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 Tobacco is a mood-altering, addictive drug that kills 500,000 Americans a year (200 million worldwide)
Costs $400 billion each year, according to "Smoking and Health Review," (1992). 

The American Lung Association says tobacco contains more than 4,000 chemicals, 60 of which causes cancer. 
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Researchers from Stanford University, the University of Washington, and the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health found, among other things, that:

* Children with television sets in their bedrooms scored lower on math and language tests than kids without their own TVs.
* Adults who watched a lot of television as children were lower in education level by age 26.
* Those with college degrees had watched less than 2 hours nightly as kids, compared to more than 2.5 hours for those who'd attained only a high school diploma.
* Children who were exposed to more than 3 hours a day of TV before age 3 scored worse on intelligence tests at age 6 and Third-graders with access to a home computer (and who didn't have TVs in their rooms) scored best of all in academic tests.
 

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Better Control Of Diabetes With Vitamins!

Try adding 1,000 mg a day of vitamin C (the long-acting one that lingers in the system) also known as Ester-C... and 200 mg to 300 mg a day of alpha-lipoic acid to help better control your diabetes...

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A surprising aid to helping stabilize blood sugar is undoubtedly in your kitchen already -- cinnamon. Dr. Hirt reports that researchers discovered this while testing people with diabetes to see how common foods affected their blood sugar levels. For some reason, patients' sugar levels didn't rise as anticipated when they ate apple pie. Ultimately, the researchers found that it was the cinnamon in the pie that helped prevent a rise. He recommends having one-half to one teaspoon a day, sprinkled over cereal, yogurt, fruit or other food or beverages of your choice.

Yellow, Red, White, Blue (Zea mays var. rugosa)
 
Today's vegetable come in an array of colors such as yellow, red, white and blue with variations in between all of those? And sadly I received some really bad information in my early adult years on this vegetable. A badly informed friend told me that this vegetable had no nutrients in it to help us and that it was a wasted food? How that rumor got started I will never know but it is absolutely false! I did not take the time to even look it up then but I have since found that is absolutely a far fetched fallacy!
 
Corn season is here in our area and the annual Community Corn Dinner will be held this coming weekend?
 
Our veggie this week, corn contains a multitude of nutrients? Fiber to keep our bowels regular and healthy, along with a multitude of Minerals such as; Calcium, Iron, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Potassium, Sodium, Zinc, Copper, Manganese and Selenium. And many Vitamins such as; Vitamins A, C, B-6, B-12, E, Thiamin, Riboflavin, Niacin, Pantothenic acid, Folate and Folic acid.
 
History and Origin
 
In Native American usage, the word for corn means "our life," or "our mother," or "she who sustains us." It was the cultivation of corn that turned Native American tribes from nomadic to agrarian communities.
 
It was from the Native Americans that the first European settlers learned about corn. Native Americans had spent hundreds of years developing what we now know as corn from seed-bearing grass. Long before Christopher Columbus sailed from Spain in 1492, Native Americans were cultivating this grass in North, Central, and South America. Native American farmers in the Ohio River Valley had been growing corn for more than 1,700 years before the first white men crossed the Appalachian Mountains, and there is evidence that they used corn to brew beer before Europeans arrived in the Americas.
 
The Pawtuxet Indian tribe in Massachusetts was cultivating corn when the first settler arrived, and corn was on the first Thanksgiving table in 1621. If it had not been for corn, the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony might have starved to death during their first year in America. The Indians taught settlers how to grown corn, pound corn into meal, and how to cook with it. The words of Governor William Bradford, first governor of the Plymouth Colony, now inscribed on a brass plaque at Truto (Corn Hill) on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, reflect the settler's gratitude: "And sure it was God's good providence that we found this corn for we know not how else we should have done."
 
At first, when taken into Europe, corn was only a garden curiosity but it soon began to be recognized as a valuable food crop. Within a few years, it spread throughout France, Italy, and all of southeastern Europe and northern Africa. By 1575, it was making its way into western China, and had become important in the Philippines and the East Indies.
 
Although corn is indigenous to the western hemisphere, its exact birthplace is far less certain. Archeological evidence of corn's early presence in the western hemisphere was identified from corn pollen grain considered to be 80,000 years old obtained from drill cores 200 feet below Mexico City. Another archeological study of the bat caves in New Mexico revealed corncobs that were 5,600 years old by radiocarbon determination. Most historians believe corn was domesticated in the Tehuacan Valley of Mexico. The original wild form has long been extinct.
 
Cooking sweet corn, whether you cream it, steam it or keep it on the cob, unleashes beneficial nutrients that can substantially reduce the chance of heart disease and cancer, according to Cornell University food scientists. The study found that cooked sweet corn retains its antioxidant activity, despite the loss of some vitamin C.
 
The word "corn" has many different meanings depending on what country you are in. Corn in the United States is also called maize or Indian corn. In some countries, corn means the leading crop grown in a certain district. Corn in England means wheat; in Scotland and Ireland, it refers to oats. Corn mentioned in the Bible is said to probably refer to wheat or barley. Of course I didn't live then nor do I know anyone who did and cannot verify that?
 
