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Wednesday, June 22, 2011

9 Tips To Reduce the Snacking Desire





Excessive snacking can be triggered by many things. Starting from low blood sugar levels, stress, until the other emotional problems.
Here are the steps to stop the cravings:

1. Do not Skip Meals.

Eat three meals a day and two meals snack on a regular basis.Keep the distance between each meal and snack no more than five hours. This is useful to maintain a stable blood sugar levels and prevent you from severe hunger. Low blood sugar and hunger are a dangerous combination that causes you to overeat.

2. Balanced Diet Nutrition.

Keep the content of protein, fat, and carbohydrates at every meal and snack dishes. For example, when used to eat apples as a snack, add a piece of wheat bread and low fat cheese.

3. Create a Diary.

The book records of the daily diet will detect your diet. For example, maybe you've always wanted to snack every afternoon after 15:00. This could mean you need a snack sufficient for the afternoon. It could also mean that your lunch was not enough to supply their nutritional needs. Perhaps this also means you're very stressed, so take a short break.

4. Avoid Low Calorie Diet.

The diet of less than 1,200 calories per day will cause cravings because it is basically low-calorie diets lead to starvation.Research shows that people are low-calorie diets often experience cravings and day-to-day life is filled with food. If you are unsure of the exact calorie needs for you, consult your doctor nutritionist.

5. Do not Forget the Complex Carbohydrates.

Complex carbohydrates like whole grains contain fiber which helps keep blood sugar levels stable. Low blood sugar levels already mentioned led to the desire to snack.

6. Avoid the temptation.

Avoid triggers cravings at home or office if possible. It is definitely hard to resist chocolate or potato chips, if both these delicious foods are all around us. The less temptation around, the better.

7. Never Too Rigid.

Keep enjoying the dessert and snack preferences. If you really stop eating good food, you even obsessed continue. And when the defense collapsed, you will eat too much.

8. Only a little taste.

Allow yourself a little taste of good food such as chocolate is desired. If you want to eat more, search for low-calorie chocolate.

9. Find Switchers attention.

When cravings come, wait for 15 minutes before actually eating.Try doing other things like walk around outside for a moment or chatting with colleagues. Sometimes divert attention for five minutes is enough to drive the desire for fun snacking.

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Five great period extinction events on Earth

Mass extinctions in Earth's history is the period when the normal number of species die simultaneously or within a limited time. The most severe in the late Permian period when 96% of all species perished. Although the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event (or KT) is most famous for its clean sweep of the dinosaurs, the other a series of extinction events have occurred throughout Earth's history, some even more devastating than the KT. This along with KT there are two of the Big Five mass extinctions, each sweeping at least half of all species. Many smaller scale mass extinctions have occurred, indeed the loss of many animals and plants in the hands of humans in prehistoric times, modern history and will eventually appear in the fossil record as mass extinctions.


See more about the great extinction events of Earth below


1. Ordovician-Silurian extinction period







Third-largest extinction in Earth's history, Ordovician-Silurian mass extinction has two peaks separated by hundreds of thousands of years. During the Ordovician, most are living in the sea, so sea creatures such as trilobites, brachiopods and graptolit are drastically reduced in number. Overall, about 85% of marine life wiped out. Ice age has been blamed for the extinction. large ice sheets in the southern hemisphere due to climate change and sea level decline, and disrupt ocean chemistry.


2. Late Devonian Extinction Period







Three-quarters of all species on earth died in The Late Devonian extinction, although it may have been a series of extinction for several million years, rather than a single event. Living in shallow seas are the worst affected, and coral took the worst impact, did not return to the glory they got a new coral species evolved more than 100 million years later. In fact, many of the seabed have been without oxygen, beyond the limits to anything but bacteria.


Sea-level changes, asteroid impacts, climatic change and grow new crops in the ground have all been blamed for the extinction.




3. Permian Extinction Period







Permian mass extinction has been nicknamed The Great Dying, since the shocking 96% of species die. All life on Earth is descended from 4% of species that survived. This event turned out to have been complex, because there are at least two separate stages of extinction spread over millions of years. Marine creatures are particularly affected and the extinction of insects having only their history. Many causes have been proposed for the event: an asteroid impact, flood basalt eruptions, catastrophic methane release, decreased oxygen levels, fluctuations in sea level or some combination thereof.


