Share Your Ride and Share Your Sustainable Journey - The Eight Natural Remedies
Greetings for the day!
Welcome to the 8th day of the most relevant challenge in the world!
Well, this article is for those of you interested in leaving that car at home and intend to live a more sustainable lifestyle. Healthy eating. It's something everyone knows they should do, but few of us do as consistently as we would like.
Interview with Christian teacher Pedro
Our guest today will explain why he prefers to live a sustainable lifestyle by eating only healthy food and what are the Eight Natural Remedies .
Praise God for this opportunity that gives me to be here now witnessing the sustainable lifestyle I have adopted since 2004.
It has been an experience that led me to understand the healing power of natural food.
I had a period of volunteer worker training where I learned that the healthy lifestyle is not just for Reformed members of the Adventist world church but for everyone.
So I, together with my cousin, have been living a healthy lifestyle for 16 years and by the grace of God, by the power of the holy spirits there were many benefits that I knew, I no longer know what does it mean to be sick because I never got sick again, and this is one of the things that has made me so steadfast.
There are many benefits I actually get from practicing the 8 natural remedies.
Could you tell us what the 8 natural remedies are?
The 8 natural remedies are:
Nutrition, exercise, water, sunlight, temperance, air, rest and trust in God.
Professor Pedro is showing us the many books about healthy eating that he reads.
According to him, the American Christian writer Ellen White wrote extensively on God's Natural Remedies. Most of the quotes have a date by them... check it out...you will be amazed at the light she had so early in time! As early as 1868 she was telling people that meat eating was the cause of cancer and was not safe to eat! And it 1899, she said it wouldn't be long and milk and dairy products would no longer be safe! Science and Doctors are just catching up to her with all the scientific information supporting exactly what she said in regards to the safety of meat eating and dairy products and the rest of God's Natural Remedies.
Extraordinary Reasons Why You Should Use Public Transport
If we are serious about addressing the problem, then we should often opt for public transport. A recent research indicated that a full carriage bus in a public transport system is equivalent to about 55 cars on the road with one occupant. So, if we could all use public transport, we’ll probably be decongesting more than 50 cars on the road.
While many view it as not entirely comfortable as compared to the use of a personal car, it’s one of the most amazing ways to travel and enjoy your journey. Public transportation eases congestion, reduces emissions, and gives you plenty of quality time to people watch, as well as get to know your "neighbors." In addition, public transportation allows you to relax, read or nap during that commute instead of fighting and stressing and feeling the road rage.
So, what do we mean by public transportation?
“Public transport (also known as public transportation, public transit, or mass transit) is a shared passenger-transport service which is available for use by the general public, as distinct from modes such as taxicab, carpooling, hired buses, and transportation network companies, which are not shared by the general public without private arrangement.”
Try the bus or train for longer trips
Buses, trains, light rail and ferries generally have dedicated travel paths that are quicker than sitting alone in your car, which can cut down travel times. If you need to use a car, see if you can car-pool. Each of these options is much better than flying. In a car, four people would only be collectively responsible for emitting only 104 kilograms of CO2, whereas in a plane they would generate some 736 kilograms of carbon dioxide. A cross-country train trip would generate about half the greenhouse-gas emissions of driving a car.
1. You help in reducing the overall environmental greenhouse gas emissions. Greenhouse gas pollution is ever on the rise and that’s the reason states, organizations, and environmentalists advocate for emission reduction techniques. By using public transport, you’ll be able to cut back on greenhouse gas emissions by more than half. Research has proved that only three to eight people on a public transport bus are able to cut emissions by half compared to an individual commuting in a personal car by himself or herself.
2. You’ll contribute towards easing congestion. Most of the road traffic congestions witnessed in our roads across various cities around the world are all attributed to the use of private vehicles and the notion of everyone wanting to use their own personal cars for privacy and comfort. At the same time, we keep complaining of traffic jams.
3. You’ll have lots of time to people watch. Public transportation is used by people from diverse backgrounds with varied cultures, norms and ways of living. If you opt for public transportation, it means you’ll have the chance to people watch and even get to learn the nature of different people.
Meet new people. Public transportation is used by diverse people and again, there is no need for over-emphasizing on this point. The odds are that you’ll be able to interact with lots of people from different cultures if you use public transport as opposed to traveling private.
4. Public transportation allows you to relax. With public transportation, you’ll be able to have your own time, take a nap, avoid the road rage, and get out of the pressures of driving your own private car. During the commute, you can also read or just enjoy the view which will help in boosting your dopamine hormones and reducing your stress levels.
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5. You’ll save money. Using public transport can save you up to four times the money you use commuting in your private or personal car. The regular use of your personal car will require the costs of maintenance and other additional charges such as parking fees, emission tickets, and speeding fines. By using public transport, you’ll be able to save all the money directed to such miscellaneous expenses of using a personal vehicle.
Furthermore, using public transport to travel helps you unwind. At the end of your public transportation journey, you’ll definitely have moments to recall and reflect on some of the best moments in your life.
- Improve your heart and brain health by eating a healthy balanced diet.
- Expand and improve public transportation in your community.
- Continue or opt for public and shared transport instead of driving, and advocate for more options.
A huge leak of financial documents has put the spotlight on the hidden assets of some of the world’s most powerful people.
Unsurprisingly, the Pandora Papers have hit headlines worldwide. But what’s the reporting like in some of the countries where leaders’ financial dealings have been exposed?
But stories on the leak were notably absent in Jordan where – observers say – local media censor themselves and avoid subjects that are implicitly off limits.
On Monday morning, the state-run Petra news agency, as well as the privately-owned Al-Ghad, Al-Dustour and Jordan Times newspapers, were all leading instead on the king’s comments about democratic reforms in the country.
