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Greetings and thank you for subscribing! What a great day it is!!! There is nothing in the world that can make me unhappy today. I received a report this morning from Dr. Garland who has been working with one of my clients who has terminal cancer throughout his body and in March was given just weeks to live. His cancer is out of control due to a lousy radiologist inability to read an MRI correctly, a few years ago, when he first started feeling pain in his bones and an orthopedist and internist - at one of the so-called famous and best medical centers in the world - relying on that bad reading telling him that he only had a vitamin deficiency. So by the time John (not his name) finally found a doctor, four years later, who was really interested in finding out what was happening with him discovered it was bone cancer that had spread throughout his entire system as well as a secondary tumor of the esophagus and throat, and he was unable to eat or walk without assistance and so weak he could hardly sit up. They just about killed him with chemo and radiation, even though they said he was going to die in a few months anyway, until he stopped the madness and said death was better than what they could offer. He then called us looking for quality of life until death... Well, today - because of Dr. Garland's expertise with healing cancer - he's able to eat, walk and basically says he's feeling healthy and the tumor around his esophagus has shrunk and getting smaller daily making eating a joy for him. We have great hopes for him that he will have, if nothing else, quality of life until his demise but we believe he can beat his death sentence as Dr. Garland did... That's why nothing can make me unhappy today unless I receive a call or email from someone else in his predicament, then I would be sad but hopeful. It's things like that that keeps me doing what I do and helping people gain back their health and others maintain quality of health. I do hope your day will be as great and invigorating as mine and the client...

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Salt Should Be Regulated As Food Additive, Group Says
by Arias, Donya C

THE salt in processed food and restaurant meals is causing 150,000 premature deaths each year, according to an advocacy group that is suing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to declare sodium a food additive that would be subject to regulation.

The Center for Science in the Public Interest released a report in late February that calls salt "the forgotten killer" for its links to hypertension, heart attack and stroke. The 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend consuming less than 2,300 mg of sodium daily. Yet U.S. sodium intake has increased steadily since the 1970s.

An APHA policy adopted in 2002 calls on the food industry to reduce the amount of sodium in the U.S. food supply.

"What's new about the (Center for Science in the Public Interest) report is that it takes the APHA resolution one step forward, noting that the food industry has not lowered sodium in processed and restaurant foods, with rare exceptions, and that consumption is going up," Stephen Havas, MD, MPH, MS, told The Nation's Health. Havas is an APHA member and one of the lead authors of the 2002 sodium resolution.

"Many other countries such as the (United Kingdom) have been taking action, and it's time we do something too to end the needless death and disability attributable to all this sodium put in our food without our consent," he said.

Havas and colleagues wrote in a January 2004 American Journal of Public Health commentary that a 50 percent reduction in sodium in the nation's food supply over the next 10 years would save 150,000 lives annually.

The center's lawsuit against FDA, filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, contends that as salt content in food hasn't declined, the court should order FDA to finalize a decision on salt's regulatory status. If FDA were to declare sodium a food additive, the agency would then have the authority to set limits for salt in foods.

Consumers often are unaware of the salt overload in packaged foods and restaurant meals, according to the Center for Science in the Public Interest report. For example, a can of vegetable soup can contain almost 1,000 mg of sodium and a typical order of General Tso's chicken with rice has 3,150 mg of sodium.

The report, "Salt: The Forgotten Killer," is at <www.cspinet.org/salt>.

(C) 2005 The Nation's Health. via ProQuest Information and Learning Company; All Rights Reserved

LENA'S COMMENT: I've written about the ills of salt on several occasions and this step will help alarm people of the dangers... Sadly they still don't get it... It's the agents used in processing salt that's the culprit and not salt itself. Sea Salt, when processed properly, can solve this problem...

Phaseolus vulgaris,

Legumes of all kinds are great foods and should be eaten at least twice a week for greater health. Black beans, botanically-known as Phaseolus vulgaris, are native to the Americas. One of over 500 varieties of kidney beans, black beans are also known as turtle beans, caviar criollo, black Spanish beans, Tampico beans, Venezuelan beans and frijoles negros. These beans date back at least 7,000 years when they were a staple food in the diets of Central and South Americans.

Black beans are about the size of a pea, up to 1/2-inch long, with the slightly less-pronounced boat-shape common to kidney beans.

