Although there are many report lately saying that Coffee Anti-Oxidant is good for the heart.
But my own research finding is that coffe is not good for the heart.
In the mid 80's I do drink Jasmine, Ti Kuan Yin Tea occassionally decaf coffee. Then in late 80's, I have notice that my left hand is not stable when I raise my arm. I then went to consult a doctor who then refer me to the specialist. After examination, I am told that my heart energy is not too good. Ned to go for observations & injections every week.
Then after 2 month, I tell myself.. I cannot goes on like these, I must go for alternative medical treatment. as I know that the western medicine although is good but is is poisoness. So I found a Guru who after romote sensing told me that to cut of Fats & Tea & Coffee & follow by some herbals Tea that the Guru prescribed. After taking about 5 packets of these herbs. I am fully recovered.
Therefore, I don't recommend anyone to drink coffee for the Great Health.
Too much caffeine can cause a variety of symptoms, as can caffeine withdrawal
Those of us who drink coffee know about caffeine and its effects on our bodies. Tea and hot chocolate have less caffeine but are not completely free of it. Here is a quick run-down the symptoms you will experience if you cut out drinking caffeinated drinks, and also the symptoms of excessive caffeine intake.
Withdrawal Symptoms
Caffeine withdrawal symptoms can begin as soon 12 hours after stopping your intake. They are at their worst after 24-48 hours, and can last for up to a week.
* Irritable
* Restless
* Muscle stiffness
* Difficulty concentrating
* Headaches, moderate to severe
* Chills and/or hot spells
Excess Caffeine
3 cups of coffee is considered an average or moderate dose, but 10 cups of coffee per day is considered excessive.
* Jitteriness
* Difficulty sleeping
* Headaches
* Anxiety
* Flushed face
* Nausea
* Accelerated heartbeat
If you are trying to cut down on your caffeine consumption, you can avoid some of the symptoms by doing it slowly. Cutting back by a half cup per day is a recommended pace. If you find yourself needing a cup of something try decaf or experiment with herbal teas.
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Sunday, February 27, 2005
Saturday, February 26, 2005
Telegraph | News | Milk can cause acne, says new research
This is interesting report.
I do observed that there are people who have oily skin may have more sensitive to these Skimm Milk.
Also it is highly depend on the Fats contents.
Milk can cause acne, says new research
(Filed: 25/02/2005)
Drinking milk could be one of the causes of acne, new research in America has claimed.
MSN Search
Women who drink two or more servings of skimmed milk every day are 44 per cent more likely to have developed severe acne, the study, reported in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, said.
Women who drink more than three daily servings of any type of milk are 22 per cent more likely to have suffered from acne.
The study was based on responses to a survey from 47,335 women involved in an ongoing health study.
"We found a positive association with acne for intake of total milk and skimmed milk," researchers concluded.
"We hypothesise that the association with milk may be because of the presence of hormones and bioactive molecules in milk.''
Telegraph | News | Milk can cause acne, says new research
I do observed that there are people who have oily skin may have more sensitive to these Skimm Milk.
Also it is highly depend on the Fats contents.
Milk can cause acne, says new research
(Filed: 25/02/2005)
Drinking milk could be one of the causes of acne, new research in America has claimed.
MSN Search
Women who drink two or more servings of skimmed milk every day are 44 per cent more likely to have developed severe acne, the study, reported in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, said.
Women who drink more than three daily servings of any type of milk are 22 per cent more likely to have suffered from acne.
The study was based on responses to a survey from 47,335 women involved in an ongoing health study.
"We found a positive association with acne for intake of total milk and skimmed milk," researchers concluded.
"We hypothesise that the association with milk may be because of the presence of hormones and bioactive molecules in milk.''
Telegraph | News | Milk can cause acne, says new research
Friday, February 25, 2005
Calcium in the Trash, Not the Glass - Other Supplements as well!!
This report reconfirm on my observation of the unethical Marketeers works.
What is the use of paying for something that in the trash?? This happen to other supplements as well. I did not found these until one & a half month ago I when for the Blue Laser Scanner to scan for my free Radical in the body. Anyway, I would write the topic in http://.skincarewellness.blogspot.com you can pick up the free copy of Blue Laser in the site as well.
Now, the best thing to get natural calcium is through drinking of bone stock soup, Fruit juice & Green Vege. That would be the best choice of Calcium & natural vitamin.
Calcium in the Trash, Not the Glass
Thursday February 24, 12:00 pm ET
- Study Finds Fortified Drinks Don't Deliver What's Promised -
BERKELEY, Calif., Feb. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Everything from soy to orange juice is fortified with calcium these days. But a new study recently published in Nutrition Today* finds that up to 75% of calcium added to popular beverages, like soy drinks and orange juice, gets left at the bottom of the carton. Researchers concluded that existing nutritional labels of these fortified drinks are likely to mislead consumers promising more calcium than they actually deliver.
"This study is really important for people who rely on these beverages to get their calcium every day," states Dr. Celia Brown, MD/Family Practitioner, Woodland Hills, CA. "These findings suggest that in doing so they may be throwing away more calcium than they actually drink."
The three-person medical panel at Creighton University who conducted the study found that -- despite vigorous shaking - -the calcium added to fortified soy and rice beverages settled to the bottom of the container. They concluded that regular hand shaking -- per label instructions -- was not enough to adequately suspend the bone-building nutrient so that it could be consumed. A hardware store paint shaker would be needed for that the researchers found.
Conducted by Creighton's Osteoporosis Research Center, the study compared 14 calcium-fortified beverages (soy, rice, orange juice, etc.) to unfortified, fat-free milk. Of all beverages studied, the research concludes that milk is the most reliable source of calcium.
"This study sheds light on an issue of great public concern as many Americans -- especially kids -- aren't developing adequate bone mass," says Brown.
Over the last 20 to 30 years, there's been a shift away from milk as the standard drink at meals. Government studies show an alarming 86% of teen girls and 64% of teen boys aren't getting enough calcium daily - lacking the equivalent of four glasses of milk per day.**
Research Highlights
- The quality of calcium-fortification in soy/rice beverages and orange
juice is uneven, and may confuse consumers as to the actual calcium
content and benefits.
- Milk scored higher than eight of the 10 orange juice brands and all
four of the soy and rice beverages.
- The study found that milk was the most reliable calcium source and
delivers what the label promises.***
About Dr. Celia Brown, M.D.
Dr. Celia Brown is a graduate of Cornell University, and UCLA Medical School. She is Board Certified in Family Medicine. She currently practices in Woodland Hills, California where she does general Family Medicine. Dr. Brown teaches on the UCLA clinical faculty. She is author of a book of general medical tips for the public, entitled, Doctor's Little Book of Answers.
For more information or a copy of the study contact:
Molly Ireland at 310-226-8600 or 310-455-1160
or e-mail at: molly.ireland@rlpublicrelations.com
Calcium in the Trash, Not the Glass
What is the use of paying for something that in the trash?? This happen to other supplements as well. I did not found these until one & a half month ago I when for the Blue Laser Scanner to scan for my free Radical in the body. Anyway, I would write the topic in http://.skincarewellness.blogspot.com you can pick up the free copy of Blue Laser in the site as well.
Now, the best thing to get natural calcium is through drinking of bone stock soup, Fruit juice & Green Vege. That would be the best choice of Calcium & natural vitamin.
Calcium in the Trash, Not the Glass
Thursday February 24, 12:00 pm ET
- Study Finds Fortified Drinks Don't Deliver What's Promised -
BERKELEY, Calif., Feb. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Everything from soy to orange juice is fortified with calcium these days. But a new study recently published in Nutrition Today* finds that up to 75% of calcium added to popular beverages, like soy drinks and orange juice, gets left at the bottom of the carton. Researchers concluded that existing nutritional labels of these fortified drinks are likely to mislead consumers promising more calcium than they actually deliver.
"This study is really important for people who rely on these beverages to get their calcium every day," states Dr. Celia Brown, MD/Family Practitioner, Woodland Hills, CA. "These findings suggest that in doing so they may be throwing away more calcium than they actually drink."
The three-person medical panel at Creighton University who conducted the study found that -- despite vigorous shaking - -the calcium added to fortified soy and rice beverages settled to the bottom of the container. They concluded that regular hand shaking -- per label instructions -- was not enough to adequately suspend the bone-building nutrient so that it could be consumed. A hardware store paint shaker would be needed for that the researchers found.
Conducted by Creighton's Osteoporosis Research Center, the study compared 14 calcium-fortified beverages (soy, rice, orange juice, etc.) to unfortified, fat-free milk. Of all beverages studied, the research concludes that milk is the most reliable source of calcium.
"This study sheds light on an issue of great public concern as many Americans -- especially kids -- aren't developing adequate bone mass," says Brown.
Over the last 20 to 30 years, there's been a shift away from milk as the standard drink at meals. Government studies show an alarming 86% of teen girls and 64% of teen boys aren't getting enough calcium daily - lacking the equivalent of four glasses of milk per day.**
Research Highlights
- The quality of calcium-fortification in soy/rice beverages and orange
juice is uneven, and may confuse consumers as to the actual calcium
content and benefits.
- Milk scored higher than eight of the 10 orange juice brands and all
four of the soy and rice beverages.
- The study found that milk was the most reliable calcium source and
delivers what the label promises.***
About Dr. Celia Brown, M.D.
Dr. Celia Brown is a graduate of Cornell University, and UCLA Medical School. She is Board Certified in Family Medicine. She currently practices in Woodland Hills, California where she does general Family Medicine. Dr. Brown teaches on the UCLA clinical faculty. She is author of a book of general medical tips for the public, entitled, Doctor's Little Book of Answers.
For more information or a copy of the study contact:
Molly Ireland at 310-226-8600 or 310-455-1160
or e-mail at: molly.ireland@rlpublicrelations.com
Calcium in the Trash, Not the Glass
Thursday, February 24, 2005
Cream of cauliflower and Roquefort soup
Cauliflower is having high content of Anti-Oxidants, the soup here may be cooking too long for Cauliflower.
Cauliflower best to eat as salad, stir fried, slight boil not over boil to maintence the nutritions within.
I would recommend that add few slices of Ginger into the soup to so that to prevent "Gas" building in the stomach!!
Cream of cauliflower and Roquefort soup
Serves 4
For port mascarpone:
1 cup port
1/4 cup minced shallots
1/2 cup fruity red wine
1/2 cup good-quality mascarpone
Salt
For soup:
2 heads cauliflower, leaves and core removed
6 cups milk
Salt
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
2 ounces Roquefort or other good-quality blue cheese
For garnish:
3 tablespoons minced fresh chives
To prepare mascarpone: Combine port, shallots and wine in small saucepan and set over medium heat. Reduce mixture until only about 1 tablespoon liquid remains. Pour into bowl, let cool to room temperature, and carefully fold into mascarpone. Season to taste with salt. Refrigerate.
To make soup: Set aside 8 cauliflower florets for garnish. Roughly chop remaining cauliflower and cover with cold, salted water in large saucepan. Bring to boil over medium-high heat. Cook 10 to 15 minutes, until cauliflower is cooked through. Drain off water and add milk. Return saucepan to heat and bring to boil. Season with salt and cayenne pepper. Transfer soup in batches to blender or food processor. Add half of Roquefort cheese and puree until smooth. Pass soup through medium-fine strainer into a clean saucepan and keep warm.
Bring 4 cups salted water to a boil in small saucepan. Add reserved cauliflower florets and blanch 1 to 2 minutes, until tender; drain.
To serve: Place 2 cauliflower florets in center of each warm soup bowl. Pour soup around florets. Top florets with a large tablespoon of port mascarpone. Finely chop remaining Roquefort cheese and sprinkle over top of soup, topping it with chives.
MercuryNews.com | 02/23/2005 | Cream of cauliflower and Roquefort soup
Cauliflower best to eat as salad, stir fried, slight boil not over boil to maintence the nutritions within.
I would recommend that add few slices of Ginger into the soup to so that to prevent "Gas" building in the stomach!!
