Monday, 16 April 2012

Calorie Chart

Food Calorie Chart of Healthy Foods for Weight-Loss

BEANS 

 FOODAMOUNT TOTAL CALORIES
 Black beans 1/2 cup cooked 113
 Garbanzo (chickpeas) 1/2 cup cooked 134
 Kidney beans 1/2 cup cooked112 
 Lentil beans 1/2 cup cooked 115
 Lima beans 1/2 cup cooked 108
 Navy beans 1/2 cup cooked 129
 Soybeans (Edamame) 1/2 cup cooked 127
 Tofu 1/2 cup fresh94 

DAIRY

 FOOD AMOUNT TOTAL CALORIES
 Butter 1 tbs. 110
 Cheddar Cheese 1 ounce 114
 Cottage Cheese 1/2 cup 110
 Cottage Cheese, low fat 1/2 cup 90
 Egg 1 large 75
 Milk, low fat 1 cup 121
 Milk, skim 1 cup 86
 Muenster cheese 1 ounce 104
 Swiss cheese 1 ounce 107
 Yogurt, low fat 1 cup 144
 Yogurt, non fat 1 cup 127

FISH

FOODAMOUNTTOTAL CALORIES
Anchovies, in water1 ounce37
Halibut3 ounces120
Mackerel3 ounces85
Salmon3 ounces121
Sardines, in water1 can130
Tuna, tongol1/4 cup60

FRUIT

 FOOD AMOUNT TOTAL CALORIES
 Apple 1 medium 80
 Apricots 3 medium 60
 Banana 1 medium 110
 Blackberries 1/2 cup 37
 Blueberries 1/2 cup 41
 Cantaloupe 1/4 medium 50
 Cherries 1 cup 90
 Dates 5 pieces 120
 Figs 1 medium 37
 Grapefruit 1/2 medium 60
 Grapes 1 cup 60
 Guava 1 medium 45
 Kiwifruit 2 medium 100
 Lemon 1 average 15
 Lime 1 average 20
 Mango 1/2 medium 70
 Nectarine 1 medium 70
 Orange 1 medium 70
 Papaya 1/2 medium 70
 Peach 1 medium 40
 Pear 1 medium 100
 Persimmon 1 medium 32
 Pineapple 2 slices 65
 Plums 2 medium 80
 Prunes 1/4 cup 110
 Raisins, seedless 1/4 cup 107
 Raspberries 1 cup 50
 Strawberries 8 medium 45
 Tangerine 1 medium 50
 Watermelon 1 cup 40
 Watermelon 1 slice, 10" diam. 150

GRAINS

 FOOD AMOUNT TOTAL CALORIES
 Oatmeal, rought cut 1 cup145
 Pancake, buckwheat 1 4" diameter 54
 Pancake, whole wheat 1 4" diameter 74
 Popcorn, dry 1 cup 54
 Quinoa  1/2 cup cooked121
 Rice, brown, cooked 1/2 cup 80
 Rice, wild, cooked 1/2 cup 85
 Rye bread 1 slice 56
 Whole wheat bread 1 slice 56
 Whole wheat pasta 1 cup cooked182

NUTS AND SEEDS

 FOOD AMOUNT TOTAL CALORIES
 Almonds 1/4 cup212
 Brazil nuts 1/4 cup 230
 Cashews 1/4 cup 97
 Peanuts 1/4 cup 210
 Peanut butter 1 tbs. 86
 Pecans 1/4 cup 185
 Pistachios, shelled 1/4 cup 185
 Pumpkin seeds 1/4 cup 192
 Sesame seeds 1 tbs. 55
 Sunflower seeds 1/4 cup 170
 Tahini 1 tbs. 89
 Walnuts 1/4 cup 160

POULTRY

FOODAMOUNTTOTAL CALORIES
Chicken breast4 ounces193
Chicken, light meat, no skin4 ounces196
Chicken, dark meat, no skin4 ounces232
Turkey, light meat, no skin4 ounces178
Turkey, dark meat, no skin4 ounces212