The darker the bean the more the antioxidant content. Out of all the bean family black beans win with the most nutrients.

Black beans are an amazing food! One-half cup of cooked black beans has as many antioxidants as two glasses of red wine. Not only that but they are packed with fiber and folate, which are touted to be great at reducing the risk of heart disease. Black beans, as all dried beans, are also good sources of starches, fiber, B vitamins, iron, zinc, phosphorus, complex carbohydrates and calcium. About half of the calcium is lost during cooking. High percentages of the other nutrients remain however, even after cooking.

All legumes are high in protein, and black beans are no exception. Dried beans are important sources of protein in vegetarian diets, and in areas where animal protein is scarce or expensive. However, this protein is incomplete (does not contain all 9 amino acids), so grains (which provide the missing amino acids) must also be a significant part of the strictly vegetarian diet. In the areas where common beans originated (Central America and southern Mexico) corn and squash supplied the missing amino acids and additional source of vitamins.

Before cooking, be sure to pick through them, picking out any small pebbles, split and withered beans and any other foreign matter. (Beans from the Rockies and Pacific coast tend to have more adobe (bits of clay) and stones). It is also helpful to cover the beans with cold water, let sit for 5 minutes and remove anything that floats. Repeat to be sure all dirt and foreign matter is removed. Drain and ready to cook

Here is one great way of eating black beans.

Bean, Barley & Avocado Summer Salad

This can be refrigerated and stored for several days!

1 cup carrot juice
½ teasp. Thyme
½ teasp. Sea salt
1/8 teasp. Ground Cayenne pepper
1.2 cup quick-cooking barley
3 Tablespoons Lime or Lemon Juice
1 Tablespoon Virgin Olive Oil
1 can (9 oz) black beans, rinsed and drained
1 cup diced tomatoes
½ cup diced avocado

Combine carrot juice, thyme, sea salt and cayenne in a saucepan. Bring to boil over medium heat; add barley and reduce to a simmer. Cover with lid and simmer until barley is cooked, approx. 15 minutes.

While beans are simmering whisk lime/lemon juice and oil in a large bowl. Add barley when cooked and any liquid remaining in the barley. Toss to coat all.
Add beans, tomatoes and avocado, toss to mix well. Serve on a lettuce leaf.

Enjoy your healthy beans,
Lena

The Claim: Crossing Your Legs Causes Varicose Veins
By ANAHAD O'CONNOR

THE FACTS It's not often that an old wives' tale inspires a national movement. But in 1999, a company that makes dietary supplements started a campaign - the "Great American Cross-Out" - to stop women from crossing their legs for a day, saying the practice contributes to poor circulation and the development of varicose veins.

A noble effort, perhaps, with one small problem: more than 12 large studies that have looked at the risk factors for varicose veins have not found leg-crossing to be one of them.

About half of all women and 15 percent of men over 50 develop the swollen and unsightly blood vessels that characterize the condition, caused by blood pooling in the legs.

A study of 3,822 adults in the United States, published in 1988, found that for men, the strongest risk factors were smoking and low levels of physical activity. For women, a lack of exercise, high blood pressure and obesity were linked to the condition.

Standing or engaging in sedentary activities for more than eight hours a day increased the risk as well - a finding that has been borne out in European studies of people whose jobs require them to be on their feet, like nurses. Other studies have pointed to pregnancy as another major contributor.

But perhaps the easiest way to determine your risk is to consult your family tree - more than 80 percent of people with varicose veins have at least one parent with them.

THE BOTTOM LINE There is no evidence that crossing your legs heightens the risk of varicose veins.

ANAHAD O'CONNOR scitimes@nytimes.com

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36 States Face Perchlorate Contamination
Apr 24, 2005
By ERICA WERNER

RIALTO, Calif. (AP) - An emerging threat of uncertain dimensions looms in this working-class suburb, where a chemical used in rocket fuel and defense manufacturing has befouled nearly half the drinking water supply. But Rialto is just one of many communities facing this problem. The choices faced here - when to close wells, whom to sue and how not to get sued - confront officials in 36 states where the Environmental Protection Agency says perchlorate has been detected.

In Rialto, concern spread along with the underground plume of water that carries the chemical from barren land that once housed World War II munitions, Cold War weapons-makers and, now, fireworks warehouses and a dump.

