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Test Could Be Predictor of Heart Disease
By CARLA K. JOHNSON
Mar 14, 2005

CHICAGO (AP) - A simple and inexpensive test for elevated white blood cell counts could be used to predict heart disease, a study of more than 66,000 women suggests.

The study adds to the growing body of evidence that inflammation plays a role in strokes and heart attacks, perhaps by weakening blood vessels and causing fatty buildups inside them to break loose and create a blockage.

Women with the highest levels of white blood cells were found to be twice as likely to die from heart disease as women with the lowest levels. High white blood cell counts also were associated with a 40 percent higher risk for nonfatal heart attack and a 46 percent higher risk for stroke.

White blood cells are the body's germ fighters. Their levels rise when the body is fighting infection from viruses and bacteria, and doctors routinely take a white blood cell count to diagnose various illnesses.

Current guidelines for predicting heart disease already direct doctors to test for another marker of inflammation, C-reactive protein, in some patients. But the white blood cell test is cheaper and more widely available. And it is as strong a predictor as C-reactive protein, the researchers said.

The study was published Monday in the Archives of Internal Medicine and was led by Dr. Karen Margolis, associate medical director of the Berman Center for Clinical Research in Minneapolis.

A white blood cell test costs about $25, she said, while a test for C-reactive protein costs about $75.

Cleveland Clinic cardiologist Dr. Steven Nissen, who has done similar research, said the new study might not change medical guidelines but should get doctors' attention.

"It's really a wake-up call for the profession," he said. "Heart disease was not created by cholesterol alone."

Which comes first, inflammation or damaged blood vessels, still is unknown. It is also unclear whether lowering white blood cell counts can lower the risk of heart attacks and strokes, Margolis said.

In the study, a white blood cell count did not have to be off the charts to predict heart disease death. Levels at the upper end of normal, or above 6.7 billion white blood cells per liter of blood, doubled the risk.

The study measured white blood cell counts once, then tracked the women for an average of six years. Researchers took into account other risk factors such as diet, smoking, age and physical activity.

The study is part of the Women's Health Initiative, a research project of the National Institutes of Health that involves thousands of postmenopausal women across the country. Other WHI studies have uncovered the risks of taking hormones.

In an accompanying editorial, Dr. Mary Cushman of the University of Vermont called for more research to perfect inflammation testing. But Cushman cautioned that widespread screening for white blood cell counts could increase health-care costs and needlessly worry some patients.

Archives of Internal Medicine

LENA'S COMMENT: So why do they persist on saying cholesterol is the problem? Drug sales, of course... So keep the inflammation away by having your immune system in top shape.

Since spring is a time to clean your home and your body, this week's vegetable is one that anyone can have from the poorest to the richest pocketbook that not only fills a nutrition detoxing program but contributes to good health and costs nothing to put on your table!

This wild vegetation drives gardeners crazy when trying to keep lawns nice and green. Right now it's head is popping up all over the place and I can almost hear the gardeners screaming! Over the centuries our ground has become deplete of minerals in the soil and Mother Nature says we have to take care of that problem… Hence Dandelions grow rampant all over this earth trying to repair the depletion!

Much more than a repairer weed the dandelion is an edible plant with uncommon nutritional and medicinal value and grows wild in almost every yard I've ever been in making it a free food! There are many varieties of Dandelion leaves; some are deeply cut into segments, in others the segments or lobes form a much less conspicuous jagged leaf feature.

The dandelion's name comes from the French term "dent-de-lion," meaning "lion's tooth" - so named for its dark-green leaves with pointy, toothlike edges - a staple in French country kitchens. Russia, calls it "life-elixir," and its leaves are traditionally steamed and served with sour cream and thinly sliced red onion. Italians like the leaves chopped and sauteed with garlic and olive oil. The English boil them and then toss them with vinegar and salt. Almost every part of the dandelion can be consumed, including the blossoms and roots. Only the dried-out puffball of seeds is inedible; that part seems to have been created purely to make man mad and for procreation of the plant.

The dandelion leaves are shiny and without hairs, the margin of each leaf cut into great jagged teeth, either upright or pointing somewhat backwards, and these teeth are themselves cut here and there into lesser teeth. It is this somewhat fanciful resemblance to the canine teeth said to resemble the angular jaw of a lion fully supplied with teeth.

The shining, purplish flower-stalks rise straight from the root, are leafless, smooth and hollow and bear single heads of flowers. On picking the flowers, a bitter, milky juice exudes from the broken edges of the stem, which is present throughout the plant, and when it comes into contact with the hand, turns to a brown stain that is rather difficult to remove.

The dandelion is a veritable feast for at least ninety-three different kinds of insects who are in the habit of feasting on it. Smart insects!

