Eat this Instead of that

http://www.aarp.org/food/healthy-eating/info-11-2012/try-healthy-alternatives-photos.html#slide1

Hisham Alshehri
Written by AARP The Magazine, November 30, 2012


            If you are on diet or if you trying to eat healthy, so here some great idea that will help to increase your health instead of harm your body. First of all, instead of buying a Cereal bar, try to eat Barriers because Barriers are containing only 80 calories, but Cereal bar contain over 130 calories. Also, Barriers are helpful to boost the brain and the memory. And it has nutritional value. Second thing, instead of eating white bread try to eat Whole wheat. Whole wheat contains nutritional value more than white bread, which cans helps to maintain healthy cholesterol and blood sugar levels. Thirdly, instead of eating Crackers, try to eat nuts or peanuts, that’s because nuts have lower odds of heart attacks than crackers and it will helps to reduce bad cholesterol. You should eat it sparingly because all of them have high amount of calories. Moreover, instead of eating fried chicken, is better to choose grilled chicken because fried chicken is containing much oil, fat, and calories. Other ideas, when you want to buy a chocolate try to buy a dark chocolate instead of white chocolate such as Sneakers. Researches have shown that dark chocolate helpful to decrease high blood pleasure and help remove plaque from the arteries in the body. It is also, has lower glycemic than white chocolate, which can helps curbing appetite and reducing hunger. If you want to eat cookies try to eat figs instead of that. Figs contain potassium, minerals, and other nutritional value. Figs are helpful to prevent from cancer, diabetes and some infections. It is also contains a natural sugar which can help the circulatory system and makes them as sweet as cookies. When you start cooking try to use olive oil instead of butter also with the food. Olive oil contains monounsaturated and has lower bad cholesterol. That means olive oil are helpful to reduce the risk of heart disease in opposite of butter. Another great idea is, better than using a white pasta, use whole wheat pasta because whole wheat pasta has soluble fiber and that keeps you fell full for longer time and more heather. White Potatoes it is more common to eat than Sweet potatoes, but in fact, Sweet potatoes are more nutritional than white potatoes. Sweet potatoes have a lower glycemic index which is have lower effect on the blood sugar in the body. Last idea, if you want to eat rice, try to eat brown rice instead white rice. Brown rice contains more fiber and protein than white rice, which means brown rice is less impact on your blood sugar.

Dr. Oz Arranges 24 Hours a Day to a Longer Life

Hisham Alshehri

Written by: Mehmet Oz, M.D.

    With the life of stress of work, family, study, and sleep, people may live longer with many stress around us. Otherwise, it could cause many diseases such as blood pressure and diabetes.  Dr. Oz tells as the secret that might help to live longer. Dr.Oz gives an example about a car that has set a record in Guinness world which is has been working for almost fifty years and for about three million miles, and the car still looks good. The reason of that is because the maintenance. The periodic maintenance for oil, filter, water, and tires keeps the car live longer. The same thing with the human body by eating well, exercising well, sleeping well, seeing the doctor every couple of months, help you to live longer. Here is some of the method ways to arrange your daily schedule. First thing, is to sleep early, and then woke up early in the morning at six begin with a seven minutes yoga-inspired exercise. This exercise helping you to repair the damage of your heart rate and relaxing the blood routing, so that also helps to feel relax and reduce the stress. On seven in the morning after your body warm up, start with eat breakfast. When the person get older the skin begin to break down, but if the body have enough sugar in the early day it will tie the skin and repair the cells of the skin. At ten in the morning, small snake can helps to avid cancer. We actually have anticancer weapons in out body, but to find them. Cells in our body need to nutrients from the blood supply. Berries are very helpful to prevent from cancer because it contains antioxidants, which can reduce inflammation, and oxidative that causes cancer.  At 12 at noon, walk out and build muscles. Body needs vitamin D, which can take it from the sunshine. Also, when we set for long time we loss muscle and that makes us weak and makes our bones vulnerable. At 3 pm try to take a break and relax. After a wile of working our cells start to weak out, so best way to charge your body is to take a break. At 6 in the evening eat fish for dinner at lease twice a week. Omega-3 in the fish is helpful to refresh and boost your brain and memory. At 10 pm go to sleep that when is the highest levels of melatonin are circulating in your brain. try to sleep enough at least seven hours.


