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I wish you a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous 2010! Another year and changes are in the works here as well as the whole world and will let you know what and when soon.

This week's "Food of the Week" is an immune builder as well as a treatment for many illnesses and diseases that should be enjoyed as often as possible. Daily would be good!

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Something To Think About
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The FDA announced that dicoflenac gel (brand name Voltaren Gel) -- often prescribed for arthritis pain -- is linked to severe liver damage... and it can happen within the first month of use!

According to the FDA, this topical gel has been reported to cause liver necrosis (death of liver cells), jaundice, and liver failure... some cases of which have required liver transplant... and some that have been fatal!

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Symptoms of bone pain and muscle weakness can mean you have a vitamin D deficiency. However, for many people, the symptoms are subtle. Yet even without symptoms, too little vitamin D can pose health risks. Low blood levels of the vitamin have been associated with the following:

*Increased risk of death from cardiovascular disease
*Cognitive impairment in older adults
*Severe asthma in children
*Cancer

Research suggests that vitamin D could play a role in the prevention and treatment of a number of different conditions, including type 1 and type 2 diabetes, hypertension, glucose intolerance, and multiple sclerosis.

~You don't consume the recommended levels of the vitamin over time. This is likely if you follow a strict vegetarian diet, because most of the natural sources are animal-based, including fish and fish oils, egg yolks, cheese, and beef liver.

~Your exposure to sunlight is limited. Because the body makes vitamin D when your skin is exposed to sunlight, you may be at risk of deficiency if you are homebound, live in northern latitudes, wear long robes or head coverings for religious reasons, or have an occupation that prevents sun exposure.

~You have dark skin. The pigment melanin reduces the skin's ability to make vitamin D in response to sunlight exposure. Some studies show that older adults with darker skin are at high risk of vitamin D deficiency.

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Up to 40 percent of patients who undergo angioplasty procedure develop restenosis, or re-narrowing of the vessel, and must undergo angioplasty and in most instances a bypass operation again. "We've now shown that the vitamin combination of Folic Acid, Vitamin B-12 and B-6 for six months didn't just delay the development of restenosis prevented it," Schnyder said. FANTASTIC NEWS, but already known by the in-the-know herbologist and naturopaths. Wayne Garland formulated his fabulous ELECTRO VITA-MINS MEGANUTRIENT FORMULA has been responsible for keeping T cell count up for AIDS patients, and that isn't easy! Stronger than the leading vitamin seller! Give them a try and see what happens for your health and peace of mind! CLICK FOR MEGANUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT INFORMATION and/or to order a Healthy Heart and arteries supplement! (12/31)

To CT Scan or Not, That Is The Question?

A new study found that more than half of all patients sent for costly abdominal CT scans don't even need the test. But it gets worse. Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison believe the high doses of radiation from those tests cause at least 23,000 radiation-induced cancers every year.

A single CT scan delivers as much radiation as 113 chest X- rays. Around 20 percent use a dose equal to 500 chest X- rays, and some get even more - up to 1,000 X-rays, delivered in one mega-dose of damage.

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FOOD OF THE WEEK
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Super Food For Building Your Immune System, The Prednisone of Food!

With the viral season on us you must treat your immune system well with foods you put into your body! Because of it's great qualities a book could be written here about these delicacies, but I will try to cut it down to a rather large article on the prednisone of foods!

Mushrooms, considered by many a delicacy yet should truly be the staunch food in every diet? Why? Studies have been released over the last several years telling us about cancer preventing information on mushrooms of all kinds bolstering the saying "Food is medicine"!

There are a myriad of mushrooms available on supermarket shelves but I am going to focus on my favorite of the mushroom world; Reishi. These exotic hearty mushrooms rich, smoky flavor have also endeared them to American taste buds across the U.S.. If your local store does not carry fresh reishi mushrooms, investigate the Asian food stores in your area as they oftentimes carry these specialty mushrooms.

Let me say up front; because a few wild mushrooms are deadly and many more are mildly poisonous, mushroom hunting is not a hobby for the careless or uninformed. On the other hand, neither is it necessarily the death-defying feat that many people imagine. There are a number of good edible mushrooms that are easy to recognize and hard to confuse with anything dangerously poisonous. (Poisonous mushrooms are often referred to as "toadstools," but this is a folk name that has no precise meaning. In this article, they will be called simply poisonous mushrooms.)

Like other mushrooms, these specialty mushrooms are as mysteriously unique as they are delicious. While often thought of as a vegetable and prepared like one, mushrooms are actually a fungus, a special type of living organism that has no roots, leaves, flowers or seeds.

Reishi is the Japanese name for the Ganoderma family of mushrooms. In Chinese, they are called "ling-zhi." Reishi is a large, dark, mushroom with a glossy exterior. In traditional Chinese medicine, Reishi is in the most highly rated herb category in terms of multiple benefits, used as a medicinal herb, absent of side effects.

There are 6 different types of Reishi differentiated only by color: red, purple, blue, yellow, black, white, recorded in Chinese pharmacopoeia are actually one species grown under different conditions.

History;

Reischi is believed to have been known since at least the reign of "Fuxi", a legendary ruler of that time known also as the first of the Three August Ones.

