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Fast Food Breakfast Triggers Inflammation
High-Fat, High-Carb Breakfast May Raise Heart Risks
By Jennifer Warner
WebMD Medical News
April 19, 2004 -- Eating breakfast on the run may be bad for your heart.
A new study shows a typical high-fat, high-carbohydrate fast food
breakfast can overwhelm the body's blood vessels and cause potentially
dangerous inflammation.
Researchers found an egg muffin and hash brown breakfast dramatically
raised inflammatory markers in the blood for up to four hours after
eating the meal.
"People who experience repeated short-lived bouts of inflammation
resulting from many such unhealthy meals can end up with blood vessels
in a chronic state of inflammation, a primary factor in the development
of atherosclerosis," says researcher Ahmad Aljada, PhD, research
assistant professor at the University of Buffalo School of Medicine and
Biomedical Sciences, in a news release.
Atherosclerosis or hardening of the arteries leads to clogged arteries
and heart disease.
Fast Food Breakfast Bombards Blood Vessels
In the study, nine healthy adults ate a fast food breakfast consisting
of an egg muffin, a sausage muffin, and two hash browns after not eating
overnight. Then they had their blood analyzed. The fast food breakfast
contained 910 calories, 81 grams of carbohydrates, 51 grams of fat, and
32 grams of protein.
Researchers found that levels of inflammatory markers increased
significantly and remained elevated for three to four hours after eating
the meal.
"Eating that 900-calorie, high-fat meal temporarily floods the blood
stream with inflammatory components, overwhelming the body's natural
inflammation-fighting mechanisms," says Aljada.
In addition free radicals increased by more than 100% and stayed
elevated for more than three hours after eating the breakfast. Free
radicals are destructive particles that have been linked to a higher
risk of atherosclerosis.
The results of the study appear in the April issue of the American
Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
Researchers say the influx of fat, calories, protein, and carbohydrates
caused by eating a fast food breakfast may alter the behavior of cells
and activate a mechanism that produces more powerful enzymes that are
potentially damaging to the lining of blood vessels.
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The asparagus we eat are actually shoots from the earth-covered root of
the asparagus plant. The shoots are cut after 3 to 7 days of growth.
Asparagus exceeds other vegetables as the leading supplier of Folic
Acid. Provides folacin. Folacin is necessary for blood cell formation,
growth, and prevention of liver disease. Clinical trials have
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prevention of neural tube defects that can cause paralysis and death in
babies. - Low in Calories, less than 4 calories per average spear.
- Very Low in Sodium
- Vegetable Protein
- A source of Fiber
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- Contains Potassium
- Contains Vitamin E
- A significant source of Vitamin B6
- A significant source of Thiamine
- One of the richest sources of Rutin, a strengthener of capillary
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BUYING ASPARAGUS: Select asparagus with tight tips (pass if the
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heard!).
Cooking Asparagus: Since most of asparagus nutrients are in the
tip, it's best to cook it upright in a tall container. Tie the asparagus
in a bunch after cleaning, place in standing position in 1-2 inches of
boiling water. Cook just until stalks soften.
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Could The same mistake that started the SARS virus happen
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Fears Rise With 'Hot Lab' Building Boom
Apr 30, 8:17 AM (ET)
By PAUL ELIAS
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - From Boston to Livermore, Calif., "hot
labs" designed to combat bioterrorism and house the world's
deadliest germs are being planned and constructed with a huge
cash infusion from the federal government.
Supporters of the unprecedented building boom say the new or
expanded high-containment labs - there are at least 18 - are
essential to national security in a post-Sept. 11 world.
But as the labs rise on college campuses and government
installations across the country, so do concerns about safety
and security.
Neighbors fear that some frightening variant of Ebola virus,
plague or other deadly disease could be loosed into their
backyards, and are filing lawsuits and lobbying politicians to
halt construction.
A growing number of scientists complain that the $6 billion
earmarked by Congress for fighting bioterrorism is excessive, is
being doled out with little oversight and is detracting from
efforts to combat problems that are much more deadly - for
example, AIDS and malaria, which are already killing millions of
people.
