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A new year and an opportunity for a new beginning for the world . Some good things are happening but mostly all we can see are the bad. We must change that way of looking at life if we are to change the way things are. When obesity is rampant in 5 year-olds and beyond the world needs to start looking at why? Is what they eat? Or is it something lacking in what they eat? Both would be the answer. Our fast food society has passed on bad eating habits to the children! Also even if you are not a fast food fanatic you still probably are not getting the proper nutrients from your food, simply because your body is unable to extract what few nutrients are there. This is because our body cannot manufacture minerals therefore we have to get them from what we put into our body! Those minerals that were originally in our ground which ended up in our water no longer exists so it is imperative that we supplement minerals. I believe if people begin to do that obesity will not be so rampant. But if we continue to feed our children fast food diets, that is lacking in all nutrients, we can expect unhealthy outcome for them! So start making a difference in lives by supplementing a full 84 mineral trace minerals addition, anything less than that is creating an imbalance and health cannot be at it's optimum without balance. Read The One Key To Health Click here to understand why I tell you this!

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FDA Sends Drug Company Warning Letter
Dec 29, 2004

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Food and Drug Administration has sent a warning letter to Novartis Animal Health U.S., Inc. because of what federal officials say were late reports on the death of cats being tested with a new painkilling drug.

The drug being tested, Deramaxx, is in the same chemical family as Vioxx and Celebrex, two human drugs that have been linked to heart attacks.

The FDA's Nov. 29 letter said that the death of 14 cats that were being tested with Deramaxx were reported to the FDA months past the deadline for such reports. Regulations require such reports to be filed within 15 days.

Novartis spokesman Joseph Burkett said the cats were participating in an experiment testing whether Deramaxx could be used in cats. He said the company is no longer conducting such tests.

The experiment concluded in July 2003, but the adverse events were not reported to the FDA until Feb. 24, just after an inspection of the Novartis animal drug facility in Greensboro, N.C., according to the FDA letter.

Deramaxx, which has the chemical name of deracoxib, is approved for use in tablet form by dogs. The drug's purpose is to relieve arthritis and surgical pain in dogs.

The drug works by blocking what is known as the COX 2 enzyme. The effect is similar to that of Vioxx and Celebrex, human arthritis drugs that have been linked in studies to heart attacks and stroke. Vioxx has been taken off the market by its manufacturer.

The FDA letter also said the company failed to report a study plan for testing an injectible form of Deramaxx on dogs until three months after the study was completed. Regulations require reporting of experimental protocols before the study starts.

"The specific violations noted in this letter are serious and may be symptomatic of serious underlying problems," the FDA letter said.

Burkett said that all the FDA complaints dealt with the process of filing required information to the FDA within the regulatory deadline.

He said the company has since taken measures to comply, including doubling of the staff that prepares and files adverse drug reaction reports, a change in leadership of the department compiling those reports and the installation of new computer software.

"We feel the changes we have made will enable us to meet or exceed the FDA requirements," Burkett said.

That weepy, smelly but most popular veggie! Or is it a veggie?

Bad breathe or just the food you ate?

The food this week is the ever popular and most consumed vegetable, the onion. Comes in many sizes, shapes and colors along with a second hand odoriferous offensive smell! "It's not good for your friends, but it is good for your health," said the lead researcher, Dr. Rui Hai Liu, a chemist for The Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry department of food science.

The bulbous onion and its numerous relatives belong to a flower family namely the Lily family. How can something so smelly come from a flower family? I don't have the answer but that is a good question! Nature is a mystery in a lot of areas and this is one of those!

Some of these alliums are distinctly ornamental; a few others, notably garlic, leek, Welsh onion, and chive, are common vegetables. All of the edible forms have related flavors and odors that are due principally to a volatile, irritating substance.

The word "onion" comes from the Middle English unyun, from the French oignon, which came in turn from the Latin unio, meaning "onion." Ancient names for this plant in Sanskrit, Hebrew, Greek, and Latin are apparently unrelated, indicating widespread culture of onions from prehistoric times.

Onions can be divided into two categories: spring/summer fresh onions and fall/winter storage onions.

Spring/summer fresh onions are available in yellow, red and white throughout their season, March through August. Fresh onions can be identified by their thin, light-colored skins. Because they have a higher water content, they are typically sweeter and milder than storage onions. This higher water content also makes them more susceptible to bruising.

With their delicate taste, fresh onions are an ideal choice for salads and other fresh and lightly-cooked dishes.

Fall/winter storage onions are available August through April. Also available in yellow, red, purple and white, storage onions have multiple layers of thick, dark, papery skins. Storage onions have an intense flavor and a higher percentage of solids.

Storage onions are the best choice for savory dishes that require longer cooking times or more flavor.

Onions are low in calories yet add abundant flavor to a wide variety of foods. Averaging about 30 calories per serving, onions are sodium, fat, and cholesterol free, and provide dietary fiber, vitamin C, vitamin B6, potassium, and other key nutrients.

Mild sweet onions varieties are:

Spanish onions: known for their mild and delicately sweet flavor.
Bermuda onions: another category of mild onions that come in red, white, or yellow.
Walla-Walla Sweet onions: originally came from Corsica at the beginning of the 20th century and arrived in Walla-Walla, Washington where they are grown today.
Texas Sweets: available mid spring through early summer.

