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Another Antibiotic Found to be Killing People

The antibiotic Tequin, manufactured by Bristol-Myers Squibb, can cause potentially fatal swings in blood sugar.

Greater Risk Than Previously Thought

A new study shows that the drug's risks are far greater than they were believed to be. The FDA has already warned doctors not to prescribe the antibiotic to diabetic patients. However, the blood sugar swings have now been observed even in patients without diabetes.

17 Times the Risk

An examination of the medical records of almost 1.5 million people older than 65 showed that those who took Tequin had four times the risk of low blood sugar, and almost 17 times the risk of high blood sugar.

Those who took Tequin were also far more likely to be hospitalized for blood sugar problems, and a number of such patients died.

Alternatives Available

Tequin made $150 million in worldwide sales last year. It is used to treat lung, sinus and urinary tract infections, and also some sexually transmitted diseases. Alternative antibiotics are available for all of its uses.

New England Journal of Medicine March 1, 2006

Los Angeles Times March 2, 2006

Bloomberg.com March 1, 2006

LENA'S COMMENT: This isn't the only antibiotic with side effects that make for danger! A little known secret that man made antibiotics has some not so good outcomes and creates severe problems further down the line after you've already forgotten that you even took them... Our alternative use is Ionic Silver Water, the ultimate safe antibiotic!

Vaccines may create nutritional failure by inflicting early and severe injury to gut tissue and digestive function, by increasing the risk for bilirubin neurotoxicity at birth, by setting off inflammatory responses that consume nutrient stores or secondarily via brain injuries impair feeding skill and gut motility. If over-vaccination is triggering food allergies in children, this too creates nutritional risk: Children with food allergies have significantly lower height for age and have poor intakes of essential nutrients compared to kids without food allergy. This means they don't grow as well and may not learn as well as peers.

~ Judy Converse, MPH, RD, LD a licensed registered dietitian specializing in medical nutrition therapies for children with developmental, growth, learning, behavior, and allergy issues.

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French Fry Fiasco

All kids love French fries, right? So do most adults. But there is a sinister side to this quintessentially American food (Freedom fries, anyone?). A study recently published in the International Journal of Cancer has found that only one weekly serving of fries during early childhood (ages three to five) may raise a female child's risk of developing breast cancer in adulthood by 27 percent.

The researchers who conducted the study surveyed about 2,000 mothers, asking them to recall what their adult children ate when they were small. Consumption of eggs, hamburgers, even cookies and butter weren't connected with increased cancer risk in adulthood, but those fries had some dramatic impact.

Why? Not because potatoes are inherently bad, as some Zone and Atkins fans would have us believe. It's most likely because of the way those potatoes are culinarily abused to make those crispy, crunchy, greasy fries: deep-frying in trans-fat-rich oils. Those fats appear to have effects on the developing breast tissue of young girls that then increase their breast cancer risk later in life.

Another recent study found that heating corn, soybean, and other polyunsaturated oils for a half hour or longer produces a toxic compound called HNE (4-hydroxy-trans-2-nonenal). It is believed that HNE increases risk of many illnesses, including stroke, heart disease, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's. Oil used for deep-frying in restaurants is usually heated for long periods and used over and over again-both of which, according to these researchers at the University of Minnesota, are no-nos if you wish to avoid creating HNE in your food.

If you can't live without fries, try making oven-baked versions at home. Cut three large russet potatoes into wedges or thin strips. Toss with two to three tablespoons of extra-virgin olive oil, ½ teaspoon each of onion powder, garlic powder, rosemary, paprika, and salt, and ¼ tsp black pepper. Or, instead of rosemary, use ½ tsp of chili powder or cayenne if you like some spice. Transfer the potatoes to a parchment-paper-lined cookie sheet, arranging them in a single layer, and bake at 450 for 10 minutes. Remove, stir, and return to the oven for another 10 minutes. Repeat until lightly browned and crispy. Serves four to six.

This isn't exactly health food, but it's a far better alternative than conventional fries. Bon appe´it!

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Strange names to say the least... In some parts of the world green foods are ready to come into season popping their green little heads out of the ground waiting to be picked and enjoyed. Those greens are great health foods as well as tasty… Today I'm going to cover only two of those healthy nutritious greens!

