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You will not receive the normal Sunday ANEH Facts as I'm taking a weekend rest! Monday will find "Ask Lena Health & Question" Edition in your email box as usual...

Another week coming to a close, have you succeeded in getting your health into a better mode? If not don't wait another minute as this week is going to be the last chance you have before the real viral season beings on 11/2. How ironic, the day to vote, this year, is also the day most pediatrician's offices around the U.S. will begin to see more sick children. Why? Because the sweet eating trick-or-treater's ate to their little heart's content resulting in killing their immune system, then 72 hours later sick! Right behind that - in a few days - comes the adults calling their doctors as those merry-makers pass it on... That's the reason you better work to try and kick your immune system up to high speed and hope to evade the maladies! Need help ask!

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Soda's And Your Teeth: A Bad Combination

Professor J. Anthony von Fraunhofer of the University of Maryland Dental School recently performed a study about the effects of various sodas on tooth enamel. He and a student used 20 healthy teeth (removed from mouths because of orthodontic or periodontal issues), cutting them into small pieces of enamel and exposing the enamel to various soft drinks. Some were carbonated (Coke, Pepsi, Mountain Dew, Sprite, Dr. Pepper, ginger ale) and some were not (Arizona iced tea) and some diet versions were also included.

Surprisingly, the diet drinks and the sugary drinks did about the same amount of damage, weakening or destroying the enamel. Cola drinks (Pepsi, Coke) did less damage than non-cola drinks such as Mountain Dew and Sprite-about two to five times less. The Arizona iced tea did an amazing 30 times more damage to enamel than freshly brewed coffee or tea. Apparently, flavor additives such as malic acid, tartaric acid, and citric acid-added to give drinks a tart taste-are among the worst things to which you can expose your pearly whites. These additives, not sugar, are the most potent enamel-destroying ingredients of soft drinks.

The soda that came out on top in Dr. von Fraunhofer's study? Root beer. This soft drink was made with the least number of additives, and caused almost no harm to tooth enamel.

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Everybody's Doing It!

Did you know that while you're asleep, it's not just your mind that remains active? Your mouth does, also.

According to a study published in the Journal of Dental Research, your teeth grind against each other throughout much of the night.

Men grind their teeth an average of 75 times each night, women about 65 times a night. That's based on a 7-hour sleep period. The study was conducted by the Clinic for Masticatory Disorders and Complete Dentures of the Center for Oral Medicine at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Usually, the grinding only lasts half a second - which is not long enough to do much damage.

A tiny little food with a big taste!

As I spooned capers onto my fettuccini I began to wonder what exactly were these little dark things and were they nutritious or not? I know I like the taste but my husband doesn't. I've had them in many pasta salads over the years but really have no idea how nutritious they are?

Well, here's what I found out after going through over 200 pieces of information and thinking the nutrient information would be in the next book or article, but alas never to be? The reason I'm actually publishing this is because of the many hours spent trying to study out this tiny little bud so I felt justified in passing on what little information I did find. I also figured cabbages have many healthy nutrients so this little guy deserved some mention and I expect healthy nutrients?

The Capper [Capparis spinosa "Cruciferae"] is part of the cabbage family containing almost 250 species, most of which are herbs growing in temperate regions of the Northern hemisphere. It is unusual in that it loses its leaves during the rainy seasons and retains them during the dry season. It is called the "Rose of the Mediterranean."

Strange but true, Capers are the unopened green flower buds of the Capparis spinosa, a wild and cultivated prickly, perennial bush grown mainly in Mediterranean countries (southern France, Italy, and Algeria) and also in California. Manual labor is required to gather capers, for the buds must be picked each morning just as they reach the proper size. Now I know why they are so expensive? After the buds are picked, they are usually sundried, then pickled in vinegar or salt brine. A good rule to follow; Rinse before using to flush away as much salt as possible.

Capers can range in size from that of a tiny peppercorn (the petite variety from southern France, considered the finest) to some as large as the tip of your little finger (from Italy). I prefer the small ones.

As for nutrients. I was unable to find much in that department so I'm still left wondering exactly what Capers consist of. I did find that they are mainly water (about 85%). The dry matter contains bitter flavonoid glycosides, a mustard oil glycoside named glucocapparin. According to the "Doctrine of Signatures," it will affect the body part it resembles (said to resemble testes) and therefore was used as an aphrodisiac. One encyclopedia said that it is the hyssop talked of in the Bible, but I could not find anything else to back up that statement.