The plant prefers to take root in poorly mineralized soil, where it sends its thick brown taproot deep to pull minerals from below, restoring health to overused topsoil. Wherever you see dandelions turning a green meadow gold, the earth is being replenished. When you see them growing in abundance in your garden or yard, know that area is deplete of minerals big time and signals the need to supplement with minerals as much as possible to that area

Dandelions bloom in spring and fall. For this reason, they are beloved by beekeepers: They can depend on the nectar from these blossoms for making honey well into autumn, long after other flowers have gone. The plants are also useful in fruit orchards, since their leaves emit a gas that makes fruit ripen early and evenly.

Tenth-century Arab physicians called it taraxacon, meaning "a remedy for disorders." It has an especially potent effect on the liver resides in solar plexis area of the body, and one of the dandelion's main constituents, choline, is essential to liver function. The stomach and gall bladder can also be strengthened by regular consumption of dandelion. Bitter greens, such as dandelion and chicory, release hydrochloric acid in the stomach, which helps with digestion. They also contain generous amounts of vitamins C and A and the mineral calcium.

Dandelion greens can often be found among the colorful medley of greens known as mesclun (A mixture of young salad greens), sold at farmers' markets, natural-food stores and the specialty-produce sections of most grocery stores. The blossoms and roots, however, are rarely available commercially; you'll probably need to harvest your own. Pick blossoms in a field that you know hasn't been treated with chemicals; dig roots - also chemical-free area - with a garden fork on a day when a recent rainfall has softened the ground.

It is great as a salad green loaded with antioxidants, and potassium. Is a great milk producer in cows - most cows will not eat it but when they do it increases the milk production by about 1/3 - and in lactating women. The leaves are more nutritious than anything you can buy with more beta-carotene than carrots. More iron and phenomenal calcium than spinach. High in vitamins B-1, B-2, B-5, B-6, B-12, C, E, P, and D, biotin, inositol, potassium, phosphorus, magnesium, and zinc. A tasty, free vegetable that grows in virtually every yard.

The young leaves of the Dandelion make an agreeable and wholesome addition to spring salads. The full-grown leaves should not be taken, being too bitter, but the young leaves, especially if blanched or sautéed, make an excellent salad, either alone or in combination with other greens, onion, lemon juice, shallot tops and/or chives. Dandelion is only pleasantly bitter, and if eaten while the leaves are quite young, the center rib of the leaf is not at all unpleasant to the taste. But older the rib is tough and not so tasty to eat.

The young leaves may also be boiled as a vegetable, spinach fashion, thoroughly washed and drained, sprinkled with lemon or lime juice, pepper and salt, moistened with soup or butter and served very hot. If considered a little too bitter, use half spinach, but the Dandelion must be partly cooked first then add the spinach to finish cooking, as it takes
longer to cook than spinach. Another variation, some grated nutmeg or garlic, a teaspoonful of chopped onion or grated lemon peel can be added to the greens when they are cooked. A simple vegetable soup may also be made with Dandelions.

The dried Dandelion leaves are also employed as an ingredient in many digestive or diet drinks and herb beers. Dandelion Beer is a rustic fermented drink common in many parts of the country and made also in Canada. Workmen in the furnaces and potteries of the industrial towns of the Midlands have frequent resource to many of the tonic Herb Beers, finding them cheaper and less intoxicating than ordinary beer, and Dandelion stout ranks as a favorite with many. An unusual but agreeable and wholesome fermented drink is made from Dandelions, Nettles and Yellow Dock.

The roasted roots are largely used to form Dandelion Coffee, being first thoroughly cleaned, then dried by artificial heat, and slightly roasted till they are the tint of coffee, when they are ground ready for use. The roots are pulled up in the autumn, which is the best time for this purpose. The prepared powder is said to be almost indistinguishable from real coffee, and is said to be an improvement to inferior coffee.

The dandelion is known for it's diuretic properties as well as used for blood cleansing tonic and slightly aperient (laxative). It is a general stimulant to the system and especially to the urinary organs, and is chiefly used medicinally in kidney and liver disorders.

Dandelions are also good tonic for the bladder, spleen, pancreas, stomach and intestines. It’s recommended for stressed-out, internally sluggish, and sedentary people. Anyone who's a victim of excessive fat, white flour, and concentrated sweeteners could benefit from a daily cup of dandelion tea.

Have gallstones try this;
1 OZ. Dandelion root,
1 OZ. Parsley root,
1 OZ. Balm herb,
1/2 OZ. Ginger root,
1/2 OZ. Liquorice root.

Place in 2 quarts of water and gently simmer down to 1 quart, strain and take a wineglassful every two hours.

