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As summer announces it's intentions for our area, the heat is on... It is looking like our summer is going to be a repeat of last summer's record breaking heat... While sunshine is imperative to our health sometimes it is a bit hard to get out there for more than a few minutes at a time to absorb those health healing rays. Are you getting a minimum of 15 minutes and preferably one hour of sunshine daily? If not you need to make a more concerted effort as the body truly uses and needs it. That's sun without sunscreen!!!

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Trace amounts of ultraviolet (UV) radiation in natural daylight are required for:
Physical and mental health
Improved behavior
Muscle strength
Energy
Learning
In moderation, sunlight improves immunity and stimulates our metabolism while decreasing food craving, and increases our intelligence.

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How Contraceptives Kill a Woman's Libido Long-Term

The benefits of taking oral contraceptives may be no match for the risks. According to a study, while contraceptives allow a woman to have intercourse without fear of getting pregnant, they could extinguish her sexual desire ... permanently.

The pill has been linked to a number of side effects, including:

Migraines
Blood clots
Weight gain
Painful intercourse
Problems with orgasms

However, the side effect least talked about is its tendency to silence a woman?s libido by decreasing testosterone levels. Contraceptive drugs slow down the production of hormones in the ovaries and raise levels of sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG), a chemical that kills the libido.

And while experts believed any sexual dysfunction from taking oral contraceptives would disappear when a woman stopped using them--that no longer seems to be the case.

Permanent Libido Damage?

Researchers studied 125 young women who visited a sexual dysfunction clinic; half were taking oral contraceptives, 40 had previously taken them and 23 had never been on the pill.

After measuring the participants' SHBG levels every three months for a year (via blood samples), researchers found:

Seven times the amount of the libido-killing SHBG hormone was present in woman who took oral contraceptives, compared to women who never used the pill.

Even though SHBG levels declined in women who had stopped taking the pill, they still remained three to four times higher than they were in women with no history of using oral contraceptives.

New Scientist May 27, 2005

That Great Green Stalk!

This particular vegetable is looked on by a lot of dieters as taboo simply because it is usually a stick that is eaten while wishing they were eating something else… Little do they know it is very healthy and once thought of only as medicine! Celery is related to carrots, parsnips and parsley. Also related to anise, which has a licorice-like flavor. Was once considered a medicinal herb rather than a vegetable.

Celery probably originated in the Mediterranean area. It grows wild in marshy places over a large area covering parts of Sweden south through Europe, Algeria, Egypt, Asia Minor, the Caucasus and south-eastward toward the Himalayas. It has also been found growing wild in Tierra del Fuego (the southernmost tip of South America), California and New Zealand.

According to Sturtevant, celery was known to the Greeks and Romans only as a medicine. It was not used as a food, and whether or not it was cultivated is unclear. Mentions of celery from ancient writings are: "selinon" from Homer's Odyssey (850 BC), "selinon heleion" from Hippocrates, "eleisoselinon" from Theophrastus and Dioscorides and "helioselinon" from Pliny and Palladius. According to the Britannica Encyclopaedia, the Greeks and Romans used celery as a flavoring. As late as the 16th century. Fuchsius in 1542, Walafridus Strabo in the 9th century, Tragus in 1552, Pinaeus in 1561, Pena and Lobel in 1570 and Ruellius Dioscorides in 1529 all spoke of celery's medicinal properties. As late as 1722, celery was still referred to as "a herb eaten to purify the blood."

The Chinese also used celery as a medicine. It is mentioned in Chinese writings from the 5th century AD and in 1640 is described as a cultivated plant. Cultivation of celery apparently began in the 16th century in Italy and northern Europe, and in 1623 use of celery as a food in France is recorded. For the next century, its culinary use was limited to that of a flavoring. In 1726, celery seed was sold in England for planting for use of the plant in soups and broths. By the middle of the 17th century celery stalks and leaves were sometimes eaten with an oil dressing in France and Italy.

The first celery's known cultivation was similar to the wild plant and had hollow stalks. In the late 1700's and early 1800's, the cultivated type was improved and the first celery with large, fleshy succulent petioles appeared.