Seng Nong, the Holy farmer, who was the second of the Three August Ones, is said to have discovered the curative virtues of plants by tasting hundreds of species. "Seng Nong's Herbal Classic" is considered to be the earliest manuscript on Chinese materia medica and is still today the foundation of Traditional Chinese Medicine and in general all Oriental Medicine. Reishi also contains ergosterols, complete proteins, unsaturated fatty acids, vitamins and minerals.

Reishi, known in China as an "elixir of immortality," has been used for more than 3,000 years to rev up the immune system and heal chronic inflammatory conditions. Dozens of preliminary studies support its anti-inflammatory properties. One Chinese study found
that of the more than 2,000 people with chronic bronchitis who took reishi syrup for two weeks, 60% to 90% said they felt better. (Reishi syrup is a long drawn out process best left to the professionals.)

Li Shi Zhen, a famous medical scholar in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) introduced the indications of the 6 species concretely. The work of the latter was republished in 1956, and translated into several foreign languages including Japanese, English, French, German, Russian and Latin and is regarded as the cornerstone of Traditional Chinese medicine.

Today, an estimated 4,300 tons of reischi/ling-zhi is produced yearly in the world, with China producing 3,000 tons followed by Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Thailand, USA, Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia and Sri Lanka.

The Prednisone of foods!

Prednisone, the corticosteroid used to treat a variety of inflammatory ailments -- arthritis, asthma, colitis and some cancers -- and to prevent rejection of transplanted organs. Its nasty side effects - from a swollen "moon face" to increased infections - are legendary. But what many people don't know is that this medicinal reishi mushroom could, in some cases, do as good a job without wreaking the prednisone havoc on the body.

While prednisone has its place for short-term life-threatening conditions, it may save your life. But if you have an ongoing inflammatory condition, reishi may be the best first line of treatment. Researchers at Shanghai Medical University, Shanghai Tumor Hospital, and Shanghai Chung San Hospital have independently isolated from the Reishi mushroom a few species of polysaccharides which have subsequently been shown in clinical studies to have anti-tumor activities.

Reishi has also been shown to exert:
*A positive effects in treatment of insomnia
*Preventive effects against high altitude sickness
*Cholesterol -lowering effects
*Therapeutic effects in chronic hepatitis

Available in some grocery stores and health-food stores, in it's natural form or in powder form, as well as capsules and tablets. All observations show that Reishi has no side effects and can be consumed in high dosages and in parallel with other medications. Its main properties are the cleansing of blood, enhancement of the immune system and the lessening of nervous tension. These properties are conducive to normalizing and balancing the body and as a result preempt cure a multitude of diseases from within.

Tips for Preparing Mushrooms:

Mushrooms are very porous, so if they are exposed to too much water they will quickly absorb it and become soggy. Therefore, the best way to clean mushrooms without sacrificing their texture and taste is to clean them using minimal, if any, water. To do this, simply wipe them with a slightly damp paper towel or kitchen cloth. You could also use a mushroom brush, available at most kitchenware stores.

If the fresh mushrooms become dried out because of being stored for too long, soak them in water for thirty minutes.

Our favorite way of eating is sauteed alone or with stir fry vegetables and rice.

I simply clean, slice and saute' in butter flavored virgin olive oil.

For each two cups of sliced mushrooms use 1 Tablespoon of virgin olive oil and to 1 teaspoon of butter (I do not use margarine for anything because of its poisonous fat and chemicals). Heat olive oil ? not to smoking stage - then add butter, melt and mix well. Add mushrooms and saut? stirring until cooked (about 3 - 5 minutes). Add a dash of Bragg's Liquid Aminos for added flavor just before removing from heat. Serve with other stir fried vegetables over rice or alone over rice.

Enjoy lots of immune building shrooms!
Lena

NOTE: Sadly food alone cannot yield all the necessary healthy nutrients - especially balance of minerals - as they did in centuries past. BUT this one is close to a perfect prevention food! But we can't rely totally on our food intake! Because of the lack of nutrients in our soils and the pollutants added in the form of air pollution, pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers important nutrients are almost nonexistent and we know the body is not capable of producing minerals with even the healthiest of diets, as it can vitamins, and must be obtained from our foods or daily supplemented... Click Here to understand why minerals are so important to your body's health!

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HEALTH TODAY
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If you've renovated your home lately, think about hanging spider plants in the rooms where new wood products -- like plywood -- were used.

The easy-to-grow plant, technically known as Chlorophytum elatum or green spider plant, is capable of significantly reducing formaldehyde in the atmosphere, reports David Bodanis in his book, The Secret Family.

Formaldehyde, a stiffening agent commonly used in wood products, also is considered a major contaminant. On a warm day or when the heat has been on overnight, the concentration of formaldehyde at floor level can be twice the concentration as in the rest of the house, Bodanis says.

Tests sponsored by NASA show that the spider plant and other common houseplants -- including several kinds of philodendron, golden pothos, aloe vera and Chinese evergreen -- also can reduce concentrations of benzene and carbon monoxide by more than half in a 24-hour period.

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