FQ investment saving ISA 2

FQ investment saving ISA 2

Usually I searched using the tools of investment websites. 

While doing my study/ research, I do use a notebook. Jotting down some notes from what I saw online. 

I started off simple. 

1. Name of funds/ stocks (equities) / trust. Be careful of very similar names. Class.  Accumulate or Income. Currency. 
2. Returns / Performance of

• 1 month, 6 months, YTD Year To Date, 1 year, 3 years, 
• 5 years, 10 years. (please kindly let me know where to find 15 years data or since launch ) Then... after a few seasons, I want to find out more.

1. What stocks are in the funds?
2. When did the fund started? 
3. Who is(are) the manager(s) & their background? (After some times, I would like to know more)
4. Fees?  10K scenario fees and after-fee 5 year total return. 
5. PE Price-Earning raio, PB Price-Book ratio, maybe PC Price-Cash ratio. 
6. I can understand the basics of candles charts. Not interested in pure technical prediction based on patterns. 

So back to the previous example of the research of Japan funds.

Just checking long term performance ranking was a good start.

But it is better to understanding what I am buying.

Excuse me for my limited knowledge. I only know the ones circled in magenta pink.

I saw in another document that 

the Lindsell Train fund even has Calbee / Kirin in its top 10 last year. 

🤣😄Ha! 

Maybe smart investors should or would research all the companies!?!?! 

Notes handwriting is usually messy, it is better to put the notes in a spreadsheet. 

(this is a screen shot of the notes I made which listing the top 10 stock holdings of some funds)

I did looked at what is Denso. 

And you can guess, the part below that table is the performance.

 

Surprisingly, 

I did the notes and charts after I had bought two of the above funds at minimum requirement. 

  

If I have find a way to automate sourcing data...

I would like to know more including

• 12-month high & low.  
• Fund size. 
• Alpha & Beta figures
• Which country the company is in?
• Sharpe ratio, Sortino ratio... 

Disclaimer: It is not an ad. I have not received any payment from those companies. I do not know those companies or managers. 

All of above are my personal study notes in my journey of having an ISA account. 

Data will be different every day or even hours, especially the numerical data. 

FQ investment saving ISA 1

FQ. Saving/ Investing. UK  ISA (tax free) account - Stocks / Investment. 

Aim:  to save money when there is almost no interest in bank saving accounts.

I opened an account around April. Eventually now I decided to have a serious look. 

Just a personal experience. (See below for other background.) 

Problem to solve:

1. To choose quality funds +/ equities +/ trusts to help me increase my savings
2. while trying to choose more sustainable investment and ideally not into weapons or tobacco, etc. Not too keen on chemicals or pollution-causing industries. Ideally environmental friendly, and, or, ethical. 
3. To know the real situation of  lossing or earning / lost or profit 

My Solutions: 

Tools: MorningStar. Trustnet. 

Originally I checked with Martin Lewis Money and chose Cavendish. But later Fidelity bought Cavendish. Anyway for the time being I use Fidelity.

Originally I use MorningStar - tools. 

📐Screeners function & 📐Investment Compare function.

Then sort long term performance, ranking "10 years" high to low. 

I jotted down my observation in a notebook. 

Only simple notes on the performance.

Later I added more info when I jotted down notes.  

Recently, I also use Trustnet which has interactive lists after a flexible search. The interface and page layout is reasonable with colour-coded graphs.

Here,  I use Japan funds as an example. (Too many UK funds or US funds to list. You can choose other regions or themes)

researching ...  

( to keep the list short, I removed some newer ones / low returns ones)

Where as MorningStar has compare function. Side by side listing.

Both short term and long term performance. 

Good to check the scenario of 10k 5 year 5% after-fees total return as an illustration. 

Problem to solve 3-  tools in Fidelity & MorningStar do not show the real situation. 

They do not cover all the fees I have paid for each funds/ equity/ trust. (as I was doing the minimum amount, buying equity and trust will have to pay a relatively high fee each time)

My solution 3. 

