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What is Vitamin D? Why do You Need it?

Vitamin D is a fat-soluble substance. This means it could dissolve in or be stored by fat deposits in the body. Some of the natural food sources that contain vitamin D include:

Salmon
Mackerel
Sardines
Cod liver oil
Fortified foods including milk, breakfast cereals and certain juices
Vitamin D could also be derived from vitamin supplements but most importantly is synthesized in the skin during sun exposure.

For years, vitamin D has been looked upon as essential for healthy bones. One of the key roles of vitamin D is its ability to help absorb calcium in the small intestine. The people who fall in the vitamin deficient category are only able to absorb a mere third to half as much calcium as those who receive sufficient amounts. People deficient in vitamin D are then prone to two types of bone diseases. Adults are at risk of osteoporosis, a loss of bone density and ostomalacia, a softening of the bone. Children on the other hand are at risk of rickets, softening of the bones.

A resurgence in the case of rickets, particularly among African-American children, over the past few years has raised concerns over whether or not people are getting enough vitamin D. Experts found the following groups were at risk of vitamin D deficiency:

*The elderly
*African-Americans and other darkly-pigmented people
*Infants who are exclusively breast-fed
*Women of child-bearing age, particularly African Americans
*Healthy children and adolescents
*Experts are referring to vitamin D deficiency as the "hidden epidemic." They are most concerned about how it could hinder the proper bone development in children and lead to possible future bone disorders down the road.

Vitamin D Fights Off Diseases

The latest vitamin D research has shown that it has the ability to fight off several diseases such as colon, breast and prostate cancers. Although this research hasn't been conclusive it has given researchers much promise.

It has also been discovered that vitamin D also helps prevent specific autoimmune diseases including multiple sclerosis, type 1 diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis. In addition to providing protection against these diseases it also has the potential to play an anti-inflammatory role in the body.

Sources of Vitamin D

The consensus among vitamin D experts is that getting moderate UVB exposure without sunscreen holds the answer to maintaining adequate blood levels. The exceptions, of course, would be those with the history of skin cancer or sensitivities to the sun. Their theory behind getting your vitamin D intake from the sun is that most people don't eat enough salmon and drink enough milk to fulfill their vitamin D requirement.

How Much Sun do we Need?

Experts recommend that just getting small increments of sun exposure each day would supply a person with the adequate amount of vitamin D production. They also stated the difficulty of placing an exact time amount of sun exposure per person because of factors such as season, time of day and the amount of skin exposed.

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A food delicacy with huge medical ramifications!

Because of it's great qualities a book could be written here about these delicacies, but I will try to hone it down to a rather large article!

There are a multitude of mushrooms on the market but I am going to focus on the Reishi aka (Ganoderma Lucidum aka Ling-Zhi).

Their rich, smoky flavor have also endeared them to American taste buds and these exotic hearty mushrooms can now be found in supermarket shelves across the U.S. throughout the year. If your local store does not carry fresh reishi mushrooms, investigate the Asian food stores in your area as they oftentimes carry these specialty mushrooms.

Like other mushrooms, these specialty mushrooms are as mysteriously unique as they are delicious. While often thought of as a vegetable and prepared like one, mushrooms are actually a fungus, a special type of living organism that has no roots, leaves, flowers or seeds.

Reishi is the Japanese name for the Ganoderma family of mushrooms. In Chinese, they are called "ling-zhi." Reishi is a large, dark, mushroom with a glossy exterior. In traditional Chinese medicine, Reishi is in the most highly rated herb category in terms of multiple benefits, used as a medicinal herb, absent of side effects.

There are 6 different types of Reishi differentiated only by color: red, purple, blue, yellow, black, white, recorded in Chinese pharmacopoeia are actually one species grown under different conditions.

Brief History;
Reischi is believed to have been known since at least the reign of "Fuxi", a legendary ruler of that time known also as the first of the Three August Ones.

