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Here in the United States we are celebrating Memorial Weekend.
A time to reflect and think of those who have left us, particularly
those who fought for our freedoms and the freedoms for those countries
who asked, and gave their lives in doing so. Sadly there are those who
are dying daily right now in other countries and I would like them and
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We are heading into the hottest months of the year in
half the world hemisphere and Sun Screen sales are going to sky rocket,
as usual, due to all the publicity of the dangers of sun exposure... How
true are those ads for sunblocks? Sadly most instances absolutely not
true!
Sunblock Does Not Stop Skin Cancer
Sunscreen does not protect against melanoma, the most dangerous form of
skin cancer, according to researchers. Although the lotions decrease the
risk of sunburn, they do not block UVA rays, which cause melanoma.
Researchers found that even sunscreens with the highest protection
factor of 35, applied in the correct amounts, were not effective at
filtering out the harmful rays. They say that people should limit their
sunbathing time and use clothing to block UVA rays when sun is at its
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intestinal bacteria, vitamin K deficiency, interference with the
absorption of nutrients and can induce thrush, diarrhea, skin rashes and
phlegm." (Marcea Weber in The Encyclopedia of Natural Health and Healing
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Outbreak of Whooping Cough Hits Wisconsin
May 27, 9:44 AM (ET)
MILWAUKEE (AP) - Twenty-seven whooping cough cases have been reported at
Milwaukee, including seven since Friday, prompting health officials to
ask people with suspected symptoms to seek treatment and stay home until
they are no longer contagious.
"Adults sometimes have very mild symptoms and might not know that they
have pertussis," said Geof Swain, associate medical director at the
city's health department, using the scientific name for the disease.
"A person with pertussis can get over it without antibiotics, but the
problem with not being treated, aside from being sick for a long time,
is that they're contagious during this period."
His agency learned of two confirmed and one probable case of pertussis
last week among college roommates at the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
About 2,000 letters were mailed to students in an effort to identify
others who may have been exposed.
"We had a few students come in, but not a lot," said Barbara Moser,
medical director of the Norris Health Center. "Finals finished last week
... so hopefully people who got the letters are seeking treatment
elsewhere."
Pertussis is caused by a toxin-releasing bacterium and is spread when an
infected person coughs, sneezes or talks. Symptoms initially resemble
the common cold but progress to bouts of uncontrollable coughing.
"Pertussis has a long incubation period as well as a long period in
which infection can be transmitted," said Paul Biedrzycki, Milwaukee's
manager of disease control and prevention.
Only 15 cases of the disease were reported at Milwaukee during all of
last year.
LENA'S NOTE:What's missing from this story? The fact that
most all of those with whooping cough were immunized against getting it!
They are excusing that fact with "vaccine loses it's potency" rather
than state the fact that the vaccine is ineffective in most! We went
through that with my first son who had both measles and whooping cough
just six months after having his third immunization and our second son
had whooping cough a short three years after his booster shot, so their
theory that it loses it's potency in five to six years after
immunization doesn't hold up! Whooping cough, as well as measles are
going to happen with or without immunizations, always has and always
will! I saw it while working 3.5 years in a Pediatric Clinic...
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FOOD OF THE
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The season is upon us here in the United States: Cherry Picking Time!
Cherries are a small, round, red stone fruit. They grow on trees in
small clusters. There are both sweet cherries and sour cherries. Sweet
cherries are round or slightly heart-shaped.
Cherries are eaten fresh, made into pie filling, flavored yogurt,
jellies, jams, sauces, stewed fruit, fruit drinks, ice cream and
candies. Cherries are a good source of vitamin C, the B vitamins,
potassium and many micronutrients. Most sweet cherries are eaten fresh.
Almost all sour cherries are processed for canning.
Compact, juicy, and colorful, cherries are nicely supplied with
nutrients, notably pectin (a soluble fiber that helps control blood
cholesterol levels), vitamin C, and beta-carotene, with some potassium.
(Sour cherries, which are sometimes called "pie cherries," have
considerably more vitamin C than sweet cherries do, though much of it is
lost when the cherries are cooked.)
Cherries are also high in a number of phytochemicals, including:
anthocyanins (pigments responsible for the red and blue colors of fruits
and vegetables), which are touted to have anticancer properties based on
their antioxidant activities that defend cells against harmful
carcinogens); and quercetin, a flavonoid, which is an antioxidant and
with anticancer properties as well as anti-inflammatory and
antihistaminic properties. It is this anti-inflammatory activity that
has made cherries (specifically cherry juice) of interest to people who
suffer from gout.
