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Veterans Day - a day for thanking those who have fought battles for us and remember those who lost the fight. My husband was a Marine when we married and our two sons were born on a Marine base, so today is dear to our hearts and memories. I have numerous nieces and nephews that are military and a grandson who will be a military officer when he completes his college, so more reason for remembering today... Our military simply follow orders given by their employer, the President of the U.S.A.. Next time you see a military person say thanks and today say a prayer for those in the trenches...

Okay, are you ready for the weekend? Plan a day of rest and relaxation. Switching your train of thoughts, for one day, will rest the brain and give you a better outlook on life and business... Just don't abandon your healthy lifestyle, if you have one. If you don't this weekend is the time to start it...

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Does the Flu Immunization Curb Flu?

In a February 2005 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, researchers for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases compared flu-related mortality among older people to rates of immunization. Their finding:

"During the past quarter century, immunization rates for the elderly have climbed substantially while the elderly flu-related mortality rate has stayed the same."

The authors of the research wrote: "We conclude that observational studies substantially overestimate vaccination benefit."

LENA'S COMMENT: Last year when flu vaccine was scarce the flu was the lightest it has been since flu vaccine came on the scene. Doesn't that tell you something? Yes, flu vaccine could very well be the cause of flu outbreaks rather than curbing it... My belief and opinion and I'm sticking to it!!!

The TRAIN of Life

Some folks ride the train of life
Looking out the rear,
Watching miles of life roll by,
And marking every year.

They sit in sad remembrance,
Of wasted days gone by,
And curse their life for what it was,
And hang their head and cry.

But I don't concern myself with that,
I took a different vent,
I look forward to what life holds,
And not what has been spent.

So strap me to the engine,
As securely as I can be,
I want to be out in the front,
To see what I can see.

I want to feel the winds of change,
Blowing in my face,
I want to see what life unfolds,
As I move from place to place.

I want to see what's coming up,
Not looking at the past,
Life's too short for yesterdays,
It moves along too fast.

So if the ride gets bumpy,
While you are looking back,
Go up front, and you may find,
Your life has jumped the track.

It's all right to remember,
That's part of history,
But up front's where it's happening,
There's so much mystery.

The enjoyment of living,
Is not where we have been,
It's looking ever forward,
To another year and ten.

It's searching all the byways,
Never should you refrain,
For if you want to live your life,
You've gotta drive the train.

~By Marv Hardin

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Is That Prescription or O.T.C. Drug Creating Your Pain?
© By Lena Sanchez

The silent depletion that may be threatening your life or health!

You are plagued by ongoing pain(s) that either won't go away or continue to come and go even after you have tried all kinds of therapies… Even Julie Donnelly’s Julstro system may not work effectively for long; if you are taking heart medications, blood pressure medications (even Ibuprofen, Aleve, aspirin, etc), pain medication, birth control pills/patches, cholesterol reducing medication or you take antacids regularly then you are depleting your body of many nutrients that keep your muscles, tendons and bones healthy… Minerals being the most important nutrients keeping your body’s organs and the skeletal and structural areas efficiently working…

Why, you ask?

Think of minerals as the battery to your body, as the battery is to your car. With out that battery in your car it’s not going to start or turn over the starter. Well, same thing with your body with one slight difference. That difference is; your body can function on partial battery power for a longer period of time, where the car will not… Your car may just up and not stop one day, but your body will continue to try to live and will keep going with imbalanced mineral content with only minor interruptions here and there that are ignored by most until serious problems develop that send you to a doctor. Your body requires a balance of 84 minerals and trace minerals for your organs, muscles, tendons and bones to function properly! The heart being the largest muscle in your body that without those required minerals may simply decide to not function. Thus death develops!

Read “The ABC’s of Minerals” Click here! The seldom-told truth about medications is the depletion effects of most prescriptions and over-the-counter (OTC) drugs. The following meds contribute to creating malnutrition and chemical toxicity setting the stage for muscle, tendon and bone problems as well as serious illnesses before the heart shuts down! The toxins not only build up in the body’s organs but in the body’s tissues and muscles… Just to name a few;

1) DIURETICS for high blood pressure; washes potassium, magnesium,
sodium, zinc and vitamin B2 right out of your body along with the
water. Even more alarming is the report from the National
Institute, (a watch dog group) in November 1998, researchers
stated, “diuretics also increase the risk of kidney cancer”.