Some people use these greens interchangeably and accept them as the same green. Kale and collards are similar in many respects, differing in little more than the forms of their leaves. They are, in effect, primitive cabbages that have been retained through thousands of years. The Greeks grew kale and collards, although they made no such distinction between them as we make today. Well before the Christian era the Romans grew several kinds, including those with large leaves and stalks and a mild flavor; a crisp-leaved form; some with small stalks and small, sharp-tasting leaves; a broad-leaved form like collards; and others with curled leaves and a fine flavor. "Coles" were described also in the 1st, 3rd, 4th, and 13th centuries by European writers.

Kale and collards have remained minor commercial crops in the United States, although collards are the standard winter greens in home gardens of the South. Neither crop thrives in hot weather as it gives the plants a strong, unattractive flavor. Cool growing weather, fall frosts, and mild winters, however, impart a high sugar content and fine flavor.

"Kale" is often used to decorate produce cases at the grocery store, but would better serve you as a steamed up batch of health building food for you and your family. Known for its detoxing properties, which is good for cleaning the body of its winter comfort food goop and preparing it to take on the summer BBQ's and beach parties! Kale is often called "borecole," and in America collards are sometimes called "sprouts." "Kale" is a Scottish word derived from coles or caulis, terms used by the Greeks and Romans in referring to the whole cabbage like group of plants. The German word Kohl has the same origin.

"Collards" is a corruption of coleworts or colewyrts, Anglo-Saxon terms literally meaning "cabbage plants." With much the same nutrients as Kale.

These leafy nonheading cabbages bear the Latin name Brassica oleracea variety acephala, the last term meaning "without a head." They have many names in many languages, as a result of their great antiquity and widespread use. Apparently none of the several principal forms of kale and collards that we know today are new. All have been known for at least two thousand years.

All varieties of collards appear rather similar, but the kales show interesting diversity: tall and short; highly curled and plain leaved; blue-green, yellow-green, and red; erect and flat-growing; in various combinations and gradations of these characters.

Both are full of nutrition;
Vitamin C, Thiamin, Riboflavin, Niacin,Pantothenic acid, Vitamin B-6, Folate, Folic acid, Folate, Vitamin B-12. Vitamin A, Retinol, Vitamin A and Vitamin E along with minerals such as Calcium, Iron, Magnesium, Phosphorus,Potassium,Sodium, Zinc, Copper, Manganese, and Selenium. Along with important Amino Acids such as; Tryptophan, Threonine, Isoleucine, Leucine, Lysine, Methionine, Cystine, Phenylalanine , Tyrosine, Valine, Arginine, Histidine, Alanine, Aspartic acid, Glutamic acid, Glycine, Proline and Serine.

Kale and Collards is one of the best vegetables you can eat as preventative medicine. Touted to help prevent several types of cancer, in particular lung cancer. Each contains more carotenoids (anticancer agents) than just about any other green vegetable.

Leafy greens are officially "in season" in the winter months, but tend to be available year-round. Choose leaves that are crisp and fresh and have a deep green color, with no yellow tinge. Smaller leaves have a milder flavor, can be cooked whole, and often have stems tender enough to eat. With larger leaves, you'll need to cut out and discard the stems, and then chop the leaves into small pieces.

You don't like one or the other? Well, that is easily changed and flavorful tasty mix! Also some of the carotenoids are destroyed during heat, but when cooking both at the same time makes for more carotene available for your body to use. Collards can be eaten raw but I believe has a better flavor when steamed… Collard greens have a much softer, sweeter taste than kale. When you combine the two greens in the same dish, the mild collard flavor mitigates the sharpness of the kale.

An extra half cup a day will give you cancer-blocking benefits. And smokers, you need to load up on them as it will boost your resistance to developing smoking-related cancers. These are also used as part of cleaning those winter blahs from the body!

Store kale and collard greens in dry plastic bags in the refrigerator for up to three days. You can also cook the greens, and store them in the freezer in sealed plastic bags. They'll keep for months, so you can use them spontaneously in soups or casseroles when you don't have time to get to the store.

I grew up with the term "mess o' greens" (that's southern speech) when we were having them. Greens of all kinds have been staples in the Southern U.S. Diet for as long as the south has existed, which is where my family resides. In just about every garden there will be an area of all types of greens but kale and collards seem to be the most prolifically grown… I also grew up going out and hunting wild greens for eating…

Here is a suggested Kale recipe;

My favorite way of eating Kale or Collards and sometimes both mixed is Sautéed in Olive Oil

Wash well and dry one bunch of kale (or ½ bunch of kale and ½ bunch collards) and chop into bite size pieces. Chop a couple of green onions. Finely chop 2 cloves of garlic. Put one tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil into a sauté pan heated on medium low. Throw in kale, onion and garlic and sauté until wilted. I sometimes will add 2 Tablespoons of water and a dash, to taste of hot sauce; cover and simmer until tender. Either way is excellent.

