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I should be singing "Frosty The Snowman" as we awoke to a winter wonderland covering of snow... It's not too cold so I suspect it won't stick around all day, but it's looking a lot like more will be coming down... Even though it isn't officially winter, it's winter!

I do hope your weekend is full of relaxation and rest giving your body at least one day to recoup from a week of stress and work. God gave that to us knowing we would overwork without rest if we were left to our own devises... Enjoy!

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Are You Eating Arsenic?

Unless you're a character in a mystery novel, your chances of being poisoned by arsenic are less than your chances of winning the lottery. But here's a report on arsenic levels in common delicacies, just so you know.

The journal Food and Chemical Toxicology found the foods with the most arsenic are any type of fish, followed by rice, flour, grape juice and spinach.

And, the journal warns, testing for arsenic shouldn't be done on a Saturday or Sunday morning.

That's because fish fries are still popular on Friday nights and the amount of arsenic from the fish could be enough to trigger a false positive on a urine test.

Researchers suggest that arsenic testing should always be done in the middle of the week, when your body levels have returned to normal.

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Arthritis Drug Linked to Lymphomas

(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- A new study helps explain why a drug commonly used to treat rheumatoid arthritis and polio increases the risk of lymphoma linked to the Epstein-Barr virus.

The authors explain Epstein-Barr is a common virus, present in about 90 percent of the adult population. The virus sets up a lifelong infection that has been linked to several diseases, including mononucleosis and Hodgkin's disease. But in most people, the infection remains latent, meaning it causes no harm.

Doctors have known the drug methotrexate increases lymphomas that test positive for the Epstein-Barr virus, but it hasn't been clear how the medication leads to the condition. In this study, the investigators looked at the effect of the drug on cell lines infected with the virus. Results showed the drug reactivated the virus from latent infections, leading to the release of infectious agents into the body.

Since methotrexate is an immunosuppressive drug, which means it causes the immune system to work less well than it normally would, researchers speculate a deadly combination effect is at work: The drug both reduces the body's ability to fight off the cancer and makes it possible for the virus to invade the body and help create the cancer.

The investigators report the drug acyclovir (Zovirax) might be able to reduce the number of lymphomas caused by methotrexate, but note the overall risk of developing lymphoma due to the drug is so low -- less than 1 in 1,000 patients on the medication will be affected in a year's time -- it might not be justified.

SOURCE: Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 2004;96:1691-1702

As I cut pieces into my soup pot I started wondering exactly what this green stringy veggie did for me. What I learned was interesting as well as alarming...

It was first used as a Medicine and I found out that there is more than kinds than just the green stalks we find in the grocery store here.

Celery (Apium graveolens) grows to a height of 12 to 16 inches and is composed of leaf-topped stalks arranged in a conical shape that are joined at a common bottom base. It is a biennial vegetable plant that belongs to the Umbelliferae family whose other members include carrots, fennel, parsley and dill. While most people associate celery with its prized stalks, the leaves, roots and seeds can also be used as a food and seasoning as well as a natural medicinal remedy.

Celery is believed to be the same plant as selinon, mentioned in Homer's Odyssey about 850 B.C. Our word "celery" comes from the French celeri, which is derived from the ancient Greek word. The old Roman names, as well as those in many modern languages, are derived from the same root word and sound remarkably similar. This indicates a rather recent wide distribution and use of celery.

The oldest record of the word celeri is in a 9th-century poem written in France or Italy, giving the medicinal uses and merits of the plant. When its culture in gardens was begun in the 16th century in Italy and northern Europe, it was still a primitive plant like smallage (common name for celery), and was used for medicinal purposes only.

In France in 1623 use of celery as food was first recorded. For about a hundred years thereafter its food use was confined to flavorings or medicinal. In France and Italy, by the middle of the 17th century, the little stalks and leaves were sometimes eaten with an oil dressing.

In the late 17th and early 18th centuries, in Italy, France, and England, was seen the first evidences of improvement of the wild type. Gardeners also found that much of the too-strong flavor could be eliminated, making the stalks better for salad use, by growing the plants in late summer and fall, then keeping them into the winter.