2) CHOLESTEROL lowering medications; depletes numerous vitamins;
B2, C, D, niacin, folic acid, biotin along with the minerals;
calcium, iron, magnesium, potassium, zinc and several trace
minerals.

3) ESTROGEN replacement drugs, such as Premarin; can leave you
deficient in all the B Complex vitamins and vitamin C, as well as
two very important minerals to the heart magnesium and zinc.

4) ANTACIDS steal from your tissues important life altering
vitamins A and B1, folic acid along with the minerals calcium,
copper, iron and phosphorus.

5) ANTIBIOTICS deplete numerous vitamins; B2, C, D, niacin, folic
acid, biotin and the minerals; calcium, iron, magnesium,
potassium and zinc, while killing the good flora that keep our
intestines healthy making it even more dangerous creating the
inability to absorb the nutrients we do consume and making waste
elimination very difficult, while creating the atmosphere for
yeast growth, creating pains in many places.

6) ANTI-INFLAMMATORIES (NSAIDS) stops the production of good
prostaglandins, which promote healing of the joints, muscles and
cartilage. Without those prostaglandins doing their job it
causes further damage to your joints and muscles setting up an
environment for arthritis and other bone and joint damage.

7) ANTACIDS like Rolaids or Maalox can weaken bones by hindering
their mineral uptake that could be causing bone pain.

8) ASPIRIN taken on a regular basis by an arthritis or heart
patient can depletes the body of iron. Also disintegrates the
stomach lining, making for incomplete digestions of anything put
into it!

When was the last time your doctor told you to take vitamins and mineral supplements when he or she prescribed a medication? The very reason they should is the mineral and vitamin depleting effects caused them.

If you choose to take prescription or over the counter drugs make sure you take a good quality vitamin and mineral supplement along with them!!! Not the ones you pick up on sale or at the grocery store or pharmacy. For maximum absorption use a liquid, powder or capsule form to actually absorb into your system.

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Those Green Leaves Of Health!

When making my lunch of wilted greens. I dropped my leaves into the skillet of hot Olive Oil, Rice Vinegar, chopped celery and sweet chopped onion my mind went back to Popeye and Olive Oil, the cartoon characters that were so popular in my children's childhood. And remembered the muscles Popeye sported and wondered if that could possibly be true? Would these great green leaves build muscles. Hence this weeks great green food, Spinach!

A few years ago my then six year-old granddaughter said, "No way am I eating spinach, it tastes nasty!" We coaxed her into trying it, knowing that fresh spinach, cooked or not, doesn't resemble the taste of canned, that she had tried before. Her remarks after eating a whole serving was "Look everybody, take a picture, I'm eating spinach and it's good!" The grandchildren eat a lot of spinach when at our house and like it fixed in various ways.

History behind it; Spinach originally came from Persia - now known as Iran - where its name was called "aspanakh". By the 1300s, it had spread to Europe and Britain where it was particularly popular during Lent. It was being cultivated in North America by the early part of the 19th century. Was used in medieval times by artists to produce a green pigment for illuminated manuscripts. It is one of the few non toxic natural green pigments, and is still used today as body paint.

Spinach is a cool season crop and belongs to the goosefoot family along with Swiss chard and beets. Spinach is low in calories, and is a good source of vitamins and minerals, especially iron. Spinach was, supposedly, the first frozen vegetable to be sold.

But does it build muscles as Popeye spouted?

Scientists say those green leaves help reduce your risk of age-related macular degeneration, cancer, heart disease and neural tube defects. Also said to reduce the risk of cancer, heart disease, stroke and cataracts. And the healthy dose of potassium and calcium found in spinach can help regulate your blood pressure. The benefits of spinach do not stop there! Spinach and other leafy greens also provide folic acid, which is known to reduce the risk of neural tube defect and heart disease. Some studies have gone so far as to say it even improves memory. Calorie for calorie, leafy green vegetables like spinach with its delicate texture and jade green color provide more nutrients than any other food. Although spinach is available in grocery stores here throughout the year their season runs from March through May and from September through October when it is the freshest, has the best flavor and is most readily available.

