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Due to the blindness epidemic that is facing the world WHO has set aside a day called "WORLD SIGHT DAY," (10/14/04) which I applaud as attention really needs to be drawn to the problem. I only wish in their hundreds of articles and information that has been distributed world wide they would give the real problem in the majority of blindness occurring now. That truth is there is a stark lack of nutrients in our foods to keep our small vessels of the eye healthy and they should tell you to get the proper supplements to correct that lack, but they aren't... Sure ever once in a while a small blurb is printed somewhere, but it needs to be shouted from the roof tops and on every news person's lips!

In celebration of WSD, the holder of the fastest land speed in a car by a blind man, will attempt to break his own record. Mike Newman will aim to travel at speeds in excess of 200mph relying on a computerized navigation system to direct him. The "Speed of Sight" attempt will take place in the USA on tomorrow. That is guts!

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A study conducted by Medco Health Solutions, Inc. (a company that manages drug benefit plans)conclusion: the average senior receives 25 prescriptions annually - a 100 percent jump from just five years ago!

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At the end of the flu season last year I noticed several news people on different news programs say," The flu vaccine missed the flu strain that’s going around this year.” Each person went on to repeat the explanation given to him/her as to why the strain making its rounds wasn't covered by the vaccine, and he gave precautions to take in preventing the flu. “Recommended by the medical industry,” he said.

The pharmaceutical company wrote that news report and the reason I think that is, at the end of each report the reporter stated, “Be sure to get to your doctor and get your flu shot today to stay free of the flu.”

Now the beginning statement and the ending statement was so ridiculous I broke out laughing… If the flu vaccine wasn't touching the flu outbreak WHY GET THE FLU VACCINE?

It’s a brainless society that isn't listening as well and rushed right out and got the flu vaccine that “didn't touch the strain of flu going around.” This year it's a virus in the manufacturing plant that held up flu vaccine. What happened with the first shipments that went out from the same facility? Is that on the market contaminated and you aren't being told? Could it be that this year's flu vaccine isn't a bit more effective than last years, as has been for many years past? Yet people are lining up 500 deep to get flu vaccine here in North Central Arizona and I bet all over the U.S. because they may not have enough to go around!

Why get the questionable flu vaccine when it may or may not be effective? Much more effective more often are simple immune building tricks to make your body flu proof?

Sadly the flu vaccine that is chosen each year misses the mark more than it hits it, but for some reason that word is never published nor spoken by the news media. Why? Because the drug companies send out the press releases and telling the truth would kill their business costing them billions of dollars!

I don’t know for sure, except that maybe a huge increase in a very dangerous nasal FluMist at double the price of the flu vaccine. If you are thinking about getting the nasal FluMist Before you do read is_the_nasal_flu_vaccine_worth_it.htm

How can you be free of the flu and other illnesses during dangerous health seasons?

1.Wash your hands every time you touch something that is brought in from the grocery store, pharmacy, hardware, etc. HANDLING ANYTHING ANYONE ELSE TOUCHED is a need to WASH YOUR HANDS. Carry wipes with you, for that purpose when away from home.

2.Get your immune system in tune by eating a proper diet. Get AT THE LEAST 10 to 45 minutes of walking or other exercise daily, and supplement with a total 84 liquid mineral trace mineral supplement, megavitamins and antioxidants!

3.This is the hardest prevention action for this time of year, but STAY AWAY FROM CROWDS until your immune system is fine-tuned and flu proofed. People's inconsiderate lifestyle of going out even when coughing sneezing and feeling bad will catch you unaware! Or they may have had the nasal vaccine, which puts you at risk!
Wishing you a healthy season,

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

Study: Steroids Useless for Head Trauma
Oct 8, 7:19 AM (ET)
By EMMA ROSS

LONDON (AP) - Doctors have been giving steroids to head trauma patients for more than 30 years, but the first major study of the practice has shown they are useless and may even have killed thousands of people.

Experts said the findings, published this week in The Lancet medical journal, are "a complete and alarming surprise for all."

Head trauma, usually from car crashes, violence or falls, is the leading cause of death and disability in children and young adults in the developed world, and globally second only to HIV in causing the death of people under 40. About 3 million people die each year from head trauma.

Steroids had been used for decades in head trauma patients because it was believed their anti-inflammatory effects could help bring down swelling in the brain.

However, there was never reliable evidence steroids helped in cases of severe head injury, and their use has been controversial.

In the mid-1990s, existing evidence indicated they were probably not effective. Many doctors stopped using them, but not all.

The latest study, involving hundreds of doctors in 49 countries treating more than 10,000 patients, was stopped halfway through recruitment as it became clear steroids did not help and could be harmful.

"Most clinicians expected the trial to confirm the benefits of steroids, while others suspected that the effectiveness of steroids would turn out to be small or nonexistent," said Dr. Stefan Sauerland and Dr. Marc Maegele, experts from the University of Witten-Herdecke and the University of Cologne in Germany.

"Instead of a treatment benefit or at least equality, there were actually 159 excess deaths in the steroid group," the experts wrote in an independent critique of the study. "When extrapolating the results ... to the annual incidence of severe head injuries worldwide, it is frightening to calculate how many patients might have been harmed by steroids."

Sauerland, who was not connected with the research, estimated doctors killed about 10,000 head trauma patients with steroids in the 1980s and earlier.

The study, coordinated at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, involved 10,008 adults with severe head injuries who were randomly allocated either a steroid drip or a fake drip for 48 hours after being admitted to the emergency room.

Within two weeks, 21 percent of the patients given steroids had died, compared with 18 percent of those given the fake drug. The results were the same regardless of how quickly the treatment was administered and regardless of the type or severity of the head injury.

Dr. Philip Stieg, chair of neurological surgery at Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York, said he was not sure the study settles the question.

"They picked one dose of steroids. Would a different dose be more effective?" asked Stieg, who was not connected with the research.

It also remains to be seen whether patients getting steroids fare better in the long term from the disabling effects of the trauma, he noted.

"If the long-term one-year follow up data suggest that steroids improve morbidity, that the patient has a better neurological outcome, then physicians would reevaluate their use of steroids," he said.

However, Sauerland said it was unlikely any long-term benefit in disability reduction could outweigh the concern about the higher death rate early in treatment.

"This is a tombstone trial," Sauerland said by telephone. "It will close the issue for ever."

Dr. Ian Roberts, coordinator of the trial, said many other treatments commonly used in trauma patients also were open to question. Approaches such as hyperventilation, barbiturates and fluid resuscitation have not been proven to help, he said.

"Trauma care has really been the poor relation of medical research," he said. "Maybe there are other surprising and alarming results out there. We don't know."

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