Cretan Agapios Monachos in his manuscript of the 15th century he writes: "consume capers with vinegar and oil. If the caper is salted, dip it in water, then consume it before each meal." In the same paragraph he makes reference to interesting medicinal benefits of the caper: "it cures the spleen, destroys vermin, heals the hemorrhoids, increases the vitality of the sperm, cures liver ailments and cramps, mobilizes the urinary bladder, facilitates menstruation, and prevents rheumatism." The 15th century had some good and some bad medicinal things so take it for what it is worth. I'm not saying it's so or not so, but since it's part of the cabbage I family prefer to think it's probably so!

I did find that parts of the bush, from which they grow, the roots and stems of the Woolly Caper Bush Capparis are popular in southern African traditional medicine and used for various conditions such as malaria, rheumatism, insanity, snake-bite, jaundice, headache, cough, pneumonia, tuberculosis and leprosy. This plant is also used to prevent abortion and treat infertility (van Wyk & Gericke 2000). However, this species evidently can be poisonous when used wrong. Nothing said about nutrients in the bud itself?

Capers can lend piquancy to many sauces and condiments; they can also be used as a garnish for meat and vegetable dishes. I add it to most of my pasta dishes?

Byzantine Pavlos Aeginitis recommends consumption of the caper served on a slice of bread topped with vinegar honey. I've never had it that way, but might just try it...

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1/3 cup virgin olive oil
1/4 cup capers, drained
1/4 cup white wine
1/2 cup prepared pesto
2 cloves garlic, minced
1/2 cup sliced black olives
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1/2 cup cottage cheese or 1/4 cup crumbled Feta cheese.
1/2 cup fresh chopped tomatoes
Sea Salt and coarsely ground pepper to taste
Freshly grated parmesan cheese

Cook pasta according to package directions: drain and return to pan to keep warm.

In a small saucepan over medium-high heat, heat olive oil, capers, white wine, pesto, and garlic 1 minute or until aromatic; stir in black olives, lemon juice, and cottage or Feta cheese, Immediately Remove from heat and pour over pasta; toss to coat thoroughly. Season with salt and pepper add chopped tomatoes. Transfer onto individual serving plates and garnish with parmesan cheese.

Makes 4 servings.

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AIDS and the Steroid Connection
© What Doctors Don't Tell You ,

In the 1990s, a 60-year-old man paid a visit to the Californian clinic of Dr Mohammed Ali Al-Bayati, a toxicologist and pathologist. The patient appeared to have developed all the hallmarks of a patient with AIDS. Yet, three tests performed at different clinics confirmed that he was not infected with HIV. For many years, the patient had worked as a flight engineer, where he had been chronically exposed to organic solvents and aviation jet fuels. As a result of this exposure, he'd developed fibrosis of the lung, for which his doctor had prescribed the steroid prednisone and a two-week course of azathioprine, an immunosuppressant. When this treatment was changed and the drugs tapered, the man's T-cell counts more or less returned to normal. When this patient was later treated with another drug for a minor joint problem, his T cells dipped again. At this time, it took four months to bring his T-cell count back to normal.

As it became clear to Dr Al-Bayati that the prescribed drugs might be responsible for this patient's depressed immune system, he began to think about the number of drugs used in modern medicine, which are actually immunosuppressive agents.

This prompted Dr Al-Bayati to embark on a massive review of the medical literature and, subsequently, to carry out his own study to find out whether the use of certain prescription drugs - in addition to other lifestyle practices - might actually be causing AIDS.

Dr Peter Duesberg, professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California at Berkeley, was one of the first to challenge the AIDS-virus hypothesis. Instead, he put forward the alternative theory that AIDS is brought on by the long-term consumption of recreational drugs and/or AZT (zidovudine) itself, a drug that is prescribed to prevent or treat AIDS. Dr Al-Bayati's work carries Duesberg's theory further with the shocking suggestion that prescription drugs, particularly steroids, may be the major cause of AIDS.

The HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) hypothesis says that HIV causes AIDS by killing a person's T cells - directly or indirectly. After long incubation periods (about 10 years), this slow-motion process causes these cell numbers to reach very low levels, leading to severe immune deficiency (CD4-positive T-cell counts of less than 200/mL). Such patients then usually begin to suffer from opportunistic infections (viral, bacterial, fungal, yeast and/or parasitic) and certain forms of cancer, such as Kaposi's sarcoma and lymphoma.

If HIV were indeed the cause of a precipitous decline in T cells, it follows that treatment with antiviral drugs such as reverse transcriptase inhibitors (AZT) or protease inhibitors would delay the progression of AIDS by preventing HIV replication in the cells (Sci Am, 1987; 256: 46-56).