Cream of cauliflower and Roquefort soup
Serves 4
For port mascarpone:
1 cup port
1/4 cup minced shallots
1/2 cup fruity red wine
1/2 cup good-quality mascarpone
Salt
For soup:
2 heads cauliflower, leaves and core removed
6 cups milk
Salt
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
2 ounces Roquefort or other good-quality blue cheese
For garnish:
3 tablespoons minced fresh chives
To prepare mascarpone: Combine port, shallots and wine in small saucepan and set over medium heat. Reduce mixture until only about 1 tablespoon liquid remains. Pour into bowl, let cool to room temperature, and carefully fold into mascarpone. Season to taste with salt. Refrigerate.
To make soup: Set aside 8 cauliflower florets for garnish. Roughly chop remaining cauliflower and cover with cold, salted water in large saucepan. Bring to boil over medium-high heat. Cook 10 to 15 minutes, until cauliflower is cooked through. Drain off water and add milk. Return saucepan to heat and bring to boil. Season with salt and cayenne pepper. Transfer soup in batches to blender or food processor. Add half of Roquefort cheese and puree until smooth. Pass soup through medium-fine strainer into a clean saucepan and keep warm.
Bring 4 cups salted water to a boil in small saucepan. Add reserved cauliflower florets and blanch 1 to 2 minutes, until tender; drain.
To serve: Place 2 cauliflower florets in center of each warm soup bowl. Pour soup around florets. Top florets with a large tablespoon of port mascarpone. Finely chop remaining Roquefort cheese and sprinkle over top of soup, topping it with chives.
MercuryNews.com | 02/23/2005 | Cream of cauliflower and Roquefort soup
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
Milk ad spoiled by Canadian standards -- Milk Cause Impotence??
It is subjective on the issue. But when I research into the characteristic of Milk. & with reference to the "I-Medicine Sutra"
Milk is of "Cold or Cool" when it just serve out of the fridge. However, once it is boiled then the Character would become "Nutral or even Yang".
When it is drink in cold it would cause stomach upset.. & possible after that the "Yang Chi" is gone then for Man could have impotence!!
So please beware to these for your great health!!
Milk ad spoiled by Canadian standards
Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - Page B2
Censor committees at the U.S. networks were protecting us from offensive content in Super Bowl ads long before Janet Jackson gave new meaning to the term boob tube. One of the spots nixed from last year's broadcast was from those fine People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals; it warned that drinking milk led to impotence. I goat thee not.
Denied the airwaves, PETA managed to rent a few billboards carrying the same bizarre message in beef-happy Alberta. Oops. In a new report, Advertising Standards Canada ruled the billboards violated the Canadian code, noting: "To claim without reservation or reasonable scientific evidence that milk can cause impotence was inaccurate and offensive under the code." As a self-regulating body, ASC has no power to fine or otherwise punish PETA. All they can do is ask (but not require) the bovine brigade to pull the ad. Any softer than that, and we might suspect them of drinking too much milk.
STAGE SUCCESS The power of television being what it is, many more people probably know Michael Healey as an actor in CBC's continuing legal series, This is Wonderland. But Michael is also the enormously successful author of The Drawer Boy, almost certainly the single most-produced Canadian play in history. Last year, the play was mounted 24 times in the United States alone. Not incidentally, it earned Healey gross royalties of $1.2-million. This year, it may do even better. A new production is about to open at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, N.J., starring veteran actor John Mahoney (Frasier). That, of course, is across the river from Broadway, where the show is likely headed next. London's West End is also interested. HALF EMPTY Given the stakes, you'd think the nation's largest cable company -- Rogers Communications -- would invest a little more in its branding campaigns. After all, it spent more than $3-billion in the last quarter of 2004 on wireless phone assets and, as the fight for control of Canada's $32-billion-a-year communications industry kicks off, is about to enter the marketing battle of its life against Bell Canada. So, is Rogers' marketing machine primed? I'm not so sure.
Recently, a paper cup attached to a smaller plastic cup with a red ribbon arrived in a cellophane bag. This spasm of creativity was designed to trumpet an agreement with Second Cup to bring wireless Internet access into cafés. Even a glass-half-full sort of goat can see these cups are flirting with empty. thegoat@globeandmail.ca
The Globe and Mail: Milk ad spoiled by Canadian standards
Milk is of "Cold or Cool" when it just serve out of the fridge. However, once it is boiled then the Character would become "Nutral or even Yang".
When it is drink in cold it would cause stomach upset.. & possible after that the "Yang Chi" is gone then for Man could have impotence!!
So please beware to these for your great health!!
Milk ad spoiled by Canadian standards
Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - Page B2
Censor committees at the U.S. networks were protecting us from offensive content in Super Bowl ads long before Janet Jackson gave new meaning to the term boob tube. One of the spots nixed from last year's broadcast was from those fine People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals; it warned that drinking milk led to impotence. I goat thee not.
Denied the airwaves, PETA managed to rent a few billboards carrying the same bizarre message in beef-happy Alberta. Oops. In a new report, Advertising Standards Canada ruled the billboards violated the Canadian code, noting: "To claim without reservation or reasonable scientific evidence that milk can cause impotence was inaccurate and offensive under the code." As a self-regulating body, ASC has no power to fine or otherwise punish PETA. All they can do is ask (but not require) the bovine brigade to pull the ad. Any softer than that, and we might suspect them of drinking too much milk.
STAGE SUCCESS The power of television being what it is, many more people probably know Michael Healey as an actor in CBC's continuing legal series, This is Wonderland. But Michael is also the enormously successful author of The Drawer Boy, almost certainly the single most-produced Canadian play in history. Last year, the play was mounted 24 times in the United States alone. Not incidentally, it earned Healey gross royalties of $1.2-million. This year, it may do even better. A new production is about to open at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, N.J., starring veteran actor John Mahoney (Frasier). That, of course, is across the river from Broadway, where the show is likely headed next. London's West End is also interested. HALF EMPTY Given the stakes, you'd think the nation's largest cable company -- Rogers Communications -- would invest a little more in its branding campaigns. After all, it spent more than $3-billion in the last quarter of 2004 on wireless phone assets and, as the fight for control of Canada's $32-billion-a-year communications industry kicks off, is about to enter the marketing battle of its life against Bell Canada. So, is Rogers' marketing machine primed? I'm not so sure.
Recently, a paper cup attached to a smaller plastic cup with a red ribbon arrived in a cellophane bag. This spasm of creativity was designed to trumpet an agreement with Second Cup to bring wireless Internet access into cafés. Even a glass-half-full sort of goat can see these cups are flirting with empty. thegoat@globeandmail.ca
The Globe and Mail: Milk ad spoiled by Canadian standards
Tuesday, February 22, 2005
Japan's Tea Ceremony Offers Peace of Mind
In the traditional way of drinking tea, in China, it is "Cha Tao" Tea Path. , it mean drinking of Tea & think of the "Tao" of life. So it is more a spiritual building event on Tea Ceremony is concern.
Whenever people gather in Drinking Tea, they will play chess, they well do painting, write poems, meditations...
Very often when one is having "Cha Tao" alone, that is the time where one would recollect themself of their doing.
That is exaclty the Chinese Culture of "Siew Sheng Young Shing" cultivate Geat Health & One Character!!
Japan's Tea Ceremony Offers Peace of Mind
By Yoon Won-sup Staff Reporter
Carolyn La Brash, wife of the Canadian ambassador to South Korea, said drinking Japanese tea is like ``meditating,'' after attending a two-hour presentation on the Japanese way of tea or ``chado,’’ held at the Japanese ambassador's residence in Seoul, Friday.
``I was surprised to find out there were many steps involved in drinking Japanese tea, which made people calm and relaxed, just like meditating,'' La Brash said.
Actually, a peace of mind was shared by all people present, who listened attentively to Kanako Muramatsu, the chado instructor, and drank Japanese green tea following the instructions.
According to Muramatsu, a host first prepares the charcoal firing to heat water in the tearoom, while guests wait for the tea after having a meal.
When the host finishes making the tea, guests take the tea bowl with the right hand and place it on the palm of the left. And most importantly, they should spin the bowl twice clockwise and then bow to express their appreciation to nature and the host before drinking the tea.
With the right hand on the side of the bowl on the left hand's palm, the guests drink the tea through three sips. The taste of the green tea is a little bitter, but two sweets _ ``omogasi'' made from red and white beans and ``higasi'' from sugar _ are served with the tea and provide a perfect combination of tastes.
``It was so great to drink Japanese tea,'' said Gamze Kuneralp, wife of the Turkish ambassador to Seoul. ``I was impressed at the taste and the way the tea is served.''
The presentation was part of a monthly meeting by the Seoul Garden Club comprising the wives of foreign ambassadors residing in Seoul and Korean women.
``Chado is not just drinking tea, but it also has the meaning of ones' devotion to the spiritual values such as harmony, respect, purity and tranquility,'' said Kazuko Takano, wife of the Japanese ambassador, who organized the tea presentation for the club.
For example, it takes two days to make the omogasi confectionery, because of its complicated recipe, which naturally invokes one of the four values to both the host and guest, she added.
Mary Louise Heseltine, wife of the Australian ambassador, also echoed the view saying it was spiritual experience to learn how to drink the tea.
Members of the club, which was established in 1958, meet every second Friday of the month so they can exchange cultural presentations or conduct charity activities for the needy.
About 30 members of the club participated in the tea presentation. Nina Braastad, wife of the Norwegian ambassador, currently assumes the one-year presidency of the club.
yoonwonsup@koreatimes.co.kr
02-22-2005 19:45
Members of the Seoul Garden Club participate in the Japanese tea ceremony held at the residence of Japanese Ambassador to South Korea Takano Toshiyuki in Seoul, Friday. / Korea Times
Candlelight Vigil Organizer Convicted of Illegal Rallies
Ministry Seeks to Double Cigarette Prices by 2013
Actress Lee Eun-ju Commits Suicide
Subway Stops for 100 Minutes Due to Electrical
The Korea Times : Japan's Tea Ceremony Offers Peace of Mind
Whenever people gather in Drinking Tea, they will play chess, they well do painting, write poems, meditations...
Very often when one is having "Cha Tao" alone, that is the time where one would recollect themself of their doing.
That is exaclty the Chinese Culture of "Siew Sheng Young Shing" cultivate Geat Health & One Character!!
Japan's Tea Ceremony Offers Peace of Mind
By Yoon Won-sup Staff Reporter
Carolyn La Brash, wife of the Canadian ambassador to South Korea, said drinking Japanese tea is like ``meditating,'' after attending a two-hour presentation on the Japanese way of tea or ``chado,’’ held at the Japanese ambassador's residence in Seoul, Friday.
``I was surprised to find out there were many steps involved in drinking Japanese tea, which made people calm and relaxed, just like meditating,'' La Brash said.
Actually, a peace of mind was shared by all people present, who listened attentively to Kanako Muramatsu, the chado instructor, and drank Japanese green tea following the instructions.
According to Muramatsu, a host first prepares the charcoal firing to heat water in the tearoom, while guests wait for the tea after having a meal.
When the host finishes making the tea, guests take the tea bowl with the right hand and place it on the palm of the left. And most importantly, they should spin the bowl twice clockwise and then bow to express their appreciation to nature and the host before drinking the tea.
With the right hand on the side of the bowl on the left hand's palm, the guests drink the tea through three sips. The taste of the green tea is a little bitter, but two sweets _ ``omogasi'' made from red and white beans and ``higasi'' from sugar _ are served with the tea and provide a perfect combination of tastes.
``It was so great to drink Japanese tea,'' said Gamze Kuneralp, wife of the Turkish ambassador to Seoul. ``I was impressed at the taste and the way the tea is served.''
The presentation was part of a monthly meeting by the Seoul Garden Club comprising the wives of foreign ambassadors residing in Seoul and Korean women.
``Chado is not just drinking tea, but it also has the meaning of ones' devotion to the spiritual values such as harmony, respect, purity and tranquility,'' said Kazuko Takano, wife of the Japanese ambassador, who organized the tea presentation for the club.
For example, it takes two days to make the omogasi confectionery, because of its complicated recipe, which naturally invokes one of the four values to both the host and guest, she added.
Mary Louise Heseltine, wife of the Australian ambassador, also echoed the view saying it was spiritual experience to learn how to drink the tea.
Members of the club, which was established in 1958, meet every second Friday of the month so they can exchange cultural presentations or conduct charity activities for the needy.
