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Corn was painstakingly cultivated from wild grasses several thousand years ago, eventually becoming a staple of many Native American diets. The ancient Mayans, believing humans were made from the plant, revered the corn god; for the Aztec, the goddess of fertility was also the goddess of corn. In both cultures, as well as many others, the plant was used medicinally to treat conditions as varied as warts and hepatitis. One part of the crop, the tassel of silk at the base of every ear of corn, was used specifically for urinary conditions.

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A Controversial Therapy for Diabetes Is Verified
By GINA KOLATA
March 24, 2006

Three groups of scientists report today that they independently replicated a controversial finding: severely diabetic mice can recover on their own if researchers squelch an immune system attack that is causing the disease.

Dr. Denise Faustman had reported the pancreas might cure itself.

It is a discovery that was first published in 2001 and raised the hopes of people with Type 1 diabetes, which usually occurs in puberty and afflicts an estimated half-million to a million Americans. If the findings applied to humans, they might mean reversing a disease that had seemed incurable.

The findings also gave rise to questions about using embryonic stem cells as replacement cells for diabetics, a method that is the focus of intense interest. If it is possible, in mice, for the pancreas to cure itself, and if the same finding holds true in humans ? which, so far, is entirely unknown ? adding embryonic stem cells as the source of new pancreas cells might provide little added benefit, if any.

In any event, scientists are not yet ready to treat diabetic patients with embryonic stem cells; they first have to prod the cells to turn into insulin-secreting pancreas cells. Meanwhile, efforts to cure diabetes by transplanting pancreas cells from cadavers have met with limited success.

The report several years ago, by Dr. Denise Faustman of Massachusetts General Hospital, that the pancreas might cure itself, at least in mice, met with skepticism.

"People just didn't believe it," said Dr. David Nathan, director of the diabetes center at Massachusetts General and a longtime supporter of Dr. Faustman. "People said you can't cure diabetes."

But, Dr. Nathan added, "this shows that at least in mice it has been confirmed and reconfirmed and confirmed again."

The three new papers, by researchers at the University of Chicago, Washington University in St. Louis, and Harvard's Joslin Clinic are published today in Science. In every case, the investigators followed Dr. Faustman's procedures, injecting diabetic mice with Freund's Complete Adjuvant, a mixture of water, oil and parts of dead bacteria. It overstimulates the immune system cells that are attacking the pancreas, making those white blood cells self-destruct, effectively stopping the attack and allowing the pancreas to cure itself.

The different groups calculated their cure rates in different ways but all reported that a significant proportion, though less than half of the mice, were cured. In Dr. Faustman's experiments, 67 percent of the mice were cured.

Dr. John Buse, director of the Diabetes Care Center at the University of North Carolina, urged caution.

"There are two possibilities," Dr. Buse said. "This treatment works for mice but no derivation of it will ever work for humans. Or this is the paradigm leap that is necessary to find the cure for Type 1 diabetes."

"If I was a betting person, my guess is that it probably won't work in humans," Dr. Buse added, explaining that all too often in science what works in mice does not work in people.

And despite their success in curing some of the mice, the three groups of researchers could not confirm another of Dr. Faustman's findings, published in Science in 2003. There, she reported that the new insulin-secreting cells came from the spleen. Dr. Faustman added that she could boost the animal's response to her treatment by giving them extra spleen cells, although, she said, the extra cells were not necessary to cure the mice. Just stopping the immune system attack was sufficient, she said.

Most scientists questioned the spleen cell finding just as they questioned Dr. Faustman's claims that she could cure mice with advanced diabetes in the first place.

In the meantime, Dr. Faustman attracted the attention of Lee Iococca, who recently raised $11 million for her medical center for studies testing her initial discovery in humans. Patients clamored to be included. Even though she is not ready to begin even the most preliminary tests, she already has 600 on a waiting list.

Diabetes researchers have long known that the Type 1 form of the disease is caused when the immune system attacks insulin-secreting beta cells that reside in islets, round balls of cells, in the pancreas. And they realize that they have to stop that attack if they are ever to cure the disease. But, said Dr. Jeffrey Bluestone, director of the Diabetes Center and Immune Tolerance Network at the University of California, San Francisco, most investigators have assumed that curing diabetes, even in mice, requires providing new pancreas cells after the immune system is tamped down.