Seng Nong, the Holy farmer, who was the second of the Three August Ones, is said to have discovered the curative virtues of plants by tasting hundreds of species. "Seng Nong's Herbal Classic" is considered to be the earliest manuscript on Chinese materia medica and is still today the foundation of Traditional Chinese Medicine and in general all Oriental Medicine.

Reishi also contains ergosterols, complete proteins, unsaturated fatty acids, vitamins and minerals.

Reishi, known in China as an "elixir of immortality," has been used for more than 3,000 years to rev up the immune system and heal chronic inflammatory conditions. Dozens of preliminary studies support its anti-inflammatory properties. One Chinese study found
that of the more than 2,000 people with chronic bronchitis who took reishi syrup for two weeks, 60% to 90% said they felt better. (Reishi syrup is a long drawn out process.)

6 species of Ling-zhi, differentiated by colors, are mentioned in the Seng Nong classic. Li Shi Zhen, a famous medical scholar in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) introduced the indications of the 6 species concretely. The work of the latter was republished in 1956, and translated into several foreign languages including Japanese, English, French, German, Russian and Latin and is regarded as the cornerstone of Traditional Chinese medicine.

Today, an estimated 4,300 tons of reischi/ling-zhi is produced yearly in the world, with China producing 3,000 tons followed by Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Thailand, USA, Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia and Sri Lanka.

Reishi is the Prednisone of foods!

Prednisone, the corticosteroid used to treat a variety of inflammatory ailments -- arthritis, asthma, colitis and some cancers -- and to prevent rejection of transplanted organs. Its nasty side effects - from a swollen "moon face" to increased infections - are legendary. But what many people don't know is that this medicinal reishe mushroom could, in some cases, do as good a job without wreaking the prednisone havoc on the body.

The best part - its side effects are as minimal as those you might have from taking a placebo. The side effects, if any, will be less than one-quarter of those you might have with prednisone -- and the cost is less than one-quarter that of a drug prescription.

Medicinal Preparation in early times consisted of a long process of boiling the mushrooms for hours or let them soak in alcohol for weeks so as to be able to drink them after the ingredients were dissolved.

While prednisone has its place for short-term life-threatening conditions, it may save your life. But if you have an ongoing inflammatory condition, reishi may be the best first line of treatment. Recently, researchers at Shanghai Medical University, Shanghai Tumor Hospital, and Shanghai Chung San Hospital have independently isolated from the Reishi mushroom a few species of polysaccharides which have subsequently been shown in clinical studies to have anti-tumor activities.

Reishi has also been shown to exert:
*A positive effects in treatment of insomnia
*Preventive effects against high altitude sickness
*Cholesterol -lowering effects
*Therapeutic effects in chronic hepatitis

Available in some grocery stores and health-food stores, in it's natural form or in powder form, as well as capsules and tablets. All observations show that Reishi has no side effects and can be consumed in high dosages and in parallel with other medications. Its main properties are the cleansing of blood, enhancement of the immune system and the lessening of nervous tension. These properties are conducive to normalizing and balancing the body and as a result preempt cure a multitude of diseases from within.

Tips for Preparing Mushrooms:

Mushrooms are very porous, so if they are exposed to too much water they will quickly absorb it and become soggy. Therefore, the best way to clean mushrooms without sacrificing their texture and taste is to clean them using minimal, if any, water. To do this, simply wipe them with a slightly damp paper towel or kitchen cloth. You could also use a mushroom brush, available at most kitchenware stores.

If the fresh mushrooms become dried out because of being stored for too long, soak them in water for thirty minutes.

Our favorite way of eating is saut?d alone or with stir fry vegetables and rice.

I simply clean, slice and saute' in butter flavored virgin olive oil.

For each two cups of sliced mushrooms use 1 Tablespoon of virgin olive oil and ? to 1 teaspoon of butter (I do not use margarine for anything because of it's poisonous fat and chemicals). Heat olive oil then add butter, melt and mix well. Add mushrooms and saute' stirring until cooked (about 3 - 5 minutes). Add a dash of Bragg's Liquid Aminos for added flavor just before removing from heat. Serve with other vegetables over rice or alone over rice.