They were also prioritising stories about King Abdullah meeting the World Bank president, and his first phone call with Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad since the start of the Syrian civil war a decade ago.
Lawyers for King Abdullah said he used his personal wealth to buy the homes and there was nothing improper about him using offshore firms to do so.
The Star newspaper was leading with the story on its website, under the headline “No evidence Kenyatta’s stole state assets – Pandora Papers”. Others either did not cover it at all, or put the focus outside of Kenya.
The country’s leading daily newspaper The Nation published a story written by a news agency with the headline “Pandora Papers expose leaders’ offshore millions”, using a picture of Jordan’s king. The story included four lines about the Kenyattas.
Citizen TV – the biggest TV station in Kenya – also published agency copy on its website, in which the revelations about Mr Kenyatta’s family were at the end.
The Standard and The People Daily newspapers did not publish the findings on their websites.
However, the leak was sparking a lot of conversation on social media in Kenya, with the hashtag #PandoraPapers and #client 13173 – the code name the Kenyattas were given by their asset managers – trending on Twitter.
Mr Kenyatta’s family have not yet responded to requests for comment.
However, Russia’s main Sunday evening TV news reviews made no mention of the allegations, which were published shortly before the programmes aired.
The Russian part of the investigation was published by the website Vazhnyye Istorii (Important Stories). The English-language Moscow Times news site had the Pandora Papers as its top story on Monday, with the headline: “Leaked papers link Putin associates to offshore dealings”.
Russian social media users have also been talking about the revelations.
However a number of media outlets steered stories away from President Putin. The state-owned Gazprom-Media’s NTV aired a brief report on the investigation on Monday morning, focusing on allegations against foreign officials, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Monday called the findings “a collection of fairly groundless claims”.
Ukraine
The Pandora Papers revealed that Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky transferred his stake in a secret offshore company just before he won the 2019 election.
Ukraine’s Slidstvo.info website published an investigation based on the data obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.
The English-language Kyiv Post also had the findings as its top story, with the headline: “Pandora Papers reveal offshore holdings of Zelensky and his inner circle”.
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Czech Republic
The papers revealed that Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis – who is facing an election later this week – failed to declare an offshore investment company used to purchase two villas for £12m in the south of France.
The findings were initially published by Investigace.cz, and then picked up by a number of media outlets, including the Pravo newspaper, which ran the story on its front page.
“Andrej Babis must prove that he used taxed money for the transaction. If not, he has no right to be in politics and take care of taxpayers’ money,” he said.
But despite the leak being widely covered, most media focus has remained on general election coverage. It is not clear whether the leak will have an impact on the outcome of the vote.
Pakistan
The leak found that Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan’s inner circle, including cabinet ministers and their families, secretly own companies and trusts holding millions of dollars.
All of Pakistan’s major newspapers covered the revelations.
The leak was discussed on Pakistan’s Dunya TV talk show “Think Tank” on Sunday. The website of Dawn newspaper – the largest and oldest English-language newspaper in Pakistan – was leading on Monday with a number of stories about the Pandora Papers and the Pakistani findings.
The coverage has been met with cautious or defensive reactions from those who were named.
Mr Khan said his government would investigate all citizens mentioned in the report.
“We welcome the Pandora Papers exposing the ill-gotten wealth of elites, accumulated through tax evasion & corruption & laundered out to financial ‘havens’,” he tweeted.
Ecuador
Three presidents and 11 former presidents from Latin America have been mentioned in the investigation. One of them is Ecuador’s Guillermo Lasso, a former banker, who replaced a Panamanian foundation that made monthly payments to his close family with a trust based in South Dakota, in the US, in 2017.
Reacting to the revelations, Mr Lasso said all his investments, in and out of Ecuador, were legal.
The news involving the president is the main headline on the website of newspaper Expreso, but many Ecuadorean outlets have given it little or no coverage.
The website of newspaper El Universo ran the findings about the president on its front page, but it focused mainly on the revelation that Spanish singer Julio Iglesias, a star in Latin America, has a “property empire” in Florida of an estimated value of up to $120m.
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Cyprus
The Pandora Papers showed that the law firm founded by Cyprus’s President Nicos Anastasiades appears to have provided fake owners to disguise the real owner of a series of offshore companies – a former Russian politician who had been accused of embezzlement.
The findings were given prominent coverage on many Cypriot news sites, including the Greek-language Politis and Phileleftheros.
Other documents showed how Azerbaijan’s ruling Aliyev family have secretly acquired UK property using offshore companies.
The files show how the family – long accused of corruption in the European nation – bought 17 properties, including a £33m office block in London for the president’s 11-year-old son, Heydar Aliyev.
The story received little or no coverage in most of the country’s media outlets.
UK
The findings related to British officials were widely reported in UK media.
Mrs Blair said the sellers had insisted the building was sold in this way but they had brought it under UK control. She said they would be liable to pay capital gains tax if they sell it.
They also showed how prominent Conservative Party donor Mohamed Amersi worked on a series of controversial deals for a Swedish telecoms company that was later fined £700m in a US prosecution. Mr Amersi denies any wrongdoing.
The Guardian and i newspapers both led with reports about the Pandora Papers on their front pages on Monday.
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The Pandora Papers is a leak of almost 12 million documents and files exposing the secret wealth and dealings of world leaders, politicians and billionaires. The data was obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists in Washington DC which has led one of the the biggest ever global investigations.
More than 600 journalists from 117 countries have looked at the hidden fortunes of some of the most powerful people on the planet. BBC Panorama and the Guardian have led the investigation in the UK.