Yet, there is no clinical or laboratory evidence that HIV has the ability to kill infected T4 cells. Furthermore, the AIDS hypothesis only covers the destruction of T cells, whereas patients with AIDS often show up with many other types of disorders.

One laboratory study of HIV could find no evidence of T-cell death after being infected with the virus in tissue cultures. Indeed, the T cells were healthy and continued to function for more than four months after inoculation with HIV (Science, 1985; 229: 1400).

In this hypothesis, it follows that all patients with AIDS must be infected with HIV. However, an investigation into the AIDS literature reveals an astonishing finding: the majority of AIDS patients who participated in the four major zidovudine (AZT) treatment clinical trials in the US during 1987-1992 were HIV-negative prior to AZT treatment. Of 2349 patients, at least 77 per cent were had no HIV infection before treatment (N Engl J Med, 1987; 317: 185-91; N Engl J Med, 1990; 323: 1009-14; N Engl J Med, 1990; 322: 941-9; N Engl J Med, 1992; 326: 437-43). This is a clear indication that the AIDS present in more than three-quarters of the study patients was due to something other than HIV.

Drugs among gay men
The worldwide AIDS medical literature shows that 90 per cent of AIDS cases in the US and Europe occur among homosexual men and drug abusers. Regular use of alcohol, heroin, cocaine, amphetamines and alkyl nitrite in a majority of these patients causes chronic health problems of the nervous, respiratory and cardiovascular systems as well as of the kidneys and other tissues. Doctors now tend to diagnose the majority of these health problems as -idiopathic- (of unknown cause) and treat them with high doses of glucocorticoids and/or cytotoxic drugs.

The appearance of AIDS in the US and Europe among drug abusers and homosexuals in the late 1970s and early 1980s coincided with several events. This was a time when illicit drug use, especially smoking crack, cocaine and heroin, became widespread along with the use of alkyl nitrites (such as amyl nitrate) by gay men to facilitate anal sex.

At the same time, glucocorticoids in an aerosol form were approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1976. These inhalers are widely used to treat the chronic respiratory illnesses caused by inhaling cocaine and heroin. Corticosteroids are also often used to treat chronic gastrointestinal tract illness in homosexuals.

Steroids for inflammation
Homosexuals usually suffer from acute and chronic rectal and gastrointestinal diseases, requiring the therapeutic use of rectal steroids. Seven studies involving 736 patients (97 per cent homosexual or bisexual men) who were HIV-positive or had full-blown AIDS repeatedly showed this to be the case (Al-Bayati MA, Get All The Facts: HIV Does Not Cause AIDS, Dixon, CA: Toxi-Health International, 1999).

The fact is, treatment with 60 mg/day of prednisone for three months can produce all the typical symptoms of AIDS. Indeed, this is the treatment and dosage often given to patients who have lung fibrosis, thrombocytopenia or other chemically induced chronic illnesses. A review of the medical literature revealed that, in those without HIV, both short- and long-term use of glucocorticoids at therapeutic doses can have a dramatic effect on the immune system - from a transient reduction in T cells to full-blown AIDS.

Kaposi's sarcoma (KS), the skin cancer most associated with AIDS, has been shown to develop in HIV-negative patients chronically treated with glucocorticoids. In the case of a 58-year-old man with systemic rheumatoid disease, KS developed eight months after starting prednisone (40 mg/day for three months) (Am J Med, 1987; 82: 1021-6). The patient also had a reduced lymphocyte count, specifically T4 cells. When tested, the man was found to be HIV-negative.

In one 1996 study, eight HIV-positive men with inflammatory bowel disease who used a rectal steroid preparation suffered a steady decline in T cells of 85 cells/mL/year. Four of them had part of their colon removed, after which they no longer needed steroids. T cells increased by 4 cells/mL/year. Eight control patients who did not have surgery and continued taking rectal steroids saw their T cells steadily decline (Eur J Gastroenterol Hepatol, 1996; 8: 575-8).

Endocrine changes
Another clue to the possibility of a steroid connection in AIDS is the fact that the majority of AIDS patients have metabolic and endocrine abnormalities, particularly adrenal insufficiency. One study showed changes in adrenal gland function in 182 AIDS patients.

The most common abnormality is hyponatraemia (low sodium), seen in up to 30 per cent of HIV-positives. Often, these patients also have a high blood potassium level - a sign of adrenal insufficiency often due to prolonged administration of too many steroids. Another clue is that the process of T-cell destruction can be reversed in homosexual men once they stop taking steroids.

Article supplied by What Doctors Don't Tell You, a subscription monthly newsletter and information resource on health and medicine. Find out more by visiting the website www.wddty.com .or 1866-WDDTYUS.

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