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Costs $400 billion each year, according to "Smoking and Health Review," (1992). 

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Greetings and thank you for subscribing! Keep prayers and good thoughts going up for those in the Southern U.S. as they try to recover from the hurricane!

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The Ridiculous; At the American Medical Association (AMA) annual meeting in June, the House of Delegates adopted a resolution that called for the AMA to "encourage the Food and Drug Administration to require that all herbal supplements carry an ingredient list similar to that required for foodstuffs and pharmaceuticals."

This is a ridiculous resolution. Why? Because the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDA) already requires an ingredient list and a "Supplement Facts" panel on the packaging of dietary supplements, including herbals.

Duh!

Asked to comment on this overzealous gaff, Michael McGuffin (president of the American Herbal Products Association) dryly noted: "an action that was made in ignorance of the actual law."

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F.D.A. Clears Flu Vaccine Made by Glaxo
By BLOOMBERG NEWS
September 1, 2005

A flu shot from GlaxoSmithKline was approved by American regulators yesterday and the Chiron Corporation's Liverpool vaccine plant, shut last year because of contamination, moved closer to being opened as officials work to avoid another shortage.

The Food and Drug Administration actions may help ensure the availability of as many as 34 million shots from the two companies.

Michael Fleming, a Glaxo spokesman, said shipments that would begin going out immediately for its Fluarix vaccine and that it would be priced in line with other shots currently marketed in the United States.

"Our wholesalers have some orders from customers already," Mr. Fleming said yesterday in a telephone interview. The McKesson Corporation, the biggest United States drug wholesaler, and FFF Enterprises distribute the vaccine, he said.

LENA'S COMMENT: Before getting a flu shot read Why Are People Choosing Ill Health  Last year had less flu than any year since the flu vaccine came on the market. Is it at all possible it could be because far less people got it and therefore could not spread it around? ABSOLUTELY!
 

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

I've been saying this for years and now someone in the position to spread the word a bit faster is saying it as well!

Antibiotics Aren't Always the Answer
By DEBORAH FRANKLIN
August 30, 2005


Your throat feels as if you've swallowed broken glass, your sinuses have been clogged for a couple of days, you're coughing up green stuff and you're slated to fly in a week.

Never mind that your doctor thinks you're suffering from a viral infection that antibiotics won't touch. Why not start a prescription of some powerful bacteria-busting drug immediately, just in case?

Dr. Alastair D. Hay, who teaches medical students at the University of Bristol in England and also treats patients, says that until recently, even he may occasionally have succumbed to the pressure to hand over a prescription.

"As a personal policy, I don't get into heated arguments with my patients," Dr. Hay said.

And giving the standard lecture about how antibiotics will not stop a virus but may contribute to the growing, worldwide problem of drug resistance rarely convinces sick people that they don't need the drugs. "Unless you can tell them that there's an immediate downside for them personally," Dr. Hay said, "the message just doesn't sink in."

Now, though, Dr. Hay can quote direct evidence of a downside. An increasing number of studies, including his own work, suggest that even a properly prescribed antibiotic can foster the growth of one or more strains of antibiotic-resistant bacteria for at least two to six months inside the person taking the pills.

"Carrying" a microbe inside you that is resistant to drugs also means that, during that time, you're likely to "share" the resistant bug with family, co-workers and others in your path.

That particular strain may not make you sick. But if you find yourself one day immune-suppressed after chemotherapy, cut open by a car accident or surgery or especially vulnerable to bacterial pneumonia after a bad flu, those resistant strains of bacteria living inside you increase the odds that any infection will be hard - or even impossible - to beat.

In a study published in the July 2005 issue of The Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, Dr. Hay and nine colleagues solicited urine samples from a broad cross-section of generally healthy people throughout southwest England.

They then checked the samples for E. coli, a common intestinal bacterium that can invade the urethra. Published surveys estimate that roughly 25 to 35 percent of women ages 20 to 40 in the United States have had a urinary tract infection, and E. coli is the most frequent cause.

Of the 618 men and women from whom Dr. Hay and his colleagues were able to isolate E. coli and also get extensive medical records, 39 percent carried a bacterial strain that was resistant to one or more of the first-line antibiotics commonly used to treat urinary infections.

More significantly, Dr. Hay said, a patient's likelihood of carrying a resistant organism was doubled if the patient had taken "any antibiotic for any reason within the previous two months, when compared with those who had not taken an antibiotic."

The findings dovetail with results from other studies that found a strong, though temporary, link between drug-resistant urinary tract infections and antibiotics taken in the previous six months.

"A lot of women have had the experience of having a urinary infection that doesn't seem to be treatable, or of going through more than one drug," said Abigail A. Salyers, a microbiologist at the University of Illinois and a co-author with Dixie D. Whitt of the new book "Revenge of the Microbes: How Bacterial Resistance Is Undermining the Antibiotic Miracle."

"Having to go through a number of drugs magnifies the time that you're miserable," she said.

But the implication of the research goes beyond urinary infections. Doctors are beginning to realize that any oral or injected antibiotic they prescribe to fight a particular infection also cuts a wide swath in bacterial neighborhoods throughout the body, mowing down microbes that are susceptible and leaving room, temporarily at least, for resistant bugs to colonize the empty real estate and thrive.

Bacteria differ in their ability to fend off antibiotics, and in the methods they use. The most worrisome are those that quickly and easily trade genetic material across species. A bacterium that was once vulnerable to any one of several drugs can overnight become impervious to all of them. It does this by picking up an extra loop of DNA - essentially a highly portable genetic suitcase containing several different resistance genes - from a passing microbe.

Public health officials used to assume that these sorts of superbugs arose mostly in hospitals, where a variety of conditions - including a concentration of seriously ill patients, open wounds, hands-on care and the wide use of powerful antibiotics - made the buildings incubators of drug resistance.

But just because hospitals are incubators doesn't mean that's where the problems start or stay.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/30/health/policy/30cons.html