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I hope you are enjoying a rest from not receiving the ezine announcement the last few weeks. Once monthly is still the plan.

This week's "Food of the Week" is a bit different and not spotlighting any certain food but some hints to assist you with sleeping or staying away from some that will keep you awake.

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Something To Think About
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Something You Need To Watch Closely

I want to remind you that Senators McCain and Dorgan are Betraying Dietary Supplement Consumers And Trying To Take Away Our Right To Choose Supplements We Want!

On Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010, Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Byron Dorgan (D-ND) introduced The Dietary Supplement Safety Act (DSSA) of 2010. This bill would amend DSHEA and undermine, if not entirely eliminate, consumer access to valuable dietary supplements, according to Jim Turner, Citizens for Health Board Chair.

What this bill will do!
- Reverse the 100-year long status of supplements as foods;
- Create onerous requirements for supplements not applied to other foods or even to prescription drugs; and
- Wipe out significant numbers of small supplement manufacturers and sellers.

This bill takes power, choice, and self-determination from consumers and gives it to government. Urge your Senators to avoid co-sponsoring it. The people of Arizona and North Dakota, who believe in consumer rights, safe and healthy food, and responsible government, deserve better Senators. McCain and Dorgan are up for re-election this year - and if this bill passes, voters will line up to set them straight in November.

James S. Turner is a partner in the Washington, DC, law firm of Swankin and Turner, formed in 1973, and Board Chair of Citizens for Health, the consumer voice of the natural health community. From 1968 to 1971, Mr. Turner worked with Ralph Nader, and wrote The Chemical Feast: The Nader Report on Food Protection at the FDA (Grossman 1970).

In 1975, he successfully opposed the Federal Trade Commission proposal to ban the words "natural," "organic" and "health food" from all commerce. In 1990, he lobbied successfully-with many others-for passage of the "Organic Food Production Act of 1990". In 1994, he worked with the newly created Citizens for Health to pass DSHEA. Congress received one and a half million communications supporting DSHEA. He is there to help protect our rights of choice in alternatives and see that labels are honest and not misleading where he can!

Turner also led the team that persuaded FDA to approve acupuncture needles (1996); campaigned successfully against the 1976 Swine Flu program, which the government stopped for being dangerous; lobbied successfully for the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1990, which legalized health claims for food; and wrote Making Your Own Baby Food (Workman 1974, Bantam 1975, 2nd expanded edition Workman 1976).

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Research suggests that REM sleep, the stage of sleep involving rapid eye movement, seems to be the phase that tells the brain what to do with new information. This is all surmised to be vitally important in preventing and reversing Alzheimer's and dementia.

Sleeplessness is a chronic problem in America and the use of stupefying drugs only makes matters worse. (And rear-end car accident rates keep skyrocketing in people who are sleep deprived!)

Sleep is not only important for your ability to remember, it also helps you be more creative and more innovative. Lack of sleep has also just been found to be directly linked to obesity because it disrupts insulin regulation which means instant fat formation and worse, early-onset diabetes.

BOUND OUT OF BED LIKE YOU DID AS A KID, full of beans and ready to conquer the world. Some ex-Ambien users, the most commonly prescribed sleep drug, rave about Good Night's effects compared with taking Ambien. (I've heard about people falling asleep driving to work the morning after taking Ambien - now that's a dangerous after-effect!)

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Your Diet May Be Killing You or at best Making You Ill?

A new study published in The British Journal of Psychiatry found that people who ate the most processed foods had the highest risk of depression. It was a clear case of cause-and-effect: The worse the diet, the higher the risk.

Another study in the American Journal of Psychiatry found that women who ate diets heavy in processed foods over a 10-year period were 50 percent more likely to suffer from depressive disorders. The researchers took it a step further and found that women who ate primarily fresh meat and vegetables were 30 percent less likely to suffer from depression. It's basic nutrition, really.

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FOOD OF THE WEEK
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Foods That Lull You To Sleep Or Keep You Awake

If you could pick the right foods to help you get the best sleep possible, wouldn't you? And if you knew which foods would hinder your restful slumber, wouldn't you avoid them also? Now's your chance to learn which foods to eat, if you want a good night's sleep.

