| Some 2K10 Goals by God's special grace n power |
- Paint entire house
- Set up entire downstairs including garage
- Reduce credit card debt by at least $2k
- Pay off any miscellaneous debt
- Most definitely get into a committed relationship
Most definitely send money to mom for a new car- Take time to develop relationships
- At least, 2 patents
- Aggresively work on developing iPhone App dev skills
- Create a webpage for DJing
- Expand my career breadth
- Visit London
- Join Toastmasters
- Create a will and a Power of Attorney 4 Healthcare
- Take complete control of soda drinking
- Work on taking a CPR class
SO, HELP ME GOD!
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| Some 2K7 Goals by God's special grace n power |
Finally buy some Nyja stocksGet a loaded Thinkpad or Sony VaioJoin MentorPlace n consistently mentorPut at least $2K in stocks apart from investment club contr. & 401kTake complete control of coffee
SO, HELP ME GOD!
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| Some 2K6 Goals by God's grace |
Have a white paper publishedWork on increasing payGet to the next band at workHelp renovate mom's placeGive mom n bro at least $*K each for weddingFinally visit Nyja!!!
Take a real estate class
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| My Videos |
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Go Getta. R. Kelly
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| Music I'm Feeling... |
- 2Face
- Ebenezer Obey
- KWAM 1
- Cassandra Wilson
- Pharell
- Ne-Yo
- T.O.K
- Don Moen
- D4L
- Teddy Pendergrass
- ColdPlay
- DMB
- Notorious B.I.G
- Delirious
- Dem Franchise Boyz
- Frank Sinatra
- Evanescence
- All-American Rejects
- Billie Holiday
- Seal
- Obesere
- KEM
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| Books I'm reading... |
Zero DebtThe Millionaire Next DoorThe Street Lawyer- African Women: Three Generations
- Communication, Sex & Money
- The J2EE Tutorial
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| Cities I Have Visited |
- ATL, GA
- Austin,TX
- Detroit, MI
- Houston, TX
- Charlotte, NC
- Corning, NY
- NYC, NY
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Tuesday, March 21, 2006
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Yorubas, Pepper and Prostrate Cancer!
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Over the years, I have tasted innumerable dishes indigenous to people from different parts of the world. I have tasted Indian, Ghanian, Gambian, Carribean, Brazillian, European, other Asian countries, etc, but none of the foods of all these different cultures is as spicy as one ethnic group. The Yorubas. It's an ethnic group from the Southwestern part of Nigeria in West Africa which I happen to be myself. Geez!!! Our foods are immeasurably hot and spicy when compared to any others. Like we call it in Nigeria, they are very pepperish. :) When it comes to pepper, we are the ones. Even here, it's funny, when I was in college, the Chinese joint near my school knew all the Yorubas in school. Everytime we called, they knew to make the foods very very very spicy like they said. For many of us, we can't help it. That's what we have always known. We just love it spicy. Our stews are usually the type that will get us sued if a white person tastes it. :) However, everytime I go days without the pepperish food, I begin to feel nauseous. I guess that's how addicted I am. I remember walking over miles to go get spicy sandwich when I was in college after weeks of eating the cafeteria food.
This love for spicy food might be beneficial to us in some ways - at least the guys. I read this article recently about how the active ingredient in peppers that makes it hot/spicy/pepperish (choose one), Capsaicin, could actually reduce the risk of prostrate cancer. According to research done by US and Japanese researchers, this compound, causes prostate cancer cells to kill themselves. Capsaicin caused 80% of prostrate cancer cells to commit suicide in mice in a process known as apoptosis. Prostrate cancer tumors in mice were about 1/5th the size of those in untreated mice. Hmmm! Interesting. Prostrate cancer is one of the leading cancer deaths among men both here in the US and a lot of other countries. This could be a way to curtail or at least reduce the prostrate cancer rates among men in the world.
So, the Yoruba men might be benefitting from this love for spicy foods afterall. It will be interesting to compare prostrate cancer rates among Yoruba men to that of other ethnic groups in Nigeria or just a group of people here in the US. I would love to see that happen based on this research. I guess, with this news, which is still a study anyway, I won't be halting my eating of very hot and spicy foods for sure....
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posted by Just Thinking Out Loud!
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Hmh... forgive me but i have to take this cheap shot...The benefits of the pepper for yoruba men are probably rendered useless by the amount of OIL in the food.....ha ha ha. Lol... you know i just had to go there.
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lmao!!! This woman (I can't call you girl, right?)..you crack me up. I knew you had to go there. lol! yea yea yea!!! Same thing with Ibo soups too. ok ok, maybe not. :) it's all good. at least, that's high blood pressure/cholesterol, less chance of prostrate cancer. Hmmm...which one do I choose? .... :)
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i'm Yoruba - born and raised for 7yrs - and i DETEST excessive pepper in my food. i may have a taste or two but after that, i'm sorry. i prefer lots of flavor though. that's why i hate it when people call peppery foods spicy. peppery = HOT. spicy = FLAVOR....
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Yeah, true. Not all Yorubas like pepper like that for sure. Yeah you're right about peppery = HOT and spicy = FLAVOR. The 1st time I heard spicy here in US, I was confused too, I thought they meant flavorful but apparently not. I always knew peppery or pepperish to be hot and spicy to be flavorful but people here seem to use spicy for both...
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Hmh... forgive me but i have to take this cheap shot...The benefits of the pepper for yoruba men are probably rendered useless by the amount of OIL in the food.....ha ha ha. Lol... you know i just had to go there.