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Five Steps To Health

Nutritious food, pure water, vitamin and minerals supplements and exercise along with a positive outlook on life can keep you healthy. Though scientists aren't sure exactly how optimism promotes good health, they suspect it has to do with the effects of your mental outlook on immune function. From laughter to tears, from friendship to romantic love, your emotions and attitudes all have a bearing on promoting good health.

If you always see the negatives of things it's time to change... Yes you can change! Studies have shown that you can actually "change your mind" by changing your body language. Smiling on the outside will send a message to your brain, which will "assume" that you're happy. Walking tall and meeting people's glance will likewise "tell" your brain that you are confident and upbeat. It will tell others the same thing. The positive feedback you get from them will reinforce your feelings of optimism.

A weepy, smelly food that is probably the most consumed of any vegetable!

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 in 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

How Did That Drug Get On The Market?
© By Lena Sanchez

It's simple yet overlooked marketing technique for the drug industry.

What the average person does not comprehend is how drug companies quietly and very subtly start to lobby and familiarize the medical community and the world with a disease before they push a drug to counteract an illness/disease!

Example; In November 2001 a California firm offering "business intelligence" announced, "43% of all women over 18 experience sexual dysfunction . . . Greater public awareness and acceptance of SD [sexual dysfunction] as a common and treatable disease will heavily influence market growth, predominantly for women." In August 2002 a company advertising trials of a new drug for "female sexual arousal disorder" prominently cited the figure in its press release. That release quoted a Dr Sweeney saying that 40% of women have the dysfunction in one form or another, "but not all have the most severe form of the disease." Ever heard of SD as a disease prior to that?

One of the milestones in the making of that disorder was a JAMA article in February 1999 titled "Sexual dysfunction in the United States: prevalence and predictors." Two of the authors of that article, later admitted to close ties to Pfizer Pharmaceuticals (Business Intelligence), said that for women aged 18-59, the "total prevalence of sexual dysfunction" was 43%, a figure picked up by the medical community and now widely cited in both scientific and lay media as gospel truth.

First let's see how 43% came to be!

A University of Chicago sociology professor Ed Laumann and colleagues reanalyzed a slice of data from a 1992 survey and came up with serious questions about the 43% figure so aptly bantered about these days. That figure came from a study of around 1500 women who were asked to answer yes or no to whether they had experienced any of seven problems, for two months or more, during the previous year, including a lack of desire for sex, anxiety about sexual performance, and difficulties with lubrication. If the women answered yes to just one of the seven questions, they were included in a group characterized as having SD (sexual dysfunction). No mention of what time of the month or what circumstances led up to their answer.

The JAMA article stated that its data was "not equivalent to clinical diagnosis,"1 yet this was overlooked, and some leading sex researchers have raised serious concerns about the figure's constant misuse.

One of those concerned was Dr Sandra Leiblum, professor of psychiatry at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and a clinical psychologist. She believes real dysfunction is much less prevalent than 43%, and that the figure has contributed to an overmedicalization of women's sexuality, where changes in sexual desire, from time to time, is the norm. "I think there is dissatisfaction and perhaps disinterest among a lot of women, but that doesn't mean they have a disease," she said during an interview at a New York educational workshop.

The director of the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University, Dr John Bancroft, believes the term "dysfunction" is highly misleading, and he is one of several researchers critical of the corporate sponsored 1998 definition. 4 He argues that an inhibition of sexual desire is in many situations a healthy and functional response for women faced with stress, tiredness, or threatening patterns of behavior from their partners. "The danger of portraying sexual difficulties as a dysfunction is that it is likely to encourage doctors to prescribe drugs to change sexual function when the attention should be paid to other aspects of the woman's life. It's also likely to make women think they have a malfunction when they do not," he said during a telephone interview with RFW. In response, Laumann defends his use of the term "dysfunction" but concedes that many women among his 43% are "perfectly normal" and that a lot of their problems "arise out of perfectly reasonable responses of the human organism to challenges and stress."

New York University's clinical associate professor of psychiatry, Dr Leonore Tiefer, contends that the medical model itself is severely limited for dealing with problems of sexuality because of its mind-body split, biological reductionism, focus on diseases rather than people, and reliance on norms. She claims pharmacological research oversimplifies the sexual difficulties of both men and women because it "promotes genital function as the centerpiece of sexuality and ignores everything else"

Could this all be another ploy by the pharmaceutical company to come up with a disease to fit a drug they are working on and about to release? Exactly what it is! This happened with Viagra before it was released, it happened with other drugs in the past and will continue to happen as the drug companies come up with more drugs. Vioxx was removed but immediately thereafter a small blurb appeared in newspapers and on some TV news that a Merck had new arthritis medication was in the works. So Arcoxia followed Vioxx onto the market yet is the same COX-2 inhibitor as Vioxx! Do I believe it will be better than Vioxx? NO!

How about the commercials, of the past, of premenstrual gals in the department store dressing rooms trying on clothes and the bloating they were experiencing and then it moved to the nasty oubursts and the term PMDD (Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder)? The adds for Serafem coming out shortly after those ads appeared for a so-called PMDD disorder. Serafem being nothing more than the very dangerous antidepressant drug Prozac repackaged in lavender pink, marketed to women for PMDD. I like what the late Nicholas Regush, health investigative reporter's question in regards to the FDA approving Serafem. Were members of its advisory committee suffering emotionally from Pre-BS Affliction (PBSA) when they approved Sarafem/Prozac for PMDD? I would like to add that they are still suffering from PBSA. You know the term BS, right?

As early as two to five years prior to release, the occurrence of "informational" meetings and speeches spouting the latest diagnoses begin for the medical world. All set up to get a new classified disease and their drug paid for by insurance companies and recognized by the medical community. These meetings are published as "informational" by the news media. Informational? Like a fox in the chicken house...

Those meetings are all a forerunner of a new disease that now has a HCFA number for billing insurances. I've seen it happen over and over and even attended a workshop or two paid for by the pharmaceutical company working on a new medication and a coined disease/illness!

There are always a few people who see through their smoke screens but usually lose in the attempt to thwart the pharmaceutical industry's goal of billions of dollars in their pockets! Those thwarted are labeled as crackpots or some such name

Pay close attention to what is prescribed for your problem.

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