VEGETABLES

 FOOD AMOUNT TOTAL CALORIES
 Alfalfa sprouts 1 cup 20
 Artichoke 1 medium 60
 Artichoke hearts 1/2 cup cooked 42
 Arugula 1/2 cup 3
 Asparagus 1/2 cup cooked 23
 Avocado 1/2 cup pureed 185
 Bamboo shoots 1/2 cup raw 21
 Beet greens 1/2 cup cooked 20
 Beets 1/2 cup cooked 38
 Bell peppers 1/2 cup raw sliced 25
 Bok choy 1/2 cup cooked 10
 Broccoli 1/2 cup cooked 22
 Broccoli, raw 1 medium stalk 45
 Brussels sprouts 1/2 cup cooked 30
 Cabbage 1/2 cup cooked 17
 Carrot, raw 1 7 inch 31
 Carrots 1/2 cup cooked 35
 Cauliflower 1/2 cup cooked 20
 Cauliflower, raw 3 florets 14
 Celery, raw 1 stalk 6
 Celery 1/2 cup cooked 13
 Chard 1/2 cup cooked 18
 Chives 1 medium 9
 Collard greens 1/2 cup cooked 17
 Corn 1/2 cup cooked 89
 Cucumbers 1/2 cup sliced 7
 Eggplant 1/2 cup cooked 13
 Endive 1/2 cup chopped 13
 Garlic 1 clove 4
 Green beans 1/2 cup cooked 22
 Green onions 1/2 cup chopped 16
 Jicama 1/2 cup cooked 43
 Kale 1/2 cup cooked 18
 Kohlrabi 1/2 cup cooked 24
 Leeks 1/2 cup cooked 16
 Lemon grass 1 cup raw 66
 Lettuce, iceburg 1/2 cup 9
 Lettuce, romaine 1/2 cup 4
 Mushrooms 1/2 cup raw 9
 Mushrooms 1/2 cup cooked 21
 Mustard greens 1/2 cup cooked 11
 Okra 1/2 cup cooked 25
 Olive oil 1 tbs. 120
 Onion 1/2 cup cooked 46
 Onion, raw 1 medium 60
 Onion, raw 1/2 cup chopped 30
 Parsley 1/2 cup chopped 11
 Peas 1/2 cup cooked 34
 Potato, white 1/2 cup cooked 59
 Pumpkin 1/2 cup cooked 24
 Radishes 1/2 cup sliced 12
 Radicchio 1 medium leaf 2
 Rhubarb 1/2 cup raw 13
 Rutabaga 1/2 cup cooked 47
 Sauerkraut 1/2 cup cooked 25
 Spinach 1/2 cup cooked 21
 Spinach 1 cup raw 14
 Summer squash 1/2 cup cooked 36
 Sweet potato 1/2 cup cooked 125
 Tomato 1 medium 35
 Turnip greens 1/2 cup cooked 15
 Turnips 1/2 cup cooked 24
 Water chestnuts 1/2 cup raw 60
 Winter squash 1/2 cup cooked 80
 Zucchini 1/2 cup cooked 14

MEAT POULTRY AND GAME
Name Portion Calories
Bacon (lean back, raw) 100g 136
Bacon (back, standard, raw) 100g 120
Bacon (back, lean and fat, fried in blended vegetable oil) 100g 465
Bacon (streaky, raw) 100g 276
Minced Beef (average, raw) 100g 225
Minced Beef (extra lean, raw) 100g 174
Beef topside (roast, lean meat only) 100g 175
Beef steak, rump (raw lean only) 100g 125
Beefburger (grilled) 1 quarter-pd 254
Beef (corned) 100g 217
Crocodile fillet (cooked) 100g 160
Gammon steak (fat removed, grilled) 100g 172
Ham (extra lean) 100g 107
Ham (parma) 50g 111
Lamb loin chop (rimmed, grilled) 1 150
Lamb leg (roast, lean only) 100g 203
Lamb shoulder (roast) 100g 235
Lamb's kidney (fat removed) 1 91
Lamb's liver 100g 137
Ostrich (cooked) 100g 188
Pork fillet (raw) 100g 122
Pork leg (roast lean only) 100g 185
Pork crackling (roast) 100g 550
Pork chop, loin, lean (grilled) 1 220
Salami 25g 109
Sausage (chorizo) 100g 291
Sausage (pepperoni) 100g 551
Pork sausfage (grilled) 2 large 254
Sausage (chipolata, low-fat, grilled) 2 92
Veal fillet 100g 109
Venison filet 100g 103
Chicken fillet (no skin) 100g 106
Chicken breast (grilled, skin removed) 1 breast 192
Chicken leg quarter (casseroled) 1 257
Chicken (roast, meat only) 100g 177
Duck (roast, meat plus skin) 100g 339
Duck (roast, meat only) 100g 195
Guinea fowl meat (raw) 100g 148
Pheasant (roast) 100g 220
Rabbit fillet (raw) 100g 137
Turkey fillet (light meat, raw) 100g 105
Turkey fillet (dark meat, raw) 100g 104
Turkey light meat (roast) 100g 153




