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Is Anger and/or Depression Affecting Your Immune System?

In the 60's and 70's people were taught that they had to vent their anger at all costs and if you were the one closest you got the brunt of their anger. No ideas were given on how to vent constructively nor were they usually given alternatives to letting it go on whoever happened to be close at hand. That idea was a left-handed way of saying anger is okay and you can let it go at any time. Remember that was the years of free love and the flower children. One extreme to another?

We cannot always avoid anger, if you are human, but it can be controlled and directed away from others. But anger is damaging to people when you let it out at the person nearest you. It alienates them and makes them not want to be around you. Not smart!

More dangerous than that is the fact that anger also has a negative effect on the immune system in both men and women. Anger is stressful, and stress causes free-radical damage. In turn Free-radicals damage and destroy your immune system, which ruins your overall health creating cancer, chronic diseases and viral as well as bacterial infections.

Something simple can produce stress and/or anger in some. Maybe it's a relative coming to visit that's a thorn in your side. Some days it may be too many extra-curricular activities to get your children to that sets up that stress. Or are you an elderly losing your vision or mobility, which creates stress and anger. I watched an extremely genius doctor, who was one of the top physicians in the city, do this year after year. His mother-in-law and father-in-law made visits twice a year to see he and his wife and I could tell, without even asking him, when they were coming. He always got a virus of some sort the week before they showed up. I finally told him what was happening and what to do but of course you can't tell a doctor what to do when you are his lowly nurse/office administrator, so he continued for the whole six and one-half years that I worked with him? This one stressor decimated his immune system twice a year, year after year and I'm sure probably continues to this day?

A study, of 82 elderly men and women with an Alzheimer's afflicted spouse, was done to try and establish the relationship between depression, anger and immune function of the Alzheimer's caretaker? A caretaker goes through all of sorts of horrific emotions with their infirmed spouse and usually feel guilty for feeling them. The study followed these families for a year and a half and studied the caretakers' physical and psychological health as well as their physical activity. The results found that not only the patient suffering from Alzheimer's but both the male and female caregivers who experienced increased anger, depression and guilt levels had suppressed immune function opening them to the more illnesses.

Reducing anger and/or stress can be as simple as getting at least 20 minutes of daily exercise, whether it's walking or in a gym this will help reduce stress and tension, curbing free-radical damage. I also recommend two things for those stressed out free-radical damaging problems ? take a fast absorbing 84 mineral liquid complex read the ABC's Of Minerals to better understand why - a meganutrient antioxidant daily vitamin and add Tolerance Stress Reliever herbal formula (1 capsule 3 times a day) all to build a body free of free-radical damage.

Inactive elderly men and women and people in high stress jobs or stay-at-home moms - overwhelmed with the tasks at hand - are equally at risk to weak or dead immune systems and should follow the above recommendation, if you wish to remain healthy and well?.

Rid yourself of those illness possibilities today!
Lena

Healthy Holiday Table Fare Year Round!

The food that so many people eat only on Thanksgiving, and that's a shame, since they're among one of the most nutritious of vegetables.

If you don't eat sweet potatoes very often, or only at holiday time when they're smothered in melted marshmallow goop and baked until they're unrecognizable, you're missing out on one of nature's truly perfect foods. Low in calories, high in fiber, great for diabetics and people who are carbohydrate sensitive, packed with minerals - rich in Calcium, Iron, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Potassium, Sodium, Zinc, Copper, Manganese and Selenium while rich with vitamins C, B-6, B-12, A, DFE, E, Thiamin, Riboflavin, Niacin, Pantothenic acid and tastes great!

Their bright color is key to their high beta-carotene content, and containing the carotenoids lutein and zeaxanthin. A sweet potato really isn't a potato; it is part of the sprawling vine called morning glory. The sausage-shaped tubers are a bit potato-like, but taper to pointed ends unlike potatoes. Skin is smooth and can be white, red, golden or purple/black. Having sweet purple, white, yellow or deep orange flesh.

In 1932, when the sweet potato was considered a poor man's food, Americans consumed 30 pounds each per year. Now, it's closer to 4 pounds, though the tuber has become more appealing and growing because it's a favorite of Oprah Winfrey and television chef Emeril Lagasse. It is also a hormone smoothing veggie for women in menopause, post-menopause or perimenopausal years. Rich in beta-carotene!!!