By the mid-18th century in Sweden, the wealthier families were enjoying the wintertime luxury of celery that had been stored in cellars. From that time on, its use as we know it today spread rapidly. Its seed was brought to Kalamazoo, Michigan, in the 1850s from Scotland, and it became a commercial crop there, grown by Dutch settlers.

All through the 19th century in America, England, and much of Europe, it was believed necessary to blanch the green edible portion of celery to rid it of unpleasantly strong flavor and green color. This was done by banking the plants with soil. Some kinds, like Pascal and Utah, that remain green when ready for eating, are now considered to be of the finest quality.

Many so-called "easy-blanching" or "self-blanching" varieties have appeared in the past 50 years. Generally, these self-blanching sorts are inferior in quality to the best green varieties, but can be grown successfully under less favorable conditions of soil and climate.

Celeriac, or turnip-rooted celery, is a kind that forms a greatly enlarged, solid, more or less globular body just below the soil surface. It is not used raw, but is especially suited for use in soups and stews.

Today research has proven celery seed to be a diuretic. Diuretic substances are used to treat high blood pressure and congestive heart failure. Research has also shown that celery seed helps decrease blood sugar levels and might be useful in treating diabetes. Modern herbalists believe celery seed aids digestion, increases appetite and may also alleviate the discomforts of rheumatism.

Celery and celery seed have long been thought to be a fairly good aphrodisiac. Research has shown that celery contains androsterone so there may be something to that belief.

Celery can be a great diet aid as digesting celery requires more energy than celery and only 17 calories in a 100 gram portion.

Healthy minerals and vitamins found in celery are; Calcium, Iron, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Potassium,Sodium, Zinc, Copper, Manganese, Selenium, Vitamins C, A, B-6, E, B-12, ascorbic acid, Thiamin, Riboflavin, Niacin, Folate, Retinol and Pantothenic acid. Making healthy, if you get organic uncooked. Some elements are lost in cooking. Light green celery stalks with a glossy surface tend to taste best. (Dark green stalks have slightly more nutrients, but are apt to be stringy.)

Sadly on 94 percent of the non-organic celery tested were found to contain Chemicals and Pesticides; three most commonly found were Dicloran, Acephate, and Oxamyl and also one or more of the following; Acephate, Azinphos methyl, Captan, Carbaryl, Chlorothalonil, DCPA, DDT, Diazinon, Dicloran, Dimethoate, Disulfoton, Endosulfans, Iprodione, Linuron, Malathion, Methamidophos, Methidathion, Methomyl, Mevinphos Total, Oxamyl, Oxydemeton methyl, Parathion ethyl, Permethrin Total, Phosmet, Piperonyl butoxide, Prometryn, Propiconazole, Quintozene (PCNB), and Trifluralin.

My favorite way of eating celery is stuffed with peanut butter or cream cheese. Makes a healthy filling snack or side dish.

Enjoy your green string of health but make sure it's organic to prevent pesticide and chemical toxic buildup in your body.

Scientific Research at Your Fingertips With Google

On the heels of its successful public offering and new G-mail service, the Internet search engine juggernaut Google recently launched a newest search tool, Google Scholar, a free service aimed at scientists and academic researchers.

Intended to be the first stop for researchers searching for peer-reviewed papers, abstracts and scholarly papers, Google Scholar is a collaboration between the company and a group of scientific and academic publishers. The timing seems to be right, because a great many scholarly papers are indexed on the Internet but not easily accessible to the public.

The service will also include a listing of scientific citations as well as ways to find materials at libraries that are not online, which makes great sense since students and researchers have flocked in droves to Web-based search engines and away from paper catalogs that are immediately out of date.

Early on, however, this new search tool will not feature one profitable Google staple: Text ads that typically appear on the right-hand corner of every page.

The project was a personal effort by one engineer who wanted to address the severe lack of timely research materials he often encountered as a student in India and to help academia. So far, Google has received much cooperation from academic, scientific and technical publishers like the Association of Computing Machinery, Nature, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the Online Computer Library Center.

One search engine experts predicts Google Scholar will soon have company for its services from Net-based competitors like Yahoo.

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