I have to use a spreadsheet to input my entries by hand, 

recalculate the real cost including the fees.

Then, copy & paste market value to minus the real cost to find out the answer.

Problem to solve 4

Need  automation of the tasks. 

Solution?  

Please kindly offer some good suggestions. 

Using MacBook Pro "Numbers" for Mac. 

No plan to use MS Office or Google Sheet at the moment.

Background: 

Last year, I also try to warm up playing a timed online simulation game Telegraph Fantasy Fund of London stock market. In between April and February, I infrequently & irregularly bought something to test the water.

(Over a decade ago, I also tried the Investopedia investment game but that is USA investment.) 

Some years ago, First State was good. But then it was split, companies and personnel changed. 

Up to September it is relatively free to buy funds at the platform , and lower cost to buy stock/trust if bought via monthly saving plan. So I hope to get things establish before that. 

Next blog entries : my second part of this research about Japan funds

Simple easy meals one person for health

 For the health of myself and Earth and of animals, I try to minimise the use of utensils. Usually just one pot, one bowl. 

Usually I boiled water in low to medium heat in a glass which can stand up to 300 °C. 

Add a bit of good salt (Himalayan/ pink), 

and in goes the pasta. Frusili, mostly.

Organic is better. 

Other veg.  

Potatoes from my pot plant.

Usually I prepare in an other bowl other seasoning, freshly crushed rainbow peppercorn, sesame oil, extra virgin olive oil, etc.

Sometimes I also pre-soak wakame seaweed. Sometimes, I have my pasta serve with salted seasoned dried seaweed sheets.

Plant-based. 

There are so many international seasoning, spices, herbs, sauces to choose from international cuisines. 

Try fusion, too.

Apart from Italian sauces or Italian mixed spices, try variations of :

Shichimi powder, siracha sauce, Japanese dashi, mirin, soy sauces, Chinese 5 spices.... 

Organic pasta.

 Tricolor is nice for presentation, too.

Without egg, without milk.

Hence not egg noodle. 

Since rice grows in water paddy and odten polluted with heavy metal and harmful pollutants, I rarely have any varieties of rice products(米粉rice noodle, 河粉...) except very occasionally organic rice.

This is Japanese soba with broccoli , wakame seaweed. Cooked with crystalized ginger. Served with shichimi powder, Kikoman soya sauce, sesame oil, extra vigin olive oil, spring onion.

This one with crinkle-cut butternut squash.

Gro Incredible Burger. 

LindaMcCartney vegetarian meatballs.

Etc. 

Nowadays so many plant-based choices from Waitrose, Sainsburys, Marks & Spencer, Co-op ... 

Tips: 

I eat a lot of fruits & nuts besides cooked food.

Minimising cooked food in Summer. 

I varied and rotate my meals. Sometime just eat a good home made sandwich. I like M&S olive ciabatta rolls. Co-op olive bread and Sainsburys olive bread are also good. 

There are many variations and favour of vegan cheese  slices , 

vegan cheese spread , etc.

Not to mention organic peanut butter, other nut butter.

My Vitamin B12 come from

 Marmite💋, 

fortified non-dairy milk, 

and supplements.

2020 little things

 Even amidst these worldwide crisis, we shall continue to keep calm and be grateful of everything. 

I like :

White. Round/circle/sphere. 

High. Sunshine. Breeze. 

💟Ocassional change of scene is good.

A little treat .  Caring for oneself.

Allow oneself to feel joy.

🍓From my pots I planted in late Spring, 

I have a few fruit & veg. 

Small, but always thankful for the Creator. 

Overcome

A friend (SH) of a teacher(SC) shared some wisdom of another teacher(H).  My thought is at the end of the article seen online.

 Jealosy · Grief · Guilt

What is Guilt?  Feel it. Is it pleasant or unpleasant? Does it makes you easeful or uneasy? Obviously it is unpleasant and uneasy. And what mental factor is this that produces such characteristic of unpleasant and uneasiness? Surely it must be aversion or dosa (Pali).

Aversion function is to dispel, to reject.

