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In a study of 110 heart patients, performing the waltz proved to be just as effective at increasing the heart's capacity for exercise as bicycling and running. Better, actually. Oxygen uptake was 12.5% greater among waltzers than those who relied on running or biking for their heart reconditioning. And the anaerobic threshold (the point where muscles fatigue) was 5% higher among dancers than the bicycling or running crowd? they also reported improvements in sleep, mood, their zeal for hobbies, and their ability to have sex, too.

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Baby food is generally made from condensed vegetables and fruits. This indicates that the pesticide residue, sometimes, can also be concentrated. So you may get higher levels of pesticides than regular food.

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CDC: Too Few Eating Fruits, Vegetables
Mar 15, 2007
By DANIEL YEE

ATLANTA (AP) - Fewer than a third of American adults eat the amount of fruits and vegetables the government recommends, a trend that's remained steady for more than a decade, health officials said Thursday. That's "well below" the government's goal of getting 75 percent of Americans to eat two servings of fruits and having half of the population consume three servings of vegetables each day by 2010, said Dr. Larry Cohen of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The diet survey, part of a huge federal health survey of every state, is based on responses from 305,000 adults in 2005. It indicates the country is only about halfway toward meeting its healthy eating goal three years from now.

"We're really concerned with the lack of success in meeting these national goals," said Cohen, who works in CDC's nutrition and physical activity division.

Although the rate of fruit and vegetable consumption has remained unchanged since 1994, health officials said the goal is still within reach.

"We have more work to do over the next few years," said spokeswoman Rachel Ciccarone.

Specifically the survey showed that 27 percent of adults ate vegetables three times a day, and about 33 percent ate fruit twice a day. A serving size is a half-cup for most fruits and vegetables, one cup for leafy greens.

Senior citizens were more likely than others to follow Mom's advice to eat more veggies, with slightly more than a third of that group eating three or more servings each day. Younger adults, age 18 to 24, ate the fewest vegetables. Nearly four-fifths of that age category scraped the veggies to the side of their plates - if they had vegetables on the plate at all.

Likewise, seniors also ate the most fruit, with nearly 46 percent eating two or more servings of fruit daily. People age 35 to 44 ate fruit the least, with fewer than 28 percent eating the recommended amount of fruit each day.

The federal agency said it doesn't know why people aren't eating more veggies or fruits. Cohen said future surveys will ask people what other foods they are eating.

Susan Krause, a clinical dietitian at Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey, said people are eating more refined sugars or choosing protein instead of fruits and vegetables.

"There's so much information out there and people get very confused. When they're looking at protein, they feel that's the solution when they're not looking at long-term health benefits," she said. "There's so many fabricated foods now and people are looking at convenience."

Not only are fruits and vegetables lower-calorie, they also have minerals and fiber that help guard against chronic diseases and cancer, the CDC says.

The survey relied on people to report what they were eating. Telephone questioners asked how often they consumed fruit juice, fruit and vegetables. Although Hispanics ate the most fruits (37 percent) compared with blacks and whites, they ate the fewest vegetables, (about 20 percent). Whites, in contrast, ate the fewest fruits (31 percent) but the most veggies (28 percent).

Cohen said the CDC has been working on family and community programs to get more people to eat their veggies. The agency is working with the U.S. Department of Agriculture to get more fresh produce into schools.

Krause said health officials should offer people simple options for getting fruits and vegetables in their diets, such as easy recipes in cooking classes and fruit smoothies or shakes in schools.

"If that's a way of getting it in, at least it's in the right direction," she said. "Certainly (whole) fruit is a better choice, but that could be the next alternative."

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LENA'S COMMENT: No Kidding! The very reason people should be supplementing daily to try and offset this omission! At least add Balanced Ionic Liquid Minerals to that daily regimen so your body can utilize what you do give it...

Counties Launch Anti-Global Warming Plan
Mar 16, 2007
By BRIAN WESTLEY

WASHINGTON (AP) - Residents of Virginia's largest county might soon see more vegetation growing on roofs and more green space in new neighborhoods as part of a multimillion-dollar initiative to combat global warming.

The changes are part of a new national program called Cool Counties, which Fairfax County is launching along with several partners: the Sierra Club; Washington state's King County, which includes Seattle; and Illinois' Cook County, which includes Chicago.

The program hopes to encourage each of the nation's more than 3,000 counties to do its part in reducing greenhouse gases, officials said Thursday.

"Sadly, over these past six years, we've had an administration that has chosen to deny the science of global warming," said Fairfax County Board of Supervisors Chairman Gerald E. Connolly. "If they're not going to (take the lead), we're going to do it at the local level."

Details of the Cool Counties program have not been completed, but they will be presented in July at the National Association of Counties conference in Richmond, Connolly said.

The program will award counties points for various environmental initiatives and the localities that obtain a certain number of points will be certified Cool Counties. A rural jurisdiction might place more emphasis on clean-burning fuels, while urban counties would focus on environmentally friendly development.

"We want to be flexible enough so that it works for various counties," Connolly said.

The initiative is the latest step by local leaders to embrace some aspects of the Kyoto Protocol - an accord that calls for mandatory reductions of greenhouse gases among the signing nations - even as the federal government refuses to participate.

In 2005, for instance, Seattle's mayor launched the U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement, in which participants pledge to reduce carbon dioxide emissions 7 percent below 1990 levels by 2012.

County leaders were eager build on the idea by developing a program tailored specifically for the counties.

Counties are better positioned to promote telecommuting, the use of hybrid cars, walkable communities and issues related to land use, said Jim Lopez, deputy chief of staff to the county executive in King County.

"We need to have change from the bottom up," Lopez said.

In Fairfax County, the largest county in the Washington, D.C., region with more than 1 million residents, Connolly said many pieces of the initiative already are under way.

Two new fire stations, built in part with recycled materials, make use of clean energy sources. The county government obtains 5 percent of its electricity from wind power and operates 90 hybrid vehicles. And it has purchased thousands of acres, including the 3,200-acre former Lorton prison site, for conservation.

Still, Connolly said more can be done.

He wants the county's fleet of 3,600 police, fire and other vehicles to be replaced with less-polluting vehicles over time. He also wants to double the county's use of wind power in five years, to 10 percent. More than 400 buildings, including schools, can be retrofitted to be made more environmentally friendly or replaced, he said.

Glen Brand, the Sierra Club's Cool Cities director, praised the new county-based initiative as another important step toward reducing harmful emissions. He said that while there are upfront investments, most environmental measures should pay for themselves over time by reducing energy bills.