Letter From The Editor For the believers in wonders and miracles, for those who believe that they got the power to correct the wrong and benefit others, hereby I present to you the tale of our Ninjas and their adventures. Ninjas! A lot of questions will fill your mind once you hear this word and your curiosity will rise even more when you hear that they aren’t the tales of some ordinary Ninjas but they are “The Tales of the Food Ninjas”. Some of you may wonder why they are called food ninjas and others will try to wrap their minds around the simple idea that the ninjas really exist. Are they really among us?! So wear your mask and be ready as when the night falls we will go for a secret mission where we will meet our ninjas in the shadows and know how and where they learned their ninja skills and we will secretly follow them in their journeys, so enough talking and let’s start our adventurous mission.
Mayssara Saudi Secretary General 2016-2017
Mays
Ninja camp
-”Wake up, it’s Friday” -”Just leave me alone” -”If you don’t get up now, mom will punish you... because it’s Friday, Family Day” -”Oh, okay I will follow you”
This was the Friday morning of a three brothers of a small loving family. This family lived in a place called “Ninja Camp”, It was a healthy community where everyone in it followed a healthy life style. ssara Saudi The three brothers had their breakfast then went to the living Room where they found their grandfather taking to their parents. “Good morning” said the three brothers. “Good morning, Dears” replied the grandfather smiling. “Grandfather, can you tell us a story, please?” asked one of the three brothers. “Of course, I will tell you the tale of the Ninja Camp” replied the grandfather. “Once upon a time, when unhealthy habits and diseases spread like a ghost in community, a man called “Splinter” appeared, He called for a healthy community and hoped that he could save people from this unhealthy life that lead to spread of heart diseases , obesity , anemia and diabetes” started the grandfather his story. “He kept trying to persuade the people to live a complete healthy life but most of them refused. So, he decided to establish a community based on caring about health, he worked on this idea and choose a land that was surrounded by a large forest on a top of a mountain. After a short time people began to come and ask to live with him in a town without diseases or malnutrition. Then, Splinter built a school and named it “Machines”. Anyone studied in this school was called Ninja. That’s the school that you all three go to. After hearing the story from their grandfather, the three brothers (Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael) had a walk in the town as they do every Friday. But today is a different Friday, as they decided to to the forest that their parents always warned them from even thinking about approaching it not knowing that there is a great adventure waiting each one of them. Each one of the brothers decided to go in a different direction leading to a different journey where everyone will apply what he learned in the Machines School. What would be their destiny!
Breastfeeding When Michelangelo was exploring the forest, He saw something… “What is this strange cave?” he wondered. Michelangelo knew that curiosity killed the cat but even though he couldn’t help himself. He wanted to know what’s inside the cave badly. He tried to look inside it but it was so dark. Finally, Michelangelo decided on entering the cave not knowing that this was the start of a great journey. Michelangelo found himself in a big city that is full of people and houses. A kind man saw him looking lost so he offered to have him in his house to have a dinner. After they ate, the man took his insulin injection. “You are diabetic, aren’t you? Michelangelo asked the kind man.”Most people in this town are diabetic and no one knows the reason!” replied the old man. Michelangelo felt sorry for the people in this city especially the kind man but that wasn’t all. His Ninja senses also told him that something wasn’t right. “I’ll do my best to help you, sir” Michelangelo said. Michelangelo started jumping from roof to roof searching for clues and answers. He spent the whole days in the shadows of the whole city searching and interrogating the people. At the end of the day, Michelangelo was close to solving this dilemma. Michelangelo knew that most women in this town have breast cancer and that the children in this town depend on cows’ milk not their mothers’. “But what is the relation between what he knew and Diabetes” Michelangelo wondered silently. There was something missing! Michelangelo kept thinking and thinking with no hope of finding a solution. Suddenly he remembered something. He learned in “Machines School” that breastfeeding has a great effect on mothers and their children. It protects mothers from breast cancer, reduces stress level, her risk of postpartum depression and increase link and relationship between mother and her child. For children, it protect baby from a long list of illness like infection diseases, allergies and childhood cancers. It boosts child’s intelligence and protects him from obesity and diabetes. Michelangelo was full of joy after remembering this information. He found the solution! Michelangelo started spreading the awareness in the town about what he discovered. It wasn’t an easy mission but it was a mission that he was willing to commit to. Michelangelo finished the mission before disappearing to search for his brothers wondering where his brothers might be!
