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Food of The Week
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The end of the week is here and I'm still behind, hope you are not in the same boat...Greetings and welcome to A Natural Environmental Health Facts ezine. My wish for you is a restful and relaxing weekend!

Today's ezine has some good news and not so good news... I want to laud the 60+ scientists (See Environmental Report column) that are speaking out against our leaders and their role in ruining our environment which in turn ruins our health. They choose to do this at the risk of being looked on as dissidents and will no doubt be looked at as negative simply because they are trying to speak up and get people to wake up and see what is happening to our world!

One good report is the decrease in overall teenage pregnancy and abortion!

Greetings and thank you for your support by subscribing to A Natural Environmental Health Facts ezine and your desire for total health...

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Despite F.D.A. Ban, Ephedra Won't Go Away
By MARY DUENWALD

By April 12, ephedra will disappear from stores and Web sites that sell dietary supplements, by order of the Food and Drug Administration. But that does not mean the herb will entirely drop out of sight.

The agency's ban on ephedra specifically excludes uses of the herb in traditional Asian medicine. Acupuncturists, herbalists and other practitioners of Oriental medicine routinely dispense teas, pills and powders containing ma huang, the type of ephedra grown in China, to treat colds, asthma, persistent cough, headache, water retention and other maladies.
 
 
The ban on dietary supplements containing ephedra, announced in December, was published by the agency on Wednesday and will take effect 60 days later. It targets the ephedra supplements that have been advertised for weight loss, muscle building and athletic performance.

The supplements have been linked to heart attack, stroke and sudden death because of their ability to raise blood pressure, increase heart rate and speed up brain activity.

The F.D.A.'s ban states that herbal medicine preparations "are beyond the scope of this rule because they are not marketed as dietary supplements."

California and New York, which had already banned the sale of ephedra supplements, made similar exceptions for herbal medicine. Illinois, in its ephedra ban, did not.

Herbal medicine practitioners say they are relieved that their profession has not been included in the F.D.A. ban because ma huang is so useful.

"Ephedra is the first herb taught in a Chinese medicine course," said David Molony, an acupuncturist in Catasauqua, Pa., who is a vice president of the American Association of Oriental Medicine. "It's traditionally been used as one of the top herbs for one of the top complaints of humanity: colds."

Yet ma huang is becoming increasingly difficult for herbalists to obtain, because of insurance costs. Ephedra's dangerous side effects have led to lawsuits against supplement makers. And those, in turn, have caused insurers to raise the premiums for companies that deal in ephedra, even for use in herbal medicine.

"This started even before the baseball player died," said Subhuti Dharmananda, an herbal medicine supplier, referring to the death last year of Steve Bechler, a 23-year-old pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles, who had been taking ephedra supplements. "If we have one product with ma huang in it, then the insurance company raises our product liability insurance rate for everything by a factor of three," Mr. Dharmananda said.

As a result, his company, the Institute for Traditional Medicine, in Portland, Ore., has not used ma huang in any of his products since 2001. "We have reformulated all the products that had ma huang," Mr. Dharmananda said.

Some other herbal medicine distributors have also discontinued ma huang, but some continue to sell it.

"We decided to pay higher insurance rates to keep those formulas available," said Dr. John Scott, an Oriental medicine practitioner and owner of Golden Flower Chinese Herbs, an herbal medicine distributor in Albuquerque. But Dr. Scott said he was disturbed by the rising insurance rates and by the negative news surrounding ephedra.

The active ingredient in ephedra is ephedrine, a stimulant. Dietary supplements have contained concentrated amounts of ephedra, sometimes combined with caffeine, another stimulant. Herbalists say they are not surprised that some consumers suffered side effects.

"Chinese medicine practitioners have known for years that you could get too much of this," said Dr. Robert Schulman, a physician who practices acupuncture in Manhattan.

They even recommend a specific herbal antidote, known as white tiger decoction, to be given to people who are overstimulated by ma huang, he said.

Dr. Schulman and other practitioners of Oriental medicine say they would not dispense ephedra in concentrations as strong as those found in dietary supplements, they would not dispense it for weight loss or muscle building, and they would not dispense it for more than a week or two.
 

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As part of the Age-Related Eye Disease Study, 3,640 participants between the ages of 55 and 80 were followed over a six-year period. Each person had some degree of retinal changes, ranging from mild to severe.
 
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In addition, the combination of antioxidants and zinc led to a 27% decrease in the risk of having eyesight worsen. Those who had more severe retinal problems had the largest drop in risk of developing AMD.
 
Since no conventional treatment currently exists, antioxidant and zinc supplementation seems worth trying, especially since they appear to be safe and are relatively inexpensive.
 