http://www.aarp.org/health/healthy-living/info-11-2011/droz.html

Get a new Friends

Hisham Alshehri      

Written by, Margery D. Rosen, July 9, 2013


       Here is a very useful methods to be a social person and get a new friends. Mr. Rosen tells that find a new friends stimulates the brain in areas critical to learning and memory. First, the relationships it is not only a number. Rather than build many relationships, try to reach to a deep relationship and trust able. Secondly, you don’t have to be shy and feel risky about talking to people, you have to work at finding and strengthening them, so you should be brave to talk to the person next to you in the line about her beautiful shoes. Also, try to invite a new people for a potluck dinner and ask them to bring their friend. Third methods is to accept the invitation even from strange people for a dinner or party. That you can meet many friendly people over there, so it is chance to build a relationships. Also, many college or work company sponsors for an activity or trips for people, so don’t even miss that change to build a social friendly relationship with new people in that trip. There are also many activity you can do by yourself that helps you work with a group of people such as work as volunteer. This good chance to meet new people that could stay for whole after you helping people with their life. It is not only that advantage, it is also help you to get experience with a new majors such as business or medical that’s can get it from the people that you work with. When you meet new people in your local area, try to jot down his email, phone number, or another social network, so that helps you to keep in touch with him. Moreover, try to find a workshop that you like, so there you can find people who share a similar curiosity or inserting thing, and then keep in touch with him and see him or her every a couple of weeks. Other most perfect method of building friends these days is to participate in the social network. Social network such as, Facebook, Twitter, and Yahoo, keeps you in touch with old friends from school or your childhood neighborhood. Also, you can build a new relationship with people from around the world, so when you travel to another country you can easily get some ideas about the country you may visit.  Last thing, traveling helps you to meet tourists and new people and discovered another traditional and cultures.

http://www.aarp.org/health/brain-health/info-07-2013/make-friends-boost-brain-health-photos.html#slide1

Samsung Gear Fit

Hisham Alshehri
20 March

             Monday February 22, Samsung didn't announce the new phone Galaxy S5 only, but also announced smart watch called Samsung Gear Fit. Christina Warren wrote about this watch. With the other smart watches family Samsung Gear and Samsung Gear Neon, Samsung Gear Fit is the best, not only the design, but also with the other features that other smart watches do not have it. Christina Warren mentioned that the smart watches or the fitness bands market is growing dramatically so fast. Researches show that smart wearable bands were shipped in the second half of 2013, after just about 200,000 smart wearable bands shipped in the first half of the year. Shipments could reach a total of 8 million in 2014, over 23 million units by 2015, and over 45 million by 2017. Not many people have Samsung smart watches or fitness bands, but mostly they have fitness bands from Nike or Fitbit. Now after Samsung Gear Fit came up, it comes with the most recent fitness tracker accouterments. The Samsung Fit comes with many features that make it better than the others smart watches. The Gear Fit Samsung caring much about the health system. What sets it apart from the other, is that the Gear Fit has a sensor behind the screen to monitor heart rate and every time you exercise it will transfer all the data to the application Exercise in the phone and pairing with your phone through Bluetooth technology to communicate or magnetic near-term. Also, this watch provided by a sensor of movement to count all the steps that the person has done, count the exercises, and monitor sleep system. This smart watch comes with a thin, curved, sensitive, and Super AMOLED screen, 1.84 inches size, with a resolution 423x128. On top of that, if you don’t really care about the health system, Gear Fit provide a notification system alert the user about the income calls, messages, emails, and all the applications that links with the phone. This watch proved the Relay system. Relay system is a system that can connect the watch to the phone with only looking at the watch without touching the watch. The Gear Fit bands come with different choices of colors such as, black, orange, and gray. Moreover, this watch has a unique feature which is resistance water and dust. These not the only features it has, there are more many other features in these smart watch besides the amazing design.



http://mashable.com/2014/02/25/samsung-gear-fit-hans-on/

Warren, Christina, Female. "Mashable." Mashable. N.p., 25 Feb. 2014. Web. 11 Mar. 2014.

Simple Tricks to Remember Everyday Things

Hisham Alshehri
Written by, Lisa Davis, July 10, 2013

        In these days with the huge amount of information that we receive comparing to the previous generations, it's been difficult to remember everything easily. Lisa Davis explains that some people have difficulty to pay close attention, difficulty to remember names, difficulty to remember wallet place, and difficulty or remember the numbers. Mrs. Lisa explain seven simple methods to eliminate or reduce of the memory forgetting.

The mostly common problem that happen to people is hardness to remember names which can put the person in embracing situations sometimes especially with the people who have an important job such as business men. Psychiatrist Gary Small, M.D., director of the University of California, Los Angeles Longevity Center, suggests that when we meet people usually we don’t pay attention, but the person should make a mental picture of the other person face and his name and connect them. For example, make a pictures of the person while he sitting on the beach and you are calling him. Also, before you leaving the person try to say his name after you said good-bye. Second technique, is especially for people who forgetting always what they want to do. Mrs. Lisa says that try always to use a list as story to write what you want to do or what you want to buy. For example, write a story including the stuff that you want to buy from the grocery. Third problem that mostly everybody facing that is forgetting the password of accounts or of the computer accounts. Try to choose the password that belong to you; for instance, use the name of your dog, your first car, your street name, or the first litters of company name with adding some numbers of your phone, and that will be hard to the hackers to guess too. Moreover, sometime we have hard time to remember where we put the keys or wallet. Best method for that is to put basket in your room or kitchen to put your stuff in it. There is phenomenon that some people forget names of movies, songs, etc. For example if the movie called Dead Ringers try to imagine that you playing with a rings in your finger. Other technique is to know easily where you parked. It is a problem that many people are complaining about, so the good way to remember that is to use look-snap-connect technique. First looks to see what is behind and front your car. Then create a mental snapshot. Last, remember the number with using multiple senses such as, speaking. Last thing, is to remember an important date, use your phone’s calendar to set up an alert for important dates and it will give you notifications when the date comes.