About 30 members of the club participated in the tea presentation. Nina Braastad, wife of the Norwegian ambassador, currently assumes the one-year presidency of the club.
yoonwonsup@koreatimes.co.kr
02-22-2005 19:45
Members of the Seoul Garden Club participate in the Japanese tea ceremony held at the residence of Japanese Ambassador to South Korea Takano Toshiyuki in Seoul, Friday. / Korea Times
Candlelight Vigil Organizer Convicted of Illegal Rallies
Ministry Seeks to Double Cigarette Prices by 2013
Actress Lee Eun-ju Commits Suicide
Subway Stops for 100 Minutes Due to Electrical
The Korea Times : Japan's Tea Ceremony Offers Peace of Mind
Monday, February 21, 2005
Slimming -- Bitter Melon Soup 苦瓜减肥
Bitter Melon consist of Vitamin B, C, Calcium, Iron..etc.
With reference to the "I-Medicine Sutra" it is used to heal "Heat", Clean The Heart & Eyes, Good for the Stamina or the "Chi".
In many reports & case study, I have founded that Bitter Melon do help to stabilized the blood Sugar or Heal Diabetics & Cancer.
As it is of "Cold" character, I don't recommend to drink it as fresh juice.
It is better to boil it as the soup for one to drink.
You can boil it with Fish or Pork Ribs or Beef
For boiling as soup. It should be on slow fire & boil for 1.5-2 hours
Remember, even for Herbs, as a medicine, it is always consider to have 30% poison, if you regulary taking it.
苦瓜黄金成分能减肥
苦瓜，因苦得名，也叫凉瓜。苦瓜也是夏季用来清暑去热的蔬菜。苦瓜含有丰富的维生素B、C、钙、铁等，李时珍说苦瓜具有"除邪热、解劳乏、清心明目、益气壮阳"之功效。据研究发现，它具有明显的隐血糖作用，对糖尿病有一定疗效。它还有一定的抗病毒能力和防癌的功效。
前言：最近经常听说每天生吃苦瓜可以减肥，据说这种方法非常有效，风靡美国、日本，而且不用节食、不用运动，想睡多久睡多久，想吃什么吃什么。真的有这么神奇吗？正巧本编辑最近也在计划减肥，所以打算亲身一试。
实验理由之资料支持：
一、在汉中，有一部分人怎么吃也吃不胖，身材苗条纤美，皮肤光洁细嫩。中央电视台《生活与健康》栏目组曾报道过这事，揭开了其中奥秘：原来他们每天会生吃2到3根苦瓜，所以才那么苗条。当时采访时，导播卢笛小姐也试着咬了一口，苦得一脸痛苦。有一位姓孙的大娘，在摄像机镜头前一口气吃了5根苦瓜，她说原来体重87公斤，高血压、糖尿病、高血脂、动脉硬化折磨得她十分痛苦，生吃了一年苦瓜，体重减到48公斤，那些病全好了。
二、1998年，美国凯里博士从苦瓜中提取了极具生物活性的成分——高能清脂素。实验证实，每天服用一毫克该成分，可阻止100克左右的脂肪吸收，并使腰围瘦小两毫米。
三、朋友说在日本曾经见到卖这种含有“苦瓜清脂素”的减肥药，卖到近3万日元，俺大概算了一下，合人民币一千多大元，于是放弃了托朋友从国外买药的想法，决定直接生吃苦瓜，不仅价格便宜，而且总好过吃药——毕竟“是药三分毒”嘛。
传说有效的食用数量：
每天2—3根，洗净去籽，必须生吃，坚持20天以上，不用节食，想睡就睡，想吃就吃。
With reference to the "I-Medicine Sutra" it is used to heal "Heat", Clean The Heart & Eyes, Good for the Stamina or the "Chi".
In many reports & case study, I have founded that Bitter Melon do help to stabilized the blood Sugar or Heal Diabetics & Cancer.
As it is of "Cold" character, I don't recommend to drink it as fresh juice.
It is better to boil it as the soup for one to drink.
You can boil it with Fish or Pork Ribs or Beef
For boiling as soup. It should be on slow fire & boil for 1.5-2 hours
Remember, even for Herbs, as a medicine, it is always consider to have 30% poison, if you regulary taking it.
苦瓜黄金成分能减肥
苦瓜，因苦得名，也叫凉瓜。苦瓜也是夏季用来清暑去热的蔬菜。苦瓜含有丰富的维生素B、C、钙、铁等，李时珍说苦瓜具有"除邪热、解劳乏、清心明目、益气壮阳"之功效。据研究发现，它具有明显的隐血糖作用，对糖尿病有一定疗效。它还有一定的抗病毒能力和防癌的功效。
前言：最近经常听说每天生吃苦瓜可以减肥，据说这种方法非常有效，风靡美国、日本，而且不用节食、不用运动，想睡多久睡多久，想吃什么吃什么。真的有这么神奇吗？正巧本编辑最近也在计划减肥，所以打算亲身一试。
实验理由之资料支持：
一、在汉中，有一部分人怎么吃也吃不胖，身材苗条纤美，皮肤光洁细嫩。中央电视台《生活与健康》栏目组曾报道过这事，揭开了其中奥秘：原来他们每天会生吃2到3根苦瓜，所以才那么苗条。当时采访时，导播卢笛小姐也试着咬了一口，苦得一脸痛苦。有一位姓孙的大娘，在摄像机镜头前一口气吃了5根苦瓜，她说原来体重87公斤，高血压、糖尿病、高血脂、动脉硬化折磨得她十分痛苦，生吃了一年苦瓜，体重减到48公斤，那些病全好了。
二、1998年，美国凯里博士从苦瓜中提取了极具生物活性的成分——高能清脂素。实验证实，每天服用一毫克该成分，可阻止100克左右的脂肪吸收，并使腰围瘦小两毫米。
三、朋友说在日本曾经见到卖这种含有“苦瓜清脂素”的减肥药，卖到近3万日元，俺大概算了一下，合人民币一千多大元，于是放弃了托朋友从国外买药的想法，决定直接生吃苦瓜，不仅价格便宜，而且总好过吃药——毕竟“是药三分毒”嘛。
传说有效的食用数量：
每天2—3根，洗净去籽，必须生吃，坚持20天以上，不用节食，想睡就睡，想吃就吃。
Saturday, February 19, 2005
What you Drink Could Damage Your Teeth -- Sugar & Soft Drinks
According to the "I-Medicine Sutra"
Sweet Taste is good for Stomach & Intestine.
Sour Taste is good for The Liver
However, too much of Sweet or Sour is not good for the body.
My Mom have been stopping the family from drinking soft drinks & sweet..sour tast drinks, as she was told by her adopted father , who is a Herbals specialist on the effect of the 5 taste in our body.
For the teeth damage beside the taste of sweet & sour, lack of Calcium & too much sour food or drink would cause the Liver to be ill. Liver is also the organ to control the neuro system in our body.
Hence for your Great Health, beware of what you drink.
What you Drink Could Damage Your Teeth
HEALTH NEWS — If you enjoy non-cola soft drinks and those energy-sports drinks, a new study claims you may be damaging your teeth.
Researchers at a Baltimore dental school studied the affects of several types of popular drinks on tooth enamel, including regular cola drinks, bottled iced tea and black tea. The study revealed the enamel damage caused by non-cola and sports beverages was three to eleven time greater than cola-based drinks.
But a spokesman for the American Beverage council has been quick to dispute the study, pointing out that dental erosion has multiple causes including, diet and genetics.
abc7.com: What you Drink Could Damage Your Teeth
Sweet Taste is good for Stomach & Intestine.
Sour Taste is good for The Liver
However, too much of Sweet or Sour is not good for the body.
My Mom have been stopping the family from drinking soft drinks & sweet..sour tast drinks, as she was told by her adopted father , who is a Herbals specialist on the effect of the 5 taste in our body.
For the teeth damage beside the taste of sweet & sour, lack of Calcium & too much sour food or drink would cause the Liver to be ill. Liver is also the organ to control the neuro system in our body.
Hence for your Great Health, beware of what you drink.
What you Drink Could Damage Your Teeth
HEALTH NEWS — If you enjoy non-cola soft drinks and those energy-sports drinks, a new study claims you may be damaging your teeth.
Researchers at a Baltimore dental school studied the affects of several types of popular drinks on tooth enamel, including regular cola drinks, bottled iced tea and black tea. The study revealed the enamel damage caused by non-cola and sports beverages was three to eleven time greater than cola-based drinks.
But a spokesman for the American Beverage council has been quick to dispute the study, pointing out that dental erosion has multiple causes including, diet and genetics.
abc7.com: What you Drink Could Damage Your Teeth
Friday, February 18, 2005
Green Tea Extract proven in study to increase thermogenesis and weight loss!
In over 6,000 years of Chinese Tea drinking history, Tea have been known for it applications to clean the Fats of the food that one consumed.
The following report further confirm the applications of Green Tea for the weight Loss.
My research into the use of Herbs like Green Tea is that, one cannot be over drinking of Green Tea for the weight Loss, otherwise it would generate other effect, as well as other organ like kidney problem...etc.
Therefore, Middle Path is always the key. Not too Much & not too Little!!
Green Tea Extract proven in study to increase thermogenesis and weight loss!
Already lauded as a powerful antioxidant, green tea extract may also help dieters shed fat, say researchers reporting in the December issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
The extract may also be a safe improvement on traditional diet drugs because its benefits are "not accompanied by an increase in heart rate," write Dr. Abdul Dulloo, of the University of Geneva in Switzerland, and colleagues.
As part of their study, the investigators measured the 24-hour energy expenditure of 10 healthy men receiving three doses of caffeine (50 mg), green tea extract (containing 50 mg caffeine and 90 mg epigallocatechin), or a 'dummy' placebo per day.
The study authors report that, compared with placebo, treatment with green tea was associated with a "significant increase" (+4%) in daily energy expenditure. This effect was not linked to the relatively small amounts of caffeine found in tea, since subjects receiving amounts of caffeine similar to those found in green tea displayed no change in daily energy output.
Dulloo's team points out that "there are only two ways to treat obesity: reduce energy intake (i.e., dieting), or increase energy expenditure." According to their analysis, green tea extract seems to perform the latter function, although the mechanisms behind its action remain unclear.
The investigators note, however, that green tea extract contains a high amount of catechin polyphenols. These compounds may work with other chemicals to increase levels of fat oxidation and thermogenesis, where the body burns fuel such as fat to create heat.
"Stimulation of thermogenesis and fat oxidation by the green tea extract" did not raise subjects' heart rates, the researchers note. This may render green tea superior to stimulant diet drugs, which can have adverse cardiac effects, especially in "obese individuals with hypertension and other cardiovascular complications."
Sources American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 1999;70:1040-1045.
All Natural Green Tea Plus Herbal Health Extract 80% polyphenols, Weight Loss Page
The following report further confirm the applications of Green Tea for the weight Loss.
My research into the use of Herbs like Green Tea is that, one cannot be over drinking of Green Tea for the weight Loss, otherwise it would generate other effect, as well as other organ like kidney problem...etc.
Therefore, Middle Path is always the key. Not too Much & not too Little!!
Green Tea Extract proven in study to increase thermogenesis and weight loss!
Already lauded as a powerful antioxidant, green tea extract may also help dieters shed fat, say researchers reporting in the December issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
The extract may also be a safe improvement on traditional diet drugs because its benefits are "not accompanied by an increase in heart rate," write Dr. Abdul Dulloo, of the University of Geneva in Switzerland, and colleagues.
As part of their study, the investigators measured the 24-hour energy expenditure of 10 healthy men receiving three doses of caffeine (50 mg), green tea extract (containing 50 mg caffeine and 90 mg epigallocatechin), or a 'dummy' placebo per day.
The study authors report that, compared with placebo, treatment with green tea was associated with a "significant increase" (+4%) in daily energy expenditure. This effect was not linked to the relatively small amounts of caffeine found in tea, since subjects receiving amounts of caffeine similar to those found in green tea displayed no change in daily energy output.
Dulloo's team points out that "there are only two ways to treat obesity: reduce energy intake (i.e., dieting), or increase energy expenditure." According to their analysis, green tea extract seems to perform the latter function, although the mechanisms behind its action remain unclear.
The investigators note, however, that green tea extract contains a high amount of catechin polyphenols. These compounds may work with other chemicals to increase levels of fat oxidation and thermogenesis, where the body burns fuel such as fat to create heat.