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20 Percent of Chickens From Supermarkets Carry Salmonella

Campylobacter is behind millions food poisoning cases every year around the world and hundreds of associated deaths.
One in five chickens sold in supermarkets carries the bug behind most cases of food poisoning. An investigation found that campylobacter and listeria have both been found in was what considered fresh chicken in major grocery retailers.



Campylobacter -- a bacterium blamed for more than 370,000 food poisoning cases a year -- can be killed by cooking chicken properly and disinfecting contaminated areas.


Consumer watchdog Which? tested 192 samples of whole chickens and chicken portions -- standard, free range and organic from Aldi, Asda, The Co-operative, Lidl, Marks & Spencer, Morrisons, Sainsbury’s, Tesco and Waitrose in March.

It found bacterial contamination in samples from each retailer.

Which? stressed the study was a ‘snapshot’ as it tested each retailer on two days in different locations and so could not definitively conclude that chicken from one was better than that from another.

But the results are an improvement on 2009, when the Food Standards Agency (FSA) in the UK found 65 percent of fresh chickens it tested were contaminated with campylobacter at the point of sale.

Read more HERE

Sunday, 15 April 2012

Aborted Babies Are Being Chopped Up And Sold To Researchers All Over America With The Full Approval Of The Obama Administration

Did you know that aborted babies are being chopped up and sold to medical researchers all over America?  There is a federal law which is supposed to ban this practice, but it contains a gigantic loophole that abortion clinics are using to sell huge amounts of aborted baby parts to the scientific community.  The loophole in the federal law allows "reasonable payments associated with the transportation, implantation, processing, preservation, quality control, or storage of human fetal tissue."  But there are no guidelines as to what those "reasonable payments" should be and the Obama administration is not about to start prosecuting abortion clinics.  So aborted baby parts from American babies will continue to be very quietly sold for profit to medical researchers and most Americans will never hear anything about it.  But future generations will look back in horror at what we allowed to be done right under our noses.

With the full approval of the Obama administration, one company in the United States has plans to inject aborted baby brain cells into the eyes of patients to see if that will help improve their vision.

Read more HERE

Ammonia used in many foods, not just "pink slime"

New York (Reuters) - Surprise rippled across America last month as a new wave of consumers discovered that hamburgers often contained ammonia-treated beef, or what critics dub "pink slime".

What they may not have known is that ammonia - often associated with cleaning products - was cleared by U.S. health officials nearly 40 years ago and is used in making many foods, including cheese. Related compounds have a role in baked goods and chocolate products.

Using small amounts of ammonia to make food is not unusual to those expert in high-tech food production. Now that little known world is coming under increasing pressure from concerned consumers who want to know more about what they are eating.

"I think we're seeing a sea change today in consumers' concerns about the presence of ingredients in foods, and this is just one example," said Michael Doyle, director of the University of Georgia's Center for Food Safety.

Ammonia, known for its noxious odor, became a hot topic last month with the uproar over what the meat industry calls "finely textured beef" and what a former U.S. government scientist first called "pink slime".

Used as a filler for ground beef, it is made from fatty trimmings that are more susceptible to contamination than other cuts of beef, and are therefore sprayed with ammonium hydroxide - ammonia mixed with water - to remove pathogens such as salmonella and E.coli.

After critics highlighted the product on social media websites and showed unappetizing photos on television, calling it "pink slime," the nation's leading fast-food chains and supermarkets spurned the product, even though U.S. public health officials deem it safe to eat. Hundreds of U.S. school districts also demanded it be removed from school lunch programs.

One producer, Beef Products Inc, has since idled three factories. Another, AFA Foods, filed for bankruptcy protection.

The outrage, which many experts say has been fueled by the term "pink slime," seems more about the unsavoriness of the product rather than its safety.

"This is not a health issue," said Bill Marler, a prominent food safety lawyer. "This is an 'I'm grossed out by this' issue."

Still, critics of so-called "Big Food" point out that while "pink slime" and the ammonia in it may not be harmful, consumer shock over their presence points to a wider issue.