According to tests by Researchers at the University of Chicago, celery – this week's food - reduces cholesterol levels by as much as 7 points with as little as 2 stalks a day. Celery aids in the process of removing and preventing cholesterol by increasing bile acid secretion. Celery also contains butyl phthalide, another nutrient that is said to help reduce high cholesterol.

Medical experts say that celery is good for people with circulation problems because celery fights fat. Hence the reason for celery sticks to munch on when dieting…

Celery contains nutrients that stimulate the elimination of fat throughout the body says a physician at the University of Italy in Milan. Celery is good for helping to clean the mouth and teeth during eating of it raw.

Celery is high in calcium. High calcium intake invigorates the endocrine system which releases hormones that break down fatty buildup in cells.

Celery in cholesterol control; By aiding the body's processes in dissolving already accumulated cholesterol on the interior walls of the arteries, known as plaque, and helping the liver to metabolize and prevent additional formation of cholesterol.

Celery root or Celeriac as it is known is another story to be covered at a later time…

In our house celery's favorite presentation is either stuffed with cream cheese or peanut butter. Kids love it… but my most favorite and one I usually like for breakfast is the traditional Waldorf salad. My recipe below…

Lena's Waldorf Salad

Ingredients:

1 cup apples chopped, (Granny smith or a Sweet tart apple or a combination of different tart apples)
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 cup celery, chopped
1/4 cup mayonnaise
1/4 cup chopped walnuts

Sprinkle apples with lemon juice after they are chopped. I usually do this in the food processor as the apples are chopped up…
Add all other ingredients.

Toss until all pieces are coated with mayonnaise and serve. Taste is better if let to set while before serving...

Enjoy this healthful food,
Lena

Surgery Tools Washed Improperly
Jun 12, 2005

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - About 3,800 patients at two hospitals run by Duke University Health System were operated on last year with instruments that were washed in hydraulic fluid instead of detergent, hospital regulators said.

Duke Health Raleigh and Durham Regional hospitals put patients in "immediate jeopardy" in November and December by not detecting the problem, despite complaints from medical staff about slick tools, according to a report by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

The hospitals did not fix the problem for weeks, said the agency, which oversees patient care at hospitals that receive payments from federal insurance programs.

The mix-up apparently occurred when an elevator company drained hydraulic fluid into empty detergent barrels last summer. The detergent supplier later picked up the barrels and mistakenly redistributed them as washing fluid.

Duke Health officials assured patients in January that the likelihood of infection from the tools was "no more than the risk normally associated" with the procedures that the patients underwent.

However, dozens of patients who were exposed to the surgical instruments have reported lingering health concerns ranging from fatigue and joint pain to problems requiring hospitalization, the The (Raleigh) News & Observer reported Sunday.

At least 50 patients who developed complications have taken their concerns to lawyers, though no one has sued Duke or the hospitals. Two lawsuits have been filed against the elevator company and the detergent supplier.

Duke Health officials declined to comment further, citing possible lawsuits.

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U.S. Mayors Agree to Adhere to Kyoto Pact
Jun 13, 2005
By DAN CATERINICCHIA

CHICAGO (AP) - The U.S. Conference of Mayors unanimously passed a resolution Monday requiring their cities to try to meet or surpass emissions standards set by the Kyoto Protocol, the international global-warming treaty ratified earlier this year without the United States.

The resolution also urges federal and state governments to meet or beat the goal of reducing global warming pollution levels to 7 percent below 1990 levels by 2012.

The cities' efforts will include reducing dependence on fossil fuels by accelerating development of fuel-efficient technologies such as wind and solar energy, efficient motor vehicles and biofuels.

President Bush opposes the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and the U.S. administration questions the certainty of scientists' views that "greenhouse gases" such as carbon dioxide are causing temperatures to rise. U.S. officials also argue the Kyoto requirements would increase energy prices and cost millions of U.S. jobs.

Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels, who sponsored the mayoral agreement and was in Chicago for the conference meeting, welcomed Monday's resolution.

"We're very pleased. ... Today is our first endorsement from a major organization," he said.

U.S. Conference of Mayors

LENA'S COMMENT: Three cheers for our mayors.... they are showing some common sense and looking out for our welfare over the long haul, which is more than I can say about our Washington leaders...