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As the temps drop into the single digits at night and not much above 25 or 30 during the day I find it easier to think of the holidays coming up. Weather controls a lot of thought this time of the year for a lot of us who experience four seasons. Never trivialize weather! For all the many years we lived in Southern California, where we had only one season unless we drove to the mountains, I learned to really appreciate the seasons and the joys each one brings to life here in North Central Arizona. Most of you probably think Arizona is nothing but desert, but you would be wrong. We have all types of terrain with only a short drive to appreciate any one of them. Why am I rambling? Could be that watching people and listening to them complain I start to wonder where their health will be later on, since I know that negative people end up very ill... So I'm of the philosophy that I "should enjoy each minute of life as happy and positive, whether it is or not!" What is your philosophy? Do you see all the negatives before you can get to the positives? Do you find all the bad side of anything making it hard if not impossible to reach the positives in a situation? Sadly too many are of that negative mind set but will tell me that they are just being realists! Think again! Is being a "realist" worth bad health?

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* Calcium in milk is not well absorbed (and even less so once homogenized).
* There isn't enough magnesium in milk.
* There's evidence that the antibodies the body makes to digest milk are closely related to the antibodies that destroy islet cells (insulin producers) in the pancreas in cases of juvenile diabetes.
* Milk contains pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers, and Bovine Growth Hormone.

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A nontoxic treatment for lice
Shari Roan

The treatments for head lice aren't pleasant: potentially toxic chemicals, repeated combing for nits, and laundering sheets, clothing and towels.

But a Menlo Park, California, dermatologist is urging doctors and parents to try a new cure that he promises is easy and successful. Lice can be cured in 94% of cases by simply soaking the hair and scalp with Cetaphil Gentle Skin Cleanser and then using a hair dryer to dry the cleanser in place, he says. The coating suffocates the insects in about eight hours and is then washed out.

Dr. Dale Pearlman discovered the method and last year published his suffocation hypothesis in the journal Pediatrics. At the time, Pearlman didn't reveal what product could be used to coat the hair and scalp. But after failing to find a company to conduct clinical studies on the method, he decided to release the information to the public so people could see for themselves.

Information on how to use the cleanser is on Pearlman's website, http://www.nuvoforheadlice.com . A letter on the treatment is also published in this month's issue of Pediatrics.

Stringy Green Medicine! Not Green Beans!

Over the months I've been writing about foods and how it affects our life I've found some so ordinary and some exotic and foreign to many but this one is mostly standard in most homes and as I cut the pieces into my soup pot I started wondering exactly what this green stringy veggie did for me. What I learned was very interesting...

An amazing discover to me was that it was first used as a Medicine as lots of our common foods today were and I found out that there is more than just the green stalks we find in the grocery store here.

That medicine food is Celery (Apium graveolens) that 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, 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

I use celery in all my soups in salads but my favorite way of eating celery is raw and sometimes 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 organs.

Lena

'I shall please' -- it's an old promise
By Rosie Mestel, LA Times Staff Writer

Crocodile dung, bloodletting, pills dispensed from impressive-looking apothecary jars: Medical history is littered with treatments that likely didn't work - except to the extent that people believed in them. Here are some tidbits about the mind-body connection that science refers to as the placebo effect:

· The word "placebo" is Latin for "I shall please." In medieval times it was the first word of (and name for) a prayer chanted over the dead, and became a derogatory name for the mourners who were hired to do the chanting.

· By the 18th century, "placebo" was a term for any commonplace medical remedy. By the early 19th century, a medical dictionary defined the word as "any medicine adopted more to please than benefit the patient."

· The term "placebo effect" was coined by Harvard anesthesiologist Dr. Henry Beecher. He started studying placebos after witnessing wounded World War II soldiers receive injections of salt solution instead of morphine when battlefield supplies had run out. The patients experienced considerable relief, as if they had received a drug.

· Because of this effect, modern-era drug trials generally contain a group of patients receiving a placebo instead of the medication being tested, and neither patient nor doctor knows who gets what. (The Food and Drug Administration in the 1970s recommended new drugs be tested this way.) The first known double-blind placebo-controlled trial of this type took place in 1907: It examined the effects of drugs such as alcohol on fatigue.

· One of the most dramatic examples of a placebo effect was demonstrated in 1959 for a then-common surgery for angina, in which surgeons tied off arteries in the chest to increase the flow of blood to the heart. Seattle physician Dr. Leonard Cobb showed the procedure was no better than a sham surgery in which the chest was incised but no arteries tied. The procedure was dropped.

· Placebo effects vary depending on the condition. Researchers have reported that a placebo is better at easing symptoms of depression, anxiety, pain, asthma and moderate hypertension. It's poor at alleviating symptoms of schizophrenia or obsessive-compulsive disorders.

· There are a few case reports of patients becoming addicted to placebo pills. One patient swallowed 10,000 placebos in one year. Another went through withdrawal symptoms when the placebos were taken away.

· Belief can foster ill effects as well as good ones: People who think a treatment will give them side effects can suffer nausea, rashes, headaches and pain from what is actually a placebo. This is known as the "nocebo effect" - Latin for "I shall harm."

· The strength of the placebo effect can be influenced by the size and number of pills given, the number of daily doses and perhaps even the pills' color. (One study reported that people were more likely to report drowsiness from taking blue pills than pink pills.)

· Sham injections generally invoke greater placebo responses than pills, and sham surgery stronger responses still, presumably because they are viewed as more powerful treatments.

· In pain studies, the placebo effect is stronger if a patient has previously been given the real drug - presumably because he or she experienced relief and thus expects it again. Conversely, if a patient is first given a placebo (believing it's a painkiller), the real drug administered later isn't as effective at alleviating pain.

LENA'S COMMENT: This goes to prove that the mind is a strong healer and controller... This works in reverse. If you expect to be ill you will be ill...

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