A study conducted by the Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland gave 21 HIV-positive people 180 mg (300,000 IU) of beta-carotene every day for four weeks, resulting in several indicators of their "helper" T cell activity increasing significantly over the people who were given a look-alike-but-inactive placebo, whose indicators dropped. "Helper" T cells are the primary target of the HIV virus, and the body's ability to fight infections diminishes as their levels drop. A study conducted by John Hopkins University researchers linked high levels of beta-carotene with a lower incidence of lung cancer, which kills approximately 145,000 Americans every year. A great reason to eat sweet potato.

At least 70 research studies have found an increased risk of cancer in people who don't eat enough produce rich in carotenoids. Since the sweet potato is very rich in beta carotene how better to get a health benefit?

There are two basic types of sweet potatoes:

Moist: (orange fleshed) tends to be plumper and its skin a little redder. The sweeter orange-fleshed sweet potato varieties dominate the U.S. market. often called "yams," but this is a misnomer: The true yam aka "botanical family Dioscoreaceae" is a large - as much as 100 pounds - root vegetable grown in Africa and Asia and rarely seen in the western world. However, over time common usage has made the term "yams" acceptable when referring to sweet potatoes.

Dry: (yellow or purple-fleshed). Some people prefer the starchier yellow-fleshed types, a little narrower with a tan skin, when they aren't side by side, it's pretty difficult to judge the difference. In most instances, you can assume you're getting orange-fleshed sweet potatoes. If you are actively seeking the yellow-fleshed, you should ask the produce manager. The Okinawan sweet potato, grown year round in Hawaii has light skin and lavender flesh and is of Chinese and Japanese origin. The potato is not well known or easy to get on the mainland, except in specialty or ethnic markets on the West Coast. Something I experienced this spring when I was in Hawaii and loved them?

A bit of history;

In 1514, Peter Martyr named nine varieties that grew in Honduras. It was taken to Spain about 1500 and several kinds were cultivated there by the middle of the 16th century, including red, purple, and pale or "white" varieties.

Cultivation of sweet potatoes was tried unsuccessfully in Belgium in 1576. John Gerarde of London, claimed that in 1597 he grew the plant in England (probably without much success) and that it was known in India, Barbary, and other hot regions.

Early Spanish explorers are believed to have taken the sweet potato to the Philippines and East Indies, from which it was soon carried to India, China, and Malaya by Portuguese voyagers. The original introductions from America into the Pacific and Far East were so unobtrusive that the origin of the plant was long overlooked, many believing it native to southern and southeastern Asia.

Sweet potatoes are sold throughout the year, but are most abundant in their harvest season of fall and early winter, found on sale in the U.S. around Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Sweet potatoes are also sold canned or frozen. The canned potatoes are usually packed in heavy syrup--"candied"--although some processors also pack them in water. Canned sweet potatoes are significantly lower in beta-carotene, vitamin C, and B vitamins than fresh ones.

Selecting sweet potatoes;

Choose heavy, similar-sized potatoes if you plan to cook them whole, so that the cooking time will be uniform. Choose potatoes that are smooth, hard, and free of bruises or decay, even if cut away, a decayed, shriveled brown/black spot may have already imparted an unpleasant flavor to the entire potato.

My family's favorite ways of eating sweet potatoes are;

Sliced about 1/8" thick and round like silver dollars, Sautéed in butter until tender, with just a hint of brown sugar.

Second favorite is baked either whole or sliced;

Heat oven to 375 degrees.

Peel and cut into thick round slices or quarter potato.
In a baggie put 1/2 teaspoon Stevia or 1 teaspoon brown sugar, pinch of ground allspice, pinch of cayenne pepper, 1/2 teaspoon sea salt, 1/4 teaspoon Turmeric, shake until well mixed. Spray slices with virgin olive oil then put into bag with spices and shake until covered with mixture. Layer one layer on cookie sheet that has been sprayed with olive oil. Put into oven and bake about 20 minutes then turn potatoes over and bake another 20 to 25 minutes until done and slightly browned.

There are as many ways of eating sweet potatoes as there are people so use your imagination and eat for health?

