How to Improve Your Digestive Health

       1.      Add a probiotic to your diet. Common probiotics include yogurt, kefir, kombucha, tempeh, coconut water, miso, soy and other fermented foods. These foods are filled with similar bacteria to your body's own microorganisms that are needed for digestion, such as lactobacillus and bifidobacterium.   2.      Begin adding soluble and insoluble fiber to your diet. Most people get only a small portion of the 20 to 35 mg of fiber that is recommended for healthy digestion. If you are eating low amounts of beans, seeds, whole grains, fruits and vegetables, begin adding them slowly until 75 percent of your diet is filled with these foods.   3.      Reduce fat and sugar in your diet. Not only can these substances cause stomach aches in high quantities, but they slow digestion, causing constipation. One way to ensure you are reducing fats and sugars is to reduce the amount of processed food that you eat, as these tend to have hidden chemicals and sugar   4.      Drink plenty of water. The combination of high-fiber and water will increase the efficiency of your digestion. Most doctors recommend 8 8 oz. glasses per day (1.9 l). Experiment with this amount to see if your body requires more.   5.      Try eating several small meals per day, if large meals give you heartburn or acid reflux. Your body is better at digesting smaller quantities at a time. After you figure out the amount of food that works well per meal, try to keep a regular schedule that your body can adjust to.   6.      Eat lean proteins, such as fish and lean cuts of meat. These proteins are essential for healthy muscles, but lean cuts are less likely to cause heartburn and will be quicker to digest. In general, high-fat foods take longer to digest than low-fat foods.    7.      Exercise for at least 30 minutes per day. What is good for the entire body is good for the digestive system. Exercise and movement help food move through your system and aid in weight loss, which can also help digestion.     8.      Avoid the consumption of cigarettes and alcohol. The chemicals contained inside these substances can cause nausea and they can also erase the effects of good diet choices. Caffeine may also cause an increase in acidity in the stomach that can lead to high levels of heart burn and acid reflux.   9.      Reduce stress in your life. Stress has been shown to cause weight gain, constipation, diarrhea and a lowered immune system. It will leave you prone to the h. pylori bacteria that causes ulcers.   10. Keep track of your digestive habits. Use a journal to write down what you eat and                     any increase or reduction of symptoms that you experience. You may only need to change 1   to 2 things about your diet to improve your overall digestion.

Interesting horse facts

-Horses do not have a gall bladder.

-When a domesticated horse is released in the wild they shed all traces of domestication rapidly.

-In the wild a foal will suckle until they are one year old, in some conditions this can be longer.

-Stallions will fight over females but generally not over territory.

-Horses have better memories than elephants.

-Horses have the largest eyes of any land animal.

-Horses are not color-blind.

-At one time people thought that horses were colorblind. Although it is more difficult for them to see purples and violets, they have less trouble with yellows and greens.

-A horse's teeth take up more space in their head then their brain.

-Adult male horses generally have 40 teeth and females 36

-The horse has binocular vision, but can also see different things in each eye. This is why you need to show your horses the spooky things in both eyes so the brain can get the message that it's not spooky.

-The measurement 'hand' is 4 inches because that was considered to be the average width across a mans knuckles.

-In the picture to the left the horse is doing what is called flehmen. This is seem more in males than females, especially stallions. Flehmen is known to be a way to direct scents in the air to specialized olfactory glands at the end of the nasal passage.

-In Australia there were no horses until 1788

Things to see in the USA

Gettysburg National Cemetery  in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

The Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island in New York Harbor

Mount Rushmore National Memorial in Keystone South Dakota

The White House in Washington, DC

Alcatraz Prison in San Francisco,California

Kennedy Space Center in Orsino,Florida 

Presidential Libraries and Museums  

not all are shown in photo of course.. 

http://www.presidentsusa.net/libraries.html <--- that website will give you all of them 

National World War I Museum Kansas City,Missouri

National World War II Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana

The Alamo in San Antonio,Texas

14 Summer jobs to concider for teens

1.Babysitter                                                                                    2.Camp counselor                                                                                      3. Pool cleaner                                                                                       4. Career-oriented internships                                                             5.Tutor                                                                                                                                6. Movie theater employee                                                                   7.Golf course caddy                                                                          8.Mobile automobile dealer                                                          9.Lifeguard                                                                                10.Newspaper delivery person                                                    11.Handy person/lawncare                                                            12. Dog walker/sitter                                                              13.Restaurant employee                                                                     14.Park employee

Cool Facts About Cell Phones

1.    The Sonim XP3300 Force is recognized by the Guinness World Records as the world's toughest phone. It earned its title by surviving after an 84 feet (25 meters) drop on a layer of concrete without suffering any operational damage. In addition, it can be safely submerged in waste water down to two meters. And by the way, it almost blends. 

2.    Nokia was founded back in 1865 and manufacturing paper was its primary business. Many years later, it switched to making rubber products, telegraph wires, and other electrical cables. During the middle of the last century, it also supplied the Finnish army with communications equipment, gas masks, plastics, and chemicals. Nokia's first mobile phones were released in the 1980s. 