4. Triassic-Jurassic Extinction Period







For 18 million years of late Triassic period, there were two or three stages of extinction is the combined effect creates the event the Triassic-Jurassic extinction. Climate change, flood basalt eruptions and asteroid impacts have all been blamed for the loss of life. Many types of dead animals, including many marine reptiles, some amphibians, many reef-building creatures and a large number of cephalopod mollusks. About half of all living species became extinct at that time. Strangely, the plants are not so badly affected. Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction - also known as extinction / KT - famous for the death of the dinosaurs. However, many other organisms were killed in the late Cretaceous period, including ammonites, many flowering plants and the last pterosaurs. Some groups have been declining for several million years before the final event that destroyed them all. This suggests that the decline was due to flood basalt eruptions affect global climate, combined with a drastic fall in sea level. Then a huge asteroid or comet struck the seabed near the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico and the straw that broke the camel's back.


5. Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction period







Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction - also known as extinction / KT - famous for the death of the dinosaurs. However, many other organisms were killed in the late Cretaceous period, including ammonites, many flowering plants and the last pterosaurs. Some groups have been declining for several million years before the final event that destroyed them all. This suggests that the decline was due to flood basalt eruptions affect global climate, combined with a drastic fall in sea level. Then a huge asteroid or comet struck the seabed near the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico and the straw that broke the camel's back.

Thursday, January 27, 2011

THE BOROBUDUR TEMPLE

Borobudur, one of the greatest of all monuments to Buddha, built during the Syailendra dynasty, which ruled from the middle of the eight century to the middle of the ninth. sitting majestical on the Menoreh hill in the regency of Magelang, Central Java, Borobudur is the largest of its kind in the southtern hemisphere, with around 500 stupas and 500 life-sized Buddhas, each hewn from a single boulder. On the ten terraces there are three miles of intensive instructions and devotions, leading to the top and the terrace of Absolute Reality.

Built on a low (c. 45 feet) hill rising from a wide plain, Candi Borobudur looks like a low dome. It has nine levels. The lowest level functions as the base of the structure, with a square floor plan, each side measuring 370 feet in leght, and projections on the flour side. The plain walls of this base rise 12 feet in height. The second level recedes 23 feet from the edge of the base, so that space for a wide processional path created around the entire building.

The diffrent treatment of the lower, middle, and upper levels of Candi Borobudur reflects a typically Buddhist three-part division of the universe as the Indonesians imagened it to be. The lower level represent the kamadhatu, the Sphere of Desire, in which the human spirit is still chained to greed. Above it lies therupadhatu, the Sphere of Form, in which the human spirit has succeeded in liberating itself froom greed, but in which it is still unable to trancend the phenomenal world. The upper part, consisting of the circular terraces, is thearupadhatu, the Sphere of formlessness, in which the liberated human spirit has left all earth consideration behind.


Saturday, January 22, 2011

Wisata Air Terjun di Indonesia

Air yang tumpah dari ketinggian tebing-tebing batu menjadi pemandangan indah. Di bawahnya, orang berkerumun dan siap bermain pancuran alami atau berenang di kolam yang sejuk. Di berbagai tempat di Indonesia, air terjun selalu menjadi objek wisata alam yang menarik.Inilah beberapa air terjun yang terkenal karena keunikannya


Lembah Anai
Terletak di tepi Jalan Raya Padang-Bukittinggi, air terjun ini sebenarnya terletak di kawasan cagar alam Lembah Anai, Kabupaten Tanah Datar, Sumatera Barat. Di sekitar air terjun terdapat monyet yang berkeliaran. Air terjun dengan ketinggian kurang lebih 60 meter ini punya pemandangan luar biasa. Pada saat liburan, air terjun ini dikunjungi oleh ratusan pengunjung




Resun
Air terjun Resun terletak di Daik, Kabupaten Lingga, Kepulauan Riau. Airnya berasal dari sungai-sungai yang mengairi Gunung Daik dan banyak dikunjungi wisatawan lokal saat hari libur. Kawasan Gunung Daik (1165 mdpl) dengan tiga cabang pun sebenarnya bisa menjadi tujuan pendakian. Selain Gunung Daik dan air terjun Resun, ada juga tempat pemandian putri Sultan Mahmud Muhazam Syah, Batu Babi dan Batu Buaya (karena berbentuk mirip seperti babi dan buaya), Batu Belah, pemandian Lubuk Papan dan air terjun Cik Latif. 




