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Food, Anxiety and Depression
By Margaret Paul, Ph.D.

In our current society, there are many factors that can cause or contribute to anxiety and depression. Certainly money and work problems, relationship and family issues, as well as illness and loss of loved ones are major contributors to anxiety and depression. Also, how we feel about ourselves and treat ourselves contribute greatly to how we feel. Even in the worst of times, if we are treating ourselves with compassion instead of self-judgment, we may be able to manage big challenges without anxiety or depression. In addition, being able to turn to an inner source of spiritual guidance and comfort is vital to weathering the hard times.

Food is another major factor that greatly affects how we feel. Most people don't really notice that what they put into their bodies affects how they feel. They might know that if they "sugar out" they may crash emotionally, or if they drink too much they will feel hung over, but they are
often unaware of how other foods may be creating anxiety and depression.

In the over 35 years that I've been a counselor, I have frequently encountered individuals whose anxiety and depression completely cleared up by tuning into how food was affecting them.

For example, Marnie discovered that dairy, wheat and sugar kept her up at night. She would wake up at around 3:00 in the morning with intense anxiety, and would be tired and depressed the next day. By experimenting around and cutting out different foods, she discovered that she slept fine when she stopped eating dairy, wheat and sugar. All her nighttime anxiety vanished and she was no longer tired and depressed.

Joel discovered that his sleeplessness and resulting depression was a direct result of caffeine from coffee, tea, chocolate and soft drinks. He had not realized how much caffeine he was actually consuming until I suggested that he cut out all caffeine and see what happened to his sleep. After a week of headaches from caffeine withdrawal, he was sleeping soundly for the first time in years and no longer felt depressed.

Adrienne discovered that her feelings of anxiety and depression, that had been with her most of her life, disappeared after she started eating only organic foods. Her system was so sensitive to the pesticides and food additives in non-organic food that she could not eat them without feeling anxious and depressed.

Alex, who periodically struggled with depression, inadvertently discovered that drinking raw milk from an organic dairy had a completely different effect on him than pasteurized milk. He was visiting Los Angeles and went into a health food store where he discovered that he could buy raw dairy products (which are outlawed in most other states). He found that the raw milk gave him more energy and elevated his mood. He also found that, while he was lactose intolerant with pasteurized milk, he had no problems with raw milk. Now he has his raw milk, cheese, and butter shipped frozen to Wyoming, and no longer struggles with depression.

Over and over again my clients, who have chosen to tune into how food was affecting them, have discovered how much their feelings were being affected by food. Many of my clients
have learned that even a little sugar brings them down. Sugar consumes so many vital nutrients as the body attempts to process it that it can actually be considered a poison. How many people really take "Sugar Blues" seriously?

A hundred years ago, when people naturally ate non-processed and organically grown food, they were getting all the nutrients they needed. Now, most fruits, vegetables and grains are being grown on devitalized soil and over-processed on top of it. Cows and sheep that were once grass fed are being fed pesticide-sprayed grains and given hormones to fatten them up. As a result, much of our food not only contains little nutrients, but has many toxins as well. Without the vitamins, minerals, and many other factors that natural, organic and grass-fed food contains, many people suffer deficiencies that can cause anxiety and depression, as well a many other illnesses.

I recently found out that the fat of raw organic dairy products, especially butter, contains natural anti-inflammatory nutrients. I wonder if the huge rise in arthritis and other inflammatory conditions is related to the pasteurizing of milk. Any inflammatory condition can certainly contribute to anxiety and depression.

Food is certainly a major factor in the rise of anxiety, depression and illness. Only you can do something about this by learning how you are being affected by the foods you eat.

Margaret Paul, Ph.D. is the best-selling author and co-author of eight books, including "Do I Have To Give Up Me To Be Loved By You?" and "Healing Your Aloneness." She is
the co-creator of the powerful Inner Bonding healing process. Learn Inner Bonding now! Visit her web site for a FREE Inner Bonding course: http://www.innerbonding.com or
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Carol S. Johnston, Ph.D., is researcher in the Department of Nutrition at Arizona State University. Like many nutritionists, Dr. Johnston is curious about the ways that some natural agents seem to help control spikes of insulin and glucose after eating. So a 2001 Swedish study caught her attention. In that study, researchers showed that blood sugar spikes were held in check when pickles were consumed immediately after a high-carbohydrate breakfast.

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Can Strep Bring On an Anxiety Disorder?
By ANAHAD O'CONNOR

Looking back, Denise Watkins is convinced a sore throat disabled her son one year ago. His bizarre obsessions emerged not long after, first the constant nightmares about snakes and alligators, then the relentless hand washing that left his skin raw and chapped.

Mrs. Watkins, who lives in Lakeland, Fla., was told that her son, Will, had obsessive-compulsive disorder. But it seemed odd, Ms. Watkins thought. Will was only 5 years old, and his illness seemed to burst out of nowhere.

"In a matter of weeks," she said, "this was a totally different child."

Then one day, buried on a Web site about mental illness, her husband noticed a small "blip" on children who develop a sudden, severe form of obsessive-compulsive disorder after a bout of strep throat.

Mrs. Watkins read the description, decided that Will fit the pattern, and thus became part of a small but growing number of parents who blame a common bacterial infection for the psychiatric illness of a son or daughter.

About one child in 1,000 may be afflicted, but some experts say the number is higher if milder cases that escape notice are included. The condition is known as Pandas, or pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorder associated with streptococcal infection, and scientists know so little about it that some question whether it even exists.

Frustrated parents, many of whom describe watching helplessly as their children unravel overnight, are waiting on a handful of studies now under way to yield some answers. Meanwhile, many have sought out drugs and complicated medical procedures that may be unnecessary, and in some cases dangerous.