"Stimulation of thermogenesis and fat oxidation by the green tea extract" did not raise subjects' heart rates, the researchers note. This may render green tea superior to stimulant diet drugs, which can have adverse cardiac effects, especially in "obese individuals with hypertension and other cardiovascular complications."
Sources American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 1999;70:1040-1045.
All Natural Green Tea Plus Herbal Health Extract 80% polyphenols, Weight Loss Page
Thursday, February 17, 2005
Green tea helps fight bladder cancer
Although this research did not mentioned about the type of Green Tea or Teas for fighting of Cancer Cell.
But my word of caution is, don't espect the green Tea to do instant healing, The only thing Herbs can do is better for Prevention then instant medicine.
In my research, I found that it is impossible to just using one type of herbs or Green Tea to heal the cancer.
Therefore, you are advised that to constantly monitor your health & drink enough water & tea of the day.
So as to maintain a great health.
New lab research shows green tea helps fight cancer while also preserving healthy cells.
The UCLA test tube study on bladder cancer cells found extract from green tea targeted the cancer cells while leaving the healthy cells intact.
Previous studies have shown green tea extract works by inducing death to cancer cells as well cutting off needed blood supply to make the cancer continue to develop and spread.
Researchers say much more study is needed before they can recommend how much if any green tea should be used to treat bladder cancer patients.
UCLA researchers are seeking former smokers who have had bladder cancer for a clinical trial studying whether green tea extract prevents recurrence. Volunteers interested in participating in the study should call (310) 825-4415.
Green tea helps fight bladder cancer
But my word of caution is, don't espect the green Tea to do instant healing, The only thing Herbs can do is better for Prevention then instant medicine.
In my research, I found that it is impossible to just using one type of herbs or Green Tea to heal the cancer.
Therefore, you are advised that to constantly monitor your health & drink enough water & tea of the day.
So as to maintain a great health.
New lab research shows green tea helps fight cancer while also preserving healthy cells.
The UCLA test tube study on bladder cancer cells found extract from green tea targeted the cancer cells while leaving the healthy cells intact.
Previous studies have shown green tea extract works by inducing death to cancer cells as well cutting off needed blood supply to make the cancer continue to develop and spread.
Researchers say much more study is needed before they can recommend how much if any green tea should be used to treat bladder cancer patients.
UCLA researchers are seeking former smokers who have had bladder cancer for a clinical trial studying whether green tea extract prevents recurrence. Volunteers interested in participating in the study should call (310) 825-4415.
Green tea helps fight bladder cancer
Wednesday, February 16, 2005
Regular coffee drinking can reduce risk of liver cancer: study
This is a interesting Report.
According to my research into Coffee, Coffeine is no good to One Heart, If too much intake of coffee, it would wealen the "Chi" of the heart. The arm is not stable when it raise. then that is the energy of the heart is not stable enough..
Therefore, I don't really recommend to drink coffee to reduce the risk of Liver cancer.
Reducing the risk of Liver cancer in my opiniion is eat les oilly ..fat food. Restrain on drinking Alcohol.
Regular coffee drinking can reduce risk of liver cancer: study
A minibus taxi owner drinks an early morning cup of coffee at a taxi rank in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, January 2004. Drinking coffee regularly can reduce the risk of liver cancer by more than one half, according to a study carried out in Japan on more than 90,000 people.
Drinking coffee regularly can reduce the risk of liver cancer by more than one half, according to a study carried out in Japan on more than 90,000 people and published in the United States by the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
Taking into account anti-cancer properties of caffeine on lab animals, a team of Japanese researchers analyzed a public health report spanning a decade which allowed them to track a large number of patients, many with liver cancer, and their coffee consumption habits.
They found that those who rarely or never drank coffee were hit with the cancer in 547.2 cases per 100,000 people, while those drinking 3-4 cups a day were hit with just 214.6 cases per 100,000.
The report tracked 90,452 Japanese -- 43,109 men and 47,343 women -- aged over 40.
In addition to coffee drinking researchers took into account other factors such as hepatitis virus infection, sex, age, diet, lifestyle factors and previous kidney disease.
US News
According to my research into Coffee, Coffeine is no good to One Heart, If too much intake of coffee, it would wealen the "Chi" of the heart. The arm is not stable when it raise. then that is the energy of the heart is not stable enough..
Therefore, I don't really recommend to drink coffee to reduce the risk of Liver cancer.
Reducing the risk of Liver cancer in my opiniion is eat les oilly ..fat food. Restrain on drinking Alcohol.
Regular coffee drinking can reduce risk of liver cancer: study
A minibus taxi owner drinks an early morning cup of coffee at a taxi rank in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, January 2004. Drinking coffee regularly can reduce the risk of liver cancer by more than one half, according to a study carried out in Japan on more than 90,000 people.
Drinking coffee regularly can reduce the risk of liver cancer by more than one half, according to a study carried out in Japan on more than 90,000 people and published in the United States by the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
Taking into account anti-cancer properties of caffeine on lab animals, a team of Japanese researchers analyzed a public health report spanning a decade which allowed them to track a large number of patients, many with liver cancer, and their coffee consumption habits.
They found that those who rarely or never drank coffee were hit with the cancer in 547.2 cases per 100,000 people, while those drinking 3-4 cups a day were hit with just 214.6 cases per 100,000.
The report tracked 90,452 Japanese -- 43,109 men and 47,343 women -- aged over 40.
In addition to coffee drinking researchers took into account other factors such as hepatitis virus infection, sex, age, diet, lifestyle factors and previous kidney disease.
US News
Tuesday, February 15, 2005
Extensive new study details states' drug, alcohol use
Sometime in Autumn last year, I read about a report that, Russian women are more easy to get drunk.
The reason for that is due to their Gene or DNA say 65% are of Mongolian's origin.
In my research into the Drinking Habbits, it is identical to the finding below that, those in the colder climate, people tend to drink more alcohol.
One must remember, the own drinks that good for health is Red Wine.
However, too much Alcohol would cause health issue as well.
Therefore, for your great health, please cannot be ignorance about the drinking habbits.
Extensive new study details states' drug, alcohol use
By Donna Leinwand, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — Alaska has the nation's highest rate of illegal drug use; binge drinking is particularly prevalent in the upper Midwest; and Utah's reputation as a clean-living state is well-deserved, according to a landmark federal study.
The study,released Monday by the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, combines data from 136,000 interviews conducted in 2002 and 2003. The large number of interviews and the depth of the surveys provide extraordinary detail about the roles that drugs, alcohol and tobacco play in Americans' daily lives. (Related story: 1 in 5 have binged recently)
Health officials will use the information to help shape anti-drug campaigns and rehabilitation programs. Among the study's findings:
• The states with the highest percentage of people who said they had used illicit drugs during the previous month, in addition to Alaska, were Colorado, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont and the District of Columbia.
• Binge drinking was a problem across the nation, but particularly in North Dakota, Colorado, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
Northern cold-weather states typically had the highest percentages of binge drinkers — those who said they had had five or more drinks in one sitting during the previous month. Nationally, almost 23% of Americans had binged on alcohol within the past 30 days. Six Northeastern states had the highest rates of alcohol use, led by New Hampshire at 59.8%. North Dakota had the highest rates of binge drinking and alcohol abuse and dependence.
• Utah had the nation's lowest rates for drug use, alcohol use and binge drinking. More than 70% of the state's 2.3 million residents belong to the Mormon Church, which opposes drugs or alcohol.
• Most of the states where residents use alcohol the least were in the South. But Southerners were among the biggest users of another vice: tobacco.
The study is one of the broadest yet on the USA's drug problems and will become the baseline to which other studies will compare data.
Charles Curie, the substance abuse agency's administrator, said the numbers reflect that fewer youths are using illegal drugs, but alcohol is as popular as ever. "We're seeing illicit drug use among youth go down, but we're seeing binge drinking remain stubbornly at the same levels," he said. "That whole range, in every state, is just way too high."
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The reason for that is due to their Gene or DNA say 65% are of Mongolian's origin.
In my research into the Drinking Habbits, it is identical to the finding below that, those in the colder climate, people tend to drink more alcohol.
One must remember, the own drinks that good for health is Red Wine.
However, too much Alcohol would cause health issue as well.
Therefore, for your great health, please cannot be ignorance about the drinking habbits.
Extensive new study details states' drug, alcohol use
By Donna Leinwand, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — Alaska has the nation's highest rate of illegal drug use; binge drinking is particularly prevalent in the upper Midwest; and Utah's reputation as a clean-living state is well-deserved, according to a landmark federal study.
The study,released Monday by the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, combines data from 136,000 interviews conducted in 2002 and 2003. The large number of interviews and the depth of the surveys provide extraordinary detail about the roles that drugs, alcohol and tobacco play in Americans' daily lives. (Related story: 1 in 5 have binged recently)
Health officials will use the information to help shape anti-drug campaigns and rehabilitation programs. Among the study's findings:
• The states with the highest percentage of people who said they had used illicit drugs during the previous month, in addition to Alaska, were Colorado, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont and the District of Columbia.
• Binge drinking was a problem across the nation, but particularly in North Dakota, Colorado, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
Northern cold-weather states typically had the highest percentages of binge drinkers — those who said they had had five or more drinks in one sitting during the previous month. Nationally, almost 23% of Americans had binged on alcohol within the past 30 days. Six Northeastern states had the highest rates of alcohol use, led by New Hampshire at 59.8%. North Dakota had the highest rates of binge drinking and alcohol abuse and dependence.
• Utah had the nation's lowest rates for drug use, alcohol use and binge drinking. More than 70% of the state's 2.3 million residents belong to the Mormon Church, which opposes drugs or alcohol.
• Most of the states where residents use alcohol the least were in the South. But Southerners were among the biggest users of another vice: tobacco.
The study is one of the broadest yet on the USA's drug problems and will become the baseline to which other studies will compare data.
Charles Curie, the substance abuse agency's administrator, said the numbers reflect that fewer youths are using illegal drugs, but alcohol is as popular as ever. "We're seeing illicit drug use among youth go down, but we're seeing binge drinking remain stubbornly at the same levels," he said. "That whole range, in every state, is just way too high."
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Monday, February 14, 2005
Consumers may miss needed calcium - The Supplements may help.
As reported, the soy, Rice drinks can be as much as 85% lower Calcium than Cow Milk.
I have found that lack of calcium would cause insomnia & weak bone.
The alternative is like the old time, boil bone soup evryday to supplement it.
With the mordern science, another alternative is to take the Calcium supplement.
Consumers may miss needed calcium
By Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY
For the 30 million to 50 million Americans who do not drink cow's milk for medical or cultural reasons, calcium-fortified beverages have been a convenient source of the crucial bone-building material.
But a study published Monday in Nutrition Today finds that the calcium actually available in some popular soy and rice drinks can be as much as 85% lower than the amount on the product label.
It's not that the drinks do not contain the calcium listed on the label, an omission that would violate the Food and Drug Administration's labeling requirements.
Instead, the researchers found that calcium can settle out of soy and rice beverages, forming a calcium sludge at the bottom of the carton that does not always make it into the consumer's mouth.
So the moral of this story is that shaking before pouring is crucial. Connie Weaver, a professor of nutrition at Purdue University who studies calcium metabolism, says, "We had to shake the carton right before serving it, because if it's on the bottom of the carton, you're not getting it in your glass."
She notes that the calcium settling is less of a problem in beverages kept in the dairy case of the supermarket than it is in cartons stored on non-refrigerated shelves.
Calcium in cow's milk, meant to help calves build strong bones, occurs naturally. It must be added to soy and rice beverages, as well as to orange juice, generally in the form of finely ground calcium powders. Soluble calcium can't be used because it turns the protein in soy milk into curds, producing tofu.
Scientists at the Osteoporosis Research Center at Creighton University in Omaha spun various fortified beverages in a centrifuge, then measured how much calcium ended up as separate particles at the bottom of the test tubes.
In cow's milk, 11% of the calcium separated out. But in soy and rice milks, an average of 85% did. The numbers in orange juice were more variable, from 8% to 50%.
"You're pouring yourself a glass of soy beverage thinking you're going to get calcium, and it may still be in the carton," says Robert Heaney, the endocrinologist who wrote the research paper.
Reproducing what a cow does naturally isn't easy, Weaver says. "Mother Nature put it together, and it doesn't sediment out."
