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TAKE THIS INSTANT TEST FOR MINERAL DEFICIENCY

Are you bothered with:
Fluid retention?
Depressed?
Headaches?
Blurred vision?
Mouth ulcers?
Muscle twitching?
Anxiety?
Blood pressure.
Poor REM sleep?
Leg cramps?
Atrial fibrillation?

SEVERAL OR ALL OF THE ABOVE ARE SIGNS OF A DANGEROUS MINERAL DEFICIENCY!!!

One very important mineral - Magnesium - is important for over 300 enzyme systems in the body. It is the most important mineral coenzyme. It partners with Potassium to create each heartbeat. Since most of our Magnesium is stored in the tissues, and little found in the blood, you can become depleted without it showing up in blood tests!!!

One of the first symptoms is poor REM sleep and leg cramps because Magnesium levels fall at night. Dr. Tarbizian, Director of Nutritional Medicine in Perth, Australia, a training clinic for doctors, expresses concern in this article that because Magnesium deficiency is difficult to diagnose, and not a pharmaceutical, many conventional physicians will have difficulty recognizing the health hazard. Dr. Tabrizian is the author of Nutritional Medicine: Fact or Fiction

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Antioxidants Can Help Protect Your Pets
by Dr. Earl Mindell

Having antioxidants in your diet is a necessity. They help us fight free radicals and prevent damage from oxidation. Antioxidants are not only important for humans, but they are important for your pet too.

While manufactured pet foods do provide your pets with some of the nutrients they need, these foods are still highly processed and lack whole nutrients. Fruits and vegetables in their original form can help fight diseases and promote a healthy immune system for your pet.

Giving your pets a green vegetable several times a week can help them live a long, healthy life. You can either finely chop these fresh vegetables or juice them for your pet. A great example of one of these vegetables is broccoli stalk.
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Apple Of The Orient aka Ebenaceae, Diospyros kaki

Several years ago we arrived home from the grocery store one afternoon to find these squatty orange persimmons sitting at our back door. I put them in the kitchen as they were really hard and persimmons are not one of my favorite foods so I would not hurry to ear one. Later in the evening I received a call from a dear friend asking me if I had found the fruit at our back door. I assured him I did. He wanted to know if we had eaten them and my reply was. "Are you nuts those persimmons are hard as a rock and not ready to eat!" He started laughing and said go get one and a knife and slice it as you would an apple and he wasn't going to get off the phone until I did! When sliced it appears to look like a star fish pattern inside. So, I grudgingly did as he said while dreading the taste that I knew I would encounter, I bit into a slice. If you've ever bitten into a native persimmon or an unripe Japanese variety, you know that they can be puckery bitter when not fully ripe. My taste buds received a huge shock as the taste was not at all the flavor of a persimmon. A new favorite food had entered my life that day. I now wait patiently every year until I can get some.

That favorite food is a Fuju Persimmon. And some things I have learned about it is very interesting is that it's;

A short squatty orange fruit known as the Apple of the Orient (Ebenaceae, Diospyros kaki). Fuju looks like a bright orange, medium-sized squatty tomato, is perhaps best-known in America as the Japanese, or Oriental, persimmon, occasionally Chinese plum or, when dried, Chinese fig. In Spanish, it is called caqui. Native to Japan, Burma, northern India and China, the tree can be found growing at altitudes from 6000-8000 ft (1830-2500m) Marco Polo wrote about the persimmon trade in the early 14th Century, and it is featured in ceremonies throughout Asia, where over two thousand cultivars exist. It was not until the late1800?s that grafted trees were distributed to California, but by 1930, there were close to 100,000 bearing trees around the state. The trees do well in the mild climate portions of California, and over 90% of the total U.S. persimmon fruit crop is grown there.

Eaten like an apple - has a crisp texture that makes it good for slicing and using of fruit trays or in fruit salads. Persimmons are used in main dishes to enhance the flavors in puddings, desserts, salsas, jams, candy, breads, cakes, stewed fruits, and salads or they can be eaten fresh, peeling and all. Dried persimmons, which have a chewy, jelly-like texture and unique sweet flavor, are also available.

Rich in nutrients, particularly such important vitamins as A and C, a little of the Bs, and E. Many minerals, such as calcium, magnesium, copper, and manganese, a little iron, and other trace minerals, are also present, especially when they are contained in the water and soil that nourishes the plants or trees. Fuju's are low in fat and high in fiber making for a great bowel stimulator.

I hope this info will help you choose a new favorite food!
Lena

Under Attack
© by Lena Sanchez

The immune system requires certain antioxidant vitamins and minerals to be strong and bounce illness and disease off of it, keeping you healthy when working properly?

One of the strongest antioxidants and known Immune System Builder is vitamin C and along with that strength comes attacks from all drug industry using it to try and discourage you from believing in natural healing. That's not street drug industry either, but our own huge pharmaceutical industry that is supposed to be there to protect us and claims to want what's best for us? Who, without telling you that there are different types of Vitamin C and not telling you that synthetic Vitamin C used in their research they have simply lumped all Vitamin C together. This is a thinly veiled attempt to discredit vitamins and supplements in general.

