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Mother Earth News reports four revealing egg facts:
* A 1988 study found free-range eggs from Greece contained 13 times more omega-3 fatty acids compared to U.S. factory-farmed eggs
* A 1974 study found free-range eggs contained 50 percent more folic acid and 70 percent more vitamin B12 compared to factory-farmed eggs
* A 1997 study found free-range eggs contained higher omega-3 and vitamin E levels compared to factory-farmed eggs
* A 2003 study found free-range eggs contained three times more omega-3, twice as much vitamin E, and 40 percent more vitamin A compared to factory-farmed eggs

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Water Additive Dangerous to Infants and Children?

In a 2004 study that appeared in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition, researchers from the University of Iowa College of Dentistry followed nutrient intake of more than 675 subjects from birth to 16 months. Each subject was examined again about five years later.

The Iowa team reported a very significant conclusion:

"Infant beverages, particularly infant formulas prepared with fluoridated water, can increase the risk of fluorosis in primary teeth." Dental fluorosis (caused by an overdose of fluoride) is a discoloration of teeth that can also cause pitting in enamel, which promotes cavities. In the worst cases, dental fluorosis can cause teeth to become so brittle they actually crumble.

LENA'S COMMENT: Too bad they didn't take it further but then there is already proof of other dangers. Some other dangers lurk; *In animal trials, fluoride has been shown to enhance the brain's absorption of aluminum (the toxin shown to contribute to Alzheimer's disease) *Several osteoporosis studies have associated hip fractures with fluoride intake. Read the Fluoride Link with the brain

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FOOD OF THE WEEK
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Bananas to Health And Healing!

Bananas help prevent a number of illnesses and health conditions.

Containing three natural sugars, sucrose, fructose and glucose, and when combined with fiber, bananas produce an instant, sustained, and substantial boost of energy. Research has shown that just two bananas provide enough energy for a strenuous 90-minute workout.

Bananas are Minerals rich in Calcium, Iron, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Potassium, Sodium, Zinc, Copper, Manganese, Selenium, along with Vitamins which Include Vitamin C, Thiamin, Riboflavin, Niacin, Pantothenic acid,Vitamin B-6, Folate, Folic acid, Vitamin B-12, Vitamin A, Retinol, Vitamin A, Vitamin E and Tocopherol.

Bananas could be called the food to healing and health! Over the years as the doctors I worked with put patients on blood pressure medications, which remove a multitude of minerals, but the medical profession only recognize potassium as the mineral necessary to health. We know that isn't the case, but the doctors then and now had the good sense to recommend a patient eat one or two bananas a day to keep the potassium level safe!

According to a recent survey of people suffering from depression found that many felt much better after eating a banana. This is because bananas contain tryptophan, a type of protein the body converts into serotonin, which makes you alert, improves your mood, and generally make you feel happier. So eat and expect less depression!

PMS may be averted by eating bananas. The vitamin B6 in bananas regulates blood glucose levels, which is responsible for some of PMS symptoms and eating does affect your mood (among other things).

Anemia medication: Bananas are high in iron, which stimulates the production of hemoglobin in the blood, which helps anemia.

Blood Pressure leveler: This unique tropical fruit is extremely high in potassium yet low in salt making it the perfect food to lower blood pressure. So much so, the US Food and Drug Administration has permitted the banana industry to officially claim the fruit's ability to 'reduce the risk of blood pressure and stroke.'

Brain Power increased: 200 students at a Middlesex, UK school were helped through exams by eating bananas at breakfast, at break, and during lunch to boost their brainpower. Research has shown that the potassium-packed fruit can assist learning by making pupils more alert.

Constipation prevention: High in fiber, bananas in the diet can restore normal bowel movement without laxatives.

Hangover cure: One of the quickest ways of curing a hangover is to make a banana milkshake sweetened with honey. The banana calms the stomach and, with the help of the honey, builds depleted blood sugar levels, while the milk soothes and re-hydrates the system.

Stomach calmer: Bananas have a natural antacid effect in the body, so if you suffer from heartburn, try eating a banana for soothing relief.

Morning Sickness treatment: Snacking on bananas between meals helps keep blood sugar levels up so to avoid morning sickness. Morning sickness is caused from a lack of B vitamins more often than blood sugar fluctuations and since bananas have the B's eat one?

Mosquito bite treatment: Before reaching for the insect bite cream, try rubbing the affected area with the inside of a banana skin. Many people find it amazingly successful at reducing swelling and irritation.

Nerves calmed: Bananas are high in B vitamins that help calm the nervous system.

Overweight and work too much? Studies at the Institute of Psychology in Austria found work pressure leads to gorging on comfort food like chocolate and chips. Out of 5,000 hospital patients, researchers found the most obese were in high-pressure jobs. The report concluded that to avoid panic-induced food cravings and control blood sugar levels, snacking on high carbohydrate foods every two hours kept levels steady

Ulcers calm down: Bananas can prevent intestinal disorders because of the soft texture and smoothness. It is the only raw fruit that can be eaten without distress in sensitive health situations. It also neutralizes over-acidity and reduces irritation by coating the lining of the stomach.

Temperature control: Many cultures see bananas as a "cooling" fruit that lowers both the physical and emotional temperature of expectant mothers. In Thailand, for example, pregnant women eat bananas to ensure their babies are born with a cool temperature.

Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD): Bananas help SAD sufferers because they contain the natural mood enhancers, tryptophan and Vitamin B's.

Calm smoking withdrawals: Bananas can also help people trying to stop smoking. B6 and B12 in bananas, as well as potassium and magnesium, help the body recover from the withdrawal effects.

Stress leveler: Potassium is a vital mineral, which helps normalize the body's heartbeat, sends oxygen to the brain, and regulates the body's water balance. When we are stressed, our metabolic rate raises reducing potassium levels. These levels can be rebalanced by eating a high-potassium banana.