Recent tests done in her lab showed that the type of calcium used to fortify a beverage affects how well it is absorbed in the body, with calcium carbonate being better absorbed than the more commonly used tricalcium phosphate.
The Department of Agriculture recommends consumption of 1,000 to 1,200 milligrams of calcium a day, depending on age and gender. Fortified beverages almost all include 300 milligrams of calcium a serving.
For those attempting to increase their calcium intake, these findings could be a problem, says Nelson Watts, director of the University of Cincinnati Bone Health and Osteoporosis Center.
"I tell patients who enjoy soy milk to check and see that their soy milk is fortified with calcium," he says. "But I'm at the mercy of the label, and if that's wrong, then the patients aren't getting the calcium they need, and I can't do anything about it."
Heaney stresses the findings do not make these soy and rice beverages bad. "Even if you absorb only a quarter of the calcium you think you're getting, you're still getting more than you would if they weren't calcium-fortified."
There are ways to make soy milk from isolated soy protein that allow the calcium to be fully available, says David Welsby of the Solae company in St. Louis, which has patented one such method. The researchers studied only soy milk made from whole soybeans.
The research was paid for primarily by Creighton University, with small grants from Tropicana, General Mills and the National Dairy Council.
USATODAY.com - Consumers may miss needed calcium
I have found that lack of calcium would cause insomnia & weak bone.
The alternative is like the old time, boil bone soup evryday to supplement it.
With the mordern science, another alternative is to take the Calcium supplement.
Consumers may miss needed calcium
By Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY
For the 30 million to 50 million Americans who do not drink cow's milk for medical or cultural reasons, calcium-fortified beverages have been a convenient source of the crucial bone-building material.
But a study published Monday in Nutrition Today finds that the calcium actually available in some popular soy and rice drinks can be as much as 85% lower than the amount on the product label.
It's not that the drinks do not contain the calcium listed on the label, an omission that would violate the Food and Drug Administration's labeling requirements.
Instead, the researchers found that calcium can settle out of soy and rice beverages, forming a calcium sludge at the bottom of the carton that does not always make it into the consumer's mouth.
So the moral of this story is that shaking before pouring is crucial. Connie Weaver, a professor of nutrition at Purdue University who studies calcium metabolism, says, "We had to shake the carton right before serving it, because if it's on the bottom of the carton, you're not getting it in your glass."
She notes that the calcium settling is less of a problem in beverages kept in the dairy case of the supermarket than it is in cartons stored on non-refrigerated shelves.
Calcium in cow's milk, meant to help calves build strong bones, occurs naturally. It must be added to soy and rice beverages, as well as to orange juice, generally in the form of finely ground calcium powders. Soluble calcium can't be used because it turns the protein in soy milk into curds, producing tofu.
Scientists at the Osteoporosis Research Center at Creighton University in Omaha spun various fortified beverages in a centrifuge, then measured how much calcium ended up as separate particles at the bottom of the test tubes.
In cow's milk, 11% of the calcium separated out. But in soy and rice milks, an average of 85% did. The numbers in orange juice were more variable, from 8% to 50%.
"You're pouring yourself a glass of soy beverage thinking you're going to get calcium, and it may still be in the carton," says Robert Heaney, the endocrinologist who wrote the research paper.
Reproducing what a cow does naturally isn't easy, Weaver says. "Mother Nature put it together, and it doesn't sediment out."
Recent tests done in her lab showed that the type of calcium used to fortify a beverage affects how well it is absorbed in the body, with calcium carbonate being better absorbed than the more commonly used tricalcium phosphate.
The Department of Agriculture recommends consumption of 1,000 to 1,200 milligrams of calcium a day, depending on age and gender. Fortified beverages almost all include 300 milligrams of calcium a serving.
For those attempting to increase their calcium intake, these findings could be a problem, says Nelson Watts, director of the University of Cincinnati Bone Health and Osteoporosis Center.
"I tell patients who enjoy soy milk to check and see that their soy milk is fortified with calcium," he says. "But I'm at the mercy of the label, and if that's wrong, then the patients aren't getting the calcium they need, and I can't do anything about it."
Heaney stresses the findings do not make these soy and rice beverages bad. "Even if you absorb only a quarter of the calcium you think you're getting, you're still getting more than you would if they weren't calcium-fortified."
There are ways to make soy milk from isolated soy protein that allow the calcium to be fully available, says David Welsby of the Solae company in St. Louis, which has patented one such method. The researchers studied only soy milk made from whole soybeans.
The research was paid for primarily by Creighton University, with small grants from Tropicana, General Mills and the National Dairy Council.
USATODAY.com - Consumers may miss needed calcium
Sunday, February 13, 2005
From Opium Plantation Transformed Into Tea Plantation
When I read those history about Opium war & the Chinese Official's & rich businessman indulge in smoking Opium, I can see that why China have degenerated from a rich in technology, Business & Commerce power of the world to a sick dragon.
After the world war., then in the 60's & 70's there are people in South East Asia taking Opium & trafficking of Opium & Heroin from Thailand, Burma, Yunan the golden Triangle. to all over the world....
With the surrender of Kiangsak the King of Opium to the Thai government. the Opium trades is under control. By converting the opium farm into Tea Plantations, certainly give these farmer's new chapters of life. They also have some tourist income.
According to "I-Medicine Sutra" Oolong Tea is "Han Liang" Cold effect. When I was between 16-20 years old, I used to drink Oolong or Ti Kuan Yin by 1 Gallon pot.. then later I have the sleeping problem. Then I realized that both Oolong & Ti-Kuan Yin have caffeine.
If anyone after drinking Oolong or Ti-Kuan Yin then one start to have sleeping problem then, one must stop drinking it.
Thai authorities have successfully transformed a former opium plantation into a tea plantation.
In fact, the project has worked so well that the area in the northern part of the country is now being promoted for agro-tourism.
Just 30 years ago, the same area in northern Thailand's Chiang Rai Province had been used to grow opium.
But now, Doi Mae Salong is being touted as one of the world's best tea plantations.
Three types of tea are grown here - the Nang Ngam Tea, the soft-type Oolong Tea and Oolong Tea number 12.
Besides the success of growing tea, the Doi Mae Salong village is set to make its mark as an agro-tourism destination.
It was specifically chosen by Thailand's Ministry of Tourism and Sports because of its untouched beauty.
Visitors can also enjoy local activities which includes trying their hand at picking tea leaves.
Another attraction there is the market-place which has a street for the Chinese community.
That is because the people of Mae Salong share a common lifestyle with the Yunnanese community in Southern China.
The area is where visitors get to sip some of the world's finest tea, and try tea-related delicacies such as eggs boiled in herbal tea and steamed dumpling, stuffed with green tea. - CNA
Channelnewsasia.com
After the world war., then in the 60's & 70's there are people in South East Asia taking Opium & trafficking of Opium & Heroin from Thailand, Burma, Yunan the golden Triangle. to all over the world....
With the surrender of Kiangsak the King of Opium to the Thai government. the Opium trades is under control. By converting the opium farm into Tea Plantations, certainly give these farmer's new chapters of life. They also have some tourist income.
According to "I-Medicine Sutra" Oolong Tea is "Han Liang" Cold effect. When I was between 16-20 years old, I used to drink Oolong or Ti Kuan Yin by 1 Gallon pot.. then later I have the sleeping problem. Then I realized that both Oolong & Ti-Kuan Yin have caffeine.
If anyone after drinking Oolong or Ti-Kuan Yin then one start to have sleeping problem then, one must stop drinking it.
Thai authorities have successfully transformed a former opium plantation into a tea plantation.
In fact, the project has worked so well that the area in the northern part of the country is now being promoted for agro-tourism.
Just 30 years ago, the same area in northern Thailand's Chiang Rai Province had been used to grow opium.
But now, Doi Mae Salong is being touted as one of the world's best tea plantations.
Three types of tea are grown here - the Nang Ngam Tea, the soft-type Oolong Tea and Oolong Tea number 12.
Besides the success of growing tea, the Doi Mae Salong village is set to make its mark as an agro-tourism destination.
It was specifically chosen by Thailand's Ministry of Tourism and Sports because of its untouched beauty.
Visitors can also enjoy local activities which includes trying their hand at picking tea leaves.
Another attraction there is the market-place which has a street for the Chinese community.
That is because the people of Mae Salong share a common lifestyle with the Yunnanese community in Southern China.
The area is where visitors get to sip some of the world's finest tea, and try tea-related delicacies such as eggs boiled in herbal tea and steamed dumpling, stuffed with green tea. - CNA
Channelnewsasia.com
Wednesday, February 09, 2005
Take stock in cheater's soup secret - My Tips
The best thing to have the original Chicken Stock is:
Clean the bones, wait for water to boil,
Put in the bone plus the chicken breast,
Boil it for say 30 - 45 Minutes.minutes on midium fire,
Filter off the Bloods & Fats.
Then you should have the clear & original Chicken stock.
These would ensure that you have a lower fat contents of Chicken Stock for your Great Health.
Take stock in cheater's soup secret
Chicken and vegetables turn ordinary broth into a rich base in 30 minutes
Tuesday, February 08, 2005 RENEE SCHETTLER
Most of the year, my freezer is crammed full of plastic bags of chicken stock, stacked one atop another. But come January, I deplete the supply far faster than I can replenish it. Some weeks, there simply aren't enough hours in the day to make stock from scratch.
That's when I rely on a simple, frugal equation of easy-to-memorize proportions of canned chicken broth, raw chicken parts, water and aromatics. The ingredients simmer ever so gently for about half an hour, sufficient time for the chicken to poach to a plump perfection and, in a happy coincidence, for the broth to be imbued with a true, not tinned, chicken-y flavor balanced by the natural sweetness of the vegetables. The chicken can then be shredded and used in the soup or saved for any of several other uses.
I was introduced to the technique in a recipe by Fran McCullough, "Good Fat" author and "Best American Recipes" series editor, who drew no special attention to the trick. (A missed opportunity, to my mind.) Other variations on Cheater's Chicken Stock exist. But only hers achieves a simple, pristine flavor that melds perfectly with whatever the destination recipe.
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Clean the bones, wait for water to boil,
Put in the bone plus the chicken breast,
Boil it for say 30 - 45 Minutes.minutes on midium fire,
Filter off the Bloods & Fats.
Then you should have the clear & original Chicken stock.
These would ensure that you have a lower fat contents of Chicken Stock for your Great Health.
Take stock in cheater's soup secret
Chicken and vegetables turn ordinary broth into a rich base in 30 minutes
Tuesday, February 08, 2005 RENEE SCHETTLER
Most of the year, my freezer is crammed full of plastic bags of chicken stock, stacked one atop another. But come January, I deplete the supply far faster than I can replenish it. Some weeks, there simply aren't enough hours in the day to make stock from scratch.
That's when I rely on a simple, frugal equation of easy-to-memorize proportions of canned chicken broth, raw chicken parts, water and aromatics. The ingredients simmer ever so gently for about half an hour, sufficient time for the chicken to poach to a plump perfection and, in a happy coincidence, for the broth to be imbued with a true, not tinned, chicken-y flavor balanced by the natural sweetness of the vegetables. The chicken can then be shredded and used in the soup or saved for any of several other uses.
I was introduced to the technique in a recipe by Fran McCullough, "Good Fat" author and "Best American Recipes" series editor, who drew no special attention to the trick. (A missed opportunity, to my mind.) Other variations on Cheater's Chicken Stock exist. But only hers achieves a simple, pristine flavor that melds perfectly with whatever the destination recipe.
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Tuesday, February 08, 2005
Red Wine, The Heart Cure? Yes
Yes, is the Answer.
This have been proven for the existence of wine, it also have been recorded in the "I-Medicine Sutra".
The modern science have attribute to the content of Antioxidants in the Grape skin & Grape seed.
Anyway, moderate during of a glass of Red wine with food & a litter glass of Grade Wine 1 hour before bed time would do a lots of good to one heart, speacially the heart artery.
Red wine, the heart cure?
01/02/2005 - Trawling through the mounting investigations into the impact of wine-drinking on heart health, Danish researchers confirm ongoing findings that drinkers of wine benefit from its cardio-protective effects, more so than those who drink beer or other spirits, and may also live longer.
Further, the analysis that encompassed various international studies, suggests that any alcohol, in light to moderate intake, puts drinkers at lower risk for cardiovascular disease and death than non-drinkers.
