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As the sun shines in my office window I am thankful to see it...With the weeks of rain I had begun to think the sun no longer existed. ☻Now my sympathies lie with you easterners and your cold and snow. Hopefully this will be the last big one of the year, but the weather people seem to think it's probably not. Just when we should be thinking about spring cleaning in both our homes and our bodies we get zapped with weather that stops those thoughts. Later this month I will be telling you how to go about cleaning your body and preparing it for summer heat and fun to maximize the health benefits from all that great sunshine and exercise..

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American Lung Association reports that doctor and hospital visits due to asthma are up 50% from 10 years ago.

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Are You At Risk For Allergies?
© Lena Sanchez

Allergies are already running rampant in our part of the country, said to be caused by all the rain we've had! Early this year!

Are you at risk for allergies? Maybe! Can allergies be alleviated? In most instances, yes! But not by our traditional drug world!

· Fifty percent of people are allergic to poison ivy -- It affects about 50 million a year. Poison ivy can enter our bodies when we touch it or inhale it (be careful if your neighbors are burning bushes).
· One in ten people suffer from some form of allergy.
· Insect bites/stings affect more than 2 million of us - whether in the form of swelling or inflammation or an anaphylactic response, which can be life threatening.
· Food allergies are more common in children but do affect some adults.
· Grass, weeds and pollen trigger hay fever and allergies.
· People at risk live with a fast paced life, fast food, inadequate rest and taking chemicals for headaches, backaches, etc. Chemical drugs are foreign to your body and should only be introduced in life threatening illnesses as a last resort!

An allergy is an indication of your immune system being out of sync and needing to be balanced in order to function with the rest of your body. As annoying as the symptoms of allergy are, they do serve a purpose ? symptoms are an attempt by the body to wash away the offending allergen.

Why are some people allergic to their cats or to certain foods, while others have no adverse reactions to anything? This is an area of open debate and intense research in the traditional medical world... Their conclusion, so far, is that children who were breast-fed have fewer allergies! Simply because their mother past on her immunities to them. Not much real information.

In 99 out of 100 adults the body is depleted of chemicals, as the medical profession refers to them. This shows may up in the form of depression diagnosed as a Chemical Imbalance. These chemicals are nothing more than the minerals our body needs to function properly and generate the electrical impulses needed to run our body. In this day and age it is an absolute necessity to put those minerals into your body by supplementing. Your foodstuffs no longer contain enough to give you the proper balance.

Moving to this area in 1993 I soon developed a horrendous array of allergy symptoms and was going nuts with the runny nose and eyes, headaches, achy body and itchy skin.

1995 :Those problems began to subside a few weeks after I began taking Ionic Liquid Minerals complex and when I added Immune Support Master Formula along with Antioxidants and voila! virtually no allergic symptoms. I slough off taking them ever once in a while and end up with allergy symptoms only to soon realize I had been lazy and not taken one or all three for a while.

I discovered in my search for healing of those miserable allergies that when my immune system is in tune and minerals balanced I can be symptom free? Read "The ABC's Of Minerals" to find out why this is possible!

The medical profession is so diverse in their beliefs of allergy causes and has totally overlooked the simple and ordinary natural prevention and/or repair. As usual, they are honed in on chemicals to alleviate the problems and the body becomes more allergic due to that attitude, making for a lifetime of shots and/or pills or inhaler!

I must say that building the immune system up and eating properly is not a cure for 100% of the people but those with simple pollen, animal and plant allergies are more likely to be free of symptoms.

Our environments are polluted so with manmade toxins that we are in danger of life threatening illnesses from them. With a balanced mineralized body we run a better chance of not developing those toxic poison illnesses that go along with allergies!

Wishing you a spring and summer free of allergic symptoms! If you would like to know how I destroyed my allergies mailto:lena@envirodocs.com?subject=AllergySol

A mouthwateringly delicious, sweet, creamy, subtropical fruit combining the exotic flavors of pineapple, papaya, passionfruit, banana, mango and lemon in one luscious bite. The cherimoya is believed to be native to the inter-Andean valleys of Ecuador, Colombia and Peru. Seeds from Mexico were planted in California (Carpinteria) in 1871.

Conical or somewhat heart-shaped, 4 to 8 inches long and up to 4 inches in width, weighing on the average 5-1/2 to 18 ounces, but the largest fruits may reach 5 pounds in weight. The skin, thin or thick, may be smooth with fingerprint-like markings or covered with conical or rounded protuberances. The sweet, juicy, white flesh is melting, subacid and very fragrant. The fruit is of a primitive form with spirally arranged carpels, resembling a raspberry. Each segment of flesh surrounds a single hard black bean-like seed. The fruit size is generally proportional to the number of seeds within. They ripen October to May.

The fruit turns a pale green or creamy yellow color as they reach maturity. Color change is not marked in cool weather. They should be picked when still firm and allowed to soften at room temperature. Ripe fruit will give to soft pressure. Overripe fruit will be dark brown. Fruit left on the tree too long will usually crack or split and begin to decay. If you are lucky enough to have one of these trees growing in you yard you should know how to pick the fruit? It should be clipped rather than pulled from the tree. Cut the stem close to the fruit so it won't puncture other fruit during storage.

Lots of good nutrients such as vitamins A, C, D, E, B6, B12, K, Retinol, Alpha Carotene, Beta Carotene, Lycopene, Lutein+Zeaxanthin, Beta, Gamma and Delta Tocopherols, Thiamin, Riboflavin, Niacin, Folate and Pantothenic Acid. Not too shabby in minerals department either, with Calcium, Iron, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Potassium, Sodium, Zinc, Copper, Manganese and Selenium.

