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I had an awakening yesterday as my husband asked, "Is it May already?" I answered "Yes, but with that yes the horrific realization that this year will be half gone in a short blink of my eye. His problem was that he needed to burn some rubbish but had to go get a new burn permit because his had expired and he swears he just renewed it. Yes, he did just renew it in January... Is your health getting out of control with that same speed? It appears that hundreds are as I am so busy working with cancer patient protocols for Dr. Garland and with May being "Melanoma awareness month" be sure to have your spots viewed by a dermatologist to make sure they aren't melanoma or some other horrific deadly cancer...

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Something To Think About
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Only Broiled, Baked Fish Help Heart
May 3, 2005

WASHINGTON (AP) - Trying to eat more fish for a healthy heart? Fish sticks don't count. So says a study suggesting only fish that's broiled or baked actually protects against heart disease.

Most fish served fried are types that contain only small amounts of omega-3 fatty acids, the healthy fat that can improve cholesterol and other cardiac risk factors, scientists reported Monday at a meeting of the American Heart Association.

"All fish meals may not be equal," said Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian of the Harvard Medical School.

A diet high in fish has long been linked with lower levels of heart disease, so much so that the heart association recommends two or more weekly servings - especially of oily fish such as salmon and tuna that are particularly high in the omega-3 fatty acids. Those healthy fats are thought to increase the so-called good HDL cholesterol and lower unhealthy triglycerides.

Scientists suspect the omega-3s may play an even broader role, so lots of research is under way to better define how fish affects heart disease and just what people should be eating to get the benefit.

Mozaffarian examined ultrasound images of the hearts of 5,000 older Americans who were given a questionnaire about their diets. After accounting for other factors that play a role in heart disease - including other foods - he found that people who regularly consumed broiled or baked fish were more likely to have a lower heart rate and blood pressure, and better blood flow to the heart.

In contrast, those who regularly consumed fried fish or fish sandwiches showed signs of hardening arteries and other cardiac problems.

There was little evidence of omega-3s in the blood of the fried-fish lovers, probably because the fish species that usually are served fried are cod or other lean types that are much lower in omega-3 fats than fattier fish like salmon, Mozaffarian said.

Nor is deep-frying healthy.

The study advances scientists' understanding of how fatty fish affect the heart, said Dr. Jean Olson of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, which funded it. For consumers, "the bottom line is, 'Eat more fish,'" she said.

LENA'S COMMENT: Eating more fish is great but make sure it's not farmed and is a wild catch only as farmed fish is so full of antibiotics and chemicals that it will be worse for your health! We had a patient a few years back that came in to see the doctor and the doctor wrote him a prescription for Erythromyacin. The guy looked at it and then proceeded to tell me that erythromyacin wasn't strong enough because on his fish farm he fed it to the fish by the bucketfuls , everyday and he knew it was too mild for his problem "so get the doctor to write another one for something stronger"... The end of that story didn't satisfy the patient but I realized I never wanted to eat farmed fish after that... Bucketfuls is outlandish... So, if you can't get wild catch fish stick with a fish oil supplement several times a week or daily... My personal one is Shark Liver Oil (Omega 3, omega 9 etc.) as it is mercury and chemical free...

This week's fruit is a bit different and most people have no clue that it's actually a fruit.

Known as Jamaican Pepper, Myrtle Pepper, Pimento, Newspice, and Clove Pepper but most commonly called Allspice! A "dried unripe berry" of the Pimenta dioica, which belongs to the family Myrtaceae.

The tree grows to a height of about 30 ft and has aromatic, glossy green leaves and white flowers. The fruit berry, when dried, is widely used as a spice. Its wood was once in such demand for the making of walking sticks that the tree became endangered and was nearly driven to extinction.

Spanish explorers happened on to the Allspice plant in Jamaica in the beginning of the 16th century. The Spaniards thought the fruits look like pepper so they gave it the name of Jamaican Pepper and pimento from the word "pimienta", Spanish for peppercorn.