How Can You Be Obese and Malnourished?
© By Lena Sanchez

"If you are obese you are malnourished."
2004, Dr. Phil McGraw

"In the future we will be a nation of fat bellies.
1936 United States Congress

The last statement was made in 1936 by the United States Congress in Document # 264 released to the public, when men of character still existed and wasn't in the pockets
of the rich companies and money wasn't the most important thing in life! After a thorough study of nutrients in our ground scientists came to the conclusion that; "our soils which are seriously deficient in trace minerals, cannot produce plant life competent to maintain our needs, and with the continuous cropping and chipping away of those trace minerals and concentrates, the condition becomes worse." Followed by the statement, "In the future we will be a nation of fat bellies.

I would say those men of far sight was right on, yet the facts they found are not being taught in our schools and that includes our medical schools enabling our doctors to actually make a difference in health. Well, here we are sixty-eight years later fulfilling that prophecy!

In the 1950's fertilizer became the way of replenishing the depleted soil, or so the farmers thought. Sadly fertilizer only contains 3 or 4 minerals while still lacking 80 to 81. People believe if a fruit or vegetable looks beautiful it contains healthy nutrients. That's what those who sell them want you to think. Fruits and vegetables do contain a minute amount, but to eat sufficient amounts in order to glean enough to make a difference in your body would surely put on a few hundred pounds in no time!

According to the latest figures the world consists of 64 percent obese people and growing daily. Sadly those same people are unaware their obesity means suffering with
severe malnutrition. Eating a lot of food does not guarantee nutritional nourishment, only calories and fat.

Combine the 1936 facts with the way our foods are processed - under the guise of keeping us healthy removing what little nutrients are left putting your risk for becoming ill, sooner or later, at 100%! Before all the pasteurizing, homogenizing, genetic modifying and radiating foods most people's immune system was healthy enough to ward off those bacteria. No longer the case… Only after illnesses became so prevalent and the 1936 scientific world ignored report did all the processing become a way of life. Fast/processed food has become a way of life depleting our foods even further making for scores of cancer, disease and illnesses becoming greater each year.

Over my 68 years of life I have learned some health prevention and the most important one is; if I eat processed foods at meal time or sweets between meals my body says feed me within the hour after eating rather than the five or six hours!

Those empty carbohydrates lead to a sugar rush, which is soon followed by a plunge in energy that leaves you tired, irritable, hungry and craving something sweet. Watch your food intake and see if that doesn't happen to you! I have also learned that when I keep my minerals balanced I don't experience hunger as often nor do I crave the carbohydrates of old

The 1936 document stated, "No man of today can eat enough fruits and vegetables to supply his system with the mineral salts he requires for perfect health..."

That was the beginning of the understanding of how important minerals were to our health, but the ball was dropped and has not been passed along to the generations
following We are taught that daily vitamins are necessary, but are they doing us any good? No!

Established in 1936; "Minerals are vital to human metabolism and health but no plant or animal can manufacture minerals within the body unless they are present in their foods. Vitamins can only be utilized in the body when the proper mineral content is present!!!" You will notice that most foods today contain a few minerals but nothing near the 84 minerals and trace minerals that our blood plasma requires to bathe our cells in and
maintain health!

Avoid obesity, check out your intake of minerals and see if you are getting sufficient amounts.

Each one of the following illness or disease has been proven to be indicative of at least three or more mineral deficiencies!

Acne, Anemia, Arthritis, Asthma, Brittle nails, Birth defects, Cancer, Candida (yeast infection), Heart disease, Chronic Fatigue and/or Fibromyalgia, Constipation, Cramps/ muscle spasms, Depression, Diabetes, Digestive problems, Goiter (low thyroid), Hair loss, Premature Graying hair, Hyperactivity, Immune system weakness, Impotence, Infertility, Liver dysfunction, Low blood sugar, Memory loss, Muscular weakness, Nervousness, Osteoporosis, PMS, Receding gums, Sexual dysfunction, and Wrinkles/sagging (early aging).

I implore you to get proper mineralization into your body today to avoid obesity and bad health. If your supplement has less than 84 minerals and trace minerals you are not getting sufficient supplements!

Wishing you health!
Lena

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Judges Overturn Bush Bid to Ease Pollution Rules
By MICHAEL JANOFSKY
March 18, 2006

WASHINGTON, March 17 - A federal appeals court on Friday overturned a clean-air regulation issued by the Bush administration that would have let many power plants, refineries and factories avoid installing costly new pollution controls to help offset any increased emissions caused by repairs and replacements of equipment.

