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Treating Nausea Naturally and Safely

Most pregnant women will experience bouts of nausea and vomiting - particularly in the first trimester. Multiple studies have concluded that ginger is more effective than a placebo in relieving vomiting and nausea associated with pregnancy. "Ginger is effective for relieving the severity of nausea and vomiting of pregnancy," concluded researchers at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand. "Twenty-eight of 32 in the ginger group had improved in nausea symptoms compared with 10 of 35 in the placebo group. Further, no adverse effect of ginger on pregnancy outcome was detected." Ginger is a safe and effective treatment for nausea and vomiting associated with pregnancy. Ingesting as little as 1 gram of ginger root every day for four days will significantly reduce feelings of nausea and incidences of vomiting in pregnant women.

A study in the United Kingdom demonstrated ginger's effectiveness in easing nausea and vomiting in women recovering from serious gynecological surgery: "The effectiveness of ginger (Zingiber officinale) as an antiemetric agent was compared with placebo and metoclopramide in 60 women who had major gynecological surgery in a double-blind, randomized study. There were statistically significantly fewer recorded incidences of nausea in the group that received ginger root compared with the placebo."

In another study, ingesting 11 grams of ginger root before surgery reduces nausea as effectively as a leading medication. In the same study, women who received ginger also required fewer nausea-relieving medications following surgery.

Ginger products are made from dried or fresh ginger root - other tinctures are derived from steam distillation of the oil found in the root. This powerful herb is available in capsules, tinctures, extracts, and oils. Fresh ginger root is widely-available, and can be brewed into a tea.

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Not only does mushrooms fight active cancer but now it is shown that they are a huge benefit to prevention as well!

According to a cancer study's lead researcher, Dr. Shiuan Chen, "You don't need a strong effect to cause cancer prevention. Eating 100 grams or even less of mushrooms per day could have an effect on preventing new breast cancers." That's just a couple of ounces of mushrooms per day -- maybe three or four decent-sized ones from a 16-ounce package. At that amount, you'll barely even know they're there in your diet -- but your body certainly will.

A recent "mushroom fighting cancer" research shows that you can get some significant protection against breast cancer from the mushrooms that most of us do eat on a regular basis: the white button variety you'll find packaged in just about every supermarket in the country.

Researchers studied how several different kinds of mushrooms affected aromatase, an enzyme that helps the body make estrogen. (Excess estrogen can lead to cancer formation.) They found that not only did some common varieties of mushrooms block the action of aromatase in the body, but that the extracts of some of these mushrooms actually reduced the growth of breast cancer cells in test tubes and slowed tumor growth in experimental animals.

The researchers found that Portobello, cremini, and shiitake mushrooms all had positive effects, but white button mushrooms actually outranked them all and provided the strongest anti-cancer benefits. And it did so in a much smaller portion than you might expect.

Cars, trucks and buses trail cargo ships as air polluters
By Janet Wilson, LATimes Staff Writer
March 23, 2007

A study finds that while land vehicles are cutting emissions, seafaring vessels are spewing sulfur oxide 'virtually unchecked.'
Ocean-going vessels produce greater quantities of sulfur oxide air pollutants than all the world's cars, trucks and buses combined, according to a study released Thursday.

The report by the International Council on Clean Transportation calls for international regulators to move aggressively to curb emissions from "bunker fuel" used by freight vessels that contains an average 27,000 parts per million of sulfur. U.S. standards for diesel trucks and other vehicles limit sulfur fuels to just 15 parts per million to protect public health. One kind of sulfur oxide, sulfur dioxide, can quickly kill if too much is inhaled rapidly. Chronic exposure to lower levels has been linked to respiratory problems.

The report is especially relevant for Southern California. More than 40% of retail goods imported to the U.S. arrive on ships that dock at Los Angeles and Long Beach, often after passing coastal communities in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties.

"International ships are one of the world's largest, virtually uncontrolled source of air pollution," said Alan C. Lloyd, president of the International Council on Clean Transportation and former secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency. "Air pollution from diesel trucks and buses in Europe, Japan, and the U.S. has declined steadily for over a decade. At the same time, air pollution from international ships is rising virtually unchecked."

The council comprises about 20 scholars and current or former air-quality and transportation regulators from the U.S., South America, Asia and Europe. They include Margo Oge, head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's office of transportation and air quality. A spokesman said the EPA had yet to review the report.

The authors relied on peerreviewed air pollution studies, their own work and government pollution and freight data, according to the council's executive director, Drew Kodjak.

The report found that in 2001, heavy-duty diesel trucks, buses and cars burned more than a billion metric tons of fuel, and emitted 2.2 million metric tons of sulfur oxide. The same year, ocean-going vessels burned 280 million tons of fuel, far less, but emitted 3.4 million metric tons of sulfur oxide, about 17% of the global total.

Ships are also responsible for 3.6 million to 6.5 million metric tons of nitrogen oxide, another pollutant.

The report calls on the International Maritime Organization, an independent branch of the United Nations, to gradually cut allowable sulfur oxide levels by 90%, and allowable nitrogen oxide levels by 95%. In addition, they said, international limits should be developed for fine particles of soot and for carbon dioxide, the leading greenhouse gas widely believed to be contributing to global warming.

International Maritime Organization spokeswoman Natasha Brown said that she had not seen the report but that her group had been discussing improved air-quality standards.

The key committee that could approve changes to the international treaty that covers air pollutants from ships will meet in July, but the soonest any changes could take effect would be in 2009, she said. One hundred thirty-nine member nations could be affected if they sign on. The U.S. has not signed the original international pollution controls adopted in 1997.

Brown said that although the international body had been criticized for adopting "lowest common denominator" regulations, they were the maximum achievable by a group of so many nations.

"There's no point in having standards so high that no one will agree to them," she said. "Nonetheless, there is widespread recognition that improvements need to be made" to reduce sulfur oxide and nitrogen oxide.

Noting that ships carry 90% of the world's freight, Brown said it was not surprising that they would have higher levels of some pollutants.

But Kodjak noted the data showed ships were using far less fuel while emitting more sulfur oxide than land vehicles, and "dramatic" amounts of nitrogen oxide.

"No matter how much freight they ship, the technology is available to make improvements," he said. "The reason why there is such a disparity is not because of the amount of freight they move, but because they've largely been unregulated."

The report did conclude that a decade or more might be needed to implement changes in oil refineries to produce cleaner fuel and to install more-effective pollution-control equipment on ships that the international body might approve.

Cars, trucks and buses trail cargo ships as air polluters By Janet Wilson, LATimes Staff Writer March 23, 2007

Cars, trucks and buses trail cargo ships as air polluters
By Janet Wilson, LATimes Staff Writer
March 23, 2007