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In the last week we've had spring weather, snow, rain, sleet and cold so it is a toss up as to what we will experience, weather wise, on any day here... Trees are budding, which means the white frozen world we awoke to this morning will create a really big setback to them and we still have a lot more to go as our frost season doesn't end until the last week of May or Middle of June... But who knows what this year olds? The world has gone wild on all fronts making it important that we take charge of our life in all areas... I'm hearing coughs, sneezes and sniffling as I go about the stores here and some areas of the country are having problems with heavy viral outbreaks so if you haven't prepared your immune system to cast off any bug in your vicinity you really need to have Ionic Silver Water in your medicine arsenal to quickly kill any invaders!! A word to the wise here - I wasn't watching our personal stash or storage closet of Silver Water as close as I should and my dh needed some yesterday before my order arrives Thursday so we went to the health food store to get him some Colloidal Silver, which neither of us like because it doesn't absorb as well so isn't as effective but it works in a pinch... anyway we paid $25.95 for a tiny 8 oz bottle of the stuff and it is only 30 ppm's -- what I carry has 100 ppm making that expensive little bottle is so weak that the bottle will barely make it until my order of good strong stuff arrives tomorrow... Our favorite ionic is much stronger is 16 oz for $29, more absorbable and lasts much much longer as it takes less... Have a good week and great health!

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There are 40 million surgeries in the United States each year, but what's supposed to make you better can sometimes kill you. This year, about 1,500 Americans will leave the operating room with a surgical instrument left in their body. Sometimes it does no harm, but in some cases the consequences are deadly.

Sponges and instruments can get left behind during surgery because they're often covered in blood and hard to spot. And hospital staff sometimes miscounts -- easy to do in emergency situations where seconds matter.

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* Combating a cold or flu requires an infection-fighting healthy immune system.
* Treating a cold or flu requires the proper natural treatment!

Killers to the immune system; smoking, stress, a diet filled with sodas, candy, cakes, pies, cookies, and puddings. Sugar kills our white cells, which are the fighters to ward off colds and flu. For every one of these diet faux paux you will require and extra 1500 IU of Vitamin C with bioflavonoids.

· Prevention Solution: Cut out the sodas, sweets, caffeine, alcohol and smoking. Eat a diet rich in vegetables, grains, legumes (beans). Get plenty of exercise (30 minutes a day) and be sure to rest and sleep your required hours (8 hours for most but some can get by with a wee bit less than that), drink plenty of water every day (64 ounces). This will boost your immune system way up over an extended time. The immune system was not run down overnight, it took time to get there and it will take time to rebuild.See what Congress knew in 1936 that isn’t being taught in medical school or anywhere else for that matter! Senate 74TH congress 2^ND SESSION 1936. Senate Document No. 264. Read it Click Here

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Didn't prevent and find yourself ill: Get the ultimate virus fighter Ionic Silver Water... Drink immune building lemon & honey tea: put juice of ½ lemon in a cup of hot water and add 2 – 3 teaspoons of honey. Sooth and tasty tea and Kids love it also.

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Nuts to Balance Blood Sugar?

A recent study reported in the Journal of Nutrition stating that almonds can help reign in erratic blood sugar levels.

The researchers had 15 volunteers eat five different meals at five different times. One of the meals included about 2 ounces of almonds. When they compared the subjects' results, the researchers found that not only were the glucose levels substantially lower following the almond-containing meal, but so were the subjects' levels of oxidative damage. And that's good news not just for diabetes, but for all sorts of health concerns-from wrinkles to cancer.

For many years now I've told you how nuts are good fats and good for your health so this isn't news to me. Get more of the story read Nuts_To_Your_Health.

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Aging Nation Faces Growing Hearing Loss
Feb 18, 2007
By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - An aging U.S. population faces a looming crisis in hearing loss, researchers said Saturday. Some research holds promise, but much is in the early stages.

By 2050, there could be as many as 50 million people in the United States with impaired hearing, Steven Greenberg of Silicon Speech in Santa Venetia, Calif., told the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Hearing loss results in social and psychological isolation, "which makes their life hell," Greenberg said.

Thanks to loud music and a generally noisy environment, young people have a rate of impaired hearing 2 1/2 times that of their parents and grandparents, he said.

