Who is poisoning who

A South African shares a story -

Somewhere in South Africa.

 A man approaching retirement age plays golf against another man a few years younger than himself.
The old man plays a shocking game and the younger wins by a significant margin. This game was played in the morning before lunch. Both get a shower, get into new clothes and go to the clubhouse for lunch.
Since the younger won, he, according to tradition, has to pay for the lunch. As the waiter brings the food, the young has to turn his back to the old man, to get the plates. As the younger is doing that the old man quickly slips something into the food of the younger.
Both enjoy the meal, and after it is paid for, both go home to their wives.
At about 4 in the afternoon, the phone rings and the wife of the younger tells the old man, the younger is dead. He died suddenly and unexpectedly in the house.
After the funeral and will is read the old man is employed to finalize the estate. The old man is an accountant.
The younger has a vast amount of money stored in investments. The old man knew this for a long time. The old man issues his account that runs into six figures, close to R1million in fees.
He brings this home, and his wife is pleased.
At the end of the year the old man retires.
In his spare time, he finds a box that his father gave him and it has rows of squares where little glass bottles are put with securely tight lids.
"This is what my father had for special occasions. . ." he tells his wife and shows her where he keeps it.

The old man notices that the lock is old and out of date. He takes all the glass bottles out, locks them in a safe, and goes to City Locksmith and asks him to put in a new lock that can't be opened such as those on bedroom cupboards. No one can open his little box now.

He tells the locksmith not to smell the box as it could be dangerous.
The locksmith is no fool; he knows what that box holds. Locksmiths have been doing their trade since the dawn of time. Secrets are passed down through the generations.
The locksmith puts in a new sturdy lock, and no else can open.
The old man takes it home. He puts it in a hidden place. His wife was shown the place.
While sitting at home in his retirement, his wife starts to get tired of him because he got lazy and did not go out.
One day she goes to Church on Sunday and after Holy Communion and the congregation are outside the Church talking, the locksmith gives her a key to the old man's little box. The locksmith made duplicates.
"Use this when you want to,"   he tells the old man's wife.
A year later the daughter of the old couple gets a phone call at nine at night.
"Your father is dead. I found him in the passage dead on the ground. Come quickly and help me. . ." the widow tells her daughter.

After the funeral and after the will is read, the widow gets an awful amount of money. She sells the old house. Sells the two old cars. Buys a new smaller house and a new car that suits her.
She plays golf, tennis and bridge during the week and a highly paid house carer is employed.

The daughter did not get much, nor did her older brother.
The daughter notices how rich her mother is. The daughter has three kids going to high school, and she cannot cope with the expenses.

One day she goes to town, and the locksmith meets her. He produces a key and says to her, "This is the key to your mother's little box. The one that your father uses on special occasions. . ."
It is not two weeks, and she visits her mother at the new place. At four in the afternoon, she leaves and goes to her home.
She gets a phone call the next morning. The house carer found her mother dead in the bedroom.
After the funeral and after the will is read she and her older brother get the whole estate.
This time, the brother inherits the little box with rows of glass bottles.
Then he turns to her, "I have the box. Listen to me in all things. If you do not listen you know what will happen to you and your husband and kids. . ."

This box is over 500 years old and has been passed down to each generation and kept the family wealthy.
You can work out what was in those little bottles that are locked inside the box with a special key.

Diet Programs do not Result in Long-term Success

A recent survey concluded that commercial diet programs do not result in long-term success. It is all false claims.
The gigantic diet industry advertises new products on a regular basis. Open up a newspaper, magazine, or browse the internet, advertisements publicizing some new diet product, a magic diet pill, or slimming tea, will guarantee the loss of excess weight, effortlessly and permanently. It is all hype; billions of dollars are spent annually on diet programs and products. The survey concluded that the majority of people using an advertised diet program or products do lose some weight, but almost all regain the lost weight over less time than the time spent losing it.

When we realize that we are overweight, we are inclined to reduce our food intake, skip meals, and eat smaller portions of food. We think by doing so our body will burn off excess fat, but it is not true. Eating less can make losing weight more difficult.