"The food supply is full of all sorts of chemical additives that people don't know about," said Michele Simon, a public health lawyer and president of industry watchdog consulting firm Eat Drink Politics.

NOT AS BAD AS IT SOUNDS?

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Wednesday, 11 April 2012

Why A Cold Shower Is More Beneficial For You Health Than a Warm One

Most people cringe at the thought of a cold shower. Just a glance at the many polar bear clubs dipping themselves into freezing water can make even those resistant to cold turn their heads away. However, the sporadic research that has been done suggests that regular exposure to cold water (via showers, baths or swims) may have some incredible health benefits.



Most people are unware that cool ambient and water temperature can have a positive impact on your health, primarily by boosting antioxidant levels and promoting better sleep.

Increasing Glutathione Production

Cold showers may increase glutathione -- one of the body’s most powerful endegenous antioxidants. In fact, many of the antioxidants we ingest orally work by helping the body produce glutathione. While the body can make its own glutathione from other nutrients, if we try to take a glutathione pill, our bodies just can’t seem to utilize it. Encouragingly, a study of winter swimmers hints that cold water therapy can stimulate increases in glutathione levels.

Boosting the Immune System

A study from England found that taking daily cold showers increased the numbers of disease-fighting white blood cells (compared to people who took hot showers). The investigators at Britain's Thrombosis Research Institute suggested that as the body tries to warm itself during and after a cold shower, metabolic rate speeds up and activates the immune system, which leads to the release of more white blood cells. And, according to a German study, an occasional winter swim in cold water causes oxidative stress, but, done regularly, such swimming leads to an adaptive antioxidant response; in other words, the body is better able to combat oxidative stress in general once it's accustomed to cold-water swims.

Relieves Depression

Preventing Injury

Increases Testosterone

Enhancing Male Fertility

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Girls are developing faster than ever and doctors have no idea why

Hormone evolution
April 5, 2012

Breast growth at age 5? Stop! That can’t be a thing… Can it? It can.

As Strollerderby has previously reported, girls as young as 7 are documented as having had their period.

According to Jezebel, by age 7 an astounding 23% of African American girls are showing breast growth followed by 15% of Hispanic girls, 10% of Caucasian girls and only 2% of Asian girls.

That can’t be what Mother Nature intended. But it’s happening and an increasing number of moms want to know why.

A landmark study in the sixties suggested the average age at which girls hit puberty to be 11. But, as the NY Times reports, a doctor in the late eighties first noticed otherwise: Marcia Herman-Giddens, then a physician’s associate in the pediatric department of the Duke University Medical Center, started noticing that an awful lot of 8- and 9-year-olds in her clinic had sprouted pubic hair and breasts…So she started collecting data, eventually leading a study with the American Academy of Pediatrics that sampled 17,000 girls, finding that among white girls, the average age of breast budding was 9.96. Among black girls, it was 8.87. It’s true, girls are getting their periods earlier than ever and as Jezebel reports, no one knows why.

Read the full article HERE

Tuesday, 10 April 2012

Ten Worst Chemicals In Cosmetics and Personal Care Products

The personal care industry goes largely unregulated

In 2011, there were well over 200 ingredients under the umbrella term “fragrance,” and manufacturers are not required to disclose any of the actual ingredients in their formulas.

The entire cosmetic industry is in a buyer beware state of alert, thanks to the latest additions to the melting pot of chemicals and pollutants in skin care, above and beyond the usual parabens. Consumers are warned by experts toput on the watch listany make-up which contains synthetic colouring ingredients, emulsifiers, leads, copolymer, triclosan, and “urea as a preservative.” Also contributing to the chemical compounds are phthalates, formaldehyde, and petroleum.

Without proper regulations, especially regarding testing howchemicals react to one another in combinations, it is scary how quickly the industry has become a problem for women and men alike. Some lipsticks are loaded with lead. If you think it doesn’t matter because it’s just on your skin, think again. Deodorants and shampoo must also be included in the equation. There are plenty of solutions to the problem, but where do you begin?


There are critical trade offs when it comes to using products for beauty and hygiene that contain chemicals. Skin cancer can have roots, and the removal of them can leave scars on your nose or even around your mouth. Consumers shouldn’t count on “all natural” labels and similar advertisements because current regulations on the use of those buzzwords are almost non-existent.