"What these papers suggest is that there may be some capacity inside the animals to make new beta cells without doing a transplant," Dr. Bluestone said.

"It says that even a long time after the mice are diabetic, they still have a capacity to develop new beta cells," he added. "That's very exciting."

But the question remains, Where did the new islet cells come from?

The groups from the Joslin Clinic and Washington University say the cells derived from a few beta cells that had survived the immune system onslaught. The Chicago group says its studies could not answer the question.

In a sense, Dr. Bluestone says, it sounds academic. After all, the point is that the pancreas cells came back on their own. The origin of those cells may not matter to patients. But, he said, "we need to be cautious since it may not be straightforward moving these mouse studies into humans."

Dr. Louis H. Philipson, the senior author of the University of Chicago group, concurred.

"If it's the spleen, you have hundreds of thousands of first-degree relatives and parents of diabetics who will be prepared to donate their spleens," Dr. Philipson said. "You have to be very careful what you tell desperate people."

As for Dr. Nathan, he agreed that the spleen question needed to be resolved. But, for now, he added, the real importance was that Dr. Faustman was correct that even severely diabetic mice could be cured.

"The bottom line is that the approach worked," Dr. Nathan said.

LENA'S COMMENT: This study explains what Dr. Garland and I already knew and witness weekly with diabetes reversing when his alternative treatments are followed. He works to build the immune system, which will reverse damage to most any part of the body as well as eliminate allergies...

Another great springtime green for detoxing and cleansing the body of its winter residue!

During my years of living in Oklahoma as a young child there was a spring ritual that we took part in that produced a tasty and healthy green dish. It was known to us as "poke salat pickin time". This tasty green popular wild food is found mostly in the eastern half and southern part of the United States but can be found in the western portion in some areas. Each year as spring approaches I start to hunger for these tasty greens. Mother nature produces some great free food if you know where to look for it… These days with the population so exploded it's harder to find but bet your grand mother will know where to find them!

Some so-called smart people will tell you not to eat Poke Salat, but they also will tell you that processed foods are good for you and your body can be healthy without vitamins and minerals so I totally discount their recommendations!

We didn't start that ritual! Native Americans introduced the plant to the early European settlers and fast became such a popular pot herb that seeds soon were being cultivated back in Europe. After a long winter without fresh food, the early settlers looked forward to cooking the first tender green leaves of pokeweed. It gave them vitamins while providing a good spring cleansing tonic. They'd cook it up with Lamb's Quarters – another of my favorite wild greens - and Dock, which are also early spring greens. Some people today still cook and eat poke greens in the early spring although fast food is overshadowing healthy eating that I fear this green will lose it's appeal in future generations. Growing up it was simply understood that everyone ate greens and liked them but now most children have never tasted a green food or if they have most have chosen to dislike them.

Salat is the German word for salad, and probably came with German settlers. In towns you'll find pokeweed growing wild in alleyways and vacant lots. In the country it grows in the fence rows and along the edges of woods. When mature, in mid and late summer, it has clusters of shiny purple berries which birds love to eat. Poke is poisonous in uncooked stage and cannot be eaten raw in salads!

Pokeweed is a large and coarse herbaceous weed with big leaves, a stout reddish trunk, widely branching reddish stems, and elongated erect clusters of small white flowers that give way to drooping clusters of dark purple berries. The leaves are smooth, long and taper at both ends. As the season progresses all parts of the plant take on more of a reddish or purplish hue. Pokeberry is an herbaceous perennial that dies back in winter and grows quickly in spring Mature leaves give off an unpleasant odor when bruised. In addition to eating the young shoots and leaves, native Americans and early American settlers made a crimson dye from the berry juice and continues with some today. The berry juice was used for ink.

Only the young shoots and developing leaves - before they take on their reddish hue - can be eaten, and only after boiling for 20-30 minutes in at least two changes of water. Be very careful not to get any of the root when picking the young shoots.