Let's not let that happen!

So I will counter their claims by informing you and explaining the different types of Vitamin C that can help you to discern what is best for you and the next time you hear or read an article knocking vitamin C or any antioxidant you will understand the good from the not so good?

* ASCORBIC ACID: The standard form of vitamin C. Calcium ascorbate is one of the salt forms of the nutrient (as opposed to the acid form). It is usually synthetic, as are other forms, such as sodium ascorbate, magnesium ascorbate, etc. It tends to be bitter, while ascorbic acid is sour.

* NATURAL vs. SYNTHETIC: The synthetic vitamin C molecule is almost chemically identical to natural forms. So the chances of high doses of C (like 1000 milligram capsules) being all-natural are low and will require you do an extesive questioning to determine natural versus chemical.

* ROSE HIPS: This natural form of vitamin C is very expensive, so nobody sells it exclusively (to my knowledge). Manufacturers put a little in with the synthetic source for marketing purposes. In its natural state, meaning mixed by Mother Nature with attending bioflavonoid fractions, there's little question (to those who treat with it regularly) that less
amount of rose hips is needed for an equivalent biological action.

* ACEROLA VITAMIN C: This is another natural form (from a tropical American shrub). Like rose hips, acerola is commonly mixed with synthetic.

* VITAMIN C COMPLEX: This is somewhat non-specific, and can be any group of
related items, such as multiple salts of C (calcium, magnesium, potassium, sodium ascorbates, for example). Read carefully to ascertain natural versus mixed.

* ESTER C: There is some issue concerning Ester C, touted as stronger than the standard form. I don't think it's any stronger, and neither did Dr. Linus Pauling, though you'll see commercials that indicate otherwise. Some people do feel it has less of a tendency to upset their stomach, however. Could be the mixture in it?

* FAT SOLUBLE VITAMIN C: The fat-soluble form of vitamin C is called ascorbyl palmitate, and is better absorbed and stored by the body than water-soluble forms. (All the other forms of C are water-soluble.) Ascorbyl palmitate is harder to find, and more expensive.

"Some people are less tolerant to vitamin C in the acid form. For them, switching to the salt form (sodium ascorbate, calcium ascorbate, magnesium ascorbate, etc.) often permits far higher tolerance."

High doses of Vitamin C is required to kick the immune system into high gear and when that happens so can very loose stools.

If your urine isn't yellow, you are not getting enough of the nutrients!

For overall immune system builders a total antioxidant is best! Antioxidants known to be body builders are; Vitamins A, C, E and selenium. Of course the best place to get these are from foods but if you are not getting your daily quota of 7 ? 9 servings of fruits and vegetables you must supplement!

Have a healthy summer!
Lena

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Warming Is Blamed for Antarctica's Weight Gain
By KENNETH CHANG
May 20, 2005

The eastern half of Antarctica is gaining weight, more than 45 billion tons a year, according to a new scientific study.

Data from satellites bouncing radar signals off the ground show that the surface of eastern Antarctica appears to be slowly growing higher, by about 1.8 centimeters a year, as snow and ice pile up.

The gain in eastern Antarctica snow partly offsets the rise in sea level caused by the melting of ice and snow in other parts of the world. The finding also matches expectations that the earth's warming temperatures would increase the amount of moisture in the air and lead to greater snowfall over Antarctica.

"It's been long predicted by climate models," said Dr. Curt H. Davis, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Missouri and the lead author of a paper that was published on the Web site of the journal Science yesterday. "This is the first observational evidence."

The accumulation occurring across 2.75 million square miles of eastern Antarctica corresponds to a gain of 45 billion tons of water a year or, equivalently, the removal of the top 0.12 millimeter of the world's oceans.

"This is the only large terrestrial ice body that is likely gaining mass rather than losing it," Dr. Davis said.

The data, from two European Space Agency satellites, cover 1992 to 2003, but because the satellites do not pass directly over the South Pole, they did not provide any information for a 1,150-mile-wide circular area around the pole. Assuming that snow was falling there at the same rate seen in the rest of Antarctica, the total gain in snowfall would correspond to a 0.18-millimeter-a-year drop in sea levels.

The data also deepen a mystery: Satellite measurements show that the level of the world's oceans has been rising about three millimeters a year in recent years, and scientists cannot figure out where all of the water is coming from.

Because water expands when it warms, the rise in global temperatures by itself causes sea levels to rise about one millimeter a year. The melting of glaciers in Greenland, Antarctica and elsewhere appears to account for another millimeter or so.

That leaves "at least a missing millimeter a year to explain," said Dr. Robert Thomas, a glaciologist who works with NASA. "This is perhaps another reason to suggest the information that Curt has presented doesn't include the entire picture."

Dr. Thomas said that there could be as-yet-unseen melting of ice along the edges of Antarctica, where the satellites could not map the steeper coastal topography.

The new study is "another piece of the puzzle that we're still putting together," said Dr. Waleed Abdalati, head of the cryospheric sciences branch at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., who was not involved in the research.