Read the full article HERE

The Obsessed Culture of Lowering Cholesterol May Actually Be Causing Cancer

We have become a culture so obsessed with eating foods low in cholesterol and fat that many health experts are now questioning the consequences. Could we really maintain a dietary lifestyle that was so foreign to many of our ancestral populations without any ill effects on our health? Many researchers are now concluding that the answer to that question is "NO." Current data is now suggesting that lower cholesterol levels predate the development of cancer.

What is certain is that the 'little knowledge' that the media often imparts means many folks assume cholesterol is simply a 'bad' thing. Alternately, a good number of us may have heard the terms 'good' cholesterol and 'bad' cholesterol bandied about without knowing much about what this really means. In fact it is a fairly safe bet that if you asked anyone on the street for his or her instinctive response, if asked about cholesterol, they would probably say that we simply need to 'reduce it'.

Noddy Science

The 'noddy-science' offered by marketing men to a generally scientifically-naive public has led many people to believe that we should replace certain food choices with specially developed products that can help 'reduce cholesterol'. Naturally this comes at a price and requires those who can afford it to pay maybe four or five times what a 'typical ordinary' product might cost. But is this apparent 'blanket need' to strive towards lowering our cholesterol justified? And, indeed, is it healthy?

Steve Riechman, a researcher in the Department of Health and Kinesiology, says the study reveals that LDL is not the evil Darth Vader of health it has been made out to be in recent years and that new attitudes need to be adopted in regards to the substance. His work, with help from colleagues from the University of Pittsburgh, Kent State University, the Johns Hopkins Weight Management Center and the Northern Ontario School of Medicine, is published in the Journal of Gerontology.

Riechman and colleagues examined 52 adults from ages to 60 to 69 who were in generally good health but not physically active, and none of them were participating in a training program. The study showed that after fairly vigorous workouts, participants who had gained the most muscle mass also had the highest levels of LDL (bad) cholesterol, “a very unexpected result and one that surprised us.
“It shows that you do need a certain amount of LDL to gain more muscle mass. There’s no doubt you need both -- the LDL and the HDL -- and the truth is, it (cholesterol) is all good. You simply can’t remove all the ‘bad’ cholesterol from your body without serious problems occurring.

The 'noddy-science' of the so-called 'functional food' manufacturers would have us believe that there is such a thing as 'bad' cholesterol and 'good' cholesterol. This is, in fact, totally untrue. The cholesterol itself, whether being transported by LDL or HDL, is exactly the same. Cholesterol is simply a necessary ingredient that is required to be regularly delivered around the body for the efficient healthy development, maintenance and functioning of our cells. The difference is in the 'transporters' (the lipoproteins HDL and LDL) and both types are essential for the human body's delivery logistics to work effectively.

Problems can occur, however, when the LDL particles are both small and their carrying capacity outweighs the transportation potential of available HDL. This can lead to more cholesterol being 'delivered' around the body with lower resources for returning excess capacity to the liver.

Cancer

Does cancer cause low levels of LDL cholesterol, or are lower levels of LDL cholesterol a precursor to the development of cancer? New data from the Framingham Heart Study (FHS) offspring cohort help shed light on the question, mainly by eliminating the reverse-causality hypothesis that cancer is responsible for significantly lower serum concentrations of LDL cholesterol.

"The question we wanted to address is whether low cholesterol happens when the cancer is already there or is it there before the cancer develops," lead investigator Dr Paul Michael Lavigne (Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA) told heartwire. "Based on these data, it would suggest that lower cholesterol predated the development of cancer by quite a long time. Now, that doesn't necessarily speak to [low cholesterol] causing the cancer; it could have been related to something else altogether, but it's not supportive of the hypothesis that cancer caused the low levels of LDL cholesterol. We don't know why it predates cancer, but it would be premature to attribute it to the cancer itself."

Read the rest of this article HERE

Wednesday, 28 March 2012

How Chilli Promotes Fat Burning

Capsaicin, the compound gives red chilli pepper its heat, may exert its benefits at the protein level to boost fat burning and energy production, says new research. Obese rats supplemented with capsaicin had 8 per cent less body weight than control animals, and displayed changes in the levels of 20 proteins associated with obesity, according to findings published in the Journal of Proteome Research.

“These changes provide valuable new molecular insights into the mechanism of the anti-obesity effects of capsaicin,” report researchers from Daegu University in Korea. “Thus, we believe that the findings presented here open new insights into the study and potential treatments for this pathology.”