The old Standby - Tryptophan-Rich Foods! I'm sure you have heard that warm milk's magical ability to send us off to sleep. Do you know why it's true? Dairy foods contain tryptophan, which is a sleep-promoting substance. Since I and many others have an allergy to dairy products that won't work for me or them. There are other tryptophan-containing foods include poultry (turkey and chicken), bananas one of the best for sleep and other health benefits, oats, and honey. Stay away from processed meats and foods before bedtime - That piece of ham, bologna or salami may be satisfying but it has so many chemicals that your body cannot rest.

If you struggle with insomnia or waking during the night, a little food in your stomach may help you sleep. But make sure you don't use this as an open invitation to pig out. Keep the snack small - 3 to 6 bites. A heavy meal will tax your digestive system, as well as making for discomfort and doing the opposite of sleeping- keep you awake or cause you to awaken soon after sleeping.

Stay away from fatty foods!

As if you needed another reason to avoid high-fat foods, research shows that people who often eat high-fat foods not only gain weight, they also experience a disruption of their sleep cycles.

Protein rich foods not good for sleep

Protein-rich foods are harder to digest. So skip the high-protein snack before bedtime and opt for a glass of warm milk or some sleep-friendly foods mentioned above.

One of the most common sleep disrupters!

It?s no surprise that an evening cup of coffee might disrupt your sleep - a few caffeine addicted people may not notice one cup disrupting. Even moderate caffeine can cause sleep disturbances in 99.9% of people. But don?t forget about less obvious caffeine sources; chocolate, cola, certain teas and decaffeinated coffee as it still contains at least 3% caffeine and some processing chemicals used to remove caffeine can be sleep disrupters. Some over-the-counter and prescription drugs contain caffeine, too, such as pain relievers, weight loss pills, diuretics, and cold medicines. These and other medications may have as much or even more caffeine than a cup of coffee. Check the label of nonprescription drugs or the prescription drug information sheet to see if your medicine has the potential to interfere with sleep or can cause insomnia. For better sleep, cut all caffeine from your diet after noon each day.

Alcohol conducive to sleep?

Here's the catch-22 with alcohol: It may help you fall asleep faster, but you may experience frequent awakenings, less restful sleep, headaches, night sweats and nightmares. If you're consuming alcohol in the evening, balance each drink with a glass at least 8 ounces of filtered/purified water to dilute the alcohol's effects.

Late meals can cause sleep problems!

Lying down with a full digestive tract can make you uncomfortable as the digestive system slows down when you sleep. And spicy cuisine can lead to heartburn. Make sure to finish a heavy meal at least four hours before bedtime.

Bedtime smoke isn't recommended for anyone with sleep problems!

Nicotine is a stimulant, with effects similar to caffeine. Avoid smoking or being in the same house with someone who smokes before you go to bed. If you awaken during the night do not have that cigarette as so many do and then wonder why they do not get quality sleep!

Lena

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Alzheimers' Increase Connected To Lower Cholesterol!
© Lena Sanchez

Did your doctor tell you that you needed to lower your cholesterol? Tens of thousands are being told that and are taking cholesterol lowering medications, pushed on them out of fear of having a heart attack, stroke or heart disease if you cholesterol isn't lowered.

Is it good to lower your cholesterol?

According to studies published in the last three years ..low LDL cholesterol levels may actually increase your risk of Parkinson's disease. The study involved 236 people -- 124 Parkinson's patients and 112 controls. The researchers measured all the participants' cholesterol levels and gathered information regarding their smoking habits and use of cholesterol-lowering drugs.

They found that the subjects with the lowest LDL levels (less than 114 milligrams per deciliter) had a 3.5-fold higher occurrence of Parkinson's than the participants with higher LDL levels (more than 138 milligrams per deciliter).

Finally, they're actually documenting what I've been telling you for years, but it isn't getting to the doctors! Their pocketbooks can't afford that tidbit of news getting out!

Conventional Medicine keeps wondering why millions-and-growing Alzheimer's cases exist yet they say they haven't a clue... The clue is there but it's being held up by big pharma money and doctors seldom ever study what happens when they prescribe a drug... They also stick their heads in the sand about patient reporting side effects to what medicine. Looks to me like the pharmaceutical industry along with doctors who never check things out that aim for an LDL below 200, are causing the Alzheimer's increase! No mystery there!

Are they mistakenly diagnosing Alzheimer's? Very possible.

Here is what a Mayo Clinic Cardiologist Dr. Thomas Behrenbeck stated: ?Rare cases of memory loss have been reported in people taking cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, such as Lipitor. But these reports were anecdotal and have not been substantiated by formal testing of cognitive function. In most of these cases, memory improved after the individuals stopped taking the statins.? That depended on how long they were taking them before stopping.

