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Read "Health Today's" article and see why I'm upset and angry at our so-called health leaders! It amazes me that a dozen people die from a natural alternative and is removed it from the market without researching it , which many scientists say is safe when taken sensibly. Yet 125,000 plus deaths have definitely been contributed to taking this one arthritis prescription but it's okay to leave on the market? When research in both drug industry and independent scientists say it kills... Something is definitely wrong with that scenario!!! Just because "the side effects aren't unique to its product" (meaning many more are on the market that does the same thing) gives them the right to bring it back... What kind of stinking attitude is that and what happened to the FDA that is supposed to protect and serve mankind? Oh, I forgot the board members watching out for us who made this ruling is made up of drug industry presidents, board members, CEO's and COO's, except for one... Silly of me to ask such a question!

I'm hoping the hilarity of Today's Health tip can over ride the damage from the anger I feel toward the stupid decisions of our health leaders! Read and make your decision...

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EPA Sets Exposure Limit for Fuel Pollutant
Feb 19, 2005
By JOHN HEILPRIN

WASHINGTON (AP) - The government on Friday issued its first safety standard for perchlorate, a toxic chemical used in rocket fuel and explosives and blamed for widespread contamination of drinking water near military sites.

The Environmental Protection Agency's new limit for what it considers a safe exposure level will be used in guiding Superfund cleanups and determining whether the agency should go a step further and regulate perchlorate as a drinking water contaminant.

The limit, which translates to 24.5 parts per billion in drinking water, is the same level recommended by the National Academy of Sciences in January but higher than what EPA proposed two years ago.

Perchlorate is a chemical found in nature, but the academy said its presence in the environment is mainly from its use in rocket fuels, fireworks and explosives. It has been linked to thyroid ailments, and is considered particularly dangerous to children.

"This reference dose is protective for all populations including the most sensitive," EPA spokeswoman Cynthia Bergman said.

The EPA issued a preliminary recommendation two years ago for an exposure level that translated into 1 part per billion. The Pentagon had criticized that EPA standard as too stringent.

The Food and Drug Administration two years ago began testing for perchlorate in food and bottled water. It was found in four types of lettuce - iceberg, romaine, green leaf and red leaf - grown mostly in Arizona and California but also in New Jersey, Texas and Florida. It also was found in different types of milk in numerous states, but hardly at all in bottled water.

Perchlorate has been found in drinking water in 35 states, and environmentalists want EPA to use its exposure level to issue federal drinking water standards for the chemical.

"The question now," said Renee Sharp, an analyst for the Environmental Working Group, a research and advocacy organization, "is whether the agency will protect all Americans, including children, from rocket fuel in drinking water, or cave to pressure from defense contractors who have polluted our drinking water." Her group has estimated that more than 20 million people in the United States drink water contaminated with perchlorate.

Erik Olson, an attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental group, said the exposure level the EPA considers safe is too lenient for protecting those most vulnerable - infants and pregnant women.

If used as a benchmark for cleaning up Superfund and military sites, Olson said, the standard "really puts potentially hundreds of thousands if not millions at risk."

States and local governments have been trying to get defense contractors and the Pentagon to pay for the huge cleanup costs of removing the chemical from groundwater. California and Massachusetts have proposed limits on perchlorate contamination far more restrictive than the level EPA chose.

But even with its own standard, California could still have higher levels of perchlorate contamination from the Colorado River that comes from a former rocket fuel plant in Nevada.

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These days it's hard to find any food with enough nutrients to really help us without eating a truck load, but this one small fuzzy is the highest nutrient value fruit and can help keep your nutrient rich…

A tiny fruit with a great texture and taste and goes with just about anything. Kiwi, also called Chinese gooseberry and yang tao for its edible fruit. The small, oval fruit has a thin brownish-green skin with a fuzzy unedible surface. The flesh, which is a distinctive attractive green, with tiny purplish seeds surrounding a white core, may be eaten raw or cooked.

History: Known as the Chinese gooseberry, originated and began in the Chang Kiang Valley of China. When taken to New Zealand in 1906 was renamed after their national treasure, the kiwi bird, which, interestingly, is a fuzzy brown bird that does not actually fly. Considered a delicacy by the great Khans who relished the fruit's brilliant flavor and emerald-green color. Knowledge of the fruit expanded to other countries in the mid 1800s to 1900s.

A collector for the Royal Horticultural Society of Britain send samples home in 1847, and another send seeds to England in 1900. Plants were first exported from China to the United States in 1904. Kiwifruit is available worldwide today and is produced in New Zealand, the United States, Italy, Japan, France, Greece, Spain, Australia, and Chile.

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.

A study conducted at Rutgers University evaluated the nutritional value of fruits to determine--ounce for ounce--which provides the most nutrition. The findings, published in the October 1997 issue of the Journal of the American College of Nutrition, ranked popular fruits on the basis of the amount of the daily value they provide per 100 grams of fruits. At the top of the list was kiwifruit.

