Obesity ‘engulfing the entire world’

The world is in the grip of an obesity pandemic that threatens to overwhelm every country’s health system, experts at an international conference warned on Sunday.

“Obesity is an international scourge,” Professor Paul Zimmet, the chairman of the meeting of more than 2,500 experts and health officials, told delegates in a speech opening the International Congress on Obesity. “This insidious, creeping pandemic of obesity is now engulfing the entire world.”

“It’s as big a threat as global warming and bird flu,” said Zimmet, an Australian diabetes expert.

Other experts at the conference said the cost of treating health problems related to being overweight was immeasurable on a global scale, but was estimated at billions of dollars a year in countries such as Australia, Britain and the United States.

“We are not dealing with a scientific or medical problem, we’re dealing with an eContinue reading “Obesity ‘engulfing the entire world’”

“CHERRY STUFF TO DIE FOR”

I CAN’T WAIT TO TRY YOUR Peach CAKE. I WILL BE MAKING IT ON MONDAY.

I ALSO HAVE SOMETHING FOR YOU TO TRY.
ITS CALLED “CHERRY STUFF TO DIE FOR”

1 CAN UNSWEETENED CHERRY FILLER
1 CAN OF CONDENSED MILK
2 CONTAINERS OF SUGAR FREE COOLWHIP (TOTAL 16 OZ)
1 CAN OF CRUSHED PINEAPPLE (DRAINED WELL)
1/4 CUP OF CHOPPED NUTS (YOUR CHOICE)
MIX CONDENSED MILK AND CHERRY FILLING TOGETHER, THEN MIX IN THE DRAINED PINEAPPLE. FOLLOWED BY COOL WHIP AND NUTS.

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THE FARMER AND THE COW

CAST OF CHARACTERS: Wendy, the cow with Tammy, the Farmer

FARMER: God-fearing man o’ the soil
BESSIE THE COW: Spirit-filled

AS the scene opens FARMER is approaching COW in the pasture. The cow speaks.

COW: Howdy, Farmer! Man, I sure am thirsty. Ya’ know! Like it
Says in Psalm 42:1, the deer and I are panting for water!
Can you give us a drink?

FARMER: Yes Sir! I can give you a drink. Ya’ know, Bessie, Jesus said in
John 7:37, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.”
Here’s ya’ water.

COW: Ya’ know! Them thar’s some powerful words about our Father,
Speaking of the King…

FARMER: The KING?!! Who said anything about Elvis??

COW: Shucks NO, Crazy! IвContinue reading “THE FARMER AND THE COW”

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BARB

LOOK !IT IS BARBARA’S BIRTHDAY! She is timeless and stylish! She loves God and fears Him. I have known her for a few years. I should say at least as many as her daughters and even more years than her husband. Take a look at her picture and you will see the Barbara I have always known, and the one we all love and adore.

You will also see a beautiful gift represented in her choice of gloves and dress. She truly has been gifted with the gifts of hospitality and serving and she uses them with excellence.

Happy Birthday Barbara from all your friends and family at “The Daily Lily”. We love you and you are being prayed for, sung to and blessed today in a very special way.

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Peach Cake

Peach Cake
Peaches at every road side stand and in every grocery store, I found this recipe for a different, wonderful, sweet cake that will leave your friends begging for the secret (it is the peaches rolled in flour!). So I thought I would give it to my friends at The Daily Lily. Enjoy and share.

2 cups plain flour, divided
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. cinnamon
3 eggs, well beaten
1 3/4 cups sugar
1 cup vegetable oil
2 cups fresh peaches, chopped
1/2 cup chopped nuts
Whip Cream

Combine 1 1/2 cups flour, soda, salt & cinnamon. In another bowl mix eggs, sugar and oil; beat until smooth. Add flour mixture and beat at low speed with mixer until just blended. Use remaining 1/2 cup flour to coat peaches and nuts; fold into batter. Pour batter into a 13 X 9 X 2 inch pan sprayed with Pam. Bake at 375 degrees for 50 minutes or until cake tester comes out clean. CoolContinue reading “Peach Cake”

Baptists are… well obese

“Weighty matter: Is religion making us fat?”

The above is the title of a very interesting article I found. Here are some excerpts from it. Purdue socialogist, Ken Ferraro conclusion is the acceptable vice in Christian circles is eating.

“So it’s not surprising that Ferraro’s latest study found that about 27 percent of Baptists, including Southern Baptists, North American Baptists, and Fundamentalist Baptist, were obese

Ferraro’s study also found that about 20 percent of “Fundamentalist Protestants,” (Church of Christ, Pentecostal, Assemblies of God and Church of God); about 18 percent of “Pietistic Protestants,” (Methodist, Christian Church and African Methodist Episcopal), and about 17 percent of Catholics were obese.

By contrast, about 1 percent of the Jewish population and less than 1 percent of other non-Christians, including Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists and others), were Continue reading “Baptists are… well obese”

“Shut Your Trap”

I have heard that derogatory command before, “shut your trap!”. It sounds irreverent or disrespecful, to say the least, and we are taken aback by the harshness of that remark. However, today in church I reached a new understanding and got to see that questionable phrase in a new, revealing light.
In Sara’s teachings, today, she admonished us to watch what we say because our WORDS are often that which cut off the blessings and negate that which we have prayed, hoped and believed for so vigorously. And then she said, “SHUT YOUR TRAP” WELL!!!! “Do you know what your “trap ” is?” she challenged. And suddenly I saw it. Of course! Your “trap” is your mouth. When you tell someone in the vernacular to “shut their trap” you mean to say.,…. “shut up or shut your mouth.” But in the Spirit it has a much greater significance and is of greatest “life or death proportions, that isContinue reading ““Shut Your Trap””

Ode to Geriatrics

We got Geriatrics in the city,
Geriatrics in our homes,
Geriatrics in the country
Geriatrics living alone.

I’ve got geriatric plants in my geriatric greenhouse
And geriatric books on my geriatric shelves.
Geriatric dust on my geriatric furniture
And geriatric money in the geriatric bank.

I’ve got a geriatric dog
Who needs a geriatric to walk him.
There’s a geriatric tape playing
In my geriatric taper player.
And a geriatric pile of bills
That long have been a’waiting.

I gave a geriatric monologue at a business meeting today;
After I spent four hours looking for an article that I had forgotten
where I stored it away.

My geriatric ‘moment’ has turned into a geriatric day.
My ‘juvenile’ aquaintances no longer ask me to play.
Now geriatric’s not a curseword if it’s used in a way that’s
kind.
It becomes one when it grows into a tree that overtakes my mind.

FContinue reading “Ode to Geriatrics”

A Day in Church

I was so blessed to be in the Lord’s house yesterday, Sunday! I heard a great
message from God’s Word. The Minister/Preacher said that he remembers a
preacher saying…”sin will take you farther than you want to go, keep you
longer than you want to stay, and cost you more than you want to pay”.

He spoke about sin and how we can have “regret for sin”, “remorse for sin”, and
or “repentance for sin”. He used the example of Judus only having regret and
remorse for betraying Jesus, because he commited suicide. He than spoke
about Peter having regret, remorse, and repentance, for denying Jesus,
because repentance means you make a change. “Peter weeped bitterly”, God’s
Word says.He continued to use David as an example in Psalm 51. You can read
this scripture and know that David truly had a repentant heart, for his sin
with Bethsheba.

The minister/preacher stated thContinue reading “A Day in Church”