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TODAY'S HEALTH TIP
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Is That Illness or Disease Water Borne?
© By Lena Sanchez
 
A few years ago there were thousands of people and many TV
programs warning about the cancer, illness and disease dangers
in your water. They were telling everyone that filtration and
purification was a must to maintain a healthy life. Then the
quiet came!
 
What happened to those who were telling you about the dangers?
Is it old news?
Did the problem go away?
 
No!  The problem did not go away even more MCS (multiple
chemical sensitivities), diseases and cancers are being
diagnosed. More health problems without answers continue
to rise but a simple answer lies under their very noses!
Again the pharmaceutical industry doesn't make money
when the solution is placed into your life.
 
The same problems have only worsened, but like most of
the world it became old news  and then the silence about
the problems became deafening!
 
A necessary fix gone awry:
 
Practically all municipal water systems use chlorine to kill
germs and bacteria in the water. A necessary evil as the
water is circulated through our homes as much as five
times and the ground waters have been poisoned with
sewers and septic tanks, animals and farm chemicals, so
there is a great need for the chlorine. And because the
bacteria danger has mutated requiring larger and larger
amounts, more chlorine is now being put into the water
than five years ago creating a more severe danger! This
practice will continue upward as bacteria become
immune to the chlorine. Some cities have changed to an
oxygenated peroxide type formula but the statistics on
that won't come in on the damages from those chemicals
for another 20 years. Do you want to wait that long to find
out oxygenated peroxide caused your illness or disease?
 
You must take an active roll in your health and use
bottled water or filtration/purification as a means of
eliminating chlorine and other chemicals from your life
and body! NOTE: Bottled water still contains some
chlorine and is not safe to those with ongoing illness
and/or disease?
 
No, you probably can't afford bottled water for bathing,
drinking and cooking but you can explore the water
purification and shower filtration systems out there and
spend a few dollars to prevent life-threatening illness
and disease now or thousands and maybe millions of
dollars later after you become ill!!! If you can get your
doctor to write you a prescription for a filtration unit
you may be able to get your health insurance to pay for it!
 
Remember this; the definition of water is tasteless, odorless
and colorless. If your water does not fit that definition
you are an illness waiting to happen... Or maybe you've
become so use to the smell of chlorine that you don't
notice it. That doesn't mean it isn't harming you and/or
your family!
 
Second danger lurking in your water is the addition of
fluoride to most water systems!
 
A study, from the Journal of Brain Research Vol. 784,
1998, and other studies since, indicates that low levels
of fluoride in the drinking water of animals - equal to
the amount of fluoride found in fluorinated water ?
caused damage to brain tissue - similar to the pathological
changes found in humans with Alzheimer?s and other
forms of dementia. Remember that you are probably
getting fluoride in toothpaste, bottled water and your
city water system. Not only are you getting it in your
foods as you cook with the tap water but also
showering or bathing since you absorb it through
the pours in your skin and breathe it into your lungs
from the steam.
 
Eliminating fluoride should be a goal toward health!
 
Know your water system and what it is putting into
your body!
 
The solution to all this is a water filtration purification
unit in YOUR HOME!
 
Things to look for in a unit are;
*Is it made of food grade products?
*Will it remove Ecoli, salmonella, cholera, cryptosporidium
as well as toxic chemicals?
*What is it going to cost you per gallon to produce
that clean water?
*Is it Filter Replacement free? (Replaceable filters let
too many contaminants through)
 
I personally have one and have had a top of the line
filtration/purification unit for years now? My grandmother
use to say, "Prevention is worth a pound of cure!" and
that is certainly more important these days as we have
so many chemicals and medications are polluting our
world. Showering in better than bottled water should be
a goal. Cooking with and drinking clean water is a must!
 
If you don't believe me, look at what is in your water and
how you are practicing birth control, taking hypertension
 mediation and much more without your knowledge.
 http://www.envirodocs.com/medicated-waterways.htm 
 
Wishing you great health and longevity.
Lena
 

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FOOD OF THE WEEK
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#1 Nutrient Rich Fruit

This weeks food is the #1 fruit in the nutrient content and health. And God knows it's hard to find any food with enough nutrients to really help us without eating a truck load!

Kiwi - my favorite fruit and what I didn't realize is the outstanding healthy properties it contains.

A tiny fruit with a great texture and taste and goes with just about anything. Kiwi looks a little like a fuzzy, brown egg. It was originally cultivated in ancient China, where it was known as the Chinese gooseberry. It was taken to New Zealand in the early 1900s and renamed after their national treasure, the kiwi bird, which, interestingly, is a fuzzy brown bird that does not actually fly.

