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...every 6 seconds dies a child of hunger...

...one child every 6 seconds...

... people, the world, are aware but yet nobody stops it...

I Just Can't Have Enough..

... of AloeVera Juice. 

Have you ever tried? I just tried it while being home in Sweden. It's my latest addiction and a must to try or abuse. It's natural, organic, healthy and therefore good for both your body and mind. Swap your unhealthy energy drinks and sweet sodas for this tasty juice.

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Dream

When you find a dream inside you heart never let it go...

For dreams are tiny seeds from which tomorrow grows...

- Unknown

Change of Diet

I will today changed my diet. 

I became vegetarian at the age of 14. This year I'm turning 25. It was definitely one of the best choices I have ever done. It has been hard at times, especially traveling to other countries like China and Philippines. In the little village I grow up in in Sweden, people thought I tried to be special due to that I was vegetarian. But many friends followed "the trend" I set. The reason why I wanted to become vego was after reading international news about how terrible and massive the animal industry is, which I even as a young teenager couldn't support. If we all were aware of all the abuse and injuries animals suffers from in the meat industry nobody would probably eat meat. Just the ones with any feelings. Animals in the meat industry are only born with one propose:

to end up on your plate and bring in money.

My mom's argument to why I couldn't become vego at the age of 12 was because I was too young. She also claimed that our locally produced meat was not subject abuse in any kind of way.

A few weeks before Christmas 2001 there was a headline on all local newspapers saying that our local slaughter-house, Kalmar, mistreated the animals before being slaughtered. They therefore suffered before being killed. Many animals were also injured in transportations. And that was the day I became vegetarian. 

But the last 4-5 years I have started to eat fish and seafood again. I lost weight and I thought by eating some protein in form of fish I would regain the weight and muscles I lost. Which I now have. I absolutely love eating all kinds of seafood but I have anyway decided to stop eating fish. 


Why? 


First, because I can not any longer support the commercial fishing industry, which is close to emptying the worlds oceans. Their big fishing nets bring up any species that happens to swim in the water where the nets are: sharks, turtles, dolphins...

Second reason is that the oceans are today very polluted, which makes it almost a health risk to consume fish. 
Third reason is the fact that the worlds oceans are over-fished and it's about time to do something about it.

I prefer to dive and explore the oceans and observe all its beauty, instead of eating its amazingly beautiful and peaceful inhabitants. 

What do you prefer?

Your Body is Your Temple

"Tell me what you eat and I will tell you how beautiful you are" ...

It is important that you feed your body the right food.

Why?

Because you become what you eat!

Around 2 kg of chemicals are the amount a person every year consume though foods that contains: preservatives, colorings, pesticides, artificial flavorings, binders and so on. Food we might think is healthy such as: vegetables and fruits might be the worst due to that they have been sprayed with poison for various reasons.

I'm not telling you to stop eating but I want to inspire you to buy organic produces products. People are like nature: a very sensitive ecological systems and illnesses occur due to pollutions and also due to artificial produced foods. 

Be organic,

Be real!

The inspiration to this is a Yoga book, which discuss how important the right food is. Also an article about soya plantations in South America. These plantations produces soya which later is used as animal feed. This soya fields are highly sprayed with poison/ pesticides, which can be tracked 40 meters down in earth. People and workers living and working around these fields suffers from headache, children are born sick and handicapped. People die early, mostly in cancer. How does this affect us? Well the food that we later consume such as: milk products, beef and chicken contain this the poison remains in their system, which we later consume...

How can this be happening? Don't ask me. Ask the people who are in charge: How they can let this happen and not stop it. In fact President Fernando Luga tried to change this by creating stricter regulations regarding the use of  pesticides in Paraguay. But he got stopped by the government due to the soya producers, who are so powerful that they have influence on the government. Things like this will not change over a night. 


My advise:

eat  and support organic and locally produced vegetables and meat.

Over consumption- a scary thing!

The Material World = Our World today, 

Most people, maybe even you, just keep buying more and more. It hurts to see. This Christmas I read in the newspaper that millions of people bought unnecessary things to friends and family, which ended up in the garbage. But why do we do this? Aren't homo sapiens sapiens the most intelligent "animal" on the planet? It doesn't seem so to me. Moreover why do we feel stress of buying things for each other that they might not need nor want? Is this really what being kind, nice and caring means? I don't think so!  

I have to say: I have always been very impressed by my sister. She always finds me the ultimate Christmas and birthday gifts. Things that are very useful and that I end up using for years till they eventually break. When they break I become sad. Not because my bag broke but because it was a gift from my sister. Since my sister and I live far from each other, she in Netherlands and I in U.A.E. the gifts from her have a meaning as well. I end up always carry them around with me no matter where I am in the world and it always feels like she is with me. Moreover from photos of me she can also tell that her gifts are the things I always carry with me. I'm very impressed by her in this prospective: that she cares and thinks before buying something. If more people did that the world might be very different. Don't you think?

In reality we need new things once in a while. But I hate to see people, like some of my shopoholic friends, buying more and more things, clothes and crazy amounts of gadgets with their new almost unlimited credit cards. It hurts to see. Walking around in Abu Dhabi, Dubai or in New York and see all stores full of material things is: CRAZY!

Our world is run by making money and therefore also spending money. Sad. Shame. And makes me a shamed of the Western world. Are you? 

Money is control, 

Money is power, 

Money rules our the world. 

But money is not the key to real happiness!

Therefore are consumers, like you and me, essential to keep it going. But do you like your world to be like this? I don't.  

I have, since I started buying myself things first of all, been careful with spending my money. Then I ask myself: 

Do I really need this? 

Next, will it come to use?

Do I have something similar already?

Due to this I believe I don't over consume too much. But yes I do admit I buy myself more things that I need. Shopping works sometimes for me like a happy pill. Shopping can make me feel good. But talking with someone, a good friend or family, or head off to the gym is a much better solution to solve the real problem than spending money.

Guess how many phones my mom has? Four in one house and they are all wireless! Isn't that crazy?! But she also have two other older ones phones that she doesn't work. Plus a cellphone..

Things like this just makes me sick. Why? No, not because I'm a "hippie" or an anti-materialist but because there are people in many, actually too many places, in the world that are starving to death, have no money to feed their children, have no money to pay their rent and have no money for medication. The world is not fair.

How come the world with all its well educated and smart politicians who have the power to change things don't?! It's all because of money. Next question, what do you do? Do you buy fair trade coffee? Consumers can also do small things by thinking before buying/consuming. Start caring. Start reading. Be aware. We all know about this and still changes are too slow. People, like you and I, that have food to eat everyday are lucky because millions of people don't. Think about that next time you buy something. 

Over consumption of any kind is NOT GOOD.