Whenever guilt arises there is this thought of “I shouldn’t have done it” or to make another guilty “he/she should not have done it” – in both cases it points to rejecting and dispelling the situation. They are very clear signs of aversion.

But aversion comes in many ways and each are unique of its own. For example, jealousy and grief is different though both have dispelling nature.

Jealousy don’t like others of having more. Grief don’t like someone is gone. So when it comes to guilt it is about “don’t like what has happened”.

Notice that in these three examples — jealousy, grief and guilt — they all have common character of dispelling. But they are different. Why so?

Let’s explore them a little more.

Jealousy

It has a comparing factor of others better than us. It is about not able to have (greed) possession or ownership of a certain object.

Grief

It has a comparing factor of what one have and now no more. It is about an object that it longs for (greed), or attached to, and no longer having it anymore.

Guilt

It has a comparing factor of it should not have been such. It is about an action that if possible should not (greed) have been done.

All 3 are targetting at different objects and situations. And also different meanings. Because of that aversion comes in different ways, manifesting itself in different characteristics.

But beneath them all, they have the root of aversion and greed since aversion cannot arise without greed. Because of greed over an event and not able to meet its standard of expectation, aversion is its result. 

So you may ponder what is the cause of all these defilements?

A few angles to consider —

 1. The mind comes with some kind of ignorance / delusion of not understanding conditioning. Happenings is not personal. Happenings is not tailored to our wanting or not wanting. When condition is there it will happen. If condition is not there it won’t happen. Even this latter is also a type of condition. Not knowing conditionality is ignorance. Because of not knowing conditionality, delusion takes place in the mind.

2. Since all happenings are due to conditionality, nothing can be owned, not even our mind. That is a fact. Because of the mind not knowing this fact, craving arises to hold on to objects, be it person, situation or event. In this case one can notice that ignorance is very connected to craving.

3. Where there is craving or attachment, the mind is constantly expecting pleasurable feelings. Craving is always seeking for such, blind to the fact that nothing is up to craving. It will just be a matter of time aversion will occur.

And this the Buddha showed us the three defilements - delusion, greed and aversion as the culprits of suffering.

They are the cause of suffering and also the effect (experience) of suffering. Only when the mind fully understood conditionality — which can only happened with the arising of wisdom factor in the mind, these defilements will slowly end.

Wisdom can only arise due to Right Practice and that entails right information of realities that leads to seeing things correctly, or right attitude. So it is the Three Yogi Job.

If we meditate to get good experiences we will suffer too. That is because of craving.

When we try to escape from defilements we have to suffer. Defilements cannot be escaped except to be fully understood and comprehended.

So when guilt, jealousy or grief arises, we wanted to “finished them up” — we will suffer more because of dislike.

We can only use our practice, mindfully and ardently with right understanding to become aware of it. Simple, light and easy. Not pushy and wanting immediate result.

❤💭 People with different faiths try to analyse the causes of suffering, and have different solutions to solve the problems or overcome them.
I highlight some above. 

Christianity also spot those causes and warns people against them: jealosy, grief, guilt, greed, ignorance, etc.
One good thing is, Christ sacrificed himself and saves us, gives us new life when we accept Christ.  God the father, the son & the Holy Spirit are here to help us overcome those problems & temptations when we follow the wisdom and the truth in good Bible.
❤Seek wholeheartedly and the doors will open.

1Chronicle16v35

被攻被滅  要求救  time people ask for help.
(不同譯本保留不同古語稱呼)

“Cry out, “Save us, O God of our salvation! Gather and rescue us from among the nations, so we can thank your holy name and rejoice and praise you.” Praise the Lord , the God of Israel, who lives from everlasting to everlasting! And all the people shouted “Amen!” and praised the Lord .”
～ 1 Chronicles 16:35‭-‬36   NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/1ch.16.35-36.NLT


And say, “Save us, O Elohim of our deliverance; And gather us together, And deliver us from the nations, To give thanks to Your set-apart Name, And boast in Your praise.” Blessed be יהוה Elohim of Yisra’ĕl From everlasting to everlasting! And all the people said, “Amĕn!” and praised יהוה.
Diḇre haYamim Aleph (1 Chronicles) 16:35‭-‬36   TS2009
https://bible.com/bible/316/1ch.16.35-36.TS2009