Enjoy your newfound mineral and vitamin rich food!
Lena

FDA Accused of Silencing Vioxx Warnings
Oct 8, 2004
By DIEDTRA HENDERSON

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Food and Drug Administration silenced one of its drug experts who raised safety concerns weeks before Merck & Co. (MRK) yanked the blockbuster drug Vioxx due to increased risks for heart attack and strokes, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee said Thursday.

Dr. David J. Graham, associate director for science in the FDA Drug Center's Office of Drug Safety, told Senate investigators he faced stiff resistance within the regulatory agency to his findings.

"Dr. Graham described an environment where he was 'ostracized,"subjected to veiled threats' and 'intimidation,'" Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said in a statement after Finance Committee investigators interviewed the researcher Thursday.

Graham told The Associated Press that Grassley's characterization was accurate. Raising safety concerns within the agency is "extremely difficult," the 20-year employee said, declining further comment.

In a prepared statement, the FDA said it "values open discussion and frank exchange about scientific and medical issues" and subjects its scientists to "more rigorous" scrutiny than typical scientific peer reviews.

The Government Accountability Office, an investigative arm of Congress, already has been asked to look into whether the FDA muzzled another staffer who linked antidepressants to raising the odds of children suffering suicidal tendencies. When Merck voluntarily pulled Vioxx from the market on Sept. 30, the GAO was asked to roll the FDA's handling of that controversy into its inquiry.

That report is not expected for months. Grassley's committee is one of three in Congress also scrutinizing the FDA's actions.

A "picture is emerging of an agency that can't see the forest for the trees," Grassley said. "Merck knew it had trouble on its hands and took action. At the same time, instead of acting as a public watchdog, the Food and Drug Administration was busy challenging its own expert and calling his work 'scientific rumor.'"

Graham was lead author on a research project that studied the records of 1.39 million Kaiser Permanente patients, including 40,405 treated with Pfizer's Celebrex and 26,748 treated with Vioxx. The study found that high doses of Vioxx, known as rofecoxib, tripled risks of heart attacks and sudden cardiac death.

The research team's original conclusion said that high doses of Vioxx should not be prescribed or used.

Graham, scheduled to present those findings in late August during an epidemiology conference in France, said he ran into resistance when the FDA reviewed his abstract.

"I think the recommendation about high dose rofecoxib is unnecessary and particularly problematic since FDA funded this study and David's travel to France to present it," Anne E. Trontell, deputy director of the FDA's Office of Drug Safety, wrote in an Aug. 12 e-mail.

The internal e-mail exchange was released by Grassley.

In the e-mail, Trontell suggested that Graham defer his presentation in favor of a journal article so dissenting scientists - including within the FDA - could comment.

She also said Merck should be alerted before the findings became public "so they can be prepared for extensive media attention that this will likely provoke."

Others within the agency suggested Graham's conclusion was too strongly worded, given the FDA had not added such warnings to Vioxx labels.

"I've gone about as far as I can without compromising my deeply held conclusions about this safety question," Graham replied in an Aug. 13 e-mail.

The FDA said such discussions are typical before scientific findings are published.

The conclusion Graham presented in France was revised: "This and other studies cast serious doubt on the safety" of Vioxx doses higher than 25 mg. per day.

The FDA said that Graham decided to revise his abstract conclusion. "He did so voluntarily," the agency said.

In testimony before a congressional panel in mid-September, Andrew Mosholder, an FDA epidemiologist, said his bosses asked him to soften recommendations about antidepressants.

Mosholder's analysis pointed to increased suicidal thoughts and behaviors among children taking antidepressants well before federal advisers pushed for strident warnings on the drugs. He suggested preferential use of Prozac, the only drug approved to treat depressed children and - according to his review - the one with the lowest risk.

His supervisors within the FDA told him to suggest that children use such medications "with caution," Mosholder told the Congressional panel.

Dr. Paul Seligman, acting director of the FDA's Office of Drug Safety, said the agency did not pressure Mosholder to change his conclusion.

FDA

LENA'S NOTE: Since the FDA board is made up of CEO's and marketing people from the pharmaceutical companies, I find it hard to believe they can be impartial and scrutinous of any drug from their company! But that's my opinion!

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