"With Pandas you get a very desperate situation," said Dr. Tanya Murphy, director of the child anxiety and tic disorder clinic at the University of Florida. "It's amazing how quickly the kids go from functioning pretty well to being devastated with motor tics and symptoms of O.C.D. Then you see parents wanting to do anything to get their kids back to the way they used to be. I can understand where they're coming from."

There are no nationwide statistics on how many children may have the disorder. But Dr. Murphy said that in the last three years, in Florida alone, she had enrolled in her studies at least 100 children who fit the pattern.

"I'm also aware of at least three times that many children from phone calls and parents of clinic patients who do not want their children enrolled in research," she added.

First described by scientists at the National Institutes of Health in the mid-1990's, Pandas is still relatively new. There is no surefire way to detect it, and few doctors have even heard of it. But the signs are often unmistakable.

Children, sometimes as young as 2 or 3, develop odd verbal and motor tics. They feel compelled to engage in repetitive behaviors. They develop irrational fears of germs, bugs, intruders, almost everything around them. Separation anxiety is another hallmark. Even getting them to perform routine activities like going to school becomes a struggle. Many of the symptoms - ritualistic behaviors and disturbing thoughts, for example - mirror those of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

But unlike O.C.D., Pandas crops up almost overnight, its onset coinciding with a streptococcus infection or immediately after it. And the symptoms wax and wane. They flare up, anecdotal evidence suggests, whenever the child has contracted a new strep infection, leading some scientists to suspect a causal link.

"This is not what we're used to seeing," said Dr. Paul Lombroso, a professor of child psychiatry at the Yale Child Study Center who is also involved in studies of the disorder. "Normally, the onset of a tic disorder is a much more slow, insidious process."

Dr. Susan Swedo, a researcher at the National Institute of Mental Health who first described Pandas, believes the disorder is caused by a severe immune reaction that leads to brain damage. The mechanism may be similar to what is seen in some other diseases. In rheumatic fever, for example, antibodies produced against an untreated strep infection mistakenly attack the heart valves.

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LENA'S COMMENT: This is the very reason to have Ionic Silver Water in the home and at the first sign of any viral/fungal/bacterial infection start taking it... Strep is insidious and hard to detect and can get by a lot of parents as a lot of kids don't experience it as a serious illness...

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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…

Panel to Advise Testing Babies for 29 Diseases
By GINA KOLATA
February 21, 2005

In influential federal advisory group plans to recommend in the next few weeks that all newborns be screened for 29 rare medical conditions, from the well known, like sickle cell anemia, to diseases so obscure that they are known to just a handful of medical specialists and a few dozen devastated families.

But while no one argues with the idea of saving babies, the proposed screening is generating fierce debate.

The dispute centers on how useful the test findings would be. Would going ahead with the full list of tests result in more good than harm, physically and emotionally? Or would it be better to forgo most of them?

Proponents say that the diseases are terrible and that an early diagnosis can be lifesaving. When testing is not done, parents often end up in a medical odyssey to find out what is wrong with their child. By the time the answer is in, it may be too late for treatment to do much good.

But opponents say that for all but about five or six of the conditions, it is not known whether the treatments help or how often a baby will test positive but never show signs of serious disease. There is a danger, they say, of children with mild versions of illnesses being treated needlessly and aggressively for more serious forms and suffering dire health consequences.

And both sides agree that the tests unintentionally pick up about 25 other conditions, in addition to the 29 that the screening is intended to find. These additional conditions show up as abnormalities, but no one knows what they mean. It is not known whether they are associated with a disease or, if so, what the effects will be.

The federal advisory group recommended informing the parents of such results. But that advice, too, is controversial.

"Giving parents the result, saying, 'Here's the mutation; we are not sure what the outcome will be,' is better than not telling," said Sharon Terry, president and chief executive of the Genetic Alliance, an advocacy group for people with genetic disorders. Ms. Terry said it was paternalistic for doctors to presume that it was better for parents not to know.

Dr. R. Rodney Howell, a professor of pediatrics at the Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami and the chairman of both the committee that wrote the report and the federal advisory group, agreed.

"Do I feel it will be difficult for physicians and caretakers to deal with this?" Dr. Howell said. "The answer is yes. But I just don't think it is proper for us to have information about an abnormality without conveying it."

But Dr. Lainie Friedman Ross, a pediatrician and medical ethicist at the University of Chicago, said: "We don't know if they are medical conditions. We don't know what to do with the information. Reporting test data for which there are no systems in place for follow-up testing and treatment is not rejecting paternalism, but it is patient abandonment."

In any event, Dr. Howell said, noting that states were plunging into testing programs: "It's not really a question of, 'Should we expand newborn screening?' It's happening. It's going like a house on fire."

In most states today, parents are not asked if they want their babies tested, though they have the right to decline it; it is simply done, with the cost, about $70 to $120, built into their hospital bills. Dr. Howell said the idea of the new recommendations was "to try to organize the programs and to try to be consistent from state to state."

"Some states screen for four conditions; others screen for 35," said Dr. Michael S. Watson, the federal project's director and the executive director of the American College of Medical Genetics. "A family can have their first child in one state where 25 conditions are screened and then move to another where only four are screened."

Yet, critics say, the fact that testing is happening does not mean that it should be expanded. The history of newborn screening, they say, is filled with cautionary tales.

LENA'S COMMENT: They admittedly tell you that only about 7 of those 29 illnesses can be effectively treated so why alarm those who cannot be treated and will simply have to learn how to live with the condition? I believe in prevention but since this type of testing cannot be 100% accurate it will serve to alarm people to something that may or may not exist in the child... My .02!

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