3.     The first cameraphone was created by French entrepreneur Philippe Kahn. He took the first photograph with a mobile phone, of his newborn daughter Sophie, on 11 June, 1997.

4.     The first SMS message to a mobile phone in the UK was sent in 1992 by engineer Neil Papworth to his friend Richard Jarvis's Orbitel 901 handset. It read simply "Merry Christmas", which was a bit early, since it was sent on 3 December.

5.    Cellnet and Vodafone were the only UK mobile providers until 1993.

6.    That first portable phone was called a DynaTAC. The original model had 35 minutes of battery life and weighed one kilogram

7.    It has been estimated that 250-300 million cell phones are currently being used in the U.S

8.    Over 1,000 cell phones are activated each minute

9.    Most Americans only use their cell phone for 12 to 18 months before getting a new model.

10.  An iPhone has more processing power than the North American Air Defense Command did in 1965! 

14 interesting facts about cats

1.     
On average, cats spend 2/3 of every day sleeping. That means a nine-year-old cat has been awake for only three years of its life.

2.      Unlike dogs, cats do not have a sweet tooth. Scientists believe this is due to a mutation in a key taste receptor.

3.      When a cat chases its prey, it keeps its head level. Dogs and humans bob their heads up and down.

4.      The technical term for a cat’s hairball is a “bezoar.”

5.      A group of cats is called a “clowder.”

6.      Female cats tend to be right pawed, while male cats are more often left pawed. Interestingly, while 90% of humans are right handed, the remaining 10% of lefties also tend to be male.

7.       A cat can’t climb head first down a tree because every claw on a cat’s paw points the same way. To get down from a tree, a cat must back down.

8.      Cats make about 100 different sounds. Dogs make only about 10.

9.      A cat’s brain is biologically more similar to a human brain than it is to a dog’s. Both humans and cats have identical regions in their brains that are responsible for emotions.

10. There are more than 500 million domestic cats in the world, with approximately 40 recognized breeds.

11. The most popular pedigreed cat is the Persian cat, followed by the Main Coon cat and the Siamese cat.

12. A cat cannot climb head first down a tree because its claws are curved the wrong way

13. The tiniest cat on record is Mr. Pebbles, a 2-year-old cat that weighed 3 lbs (1.3 k) and was 6.1 inches (15.5 cm) high.

14. A female cat is called a queen or a molly.

14 interesting facts about dogs

1.       Small quantities of grapes and raisins can cause renal failure in dogs. Chocolate, macadamia nuts, cooked onions, or anything with caffeine can also be harmful.

2.       Apple and pear seeds contain arsenic, which may be deadly to dogs.

3.       Rock star Ozzy Osborne saved his wife Sharon’s Pomeranian from a coyote by tackling and wresting the coyote until it released the dog.

4.       Dogs have sweat glands in between their paws.

5.       In 2003, Dr. Roger Mugford invented the wagometer, a device that claims to interpret a dog’s exact mood by measuring the wag of its tail.

6.       Dogs have three eyelids. The third lid, called a nictitating membrane or “haw,” keeps the eye lubricated and protected.

7.       A dog’s shoulder blades are unattached to the rest of the skeleton to allow greater flexibility for running.

8.       Puppies are sometimes rejected by their mother if they are born by cesarean and cleaned up before being given back to her.

9.       The phrase “raining cats and dogs” originated in seventeenth-century England. During heavy rainstorms, many homeless animals would drown and float down the streets, giving the appearance that it had actually rained cats and dogs.

10.   During the Middle Ages, Great Danes and Mastiffs were sometimes suited with armor and spiked collars to enter a battle or to defend supply caravans.

11.   Pekingese and Japanese Chins were so important in the ancient Far East that they had their own servants and were carried around trade routes as gifts for kings and emperors. Pekingese were even worshipped in the temples of China for centuries.

12.   The shape of a dog’s face suggests how long it will live. Dogs with sharp, pointed faces that look more like wolves typically live longer. Dogs with 

very flat faces, such as bulldogs, often have shorter lives.

Dogs have sweat glands in between their paws

                                       

The Basenji is the world’s only barkless dog

    

10 interesting facts about the USA

#1 The highest point in the state of Florida is only 345 feet (115 yards) above sea level.

#2 Today, 66 percent of all Americans are considered to be overweight.

#3 The state of Alaska is 429 times larger than the state of Rhode Island is. But Rhode Island has a significantly larger population than Alaska does.

#4 The average supermarket in the United States wastes about 3,000 pounds of food each year.

#5 Approximately 48 percent of all Americans are currently either considered to be “low income” or are living in poverty.

#6 Alaska has a longer coastline than all of the other 49 U.S. states put together.

#7 In the UK, an average of about $3,500 is spent on healthcare per person each year. In the United States, an average of about $8,500 is spent on healthcare per person each year.

#8 Montana has three times as many cows as it does people.

#9 The average U.S. citizen drinks the equivalent of more than 600 sodas each year.

#10 The only place in the United States where coffee is grown commercially is in Hawaii.

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