This fruit is very rich in amino acids making them digestive joys and healthy with; Tryptophan, Threonine, Isoleucine, Leucine, Lysine, Methionine, Cystine, Phenylalanine, Tyrosine, Valine, Arginine, Histidine, Alanine, Aspartic acid, Glutamic acid, Glycine, Proline, Serine and Hydroxyproline.

Toxic Seeds:
The seeds are crushed and used as insecticide. Some have said they have witnessed blindness resulting from "the juice of the crushed seeds coming in contact with the eyes." I cannot say if that is true or just a tale that has gone around over the centuries? The seeds do contain several alkaloids: caffeine, reticuline, anonaine, liriodenine, and lanuginosine.

In Mexico, rural people toast, peel and pulverize 1 or 2 seeds and take the powder with water or milk as a potent emetic and cathartic. Mixed seed powder with grease and used to kill lice and is applied on skin disorders caused from parasites. A decoction of the skin of the fruit is taken to relieve pneumonia.

The cherimoya flesh, when ripe, is most commonly eaten out of-hand or scooped with a spoon from a cut open fruit. It really needs no embellishment but some people like to add a few drops of lime juice. Occasionally it is seeded and added to fruit salads or used for making sherbet or ice cream. Something I have not tried but sounds really refreshing and healthful is a Colombian drink; crushed and strained juice, add a slice of lemon and dilute with ice-water to make a refreshing soft drink. The fruit has also been fermented to produce an alcoholic beverage in some cultures. Although it is best eaten straight out of its skin here is a really exotic salad that is found in some high end restaurants;

Cherimoya Fruit Salad
1 cherimoya
2 oranges
2 apples
2 avocados

Peel, seed and cut cherimoya into chunks. Wash and cut apples into eighths (do not remove skin) and core fruit. Peel oranges and cut into slices. Cut slices in half, forming half-circles of orange. Peel and pit avocados and cut into eighths. On a bed of lettuce, arrange alternating slices of apple, orange and avocado in a circle. Top with cherimoya chunks. Serve with poppy seed or light vinaigrette dressing. Or try this dressing: Combine 1/4 cup each; plain yogurt and mayonnaise; add 4 tablespoons cherimoya puree. Makes 6-8 servings.

Interesting and very tasty fruit, try it!
Lena

An A.L.S. Puzzle on the Soccer Field
By NICHOLAS BAKALAR
March 1, 2005

Why soccer would be a risk for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a mystery.

But a new study has found that Italian professional soccer players get the disease at a rate nearly six times as great as the general population.

The study, led by Dr. Adriano Chiò a professor in the department of neuroscience at the University of Turin, was inspired by the work of an Italian prosecutor, Raffaele Guariniello, who was investigating soccer players' use of illegal drugs.

As part of his inquiry, he ordered a report on the causes of death among 24,000 men who played professional or semiprofessional soccer in Italy from 1960 to 1996.

His finding - that Italian players died of A.L.S. at a rate almost 12 times as great as normal - puzzled researchers, who decided to undertake a much more rigorous study.

A.L.S., often called Lou Gehrig's disease, is an incurable and invariably fatal degenerative disease of the nervous system.

Although there have been many suggestions about the possible risks for the illness, including participation in sports, no clear-cut evidence has been found for any risk factors except age and sex. (A.L.S. tends to strike around age 60, and a vast majority of patients are men.)

The new study, however, found not only an increased risk among these Italian athletes, but also that the risk was dose-related: the longer an athlete played, the greater his risk of contracting A.L.S.

Moreover, the researchers found, the mean age at which the athletes developed the disease was 51, 10 years younger than the general population. The report appears in the March issue of the journal Brain.

Dr. Chiò said he was surprised by the results.

"I can tell you that when I was asked to perform this study, I thought it would be a waste of time," he said. "I didn't believe I would find any significant result. Now I know I was wrong."

He said the study's methodology was sound.

"We are very confident that these results are real and are not due to a statistical effect," Dr. Chiò said.

But he cautioned that the meaning of the findings was not clear, that A.L.S. is a very rare disease and that the study's results in no way suggested that anyone should stop playing soccer.

"I think this is a very good study," said Dr. Ruth Ottman, a professor of epidemiology at Columbia University. "The methodology seems quite rigorous, and the dose-response relationship supports the validity of the results."

The study's subjects included all native Italian male professional soccer players who were on a team roster from 1970 to 2002 and who had played in at least one official match. The total came to more than 7,000 men.

Eighteen cases of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis were identified. The researchers interviewed all living players who had A.L.S., as well as the doctors and relatives of players who had died from the disease, and compiled detailed medical and personal histories of the patients' activities and health before, during and after their time as active athletes.

The researchers also gathered family histories, paying particular attention to neuromuscular disorders. One form of A.L.S. is inherited, but no affected player had the disease in his family.

Dr. Chiò and his colleagues suggest several explanations, none of them with certainty. Perhaps, they say, A.L.S. is related to heavy physical exercise, and therefore not related particularly to soccer.

Or maybe trauma, particularly the head trauma involved in heading the ball or repeated traumas involving the legs, is a factor. Illegal or legal therapeutic drugs may also be involved, and it is possible that environmental toxins like fertilizers or herbicides used on soccer fields play a role.

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