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The TRAIN of Life

      Some folks ride the train of life
      Looking out the rear,
      Watching miles of life roll by,
      And marking every year.

      They sit in sad remembrance,
      Of wasted days gone by,
      And curse their life for what it was,
      And hang their head and cry.

      But I don't concern myself with that,
      I took a different vent,
      I look forward to what life holds,
      And not what has been spent.

      So strap me to the engine,
      As securely as I can be,
      I want to be out in the front,
      To see what I can see.

      I want to feel the winds of change,
      Blowing in my face,
      I want to see what life unfolds,
      As I move from place to place.

      I want to see what's coming up,
      Not looking at the past,
      Life's too short for yesterdays,
      It moves along too fast.

      So if the ride gets bumpy,
      While you are looking back,
      Go up front, and you may find,
      Your life has jumped the track.

      It's all right to remember,
      That's part of history,
      But up front's where it's happening,
      There's so much mystery.

      The enjoyment of living,
      Is not where we have been,
      It's looking ever forward,
      To another year and ten.

      It's searching all the byways,
      Never should you refrain,
      For if you want to live your life,
      You've gotta drive the train.

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Sunlight May Help Cancer Victims Survive
Feb 2, 2005
By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID

WASHINGTON (AP) - Sunlight exposure, a major risk factor for the potentially deadly skin cancer melanoma, may also help victims survive that disease, new research indicates. And a second study indicates that exposure to sunlight may reduce the risk of getting cancer of the lymph glands.

Researchers stress that their findings do not mean people should rush out and start baking in the sun. As for what people should do to gain sunlight's benefits without its downsides, an editorial accompanying the studies said more research is needed.

"Sunlight, particularly ultraviolet radiation, is a very well established human carcinogen. Nothing in these papers should in any way detract from this message," said Kathleen M. Egan of Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

But the new reports, being published this week in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, do provide important clues to the development of these cancers and some factors that may slow or stop them.

Melanoma has been increasing over the past half-century in developed countries with Caucasian populations, and studies have consistently found exposure to the sun a major risk factor.

However, a new look at 528 melanoma victims over five years also found that increased sun exposure led to increased survivability, according to the study led by Marianne Berwick of the department of internal medicine at the University of New Mexico.

"It's totally counterintuitive, and we're trying to investigate it," said Berwick, noting that she is now doing a similar study of 3,700 melanoma patients worldwide

"It's really strange, because sunburn seems to be one of the factors associated with improved survival, and that doesn't make much sense, so we think sunburn's a proxy for the kind of sun exposure that leads to melanoma. But there's so much we need to know," Berwick said in a telephone interview.

She said Vitamin D, which the skin makes in response to sunlight, may be a factor. Vitamin D can help regulate cell growth and help cells stop unneeded growth through a process called apoptosis.

Another possibility is solar elastosis, a response to sunlight that breaks down collagen in the skin - the same process that causes sun-related wrinkling.

"It may be something in solar elastosis itself ... it may be that some physical barrier created by this breakdown of collagen keeps the melanoma from getting into the blood and lymph system," Berwick said.

In the second study, a research team led by Karin Ekstrom Smedby of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, studied 3,000 lymph cancer patients and a similar number of people without lymph cancer in Denmark and Sweden.

They found that increased exposure to ultraviolet radiation through sunbathing and sunburns resulted in a reduced incidence of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Vanderbilt's Egan, who was not involved in either research team, said it's unlikely to be sunlight itself that is an explanation of these findings.

The scientific community is converging on the idea that Vitamin D is likely to be a protective agent in cancer, she said in a telephone interview.

"It's long been known that Vitamin D is a critically important agent in bone health," she noted. "More recently it has become increasingly obvious that Vitamin D has important regulatory functions in the cell, in terms of cell division," she said.

In an accompanying commentary in the journal, Egan and co-researchers at Vanderbilt say the two findings are of particular interest because non-Hodgkin's lymphoma is suspected of being caused in a way similar to skin cancer.

More than a million cases of skin cancer are attributed to sun exposure annually in the United States, with about 54,000 cases of melanoma diagnosed each year, noted the Vanderbilt researchers, which also included Jeffrey A. Sosman and William J. Blot.