The research taps into the burgeoning weight loss and management market, estimated to already be worth $7bn (€5.2bn) globally. With 50 per cent of Europeans and 62 per cent of Americans classed as overweight, the food industry is waking up to the potential of products for weight loss and management.

The slimming ingredients market can be divided into five groups based on the mechanisms of action - boosting fat burning/ thermogenesis, inhibiting protein breakdown, suppressing appetite/ boosting satiety (feeling of fullness), blocking fat absorption, and regulating mood (linked to food consumption).

Capsaicin is reported to boost heat generation by the body, which means people burn more energy. A laboratory study from the National Chung Hsing University in Taiwan, found that capsaicin may inhibit the growth of fat cells (Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 2007, Vol. 55, pp. 1730-1736), while a human study with capsaicin, in combination with green tea extracts, found that (Clinical Nutrition, doi: 10.1016/j.clnu.2009.01.010) an alternative mode of action with promotion of the feeling of fullness and sustained satiety.

The new data suggests that the compound may exert its benefits by triggering certain beneficial protein changes in the body.
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Research Shows Hot Peppers Also Prevent The Number One Cause of Death

March 28, 2012

Capsaicinoids found in cayenne pepper, jalapenos, habaneros and other chili peppers already have an established treatment role in creams to address joint and arthritis pain. They also promote fat burning, increase metabolism and even kill cancer cells. Scientists have now reported the latest evidence that chili peppers are a heart-healthy food with potential to protect against the No. 1 cause of death in the developed world.



The report was part of the 243rd National Meeting and Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS), being held in San Diego the week of March 26.

Past research suggested that spicing food with chilies can lower blood pressure in people with that condition, reduce blood cholesterol and ease the tendency for dangerous blood clots to form.

Researchers in Korea recently published evidence that suggests the mechanisms behind why capsaicin may aid weight loss.

Spicing up your daily diet with some red pepper can also curb appetite, especially for those who don't normally eat the popular spice, according to research from Purdue University.

The component that gives jalapeno peppers their heat may also kill prostate cancer cells.


"Our research has reinforced and expanded knowledge about how these substances in chilies work in improving heart health," said Zhen-Yu Chen, Ph.D., who presented the study. "We now have a clearer and more detailed portrait of their innermost effects on genes and other mechanisms that influence cholesterol and the health of blood vessels. It is among the first research to provide that information."

The team found, for instance, that capsaicin and a close chemical relative boost heart health in two ways. They lower cholesterol levels by reducing accumulation of cholesterol in the body and increasing its breakdown and excretion in the feces. They also block action of a gene that makes arteries contract, restricting the flow of blood to the heart and other organs. The blocking action allows more blood to flow through blood vessels.

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Microwaved Water - See What It Does To Plants

If you find this article interesting you would certainly find the following article well worth reading "Radiation Ovens - The Proven Dangers Of Microwaves"

The following is an old article that appeared at Rense.com many years ago, but certainly remains worth reading.
The original article "Microwaved Water - See What It Does To Plants" contains much more detail - click HERE

More photographs and examples can be found in the following base-article "Microwaved Water and Plants"

Below is a Science fair project presented by a girl in a secondary school in Sussex.
In it she took filtered water and divided it into two parts.


The first part she heated to boiling in a pan on the stove, and the second part she heated to boiling in a microwave.

Then after cooling she used the water to water two identical plants to see if there would be any difference in the growth between the normal boiled water and the water boiled in a microwave.

She was thinking that the structure or energy of the water may be compromised by microwave.

As it turned out, even she was amazed at the difference, after the experiment which was repeated by her class mates a number of times and had the same result.
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It has been known for some years that the problem with microwaved anything is not the radiation people used to worry about, it’s how it corrupts the DNA in the food so the body can not recognize it.

Microwaves don’t work different ways on different substances. Whatever you put into the microwave suffers the same destructive process. Microwaves agitate the molecules to move faster and faster. This movement causes friction which denatures the original make-up of the substance. It results in destroyed vitamins, minerals, proteins and generates the new stuff called radiolytic compounds, things that are not found in nature.

So the body wraps it in fat cells to protect itself from the dead food or it eliminates it fast. Think of all the Mothers heating up milk in these ‘Safe’ appliances. What about the nurse in Canada that warmed up blood for a transfusion patient and accidentally killed him when the blood went in dead. But the makers say it’s safe. But proof is in the pictures of living plants dying!!!