Now I find that rather strange since I've continue to see advertising pushing those drugs that says statin drugs are now being prescribed to prevent Alzheimer's disease. Does that make sense? If the drugs cause memory loss is all those Alzheimer's people really suffering with Alzheimer's or suffering with drug induced memory loss?

Remember that a drug only has to be effect in 20% of the clinical trials to be released to the medical world!

Statin drugs have other side effects besides memory problems; they simply don't do what they are supposed to be prescribed to do...

The doctor will tell you that lowering your cholesterol will stop your risk of heart attack, stroke or heart disease. REALLY? Have you read the small print in insert that came with your cholesterol lowering drug? If not be sure you do? The pharmacy must give you that insert with your prescription. Go to the small print at the last part of that insert and see what it says, "This medication has not been proven to prevent heart attacks, strokes or heart disease."

It is a known fact that statin drugs decrease the CoQ10 in people taking them and the heart as well as the brain must have sufficient CoQ10 supplies to function properly. Tests done for CoQ10 found that after 8 weeks of taking statin drugs the CoQ10 levels drop off 40%. This fact alone can starve the heart and brain of needed nutrients!

Smart doctors are beginning to talk about that very problem. An article published in the journal Biofactors, cardiologist and researcher Dr. Peter Langsjoen says, "The depletion of the essential nutrient Co q10 by the increasingly popular cholesterol lowering drugs, HMG CoA reductase inhibitors (statins), has grown from a level of concern to one of alarm. With ever higher statin potencies and dosages and with a steadily shrinking target LDL cholesterol, the prevalence and severity of Co q10 deficiency is increasingly noticeable."

The body manufactures cholesterol because it needs it and only when the body's ability to do that is interrupted does it not produce effective amounts. Your body needs cholesterol and what may be high for one body could be exactly what another body needs to work correctly.

Who set the so-called normal numbers? The drug industry!

When the first cholesterol drug came on the market I was working as a medical office nurse and the average cholesterol numbers to aim for then was 350. Good number, but that didn't sell enough drugs for the pharmaceutical company so they have gradually lowered them until now the numbers are bordering on death for most patients. An Osteopath doctor, I worked with, when the first lower numbers were given to the office, told me that with that lower desired number - 250 - we would be seeing many more heart attacks and strokes in the future due to such a low number. He explained to me that you cannot live with cholesterol lower than 250 or 300 for very long without the body going into some type of revenge and overworking trying to produce more cholesterol thereby taxing the heart and blood vessels throwing the body off. We are there now as the target number is 100 to 150, killer numbers. I have not seen him in twenty-five years and I wonder what he said when those numbers showed up? More people are having heart attacks and strokes per capita than ever in the history of mankind.

Be strong! Stand up to your doctor and say NO to taking cholesterol lowering drugs. High cholesterol does not kill nor does it build up plaque in your arteries, even though the drug industry is selling that crock to the doctors of the world. Inflammation and bad diets build up plaque and cause heart attacks. There are many studies that have been done that show inflammation kills. But for the most part you will not hear about them as they are not released to the news media, suppressed by the drug industry. I have managed to read two or three that you can find if you look really hard that scientists have published but only in medical and scientific journals.

I'm not a doctor just a concerned retired medical office nurse who watched what happened with people who took cholesterol lowering drugs. I therefore convinced my husband, whose cholesterol numbers range from 324 to 480 and has for more than all years they have been testing it. His arteries are cleaner than the average person's as his doctor unwittingly proved and has since stopped berating him to take the drugs after he ordered Carotid Ultrasound, but didn't believe that, so ordered a repeat and still didn't believe the results then ordered and MRI and finally we said no more tests believe what you see not what you want to see. His arteries at 70 contained only 12% plaque and the average person's plaque at that age is more than 25% buildup. Proved to us cholesterol is not the culprit the drug industry wants you to believe!

Even if you're careful, drugs can end up in water
Feb 7, 2010
By CLARKE CANFIELD

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - The federal government advises throwing most unused or expired medications into the trash instead of down the drain, but they can end up in the water anyway, a study from Maine suggests.

Tiny amounts of discarded drugs have been found in water at three landfills in the state, confirming suspicions that pharmaceuticals thrown into household trash are ending up in water that drains through waste, according to a survey by the state's environmental agency that's one of only a handful to have looked at the presence of drugs in landfills.