“And say you , Save us, O God-Elōhīm (The Living Word)  [The Many Powered] of our salvation, and gather us together, and deliver us from the heathen, that we may give thanks to you holy name, [and] glory in you praise.  Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous)  [be] the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word)  [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] forever and ever. And all the people said, Amen, and praised the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) .”
1 Chronicles 16:35‭-‬36 NMV
https://bible.com/bible/2135/1ch.16.35-36.NMV

"Say: “Save us, God who can save us! Gather and rescue us from the nations; so that we can thank your holy name and glory in praising you. Blessed be Adonai , the God of Isra’el, from eternity past to eternity future!” All the people said, “ Amen !” and praised Adonai ."
～ Divrei-HamYamim Alef (1 Ch) 16:35‭-‬36 CJB
https://bible.com/bible/1275/1ch.16.35-36.CJB


"Give thanks to God —he is good and his love never quits. Say, “Save us, Savior God, round us up and get us out of these godless places, So we can give thanks to your holy Name, and bask in your life of praise.” Blessed be God , the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Then everybody said, “Yes! Amen!” and “Praise God !”"
～ 1 Chronicles 16:34‭-‬36     MSG
https://bible.com/bible/97/1ch.16.34-36.MSG

「要說：拯救我們的神啊，求你救我們， 聚集我們，使我們脫離外邦， 我們好稱讚你的聖名，以讚美你為誇勝。  耶和華－ 以色列 的神， 從亙古直到永遠，是應當稱頌的！ 眾民都說：「阿們！」並且讚美耶和華。」
～ 歷代志上 16:35‭-‬36    CUNP-神
https://bible.com/bible/46/1ch.16.35-36.CUNP-神


「主に叫べ。 『私たちの救いの神よ、どうかお救いください。 私たちを国々から呼び集め、 安全に救い出してください。 そうすれば、あなたのきよい御名に感謝し、 声の限りほめたたえます。』  イスラエルの神は、永遠にほむべきかな。」 この歌にすべての民は「アーメン」と和し、主をほめたたえました。」
～ 歴代誌Ⅰ   16:35‭-‬36   JCB
https://bible.com/bible/83/1ch.16.35-36.JCB

Lazy meals protein packed

Simple quick  & easy. 

1 saucepan 1 bowl. 

Meal 1 

Linda MacCartney vegetarain meat balls. 

This pact does not have egg or milk.

I boiled a pack of mixed vegetables. 

The balls are tasty enough.

Also I added rehydrated seaweeds.

 Meal 2
With an Oriental twist.
The Tofoo Company naked.
Lots of protein.
I boiled them.
Pour into a bowl with large tablespoon of Clear Spring red Miso paste.
Adding good mixed olives in garlic chili.
A tiny bit of smoked garlic tamarind pickle from The GarlicGrower..
I added seaweed again.
Sprinkle some toasted sesame.
Toasted sesame oil.

Voila.
I also have plenty of
fruit,
mixed nuts
and salad.

Guess
how many grams of protein come from the meatless meat balls and tofu!?

Food expo VegFest Brighton 2019 part 3

Exhibition area:

A lot of art-works on show.
Print available from GBP10 each.

There is also a sculpture of an pig which I didn't take photo.

Here are only some of the photos of the exhibition.

Part 1  Eating.
Part 2  More stalls.

Food expo VegFest Brighton 2019 part 2

Continue, Food expo: VegFest Brighton 2019.
This part mainsly shows some stalls, cooking demo & kids area.

In order to  browse leisurely and take photos,

I arrived after the busiest lunch hours.

6 different protein shakes -- free to try. 

There is a large kids area for interesting snack class
hosted by a guy dressed in dramatic costumes. Not in photo.

And a bicycle-powered blender for kids to make their own fruit smoothies/shakes.