Others worry that the buildup actually threatens national
security, by arming more people with the know-how to construct
bioweapons, and perhaps even sparking a new biological arms race
since two of the hot labs are to be built inside national
weapons labs at Livermore and Los Alamos, N.M.
Universities in Boston, Pittsburgh, Texas and elsewhere have
already won grants to build labs, some in urban neighborhoods.
In Boston, activists are trying to halt construction of a $168
million lab at Boston University, to be built in the city's
south end. They fear something akin to what health inspectors
suspect occurred recently in China: that SARS escaped from a
Beijing laboratory and made its way into the Chinese heartland,
contributing to the latest eruption of the sometimes fatal
disease.
"It doesn't belong there. The health and safety risks outweigh
the benefits," said Kyle Loring, an attorney with Roxbury,
Mass.-based Alternatives for Community and Environment.
Boston's mayor and Massachusetts' governor are convinced the lab
will be well protected, and provide a boost to the local
economy. Federal officials insist that no deadly germs have ever
escaped from U.S. laboratories, and say the planned facilities
will be even more secure than their predecessors.
Following such objections, the Bush administration on Wednesday
issued a directive that addressed oversight and coordination.
"Under the president's new national biodefense directive, all of
our bioterrorism projects and programs will fall under a
coordinated and focused strategic plan that will help maximize
our resources, ensure a common unified effort across all federal
agencies and address any deficiency that we discover," Homeland
Security Secretary Tom Ridge said at a news conference
Wednesday.
But even some backers of the construction are concerned that the
bioweapons defense program, while awash in cash, is lacking in
direction and coordination.
"We do need these labs," said Ken Alibek, a former top scientist
in the Soviet biological weapons program who defected to the
United States in 1992. "But I've never seen any well-defined
plan of what exactly we need, how many labs are necessary and
what they should be designed to do."
The government agencies and colleges involved defend their
projects as necessary to close the gaps in national defense
exposed by the anthrax attacks in 2002. They say more
sophisticated labs are needed to combat a range of potential
bioweapons - exotic diseases, for example, and genetically
engineered bugs designed to evade detection and that can't be
treated by any existing vaccines.
"We do not have the safe and effective vaccines and drugs we
need," said Rona Hirschberg of the National Institute of Allergy
and Infectious Disease, the NIH branch driving much of the lab
construction. Hirschberg said creating vaccines, antidotes and
rapid diagnostic tools are high national security priorities.
However, no one inside or outside of government is sure exactly
how many labs are already working with biological material that
could be rendered into deadly weapons if obtained by terrorists.
Estimates range in the hundreds, even as biotech companies
prepare to compete for a new round federal biodefense grants.
The departments of defense, health, homeland security and
energy, meanwhile, all have separate plans to fund, expand or
build hot labs.
"It has gone wild," said Barbara Rosenberg, chairwoman of the
Federation of American Scientists, which is working to control
the spread of bioweapons. "There's a frenzy to get federal funds
to get these built without having any real plan with what to do
with them."
Marylia Kelley, who heads Tri-Valley CAREs, a Livermore-area
group suing the Department of Energy to stop the lab
construction, isn't just concerned about local safety but also
about perceptions abroad.
She says "putting a lab like this in a highly secured weapons
facility will undoubtedly raise suspicions about its
intentions."
But a Livermore lab spokesman said researchers are simply
working with small amounts of biological agents to develop
better detection technologies.
Activists Force Cos. to Consider
Nature
Apr 19,
By TERENCE CHEA
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - For more than a decade, Margie Richard and her
neighbors waged a scrappy campaign against a corporate giant whose
chemical plant was spewing toxic fumes and sickening residents in Norco,
La.
Taking their plight to courtrooms, television sets and the Internet,
Richard and her allies prevailed in what is hailed by many as a model
for environmental activism. In 2002, Shell Chemical agreed to reduce
plant emissions by 30 percent and to pay resettlement costs for Norco
residents.