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 - is the most nutrient dense of all the major fruits.

Low in fat is Sodium-free, Cholesterol-free, High in fiber and High in vitamin C. A great source of Vitamin E, folate (B vitamin), potassium 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.

Research conducted by the University of Oslo in Norway reveals that consuming two to three kiwifruit per day can work to thin blood, reduce clotting and lower fat in the blood that can cause blockage, without negatively affecting cholesterol levels. Like aspirin, eating two kiwifruit a day promotes heart health. In short, kiwifruit consumption has similar effects to the daily dosage of aspirin recommended by physicians to improve heart health.

Findings of a 2003 study conducted by the internationally renowned Rowett Research Institute in the United Kingdom found that eating kiwifruit daily can provide substantial protection against the kind of DNA damage that may cause cancer.

Another 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.

Due to California kiwifruit's late fall harvest, fresh kiwifruit is available to U.S. and Canadian consumers during the winter months, an uncommon time for the "homegrown" fresh fruits. With proper storage and handling, California kiwifruit is available for up to eight months - from October through May.

Our favorite way of eating Kiwi is fresh and raw. There are recipes using Kiwi cooked but I have never tried them so I cannot recommend one…

Painkiller Vioxx Might Return to Sale
Feb 18, 2005
By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID

WASHINGTON (AP) - The painkiller Vioxx, pulled from the market last fall because of reported heart problems and strokes in users, could come back on sale if federal regulators conclude it and similar drugs have benefits that balance the risks.

Dr. Peter S. Kim, president of Merck Research Laboratories, told a joint meeting of two Food and Drug Administration advisory committees that new studies indicate the side effects aren't unique to its product.

The advisory panels were concluding a three-day meeting Friday in which they have been assessing drugs known as Cox-2 inhibitors, which also include Pfizer Inc. (PFE)'s Celebrex and Bextra, to determine whether they are all risky and, if so, whether they have balancing benefits.

All three drugs have been approved for sale by the government. The committees' recommendations could be the first steps toward rescinding those approvals or taking other actions ranging from tougher label warnings to extensive new safety studies of the drugs.

Dr. Robert Temple, director of medical policy for the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, told the committees on Friday that "the idea of doing a large new study has weight."

"There are some data we'd all like to have, that we don't have," Temple said, including the blood pressure and other effects of the various drugs.

He said a new study might include more than just the Cox-2 drugs, possibly adding such widely used painkillers as ibuprofen, naproxen and diclofenac.

"My main point is that there is a very important need for more information on many of these drugs," Temple said.

On Thursday, meeting chairman Alistair J.J. Wood of Vanderbilt University Medical School asked whether the drugs could win approval today, considering the studies that have come to light in recent months.

Kim indicated a positive assessment by the committees might lead Merck to consider bringing Vioxx back onto the market.

If the committees and the FDA conclude that the benefits of this class of drugs outweigh the risks for some patients, "then we would have to consider the implications of these new data" for Vioxx, Kim said.

Asked if he meant the company would consider returning Vioxx to the market, Kim said: "There are unique benefits to Vioxx. The science has progressed and we need to take that science into consideration."

While the committees heard evidence that all drugs in the group can increase the risk of heart attacks, irregular heart beat and strokes, it did note that Vioxx seemed to have more such reports than the other drugs.

On the other hand, Kim pointed out that Vioxx is the only one of the drugs approved for people with certain allergies and did better at preventing the stomach and intestinal problems often caused by over-the-counter painkillers.

Committee members will be asked their opinion on whether all the drugs pose a problem and what should be done. Their recommendations could include increasing warnings, seeking more studies, limiting who can use the drugs or how long they can be used or even ordering one or more off the market.

The evidence is suggestive that there is something going on with each of these drugs, but it is not conclusive, commented Thomas Fleming, chairman of the department of biostatistics at the University of Washington.

Dr. Steven Abramson, chairman of the division of rheumatology at the New York University School of Medicine, said it's possible the problems stem from the ability of these drugs to hamper the Cox-2 enzyme. But he also suggested a study to examine whether similar problems arise from other painkillers, such as ibuprofen.

Dr. Peter A. Gross, chairman of internal medicine at the Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey, worried that if the committee did conclude the heart problems were related to the Cox-2 action, patients would all switch to older drugs that can cause ulcers and bleeding problems.

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Merck Research Laboratories
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Final say from our lovely government bureaucracy on Friday 2/18/05; "Pain Killer Vioxx WILL RETURN to market!"

The panel voted 31-1 to keep Celebrex on sale and 17-13 with two abstaining for Bextra. Government advisers said Friday, concluding that benefits to suffering patients outweigh the dangers.

The advisers concluded that Vioxx, which its maker Merck & Co. (MRK) pulled off the market last fall, poses the greatest risk and that Celebrex has the fewest side effects.

They suggested that the prescription products carry strong warnings and recommended a long-term study to gain more understanding about the drugs.

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