WHAT DRIVES YOUR LIFE?

Sunday Sermon. Pearson Kolo - the Sunday Bulletin 8 March 2020 P.22

Everyone's life is driven by something. What is the driving force in your life? Many people are driven by guilt. They spend their entire lives running from regrets. Guilt driven people are manipulated by memories.

They allow their past to control the future. They often punish themselves by disrupting their own success.

We are products of our past. But we do not have to be prisoners of it. God's purpose is not limited by your past. What happiness fo those whose guilts have been forgiven.

Many people are driven by bitterness and anger. They hold on to hurts and never get over them. They rehearse their pain over and over again. Resentment always hurts you more than the person you dislike.

Your past is past. Nothing will change it. You are hurting yourself with your bitterness. Learn from it then let it go. Many people are driven by fear. The fears may be the result of traumatic experience, unrealistic expectations or growing up in a high controlled home.

Fear is a self imposed prison that will keep you from becoming what God wants for you. Many people are driven by materialism. The desire to control becomes the centre of their lives. 

They think that having more will make them happy. Possessions only provide temporary happiness. Wealth can be lost instantly through many uncontrolled factors.

Many people are driven by the need for approval. They allow themselves to be governed by the expectations of parents, spouses, teachers or brothers and sisters. Unfortunately those who follow the crowd often get lost in it.

Knowing your purpose gives meaning to your life. When life has meaning, we can bear almost anything. Knowing your purpose simplifies your life. It defines what you do and what you do not do. People who do not know their purpose try to do too much. Knowing your purpose focuses your life.

What ultimately matters most is not what people say about you but what God says. Everyone will stand before God.

STRONG IMMUNE SYSTEMS CAN DEFEAT VIRUSES

Over the last two decades the world has suffered the pandemics of the HIV virus and now the Coronavirus that is attacking people. Both are different in their entry and attack though both weaken the immune system.

HIV can take up to 10 years to destroy the immune system but blocked by antiretroviral medication. A vaccination for Coronvirus is being researched across the world.

 

People can survive Coronavirus at our present level of knowledge depending on the strength of their immune system. Obesity is the key killer.r.

To strengthen the immune system we require a regular diet of fruit and vegetables. People who live on such a diet will probably survive Coronavirus. 

Many people have survived across the world while obese people tend to die according to Google reports. Are Governments afraid to raise massive trauma by telling citizens of the dangers of obesity?

Those living in developed countries may eat a diet lacking in fat but rich in garden food.

 

But many people in Papua New Guinea live on a diet of tinned fish, rice, fatty lamb and pig meat with flour cakes fried in cooking oil.

WHY NO FOCUS ON NUTRITION WITH CORONAVIRUS?

Most reports explain the importance of social distancing, washing hands and not touching face. 

There is seldom any focus on the importance of nutrition in the form of fruit and vegetables with reduced fatty foods and drinks and reduced fat from chicken and animal meat.

The nutrition strengthens the immune system. Fatty foods make the sufferer vulnerable to death as the door is opened to the virus. 

Is it because the health authorities do not want to make fat people lose hope that they are on the road to death? Today I read a message in the window of a restaurant. 

There were the usual points about healthy living but included strengthen your immune system.

Coronovirus: Does being overweight or obese affect how ill ...

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Could the amount of fat in our body increase complications with Covid-19?

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7 days ago - After infection with coronavirus, an obese body may activate 

large fat-dwelling reservoir of immune cells, which can

CORONAVIRUS AND FATTY TISSUE

I am becoming afraid of the virus and the effects of fat. Why is the damage of obesity not being made a key issue? A report below says that 42% of Americans are obese. That makes them vulnerable to the virus and death.

The fat opens the road for the virus to attack the body.

It is wise for people to increase the consumption of fruit and vegetables and limit the intake of dairy products.

It may explain the danger that obese elderly people have when infected with the virus. They do not exercise, probably eat mainly processed food and consume dairy products. 

They do not buy fruit and vegetables. Their adult children should bring them fruit and vegetables from the market.

It would be interesting to survey the meals of elderly people in nursing homes. Do they have a diet of fruit and vegetables?

Food and nutrition tips during self-quarantine - WHO/Europe

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As countries are taking stronger measures to contain the spread of COVID-19, ... If fresh products, especially fruits, vegetables and reduced-fat dairy products ...

Coronavirus: Obese higher risk as fat cells are infection ...

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6 days ago - Revealed, the reason why obese people may be more at risk of coronavirus: Fat cells make large amounts of a protein used by the deadly ...

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Apr 2, 2020 - ... coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Nadolsky says that this suggests an increased risk of illness severity due to the amount of actual fat in the body.

Obesity may make a coronavirus infection worse - Los ...

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Apr 15, 2020 - Because stored fat is a powerful driver of inflammation, that measure tends to be higher in people with obesity. “We find particularly strong ...

