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Women Don't Have To Be Alcoholics To Have Health Problems From Alcohol!

According to Dartmouth's Mark McGovern, Ph.D., women don't have to be alcoholics to have health problems from alcohol. Read this week's story to learn what new research shows about how women who drink develop liver damage, brain damage and heart disease faster than men, and the danger post-menopausal women may be in from drinking just one drink a day.

New research shows women develop liver damage, brain damage and heart disease faster than men. They're also more likely to die from cirrhosis. Alcohol raises the risk of breast cancer, too. Just one drink a day can make post-menopausal women 30-percent more likely to die from the disease.

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Halloween Treats May Cause Diarrhea!

Did your little goblins suddenly have diarrhea with no explanation? Well chomping down candy may be the culprit!

Take a look in their candy bag -- some of your neighbors may have been giving out sugar-free candy for trick-or-treating.

According to the journal Postgraduate Medicine, sugar-free candy often uses sorbitol as a sweetening agent. Sorbitol can be an effective laxative. Rule out the candy before you treat the diarrhea.

Sugar free can also mean neurological damage somewhere along the wsay also so throw them away...

That golden treasure full of taste and health! cornucopia

It's that time of year again. The warm, comforting smell of spicy pumpkin pies and muffins fill our homes, and our summer floral centerpieces are replaced by playful displays of pumpkins and gourds. A member of the cucurbits family of fruits. This is one I'm not really sure about? A fruit or vegetable? Gourds are supposed to be in the squash family I thought and since pumpkin is also listed by many as a gourd I don't know about the fruit aspect. Take this tidbit for what it's worth? I'm simply telling you what I've found reported in some writer's and university extension sites.

Pumpkins date back many centuries. The name pumpkin originated from the Greek word for "large melon" which is "pepon." and was nasalized by the French into "pompon." The English changed "pompon" to "Pumpion." Shakespeare referred to the "pumpion" in his Merry Wives of Windsor. American colonists in turn changed "pumpion" into "pumpkin." The "pumpkin" is referred to in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater and Cinderella. It has grown to be a center of attention in the U.S. at Halloween, not as a food but as a dećor. Most assuredly is much greater for eating!

Thanksgiving here in the U.S. brings the pumpkin pie tradition. Native Americans dried strips of pumpkin and wove them into mats. They also roasted long strips of pumpkin on the open fire and ate them. The origin of pumpkin pie occurred when the colonists sliced off the pumpkin top, removed the seeds, and filled the insides with milk, spices and honey. The pumpkin was then baked in hot ashes. Now that sounds really good to me and I'm going to try it if I can find one small enough for two. The early Americans used pumpkin as a pie crust and not a filling.

The bright orange color of pumpkin is a dead giveaway that pumpkin is loaded with an important antioxidant, beta-carotene. Beta-carotene is one of the plant carotenoids converted to vitamin A in the body. In the conversion to vitamin A, beta carotene performs many important functions in overall health.

Current research indicates that a diet rich in foods containing beta-carotene may reduce the risk of developing certain types of cancer and offers protect against heart disease and other illnesses. Beta-carotene offers protection against other diseases as well.

Low in calories and rich in nutrients - 1 cup organic, boiled and drained, without salt - contains;

Calories 49, Protein 2 grams, Carbohydrate 12 grams, Dietary Fiber 3 grams, Calcium 37 mg, Iron 1.4 mg, Magnesium 22 mg, Potassium 564 mg, Zinc 1 mg, Selenium .50 mg, Vitamin C 12 mg, Niacin 1 mg, Folate 21 mcg, Vitamin A 2650 IU, and Vitamin E 3 mg.

Pumpkin seeds are rich in nutrients as well as very tasty and one of my youngest daughter's favorite things. She makes many jack-o-lanterns every Halloween just so she can dig the seeds out and roast them. Now if she would only use those for eating?

Pumpkin flowers are also edible and many love them, I'm told. I found recipes for pumpkin flower soup, deep fried pumpkin flowers and stuffed pumpkin flowers. Rather unique but I haven't tried any of them. I plan on doing that one day.

Pumpkins were once recommended for removing freckles and curing snake bites, of which I am a bit skeptical that it worked very well? Native American Indians made an emulsion from a mixture of pumpkin and watermelon seeds that served to heal wounds for members of the Yuma tribe. The Catawbas ate the fresh or dried seeds as a kidney medicine, while the Menominees drank a mixture of water and powdered squash and pumpkin seeds to ease the passage of urine. In settler folk medicine the ground stems of pumpkin were brewed into a tea to treat "female ills," and the ripe seeds were made into a palatable preparation to dispel worms.

