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Acerola

A berry filled with health

Healing power

Can help:

Strengthen the immune system;

Speed wound healing;

Prevent heart disease;

Protect against cancer

What’s an Acerola?

It’s a small, red, cherry like fruit which is native to the West Indies and now grown also in Puerto Rico and other Caribbean islands. The fruit is considered as the richest source of vitamin C in the world, this means that it can benefit the body in a variety of ways, from fortifying the immune system to helping prevent age related conditions like heart disease and cancer.

Benefits of vitamin C

Vitamin C, which is found in abundance in citrus fruits, has been shown to help relieve cold symptoms, help the body make collages, a tough, fibrous protein that helps build connective tissue, skin, bones, and teeth and it also plays a role in wound healing. Vitamin C also helps the body from free radicals, cell damaging oxygen molecules thought to contribute to the development of cancer, heart disease, and many other conditions. An Acerola contains 80 milligrams of vitamin C, 133 percent of the Daily Value, an entire orange has only 70 milligrams. Even guava, one of the richest natural sources of vitamin C can’t compete because one single Acerola berry contains 10 times more vitamin C than one whole guava.

In the kitchen

You can use fresh Acerola just as you would with other berries, in jellies, in pie, or other fruit desserts. If you however buy the tart variety, be prepared to use a lot of sugar to keep your mouth from puckering.

You can crush dried Acerola with a rolling pin, then add it in small amounts to pies, preserves or fruit butters. It will last for months when stored in a tightly covered glass jar, as long as you periodically check it and discard the moldy.

Tips

- Enjoy the sweet taste by opting for the sweeter kin over the tart varieties Acerola, although they contain more vitamin C, it hardly matters.

- Buy it processed; specialty markets in Puerto Rico carry Acerola jams, jellies, and juices. Although they contain so less vitamin compared to fresh berries, it has been proved that the still carry around 60 to 80 percent of the vitamin C.

- Treat the berries gently; dried and crushed Acerola berries can be used to make but unfortunately boiling or steeping the berries in hot water reduces vitamin C by half so to get it all, you might need to add a few extra berries.   


article written by:Cristo Rutazihana

Confidence

                                                           

                                         

Confidence is the ability to trust yourself in all that you do, be it giving a public speech, seducing a girl/boy or simply participating in a beauty pageant.

Confidence is closely related to Bravery because it involves the process of facing your fears that stop you from achieving something you eager to in your life like for example asking a girl/boy that you like out.

Characteristics of less confident people

They spend a quantity of their time thinking about their faults, what other people think about them(dress code, style, appearance, etc), things they can do to improve their image to please other people they interact or come across.

They never accept/believe that they are capable of achieving or doing something great in their lives.

They choose to accept failure before they even try simply because they believe that they are not capable of succeeding.

They are most of their time in a depressive mood.

They always complain about their selves and try to act like other people just to please others.

Characteristics of confident people

  

They enjoy challenges and always give their best in order to win. Even if they eventually lose, they don’t get discouraged to try again.

They don’t get easily affected by negative comments made by other people.

They recognize and accept their faults. They don’t try and correct them, they live with them because they know that no one in the world is perfect.

They avoid negative thinking and focus only on the positive side of every situation they encounter.

They accept and love themselves. They don’t act like someone else just to please others.

Steps for increasing your confidence

· Firstly you should accept that you are not perfect or other words start loving who you are.

· Drop the negativity and start thinking positively.

· Start challenging yourself to try out things which you were afraid to do before like taking part in the schools debate group.

      

· Ignore negative comments from other people and stick to what you feel makes you comfortable like only wearing orange socks.

                

·  Always remember that people with self confidence achieve their goals and dreams because they are more eager to fight for them.

·  Try smiling more often, a smile adds color to your image and attracts people plus is also good for your health.

·  Try a new look to change your nerdy image. Choose a new unbiased dress code which still makes feel comfortable.

· Exercise more, it will not only leave much healthier but also much happier and relaxed.

                                                 

Article written by: Cristo Rutazihana