Enjoy your healthy shroom!
Lena

Drug Makers Explain Trials to Congress
Sep 10,2004
By DIEDTRA HENDERSON

WASHINGTON (AP) - Drug manufacturers acknowledge they face a crisis of credibility that they hope to remedy by releasing information about their clinical trials in multiple locations.

But at a contentious congressional hearing Thursday, representatives of the companies said they also are concerned that releasing all of the information will be so unwieldy that it could confuse doctors and patients.

Dr. John R. Hayes, product team leader at Eli Lilly and Co. (LLY), said a single report about a drug can number more than 400,000 pages.

Flooding a Web site with 120,000 clinical trials may dilute the usefulness of the information, said Dr. David Wheadon, senior vice president of regulatory affairs for Philadelphia-based GlaxoSmithKline. "We always want to make sure we're serving the good, the right purpose," he said.

The pair testified at a House subcommittee hearing designed to give seven drug companies an opportunity to explain how they did - or did not - disclose studies that suggested links between antidepressant use and suicidal thoughts in children.

Controversy first flared last summer with the disclosure that unpublished studies made that link.

"I think these hearings are evidence of the fact there is a great deal of mistrust," Hayes told reporters during a break.

Federal health officials are preparing stronger warnings for some antidepressants used in children. But exactly what those warnings will say, and which drugs will be affected, hasn't been settled. An FDA advisory committee will consider the issue next week.

"While there remains a signal of risk ... for some drugs in some trials, it is important to note that the data are not black-and-white in providing a clear and definitive answer," Food and Drug Administration psychiatric drugs chief Dr. Thomas Laughren wrote the advisory panel last month.

At the House subcommittee on oversight and investigations hearing Thursday, tempers flared, tears flowed and a major drug company Wyeth Pharmaceuticals found itself pitted against the FDA.

As early as 2002, Wyeth attempted to add warning labels to its antidepressant Effexor, but ran into FDA opposition. The ultimate label changes mandated by the FDA dropped references to increased hostility seen with Effexor, Wyeth acknowledged under questioning from the panel's vice chairman, Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore.

Adopting FDA's wording was a "reasonable compromise," Dr. Joseph Camardo, senior vice president of medical affairs for Wyeth, testified.

Earlier in the hearing, Walden asked Dr. Janet Woodcock, FDA deputy commissioner for operations, whether the agency pressured drug companies to not issue such warnings.

Woodcock began to say the agency cannot compel companies to reveal information about clinical trials for drugs pending review.

Walden interrupted. "But some of them have asked you for the ability to release that information, and you said no."

"I don't have information on that," Woodcock said.

The panel's acting chair, Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, had already sharply criticized the FDA for what he described as the agency's reluctance to release records, which he said hampered the subcommittee's ability to investigate.

Because of the volume of records, the FDA had offered to have records reviewed at the agency, an offer that still stands, Woodcock said.

Subcommittee members said the FDA and drug companies have provided scant details of pediatric clinical trials for antidepressants. And, when the agency last month did publish five summaries, it did not include crucial details, such as links between antidepressants and heightened suicidal thoughts among children, said Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich.

Stupak has been a harsh critic of the acne drug Accutane since his son committed suicide while using the drug, which has been linked to depression in some people.

Reps. Edward Markey and Henry Waxman will propose legislation that would create a mandatory registry for drug trials. The drug industry this week also announced a new Web site where companies could voluntarily summarize clinical trial results for drugs approved by the FDA.

Among the potential legislative solutions being considered by the panel: Resuscitating an amendment from Stupak requiring clinical trial publication and label changes before drug manufacturers receive six-month patent extensions for drugs they test in children.

Such exclusive marketing to children yielded an extra $4 billion for drug makers of such leading antidepressants as Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Luvox, Celexa and Effexor, data released by the committee indicates.

LENA'S COMMENT: Don't hold your breathe waiting for the information to be published or you will turn blue and pass out. Yes, as always favorable will come out but unfavorable will be buried in rhetoric or jargon that you will never be able to decipher, if published at all. Same ole same ole business as usual!

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