Pumpkin was used in folk medicine to treat kidney inflammation and intestinal parasites and was once listed as one of the Four Greater Cold Seeds in an 18th century list of medicines. Today pumpkin is employed to treat irritable bladder and prostate complaints, namely benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). The fatty oil in pumpkin seeds is mildly diuretic, and the seeds' principal constituent, cucurbitacins, appears to inhibit the conversion of testosterone into dihydrotesterone. The presence of zinc and amino acids further treat BPH. Pumpkin is not said to reduce prostate enlargement but to relieve symptoms only. Pumpkin seeds are also thought to help relieve dizziness.

Pumpkin seeds are taken principally as a safe deworming agent. They are particularly useful against tapeworms in pregnant women and in children, for whom stronger-acting and toxic preparations are unsuitable. The seeds are also mildly diuretic, and have been used in Central American herbal medicine as a treatment for nephritis and other urinary system problems. Varieties of pumpkin that are particularly diuretic, tonic to the bladder, and high in zinc have been recommended in the early stages of prostate problems. The pulp is used as a decoction to relieve intestinal inflammation, and is applied as a poultice or plaster for burns.

So these gold globes have many uses and medicinal content. Eat and enjoy the traditional pumpkin pie.

My Pumpkin Pie recipe that combines the health of soy to the pumpkins great health inducing nutrients;

Makes two pies

1 box of silken firm tofu, drained
2 cups of fresh pumpkin puree or canned pumpkin
1 1/4 cup brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon sea salt
1 teaspoons cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground dry ginger
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
1/2 teaspoon allspice
1 teaspoons nutmeg

2 - 9" pie crusts

Heat oven to 375 degrees F.

Put tofu and pumpkin in a food processor or blender and blend on high until smooth and creamy, about four minutes. Stop the machine every once in a while to scrape large pieces of tofu down into the machine's blades. Add rest of ingredients and blend well...The result should be a light orange-colored creamy paste with no lumps of tofu.

Pour into uncooked pie crusts;
Bake 40 to 60 minutes or until the crusts are dark brown (but not burned).

PS: Sometimes, after I pour the pie filling into the crusts, I will line the outer edge of the pie with pecan halves, all around it, and bake. Gives a slightly decorative look as well as a really neat flavor?

Enjoy your healthy treat,
Lena

US Lawmakers Okay Some Synthetics for Organic Food
by Lisa Lambert
October 28, 2005

WASHINGTON - Senate and House negotiators have agreed to allow some synthetic materials to be used in processing organic foods, officials of a trade group said on Thursday, calling the step crucial for many organic food companies to stay in business.

The provision was added to the annual spending budget for the US Agriculture Department despite objections from a consumer group, which called it a sneak attack on organic food standards.
The Organic Trade Association, representing North American businesses that grow and market organic foods, sought the special measure after a federal court ruling barred products processed with synthetic ingredients from using the organic label.

The 38 ingredients prohibited by the court ranged from ascorbic acid, a form of Vitamin C used as an additive, to the jam thickener pectin. The ruling also barred dairy herds converting to organic production from eating feed that was partially non-organic.

Senate and House negotiators on Wednesday night finalized a USDA spending bill for fiscal 2006 that would override the court's decision. The bill is expected to be approved by both chambers and signed into law by the president.

"Without those two key provisions, the face of the organic industry and the marketplace for organic products would have changed dramatically," the trade group's executive director, Katherine DiMatteo, told reporters.

She said businesses, farmers and consumers supported the measures.

USDA organic standards require different labels, according to whether a food is 100 percent organic, has 95 percent organic ingredients, or 70 percent or more organic ingredients.

The Organic Consumers Association, however, said the legislation was pushed through by major food corporations that are relative newcomers to the profitable, niche market.

"The process was profoundly undemocratic," said Ronnie Cummins, the director of the consumer group. "The end result is a serious setback for the multibillion-dollar alternative food and farming system that the organic community has painstakingly built up over the past 35 years."

For some organic companies, allowing the synthetic ingredients is a temporary fix.

"When we took a look at what the (court) ruling did to organic milk, we were aghast," said Theresa Marquez of Organic Valley, a 750-farm cooperative. Because the co-op used hydrogen peroxide in sterilizing cartons, it would have been forced to alter its label.

"It would have a huge impact both financially and from a marketing point of view," Marquez said.

Farmers in her co-op researched organic alternatives to the four synthetics now used, she said. "We've looked very, very closely at all of them to figure out how to substitute them with organics and we'll continue to do that."

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LENA'S COMMENT: I have a hard time recognizing or seeing a product with synthetics in it as organic! Read labels carefully!