Jembatan Batu
Air terjun Jembatan Batu terletak di Halmahera Utara, Maluku Utara. Sebenarnya air terjun ini tidak terlalu tinggi, hanya sekitar 10 meter. Tetapi yang istimewa adalah — seperti namanya — bebatuannya berbentuk seperti jembatan batu alami. Selain itu, ada air terjun mini lain yang memungkinkan aktivitas panjat tebing seperti foto di atas. 

Friday, January 21, 2011

Menjadi Bijaksana karena Masalah



Mungkin kata-kata ini menjadi sangat puitis jika dilontarkan begitu saja namun jika kita sedang merasakan kegagalan, kecewa, tertekan,kesedihan dan kesengsaraan hidup lainya bakal menjadi oase dipadang gurun nan tandus "ceile ini lebih puitis lagi". tapi bener kok ketika kita mendapat masalahapa yang kita lakukan ketika usaha-usaha real kita tidak mendapatkan hasil untuk mengatasi masalah tersebut, apa lagi yang mesti kita perbuat selain kembali kepada yang diatas dan menyerahkan segala sesuatunya kepada pencipta kita.. ya doa dan berserah diri merupakan cara yang paling ampuh mengusir kelaraan dalam kehidupan. tapi bagaimana jika masalah selalu datang menghampiri sampai ada yang berpendapat hidup itu sendiri adalah masalah "masyaallah". energi yang kita keluarkan ketika menghadapi masalah sangatlah besar, segala kekuatan daya dan pikiran kita overclocking (keluar dari batas normal) hingga ketika segala usaha kita lakukan namun tetap saja tidak mampu mengatasi permasalahan maka timbulah ketidak berdayaan, kelelahan secara fisik dan fikiran,keputus asaan dll.. dan ini sangat berbahaya.dalam dunia medis keadaan seperti ini disebut keadaaan masa kritis.. masa dimana tumpukan beban , keluh kesah, pergulatan kehidupan mencapai titik nadir yang bisa jadi mengubah tatanan kehidupan yang biasa kita jalani.


Output setiap masalah bisa saja mempunyai dampak negatif dan positif atau bahkan tidak berdampak sama sekali, ya kenapa bisa begitu? keadaan, kondisi psikis, mental dll serta jam terbang dalam menghadapi masalah. orang yang biasa menghadapi masalah bisa saja sudah kebal dan tak akan mengubah apapun dalam kehidupanya. lain halnya ketika seseorang yang biasa saja yang hidupnya selalu datar ketika menghadapi masalah yang pelik, maka bisa dipastikan kehidupannya akan bergoyang dan cenderung kearah negatif karena faktor pengalaman dalam menghadapi masalah bakal menjadi hambatan utama baginya melakukan suatu tindakan yang sebetulnya harus dilakukan. jadi apakah kita harus punya masalah agar kita bisa setegar karang?
oh tidak sama sekali biarkan kehidupan kita berjalan normal dan menghindari masalah-masalah yang berakibat langsung pada diri kita. lantas bagaimana bisa kita belajar  atau bersiap diri menghadapi masalah yang saya yakin setiap manusia akan merasakan permasalahan yang besar. saya bilang jangan cari masalah di kehidupan anda. cari lah masalah di kehidupan orang lain... bantu lah mereka menyelesaikan masalah mereka, rasakan dan kondisikan diri kalian seperti mereka rasakan setiap tekanan-tekanan yang terjadi bergaulah dengan permasalahan. latihan-latihan seperti ini sangat baik bagi kejiwaan, mental kita. selain sebagai pengalaman kita menghadapi masalah tanpa resiko namun disisi lain tindakan kita akan menjadi tindakan mulia diantara teman teman saudara, tetangga dan lingkungan kita. dan berharap suatu saat mereka akan melakukan hal yang sama kepada kita kala kita terhimpit masalah yang pelik.

