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Researchers in Italy say that the antioxidants in tomato juice could lower markers of inflammation in the body by more than 30 percent. And since inflammation is linked to hardening of the artery walls and other cardiovascular diseases, keeping inflammation down is a natural way to protect your heart. In the University of Milan study, 26 healthy young adults were asked to drink one glass of commercially available tomato juice per day in addition to their regular diets. The researchers found that the inflammatory mediator TNF-alpha, a marker for inflammation, dropped by 34 percent after six weeks. Tomato extract contains lycopene, beta-carotene, vitamin E, and other phytonutrients. In addition to reducing inflammation, regular consumption of tomatoes and tomato-based products has been linked to lowered blood pressure, and it may even bolster immune function.

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READ WATER AND WHAT IT SHOULD BE!

Chlorine: Necessary to preventing mass disease epidemics but also dangerous to your health!

Remove chlorine, a simple step to being healthy!

This disinfectant destroys proteins in the body, irritates skin and sinus conditions, and aggravates asthma, allergies, and respiratory problems. Used almost universally in the treatment of public water supplies because of its toxic effect on harmful bacteria and other waterborne, disease-causing microorganisms.

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Beta-Blockers: Friend or Foe?

(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- A recent report linked the class of blood pressure-lowering drug known as beta-blockers with an increased stroke risk, and study authors concluded they should not be a first-choice option for treating hypertension. Now, Canadian researchers are questioning this in a new meta-analysis.

Using data on more than 100,000 patients among 21 hypertension studies, researchers determined beta-blockers worked similarly to other antihypertensive agents and reduced major cardiovascular outcomes in younger patients or those younger than age 60. However, they found beta-blockers did not have the same efficacy for those older than age 60 and carried a marked increased risk for stroke.

They conclude, "Beta-blockers should not be considered first-line therapy for older hypertensive patients without another indication for these agents; however, in younger patients, beta-blockers are associated with a significant reduction in cardiovascular morbidity and mortality."

SOURCE: Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2006;174:1737-1742

LENA'S COMMENT: Hmmmmmmmm, haven't I told you this a few times? Old news but needs to be told over and over until people understand that chemical treatments have real risks and a lot have no benefit. Try natural medicines, they work more often and truly heal most conditions!

Informed Consent Waived in Public Crisis
June 7, 2006
By ANDREW BRIDGES

WASHINGTON (AP) - In a public health emergency, suspected victims would no longer have to give permission before experimental tests could be run to determine why they're sick, under a federal rule published Wednesday. Privacy experts called the exception unnecessary, ripe for abuse and an override of state informed-consent laws.

Health care workers will be free to run experimental tests on blood and other samples taken from people who have fallen sick as a result of a bioterrorist attack, bird flu outbreak, detonation of a dirty bomb or any other life-threatening public health emergency, according to the rule issued by the Food and Drug Administration.

In all other cases, the use of an experimental test still requires the informed consent of a patient, as well as the review and approval of an outside panel.

"To be candid, I hope it is a hypothetical problem. I hope we spent a lot of time creating a rule we never have to invoke," said Dr. Steve Gutman, director of the FDA's in-vitro diagnostics office.

Determining what constitutes a life-threatening public health emergency would be left up to the laboratories doing the testing. That creates the potential for conflicts of interest and other abuses, critics said.

"I don't like a rule like this because its most likely use is likely to be a form of abuse. The emergency exception it creates will be stretched to encompass non-emergency situations," said Jim Harper, director of information policy studies at the Cato Institute.

The FDA said it published the rule to ensure the ability to identify quickly whatever chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear agent is involved in a terrorist attack or natural outbreak of disease. Doing so could save the lives of those being tested as well as of others exposed, the FDA said.

"Baloney," said Dr. Deborah Peel, chairwoman of the Patient Privacy Rights Foundation, a watchdog group. "This sounds like they're taking for themselves the right to test individuals every time they declare a public health emergency. There is no way getting consent would delay testing."

The FDA said that obtaining informed consent in those cases would be impracticable or unfeasible.

The rule lays out a scenario where a laboratory discovers what appears to be an unusual bug in a sample taken from a patient before a public health emergency was even suspected. With the apparent bug in the lab but the patient gone, going back for permission to use a confirmatory but experimental test - often the only type of test available - would introduce "unacceptable delays," the FDA said.

"They're basically overriding state informed-consent laws," said Sue Blevins, president of the Institute for Health Freedom. Blevins said her group advocates for informed consent but that in emergencies it could be sought after the fact.

"If they don't have the time to get it, at least inform them retroactively what's been done, so people can keep track of what information has been collected from them," Blevins said.

The rule took effect Wednesday but remains subject to public comment until Aug. 7. The FDA said it published the rule without first seeking comments because it would hinder the response to an outbreak of bird flu or other public health emergency.

"Nobody said two airplanes would fly into the World Trade Center, did they? We wouldn't have written the rule unless we thought it was a possibility," Gutman said.

The FDA said the lack of such an exemption impeded the public health response to the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or SARS, epidemic of 2003.

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