Friday, June 26, 2015

Tunisian vacation cut short!

No one is surprised. Another massacre in North Africa.
The great flood of migrant refugees headed for Europe (120,000 this year) is matched by almost equal numbers of European sun-worshippers who flock to the North African beaches each year.
Today about 75 of these tourists were gunned down in a Tunisian resort.
The survivors, along with many others, have fled back to Germany, France and the U.K, with a ghastly new understanding: that militant Islam is a hellish scourge upon the earth that leaves a torrent of blood where ever it goes.
Prime minister Cameron said a few minutes ago:
"We must counteract this wicked ideology with everything within our power."
Brave words.
But please define what IS the "power" that will be used to counteract this "hateful ideology"?
Does he mean the power of democracy? Or perhaps the power of reason or the power of secularism?
A faint hope.
The only power that can counteract the scourge of Islam is the superior power of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Which remedy, by the way, wise old Europe long since discarded as  a fairy tale.
Ian

Tuesday, June 23, 2015

The End of a Bad Idea.

There was a ruling passed by the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) last week that will ban all trans-fats from America's food shelves by 2018. 
Whoopty Doo! 
After extensive research the Health Tzars have finally concluded that trans-fats( the equivalent of metabolic poison) have been responsible for an untold number of heart attacks and strokes over the last thirty years.
Now they will be banned from all processed food.
With an innocuous name such as "hydrogenated oils" what could possibly be wrong with this agent?
A lot. 
By a process of chemical reactions, the hydro-carbon chains of vegetable oils are altered and synthetic fat is introduced into foods such as ice-cream, margarines and pizzas that the body cannot digest. Good cholesterol is suppressed, bad cholesterol is increased, arteries are coated with plaque and suddenly we have a heart put into crisis.
I am particularly aware of this lethal formula since my good friend, Ron, died of a heart attack a year ago. In his early sixties, Ron was a superb artist, builder of heritage log houses, a yachtsman and a prince among men. The early morning call that I received in July last year left me with a sense of shock and loss that still lives with me to this day. It has also been a stimulus for me to write this current series on health.
READ THE LABELS. They have not WILLINGLY been put on your packaged food. "Big Food" was compelled to label their products by law and, with the current trends of cardiac, kidney and liver diseases, there is going to be a lot more legislation coming their way in the near future.

Ian