Native Americans from throughout its range used pokeweed concoctions for a wide variety of internal and external medicinal applications. It seems the berry juice has been used for pimples and boils, in some cases taken internally in other cases applied to the skin. It has also been taken for joint pain and applied to sore breasts. Leaf concoctions have been used as an expectorant, emetic and cathartic. My mother would make a poke poultice for boils and it worked…

Sadly I cannot find the exact nutrient makeup of Poke Salat but is said to contain the same nutrients as other greens and cabbage families. In the spring, the tender young shoots are picked and boiled in two changes of water to help remove any toxic properties. Traditionally cooking; drained leaves are then seasoned with salt, pepper and bacon drippings and then fried in an iron skillet. Personally, any way you fix spinach will work with poke greens as long as you drain off the first water and toss it.

My mother served poke greens two ways. One; by boiling until tender then she would drain them and put into a skillet and add one egg and one small chopped onion per 2 cups of cooked greens and cook until eggs were set and onions tender crunchy. Second, was simply boiled for about 15 minutes, drain off water, add more water and a few pieces of beef, sliced onions, salt and pepper to taste and boiled until the beef was fork tender. Both ways are tasty.

I now live in an area that I cannot find wild poke greens, but forced to buy canned ones, which just isn't the same nor as tasty… Fresh is best!

When Your Cells Are Mineral and Vitamin Strong, What Happens?
© By Lena Sanchez

According to researchers you are likely to be deficient in minerals and vitamins in many areas of you body!

What happens when you supplement daily minerals and vitamins?

"Non-verbal IQ scores up as much as 30% in children who take minerals and vitamins," reported David Benton PhD, Psychologist of Britain's University of Wales Swansea. That proven in ten studies out of thirteen!

"Children who took minerals and vitamins for a full year had fewer infections and viruses," according to tests at the University of North Carolina.

Minerals and multivitamins taken for a ten year period proved to prevent cataracts," according to Ophthalmologists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

"Less heart disease and 20% lower risk of heart attacks in men and women who took minerals and multivitamins," states a Swedish study.

"Cells that have insufficient minerals and vitamins look exactly like those attacked by radiation. Cells lacking sufficient minerals and vitamins suffer severe DNA and mitochondrial damage, causing premature aging, cancer and degenerative diseases," according to a researcher Bruce Ames and his group at the University of California, Berkley.

Ames and his group also came to the conclusion that a minimum of 60% of the population are mineral and vitamin deficient! This should be no surprise if people were paying attention to the naturopaths, acupuncturists and holistic physicians for the last three decades. The government way back in 1936 said this day was coming!

So have you taken you minerals and vitamins today? Even if you did and they are in pill form the chances are high that you are still deficient simply because pill form is not well digested!

People with Macular Degeneration or glaucoma are proving to be deficient in many minerals, trace minerals and an array of vitamins!

Most vulnerable to malnutrition are growing children, elderly who eat less food and pregnant women. If we can just get that group to supplement properly we will be more than 50% towards having a healthier world!

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Wishing you a long healthy life!
Lena

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If you live in a big city plagued by smog this will apply to you!

Study Doubles Estimate of Smog Deaths
USC researchers amass measurements of lethal particulate matter from hundreds of locations in the L.A. Basin. State may raise its official figures.
By Janet Wilson, LA Times Staff Writer
March 25, 2006

The number of deaths from breathing sooty smog in California may be more than twice as high as previously estimated, based on a recent USC study that examined the risk of such deaths in the Los Angeles Basin.

A team of researchers headed by Michael Jerrett, associate professor of preventive medicine, found two to three times greater risk of mortality from heart attacks, lung cancer and other serious illness tied to chronic exposure to fine particulate matter than did previous studies.

The study looked at specific soot measurements and deaths in hundreds of neighborhoods — rather than relying on citywide annual averages used in the past — and detected the largest increased risks in the Inland Empire, Jerrett said.

Fine particulate matter spewed out by cars, trucks, locomotives, ships, planes, refineries and other sources lodges deep in the lungs and is widely considered the most lethal form of air pollution.

The staff of the California Air Resources Board said this week they are considering boosting statewide death estimates based on the USC data, pending independent review.

