenty of iron and copper and other precious metals and stones. God's image was one who prospered his chosen ones.

But why did Jesus choose to be son of a poor carpenter? Wouldn't it serve his words better if he had come from at least a well-to-do family? Wouldn't it prove God's image of prosperity provider? Wasn't Jesus God's standard, that all you have to do is look at Jesus to know God's will for you? So, why didn't Jesus live a high standard of living?

If you're honest about it (without any religious hullabaloo), don't they measure a church's success today by it's income? It's the reason why they want more members, because more members means more income. And why the drive for more income? Because they see it as God's favor on a church. When a church is mega, they say it's really blessed by God. I've never heard anyone say the same of a small, poor church. The general idea is that if you're small you're not blessed--you may even be doing something wrong. If so, then why did Jesus opt to live and die a poor guy?

Why was he poor? Was he doing something wrong?

It's been mind-boggling to me since I became born again on September 5 1980. Others take this for granted and just keep up with church traditions. As long as they're attending a church they're comfortable with, they don't care about seeking deeper and disturbing truths. One guy told me, "Oh, that's too deep for us. We're just simple, regular believers who want a simple church life." 

In short, they're lazy to meditate the Word. But the Word says grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Probably, they fear to see truth behind things and are unwilling to change accordingly. Seeing truth requires radical change. You can't know God's truth and remain the same. So, perhaps they think, it's better to know nothing about truth--just settle with how things have been going on for years. And anyway, ministry achievements yield better returns than seeking truth. 

But I want to seek deeper. Jesus didn't opt for a poor carpenter's family for nothing. There is deep meaning into this and I want to know what, even if it takes me a lifetime. We may be running after the wrong standards--favoring material prosperity and visible achievements when the fact is Jesus emphasized the poor in spirit and the meek, the lowly and persecuted, those belittled and disdained by the world. James said God chose those who are poor in the eyes of the world to be rich in faith.

I think something has been terribly going wrong unnoticed here.

Moses was on top of the world when he was allied with Pharaoh, educated with high wisdom. But God couldn't use him in that condition. God had to turn him into a lowly shepherd that stuttered when he talked (shepherds were the lowest in stature in those times). Brought radically low. he was then able to lead a whole nation--millions of Israelites--out of Egypt and cross the desert. There's something deep and powerful about being lowly, poor, and despised--something many today fail to  see and appreciate. Everybody wants to be great, recognized and moneyed.

Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Saved But Not Discipled

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HISGROUP DISCIPLESHIP. You may be one of them--believers who are said to be saved but not discipled. They don't buy the idea of being discipled or "controlled," they just want salvation and attend a church where they hear Sunday sermons and give their tithes, if any. But discipleship is a definite no-no to them. They may send their kids to a "discipleship" program to keep them busy in church than mingle with non-believers--but not they themselves.

There's just one problem with this outlook: all the believers in the New Testament were called disciples. No one was called a church member--there was no membership then, the kind that they have in church denominations today. So, if you just want to be an attending church member, where do you put yourself in Jesus' genuine church system?

A disciple is not just a believer, in the sense that the word "believer" is used today. A believer today is anyone who fears hell and doesn't want to end up there so he grabs on anything or anyone that can save. A true disciple of Jesus has a discipler, because that was how Jesus demonstrated it--his discipleship had disciples and a discipler they treated as their discipler for life. The discipler taught them how to live right before God, dealing with all aspects of life, not just church life.

Jesus then left them to themselves periodically so they can practice their faith even without visibly seeing him with them. He sent them two by two to villages and do the ministry all by themselves. He often went away and left the disciples to accustom them to doing things by faith without relying on his visible presence. Finally, he physically left them for good so they can live their lives totally by faith--the kind of faith that sees the invisible.

Do you have someone in your life discipling you like that? If not, now is the time, before Jesus returns. You should have someone training and feeding you the way Jesus did his disciples, and then later leave you to yourself so you can be like the Jesus you see in him or her, doing your ministry on your own through Christ in you--like how a dad would leave his little kid alone now and then to learn to walk by himself.

A lot of born again Christians have been walking all by themselves from start to finish without a discipler. Thus, even when they're old, they still don't know how to walk properly, particularly how to walk with good character and power with meekness. And how can you disciple others on proper walking if you yourself walk awkwardly because no one has ever taught you to? All you did all your life was to claim that Jesus himself has been discipling you, whatever that means.

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