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Ten Reasons to dispose off your Microwave Oven

From the conclusions of the Swiss, Russian and German scientific clinical studies, we can no longer ignore the microwave oven sitting in our kitchens. Based on this research, one can conclude this article with the following:

1). Continually eating food processed from a microwave oven causes long term – permanent – brain damage by ‘shorting out’ electrical impulses in the brain [de-polarizing or de-magnetizing the brain tissue].

2). The human body cannot metabolize [break down] the unknown by-products created in microwaved food.

3). Male and female hormone production is shut down and/or altered by continually eating microwaved foods.

4). The effects of microwaved food by-products are residual [long term, permanent] within the human body.

5). Minerals, vitamins, and nutrients of all microwaved food is reduced or altered so that the human body gets little or no benefit, or the human body absorbs altered compounds that cannot be broken down.

6). The minerals in vegetables are altered into cancerous free radicals when cooked in microwave ovens.

7). Microwaved foods cause stomach and intestinal cancerous growths [tumours]. This may explain the rapidly increased rate of colon cancer in UK and America .

8). The prolonged eating of microwaved foods causes cancerous cells to increase in human blood.

9). Continual ingestion of microwaved food causes immune system deficiencies through lymph gland and blood serum alterations.
10). Eating microwaved food causes loss of memory, concentration, emotional instability, and a decrease of intelligence.

Source - Microwave test – an eye opener | Employee News

Tuesday, 27 March 2012

High-Fat Diet May Cause Less Weight Gain And Stimulate New Brain Cell Growth

Arlene Paredes
International Business Times
Tue, 27 Mar 2012 08:13 CDT

Scientists gave mice a high fat diet, after which, the mice showed growth of new brain cells and less weight gain.

"We really don't understand the function of these neurons in the normal brain," study researcher Seth Blackshaw, an associate professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, told LiveScience.

Prof. Blackshaw said the growth of new brain cells has yet to be explained, but initial data makes interesting implications.

"Our data suggests that these neurons may have an important role in regulating feeding."

Researchers noted the new brain cells grew in an area of the brain that seems to regulate eating. They also noted that even after they stopped the new brain-cell growth, the mice on the experiment gained less weight and stayed more active.

The new cells grew in a part of the brain called the median eminence, which lies at the edge of a fluid-filled chamber and therefore outside of the blood-brain barrier (which keeps toxic substances out of the brain), but it extends deep into the hypothalamus, which helps the human body spend the energy it accumulates, reports LiveScience.

The researchers wanted to see how brain cells in the median eminence reacted to a high-fat diet, so they put mice on a "Big Mac" diet - which contained 60 per cent fat instead of the 35 percent fat in regular mouse chow, LiveScience reports.

"We have no idea if this happens in any species other than mice. In humans all the cells and the structures are conserved," Blackshaw said. "I think there's no reason to assume necessarily that this wouldn't happen in humans, but I would be very careful into reading too much in these studies."

The study was published on March 25 in the journal Nature Neuroscience.

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All the REAL research that is NOT "bought" by special interests shows that humans thrive on high fat, low carbohydrate diets (as long as the fat is healthy, mostly animal, saturated fat and not the plastic, toxic fats like most seed and vegetable oils and especially trans fats / hydrogenated fats). There's mountains of scientific evidence for this going back to the early 20th Century -- besides all the records of cultures who ate this way going back MUCH longer. MUCH more than the bogus mainstream claims about fat and cholesterol being "bad" and high carb diets being "good," etc.

In fact, all the health issues that were supposed to be prevented and/or improved during the period since these totally bogus and insane recommendations were made, all these "diseases" and more have skyrocketed. Besides all the solid scientific studies, papers, clinical trials, and research of every kind supporting these facts, there are thousands of readers and forum members here that have experimented with the Paleo / Primal low carb, high fat diet and have eliminated or vastly improved every kind of health issue under the sun, and MANY, MANY more around the world who've posted their results on numerous websites and blogs. And the science that shows all this is NOT funded and controlled by Big Pharma / Big Agra cartels or the Powers That Be.

You can find all this out if you have an open mind and want to do the research yourself, otherwise, you can always run along and go to the disinformation superhighway -- it's a big one and will keep you going in circles for very long time.