Both sweet and sour cherries besides being rich in fiber also contain
several vitamins, such as Vitamin A, Thiamin- B1, Riboflavin- B2 and
Vitamin C. Also mixed in are the minerals such as Calcium, Phosphorus,
Iron, Sodium, Niacin and Potassium.
There's even a possible dental health bonus in that studies have shown
that a substance (not yet identified) in cherry juice may help prevent
tooth decay.
Although some people find the cherry pit an annoying feature, the
cherry's only other shortcoming is their brief season, which lasts less
than 3 months.
The two basic categories of cherry: sweet and sour.
Sweet Cherries;
Bing: There are many commercial varieties of sweet cherries, but
the leader is the Bing, a large, round, extra-sweet cherry with
purple-red flesh and a deep red skin that verges on black when fully
ripe and great fresh.
Lambert: The second most popular variety is the Lambert, a
smaller, heart-shaped red cherry similar in taste and texture to the
Bing.
Rainier: The Rainier, a sweet cherry with yellow or pinkish skin,
is grown in limited quantities and is milder and sweeter than the Bing.
Royal Ann: Another light-skinned variety, the Royal Ann, is often
canned or made into maraschino cherries.
Sour cherries:
Most commercially grown sour varieties--such as Montmorency, which is
the best known--are canned or frozen for use as pie fillings or sauces,
although you can occasionally find fresh sour cherries during the summer
months at farmers' markets and roadside stands. Sour cherries are
smaller than sweet cherries and are a bright scarlet.
Both sweet and sour cherries have extremely short shelf lives, and must
be handled gently to reduce bruising and oxidation.
Sour cherries for processing are dumped into cold water immediately
following harvest. They are then transported to processing plants, where
they are washed, de-stemmed, pitted, and packed for freezing, all within
hours from harvest.
Sweet cherries are hydrocooled or dumped into cold water by pickers, and
packed in shallow flats after being sorted based on color and size,
usually the largest being 15/16 inch or higher.
Sweet cherries are usually shipped immediately, since shelf life is 2
weeks. They are subject to the same post-harvest diseases (brown rot,
grey mold, blue mold, Rhizopus, Alternaria, etc..) as other stone
fruits.
A nutrient rich food!
Maraschino cherries are made mostly from sweet cherries, but a
small proportion of sour cherries are brined for this purpose. Brined
cherries are de-colorized with SO2, then steeped in Marasca, a liqueur
distilled from the fermented juice of wild cherries.
Our favorite way of eating cherries are fresh and ready for popping into
the mouth. Nothing quite so great as picking and eating when they are in
season. But we also love cherry cobblers and pies?
Here are two versions of Cherry Cobblers for in season or off!
Fresh Cherry Cobbler
1 1/4 cups sugar
3 tablespoons cornstarch
4 cups pitted fresh tart cherries
1/4 teaspoon almond extract
1 cup flour
1 tablespoon sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons shortening
1/2 cup milk
Preheat oven to 400?. Blend 1 1/4 cups sugar, cornstarch, cherries, and
almond extract in a medium saucepan. Cook over medium heat, stirring
constantly, until mixture thickens and boils. Continue to boil and stir
for 1 minute. Pour fruit mixture into an ungreased 2-quart casserole.
Place in oven while preparing dough.
Measure flour, 1 tablespoon sugar, baking powder, and salt into a mixing
bowl. Add shortening and milk. Cut shortening in several times then stir
until dough forms a ball. Drop dough in about 6 spoonfuls onto hot
fruit. Bake 25 to 30 minutes, or until topping is golden brown. Serve
warm with cream, if desired, or cool slightly and serve with vanilla ice
cream
Cherry Cobbler with Biscuit Mix
2 tablespoons quick cooking tapioca
2/3 cup sugar
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 can (20 ounces) drained canned tart cherries, reserve juice
1 cup cherry juice (add water to make 1 cup if necessary)
2 teaspoons butter
1 cup biscuit mix
2 tablespoons sugar
1/3 cup evaporated milk
Preheat oven to 425?. In a bowl, combine tapioca, 2/3 cup sugar, 1/8
teaspoon salt, cherries and the 1 cup cherry juice (if there isn't
enough cherry juice to make 1 cup, add a little water). Mix and put into
a lightly buttered 1 1/2-quart baking dish. Dot top of cherry mixture
with 2 teaspoons butter, cut in small pieces.