Research shows that onions may help guard against many chronic diseases. That's probably because onions contain generous amounts of a flavonoid called quercetin. Other sources are tea and apples, but research shows that absorption of quercetin from onions is twice that from tea and more than three times that from apples. Studies have shown that quercetin protects against cataracts, cardiovascular disease, and cancer.

In addition, onions contain a variety of other naturally occurring chemicals known as organosulfur compounds that have been linked to lowering blood pressure and cholesterol levels.

In Chinese medicine, globe onions (allium cepa) are said to calm the liver, moisten the intestines, and benefit the lungs. Raw onions are prescribed for constipation, for lowering high blood pressure, and for healing wounds or ulcers of the skin. Spring onions, or scallions (allium fistulosum), are used to induce sweating. One application for the common cold is to take 20 spring onions and simmer them with rice to make porridge. Add a little vinegar and eat while it is warm. Then wrap yourself up in blankets to induce sweating. Works like a charm, but is it the onion rice soup or the sweating?

Some health studies have shown raw onions to be effective in lowering overall cholesterol while raising HDLs, the good cholesterol. Additionally, onions kill infectious bacteria, a help in controlling blood sugar, aid in dissolving blood clots, and help to prevent cancer.

Onions were used extensively by the ancient Egyptians, as shown by drawings and inscriptions on their monuments. The Bible states that during the wanderings of the Israelites in the wilderness, they longed for the onions, leeks, and garlic they had had in Egypt.

In the first century many varieties of onion were known: long, round, red, yellow, white, strong, and mild kinds. For a time in the Middle Ages it appears that the onion was less popular than leek and garlic, while now the reverse is true.

The onion was introduced by the Spanish into the West Indies soon after their discovery. From there it soon spread to all parts of the Americas. Onions were grown by the earliest colonists and soon afterward by the Indians.

The Welsh onion - A. fistulosum - never forms a rounded bulb-only one to several long white scallions. This form is most popular in the Orient, but is grown almost everywhere. In Japan it is often incorrectly called "Japanese leek."

One form of onion, the so-called Egyptian tree onion, or top onion, produces "sets" - tiny bulbs - at the top of the stalk instead of flowers and seeds.

The leek - A. porrum- like the Welsh onion, forms only a cylindrical instead of a rounded bulb. The leaf of the leek, however, is flattened and solid, while the leaf of the onion is cylindrical and hollow.

In the first century the Romans considered that the best leeks came from Egypt, where they had been known in earliest Biblical times. The Emperor Nero is reported to have been nicknamed Porrophagus because of his inordinate appetite for leeks. He imagined that frequent eating of leeks improved his voice! He could have right!

In the 6th century the Welsh won a victory over the Saxons and attributed their success to the leeks they wore to distinguish themselves in battle. What a smelly fight that must have been!

"Know your onions" was a term coined in the 1920s to indicate that the many varieties of onions that were cultivated over the years never acquired standardized names from one locale to another.

Leeks have been common all over Europe for as long as we have records of food plants. In America, by 1775, they were cultivated by the Indians as well as the colonists.

Chive - A. schoenoprasum - is an Old World plant now found wild in modern Italy and Greece. It is believed to be native to the eastern Mediterranean. The word "chive" is an Old French form of the French cive, derived from the Latin cepa, meaning "onion." Grown for hundreds of years in European gardens and in the British Isles.

The chive has beautiful blue flowers, but they produce no seed. It is propagated by planting the bulbs, which increase in number each year, forming dense clumps.

You can see that onions are not common and many types exist for our eating pleasure!

Onions add flavor to all types of foods while adding healthy nutrients. Eat and enjoy!
Lena

Eli Lilly Said to Know of Prozac Risks
Dec 31, 2004

LONDON (AP) - A British medical journal said Friday that it had given U.S. regulators confidential drug company documents suggesting a link between the popular anti-depressant Prozac and a heightened risk of suicide attempts and violence.

The British Medical Journal reported in its Jan. 1 issue that documents it had received from an anonymous source indicated that Prozac's manufacturer, Eli Lilly & Co. (LLY), was aware in the 1980s that the drug could have potentially troubling side-effects.

The journal said the documents, reportedly missing for a decade, had formed part of a 1994 lawsuit against Eli Lilly on behalf of victims of a workplace shooting in Louisville, Ky. The gunman who killed eight people and himself in 1989, Joseph Wesbecker, had been prescribed Prozac a month before the shootings.

Eli Lilly won the case but later disclosed it had settled with the plaintiffs during the trial.

The journal said one of the records, dated November 1988, reported that fluoxetine, the generic name for Prozac, had caused "behavioral disturbances" in clinical trials.

The journal said it had turned the documents over to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which had agreed to review them.

The journal said the office of Congressman Maurice Hinchey, D-N.Y., also was examining the documents to determine whether Eli Lilly had withheld data from the public and the FDA.

"This is an alarming study that should have been shared with the public and the FDA from the get-go, not 16 years later," Hinchey was quoted as saying.

In a statement to the journal, Eli Lilly said Prozac "has helped to significantly improve millions of lives."

"It is one of the most studied drugs in the history of medicine and has been prescribed for more than 50 million people worldwide. The safety and efficacy of Prozac is well studied, well documented and well established."

In October, FDA ordered that all antidepressants carry warnings that they "increase the risk of suicidal thinking and behavior" in children.

British Medical Journal article

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