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Researchers at the Institute of Psychiatry in London found that marijuana reduces the function of the part of the brain that controls emotional and behavioral responses to situations. Essentially, the stronger the pot (and today's version is twice as strong as it used to be), the lower the function of that response, which affects how paranoid a person becomes. With continued exposure, this effect appears to contribute to long-term schizophrenia-like symptoms in some people.

One more reason to "just say no."

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Summer Air Travel Virus?

Summer travel for so many means flying and then find that they are ill within 24 to 48 hours of landing. That's a form of air sickness that require preventative measures...

Sinus and other upper respiratory infections so often occur following air travel because the air in the airplane cabin is recycled throughout the course of your trip. Any germs floating around in that air are also re-circulated the whole time. Plus, the air on planes tends to be much drier, which means your nose and mouth also become dry. Without the mucous and moisture usually present to "catch" them, bacteria have a better atmosphere for setting in and causing infection. But here's a simple tip you can use to keep yourself from joining this version of the "mile high" club.

Make sure your immune system is functioning to it's optimum but if it isn't or you don't know if it is make sure you have Ionic Silver Water with you and spray some up your nose before take off and after landing then take a Tablespoon morning and evening that day and return trip...

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FOOD OF THE WEEK
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Healthy "What Is It?"

A food not know to the majority and most look at it and ask, ?What is it?? It's called Bok choy and classified as a cabbage. Some call it Chinese white cabbage, yet, bok choy bears little resemblance to the round cabbages found in your supermarket. With glossy dark-green leaves and thick, crisp white stalks in a loose head. Some say its white stalks resemble celery without the stringiness, while the leaves of the most common variety is similar to Romaine lettuce or spinach.

Although bok choy was introduced to Europe in the 1800's, and is now readily available in supermarkets throughout North America, other cuisines have been slow to embrace it. Bok choy is widely popular in the Philippines, where large numbers of Chinese immigrated following Spain's conquest of the islands in the 1500's. You'll sometimes find bok choy replacing cabbage in pancit, a Philippine noodle dish, and in kimchi, a Korean hot pickle made with garlic and red peppers. Bok choy or pak kwahng toong also appears in Thai recipes. However, you're unlikely to see a piece of bok choy enlivening your Greek or Italian salad anytime in the near future. Ditto for ordering bok choy soups or salads at the local fast food restaurant. While bok choy is grown in the United States and several Canadian provinces, it remains firmly associated with Chinese cooking but bok choy is gaining popularity and that comes from its light, sweet flavor, crisp texture and nutritional value. The yellow flowering center is especially prized.

There are more then twenty varieties of bok choy that have been cultivated in China since ancient times. Bok choy is found in soups, stir-fries, appetizers, salads, side, and main dishes. The smaller varieties are valued for their tenderness. An added benefit is that recipes often call for them to be cooked whole, reducing preparation time.

Bok choy is nutritious in that it is high in cancer preventing nutrients. Vitamin A, Vitamin C, potassium and calcium. Leaves are higher in vitamin content and flavor, than stalks with a really mild taste, similar to Swiss chard or romaine lettuce. Bok choy is one of those good-for-you vegetables that can be eaten raw, quick-cooked, steamed, stir-fried, or boiled. When cooked, bok choy stalks are tender but crisp.

Shopping for bok choy!

When shopping for bok choy avoid the plants with deformed stalks and brown spots which indicate poor growing conditions. Yellow leaves and very small stalks or bunches mean old product. Choose young, tender bok choy no longer than 4-inches in length. Once harvested, bok choy deteriorates quickly, so plan to buy and serve it within two to three days of purchase. When you get it home, wrap the head in a damp paper towel or an airtight plastic bag and put it in the refrigerator vegetable bin.

To clean bok choy cut off the tough ends, fill your sink or a large bowl with cold water, and swish the pieces to dislodge dirt and grit, but don't soak. If the leaves are especially dirty, change the water once or twice. Give the greens a final rinse under cold running water, then drain.

To serve raw, cut the leafy parts off the stalk. Or toss chopped stalks and leaves into a salad. You can also shred the leaves and turn them into coleslaw. It will take longer to cook stalks (2-3 minutes) than the leafy parts- approximately 40 seconds. You can also steam it whole, or coarsely chop it and add to soups.

Stir-fried Bok Choy with Peanuts Recipe

INGREDIENTS:

4 bunches bok choy (basically, 1 bunch per person)
1/4 cups roasted unsalted peanuts (Cashews are great too)
2 thin slices ginger root
2 tablespoons soy sauce
1/4 teaspoon sea salt, or to taste
1/4 cup chicken style broth
1 1/2 tablespoons Virgin Olive Oil for stir-frying

Wash the bok choy and drain. Separate the stalks and leaves. Cut the stalk diagonally and cut the leaves across.

Heat wok and add oil. When oil is ready, add ginger and stir-fry briefly, for about 30 seconds, until the ginger is aromatic. Add the bok choy, adding the stalks first, and then the leaves. Add peanuts, stir in the soy sauce, and salt. Stir-fry on high heat for 1 minute.

Add the broth cover the wok and simmer for about 2 minutes. Serves 4.

