Sissi’s Newest Toy

Empress Sissi’s newest toy is a friendly looking tiger 

- for Sissi to torture by scratching with her nails. 

Sissi wondering last year what on earth is this wet white stuff! 
The first snow did not make her ecstatic, she was in a panic to get in.

// Makrotex Challenge / Toy - Lelu

Wishing you all a nice mid November!
- riitta

Color Collage 46

// Color Collage 46/2018
// Mosaic Monday

* The stunning blue skylight mosaic is from Palau de la Música Catalana, Barcelona
* The window view is from The Winter Garden of Helsinki 

Happy new week!
- riitta

Friday Bliss #9 - Celebrating Dads

Next Sunday we celebrate in Finland Father’s Day together with Estonia
and other Scandinavian countries except Denmark.

In Denmark it is celebrated the 5th of June which is also the country’s Constitution Day.

•  Estonia (Isadepäev)  Finland (Isänpäivä)  Iceland  Norway  Sweden (Fars dag)
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Books are very popular presents for Finnish dads. And every year there is a BIG

discussion around the books publishers and bookstores advertise for fathers.

Someone noticed an ad of three books, all having a title including the word hell:

Through the Fire Hell

Frozen Hell of Pine Island

Escape from Hell

On Twitter this aroused a hilarious #hellchallenge - where the word hell was added to book titles.

You bet I laughed my head off! A few examples:

Kjell Westö - Where the Hell we Once Walked  ❤︎
Emmi Itäranta - Memory of Hell’s Water ❤︎
Sofi Oksanen - Hell of a Purge ❤︎

Tove Jansson - Muuminpappa at Hell’s Sea

The links lead to Amazon, Westö’s book was only available in Spanish
- Por donde una vez caminamos.
Marked with ❤︎ I warmly recommend.

The family photos were taken two years ago at my husband’s birthday party.

He has three beautiful daughters, one handsome son and altogether 7 gorgeous grandchildren.
My husband shall get a book present, too but without hell marking.
In addition a good dinner and hugs.

Kirjat ovat suosittu lahja isälle. Ja joka vuosi puidaan sitä, millaista tarjontaa

kirjakaupat ja kustantajat isille ehdottavat.

Joku bongasi kolmen kirjan mainoksen, joiden otsikot olivat:

Läpi tulihelvetin

Petäjäsaaren jäinen helvetti

Pako helvetistä

Twitterissä tästä kehkeytyi huima #helvettihaaste, jossa sana helvetti lisättiin

jossain muodossa kirjojen nimiin. Silmät vesissä nauroin mm. näitä:

Kjell Westö - Missä helvetissä kuljimme kerran

Emmi Itäranta - Teemestarin kirjahelvetti

Sofi Oksanen - Helvetillinen puhdistus

Tove Jansson - Muumipappa ja helvetin meri

Perhekuvat on otettu pari vuotta sitten mieheni syntymäpäivänä.
Hänellä on kolme kaunista tytärtä, yksi komea poika ja 7 ihanaa lastenlasta.
Meidän perheen isä saa kyllä myös kirjan, mutta ilman helvettiä.
Lisäksi hyvää ruokaa ja halauksia. Hyvää isänpäivää kaikille isille!

Father’s Day in different countries

 #FRIDAY BLISS 

The link is open

FROM FRIDAY 10 AM TILL THE NEXT TUESDAY 4 PM

Helsinki time

An InLinkz Link-up

Brain Food by Lisa Mosconi

Saturated fat does not belong to the shopping list of the brain.

This week I want to give you a tip of a very important and interesting non-fiction book: 

Brain Food: The Surprising Science of Eating for Cognitive Power 

The book was released in 2018 and is written by Lisa Mosconi, PhD

Due to better standards of living  and progress in medicine life expectancies are higher than ever in the western civilisations. But at the same time lifestyle diseases such as heart disease and type 2  diabetes have exploded. The next to explode shall be the Alzheimer disease. At the moment there are 5,3 million Alzheimer patients in the US. The amount is expected to rise there to 15 million by the year 2050 and worldwide to 132 million.

In this situation it is a highly interesting question can we prevent, postpone or to stop Alzheimer disease with dietary choices. And Mosconi says:

Some foods affect directly to our DNA by activating those good genes that protect from diseases while others switch off the same genes which makes it probable we contract illnesses.

Brainfood was just translated into Finnish.  You’ll find my long blog post HERE, if you wish to see. The Google translator is poor, but hope you get the idea.

"Like our bodies, our brains have very specific food requirements. And in this eye-opening book from an author who is both a neuroscientist and a certified integrative nutritionist, we learn what should be on our menu. 

Dr. Lisa Mosconi, whose research spans an extraordinary range of specialties including brain science, the microbiome, and nutritional genomics, notes that the dietary needs of the brain are substantially different from those of the other organs, yet few of us have any idea what they might be. Her innovative approach to cognitive health incorporates concepts that most doctors have yet to learn. Busting through advice based on pseudoscience, Dr. Mosconi provides recommendations for a complete food plan, while calling out noteworthy surprises, including why that paleo diet you are following may not be ideal, why avoiding gluten may be a terrible mistake, and how simply getting enough water can dramatically improve alertness. 

Including comprehensive lists of what to eat and what to avoid, a detailed quiz that will tell you where you are on the brain health spectrum, and 24 mouth-watering brain-boosting recipes that grow out of Dr. Mosconi’s own childhood in Italy, Brain Food gives us the ultimate plan for a healthy brain. Brain Food will appeal to anyone looking to improve memory, prevent cognitive decline, eliminate brain fog, lift depression, or just sharpen their edge.”

Lisa Mosconi

Brain Food: The Surprising Science of Eating for Cognitive Power / Penguin Random House 2018

Available at Amazon

Lisa Mosconi’s web page - Some photos from there

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