Cut Stroke Risk: According to research in The New England Journal of Medicine, eating bananas as part of a regular diet can cut the risk of death by strokes as much as 40!

Warts: It is said if you want to destroy a wart, take a piece of banana skin and place it on the wart (with the yellow side out). Tape the skin in place with a Band-Aid or surgical tape. Change every 2 days until wart is gone.

Grow Beautiful Rose Bushes with Bananas: Blend the soft part of the banana skin in a blender full of water and pour on the base of your rose bushes to promote healthy roots and new growth.

Eating fresh fruits and vegetables results in a basic detoxification diet. So, eat as many raw and pure, unprocessed and uncooked foods as you can each day and make bananas one of those raw fruits.

BANANA SMOOTHIE

3 ripe frozen bananas
4-5 T peanut butter (all natural creamy or chunky)
1 T ground flaxseed
2 T honey
1 c. skim or 1% milk (I Use soy milk)

Place all ingredients in a blender and puree well and serve.

NOTE: I add strawberries, pineapple chunks, frozen fresh peaches and frozen grapes to this as an added fiber and taste alternate.

Enjoy your nutritious healthy food!
Lena

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HEALTH TODAY
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On The Merry-go-round Of Drug Treatments!
By Lena Sanchez

I'm not writing this to scare you but to try and get you to think before you act on that medical treatment.

Prescription and OTC (over-the-counter) drugs that man has created and decided has all the answers to human ailments are so far off the mark and creating a world of more illness and disease all by themselves! Getting worse daily!

For instances; A person with high blood pressure may typically be given three or four prescribed medications.

Most common treatment option used; One pill to cause the blood vessels to open up, thereby making the heart speed up, which is dangerous in itself. Then the doctor will give another prescribed medication to slow the heart down. The slowing down of the blood flow causes the body to retain fluid creating swelling throughout the body, most often the lower limbs (legs, feet and ankles). That calls for a third prescription to remove the fluid in the body, called a water pill or diuretic. Diuretics remove minerals and vitamins the body needs to function creating problems with vital organs as well as decimating the immune system making you a magnet for any virus or bacteria around you... That loss of nutrients in turn causes dizziness, weakness, and even headaches in a large number taking it. Loss of those nutrients most often raises cholesterol levels and then the doctor feels he/she must give a prescription for lowering cholesterol. Cholesterol lowering drugs are famous for further decimating the nutrient system creating bone and joint pain along with the other symptoms that are then in turn diagnosed most often as arthritis and more prescriptions are written. Oh yes, and other side effects of the blood pressure lowering drugs is impotence in men and loss of libido in women. There are your four prescriptions that lead to more serious problems further along, such as heart attack and/or stroke, which lowering blood pressure is suppose to prevent? Maybe it's me but it just doesn't make sense to do things that way? My reason for calling it "The merry-go-round drug effect"!

Second option used: Another class of hypertension drugs called beta blockers, which most often cause depression, hallucinations, insomnia, liver and kidney damage. This too creates circulatory problems that will result in swelling, loss of nutrients, etc. activating more prescriptions listed above, so goes the merry-go-round. And if you smoke, have any kind of respiratory problems, such as asthma, allergies then the beta blocker is even more dangerous making for not a lot of wellness in my book. Sadly all those drugs and your blood pressure could still remain high, as it does in fifty percent of those taking all those drugs. So what have they accomplished? Nothing except setting the patient up for more serious health problems and an early death!

This is just the tip of the iceberg with prescription and OTC drug treatments that the body is not designed to accept as natural, so it is forced to react in ways that can and do kill people minute by minute... That same scenario is played out hourly with a multitude of other perceived health problems through out most of the world and don't even ask me about the cancer treatments out there in traditional medicine. It would almost require a book to write about the horrific side effects and deaths occurring from chemotherapy and radiation. Those treatment success figures are; deaths from the chemotherapy and radiation treatment 60% and living through the treatments 40%. I don?t find that very comforting!

Doesn't it make more sense to go with natural herbal/mineral treatments that the body recognizes as normal and natural and can work within the body to reverse the problems in about 80% of those who choose alternative treatment... I like 80% versus 40% odds myself!

Think about it before accepting manmade drugs for your health problem! I daily watch people successfully using herbs and minerals for treating and getting healthy all without the side effects of chemical medicine?

Take charge of your health and truly be healthy, feel good and live long!

Big Area of Antarctica Melted, Satellite Finds

WASHINGTON - Vast areas of snow in Antarctica melted in 2005 when temperatures warmed up for a week in the summer in a process that may accelerate invisible melting deep beneath the surface, NASA said on Tuesday.

A new analysis of satellite data showed that an area the size of California melted and then re-froze -- the most significant thawing in 30 years, the US space agency said.

Unlike the Arctic, Antarctica has shown little to no warming in the recent past with the exception of the Antarctic Peninsula, where ice sheets have been breaking apart.

Son Nghiem of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California and Konrad Steffen of the University of Colorado in Boulder measured snowfall accumulation and melt in Antarctica from July 1999 through July 2005.

They found evidence of melting in several areas, including high elevations and far inland in January of 2005, when temperatures got as high as 41 degrees F (5 degrees C).

"Increases in snowmelt, such as this in 2005, definitely could have an impact on larger scale melting of Antarctica's ice sheets if they were severe or sustained over time," Steffen said in a statement.

"Water from melted snow can penetrate into ice sheets through cracks and narrow, tubular glacial shafts called moulins," Steffen added.

"If sufficient melt water is available, it may reach the bottom of the ice sheet. This water can lubricate the underside of the ice sheet at the bedrock, causing the ice mass to move toward the ocean faster, increasing sea level."