We need to consider the human body took shape millions of years ago and at that time diets were nonexistent. Starvation was the diet that existed. The people of that era learned to live with lesser quantities of food. It was the people who managed to control their food intake that survived. The structure of our human bodies has developed a method to ensure we survive with a reduced food intake.

A recent research study done between overwieight and thin people, confirmed they ate the same number of calories, but it was the amount of fat eaten that triggered the weight gain. It was concluded during the research that thin people tend to eat less fat and more compound carbohydrates or fiber. Perhaps that is the key to a successful weight loss program.

We need to remember that losing weight is not an overnight occurrence. Common sense and sensible guidelines need to be planned, and carefully considered before implementing a diet program or plan. Millions of desperate people are misinformed and easily fleeced of their money by diet programs or plans claiming to be the ultimate tried and tested one.

Obesity we must remember is not only caused from incorrect eating habits, there is a possibility that serious overweight is the cause of an illness or serious health problem. An excessive calorie intake will turn the excess into saturated fat and that is the cause of the weight gain.

The amount of calories consumed is considered to be the cause of excess weight. Yet it is not the calorie count that causes obesity in America today. Americans consume fewer calories each day than they did at the beginning of the century. Consider this – if calories alone were the cause of excessive weight gain, we would all be thin. We are not all thin, we are overweight. The American diet has dramatically changed over the years, we are more inactive, and that is the actual cause of the increase in obesity.

Dieting without exercise will generally lead to weight gain over time. Initially you will experience a decline in your weight while dieting, and that weight loss consists only of water and muscle. When the weight returns, it comes back as fat. Your metabolism must be increased and therefore exercise combined with a healthy eating plan is the only real way to lose weight permanently.

Long-term diets do not work; instead choose a healthier eating plan, implement a three meal per day eating plan, and try to avoid snacking in between. If you do snack, do so with healthier goodies such as fruit or nuts. Implement an exercise routine that you can maintain, and consider walking more often, as this is the easiest exercise for controlling your weight, toning your muscles, and strengthening your bones.

No, diet programs do not result in long-term successful weight loss, but a change in lifestyle will.

Written by Laura Oneale

PUBLISHED ON THE GLV A LONG TIME AGO - HERE IS THE LINK
http://guardianlv.com/2013/06/diet-programs-do-not-result-in-long-term-success/

Color makes little or no difference towards a winning attitude.

In South Africa, there are a lot of people who are not white, that seem to have a grudge against whites in general. There are many who say and keep on saying that whites owe them something. There are a few who do not like what they call white attitudes or “whiteness”. 

There is nothing wrong with whiteness or blackness, it is the double standards that are problematic. Many believe they are victims while enjoying first world standards. It is all hypocrisy entitlement and negativity. Color makes little or no difference towards a winning attitude. 

There are the white people who find the “whiteness” in blacks that make it harder to bear. Not being partial or prejudice all races have done favors for one another, yet the stigma of being given a favor is blown out of proportion. It’s the attitude based on color. It is the cry of not being free. Although apartheid has ended, Africans still do not have land and bear a deep grudge over land reform. 

Although a lot of blacks have land in the tribal areas, including black townships.The policy of the government is to build skyscrapers as part of the densification of settlements aimed at saving land and not giving land to people who won't use it profitably.

South Africans attitude toward race determines the behavior and how to present one to others. If the people showed values, then we will not see the color.

It would be naïve to think that "race" does not count, as we do not see a predominantly black township with a majority "white" population. Most people who are non-white come from horizontal cultures and prejudice wasn't fed to them as children, but whites have that particular problem which only they can help themselves. It’s useless wasting energy on "hating" people

The problem and barrier to cross-cultural understanding are having stereotypes, which are mostly based on ignorance, fear, prejudice and competition over wealth. I guess one cannot like everybody, but dislike must be based on fault, not biological attributes

Whites are too few to be found everywhere in South Africa. Due to social privilege and culture, they don't stay in poor majority townships. The dirt poor whites are found in working class urban areas

Is the disintegration of Afrikaner nationalism and the laager mentality due to whites feeling free in a democratic society where human rights guarantee a place in the sun for everybody regardless of the color of their skin? Yes.... because the Afrikaner can choose to be unshackled from the sins of the fathers. The Afrikaner does not have to have the same attitudes of those that have gone before us. That's why they call earth 'The Planet of Choice.'