The English name "Allspice" was given because the spice is said to have the aroma of several spices including cloves, pepper and even cinnamon and nutmeg.

The green Allspice berries are picked and then dried. They are very high in eugenol which is the main flavoring substance of the berry.

Allspice is used to treat indigestion, flatulence, and muscle pain. Allspice is an antioxidant, antifungal, and anti-inflammatory to reduce pain and inflammation. It contains Vitamins C, B-1, B-2 and beta carotene along with a few minerals. Allspice is sometimes added to commercial medicines to improve their flavor.

Folklore has it that for centuries the Mayan Indians used Allspice to embalm the bodies of important leaders.

Allspice is available as whole berries or ground. Grinding your own whole berries will provide the most intense flavor and longest shelf life.

Allspice is used in seasonings, sauces, sausages, ketchup, jams, pumpkin, gravies, roasts, hams, baked goods, and teas. Caribbean cooking relies on Allspice as the main ingredient in jerk seasoning. It is used in Caribbean, Mexican, Indian, English, and North American cooking and in seasoning blends such as jerk seasoning and curry. Allspice can be used in just about any food you can think of adding nutrients, flavor and taste.

Substitute one teaspoon ground allspice for the equivalent of approximately 5 whole berries.

Think first before asking for another drug
4/18/2005

With the revelation that another drug, this time Bextra for arthritis, has been withdrawn from the market, millions of people once again must scramble to find an alternative medication for this problem.

Bextra joins Vioxx and Celebrex as drugs that were once touted as being just fine for people seeking relief from arthritis, but now are revealed to be harmful or even fatal to some who take it.

What's wrong with this picture?

Prescription use has grown like wildfire in our medication nation. It is impossible to watch TV at any hour of the day without seeing commercials touting the latest prescription drug for the latest disease, and urging all of us to go to our doctor to ask for them.

It also is nearly impossible to go to a doctor's appointment without seeing a drug company representative, and sometimes several of them, in the waiting room, too.

And this constant urging for us to take more drugs is accompanied by "new, tougher" guidelines for such things as blood pressure, trigylcerides and cholesterol from various health agencies, many of whom are being funded by the same drug companies urging prescriptions upon us.

The new, improved guideline for blood pressure, for instance - the gold standard - is now 120/80, which usually is achieved only by lean teenagers and those in the most superb physical shape. Anything above those readings, even slightly is now labeled as a prehypertensive reading.

So what do these impossible circumstances mean for most Americans? It will probably mean that the percentage of Americans taking at least one prescription drug will keep rising dramatically, perhaps with a goal of getting nearly every man, woman and child in the country on some sort of pill or other.

And if there are not enough old diseases for which to take a pill, don't worry, there are many new diseases coming around the bend. You can now take a pill for slight social anxiety and a recent TV report says it is estimated that 8-million people have Adult Attention Deficit Disorder - a whole new market for drug companies.

Let me make it very clear that I agree that there are drugs that have brought relief to many millions of Americans. I and my wife each take one prescription pill every day. We are grateful for the benefits of such drugs, as, I am sure, are most people who use prescription drugs.

But isn't it time to question what is happening in our country? Shouldn't we hesitate to take a new prescription rather than clamoring for them and pestering our doctors to give us one more pill to add to our arsenal of pills?

Being as educated a patient as we can be is the only real way to see that our health is really being taken care of. Should we, for instance, just roll over and take a pill as soon as we think our health does not meet new and tougher guidelines? Or should we, instead, more carefully weigh the pros and cons of taking yet another prescription?

Often, there are more natural ways of fighting health problems. For instance, it is not very radical to think that we can eat less and exercise more - what a concept!

We need to take charge of this precious area of our lives and make informed, educated decisions, regardless of what drug companies tell us. We must do this with our physicians, and they must accept us as partners in making decisions about our health.