But, they underline, the social status of the wine drinker may also play a key role.
"It is also known from a number of studies that wine drinkers in many cultures are from a higher socio-economic status and have a better diet than non-wine drinkers," said Professor Morten Grønbæk, author of the article, published in Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis.
This may be an important factor adding to the beneficial results of wine intake.
Nearly one in three annual global deaths, about 16.7 million, result from various forms of cardiovascular disease and high blood pressure is believed to be a contributory factor.
A string of studies suggest that the powerful antioxidant resveratrol found in red wine, could protect against the blood clots and possibly high cholesterol levels, both associated with heart conditions.
Targeting a burgeoning market, the food industry continues to roll out food products designed to tackle heart health.
Red wine, the heart cure?
This have been proven for the existence of wine, it also have been recorded in the "I-Medicine Sutra".
The modern science have attribute to the content of Antioxidants in the Grape skin & Grape seed.
Anyway, moderate during of a glass of Red wine with food & a litter glass of Grade Wine 1 hour before bed time would do a lots of good to one heart, speacially the heart artery.
Red wine, the heart cure?
01/02/2005 - Trawling through the mounting investigations into the impact of wine-drinking on heart health, Danish researchers confirm ongoing findings that drinkers of wine benefit from its cardio-protective effects, more so than those who drink beer or other spirits, and may also live longer.
Further, the analysis that encompassed various international studies, suggests that any alcohol, in light to moderate intake, puts drinkers at lower risk for cardiovascular disease and death than non-drinkers.
But, they underline, the social status of the wine drinker may also play a key role.
"It is also known from a number of studies that wine drinkers in many cultures are from a higher socio-economic status and have a better diet than non-wine drinkers," said Professor Morten Grønbæk, author of the article, published in Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis.
This may be an important factor adding to the beneficial results of wine intake.
Nearly one in three annual global deaths, about 16.7 million, result from various forms of cardiovascular disease and high blood pressure is believed to be a contributory factor.
A string of studies suggest that the powerful antioxidant resveratrol found in red wine, could protect against the blood clots and possibly high cholesterol levels, both associated with heart conditions.
Targeting a burgeoning market, the food industry continues to roll out food products designed to tackle heart health.
Red wine, the heart cure?
Monday, February 07, 2005
Health U-turn over breastmilk - Breast Feed 1st 6month!!
This is a very interesting report. The Scottish Government is advising their people to breast feed their new born baby for the 1st 6 month as a measure to prevent Kid's obesity.
My research into these is based on my late mom experience & also having the case studies myself.
Yes, the breast feed have its distinct advantages as it is the extension for Body to acquire nutrients from the mother, after birth. However, one must ensure that Mother must be on healthy diets & drinks herself prior to conceive of baby. Then, they would do good for the baby when they breastfed.
For example, if the mother of the baby, during the conceive period like to eat Curry, then the baby would likely to be have obesity at young age.
Also, if the baby mother, like to eat sweets, Titbits, Soft Drinks... then the tendancy for her baby to be having obesity is very high.
Therefore for the Great Health of your Kid's please mindful about what you eat & what you drink.
Health U-turn over breastmilk
ALISON HARDIE HEALTH CORRESPONDENT
MILLIONS of mothers around the world have been wrongly advised to stop breastfeeding and use formula milk instead, triggering a startling rise in obesity, health experts warned yesterday. The World Health Organisation has called for a radical overhaul of targets for infant growth after discovering that existing recommended weights for two and three-year-olds were 15 to 20 per cent too high.
The Scottish Executive said last night that it would seriously consider any new guidance from the UN body.
But a spokeswoman added that while the baby weight charts were useful, they were only a "guide" and that health workers always tailored their advice to individual children’s needs and birth weight.
Research by the WHO found that, typically, growth charts are based mainly on American studies of babies that have been fed formula milk.
American children also tend to be heavier than those from European countries, skewing the charts further.
The WHO said measuring breast-fed babies against the US-linked charts meant they can be judged as growing poorly from as young as two or three months when they are perfectly healthy.
As a result, their mothers are often advised to supplement their diet with formula milk or even wean the child completely, causing them to miss out on the benefits of breast milk.
These "flawed" figures - used by health authorities in countries throughout the developed and developing worlds - suggest a healthy one-year-old weighs between 22.5lbs and 28.5lbs, when in fact the true healthy weight is 21lbs to 26lbs.
Dr Mercedes de Onis, nutrition expert and co-ordinator of the WHO study, said: "The problem is that by these charts, breast-fed babies seem to be growing poorly from as early as two to three months.
"This may make paediatricians recommend the mothers to introduce complementary foods or wean the baby, because the baby seems to not be growing well.
"But the problem is not that the baby is not growing well, it is that the standards do not reflect the growth of breast-fed infants.
"Formula-fed infants have higher intakes of energy and as a result they put on more weight.
"The breast-fed baby has a lower body temperature, lower metabolic rate, different sleep patterns and is leaner. They are two different sets of babies and as a result they grow differently."
Dr de Onis said it was important to adjust the charts because too many children were missing out on breast feeding.
She added: "Children who have been breastfed go on to suffer less obesity, they have lower rates of cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and so on. We are storing up health problems for the future."
According to NHS figures, 40 per cent of mothers breast feed their babies in Scotland - the Executive’s target is 50 per cent.
The spokeswoman said: "There are a range of baby growth charts available and while these are very useful they are only a guide. In the early months of a child’s life the health visitor will offer support and advice on feeding practices, healthy weight gain and development.
"Any guidance issued by the World Health Organisation on baby growth charts will be considered by the Executive and we will advise NHS boards accordingly."
The government currently recommends that babies should be fed breast milk alone for the first six months.
Scotsman.com News - Health - Health U-turn over breastmilk
My research into these is based on my late mom experience & also having the case studies myself.
Yes, the breast feed have its distinct advantages as it is the extension for Body to acquire nutrients from the mother, after birth. However, one must ensure that Mother must be on healthy diets & drinks herself prior to conceive of baby. Then, they would do good for the baby when they breastfed.
For example, if the mother of the baby, during the conceive period like to eat Curry, then the baby would likely to be have obesity at young age.
Also, if the baby mother, like to eat sweets, Titbits, Soft Drinks... then the tendancy for her baby to be having obesity is very high.
Therefore for the Great Health of your Kid's please mindful about what you eat & what you drink.
Health U-turn over breastmilk
ALISON HARDIE HEALTH CORRESPONDENT
MILLIONS of mothers around the world have been wrongly advised to stop breastfeeding and use formula milk instead, triggering a startling rise in obesity, health experts warned yesterday. The World Health Organisation has called for a radical overhaul of targets for infant growth after discovering that existing recommended weights for two and three-year-olds were 15 to 20 per cent too high.
The Scottish Executive said last night that it would seriously consider any new guidance from the UN body.
But a spokeswoman added that while the baby weight charts were useful, they were only a "guide" and that health workers always tailored their advice to individual children’s needs and birth weight.
Research by the WHO found that, typically, growth charts are based mainly on American studies of babies that have been fed formula milk.
American children also tend to be heavier than those from European countries, skewing the charts further.
The WHO said measuring breast-fed babies against the US-linked charts meant they can be judged as growing poorly from as young as two or three months when they are perfectly healthy.
As a result, their mothers are often advised to supplement their diet with formula milk or even wean the child completely, causing them to miss out on the benefits of breast milk.
These "flawed" figures - used by health authorities in countries throughout the developed and developing worlds - suggest a healthy one-year-old weighs between 22.5lbs and 28.5lbs, when in fact the true healthy weight is 21lbs to 26lbs.
Dr Mercedes de Onis, nutrition expert and co-ordinator of the WHO study, said: "The problem is that by these charts, breast-fed babies seem to be growing poorly from as early as two to three months.
"This may make paediatricians recommend the mothers to introduce complementary foods or wean the baby, because the baby seems to not be growing well.
"But the problem is not that the baby is not growing well, it is that the standards do not reflect the growth of breast-fed infants.
"Formula-fed infants have higher intakes of energy and as a result they put on more weight.
"The breast-fed baby has a lower body temperature, lower metabolic rate, different sleep patterns and is leaner. They are two different sets of babies and as a result they grow differently."
Dr de Onis said it was important to adjust the charts because too many children were missing out on breast feeding.
She added: "Children who have been breastfed go on to suffer less obesity, they have lower rates of cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and so on. We are storing up health problems for the future."
According to NHS figures, 40 per cent of mothers breast feed their babies in Scotland - the Executive’s target is 50 per cent.
The spokeswoman said: "There are a range of baby growth charts available and while these are very useful they are only a guide. In the early months of a child’s life the health visitor will offer support and advice on feeding practices, healthy weight gain and development.
"Any guidance issued by the World Health Organisation on baby growth charts will be considered by the Executive and we will advise NHS boards accordingly."
The government currently recommends that babies should be fed breast milk alone for the first six months.
Scotsman.com News - Health - Health U-turn over breastmilk
Saturday, February 05, 2005
Pure Raw Milk? Pure ignorance and stupidity??
Alex putting up this report is very detail.
I really cannot comprehend the Reason for promoting or drinking RAW Milk!!!!
During my childhood, we do have Milkman delivery to door step. My mom always tell us that , we need to boil the RAW Milk before drinking.
She said the best thing to kill the bacterias in Milk is to heat it & boil it. Therefore, when I live in Wales, people was surprise why I did that.
As mentioned in article below, the bacterias could kill those Children with weak immunity. Perhaps, aging people with weak immunity system could be killed too, if drinking RAW MILK.
This called for the Authority to stop the approval of selling "RAW MILK" to the public for the Great Health of their people & save life.
Pure Raw Milk? Pure ignorance and stupidity, and it could kill your kids
Milk is Milk Blog by Alex Avery
This week Virginia lawmakers responsibly enacted legislation to protect public health AND protect dairy producers by requiring that milk and other dairy products be pasteurized. Sounds simple enough. Pasteurization ensures that children, the largest consumers of dairy products, are protected against potentially deadly bacteria and viruses that can find their way into unpasteurized dairy products. But pure food nuts are up in arms over this sensible public health policy. Other states, like Colorado, are actually moving forward with the agenda of these food fanatics to allow unpasteurized milk - also called "raw milk" - to be sold.
Here in the United States we've been restricting the sale of raw milk products since the 1940s. Dr. John Sheehan, Director of the FDA's Division of Dairy and Egg Safety says drinking raw milk is "like playing Russian roulette with your health." In 1986 a judge went so far as to order the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to ban the interstate shipment of raw milk. Why? Because people, especially children or others with weak immune systems, can die from consuming dairy products tainted with bacteria commonly found in raw, unpasteurized dairy products: Campylobacter jejuni, Escherichia coli O157:H7, Salmonella (over 1600 types) and Listeria monocytogenes. People, this stuff isn't for kids or anyone else, unless you enjoy muscle pain followed by diarrhea (sometimes bloody), acute kidney failure, high fever, headache, nausea, vomiting, meningitis, spontaneous abortion (in pregnant women) or death. Those are just some of the symptoms associated with the types of food poisoning that can be caused by drinking raw milk.
An article co-authored by Senator Rudy Boschwitz points out that the U.S. Public Health Service says four of these bacteria (Campylobacter jejuni, Salmonella typhimurium, Listeria monocytogenes and E. coli O157:H7) are the most serious foodborne pathogens in America. Five kids in Vancouver, Canada, were poisoned by drinking raw milk from a cooperative farm; two suffered permanent liver damage. In the 1990s, Massachusetts even reported two incidents of potential mass raw-milk exposures to rabies! Two different cows in different herds were diagnosed with rabies, and 80 people who drank their raw milk had to take the painful series of rabies shots. In Wisconsin, some 70 people got sick from drinking illegal raw milk tainted with campylobacter bacteria.
And still, the pure food nuts are pressuring legislators to end decades-long protections so they can sell and promote raw milk. Some poorly informed lawmakers are even listening! In Colorado, dangerous legislation is currently moving forward to allow more public access to raw milk. This is being promoted by a Washington, DC-based activist group called the Weston A. Price Foundation and other extreme organic agriculture purists. This group bases its reputation on the teachings of Weston A. Price, a dentist working in Cleveland in the 1930s who claimed that raw milk is healthier.