Stefan Heller of Stanford University said research in restoring damaged hearing cells "is very much at the beginning and it's still a long, long road."

Inner and outer hair cells in the ear pick up sound vibrations and send them to the brain. Damage to outer cells causes hearing impairment which can be helped by hearing aides, he said. Damage to the inner cells cannot be repaired and causes deafness.

Heller said ear stem cells have been isolated in laboratory work and grown into cells that resembled hair cells.

"They're not perfect," he said. When placed in the ear of chicken embryos, most of the cells died. A few survived and were implanted into the inner ear. The next step, he said, is to try the experiment in mice.

Gene therapy is being tested in an effort to produce more hair cells in the ear. The result so far has been a type of hybrid cells and researchers are unsure whether they can get these cells to survive.

Heller said scientists in Japan are experimenting with drugs that seem to help spur the growth of hearing cells in young mice. The results in older mice are far less promising.

There seems to be something not yet understood that prevents new cell development in the inner ear. This is an area where cancer is not known to occur, he said, and an indication that something prevents cell development.

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How Gov't Decided Lunch Box Lead Levels
Feb 18, 2007
By MARTHA MENDOZA

In 2005, when government scientists tested 60 soft, vinyl lunch boxes, they found that one in five contained amounts of lead that medical experts consider unsafe - and several had more than 10 times hazardous levels.

But that's not what they told the public.

Instead, the Consumer Product Safety Commission released a statement that they found "no instances of hazardous levels." And they refused to release their actual test results, citing regulations that protect manufacturers from having their information released to the public.

That data was not made public until The Associated Press received a box of about 1,500 pages of lab reports, in-house e-mails and other records in response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed a year ago.

The documents describe two types of tests. One involves cutting a chunk of vinyl off the bag, dissolving it and then analyzing how much lead is in the solution; the second test involves swiping the surface of a bag and then determining how much lead has rubbed off.

The results of the first type of test, looking for the actual lead content of the vinyl, showed that 20 percent of the bags had more than 600 parts per million of lead - the federal safe level for paint and other products. The highest level was 9,600 ppm, more than 16 times the federal standard.

But the CPSC did not use those results.

"When it comes to a lunch box, it's carried. The food that you put in the lunch box may have an outer wrapping, a baggie, so there isn't direct exposure. The direct exposure would be if kids were putting their lunch boxes in their mouth, which isn't a common way for children to interact with their lunch box," said CPSC spokeswoman Julie Vallese.

Thus the CPSC focused exclusively on how much lead came off the surface of a lunch box when lab workers swiped them.

For the swipe tests, the results were lower, especially after the researchers changed their testing protocol. After a handful of tests, they increased the number of times they swiped each bag, again and again on the same spot, resulting in lower average results.

An in-house e-mail from the director of the CPSC's chemistry division explained that they had been retesting with the new protocol "which gave a lower average result than the prior report ... ," he wrote. "This shows ... that the overall risk is lower than our original testing would have showed, as the amount of lead dislodgeable is mostly taken out with the first wipe and goes down with subsequent wipes."

Vallese explained it this way: "The more you wipe, the less lead you actually find. With fewer wipes we got a higher detection of lead presence. We thought more wipes was closer to reflecting how you would interact with your lunch box. It was more realistic."

The test results also show that many lunch boxes were tested only on the outside, which is unlikely to be in contact with food. Vallese said this was because children handle their lunch boxes from the outside.

As a result of their tests, the CPSC issued a public statement last year reassuring consumers they had nothing to worry about: "Based on the extremely low levels of lead found in our tests, in most cases, children would have to rub their lunch box and then lick their hands more than 600 times every day, for about 15-30 days, in order for the lunch box to present a health hazard."

Vallese said the commission stands by those statements.

But the results were disconcerting to experts who reviewed them for the AP.

"They found levels that we consider very high," said Alexa Engelman, a researcher at the Oakland, Calif.-based Center for Environmental Health, which has filed a series of legal complaints about lead in lunchboxes.

"They knew this all along and they didn't take action on it. It's upsetting to me. Why are we, as a country, protecting the companies? We should be protecting the kids. I don't think in this instance they did their job."

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