I suppose Popeye was right because of all the great energy and muscle building minerals and vitamins spinach contains. That being the minerals; Calcium, Iron, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Potassium, Sodium, Zinc, Copper, Manganese and Selenium. Along with the vitamins C, E, B-12, A, B-6, Folate, Thiamin, Riboflavin, Niacin, Folic acid, Pantothenic acid and Retinol.

If you do not grow your own, it can be found fresh in most grocery stores, in the U.S., year round either bunched or as leaves. Shop for vivid, dark green spinach with firm leaves and stems, organic should be preferred. Avoid those with excessively thick, tough or woody stem ends. Smooth-leaf spinach is most often sold in bunches. Medium and Savoy varieties are more likely to be found loose or washed and partly stemmed in packages. I usually have a few jars of organic spinach in my canning cabinet of fruits and vegetables, grown by my husband each year, except for this year. He failed to plant enough for me and the prolific bugs and worms that love it as well.

Cleaning tip: It is imperative that fresh spinach be washed many, many, many times to removed dirt and little crawly creatures that love to invade those organic leaves.

It's relatively perishable and should be wrapped and stored in the refrigerator. It's best eaten as soon as possible after purchase or picking.

My Simple Wilted Salad that started the thought on spinach:

Enough for one person!

6 cups fresh, clean spinach leaves
3 Tablespoons Olive Oil
1 Tablespoon Seasoned Rice Vinegar
cup chopped fresh sweet onions
1 Rib of celery chopped and/or cup chopped bell pepper

Heat Olive oil and vinegar in a deep skillet, large enough to hold the initial six cups of spinach, placed over a medium hot burner. Add onions and celery, sauté for about two or three minutes ( I like the onions and celery to still have a crunch to them). Add spinach and toss constantly until all leaves are coated with olive oil and vinegar and wilted. Remove from burner and serve warm as a salad or side dish!

My mother always made her wilted salad with fresh mixed loose leaf lettuce and spinach greens with regular vinegar and sugar, which was a different flavor

Eat your spinach and be healthy!
Lena

Kaiser Hospital Is Cited After 2nd Death From Double Dose Santa Clara facility was 'deficient' but mistake wasn't a systemic failure, state regulators say.

SAN JOSE (AP)- A Kaiser Permanente patient died last year after receiving too much medication at one of the company's hospitals, the second patient recently reported to have died under those circumstances at the facility, state health regulators said Wednesday.

The Department of Health Services said a 64-year-old man at Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Medical Center died Dec. 24 after receiving a double dose of stroke medication. His identity was not disclosed.

The hospital was cited for being "deficient" in the man's care by failing to properly check the dosage, officials said.

In August, the same hospital was cited in the death of Josephine Frances Hart, 12, who received a double dose of pneumonia medication.

In both cases, the state approved the hospital's plan to require that nurses double-check medications. Health officials said the incidents were "isolated" within different units and did not represent a systemic failure that would justify revoking the hospital's license.

Health department spokesman Scott Vivona said the citations did not bring fines, and there was no limit to the number of citations a hospital could receive before its license was revoked. Cited hospitals are required to devise plans to correct the problems that led to the deaths, he said. The plans must be approved by the state.

"We take very seriously our responsibility to learn from these errors and to improve the training of our providers and the reliability of our systems," Kaiser said in a prepared statement. "We accept full responsibility for the medication error and have added additional safeguards to our pharmacy and medication practices."

This month, Kaiser Permanente Santa Teresa Medical Center in San Jose was cited for a similar infraction.

Chemotherapy patient Christopher Wibeto, 21, died in August, three days after a cancer-fighting drug intended for another patient was injected into his spine.

Under an agreement with the health department, the hospital now requires that a doctor, nurse and pharmacist verify that the correct medication is being administered to patients.

LENA'S COMMENT: Sadly this is happening daily in hospitals but not being reported. When I was taught medicine administration I was taught to never administer a medication without a triple check. First; read the label when removing it from the cabinet and check it with your orders. Second; Read label and check written orders when preparing before putting on tray. Third; Read label and check with orders before giving to the patient. That simple technique, if followed should eliminate the problem. Is this being taught anymore or are the nurses being lazy or are the orders written wrong. Doctors do write orders incorrectly as well... My advice, stay out of hospitals! Prevention is the way to do just that... If you must be in the hospital have someone with you to monitor any medication administration... That will most likely entail a fight with the administration as visitors aren't encouraged outside of visiting hours, but don't let them bully you...