The kiwi is technically a berry, is normally about 3 inches long and weighs about 2.5 ounces. When it is harvested, the pickers wear cotton gloves to make sure that the fruit is not damaged. Inside it is a symmetrical combination of dark green fruit, and black seeds. The conversion of starch into sugar keeps on going after harvest so it keeps getting riper and riper.

When you are choosing a kiwi, look for firm, unblemished fruit. Size doesn't matter. If it is ripe, the outside of the fruit should give way to slight pressure. If it doesn't give a little, it isn't ready to eat. You can speed up the ripening process by putting it in a vented plastic bag with an apple or a banana and leaving it out on the kitchen counter.

One tiny Kiwi has less then 50 calories - A great source of Vitamin E, folate (B vitamin) and magnesium... The kiwi also contains lutein, a phytochemical found in green plant foods that scientists say reduces the risk of cancer, heart disease and macular degeneration, which is creating epidemic proportion of blindness in the over 40 generation.

An interesting property of kiwi is an enzyme called actinidin that turns this fruit into an excellent meat tenderizer. Just puree fresh kiwi and use it as a marinade for beef, poultry or pork. Let it stand about 30 minutes before cooking. Or, if you want to tenderize the meat without flavoring it, you can just cut the fruit in half and rub it over the meat before cooking.

Because of this enzyme, you cannot use kiwi in foods like gelatin unless you poach it very briefly to deactivate the enzyme. It must also be briefly poached before using it with any dairy products like ice cream or frozen yogurt because otherwise it will impart a strange flavor, but not dangerous to your health.

When Rutgers University did a testing of fruits and their nutrient contents Kiwi was the hands down winner with the highest nutrient content.

Sunday I will tell what fruit came in second in their tests!
 

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Is It Alzheimer's Or Is It Mad Cow Disease?

In  1990 we had a patient in Palm Springs whose MRI brain scan looked like swiss cheese, of course at that time Mad Cow Disease (CJD) wasn't part of the medical vocabulary but looking back on it, I'm sure she had CJD. We were all fascinated with the films and how her brain was so full of holes... She was diagnosed with an Anomaly Alzheimer's Disease. Was it or wasn't it? This latest report could begin to look at things in a realistic light of CJD...

New Form of Mad Cow Disease Is Discovered
By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID

WASHINGTON (AP) - Italian scientists have found a second form of mad cow disease that more closely resembles the human Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease than the usual cow form of the illness.

The brain-wasting diseases BSE, known as mad cow disease, and human CJD are caused by different forms of mutant proteins called prions. A number of people, mainly in England, have also suffered from what is called variant CJD, a brain disease believed to be acquired by eating meat from infected cows. No Americans have been reported with variant CJD.

Now, the team of Italian researchers reports a study of eight cows with mad cow disease found that two of them had brain damage resembling the human victims of CJD. They said the cows were infected with prions that resembled those involved in the standard form of the human disease, called sporadic CJD, not the variant caused by eating infected meat.

Salvatore Monaco, lead author of the new study, said the findings may indicate that cattle can also develop a sporadic form of the disease, but it might also be a new foodborne form of the illness.

Dr. Paul Brown of the National Institutes of Health said the finding does not indicate an increased threat to humans.

If a new form of the disease were affecting humans there should be an increase in the incidence of CJD, said Brown, who was not part of the research team.

However, scientists in Europe have studied all cases of sporadic CJD for the last decade and the incidence has not changed, said Brown, an expert in the disease, who works at the National Institute of Neurological Disease and Stroke.

Both the human and cattle diseases cause holes to form in the brain. The Italian researchers found that, in addition to the holes, two cows had an accumulation of amyloid plaque in their brains. Amyloid plaques are an indication of Alzheimer's disease in humans. They have also been found in people with sporadic CJD but had not been found in cattle, the researchers said.

Mad cow disease is formally known as BSE - bovine spongiform encephalopathy - and the Italians named the new form with amyloid plaques BASE.

"Although observed in only two cattle, the BASE phenotype could be more common than expected," they reported.

Monaco said in an interview via e-mail that he believes the incidence could be as high as 5 percent among cattle with mad cow symptoms.

But while human CJD and BASE share several characteristics, the Italian researchers cautioned against assuming a link between the two.

The findings of the team led by Monaco, of the Department of Neurological and Visual Science, Policlinico G.B. Rossi, in Verona, Italy, are reported in this week's online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.

Brown said there have also been some unpublished reports from Japan of cows with a different form of mad cow disease.

Cattle are believed to develop BSE from eating infected tissues of other animals. Such feed has now been banned in many countries, including the United States.

The first case of mad cow disease in the United States was reported in December in Washington state, involving a cow imported from Canada.

An investigation seeking other cattle from the same herd ended last week with Agriculture officials saying they had located all but 11 suspect animals and concluding the rest could not be found.

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