(sorry for some blurry pics)

This stall's tasting containers in  little boat shape.
Curries.

Lots of choices of food.

Funny names: Fake & Kidme pie.   (vegan steak & kidney pie?)

For those who still loves the sensation of sinking their teeth in sausages...
vegan hotdogs. Drawing inspiration from 5 international cuisines

I didn't take much pictures for stalls which do fruit smoothies or fruit juices.
Quite a number of them. Naturally good.

Loving Hut express is there, too.
Also dishes from around the world.

Plant-based a.k.a. vegan  in Thai style.

Greek style.

one of the cooking demos.

There are various talks, too.
Stalls of clothings, make up, skin care, interesting accessories, etc.
The VegFest Brighton website have a list of exhibitors.

There are 2 or 3 gin bars, beer bar, wine stalls, too.

Got a free gift.
Each visitor can choose from 3:
a bottled drink including kombucha,
a jar of humus stuffed cherry-tomato,
a small bar of coffee chocolate.
All plant-based (a.k.a vegan).
I chose choc.

I also tasted 3 different types of Ferme the fermented cashew nut cheese.
 Cicioni is also nice.

Such expo are good -
tasting/trying, seeing new products, expo promotional prices.

I bought a jar of special mix turmeric drink powder to help me help reduce internal inflamation.
A flexible silicon cup cover.
A can of jack fruit.
A trial pack of fermented tea-leaves for use in salad. (Burma/Myanmar salad Lahpet Thoke)
Pack of 4 pick-n-mix small beers.

Since I have to travel a long journey,
I didn't buy those delicious plant-based nut-based cheese.

As the bag is already heavy, I have not bought herbs pot plant.

Thankful for a nice afternoon.

Food expo VegFest Brighton 2019 part 1

VegFest Brighton 2019. Over 200 stalls of different products predominantly food.
Tasting, shopping, talks,  cooking demo, etc.
Alcohol, clothing, skin care, make up, accessories, charities, cooking demonstrations, exhibitions...

Going to expo is nice experience. Shops from far away places gather in one place. Expo special promotional prices. Tasting. Even price draws. Talks and cooking demonstration...

I bought electronic ticket beforehand.
Arriving around late lunch time.
Food first.

Though I do fancy an ocassional pie, since there are many other choices upstairs,
I quickly walked passed stalls of pies.

Among various cuisines, I chose this
pulled jackfruit bun. Interesting contrast.
(I tried some others before)
From Manchester.

The container is  composable vegware.


Ha! KFS, not KFC.
Sei-tan is a plant based protein.

 Many choices in each stall.
All plant-based.
Inspirational ideas.

This one below is lovely. Free tasting of Thai curry jackfruit with rice.  Jackfruit in brine each can only GBP 1.

  They also sell banana blossom, many sauces, coconut milk, coconut condensed milk, coconut evaporated milk, coconut cream... 

This, free tasting lots of cake desserts. 

All plant-based.

Busy tasting different plant-based, nut-based cheese products, forgotten to take photos. Ferme is nice. 3 flavours of cashews fermentino.

The exotic Berma/ Myanmar salad  Lahpet Thoke with fermented tea leaves is also nice. I had forgotten to take photo and these are from their postcard.

6 different protein shakes to try.

Cocoa, banana, blue berries, peanut butter, etc.  

More stalls in part 2.

Exhibtion in part 3.

Japanese manga artist Rumiko Takahashi won top prize in Angouleme Festival in France

Wow! Rumiko Takahashi won a top prize from the equivalent of Oscar in France for manga & comics!

The prestigious Angouleme International Comics Festival . 

France24 , JapanTimes and various media report that, too.  Ms Takahashi looks beautiful.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/01/24/entertainment-news/cartoonist-rumiko-takahashi-wins-top-prize-french-comics-festival/

In Japan, it is an unwritten code of conduct to conform, not to standout, not to be different from others...  Her stories often put the outsiders & "eccentrics" characters (and experiences) in forefront.
Inspirational!