Bunk! Extensive nutritional and medical research discredits these claims. Further, in 1989 the California Superior Court ruled against Alta Dena dairy, who was selling and promoting raw milk as healthier, and found that: (a) "overwhelming evidence proved that Alta-Dena's raw (unpasteurized) milk frequently contains dangerous bacteria that can cause serious illness"; and (b) the company must stop its false advertising. So why are activist groups like Weston A. Price and the Organic Consumers Association promoting raw milk and spreading false claims?
The Weston A. Price Foundation is lead today by Nancy Fallon, a frequent speaker at organic conferences and other holistic health and alternative agriculture events. The Price board includes a wide-range of alternative health industry representatives and reports that it receives financial support from for-profit alternative-health and products companies. These are some of the same people who are telling cancer patients to ignore physicians and treat themselves with non-commercially harvested organic seaweed and that microwave ovens and digital alarm clocks are poisoning us with their electromagnetic signals. Can you say "nut jobs"? Unfortunately, this alternative health and products industry generates hundred of millions of dollars from people scared into buying their products. They may be nut jobs, but they've got big moneyed interests behind them. Heck, they even have a "raw milk" t-shirt and coffee mug concession - that should instill confidence by consumers and misguided legislators following their advice!
Dr. William Jarvis of The National Council Against Health Fraud addresses the issue of raw milk effectively and to the point: "The evidence is clear. Milk is a wholesome food, but there is nothing to be gained from drinking it in its raw, natural form. (Raw milk) poses a serious health risk to significant segments of the population. Only pasteurized milk should be sold for general public consumption."
Milk is Milk
I really cannot comprehend the Reason for promoting or drinking RAW Milk!!!!
During my childhood, we do have Milkman delivery to door step. My mom always tell us that , we need to boil the RAW Milk before drinking.
She said the best thing to kill the bacterias in Milk is to heat it & boil it. Therefore, when I live in Wales, people was surprise why I did that.
As mentioned in article below, the bacterias could kill those Children with weak immunity. Perhaps, aging people with weak immunity system could be killed too, if drinking RAW MILK.
This called for the Authority to stop the approval of selling "RAW MILK" to the public for the Great Health of their people & save life.
Pure Raw Milk? Pure ignorance and stupidity, and it could kill your kids
Milk is Milk Blog by Alex Avery
This week Virginia lawmakers responsibly enacted legislation to protect public health AND protect dairy producers by requiring that milk and other dairy products be pasteurized. Sounds simple enough. Pasteurization ensures that children, the largest consumers of dairy products, are protected against potentially deadly bacteria and viruses that can find their way into unpasteurized dairy products. But pure food nuts are up in arms over this sensible public health policy. Other states, like Colorado, are actually moving forward with the agenda of these food fanatics to allow unpasteurized milk - also called "raw milk" - to be sold.
Here in the United States we've been restricting the sale of raw milk products since the 1940s. Dr. John Sheehan, Director of the FDA's Division of Dairy and Egg Safety says drinking raw milk is "like playing Russian roulette with your health." In 1986 a judge went so far as to order the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to ban the interstate shipment of raw milk. Why? Because people, especially children or others with weak immune systems, can die from consuming dairy products tainted with bacteria commonly found in raw, unpasteurized dairy products: Campylobacter jejuni, Escherichia coli O157:H7, Salmonella (over 1600 types) and Listeria monocytogenes. People, this stuff isn't for kids or anyone else, unless you enjoy muscle pain followed by diarrhea (sometimes bloody), acute kidney failure, high fever, headache, nausea, vomiting, meningitis, spontaneous abortion (in pregnant women) or death. Those are just some of the symptoms associated with the types of food poisoning that can be caused by drinking raw milk.
An article co-authored by Senator Rudy Boschwitz points out that the U.S. Public Health Service says four of these bacteria (Campylobacter jejuni, Salmonella typhimurium, Listeria monocytogenes and E. coli O157:H7) are the most serious foodborne pathogens in America. Five kids in Vancouver, Canada, were poisoned by drinking raw milk from a cooperative farm; two suffered permanent liver damage. In the 1990s, Massachusetts even reported two incidents of potential mass raw-milk exposures to rabies! Two different cows in different herds were diagnosed with rabies, and 80 people who drank their raw milk had to take the painful series of rabies shots. In Wisconsin, some 70 people got sick from drinking illegal raw milk tainted with campylobacter bacteria.
And still, the pure food nuts are pressuring legislators to end decades-long protections so they can sell and promote raw milk. Some poorly informed lawmakers are even listening! In Colorado, dangerous legislation is currently moving forward to allow more public access to raw milk. This is being promoted by a Washington, DC-based activist group called the Weston A. Price Foundation and other extreme organic agriculture purists. This group bases its reputation on the teachings of Weston A. Price, a dentist working in Cleveland in the 1930s who claimed that raw milk is healthier.
Bunk! Extensive nutritional and medical research discredits these claims. Further, in 1989 the California Superior Court ruled against Alta Dena dairy, who was selling and promoting raw milk as healthier, and found that: (a) "overwhelming evidence proved that Alta-Dena's raw (unpasteurized) milk frequently contains dangerous bacteria that can cause serious illness"; and (b) the company must stop its false advertising. So why are activist groups like Weston A. Price and the Organic Consumers Association promoting raw milk and spreading false claims?
The Weston A. Price Foundation is lead today by Nancy Fallon, a frequent speaker at organic conferences and other holistic health and alternative agriculture events. The Price board includes a wide-range of alternative health industry representatives and reports that it receives financial support from for-profit alternative-health and products companies. These are some of the same people who are telling cancer patients to ignore physicians and treat themselves with non-commercially harvested organic seaweed and that microwave ovens and digital alarm clocks are poisoning us with their electromagnetic signals. Can you say "nut jobs"? Unfortunately, this alternative health and products industry generates hundred of millions of dollars from people scared into buying their products. They may be nut jobs, but they've got big moneyed interests behind them. Heck, they even have a "raw milk" t-shirt and coffee mug concession - that should instill confidence by consumers and misguided legislators following their advice!
Dr. William Jarvis of The National Council Against Health Fraud addresses the issue of raw milk effectively and to the point: "The evidence is clear. Milk is a wholesome food, but there is nothing to be gained from drinking it in its raw, natural form. (Raw milk) poses a serious health risk to significant segments of the population. Only pasteurized milk should be sold for general public consumption."
Milk is Milk
Friday, February 04, 2005
Tea is for tranquillity
This article I found which, I would like to point out that these tea's may be mentioned have it value for certain remedy.
But in the "I-Medicine Sutra", certainly Tea have different effect to one body.
Like for example. The Korean Roasted Gingsen Tea, the Characteristic after roasted is "Yang", So if a person is too much "Yin" then taking tea that is "Yang" character would bring the "Chi" to balance.
Ginger Tea not only used for warm-up the stomarch, it is also used to heal the cold. & also for Rheumatism, but the effect must be in place with other mixture of herbs.
Licorice Tea, rarely used alone as tea, it is use as Detoxin Herbs.
So if you are in doubt, please consult the specialist or you can write to me.
Tea is for tranquillity
Feb 3 2005 By Lisa Adams
A CUP of tea really is hot stuff, according to latest research.A new study reveals camomile tea helps combat colds.And rowdy prisoners in jail are being given mugs of herbal teas to keep the peace.
When trouble's brewing at Wandsworth prison, London, staff calm down stir-crazy inmates by serving up drinks with names such as Valerian Plus and Tranquillity.
These teas are so effective at keeping the peace that officers are using them instead of prescription sedatives.
Sales of herbal teas in the past year have soared amid claims that a brew can help cure everything from migraines and depression to obesity and cancer.
But how can you separate the facts from the fiction? Here Vital gives a run-down of the known health benefits of a cuppa.
LEMON AND HONEY TEA:
This is the nation's favourite cure for colds, according to a recent survey. Lemons are loaded with immune-boosting vitamin Cand honey has antibacterial properties.
GINGER TEA:
Good for upset stomachs. Researchers found it controls morning sickness. It has also been shown to help lower blood pressure and reduce blood clotting.The main active ingredient is thought to be a compound called gingerol, which helps to relax blood vessels and stimulate blood flow.
CAMOMILE TEA:
An effective stress-busting drink.When volunteers drank five cups of camomile tea for two weeks there was a rise in antibacterial activity in the body cells and in the levels of glycine, an amino acid which reduces muscle spasms and acts as a nerve relaxant. Hippurate, found in camomile tea, has also been proven to beat colds.
GREEN TEA:
Packed full of flavanoids. Research has shown green tea can lower blood pressure and clotting and protect cells in the body against damage from free radicals.These form in the body after exposure to pollution, UV light and smoking and are thought to cause cancer and heart disease. Green tea also helps with digestion.
LICORICE TEA:
This may help reduce the symptoms of asthma. In Japan, it is used in research to help treat cases of chronic Hepatitis C. It is also soothing and healing for the lining of the stomach and intestines.
RASPBERRY LEAF TEA:
A good friend if you are suffering from bad period pains or heavy menstrual bleeding. It is also thought to tone up the uterus so is recommended in the last two weeks of pregnancy to get your body ready for labour. A 1999 study in Sydney revealed that taking raspberry leaf may have reduced the likelihood of pregnancy problems among all 108 mothers who took part. Never take it before then, though, as there is a danger it may actually trigger labour.
GINSENG TEA:
A natural pick-me-up. The Chinese, who have one of the longest life expectancies, have used ginseng for more than 5000 years. It is thought to increase energy and release stress. Many ginseng fans claim it is a potent aphrodisiac.
WHITE TEA:
Made from the bud of the tea plant, white tea has even more antioxidants than green tea. It also offers better protection than green tea against colon and rectal cancer.
ST JOHN'S WORT:
Made from hypericum perforatum - a yellow flowering hedgerow plant-studies show it is effective against depression. Also available as tablets.
ORDINARY BLACK TEA:
Even if you don't fancy the herbal variety, a cup of ordinary tea may also give you a health boost. Four cups provide almost a fifth of an adult's daily vitamin B2 requirements and five per cent of their zinc and folic acid needs.
VALERIAN TEA
INSOMNIA affects about 15 per cent of us in Scotland struggling to nod off at night try a cup of this.
The herb works by blocking some nerve impulses from reaching the brain, shortening the time it takes to fall asleep. Swedish researchers found that 89 per cent of those who took valerian before bed reported improved sleep, with 44 per cent rating their sleep as perfect.
NETTLE TEA
IT provides a rich source of iron, folic acid and B vitamins.Just a few cups a day helps keep the bowels in good and regular condition. Rich in silica and other minerals important for nail growth, a cup of nettle leaf tea a day may also help to nourish and strengthen nails.
PEPPERMINT TEA:
When you have eaten too much go for this. Its cool minty taste is not just refreshing, herbalists believe it helps with digestion and may even combat flatulence. It also contains menthol, a cooling agent, which can trigger gentle sweating and help your body get rid of toxins.
icPerthshire - Tea is for tranquillity
But in the "I-Medicine Sutra", certainly Tea have different effect to one body.
Like for example. The Korean Roasted Gingsen Tea, the Characteristic after roasted is "Yang", So if a person is too much "Yin" then taking tea that is "Yang" character would bring the "Chi" to balance.
Ginger Tea not only used for warm-up the stomarch, it is also used to heal the cold. & also for Rheumatism, but the effect must be in place with other mixture of herbs.
Licorice Tea, rarely used alone as tea, it is use as Detoxin Herbs.
So if you are in doubt, please consult the specialist or you can write to me.
Tea is for tranquillity
Feb 3 2005 By Lisa Adams
A CUP of tea really is hot stuff, according to latest research.A new study reveals camomile tea helps combat colds.And rowdy prisoners in jail are being given mugs of herbal teas to keep the peace.
When trouble's brewing at Wandsworth prison, London, staff calm down stir-crazy inmates by serving up drinks with names such as Valerian Plus and Tranquillity.
These teas are so effective at keeping the peace that officers are using them instead of prescription sedatives.
Sales of herbal teas in the past year have soared amid claims that a brew can help cure everything from migraines and depression to obesity and cancer.
But how can you separate the facts from the fiction? Here Vital gives a run-down of the known health benefits of a cuppa.
LEMON AND HONEY TEA:
This is the nation's favourite cure for colds, according to a recent survey. Lemons are loaded with immune-boosting vitamin Cand honey has antibacterial properties.