Richard, 62, is one of seven activists being honored Monday in San
Francisco with the Goldman Environmental Prize - the best-known award
for environmentalists. Awards are given to activists in six regions -
Africa, Asia, Europe, Island Nations, North America and South/Central
America - and each recipient receives $125,000.
Among this year's winners are two Indian labor leaders seeking justice
for an industrial disaster that killed more than 20,000 people, a
Ghanian lawyer campaigning against a World Bank water privatization
project and a Colombian activist fighting for territorial rights for the
country's black communities.
Experts say this year's prize winners illustrate the growing strength
of the global environmental movement. Often facing powerful foes,
community activists are forcing corporations and governments to
reconsider how their activities impact the communities and environment
where they operate.
"You're seeing some shifts in how industries proceed," said Barbara Rose
Johnston, a researcher with the Center for Political Ecology in Santa
Cruz. "If they have an ugly record of human rights and environmental
abuse, it's going to be difficult to do business in the future."
Over the past decade, the Internet and other new +technologies+ have
given environmentalists new tools to publicize their campaigns and link
up with other activists around the world.
"It's more difficult for (corporations) to hide," said Stephen Mills,
the Sierra Club's director of international programs. "It's easier for
us to hold them accountable. It's easier for us to embarrass them
publicly and inform their shareholders."
An increasingly global network of environmentalists is pressuring
corporations that moved their most polluting operations abroad, where
labor is cheap and environmental regulations are lax. Community
activists are linking up with international environmental groups that
can provide resources, publicity and expertise for their campaigns.
"International solidarity is very important for creating pressure on
institutions like the World Bank and IMF," said Rudolf Amenga-Etego,
this year's award winner for Africa, who has been fighting a major World
Bank water privatization project in his native Ghana. "Through
(international groups), we are able to reach activists in these western
countries and we are able to get results."
Increasingly, activists are finding allies in consumers who want to know
where and how products are produced, and shareholders who want
corporations to adhere to higher environmental standards, said the
Sierra Club's Mills.
Meanwhile, people in developing countries are learning their rights and
protesting when corporations violate them, environmentalists say.
Manana Kochladze, the Goldman winner for Europe, has campaigned to
protect the environment and local communities in her native Georgia from
multinationals building a major oil pipeline from the Caspian Sea to the
Mediterranean. She said the oil companies have started to pay more
attention to citizens in the former Soviet bloc country.
"Now it's much more difficult to ignore the people because people now
know their rights," said Kochladze, 32, of Tbilisi, Georgia. "The
corporations are more willing to talk to us."
Yet despite their successes in holding powerful institutions
accountable, activists still encounter many challenges in their efforts
to achieve environmental justice.
Even with their improved ability to broadcast their campaigns,
grass-roots activists still are battling powerful interests that have
more money, power and resources.
Rashida Bee and Champa Devi Shukla, the Goldman winners for Asia, have
spent years trying to hold Dow Chemical accountable for a 1984 Union
Carbide gas leak in Bhopal, India that killed more than 20,000 and
injured more than 150,000 people.
But Dow Chemical, Union Carbide's parent company, denies the claims of
the Indian activists. Spokesman John Musser said Dow believes the case
was resolved in 1989, when Union Carbide paid $470 million in a
settlement with the Indian government.
"The forces that we have to fight against are too powerful," said
Rashida Bee, 48. "There is no effective law enforcing agency to hold
large multinationals accountable."
Richard Goldman, whose foundation created the environmental prize in
1990, said the awards help activists gain recognition and credibility in
their home countries, and often bring protection from repressive
regimes.
"The prize has become better recognized every year, sometimes in foreign
countries more than our own," Goldman said. "They prize makes people
more sensitive to the (activists). They're treated better than they used
to be."
This year's recipients said that winning a Goldman prize not only helps
publicize their causes, but also strengthens their resolve.
"In a poor, obscure country, you think nobody's listening, nobody's
watching," said Amenga-Etego, 40, of Accra, Ghana. "And you wake up one
morning and you are told you've been recognized. It's very encouraging.
It has given us new hope."
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