Nov6,07缺鐵 引發慢性咳嗽Iron deficiency caused chronic cough +更棒的結局Better Yet

靈命日糧 - 2007年11月6日
更棒的結局
讀經: 腓立比書1章19-26節
金句: 「因我活著就是基督，我死了就有益處。」（腓立比書1章21節）
全年讀經: 耶利米書37-39章；希伯來書3章

法蘭西斯公爵曾說過：「我不相信有人會怕死，人們怕的只是死亡的鐘聲。」美國名導演伍迪·艾倫也曾說：「我不怕死，只是不想親身經歷它。」
死亡本身並不可怕，而是死的過程讓我們感到懼怕。被囚的保羅預料到自己可能會死在獄中，他談論生死說：「因我活著就是基督，我死了就有益處」（腓立比書1章21節）。這個看法是多麼不同尋常啊！
死是我們的仇敵（哥林多前書15章25-28節），但它掌管不了眾人所懼怕的「結局」。對於基督徒而言，此生之後另有期待，要比今生更美好。
有人曾說：「毛毛蟲生命的結束，正是蝴蝶生命的開始。」喬治·麥當勞也曾寫道：「害怕死亡是多麼奇怪的事呀！我們對於日落卻從不畏懼。」
我個人非常喜歡英文現代譯本中對腓立比書1章21節的解說：「對我來說，活著就是有機會服事基督；死了呢，更棒！」我們在肉身活著，就有機會服事耶穌，但將來有一天，我們要真正與他面對面，那時，我們的恐懼將會消逝得無影無蹤。
這就是保羅所說的「更棒的結局」！CHK
死亡？耶穌說：不是死了，乃是睡了，醒來無窮美好、開啟嶄新一天，光明大道開通，皆在睡了之後。H. Frost
對基督徒而言，沒有死的懼怕，只有生命的完全。
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November 6, 2007
Better Yet
ODB RADIO: Listen Now DownloadREAD: Philippians 1:19-26
For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain. —Philippians 1:21
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Sir Francis Bacon said, “I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.” Woody Allen said, “I’m not afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.”
It’s not death that’s so frightening. It’s the dying that scares us. As Paul faced imprisonment and the prospect of dying in a jail cell, he shared his view about life and death: “To live is Christ, and to die is gain” (Phil. 1:21). What a perspective!
Death is our enemy (1 Cor. 15:25-28), but it does not possess the finality that so many dread. There is something waiting for believers beyond this life—something better.
Someone has said, “What the caterpillar thinks is the end of life, the butterfly thinks is just the beginning.” George MacDonald wrote, “How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.”
I love this paraphrase of Philippians 1:21, “To me, living means opportunities for Christ, and dying—well, that’s better yet!” (TLB). During our physical life, we have opportunities to serve Jesus. But one day, we will actually be in His presence. Our fear will melt away when we see Him face to face.
That’s the “better yet” the apostle Paul is talking about! —Cindy Hess Kasper—Cindy Hess Kasper-->
Death?—Christ said not death;He called it sleep;A vast awaking, a new day breaking,A bright way taking, with visions deep. —H. Frost
For the Christian, the fear of death will give way to the fullness of life.
For similar resources, search these topics:Christian Life > Personal Crisis > Death
Bible in One Year: Jeremiah 37-39; Hebrews 3
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缺鐵 引發慢性咳嗽
【新華網】義大利研究人員日前說，某些女性也許應該透過補鐵來治療久治不癒的咳嗽，而不是服用止咳藥。
據路透報導，這些研究人員在芝加哥舉行的美國胸科醫師學會會議上提交論文說，缺鐵也許可以解釋某些原本身體健康的女性雖然不吸菸卻患有慢性咳嗽。
義大利都靈大學的卡泰麗娜‧布卡博士及其同事說，實驗表明補鐵往往能治癒咳嗽。女性比男性更易受到這種原本病因不明的慢性咳嗽困擾。她說，咳嗽在女性中發病率較高，由於懷孕和月經女性缺鐵的現象非常普遍。缺鐵會影響免疫功能，有時甚至會導致貧血。
布卡和同事研究了16名患有慢性咳嗽的女性。這些女性肺功能正常，沒有哮喘或其他呼吸器官疾病，也沒有能夠解釋其咳嗽病因的胃酸反流症狀。但是她們都缺鐵，口腔內都有腫脹和黏膜發炎的症狀。她們的聲帶也非常敏感，易在大笑後咳嗽甚至窒息。
布卡讓這些女性補鐵。約兩個月後，她們體內的鐵含量恢復了正常。布卡在對她們再次檢查後發現，補鐵後口腔和聲帶的發炎症狀以及咳嗽有了緩解，有些人甚至已經痊癒。
布卡解釋說，鐵有助於調節免疫係統內抑制炎症的蛋白質生成，因此，缺鐵可能讓上呼吸道更容易發炎，從而導致慢性咳嗽。
2007-11-05
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Iron deficiency caused chronic cough

【- - Italian researchers recently said that certain women should perhaps through iron supplements to treat Persistent cough, and not taking cough medicine. According to Reuters reports, these researchers in Chicago at the American Thoracic Society meeting physicians present papers that iron deficiency may explain some of the original health of women not to smoke while they are suffering from chronic cough.
University of Torino, Italy Dr. Katailina * Bukavu and his colleagues said that the experiment shows that iron supplements can often cure cough. More women than men had been such a chronic cough of unknown causes distress. She said, coughing in a higher incidence of women, pregnant women and menstrual iron deficiency is very common phenomenon. Iron deficiency may affect immune function, and sometimes even lead to anemia.
Bukavu and colleagues studied 16 patients with chronic cough of women. These women of normal lung function, no asthma or other respiratory diseases, but also failed to explain the cause of their cough gastric acid reflux symptoms. But they have iron deficiency, in both oral mucosal inflammation and swelling of the symptoms. Their announcements are very sensitive and easy to laugh after coughing or even in suffocation.
Bukavu to allow these women iron supplements. About two months later, the iron content in their restored to normal. In Bukavu on them again after inspection found that iron supplements after oral inflammation of the vocal cords and cough symptoms and have eased, and some people even have been recovered.
Buka explained that the iron help regulate immune system proteins inhibit inflammation generated, therefore, iron deficiency may be more vulnerable to upper respiratory inflammation, leading to chronic cough.

2007-11-05
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