"I think candidly it's likely," said Michael Scheible, deputy executive director of the board. "The research suggests we will end up raising our estimates … but we want to be cautious."

Currently, state officials estimate 9,000 Californians die annually from diseases caused or aggravated by air pollution, more than half of them in Southern California.

That number could double or even triple if the Air Resources Board incorporates the USC data into its estimates, Scheible said.

He said the board decided Thursday that the USC study and two others examining the effect of air pollution on mortality should undergo one more layer of review to determine the best possible way of applying them statewide. That review could be completed by the end of summer.

The other studies include one by researchers at Harvard University who found that as soot pollution declined in six northeastern cities, related deaths declined as well. The other, a recent study by Loma Linda University, found increased coronary deaths among women exposed to both fine particulate matter and ozone.

The Times reported earlier this week that one in every 15,000 Californians — about 66 per million — is at risk of contracting cancer from breathing chemicals in the air over his or her lifetime, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's recent National-Scale Air Toxics Assessment. The study was based on emissions of 177 chemicals in 1999.

"The more we learn about particulate, the worse the news is," said Jerry Martin, a spokesman for the Air Resources Board, who added that as recently as 10 years ago, ozone and toxics were considered the problem. "Part of that is the technology for looking at very fine particles keeps improving…. A fine particle is less than one-twenty-eighth the size of a human hair. At that size, it can actually permeate right through your lungs into your bloodstream and cause heart problems."

Other air regulators and clean-air advocates said the USC study points to the need to toughen national standards for fine particulate.

"The study underscores the extremely grave severity of the threat from air pollution," said Frank O'Donnell of Clean Air Watch in Washington, D.C. "It draws a huge line under the need for the federal government to take aggressive action against existing sources of diesel soot."

Sam Atwood, spokesman for the South Coast Air Quality Management District, said the agency's chief health expert "considers it a significant study that bolsters the need to strengthen particulate matter standards."

EPA administrator Stephen L. Johnson has drawn criticism for proposing new standards for particulates considered too lax by his own scientific advisory panel. He is facing a court-ordered September deadline to make a final decision.

The highest death rates from smog-related illnesses in the USC study were found in the Inland Empire, where diesel soot is blown by prevailing winds. In western Riverside and San Bernardino counties, the soot is trapped by four mountain ranges.

"Somebody living in San Bernardino is two or three times more likely to die from smog during a given period than someone in Venice," Jerrett said.

The risk of fatal heart attacks tied to soot was as much as 39% higher in the smoggiest areas. Deaths from diabetes, though few, were twice as high in those areas.

The current mortality estimate is based on a 2002 national study of 500,000 people that found a 6% increased risk of death with each additional 10 micrograms of fine particulate per cubic meter of air. But the national study used just three monitors in the L.A. basin, missing major pockets of pollution, according to Jerrett.

He said the new study, co-written by the lead researcher on the 2002 work, found sharply higher rates of risk, between 11% and 17%, because it analyzed soot measurements and deaths in 269 ZIP Codes and 23 monitoring sites across the basin.

He said researchers studied nearly 23,000 Los Angeles-area residents who are part of a long-term study of the effects of air pollution begun by the American Cancer Society in 1982. He said more than 40 variables, including smoking habits and diet, were taken into consideration.

A separate USC study published this week in Environmental Health Perspectives Journal found that ozone, a different type of air pollution, reduced sperm counts in Los Angeles men. Other pollutants did not affect sperm counts.

"The data indicated that for every 14 parts per billion increase in ozone, we had an approximate drop of 3 million sperm per millimeter," said lead author Rebecca Sokol, a USC endocrinologist. That is about a 3% drop in sperm as the ozone level rose, especially on smoggy summer days.

The smoggiest day measured was 50 parts per billion, but she said that such heavy smog days were rare.

"These changes are not going to put men in the infertile scenario," she said. Still, she noted that all the days measured had smog levels below the current California legal standard of 80 parts per billion.

More than 5,000 samples from men known to be fertile were taken. Next, the researchers plan to study the possible relationship between ozone and infertile men.

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