Our favorite way of eating corn is grilled in its husk. I usually pull the husk back, remove as much of the silk as possible and make sure it's worm free, then pull the husk back over the cob and put on a BBQ grill, medium flame, and cook until husk is well burned? Turning frequently to cook evenly? Then butter and eat. We also like it raw on the cob, when it is fresh off the stalk? We also steam it and eat? I do not put a lot of seasoning on it as we like the flavor natural?But corn can be fixed many different ways. Corn can be found frozen through out the year so you can enjoy this nutritious food any time?
 
The grandchildren are quick to ask for and love our Summer Sabbath suppers of Popcorn and mixed fresh fruit salad, occasionally, when they are here?  Corn is great any way it's fixed to eat?
 
Enjoy this nutritious food,
Lena

Health Agency Tightens Rules Governing Federal Scientists
By GARDINER HARRIS
August 26, 2005


WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 - After accusations that some government scientists used their official positions for private gain, the National Institutes of Health announced rules on Thursday that ban its scientists from consulting for drug companies.

"Our research should be based on scientific evidence that is not influenced by any other factors," Dr. Elias A. Zerhouni, director of the health institutes, said at a news conference.

The rules are being issued after disclosures that scientists at the institutes leveraged their positions to land lucrative consulting contracts that seemed to conflict with their official duties or at least overlap with them. Those contracts caused some critics to worry that research by the agency could be tainted.

An investigation by the agency concluded that 44 of its 1,200 senior scientists appeared to have violated rules governing consulting and that 9 might have violated criminal laws.

The conflicts were first reported by The Los Angeles Times.

The regulations are not as draconian as those that an internal panel proposed in February. Under those proposals, which caused an uproar, not only was consulting banned, but 6,000 scientists would have also been forced to sell all shares they owned in pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.

Any remunerative activity outside of work - even selling jewelry or singing - would have had to be disclosed and approved by ethics overseers. All 18,000 employees would have been forced to limit their holdings in any one company to shares valued at no more than $15,000.

Under the final rules, the top 200 executives will be required to keep the value of their holdings in any single drug company below $15,000. Some 6,000 other employees will have to submit for review their holdings in such companies. If the holdings are determined to conflict with official responsibilities, the employees will be asked to sell these shares, officials said.

Agency scientists will also be allowed to hold fiduciary positions in medical societies as part of their lives outside the agency, a practice that the proposed rules would have banned.

"Clearly, we do not want to impede the normal academic interactions that scientists need to have with the rest of the world," Dr. Zerhouni said.

The changes were welcomed by scientists at the agency who had fiercely criticized the old proposals.

"This is a very good step forward, but it doesn't end the issue," said Dr. Ezekial Emanuel, chairman of the executive committee of the Assembly of Scientists, a group that filed a suit against the old rules and then withdrew it.

His group, Dr. Emanuel said, would continue to fight travel bans and bureaucratic inertia that he said is hurting the agency.

The changes disappointed some critics of the pharmaceutical industry's influence on research.

"These rules by no means end the influence of the pharmaceutical industry on N.I.H. employees," said Dr. Sidney M. Wolfe, director of the health research group at Public Citizen, the consumer advocacy group.

Dr. Wolfe noted that the new rules let employees deliver medical education lectures paid for by drug companies. Although no strings are supposed to be attached to the financing, Dr. Wolfe noted that scientists who disagreed with the positions of the drug industry were rarely invited to give such lectures.

The controversy surrounding consulting work and scientists' relationships with drug companies has been a black eye for the health institutes, which has for years enjoyed highly favorable press coverage and widespread support on Capitol Hill.

Investigations found that the health institutes had such poor and inconsistent controls over scientists' outside activities that the agency could not even answer investigators' basic questions about the extent of the problem.

One scientist, Dr. P. Trey Sunderland, a senior researcher at the National Institute of Mental Health, received more than $500,000 in consulting fees from Pfizer at the time he was collaborating with the company in his official work of studying patients with Alzheimer's disease.

Despite rules that require government scientists to notify the institutes of their consulting deals, Dr. Sunderland did not make such a report.

Dr. Zerhouni initially dismissed the problems as paperwork issues or the indiscretions of a few people. But as the disclosures built, he proposed modest changes.

Late last year, he proposed a one-year ban on all consulting work while the agency improved controls. Dr. Zerhouni termed the new rules "the most restrictive of any we know about in the world of biomedical research."

The revisions were made after officials received more than 1,300 comments, many fiercely critical, on the proposal. Dr. Zerhouni said he was not surprised that so many employees opposed the proposed rules. He said it was always his intent to adapt the new rules after receiving comments from outside.

The rules go into effect on Tuesday. Officials will have to divest their stock portfolios by Jan. 30. Dr. Zerhouni said he intended to re-examine the new rules in a year to make sure they have not had negative effects on the agency's ability to recruit top scientists.

Dr. Zerhouni also said he hoped to spur a broader discussion about conflicts of interest in universities. NY Times

LENA'S COMMENT: Sounds good but is it?? It's a step in the right direction but Hey they can only take $15,000 now... And this is called cleaning up the system... I think not... It won't be as skewed as with the mega bucks, but $15,000 a year in this time of HMO's crunching doctor's income, just may still push them into skewing whichever way big pharma wants... How about $0 and be honest???