Ruling in favor of a coalition of states and environmental advocacy groups, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said the "plain language" of the law required a stricter approach. The court has primary jurisdiction in challenges to federal regulations.

The ruling by a three-judge panel was the court's second decision in less than a year in a pair of closely related cases involving the administration's interpretations of a complex section of the Clean Air Act. Unlike its ruling last summer, when the court largely upheld the E.P.A.'s approach against challenges from industry, state governments and environmental groups, the new ruling was a defeat for the agency and for industry, and a victory for the states and their environmentalist allies.

In the earlier case, a panel including two of the three judges who ruled on Friday decided that the agency had acted reasonably in 2002, when it issued a rule changing how pollution would be measured, effectively loosening the strictures on companies making changes to their equipment and operations.

But on Friday, the court said the agency went too far in 2003 when it issued a separate new rule that opponents said would exempt most equipment changes from environmental reviews - even changes that would result in higher emissions.

With a wry footnote to Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass," the court said that "only in a Humpty-Dumpty world" could the law be read otherwise.

"We decline such a world view," said their unanimous decision, written by Judge Judith W. Rogers, an appointee of President Bill Clinton. Judges David Tatel, another Clinton appointee, and Janice Rogers Brown, a recent Bush appointee, joined her.

The winners this time ?more than a dozen states, including New York and California and a large group of environmental organizations ? hailed the decision as one of their most important gains in years of litigation, regulation and legal challenges under the Clean Air Act.

The provision of the law at issue, the "new source review" section, governs the permits required at more than 1,300 coal-fueled power plants around the country and 17,000 factories, refineries and chemical plants that spew millions of tons of pollution into the air each year.

"This is an enormous victory over the concerted efforts by the Bush administration to dismantle the Clean Air Act," Eliot Spitzer, the New York attorney general, whose office led the opposition from the states, said in an interview.

Mr. Spitzer, who is running for governor, said the ruling "shows that the administration's effort to misinterpret and undermine the statute is illegal."

Howard Fox, a lawyer for Earth Justice, which represented six environmental and health groups in the case, called the ruling "a victory for public health," adding, "It makes no sense to allow huge multimillion-dollar projects that drastically increase air pollution without installing up-to-date pollution controls."

The E.P.A. issued only a brief statement, saying: "We are disappointed that the court did not find in favor of the United States. We are reviewing and analyzing the opinion."

The decision is unlikely to be the last word; several circuit courts or appeals courts have considered or decided related cases, and the issue may eventually reach the Supreme Court. Some in Congress say the uncertainty demands an overhaul of the Clean Air Act itself, but there has been no real movement in that direction in recent years.

The new ruling addressed the administration's effort in 2003 to offer relief to energy companies that faced costly settlements of litigation brought by President Clinton's E.P.A. The agency proposed exemptions for companies whenever upgrades to their equipment amounted to less than 20 percent of the replacement cost of the equipment. In effect, that made perennial repairs of old equipment a more attractive alternative in many cases than its outright replacement.

Energy companies said the two rules the administration proposed in 2002 and 2003 would help them expand energy supplies at lower cost to consumers. But environmentalists said the change would result in just the kind of increased pollution that the law was intended to control.

The Clean Air Act calls for companies to build plants with up-to-date control technologies, and the new source provision was a way to ensure that as time goes by, pollution controls must be modernized along with the plants themselves.

Industry groups, which had challenged the first E.P.A. rule last year as not being flexible enough, were aligned with the agency this time. In general, they have been close partners with the Bush administration in environmental matters, pushing for greater economic considerations in the creation of any new policy.

The 20 percent threshold in the overturned rule would have enabled plant operators to make many repairs and upgrades without spending additional tens of millions of dollars for more advanced pollution controls. In settlements under the old rules, some companies faced costs of more than $100 million.

"This is a terrible decision," said Scott Segal, director of the Electric Reliability Coordinating Council, a trade organization, arguing that the "any physical change" definition created financial instability for plant operators who spent as much as $800 million for a new boiler.

He and other industry leaders expressed hope that the court ruling might induce Congress to pass new legislation that would include New Source Review, a step that he said would make it easier for plant operators to plan for their future upgrades and investments.

John Engler, president of the National Association of Manufacturers, called the ruling "a significant setback to business efficiency" and environmental quality.

The government has 45 days to decide whether to seek a review of the ruling by the entire appeals court.

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