How does the coronavirus work? | MIT Technology Review

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Apr 15, 2020 - It's covered by spiky protrusions, which are in turn enveloped in a layer of fat (the reason soap does a good job of destroying the virus).

Scientists in the Netherlands reveal 3-D structure of coronavirus

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ATTACKS ON THE IMMUNE SYSTEM

Over the centuries, there have been horrific attacks on the human race by viruses that killed millions of people.

The bubonic plague attacked northern Europe twice in 6 centuries brought into town during the ice ages by plagues of rats that lived with the people in warm houses.

Pestilence came at a time of human waste in urban areas and passed to the inhabitants by animals. In Europe, human waste was emptied into the streets. 

Pandemics were taken to be punishment by God. In Papua New Guinea villages put deaths down to sorcery which required people to be killed.

Spanish flu descended on soldiers of both sides in World War 1 killing millions of people across Europe. Even the president of the USA Woodrow Wilson was struck down.

Next came the HIV virus condemned as the gay plague. The official view was that HIV began among primates of Africa. There ere those who blamed the CIA. Now the Chinese are being blamed for Coronavirus.

Then came SARS, MERS, Mad cow flu and swine flu. All viruses attacked the human immune system and caused death as the immune system declined and could no longer protect the body.

The HIV virus destroyed the immune system before the introduction of antiretroviral medication. 

People died after 6-10 years following AIDS and dementia with delusions and hallucinations combined with memory loss. 

The antiretroviral medication was needed to support the nutrition of fruit and vegetables that provide nutrients for the immune system.

People with HIV infection lived long lives with ART medication, nutrition of fruit and vegetables with no smoking or drinking alcohol. Without ART, the immune system collapsed after 6-11 years. Fat helps the virus to take control.

Now the world suffers and awaits vaccine for coronavirus. We practise cleanliness, social distancing, self isolation, exercise to remove fat and flatten the curve.

Coronavirus and tuberculosis cause pneumonia with mucus in the lungs and a reduction in blood oxygen and build up of carbon dioxide.

The onset of coronavirus and AIDS causes brain damage known as dementia among AIDS sufferers accompanied by hallucinations and delusion.

There are those who see  a link between pandemics and climate change. The major pandemics in the world took place in winter.

DO NOT DRINK DETERGENT

Recently President Donald Trump suggested that people drink detergent to clean Coronavirus out of their system. This was followed by an uproar that led to Trump suggesting he was being sarcastic.

We must not drink any liquid that is intended for industrial or domestic purposes. Recently over 800 people in Iran were poisoned by methylene. This often goes by the name of anti-freeze used in the radiators of cars.

There are at times people in Papua New Guinea who put methylene in their home brew with death and blindness as a result. 

About 30 years ago, a group of villagers in New Britain found a bottle floating in the sea. They mixed the liquid with their home brew. Many died or went blind.

About two years ago, a groups of grade 12 boys in the highlands celebrated the end of their grade 12 exam with methylene laced home brew. 

The chemistry teacher mixed the brew. Perhaps a student dropped the methylene in the bucket without being seen.

One student died and others went blind. What a foolish way to celebrate the end of an exam.

The problem is there is confusion between ethylene and methylene. The name of one should be changed.

For people facing coronavirus, bleach in water can be used to clean hands and wipe rails in shops and seats in vehicles. I wash my hands in bleach daily and dry my hands on my beard.

ELDERLY, DIABETES 2 AND OBESITY

For several weeks, this blog has raised the issue of coronavirus and fat. Last week there was a report on BBC of an elderly lady asked if she was afraid of coronavirus.

She replied that she was terrified. She said she was elderly, diabetic and obese. All of these would combine to kill her. It may explain the deaths in nursing homes. Do the elderly people live on a diet of fruit and vegetables?

It may be that the medical authorities of the world are afraid to talk about obesity. Media reports have been telling us for years about the growing obesity in the developed world. 

So many of these people will die from coronavirus the result of trigliceride fat that is blood fat and opens the door to diabetes 2 and blood pressure.

To raise the issue of fat, the medical authorities will be addressing a high percentage of the population of the developed world. The virus is upon us and it may be too late to commence dieting to reduce fat.

There still may be time to commence eating fruit and vegetables, less sugar and salt, less creamy milk, less fat on chicken and animal meat with more exercise. Ten kilograms lost in a month may make all the difference.

Nutrition has been an important part of Positive Living with HIV/AIDS. Now we are facing the importance of a strong immune system to protect us from coronvirus.

The foreign activists in PNG condemned all this with HIV/AIDS saying that fruit and vegetables and Positive Living killed people. They should be ashamed. Fruit and vegetables are the key to a strong immune system..

People in the developing world may have greater reliance on garden food than processed food from overseas. But many people in PNG still rely on white rice and tinned fish. 

They may be the first to die of coronavirus. The funeral notices in PNG are full of fat people.