Berwick's research was supported by the U.S. National Cancer Institute while Smedby's was funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, the Swedish Cancer Society, Plan Denmark and the Danish National Research Foundation.

Journal of the National Cancer Institute

LENA'S COMMENT: Dr. Garland has always had sunlight as part of his cancer treatments. 15 to 20 minutes of direct sunlight (without sun screen) to as much of the body as possible does wonders.

The pomegranate a native from Iran to the Himalayas in northern India and cultivated and naturalized over the whole Mediterranean region since ancient times. It is widely cultivated throughout India and the drier parts of Southeast Asia, Malaya, East Indies and tropical Africa. The tree was introduced into California by Spanish settlers in 1769. Now grown for its fruits mainly in the drier parts of California and Arizona.

Granted, it is a bit messy and can stain clothes mercilessly, but the unique sweet taste and health benefits are well worth it. Recent research to identify foods high in antioxidants have brought the pomegranate into the forefront of the antioxidants with its high levels of polyphenols, tannins, and anthocyanins -- all thought to be important parts of our cancer-prevention arsenal. Food seeds of all kinds are rich in fiber – including the pomegranate - making for a healthy intestinal system. "Prostate, breast, and colon cancer rates are higher in populations consuming relatively large quantities of meat and lower in populations whose diet is rich in ‘seed foods.’" Journal of the American Medical Association

The pomegranate tree is a neat, rounded shrub or small tree that can grow to 20 or 30 ft., but more typically to 12 to 16 ft. in height. Dwarf varieties are also known. The trunk is covered by a red-brown bark which later becomes gray. Pomegranates are also long-lived. There are specimens in Europe that are known to be over 200 years of age. The vigor of a pomegranate declines after about 15 years, however.

The pomegranate fruit is almost a perfect round, 2-1/2 to 5 in. wide fruit with a crowned base known as a calyx. The tough, leathery skin or rind is typically yellow underneath and overlaid with light or deep pink or rich red. The inner fruits are separated by membranous walls and white, spongy, bitter tissue into compartments packed with sacs filled with sweetly acid, juicy, red, pink or whitish pulp. In each sac there is one angular, soft or hard seed. The pomegranate may begin to bear in 1 year after planting out, but 2-1/2 to 3 years is more common. Under suitable conditions the fruit should mature some 5 to 7 months after bloom.

Pomegranate is a delicious fruit, which has many potential beneficial compounds. Pomegranate has substances, such as polyphenols, that have antioxidant, anti-viral, and anti-tumor activity. Rich in the minerals Calcium, Iron, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Potassium, Sodium, Zinc, Copper and Selenium along with Vitamins C, B-6, B-12, A, E, total ascorbic acid Thiamin Riboflavin, Niacin, Pantothenic acid, Folate and Folic acid making for a very healthy food! Pomegranate may also be helpful in maintaining healthy cholesterol and triglyceride levels.

Researchers from the University of Wisconsin reported that a pomegranate extract inhibited skin tumors in mice, while the red wine compound reseveratrol, applied topically, inhibited the expression of a cancer-causing protein normally caused by exposure to UVB rays. Pomegranate fruit extract (PFE) contains several polyphenols and anthocyanidins (pigment that gives certain fruits their dark red color), which demonstrates a higher antioxidant activity than that of red wine and green tea, according to the Wisconsin researchers.

Seed removal tip: Cut out the blossom end, remove some of the white pith, but do not break the red pulp around the seeds. Score the skin into quarters. Break the pomegranate into halves and then halve again following score lines. Bend back the rind and pull out the seeds.

The juice gives a unique fresh flavor to sauces and marinades for fish, chicken, and beef. Use the seeds to garnish fruit salad, dessert, and appetizers. Pomegranate juice is the original ingredient in Grenadine although contemporary manufacturers may utilize a synthetic.

The seeds and crimson pulp may be added to fruit salad for a touch of color and flavor.