Black brothers and sisters who mostly hate whites are stuck on point and whites do not recognize that someone is busy doing nothing but hating them. It would be better if their hatred toward whites were progressing and thriving. However, they suffer the most because they cannot play a smart game with the calm and collected white race.

In the past whites voted for a government that enacted laws to oppress, exploit, dispossess, give blacks inferior education, and comparatively weak standards of life. Therefore, the "grudge" the black people have might have something to do with remembering the past, which affects them today. By focusing on the history, the black people carry the burden of hatred and prejudice, instead of working on a future.

Could it be that blacks do not grudge whites but rather an inequality, injustice, discrimination, prejudice, gender bias and racism? The effects and impact of one or all of these classify people into rich and poor, educated and illiterate. This in turn forces people to examine how they got to where they are today. Some blame apartheid, and hence the privileged ones that caused them to be too oppressed. Some blame race. While others rise above the past and live with the racial inferiority that was forced upon them. It is a mental attitude that must be changed.

It is more respectful to not judge people by skin color, rather take a decision based on the content of character.But it is true that based on the history of South Africa of over 300 years of black domination by whites there existed and still exists a psychology of white supremacy.

The entire legal framework of SA is founded on corruption and development is far from normal as colonial patterns of social structures are still perpetuated. For South Africa to build a better society, the White Supremacist system must be dismantled. Otherwise, it's like driving a stolen car and painting it another color hoping that the criminality will just evaporate. The less we pretend to be normal the faster South Africa will arrive at tangible solutions instead of wishing them away

Whites are blamed for all ills, both past and current. Also, if anything is disliked, it is because it's 'white' or 'western'. Yet those same people just love European cars, and watches, and champagne, and berets!

White supremacy is a state of mind. Progressive nations have overcome it.

The African child is taught to be a tool within a European economy and social structure and it does not get more White Supremacist than that. The Xhosa-speaking child is forced to learn the English language while the English population in South Africa is less than 10%. Otherwise, that child will not function in this current society of White Supremacy

T of inferior complex.

That power of White Supremacy is the inferiority complex among those that are the capital of capitalism

The race is a western invention. If race still determines how any person navigates through South Africa, it's simply naive to ignore the fact that Africans are yet to be in control of their own society. As the need to shape life according to the former colonizer still exists and no rainbows will take that away until South Africa deals with the superstructure of a racialised society. The onus rests on the children of the barbaric colonizer to show their humanity by acculturating themselves into African society as this is Africa where the majority are Africans, which have never expressed a need to dominate anyone culturally or economically. White Supremacy is a SYSTEM and racism are just a single manifestation out of many

You only need to take a walk in a predominantly black or white community to appreciate the past has not passed.

Some among us are drunk on the "rainbow nation" myth yet the entire social structure of South Africa remains as it was in 1960 with minor differences among the chattering classes.Colonization and Apartheid were not just systems of "hate" on Africans but systems of economic and cultural control by an extreme minority in a wealthy SA

I think the Rainbow Nation is working in favor of the majority. It is not perfect, but racial relations have improved largely that South Africa will never return the to the apartheid era. Big businesses, which were wholly white at all levels of employment, are almost entirely black at the coalface. The face of sectors such as banks, insurance, hotels, restaurants, newspapers, BPO, and consulting, etc. is black, where only 15 years ago it was the preserve of white faces. Middle management is, I hear, still stubbornly white, but the racial barriers are crumbling due to pressure from blacks and white senior managers themselves. There, I am the eternal optimist

The truth is the majority of people are unhappy with the situation of inequality. That's why Julius Malema of all the people is able to garner so much support regardless of his record of accomplishment.

Someday we will have to discuss the racism of racialism. Racism being hatred towards other racial grouping and racialism, as in racialist, being an affinity towards one's race group. Guess it is time to come out the closet, especially those who believe in humanity; the very essence of being human and humane.