Playing with Fire
Mango is good for diabetes—US medical journal
By Gonzalo Duque
GEORGIA, USA—Manlaldis so balita ditan!
Sorry, folks, we missed the deadline last week. No, actually, we misread the Decorp. We thought it could not restore power that soon. Yon pala, it was back at 11 am. It was evening here, and we fell asleep na.
Anyway, it’s nice to be back.
P-noy’s impeachment talk is the favorite topic here, too.
But the Yankees and the Fil-Ams are taking a wait-and-see attitude, anxious on developments back home.
If you ask us, the boiling heat over our hapless country could be due to P-noy’s angry mode. Parang galit lagi.
Gustung-gusto natin sanang mag-succeed siyaas our national leader, but parang ayaw e.
Why do we say this? Well, as we all our see and sense for ourselves, he can’t seem to unify the nation. He probably thinks the attainment of reforms is based only on what the high-sounding political theories say.
You and us know that realpolitik is more than scholarship, more than gut-feel, much more than all the best ideas in the galaxy.
It takes, well, experience flexibility, and yes, character that his parents Ninoy and Cory had… sa palagay natin, he too has them, but di pa lumalabas.
Well, you be the judge.
At this juncture, we remember the inimitable FVR, our very own kabayan who in our recent encounter at Jun Velasco’s Achievers’ Night in Lingayen still epitomizes an aura of a unifying leader: humble, empathetic, witty, pro-Filipino and broadminded.
It’s true that FVR or more aptly, Steady Eddie, won by plurality over Miriam Santiago, Danding Cojuangco, Monching Mitra, Imelda Marcos, Jovy Salonga and Doy Laurel.
But to-date, no president has shown a most powerful mechanism for reunification that he did. Well, then future Speaker Joe de Venecia was helpful to his re-unification efforts, but FVR owes it to himself, his mantra for a unified Filipinos was great and overwhelming.
How about the presidency today? Naku! Even where we are we could feel the heat of politics there—impeachment case is being filed one after the other. Even our eminent Bishop Oscar Cruz is shown with the impeachment filers.
At this point, a friend, a lady visionary, Emma de Guzman, comes do mind. We met Sister Emma in a sacred mountain in Tagaytay.
Three months back, she visited us at LNU and told us Mama Mary was not happy about what’s happening in our country. A President who can’t unite the country, she intimated, will have to face the consequences. Every eight months, she is in that Tagaytay mountain to pray. We’re lucky to have met her there and happier to have visited us at LNU.
Ano kaya yong sinasabi niyang Pnoy should face the consequences?
Well, probably she was referring to the deeply divided nation that we have today. And the impeachment? Let’s watch.
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The following must be sensational news to Filipinos about that sweet—and sweet—looking mango: it is a super fruit.
It can cure—now, hold your breath!—diabetes, yes, in spite of its being sugary sweet.
No, this is not a wild claim. It appeared in a prestigious American medical journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology. Our brod-in-law Dr. Cayetano Dizon, husband of Dr. Grace Duque-Dizon, gave us a copy of the journal which has an article on the mangoes. We initially exclaimed “what, it lowers blood sugar!?”
Not only that, it prevents cancer.
Additionally, the mango’s “ulnos” (shoot) is a powerful care for diabetes, says the journal.
Imagine, it took us to know this in the U.S., and in an American journal yet!
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We had contrasting feelings due to two recent diametrically opposed events: 1. Our cousin Rene Duque, 62, son of Dr. Apollo Duque and the former Remedios Galang of Cabiao, Nueva Ecija died recently of emphysema.
This was relayed to us by our small but handsome cousin Marcel D. Novales, a hyperkinetic assistant at LNU.
Rene is survived by wife Cecil and their three children.
May he rest in peace.
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From the grapevine, we heard that the city’s anti crime campaign is succeeding. Let’s salute the Sangguniang Panlungsod especially Councilor Joe Netu Tamayo, sponsor of the anti-helmet ordinance, and the use of CCTV in the city.
Salute police Chief Chris Abrahano for his hard-driving and single-minded anti crime campaign.
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