I had watched the TV animation versions of some of her works,
“Ranma 1/2”,   Urusei Yatsura” (or “Lum” ),  “Mansion Ikkoku,   Inuyasha.

Forigners, aliens(literally), mixed race...

Of course, the stories have been well-seasoned with
humour, jokes, love, adventures, naughty things, etc,
to deliver deeper meaningful things to young people and the young at heart.

Previously, I was writing about one of her influential work Inuyasha.
The link between the various metaphoric and  esoteric concepts of light ...i
n the story and in the characters. 
The names of the two leading ladies are star lights.
The precioys gem emit lights.
 Virtues clear away darkness. 
Light of the best of human nature.
Halo. Saintly light.
https://sn-uk.blogspot.com/2018/05/inuyasha-and-light.html

Light!
And I have just found out
the different meanings lost in translations over the past two millenniums...
hidden in the ancient Hebrew language and Aramaic language,
the original languages the sacred books were written.

https://www.chaimbentorah.com/015/06/word-study-light-noohra-aramaic-or-hebrew-אור-נהר

Translations via Greek, Latin, German, English, Chinese, Japanese...
are not as good as investicating the messages in original language(s).
 
With that information in that site,
the story of Daniel and
how he got the supernatural power and answers are clearer.
He asked God to give answers through dreams.
Now we can understand ancient wisdom esoteric teaching inside the books in Bible much better. 

Seek light.

BTW,
Daniel eats plant-based diet,  fast & pray alot.

O Holy Night

Which one do you like more? ７ versions of "Holy Night". Last night I went to a Carols by Candle Lights... I like the last song "Holy Night".   And then looked up different versions...
🎵🎶Celine Dion:
https://youtu.be/RsWUWzai8P8

🎵🎶 Mariah Carey :
https://youtu.be/QP0TGh6c-Ss

🎵🎶 King's College choir of Cambridge:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTFG_nvreoI

🎵🎶 Classical music instrumental :
https://youtu.be/7cyH2QcltZU?t=20

🎵🎶 Famous Italian singers,  duo :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7uiqRCW6I8

🎵🎶Michael Ball  (the last song in this video  (the clip also has "Hark the Herald Angel Sing " & others)
https://youtu.be/CHj_q7ttDCE

🎵🎶Andrea Bocelli

   https://youtu.be/9egij7D5seI

😊

Lyrics 

O Holy Night!
 The stars are brightly shining,
It is the night of the dear Saviour's birth.
Long lay the world in sin and error pining.
Till He appeared and the Spirit felt its worth.
A thrill of hope the weary world rejoices,
For yonder breaks a new and glorious morn.

💕Fall on your knees!
 Oh, hear the angel voices!
O night divine, the night when Christ was born;
O night, O Holy Night , O night divine!
O night, O Holy Night , O night divine!💕

Led by the light of faith serenely beaming,
With glowing hearts by His cradle we stand.
O'er the world a star is sweetly gleaming,
Now come the wisemen from out of the Orient land.
The King of kings lay thus lowly manger;
In all our trials born to be our friends.
He knows our need, our weakness is no stranger,
Behold your King! Before him lowly bend!
Behold your King! Before him lowly bend!
💕
Truly He taught us to love one another,
His law is love and His gospel is peace.
Chains he shall break, for the slave is our brother.
And in his name all oppression shall cease.
Sweet hymns of joy in grateful chorus raise we,
With all our hearts we praise His holy name.
Christ is the Lord! Then ever, ever praise we,
His power and glory ever more proclaim!
His power and glory ever more proclaim!

💕

Background / Song composer 

The words and lyrics of the old carol 'O Holy Night' were written by Placide Cappeau de Roquemaure in 1847. Cappeau was a wine seller by trade but was asked by the parish priest to write a poem for Christmas. He wrote the beautiful words of the hymn but then realised that it should have music to accompany the words. He approached his friend Adolphe Charles Adams(1803-1856). The music for the poem was therefore composed by Adolphe Charles Adams.  It was translated into English by John Sullivan Dwight (1812-1893)

French lyrics

Minuit, chrétiens,
C'est l'heure solennelle
Ou l'Homme Dieu descendit jusqu'à nous
Pour effacer la tache originelle
Et de Son Père arrêter le courroux.
Le monde entier tressaille d'espérance
En cette nuit qui lui donne un Sauveur.
Peuple a genoux, attends ta délivrance!
Noel! Noel! Voici le Rédempteur!
Noel! Noel! Voici le Rédempteur!