Obesity
Leonardo saw something strange! He found a man on the verge of jumping in a well that was abandoned. He hurried to save him but instead of saving the man. Leonardo also fell in the well. Leonardo woke on sounds around him. “Why is he so thin?” Michelangelo heard. Leonardo opened his eyes to find himself looking at fat people. When he is convinced that it is not a dream, Leonardo wandered in this strange city so he might find a way out to go to his hometown.
During his tour, he noticed that there are no children playing in the streets, people were walking in the streets with great difficulty, and they couldn’t breathe properly. He found two men carrying a heavy box together but though they couldn’t carry it properly. Leonardo noticed that the box was going to drop so he used his Ninja moves, went quickly to help them and saved the box from falling. The two men were surprised of his fitness despite his small size. The two men asked him to have dinner with them to express their gratitude. He found a table full of non healthy food like: chocolates, desserts, sugary, fatty, salty food & soft drinks. “Is this all you eat in here?” asked Leonardo in astonishment. “Of course” replied the two men. “Isn’t that what you eat in your hometown?” asked one of the two men when he noticed the look of surprise on Leonardo’s face. “No, we eat fresh vegetables, fish, beans, nuts and many fruit, also we drink water not Soda” replied the astonished Ninja. “But Why?” asked the other man “Why do you avoid such great food with great taste like chocolates” continued the man.
Leonardo replied that unhealthy food as chocolate causes obesity which lead to many other diseases as heart diseases, cancer and GIT disturbance. Obesity and diseases that come because of obesity may eventually lead to death. “Death!” screamed the man. “Of course, Obesity isn’t something to be taken slightly” replied the Ninja. Silence fell in the house after Leonardo words. In the next day, Leonardo went to explore the city more so he could find the way out of this city. While he was walking, he heard that the king is offering a prize for anyone who can cure his son. “Anyone who heals his majesty, the prince, shall gets what he asks for” that was Leonardo heard from the people of the town. After Leonardo went to the castle, he found that the prince, as all the people in town, suffered from obesity but his conditions was worse so he couldn’t breathe properly or move from his bed without the help of his servants. Leonardo started changing the meals of the prince with healthy food and started making him change his life style; Leonardo made the prince do exercises bit by bit. After a period of time, the prince started to lose some weight and breathe more properly. The king was very happy and told the Ninja to ask what he wishes. Leonardo told the king that he wished that the life style which the prince followed should be applied in the whole city. He also asked that the king help him find his way back to his home town. The king agreed happily and asked his counselors to start applying the life style in the whole city. The king helped the ninja find his way back to his home town. Leonardo went to his hometown but left a great impact in the lives of all the people in the city.
Ane
Raphael opened his eyes to a bizarre place; darkness prevailed except for the moonlight. He started hearing sounds, all are weird and unexplainable. All he could remember was the wooden door he had opened, but the door had vanished and he was no longer in the forest of the food ninja camp. Suddenly those sounds became louder and he, being a trained ninja, decided to walk to the source. While walking the ninja started to notice the place around him, full of fruit trees and cultivation, it was truly beautiful. He came closer to the noise and hid behind the trees to take a look. He saw two people, one walking away and the other lying on the ground. All the ninja could do was to wait till that man walked away and see what’s going on. when the man walked away, Raphael rushed to the man lying on the ground to see if he needed help. The man looked at the ninja and told him that his friend had turned a few days ago, he asked the ninja to help him walk to his village. The ninja had no idea what happened or what does ‘his friend turned’ mean, however, he decided to help the poor man back to his village. While walking back the ninja noticed that his neck had two bleeding holes as if he had been bitten. But that wasn’t the only weird feature about him, his skin was pale, his fingers were brittle, his hair was fallen and he seemed overall tired and unable to breathe or walk properly. Soon, they reach the village. For the ninja’s shock, everyone there looks just like this man and they too were shocked to see the ninja as if they had seen a ghost. Among these pale villagers, stood a group of even paler people, they were holding what looked like blood bags and kept sucking on it! That was when the ninja decided to ask about what was happening there. The man told him about how some people of the village seems to “turn” that was when they had to take blood from other victims and to keep things from being criminal and chaotic, the governor now obliges every villager to donate blood to those who turn. The man invites him to come in and continue their conversation as soon as they arrive at his house. There the ninja meets the family, his wife and three