http://www.aarp.org/health/brain-health/info-07-2013/7-ways-to-remember-almost-anything.html#slide1

Colleges Are Tested by Push to Prove Graduates' Career Success

By: Won Gyung

According to “Colleges Are Tested by Push to Prove Graduates’ Career Success” by Melissa Korn, graduates’ success in finding well paying jobs is trumpeted by college admissions officers, but the school is usually hard to get some proofs. Many college officials say that taking out employment outcomes to a single standard is not easy because obstacles stand in the way of gathering meaningful figures and conveying them. Beside, others say that they do not believe of tying the nuances of educational success to dollar figures. Federal and state governments are taking steps of their own to measure the value of higher education, yet the efforts are not noticeable. The Higher Education Opportunity Act bars the federal government from making a nationwide database of student records, with opponents quoting privacy and other concerns. The U.S. Education Department is comparing options for a new college rating system which can include graduate employment information.

College Measures, which is a partnership between American Institutes for Research and Matrix Knowledge has helped seven states such as Texas, Florida and Virginia gather information about student record and work to make websites providing employment statistics for graduates. However, school opposes these initiatives because many of efforts are quantify education success. At the same time, college admissions officers realized that using data about graduates’ success in their marketing methods and websites. However, according to Mark Schneider who is a president of College Measures, “college graduates’ are not scientifically sound surveys”. He mourned their horrific answer rates and choice bias, noting that those with good news to report are more likely to respond.

Some colleges argue that there is no clear standard to get statistic results, but some colleges are finding that meaningful information can get easier than their thinking. For example, St. Olaf College in Northfield didn’t expend any staff or make a new fund to improve the response rate to its survey of students on year after graduation to 92% from about 30%. The whole project prices $750, including an online-survey and pizza for student volunteers.

I’m a third grade student in my home university. Although my college clock is temporary stopping because I’m in US now, I should start to consider about my future plan which is what can I do after graduating the university. If some people’s major is a law like me, it is very hard to find a job related to major; law is very specific field. Therefore, some people who graduate my major in my university did not get a job, and it is very hard to know about graduate students. I hope my university also creates a new way to get information about graduates like as in this article.

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303546204579435050684294642

'Genius hour': What kids can learn from failure

By Jay

Usually, what students learn at school is coming from curriculum and because we learn by curriculum it is limited. To reinforce that problem, there are some movements to try new items. One of trial is ‘Genius hour’, there are more specific information in the CNN.com article, ‘'Genius hour': What kids can learn from failure’’ by Emanuella Grinberg.

There is a school which operates ‘genius hour’. Genius hour is motivated from Google’s 20% time initiative, which allows employees to spend 20% of working hours to their own ideas, and there are some schools which applies this idea, and spends this time as students-led passion projects with focusing on creating and sharing. Genius hour has education purpose to promote students-driven learning, and give opportunity to learn about thinking without any help. During this time students ask their own questions and do their research and make conclusions.

The teacher who is doing genius hours in class is Nicholas Provenzano in Grosse Pointe South-High School in Michigan, and he post student’s projects every week. He started to do Genius Hour because he was inspired by Twitter, and he made commandments, and one of the commandment is “failure is an option” While genius hour proceed, Provenzano tell students, failure is acceptable and allows students to take risks, and learning is from what they fail to do. Traditional learning environments do not allow students to allow taking risk. He learned from this time that students want some freedom to research what they want to, and there are many things they wanted to study about. One hour of the week when failure isn’t just an option, it is giving students opportunity to learn. Proceeding genius hours are important, but it is important to educate parents because the concept of genius hours is unfamiliar to both parents and students. To help parents understand the concept, it is better to inform parents what they did; therefore, parents will support and like genius hours.

There are lots of succeed exampled of genius hour; for instance, student named Emily, first had hard time to decide conclusions with friends, and finally decide to research what brand of sneaker is best. First, she surveyed her school students and teachers, and with teacher’s help she surveyed other school’s teacher and students. After a few months of gathering opinions, they decided to put the sneakers through more empirical testing with the help of their science teacher. They contacted eight brands to gather sample sneakers. From the research, she learned many things about sneakers such as color and style mean a lot to consumers, functions are support are also important especially for runners. From research, Emily felt intimidating because it was first time calling company to request information and write formal letters. Although, it helped her learn brainstorm and interact with others and have confidence in her ideas.

Based on this, it is well know that just following curriculum prevents students to have less creativity and just memorizing facts. I believe students need opportunity to do projects which they wanted to do, and not limited at the curriculum. One hour in one week is not much time, and it will not harm curriculum. It will help students to develop their opportunities. Also, giving more freedom in education will motivated students to study and get interested in going to school

http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/09/living/genius-hour-education-schools/index.html?hpt=li_c2