That landfill water - known as leachate - eventually ends up in rivers. Most of Maine doesn't draw its drinking water from rivers where the leachate ends up, but in other states that do, water supplies that come from rivers could potentially be contaminated.

The results of the survey are being made known as lawmakers in Maine consider a bill, among the first of its kind in the nation, that would require drug manufacturers to develop and pay for a program to collect unused prescription and over-the-counter drugs from residents and dispose of them.

Scientists and environmentalists have long known of the common presence of minute concentrations of pharmaceuticals in drinking water, either through human excretion flushed into sewers or leftover medicine thrown down the drain. Research shows that pharmaceuticals sometimes harm fish and other aquatic species, and that human cells can fail to grow normally in the laboratory when exposed to trace concentrations of certain drugs.

The Maine Department of Environmental Protection found tiny amounts - measured in parts per trillion - of medications ranging from antidepressants and birth control pills to blood pressure and cholesterol prescriptions. The most prevalent drugs were over-the-counter pain relievers, including ibuprofen and acetaminophen.

"People need a way to properly dispose of their drugs, and they're not getting it right now," said Mark Hyland, director of the state Department of Environmental Quality's Bureau of Remediation and Waste Management.

The bill is one of many "take-back" programs under consideration in more than half a dozen states and would be the first of its kind if enacted; it has won committee support and awaits further action.

The bill is opposed by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, a Washington-based organization that represents pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies and has partnered with other groups to pay for advertising against the proposal.

The lobby acknowledges that previous testing shows trace levels of pharmaceuticals can be found in water supplies and landfills, but says the levels are so small that they pose little risk.

"The amounts of pharmaceuticals (in the environment) are infinitesimally small," said Marjorie Powell, senior assistant general counsel. "We're talking about two drops in an Olympic-size swimming pool. Those two drops are much lower than any doses that would have an effect on humans."

The state last October tested leachate at landfills in Augusta, Brunswick and Bath. Hyland ordered up the study after members of the pharmaceutical industry expressed skepticism about the presence of pharmaceuticals in landfill water.

Leachate at Maine landfills typically is piped or trucked to municipal wastewater treatment plants. Those plants are not equipped to remove drugs from the water before it is discharged into rivers and the ocean.

The pharmaceuticals found in the landfills don't pose a direct threat to drinking water, Hyland said. The landfills are lined to protect groundwater supplies, and in Maine there aren't any wastewater plants that treat leachate and discharge into rivers that ultimately supply drinking water.

But the leachate - in high enough concentrations - can pose a threat to fish and shellfish. Research suggests that hormonal drugs, such as birth control pills, tend to feminize fish. If the trend continues, Hyland said, there could be too few male fish to continue reproduction.

"What you find are greater concentrations of females downstream from where they've seen a dose of hormones, so you find a feminization of the fish population where there are fewer males around," he said.

Hyland said he has questions about the effect on commercial seafood - one of Maine's biggest industries - in ocean waters downstream from the rivers, particularly bivalves such as clams or mussels, which filter water constantly and live near the shore.

"But obviously we need to know a lot more before we can draw a lot of conclusions," Hyland said.

Although landfill leachate doesn't get into drinking water supplies in Maine, it probably does elsewhere, said Andy Tolman, a geologist with the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. And some scientists urge caution about the dangers of drinking such water over several decades.

"Many larger states have big rivers that are used for both waste disposal and drinking water supplies, places like Ohio and Pennsylvania," Tolman said. "The same river gets used a number of times, and they're very concerned about treatment of sewage and leachate."

Powell, from the pharmaceutical lobby, argued that people can properly dispose of their drugs in their household trash. In Maine, much of the trash is burned, she said, and pollution control experts agree that incinerating unwanted drugs is the safest solution.

She argued that if the bill does pass, it will only make drugs more expensive, she said.

Concerns have grown in recent years over pharmaceuticals reaching drinking water supplies. An Associated Press investigation in 2008 reported that the drinking water of at least 51 million Americans contains minute concentrations of a multitude of drugs.

It's commonly believed that the vast majority of drugs that get into water supplies come from human and animal excretion and that smaller amounts come from flushing them down the toilet or drain, a practice the Food and Drug Administration says is not recommended for most medications.

Federal guidelines recommend using community drug take-back programs to dispose of medications. If those aren't available, people should mix their unwanted drugs with cat litter or some other undesirable substance, put them into a sealed container and put it in the trash, according to the Office of National Drug Control Policy.

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