Le Rédempteur
A brise toute entrave:
La terre est libre et le ciel est ouvert.
Il voit un Frère ou n'était qu'un esclave,
L'amour unit ceux qu'enchainait le fer.
Qui Lui dira notre reconnaissance?
C'est pour nous tous qu'Il nait,
Qu'Il souffre et meurt.
Peuple debout, chante ta délivrance!
Noel! Noel! Chantons le Rédempteur!
Noel! Noel! Chantons le Rédempteur!

To live a long healthy life...

When we fall in love, we want to be together for a long time, right?

Is it only good lovers, fathers, mothers, grand parnets, teachers, would care to warn each other of potential danger... ? Various organisations like (USA President's Cancer Panel, European Commisson on endocrine disruptive chemicals), United Nation, top universities (like Harvard) & outspoken doctors (like Michael Dreger) have been issuing WARNINGS to people about the problems with ◘ meat, ◘ dairy, ◘ heat-treated food especially high heat, ◘ endocrine disruptive chemicals, ◘ toxins, ◘ trans tat (trans fatty acid), ◘ pesticides & herbicides like glyphosate (Round Up) ◘ nano particles & micro plastic beads, ◘ artifical colours, artificial fragrance ◘ preservatives, ... since NN years ago! Some even 30 years ago.

The writing is on the wall.

We can all do some homework, to be well-informed, change lifestyle to protect ♥ ourselves, ♥our loved ones, ♥our Earth , ♥our environment, ♥God’s creation.

Things I bear in my mind :

♠◦🔔 Processed meats

can increase the risk of conditions including ☼heart disease, ☼stroke, ☼diabetes, ☼certain cancers, and ☼early death.

♠🔔Heat-processed food

especially high heat, can created carcinogen acrylamide. BBQ food, baked & toasted bread, coffee, breakfast cereal,

♠ WATER

Tap water has much more than just H2O. More like a cocktail of contaminants. It has been known that water in some big cities have found drugs, medicines & other stuff we pour into the water system. You know what they are. Do you think water companies can or bother to fully filter out or remove all chemcial contaminants? Let alone the chemical reactions of chlorine & industrial flouride with the contaminants and the copper pipes or alloy pipes, etc. I would not till the bubble being bursted to find out that you have been slowly poisoned. (The real Erin Brockovich is still busy helping people in varous cities & towns in United States against new tap water safety problems) Hundreds of fishy substances in water, in processed food... HENCE --- avoid re-boiling water because chemical compounds inside will turn into something more nasty. Do you fancy feeding your parents or kids re-boiled cocktail of arsenic, nitrates, and fluoride... ? Not keen on those electroic boiling water unit in offices or electric press-for-water jug in many homes. (many have plastic/resin tubes soaking inside in boiling water 24/7 for years) Get serious water-filter. Those with 6 , 7 layers of filters at least.

♠ Pesticides-herbicides spraying, and fracking

also cause more contimination of land and water.

♠ Land pollution & water pollution in turn pollute water-based crops like rice. There have been reports of arsenic levels of rice.

♠ Cheap white sugar

Many are from GMO sources. Sugar caused a lot of health problems.

♠ Trans Fat ( trans fatty acid )

hydrogenated fat, aritifical butter spread... they are under lots of different masks/names. They block blood vessels.

♠ Air

invisible, smell-able and non-smell-able ordour & fragrance, and that from many systhetic products. are invisible particles. = pollutants. Beware! Some are endocrine-disruptive. Have good ventilations.

► YOU ARE SMART, right?

♪♫ Change of diet can improve healh.

eg. Many people have reported that their illnesses including type II diabetes, clogged-arteries-related diseases, various cancers, by eating raw plant-based diet smartly in balanced way.