Bake at 425º for 12 minutes.
In a mixing bowl, combine biscuit mix, 2 tablespoons sugar, and
evaporated milk. Remove cherry mixture from the oven and drop dough by
tablespoonfuls on top to make 4 dumplings.
Bake for about 12 minutes longer, or until dumplings are lightly
browned.
Cherry Cobbler serves 4. Serve warm with vanilla ice cream of a dollop
of whipped topping.
CDC: Alternative Medicine Gains Popularity
By DANIEL YEE
ATLANTA (AP) - Alternative medicine - including yoga,
meditation, herbs and the Atkins diet - appears to be growing in
popularity in the United States, perhaps because of
dissatisfaction with conventional care, the government said
Thursday.
More than a third of American adults used such practices in
2002, according to the government survey of 31,000 people, the
largest study on non-conventional medical approaches in the
United States.
If prayer is included, about 62 percent of U.S. adults used some
form of alternative medicine.
The results seem to indicate more people are turning to
alternative medicine, though the 2002 survey could not be
directly compared to previous studies because of differences in
size and survey methods, health officials said.
The top alternative therapies included prayer (43 percent of
adults), natural products (19 percent), meditation (8 percent)
and diets such as Atkins, Ornish, or the Zone (4 percent).
More people also are using natural products such as herbs or
enzymes to treat chronic or recurring pain, said Richard Nahin
of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative
Medicine, part of the National Institutes of Health.
"Many conditions are not easily treated with conventional
medicine," Nahin said. "It may be the public is turning to
complementary and alternative medicine because it's not getting
relief from conventional medicine."
But people should not be turning away from conventional
treatments that are proven safe, said Dr. Stephen Straus,
director of the alternative medicine center.
"People are making individual decisions to neglect those
therapies and we have concerns about those choices," he said.
Health officials said they were concerned that 13 percent of
those surveyed said they turned to alternative medicine because
regular medicine is too expensive.
"It needs to be explored - we need to find out whether they were
insured or not," Nahin said.
Health officials also were surprised that 6.6 percent of those
surveyed used the supplement kava kava, which has been
associated with liver disease.
"People make the assumption that because something is natural
that it's safe," Nahin said. "But a number of studies have shown
that natural products can be unsafe when used inappropriately or
with other drugs."
He said people considering using alternative medicine should
consult their doctor first.
Just One Word for the Ocean: Plastics
By ANDREW C. REVKIN
Four decades ago, they were something of a novelty, a one-word tip for
the Dustin Hoffman character in the 1967 movie "The Graduate." By now,
plastics permeate civilization, from shopping bags to shirts, computers
to car bumpers. And as all of that plastic is discarded, it is
permeating the environment, too ? to a microscopic scale.
The latest evidence comes from a study conducted around the British
Isles that shows accumulations of microscopic fibers and bits of
synthetic polymers in beach and seabed sediments.
The study also examined an archive of samples of plankton filtered from
seawater from the 1960's through the 1990's, and found a big jump in the
concentration of plastic particles amid the plankton in the last two
decades. The growth was consistent with the sharp increase in
manufacturing and sales of plastic goods and packaging in those years,
the researchers said. Their study appears in the current issue of the
journal Science.
Although the sampling was mainly around Britain, the global spread of
plastic flotsam and jetsam probably means that other areas are likely
seeing buildups, too, said the lead author, Dr. Richard C. Thompson, a
marine ecologist at the University of Plymouth.
Larger plastic items are hazardous to sea life. It is unclear whether
tiny fragments of bigger items pose ecological risks, although they were
readily ingested by worms, barnacles and other bottom-dwelling life in
tank tests, the researchers said.
Robert S. Krebs, a spokesman for the American Plastics Council, a trade
group, said the problem was improper disposal. "Debris in the oceans is
a problem," he said, noting that the council had worked with
manufacturers to limit direct disposal of plastic like the small pellets
used as raw material by factories.
Mr. Krebs said the biggest challenge was preventing discarded plastic
from blowing or floating away. He noted that water in almost every
region of the United States eventually drained into the sea.
"You can't point your finger at one type of material," he said. "We all
share the responsibility for keeping stuff from going into the ocean."
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