emia
kids, all suffering the same symptoms that seemed to be the normal case in this village. While spending the night with the family, he finally realized what was wrong in this village. Raphael noticed that the parents drink a lot of tea and the kids who drink Soda and junk food that made them lose their appetite and were always dizzy and cold. The strange thing was that although the family had fish, eggs and milk, they gave it to the animals instead of eating it. Anemia! This whole village suffered from iron deficiency anemia. The ninja decided to talk to governor and this family about anemia before leaving the village, but things weren’t that simple. When the Ninja offered his help to the governor, the governor accepted his offer but with a condition. The governor told the ninja that if and only if the ninja could help the entire village, he shall return to his camp. If the ninja, otherwise failed to achieve his task, his blood shall be food for the vampires as they were in a dire need for his healthy blood. The ninja gladly accepted the challenge, he asked the governor to set up a feast for the villagers where the ninja could educate them about anemia. Before the feast, He walked back to the place where he reached the village the night before and collected various fruits from the trees; apples, apples and mangoes. He also collected corn and spinach and other iron rich-food. That night, the ninja meet the villagers to tell them about iron deficiency anemia. He pointed out all their wrong habits and how they could avoid such habits. He educated them about the iron-rich meals that they needed to include in their diet. He found a source of iron for the anemia-vampires that could help them with their condition and they would no longer need to suck victims’ blood to obtain iron. Everyone was surprised and doubtful on hearing the ninja’s speech; however, they were hopeful to live in a world where no one suffers from anemia. The ninja had done his mission right in the village of the anemia-vampires. The villagers took a step forward and the governor kept his promise!
Food Ninj
After many years, the three brothers were sitting in food ninja camp, their hometown, talking about health habits as usual. Suddenly they started hearing a nearing noise. They started searching for the noise where and what is causing it. Their search led to a big stadium in the center of the city where they found a whole mass of people gathering in the stadium.
“Who are they?” Raphael asked but he heard no answer from his brothers as they had no clue that these people are. The three brothers started approaching the gathering hoping to understand what is happening or at least know who these people are. Once they started getting closer they started seeing some familiar faces. “These are the people I met in my journey!” shouted Leonardo suddenly “but there is something different about them, they seem fit, thinner and healthier” he continued. Suddenly Michelangelo started recognizing the people he met in his journey among the crowd but they seemed healthier. That was followed by Raphael recognizing the vampires he met in his journey but they were no longer pale and weak, they were healthy. “But how?!” that was the question swirling in the minds of the three brothers Chattering and laughs were heard once they approached the crowd. Children were playing in the stadium while their parents watched them happily. Once the crowd spotted the three ninja, they started clapping and shouting in gratitude the name of their heroes, the three ninjas, “Food Ninjas”. All that and the three ninjas were standing still surprised not believing in what was happening.
ja Closing
The king from the city Leonardo helped spoke “We are gathered today to express our gratitude to these three ninjas” “These three changed the course of our lives. We were destroying our health not knowingly. They lightened the path for us to be the people who we are today. Years ago, the only healthy society was the food ninja camp but today we have many health communities. All this was because of the doing of these three ninjas and that is the IMPACT they caused upon our lives. Thank you or any word of gratitude can’t express or repay what you have done for us” the king continued. “This day is a celebration for the achievements and the prosperity we have reached today. it is also a day to honor such heroes, so let’s celebrate!” he finalized his talk. It was a remarkable day full of joy and happiness. They all played some sports and made some challenges. They made a barbeque and ate a healthy lunch. Old memories were restored and new memories were made. The day ended but truly it will be memorized in the minds of all these people. It won’t be forgotten as history never neglects the events that changed its course. The three brothers achieved this mission successfully but they won’t stop. They will find another mission and will go on other adventures to benefit the community whatever the obstacles as they have no limits. Can you imagine the adventures and the achievements that they will do? Do you want to know what they will do next? I, myself, can’t wait!