A Healthier jelly alternative if you are a jelly lover! (Jelly isn't really healthy but this is a close as you are going to get to healthy jelly)

4 cups yellow parts of dandelion blossoms
3 cups boiling water
4 1/2 cups sugar (I prefer the equivalent in Stevia)
2 Tbsp Freshly squeezed lemon juice
1 pkg powdered pectin

Pull the yellow blossoms apart from the green parts. Get lots and lots of blossoms.. While you are collecting them, you can freeze what you already have. Make sure there are no green parts since the green parts have a bitter flavor. I pack the blossoms into a 4 cup measure. More blossoms mean more flavor for the jelly. Bring the water to a boil and fill the water with dandelion blossom shreds. Simmer over very gentle heat about 10 minutes. Pour the water and blossoms through a strainer. Press the blossoms as dry as possible to extract the maximum amount of water. Add more blossoms to the strained water and simmer for about 10 minutes. Continue simmering and straining until all the blossoms are used up. Add more water to make up 3 cups. You lose some water because it is caught in the blossoms. Strain the water very well. I use a coffee filter. Combine water with lemon juice, sugar and pectin. Bring to roiling boil and stir until sugar is dissolved. Boil hard for one minute. Skim. Pour into hot jars and seal. I haven't used food coloring but I have seen this jelly lightly tinted pink with pure cherry juice and it looks prettier as well as adding more healthy properties.

Enjoy your free food while cleaning the comfort food goo from your system preparing for the summer heat!

Study: Pacemakers Can Cause Heart Failure
Mar 14, 2005
By LINDA A. JOHNSON

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - People with the most common pacemaker types are more likely than similar people without pacemakers to die from or be hospitalized for gradual heart failure, sometimes within six months, according to a large study confirming doctors' belief the life-saving devices actually harm some patients.

Experts say the tens of thousands of patients with pacemakers should not panic. They should have the pacemaker checked every several months, contact the doctor if heart failure symptoms such as shortness of breath and fatigue develop, and possibly have the pacemaker's timing adjusted.

For some patients, replacing the pacemaker with a new type designed to prevent damaging strain on the heart's key pumping chamber could prevent heart failure, said Dr. Michael Sweeney, director of heart devices implantation at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

"The way we've practiced cardiac pacing for the last three decades must be abandoned," said Sweeney, who was not involved in the study.

About 175,000 pacemakers are implanted in this country each year.

Sweeney said about 90 percent stimulate one or two of the heart's right chambers to contract when beating slows down, but don't allow the four chambers to beat in the same order as a healthy heart. That out-of-sync beating puts extra stress on the heart's main pumping chamber, the left ventricle, and in some patients causes congestive heart failure, in which the heart gradually stops pumping effectively.

In the study of more than 23,000 New Jersey hospital patients, those with a pacemaker that stimulated both the right chambers of the heart had a 36 percent higher risk of hospitalization or death from heart failure than a comparison group of people in similar health but without a pacemaker. Among patients who had a pacemaker implanted that only stimulated one right chamber, there was a 59 percent higher risk.

"I think it makes sense that when you're making the heart contract in an abnormal way, you're increasing risk of developing heart failure," said the lead investigator, Dr. Ronald Freudenberger, director of the Department of Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick.

The study, in the March issue of The American Journal of Cardiology, was based on hospital records and death certificates from a huge database of New Jersey patients.

From 1997 through 1999, 11,426 patients with no history of heart failure had pacemakers implanted at New Jersey's 85 hospitals. Freudenberger's team combed the next three years of records for those patients and a matched group without a pacemaker. All had an average age of 75 and were similar in race, sex and prevalence of some heart-related conditions, such as high blood pressure and past heart attack.

"I think the paper's important because it adds another piece of evidence to a now almost completely filled-in picture," showing the need for pacemakers to make hearts beat in a normal pattern, Sweeney said.

Dr. Stephen Hammill, head of the Mayo Clinic's heart rhythm service and president of the Heart Rhythm Society, said a smaller study following patients with different types of pacemakers found their risk of heart failure rose the more the device kept the lower heart chambers out of sync.

Hammill said a new pacemaker that stimulates both the lower heart chambers appears to help the heart pump blood more efficiently and limits fluid buildup in the body, a dangerous symptom of heart failure.

Sweeney is running a study of such pacemakers - which cost about $10,000, roughly double other devices, excluding hospital and surgeon fees - to prove whether they limit heart failure development. He expects results in about three years.

Dr. Anne Bolger, a cardiologist and professor of clinical medicine at University of California-San Francisco, said because hospital discharge reports exclude many details on patients' health, some unseen difference between the two patient groups - such as family history of heart failure - could have affected the study's outcome. But she said because so many people were in the study, it could prompt research on how best to match pacemaker types to individual patients.

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LENA'S COMMENT: Sadly so many people have had pacemakers put in unnecessarily. Not because their heart wasn't out of rhythm but because their cardiologist has no clue that simply balancing their minerals will balance the heart beat. Irregular heart beat does not have to occur with aging as you have probably been led to believe! In the last ten years with Wayne Garland's Master Formulas I've watched so many heart rhythms smooth out after daily supplementing with his Ionic Liquid mineral complex that gives the heart and all organs health and strength when consumed daily... My husband's doctor told him, I also heard doctors tell patients, it was normal to have an erratic occasional skipped and or extra beat. WRONG! That strange thud in the chest is usually corrected with daily supplementing and balancing of minerals.

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