To extract the juice, separate and crush the edible portion of ripe pomegranates (do not remove seeds at this point). Place fruit in jelly cloth or bag and squeeze out the juice, or cut the fruit in quarters and juice with a juicer. Most juicers will automatically extract the juice and discard the seeds.

The juice can be frozen in 1/2 pint or 1 pint containers, to make into punch later on.

Pomegranate Syrup is absolutely fantastic with pancakes, waffles or French toast... To make it;

Boil together 3 1/2 cups pomegranate juice, 1 teaspoon lemon juice, 1/3 teaspoon salt and 1/2 bottle liquid pectin. When mixture cannot be stirred down, add 5 1/2 cups sugar and boil for 5 or 6 minutes.

The Perils of Needles to the Body
By LORRAINE KREAHLING
February 1, 2005

At a tattoo and piercing parlor on St. Mark's Place in Manhattan recently, Young-Cho, an experienced tattoo artist, applied a small winged horse to Mara Fallon's shoulder.

He dipped his buzzing instrument into a small plastic cup of blue ink and then appeared to draw with the electric needle on Ms. Fallon's shoulder.

"It feels like when you pull hairs out when you rip off a Band-Aid," she said.

In another cubicle, Tino, a piercer, disinfected the skin on a young woman's abdomen and marked two dots on either side of her navel. He held her flesh with forceps and pierced the marks with a hollow needle, then threaded a surgical steel rod through the four holes and attached two small steel spheres to each end, making the jewelry into a tiny barbell.

Tattoos and body piercings have become so common that they hardly attract notice. One recent study of 7,960 college students in Texas found that one in five had at least one tattoo or piercing of a body part other than the earlobe.

But health officials say they are increasingly worried about the health risks posed by such body modification practices, including physical disfigurement and bacterial and viral infections, and not only from needles that draw blood in potentially unsanitary conditions.

The primary concern is infection with blood-borne pathogens like H.I.V. and the C and B forms of the hepatitis virus. But doctors say that tongue and genital piercings can also provide channels for bacteria and viruses to enter the bloodstream after the piercing procedure. Bacteria that live on the skin, including some penicillin-resistant forms of staphylococcus, are easily spread by unsterilized instruments or ungloved hands. And bacterial infections - or the body's reaction to the insertion of a foreign object - can cause deformities at piercing sites.

Last month, Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York, joined with health officials from Long Island to express concern over a growing number of hepatitis C cases, linking the increase in part to body piercings and tattoos. The potentially fatal virus can live in the body for decades without symptoms.

Studies have not conclusively demonstrated a connection between body modification and hepatitis C. The Texas study, sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, found that college students with piercings, tattoos or both were no more likely than other students to have been exposed to the hepatitis C virus. But an earlier study reported that of 626 patients at an orthopedic clinic, those with tattoos were seven to eight times as likely to have subclinical hepatitis C infections.

"Regardless of whether or not we can demonstrate that bacteria or viruses are spread in this manner, anything that pierces the skin and has blood on it can potentially spread an infection," said Dr. Miriam Alter, associate director for science at the C.D.C.'s division of viral hepatitis and the agency's lead scientist on the Texas study. "The moment you pierce the skin barrier, there is risk for transmission of a disease."

Licensing requirements for tattoo and piercing establishments, the growth of professional organizations for practitioners and the growing sophistication of Internet-educated consumers have increased safety. Most people who seek tattoos know that they should see the artist remove a new needle and tube setup from sealed plastic and that fresh ink from disposable containers should be used.

But Dr. David Graham, director of public health for the Suffolk County, said that it was impossible to police everyone.

"There will always be someone driven by profit who will avoid regulatory guidelines and licensing fees," he said. And even establishments that use fresh needles and surgical gloves, spray disinfectants and heat-sterilizing autoclaves are of concern, scientists say.

It is estimated that 1 piercing in 10 becomes infected. Staphylococcus bacteria, which can live on the skin and in the nose, is a frequent cause, said Dr. Scott Hammer, professor of medicine at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons.

"If you disinfect the surface of the skin, but use a forceps that has not been sterilized, you are risking spreading infection," Dr. Hammer said.

"You don't need a puncture; you only need an abrasion for the organism to cause an infection."

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