As one city well after another tested positive for perchlorate - six of the city's 13 wells in all - projected cleanup costs ballooned to more than double Rialto's $40 million annual budget. The town sued the Defense Department and dozens of other suspected polluters, pleaded with residents to conserve water and hiked water rates 65 percent.

Officials and townspeople, meanwhile, want to know just how hazardous perchlorate is. High amounts can be dangerous - the chemical can interrupt the production of thyroid hormones, which are needed for pre- and postnatal development. But how much exposure should be permissible sparks debate in governmental and scientific circles.

The conclusion of city leaders: Piping any amount of perchlorate into homes posed an unacceptable gamble.

Rialto is a case study of what can happen when a community refuses to take that risk.

A majority black and Latino town of 98,000, Rialto has palm-dotted streets with small single-family homes, its downtown a mix of old-time churches, homes, businesses and strip malls. Residents work in manufacturing or retail jobs, some slogging through a 50-mile commute west into Los Angeles.

The source of Rialto's perchlorate problem is a 2,800-acre plot north of downtown, once isolated but now surrounded by new homes, notes Bill Hunt, a geologist consulting for the city.

The military used the site as a pit stop for weapons bound for the Port of Los Angeles and then the Pacific theater in World War II. Later, Cold War defense contractors built, tested and stored rockets and munitions. Then came the fireworks industry and the county dump.

With each successive tenant, city officials believe, came growing deposits of perchlorate, an oxidant used in fireworks and road flares and as an accelerant in rocket fuel.

"We'll probably never know definitively who did what and how much," says Hunt.

What the city does know is that 400 feet below ground begins a 7-mile plume of perchlorate that's polluting Rialto's aquifer, as well as groundwater drawn by residents of other nearby communities.

Standard filtering doesn't work on perchlorate, so the town has invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in equipment that uses a resin to rid water of perchlorate molecules. The water rate increases paid for those systems on two of the six contaminated wells - the others remain shut - and for the town's legal fight against the Pentagon, San Bernardino County and a host of corporations large and small, from General Dynamics to Pyro Spectaculars Inc.

"The city is trying to do their best, but by going after the polluters they've raised the water bills," said former Rialto resident Jan Misquez, who now lives in neighboring San Bernardino. "Us taxpayers are having to foot the bill."

None of the 42 defendants has admitted liability and some of the companies no longer exist, leaving the city to battle insurance companies with only paper connections to the events of decades ago.

Perchlorate was little-known before 1997, when tests were developed that could detect it at lower levels than before. Soon afterward, the chemical was discovered in Rialto and found to be widespread around military bases and defense manufacturing sites.

In February, the EPA issued a safety standard that any amount of perchlorate less than 24.5 parts per billion in drinking water was safe. That was much higher than the 6 parts per billion California set as a public health goal, and higher still than EPA's original draft standard of 1 part per billion, a proposal environmentalists embraced.

Pentagon officials, who could face billions in cleanup costs, criticized the 1-part-per-billion standard, instead favoring 200 parts per billion. A Pentagon spokesman declined comment for this story.

Thus far no state has issued a final drinking water regulation, and the EPA, under pressure from both sides, hasn't decided whether it will take such a step. A regulation would force cleanup, while the agency's safety standard offers only its guidance on exposure levels.

With Rialto's detections ranging as high as 88 parts per billion, city officials decided to shut down any well where perchlorate was found.

"Until there's more clarity on what is the safe amount of perchlorate for the human body to ingest, our council has chosen not to serve any amount," said City Attorney Bob Owen. "We can go online right now and find a Web site saying, 'Do you live in Rialto? Have you drunk water in Rialto? And if you have, join our group, we're going to all sue them.'"

No lawsuit has been filed, said Owen, who credits in part the town's decision to adhere to a zero-tolerance standard, unlike some other municipalities.

So far, Rialto has also managed to avoid any water shutoffs, thanks to a combination of conservation, recycling wastewater for non-drinking uses and tapping supplies from neighboring water districts on high-demand days.

Town officials believe the only long-term solution is forcing polluters to fund a cleanup.

"For us it's critical," said Rialto's water superintendent, Peter Fox. "We just don't have other water available to us."