GINGER TEA:
Good for upset stomachs. Researchers found it controls morning sickness. It has also been shown to help lower blood pressure and reduce blood clotting.The main active ingredient is thought to be a compound called gingerol, which helps to relax blood vessels and stimulate blood flow.
CAMOMILE TEA:
An effective stress-busting drink.When volunteers drank five cups of camomile tea for two weeks there was a rise in antibacterial activity in the body cells and in the levels of glycine, an amino acid which reduces muscle spasms and acts as a nerve relaxant. Hippurate, found in camomile tea, has also been proven to beat colds.
GREEN TEA:
Packed full of flavanoids. Research has shown green tea can lower blood pressure and clotting and protect cells in the body against damage from free radicals.These form in the body after exposure to pollution, UV light and smoking and are thought to cause cancer and heart disease. Green tea also helps with digestion.
LICORICE TEA:
This may help reduce the symptoms of asthma. In Japan, it is used in research to help treat cases of chronic Hepatitis C. It is also soothing and healing for the lining of the stomach and intestines.
RASPBERRY LEAF TEA:
A good friend if you are suffering from bad period pains or heavy menstrual bleeding. It is also thought to tone up the uterus so is recommended in the last two weeks of pregnancy to get your body ready for labour. A 1999 study in Sydney revealed that taking raspberry leaf may have reduced the likelihood of pregnancy problems among all 108 mothers who took part. Never take it before then, though, as there is a danger it may actually trigger labour.
GINSENG TEA:
A natural pick-me-up. The Chinese, who have one of the longest life expectancies, have used ginseng for more than 5000 years. It is thought to increase energy and release stress. Many ginseng fans claim it is a potent aphrodisiac.
WHITE TEA:
Made from the bud of the tea plant, white tea has even more antioxidants than green tea. It also offers better protection than green tea against colon and rectal cancer.
ST JOHN'S WORT:
Made from hypericum perforatum - a yellow flowering hedgerow plant-studies show it is effective against depression. Also available as tablets.
ORDINARY BLACK TEA:
Even if you don't fancy the herbal variety, a cup of ordinary tea may also give you a health boost. Four cups provide almost a fifth of an adult's daily vitamin B2 requirements and five per cent of their zinc and folic acid needs.
VALERIAN TEA
INSOMNIA affects about 15 per cent of us in Scotland struggling to nod off at night try a cup of this.
The herb works by blocking some nerve impulses from reaching the brain, shortening the time it takes to fall asleep. Swedish researchers found that 89 per cent of those who took valerian before bed reported improved sleep, with 44 per cent rating their sleep as perfect.
NETTLE TEA
IT provides a rich source of iron, folic acid and B vitamins.Just a few cups a day helps keep the bowels in good and regular condition. Rich in silica and other minerals important for nail growth, a cup of nettle leaf tea a day may also help to nourish and strengthen nails.
PEPPERMINT TEA:
When you have eaten too much go for this. Its cool minty taste is not just refreshing, herbalists believe it helps with digestion and may even combat flatulence. It also contains menthol, a cooling agent, which can trigger gentle sweating and help your body get rid of toxins.
icPerthshire - Tea is for tranquillity
Thursday, February 03, 2005
Instant iced tea mixes contain harmful amounts of fluoride - Check Label Please
I was having the perception that Fluride is a good whitening agent for the teeth. Not until some 2 years ago.
As this research stated, instant ice Tea may contain harmful level of floride.
Beside the water that one should check. The other things is make sure that you check the label of Ice Tea.
I don't particulary encourage drinking Ice Tea. as according to "I-Medical Sutra" Ice " is Yin " & the character is "Han" the cooling effect. or Cold.
Too much "Yin" would cause the "Yang-Chi" to weaken" & the dampness in the body. Then when cross 40's or at old age. It would get Rheumatism or Arthitis.
Also most Tea have the cooling effect for the body.
Therefore, please, for your great health try to avoid Drinking Ice Tea.
Instant iced tea mixes contain harmful amounts of fluoride
Researchers say some commercial iced tea mixes contain up to 6.5 parts per million of fluoride--well above the four parts per million permitted by the EPA for drinking water. The EPA only allows 2.4 parts per million for bottled water and beverages. Heavy use of iced tea could increase your risk for a rare but dangerous bone disorder caused by having too much fluoride in the body. Be sure to read the related article, Fluoride conference reveals fraudulent science behind mass fluoridation; fluoride policy is a public fraud.
News summary:
Source: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,145423,00.html
* Instant iced tea mixes may contain potentially harmful levels of fluoride (search), according to a new study.
* Researchers found some commercial iced tea mixes contain up to 6.5 parts per million (ppm) of fluoride, which is well above the 4 ppm maximum allowed by the EPA in drinking water and 2.4 ppm permitted by the FDA in bottled water and beverages.
* The results indicate constantly quenching your thirst with instant iced teas may increase your risk of a rare, but potentially dangerous bone disorder caused by getting too much fluoride in your system.
* The condition leads to a disease called skeletal fluorosis (search) and may result in bone pain, stiffening of ligaments, bone spurs (search), fused vertebrae (search), and difficulty in moving joints.
* "When fluoride gets into your bones, it stays there for years, and there is no established treatment for skeletal fluorosis," says researcher Michael Whyte, MD, professor of medicine, pediatrics, and genetics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, in a news release.
* Our study points to the need for further investigation of the fluoride content of teas," says Whyte.
* "We don't know how much variation there is from brand to brand and year to year."
* They sent 10 samples of iced tea mixes to two different independent laboratories in St. Louis for testing.
* The teas were prepared on two separate occasions using distilled water.
* Researchers say that daily consumption of 3 milligrams of fluoride for women and 4 milligrams for men is considered enough to prevent tooth decay.
* According to the researchers it would take at least 10 milligrams of fluoride daily for 10 years to begin to show signs of fluorosis on bone x-rays.
Instant iced tea mixes contain harmful amounts of fluoride
As this research stated, instant ice Tea may contain harmful level of floride.
Beside the water that one should check. The other things is make sure that you check the label of Ice Tea.
I don't particulary encourage drinking Ice Tea. as according to "I-Medical Sutra" Ice " is Yin " & the character is "Han" the cooling effect. or Cold.
Too much "Yin" would cause the "Yang-Chi" to weaken" & the dampness in the body. Then when cross 40's or at old age. It would get Rheumatism or Arthitis.
Also most Tea have the cooling effect for the body.
Therefore, please, for your great health try to avoid Drinking Ice Tea.
Instant iced tea mixes contain harmful amounts of fluoride
Researchers say some commercial iced tea mixes contain up to 6.5 parts per million of fluoride--well above the four parts per million permitted by the EPA for drinking water. The EPA only allows 2.4 parts per million for bottled water and beverages. Heavy use of iced tea could increase your risk for a rare but dangerous bone disorder caused by having too much fluoride in the body. Be sure to read the related article, Fluoride conference reveals fraudulent science behind mass fluoridation; fluoride policy is a public fraud.
News summary:
Source: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,145423,00.html
* Instant iced tea mixes may contain potentially harmful levels of fluoride (search), according to a new study.
* Researchers found some commercial iced tea mixes contain up to 6.5 parts per million (ppm) of fluoride, which is well above the 4 ppm maximum allowed by the EPA in drinking water and 2.4 ppm permitted by the FDA in bottled water and beverages.
* The results indicate constantly quenching your thirst with instant iced teas may increase your risk of a rare, but potentially dangerous bone disorder caused by getting too much fluoride in your system.
* The condition leads to a disease called skeletal fluorosis (search) and may result in bone pain, stiffening of ligaments, bone spurs (search), fused vertebrae (search), and difficulty in moving joints.
* "When fluoride gets into your bones, it stays there for years, and there is no established treatment for skeletal fluorosis," says researcher Michael Whyte, MD, professor of medicine, pediatrics, and genetics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, in a news release.
* Our study points to the need for further investigation of the fluoride content of teas," says Whyte.
* "We don't know how much variation there is from brand to brand and year to year."
* They sent 10 samples of iced tea mixes to two different independent laboratories in St. Louis for testing.
* The teas were prepared on two separate occasions using distilled water.
* Researchers say that daily consumption of 3 milligrams of fluoride for women and 4 milligrams for men is considered enough to prevent tooth decay.
* According to the researchers it would take at least 10 milligrams of fluoride daily for 10 years to begin to show signs of fluorosis on bone x-rays.
Instant iced tea mixes contain harmful amounts of fluoride
Wednesday, February 02, 2005
Cranberry extract with higher anti-bacterial power
When the claims about Cranberry anti-bacterial power, I went to research into the application of Cranberry in Chinese history.
In the "I-Mediine Sutra" Cranberry have been used to prevent illness in Kidney & Bladder, it have been used for remedy for the prostate cancer as well.
Also, there are reports that Cranberry is very high in Vitamin C.
One precaution must take is when buying Cranberry Juice & dry fruits must check the product label of Sugar content. I have found that most of the packer's have add "Sugar", as the cranberry in original form are sour.
So please check before you buy & Drink for your great health.
Cranberry extract with higher anti-bacterial power
24/03/2004 -
Decas Cranberry Products' ingredients division has introduced a new cranberry extract that it claims offers an increased level of anti-microbial and antioxidant properties than the leading product in the category.
Initial tests conducted by an independent laboratory found in a comparative analysis that NutriCran Bio-100 had a higher level of proanthocyanidins (PAC) than commercially available whole cranberry extracts, including the market leader, said Decas.
PACs, or condensed tannins, have been identified as the active component responsible for inhibiting the adhesion of certain bacteria to cell walls. This is the likely mechanism behind cranberry's ability to fight urinary tract infections. These are caused by bacteria in the stool and foods that alter the properties of the fecal bacterial flora may be able to reduce the risk of the disease.
Antioxidants in fruit are also thought to play a role in fighting disease.
Recent research in the US tested the effectiveness of cranberry juice cocktail in disabling a number of E. coli bacteria, some of which are resistant to certain drugs. Preventing UTIs could potentially reduce the use of antibiotics, and subsequently reduce further development of antibiotic resistance.
Market applications for NutriCran Bio-100 include nutritional supplements, functional foods and beverages and natural cosmetics.
"With the introduction of NutriCran Bio-100, DBS raises the bar among commercially available cranberry extracts for providing new levels of anti-microbial and antioxidant property strength," said Reza Ghaedian, vice president of science and technology at Decas Botanical Synergies.
Cranberry extract with higher anti-bacterial power
In the "I-Mediine Sutra" Cranberry have been used to prevent illness in Kidney & Bladder, it have been used for remedy for the prostate cancer as well.
Also, there are reports that Cranberry is very high in Vitamin C.
One precaution must take is when buying Cranberry Juice & dry fruits must check the product label of Sugar content. I have found that most of the packer's have add "Sugar", as the cranberry in original form are sour.
So please check before you buy & Drink for your great health.
Cranberry extract with higher anti-bacterial power
24/03/2004 -
Decas Cranberry Products' ingredients division has introduced a new cranberry extract that it claims offers an increased level of anti-microbial and antioxidant properties than the leading product in the category.
Initial tests conducted by an independent laboratory found in a comparative analysis that NutriCran Bio-100 had a higher level of proanthocyanidins (PAC) than commercially available whole cranberry extracts, including the market leader, said Decas.
PACs, or condensed tannins, have been identified as the active component responsible for inhibiting the adhesion of certain bacteria to cell walls. This is the likely mechanism behind cranberry's ability to fight urinary tract infections. These are caused by bacteria in the stool and foods that alter the properties of the fecal bacterial flora may be able to reduce the risk of the disease.
Antioxidants in fruit are also thought to play a role in fighting disease.
Recent research in the US tested the effectiveness of cranberry juice cocktail in disabling a number of E. coli bacteria, some of which are resistant to certain drugs. Preventing UTIs could potentially reduce the use of antibiotics, and subsequently reduce further development of antibiotic resistance.
Market applications for NutriCran Bio-100 include nutritional supplements, functional foods and beverages and natural cosmetics.
"With the introduction of NutriCran Bio-100, DBS raises the bar among commercially available cranberry extracts for providing new levels of anti-microbial and antioxidant property strength," said Reza Ghaedian, vice president of science and technology at Decas Botanical Synergies.
Cranberry extract with higher anti-bacterial power
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