♪♫ Be very aware of true ingredience of

vaccines & other chemicals injected into your body like chemotherapy. Get manufacturers’ products inserts. Not the short general one for consumers. Read more about vaccine injury in different countries. Death count have been played down removing the fact that people died not long after vaccinations which caused problems.

♪♫ Maintain our bodies responsibly. Read the blueprint of real food

Increasing number of people have been recovering from long term illness after changing to raw plant-based diets.

Also, see Genesis 1:29 Food => seed-bearing plants.

OoO You know how this world are being run, right? Conglomerates are not saints. ► Be very aware of the counter attacks

from forces behind conglomerates which have been using all tactics to divert / fool/ brainwash / discredit / quiet / remove (including the horrible method) whistle-blowers, lab scientists, reporters, doctors or reports about the health risks related to their products.

If too busy to notice news or newsapaper, try to google. ♥ If you care for your survival and our world, please help inform more people to stop exploiting our Earth resources to stop harming our environment, to stop ill-treating and killing animals ... We are on the same boat called EARTH. We can change our lifestyle choices. ♥ Good health to you & your loved ones. Thanks. I am avoiding + / reducing meat(corpse), dariy products, BBQ, acrylamide, endocrine-disruptive chemicals, wheat products, rice products, food cooked non-stick products, microwaved food/drink, food with trans fat, canola oil, rapeseed oil etc.

A quick visit to a plant-based themed small expo in Brighton vegan festival

Personally I had been to art & craft expo, design expo, motor industry expo, pharmaceutical expo.  Often expo-goers can see /experience/ taste things way before the mass see them in high syrret shops/ supermarkets.  Nice😄

Since I may not be travelling to London for the big one mext month, so, on Saturday I went briefly to the small one organised by Viva!

Hilton Metropole Brighton.

 It has catering hall, talks and many different kinds of stalls in the large hall.

 Not too big - a comfortable size.  

I got some nice stuff.

I only managed to go there around 4 pm. Official entrance fee on the door is a fiver. But there were early birds tickets & other packages.  

(No need to walk all the way from hotel main entrance.  Use the side entrance from Cannon Street  to the exhibition hall.)

To avoid missing things out, and to prevent impulse buying, I started with a quick walk through. Then I got a mixed fruit juice before revisited some stalls. 

I could not buy everything I was interested in but good to see interesting things. 

The guy at the artisan green tea and macha stall  gave me 2 magazines😄 which he got from other stalls.  So as a recipocate gesture, I bought a pair of wooden chopsticks from his stall. (I could not drink tea that quick after the juice)  That stall sells nice glass tea pots, ceramic tea cups, too. And macha protein balls.

 In the 2 magazines,  and the official Viva magazine(not photoed), there are lots of recipes and useful informations.

I only bought a Spanish ceramic grating dish, and a natural hand-made shampoo soap bar.  Ha!

Another thing I surprisedyself is I only picked up a leaflet or two, plus, from the general area outside the hall a Great Taste Book 2017-18.

Many people have misconceptions about vegan "festivals" . They are basically another themed expositions (expo) , or  exhibitions ,  where products, services & talks , music, etc, took place. 

👫Who are interested in such event?

Those who care about
🌳Health, youth, beauty, healing.
🌳Animals
🌳 Envirnoment
🌳 Spiritual & religious purity,
virtues & integrity
🌳 Catering / beverage

Diary-free egg-free versions
of chocolate, cakes & desserts...
Kind products...

And naturally , related  businesses showcase their products & services under one roof. Handy, isn't it?
 
The first time I tried plant based and raw vegan stuff was about 9 or 10 years ago from a particulat pioneering group far away from where I live. Not much choices in where I lived.

Isn't it that such "festival",  or expo , a nice way to see things outside high street shops and see beyond the limitations of average supermarket? 💡

😄Good to see more plant-based food, drinks, snacks, etc , are reaching different supermarkets & shops this year.

❤May all people live a healthy life with plant-based food.
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