Enjoy this tasty dish!
Lena

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HEALTH TODAY
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4^th of July Stomach Problem Treatments
© By Lena Sanchez

This coming week - 4th of July Celebrations - will find a lot of BBQ's and picnics may end up in a lot of visits to the doctor a couple of days later or possibly even hours after the BBQ or picnic? Most of those stomach upsets that cause a visit to the doctor will be because foods left sitting too long or improper handling, cooking or refrigeration. Either on will create a building up bacteria ready to hit your stomach creating cramps, vomiting and/or diarrhea.

Sometimes it may mean only a small bout with diarrhea and then it's gone. Others will have severe stomach cramping along with vomiting that says you've been hit hard but you will live. Others will even have a fever and/or flu like symptoms and serious consequences to the point of death in small children and the older folks.

Those enjoyable picnics and BBQ's can end up with horrific stomach symptoms. With E. coli, being the most common one, causing vomiting, cramping and severe diarrhea, which can then lead to dehydration that creates a loss of minerals, which can end up with the heart going into Atrial Fibrillation from that lack of minerals in the body causing hospitalization at best and worst case scenario death!

Will that doctor give you a treatment for the problem or treat symptoms?

One of the most common sources of Ecoli is eating undercooked meat. Ecoli outbreaks often occur during the summertime when many are enjoying barbecues, picnics and foods served at public carnivals and festivals.

Antibiotic Treatment by the medical world for Ecoli is risky, not to forget that it decimates the intestinal system which is already suffering from the toxins and does not treat the problem. Antibiotics also opens the body up to catch all other virus or bacteria that a body comes in contact with for several weeks thereafter simply because it kills the good and bad bacteria that the body needs to fight invasion of those germs!

Treatments that I know to work without antibiotics are;

1 - Minerals balance to keep the heart and other organs functioning as they should. If the vomiting and diarrhea are really severe you may need to drop liquid minerals on pieces of fruit or vegetables until the body can hold food down.

2 - Add Probiotics to the intestinal track to help take care of the Ecoli naturally. This addition will overcome and kill the offending bacteria? Ecoli cannot take hold of your system when a balanced intestinal ecosystem exists. Better yet, have your intestinal tract so tuned up that Ecoli can't get access to it. Read "Your Ecosystem" to understand it better.

3 - Take two tablespoons of Ionic Sliver Water morning and evening for a few days - this is also known to kill the offending bacteria, even those that hide in the system that come out later and cause problems. With both these additions you can enjoy the summer.

These three natural treatments should be a staple in your medicine war chest (not in the bathroom cabinet) as they are the closest thing to helping the most illnesses and keep the immune system tuned up to ward off illnesses.

Now enjoy the upcoming holidays and treat naturally?

Desert Dust Cuts Mountain Snow, May Spur Warming
June 26, 2007

WASHINGTON - Desert dust blown onto Rocky Mountain peaks has cut the duration of snow-cover by a month or more, and the same thing is probably happening in the Alps and Himalayas, researchers reported on Monday.

In a phenomenon likely to spur global warming, the reflective white of snow is replaced by darker dust deposits that absorb the sun's rays, heating up the lower atmosphere, said Tom Painter, a scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Colorado.

Speaking by telephone from Mont Blanc in Switzerland, Painter described an orange tinge he had seen on the snow of nearby Dome de Miage, which he attributed to dust carried from the Sahara in Africa.

Painter said he had observed dust-laden snow on the Tien Shan Mountains in China, and the same likely held true for parts of the Himalayas.

"I don't know of any mountain ranges that are not experiencing dust deposition," Painter said.

Dust in small doses can help to form snowflakes, but the dust that cuts the length of snow-pack in the Rockies by about 20 to 35 days a year comes in a swirling blanket, spawned by wind storms in desert or drought-stricken areas, Painter and his co-authors wrote online in Geophysical Research Letters.

The fact that dust deposits can melt mountain snow by decreasing the ability to reflect sunlight has long been established; what is new, Painter said, is the degree to which this affects snow cover. One month less of snow "is an enormous change," he said.

The desert dust-mountain snow system warms up the lower atmosphere in what climate scientists call a positive feedback loop, Painter explained: "The hotter it gets, the less snow cover you have ... and that provides a darker surface that can absorb more solar radiation and that warms things even more."

The cause for the diminished snow cover in Colorado's San Juan Mountains is dust carried from the Colorado Plateau, some 200 miles (320 km) away, where Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico come together in an area known as Four Corners, the researchers said.

The underlying reason for the increased dust is changes in land use starting in the mid-19th century, Painter said.

"About 75 percent of the Western United States has been affected by grazing, by agriculture, by mining," he said. "Generally these lands were pretty stable prior to the large-scale introduction of grazing and agriculture."

Without natural grasses to stabilize the soil, more of it turned to desert and more dust blew into the mountains.

Most climate models predict more drying and warming in the US desert Southwest, causing soil moisture to decrease, which means less vegetation to stabilize the soil and probably more dust emission, Painter said.

This, in turn, could mean even more intense snow melt, earlier in the year, spurring the whole cycle, he said.

REUTERS NEWS SERVICE