Monday, January 17, 2011

Yahoo messenger 11 connected with facebook-Twitter

Halo netter kali ini saya mau review yahoo mesenger 11 yang sudah saya pakai hampir 1 bulan ini.apa sih kelebihan YM 11 ini? yang pasti ym11 menampilkan fitur baru yaitu facebook dan Twitter embed. apa itu? yaitu layanan yang menampilkan wall dan chat facebook serta tweeteran kita di Yahoo messenger! loh kok bisa? ya bisa lah makanya dirilis ym11 hahay...  dengan hanya yahoo mesenger kita bisa login serentak di yahoo messenger, facebook dan tweeter dan bisa update status, chat fb, dan ngetweet secara serentak pula.. praktiss bukan?kalau mau chat teman facebook tinggal panggil di friendlist teman facebook yang dibuat group sendiri oleh YM layaknya friendlist yahoo mesenger jadi ga perlu buka browser deh... oh ya kelebihan lainya yaitu kala kita update status di ym otomatis kita nulis status di fb dan ngetweet di tweeter... ada lagi fitur baru sebenarnya fitur penyempurna sih di versi sebelumnya ada namanya history messenger/Message Archive  nah fitur itu menyimpan percakapan kita, namun bedanya versi sebelumnya hanya bisa melihat histori percakapan dari komputer  yang dipakai waktu kita chating. namun di YM11 ini semua percakapan akan tersimpan di database server yahoo, jadi dimanapun kita buka archive percakapan masih bisa kita lihat.. sangat berguna bgt nih fitur buat saya.
namun tunggu dulu bro/sist YM11 ini masih Beta :-p jadi masih banyak kekuranganya.. namun sangat patut dicoba, kekurangannya antara lain. ketika koneck dengan facebook sepertinya ym ini menguras banyak virtual memory sehingga diawal2 pemakaian sering terjadi hang "not reponsif plug in".. mungkin bug. dan ketika update status di ym tu ga ada pilihan untuk tidak update juga di wall ataupun ngetweet.. kadang kita buat status cuma buat temen ym saja misal. tapi bisa dimaklumin ini kan Beta jadi bug bug macam itu wajar di software beta mudah mudahan di fersi finalnya masalah macam itu tidak terjadi.
bagi yang mau coba Yahoo messenger 11 ini saya kasih link downloadnya Yahoo mesenger 11. semoga bermanfaat happy surfing netters

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Pemahaman keliru tentang arti sebuah Informasi Teknologi

Informasi Teknologi berbasis data yang dalam 1 dekade ini yang paling booming adalah internet tidak hanya di negara negara barat, akses Informasi teknologi Internet sangat pesat perkembanganya diIndonesia bukan jadi barang yang mewah lagi sekarang akses internet yang dahulu hanya bisa diakses melalui PC [Komputer] sekarang bisa diakses melalui ponsel, ya teknologinya sangat cepat dan besaut sautan seolah olah masyarakat diboyong menuju digitalisasi informasi. Awalnya mungkin lebih kepada life stye, gaya gayaan namun kemudian berubah menjadi kebutuhan sehari hari persis seperti kebutuhan kita terhadap handphone beberapa tahun yang lalu. ga gaul lah punya handpone tidak bisa untuk facebookan, mati gaya lah kalo tidak bisa ngetweet dari HP,dll dan kemudian Akses informasi Digital merupakan kebutuhan pokok!
Apa kemudian ini merupakan berita buruk? ah... tidak tidak sama sekali. digitalisasi teknologi Informasi berbasis data dan internet sama halnya teknologi sebelumnya hanya perlu adaptasi yang lebih untuk menerapkanya di khalayak ramai dimana setiap orang bisa mengakses bahkan anak sekolah dasar sekalipun. butuh pengawasan yang tepat praktis dan profesional untuk mengolah data informasi teknologi berbasis data dan internet ini.kata kuncinya adalah kemauan, ya kemauan untuk mengambil kebijakan yang pro kepada arus informasi yang sehat dan membangun.
masih segar dalam ingatan kita kasus mentri telekomunikasi kita Tifatul sembiring yang mengeluarkan ancaman penutupan aktifitas Research In Motion (produsen BlackBerry) di indonesia. sontak para pengguna blackberry diIndonesia mulai dari bussinesmen, artis, pekerja profesional , ibu rumah tangga, anak SMA SD SMP, ababil :-D, tukang sayur, tukang martabak depan rumah pada ngedumel ga karuan (BB sekarang dipakai disemua kalangan). sekejap berita mahalnya cabai Rp 85.000/kg kalah gaung dengan hebohnya ancaman penutupan aktifitas RIM di Indonesia. nah sekarang kita dapat simpulkan ternyata akses teknologi digital tuh hampir sama pentingnya dengan cabai bahkan mungkin mending ga makan cabai dari pada ga bisa BBM (haduhh dah mo kiamat kayanya dunia ini)