How to keep healthy

Gérard everyone !
yes it is exciting because our heart reprents our life. We want our life to remain healthy and strong don't we ?

Gérard The safety of Aspartame has been the subject of several political and medical controversies http://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancercauses/othercarcinogens/athome/aspartame Stevia is a plant but we can't have a clear cut position either http://www.3fatchicks.com/6-health-dangers-of-stevia/
The best way is to keep eating sweet but moderately

Hi Muriel,
Plant doesn't mean riskfree: mushrooms, berries but also common plants can be toxic.

Plant doesn't mean riskfree

Gérard you are right ! anyway some people  think that what comes from nature is riskfree which is totally wrong.

Herbalist is a job.

wikipedia a écrit:Phytotherapy is the study of the use of extracts of natural origin as medicines or health-promoting agents

I know people who prefer phythotherapy to allopathy. What a shame !

Do you have any tricks for dealing with these kinds of late-night bouts of anxiety and sleeplessness? We'd love to hear how you get through them in the comments section below.

Hi Gérard, everyone
Bouts of anxiety and sleeplessness are very difficult to get through. What is important is to relax before going to bed. Reading half an hour before going to sleep helps to drive all the bad thoughts away I think.

Hi Muriel, hi everyone,

I cannot discuss much as when I want to sleep, I just fall asleep... I can meet difficulties when I intensively work till very late focusing on a difficult subject for hours but it's never a big problem as I know that if I'm not really sleeping, I'm at least resting (I never have nagging thoughts disturbing my brains).

I never have nagging thoughts disturbing my brains

How lucky you are, Gérard !

Hi everyone,

> Why Babies Are Still Dying In Their Sleep
I would like to insist: "Why Babies Are Still Dying In Their Sleep" is not a question but an affirmative clause.
The question would be "Why Are Babies Still Dying In Their Sleep?"

Okay? Got it?
French language unfortunately tends to use the affirmative form as a question, just adding a question mark or an interrogative intonation: English doesn't accept this -yet-.

Hi Gérard !
Thanks for insisting on that ! very important to remember !

I hate this in French but I can't help using it, sometimes asking questions with the affirmative form and using a proper tone.

 So, does a bar a day keep the doctor away?"

Good Gérard ! I do hope that chocolate is not fattening. Is it ?

Hi Muriel,

MurielB a écrit:

 So, does a bar a day keep the doctor away?"

Good Gérard ! I do hope that chocolate is not fattening. Is it ?

Here's an extract

forget obesity – who wouldn’t want to devour enough chocolate to keep their brain working as well as it did 20 years ago?

( http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/nov/02/is-chocolate-good-for-you )
However, red this -> http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-living/nutrition-and-healthy-eating/expert-answers/healthy-chocolate/faq-20058044

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I would like to add that though I heard this all my life long, chocolate doesn't cause constipation but just the opposite.

Hi Gérard !
Thanks for the good news ! It's so nice keeping our brain working that way !

Hi Gérard, everyone !
Unfortunately I have just read an article saying that chocolate is in danger of disappearing !
http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/388621/scitech/science/chocolate-in-danger-of-disappearing-scientists-warn

Now this is a problem worthy of science's immediate attention: the world's chocolate supply is in danger of running out!
 
Scientists would have to find a way to save the world's favorite treat as the production of chocolate may fall up to a million metric tons short of demand,

Outbreak of diseases ( frosty pod and witches' broom) and rising temperature which wipe out 30% of global production each year  have put chocolate supply in danger. It is a shame all the more so since increasing demand will continue to outstrip supply until 2020.
"new survey suggests chocolate might help brain function in 50- to 70-year-olds" do you think it will be possible to keep eating a bar a day to keep the doctor away ?

Gérard, everyone !
You can also walk in your house instead of sitting all the time. House-cleaning or do-it- yourself are good aren't they?
As i am a home secretary I put my appointment diary as far as possible from the telephone so I keep running in my home. I hope this idea could help other ones.