Here is a true story. I recently found an unused prescription in my medical files. It was written a few years ago when I was having some neck problems. While I accepted the prescription, I also indicated that I wanted to try some natural methods for relieving the neck stiffness. The neck straightened out after many months of stretching exercises, and I no longer have to take even a nonprescription medication for it.

And the unused prescription that I decided not to take?

It was for Vioxx.

--Douglas Spangler, a writer and former university administrator, lives in Palm Harbor.
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Tracking the Imperiled Bluefin From Ocean to Sushi Platter
By ANDREW C. REVKIN
May 3, 2005

For sushi aficionados, the essence of the Atlantic bluefin tuna is its fat-laced, butter-soft belly meat, called toro. For the long-liners, purse seiners, harpooners, trappers and fish farmers who seek the bluefin from Cape Hatteras to the frigid waters south of Iceland to the balmy Mediterranean, the fish are a potential bonanza, with choice specimens fetching $50,000 or more in Tokyo.

But the intensifying trade in bluefin may soon empty the waters of this master of the sea.

In just the last 35 years, exploding markets for sushi-grade tuna, combined with intensifying industrial-scale hunts aided by satellites and spotters in airplanes, have devastated not only the fish but also many fisheries.

Dozens of Mediterranean towns that maintained coastal net traps for half a millennium or more are turning away from now-barren waters. Anglers off New England, who once watched great parading schools of bluefin migrate north at the end of each summer now scour the seas for scattered fish. Most vulnerable, by far, marine biologists say, is the apparently distinct population of bluefin tuna that breeds in the Gulf of Mexico.

The threat to the bluefin was underscored last week by researchers who have tracked hundreds of the fish on their ocean-spanning journeys using electronic tags. They found that the tuna that spawn in the west, which are most severely depleted, are further threatened by an ever-broadening gantlet of hooks, seines, harpoons, traps and now farm-style pens, in which netted fish are raised and fattened - all to supply the Japanese sushi trade.

Dr. Barbara A. Block, a marine biologist at Stanford and the lead author of a study, published in the April 28 issue of Nature, said she found it hard to believe that "a fish of this size and beauty, an animal that had captured the hearts of fishermen and scientists alike for millennia, is slipping off Earth."

The bluefin, known to biologists as Thunnus thynnus, is a wonder of metabolic and evolutionary perfection, a Ferrari-like mix of refinement and brute power.

Adult bluefins, some topping half a ton and living 40 years, slice through icy or tropical waters while maintaining their body temperature around 80 degrees.

Their physiology allows their ruby-red muscles to generate a split-second tail flick, rocketing the fish to on-ramp speeds in pursuit of prey. But having an oceanic range may also be their undoing, exposing them to harvests at every turn.

Dr. Block has been studying the physiology and behavior of tunas for 25 years. Lately, she has spent much of her time at sea, surgically implanting tags in thrashing giants hauled briefly onto the decks of sport and commercial fishing boats assisting in her research.

From her base next to the Monterey Bay Aquarium, which helps support her work, she leads a research team that focuses on every facet of the bluefin, from its evolution, genetics and unique muscle physiology to its diet and migrations.

"We're trying to see the planet through their lens," Dr. Block said. But increasingly, she added, the bluefin are seeing the end of a fishing line, the inside of a net and the hold of a fishing boat.

The new study is based on the research team's grueling, decade-long effort to implant hundreds of increasingly sophisticated electronic tags in the giant fish, an enterprise that is beginning to reveal in new detail their ocean paths, from feeding grounds along the East Coast and in frigid waters south of Iceland to spawning areas in the balmy Gulf of Mexico and Mediterranean.

Most tagging studies provide only two data points - the place and time of release and the place and time of capture. In this study, 772 fish were tagged with sophisticated devices that continually record body and water temperature, depth and daylight. Some tags stayed in the fish until they were caught, often for years. Others were intended to break a tether, pop to the surface and relay stored data to satellites after a programmed number of weeks.