Monday, 26 March 2012

Putting The Myth To Rest - There Is No Such Thing As Bad Cholesterol

By PreventDisease.com

Perhaps one of the biggest health myths propagated in western culture and certainly in the United States, is the correlation between elevatedcholesterol and cardiovascular disease (CVD). Unfortunately, despite dozens of studies, cholesterol has not been shown to actually cause CVD. To the contrary, cholesterol is vital to our survival, and trying to artificially lower it can have detrimental effects, particularly as we age.

Cholesterol seems to be one of those things that strikes fear into the hearts of many, so to speak. We have become obsessed with eating foods low in cholesterol and fat. Ask almost anyone, and they can tell you their cholesterol levels.

What is certain is that the 'little knowledge' that the media often imparts means many folks assume cholesterol is simply a 'bad' thing. Alternately, a good number of us may have heard the terms 'good' cholesterol and 'bad' cholesterol bandied about without knowing much about what this really means. In fact it is a fairly safe bet that if you asked anyone on the street for his or her instinctive response, if asked about cholesterol, they would probably say that we simply need to 'reduce it'.

The 'noddy-science' offered by marketing men to a generally scientifically-naive public has led many people to believe that we should replace certain food choices with specially developed products that can help 'reduce cholesterol'. Naturally this comes at a price and requires those who can afford it to pay maybe four or five times what a 'typical ordinary' product might cost. But is this apparent 'blanket need' to strive towards lowering our cholesterol justified? And, indeed, is it healthy?

For anyone who has had the official diagnosis of 'high cholesterol' in their bloodstream, they may even have embarked upon a program of medicinal intervention. In fact it is quite likely that they may have joined the legions of long-term pill-poppers who are already lining the pockets of the profit-oriented pharmaceutical giants.

But let's take a moment, now, to review some of the facts and fallacies about the much-maligned substance: cholesterol.

Cholesterol is needed to make hormones. Without it we would not produce estrogen, progesterone or testosterone. It is vital for the functioning of nerve synapses and provides the structural integrity for our cell membranes. Cholesterol is used by the skin to help prevent water evaporation and to make our skin waterproof. Vitamin D is synthesized from cholesterol. And bile, used for fat digestion, consists mostly of cholesterol. The liver produces about 90 percent of the cholesterol in our bodies; only 10 percent comes from diet. If we eat too much cholesterol, the liver decreases the output of cholesterol.

Cholesterol is a naturally occurring lipid. This means it is a type of fat or oil and it is in fact an essential component in creating and sustaining the membranes of the cells of all bodily tissues. So this alone means we need cholesterol to survive! Most of the cholesterol that is found in our bodies is actually naturally manufactured within our own cells. However there is also an additional contribution that we get from external 'nutritional' sources - the foods we consume. In a typical diet providing around 400mg of cholesterol per day from food sources, about half to two-thirds of this amount is actually absorbed through the process of digestion. The body will normally secrete about a gram (1000mg) of cholesterol per day into the bile via the ducts, and approximately three-fifths of this is then re-absorbed.

Where our tissues or organs are a particularly dense complex of cells, which have closely packed cell membranes, there will naturally be higher levels of cholesterol. The key organs that need, and contain, these higher amounts of cholesterol include the liver, the brain and the spinal cord - none of which would work well if we reduced cholesterol too much!

In effect cholesterol plays an essential role in the development and maintenance of healthy cell walls. It is also a critical factor in the synthesizing of steroid hormones, which are a key factor in our natural physical development. 

Being a lipid, cholesterol is fat-soluble, but it is not soluble in blood. However it needs to be transported around the body to the places where it can be utilized. This is why, in order to be moved around, it must become 'associated' with certain lipoproteins which feature a water-soluble (therefore 'blood transportable') coat of proteins. There are two key types of lipoproteins that transport cholesterol around the body: low-density and high-density variants. The essential cellular function of cholesterol requires that sufficient amounts are manufactured by specialized sub-systems (or organelles) within the body's cells called the endoplasmic reticulum. Alternatively, the cholesterol we need must be derived from our diet. During the process of 'digestion and assimilation' of foods, it is the low-density lipoprotein (LDL) that carries dietary cholesterol from the liver to various parts of the body.

When there is sufficient cholesterol for cellular needs, the other key transport mechanism in this amazing 'logistics system' - high-density lipoprotein (HDL) - can take cholesterol back to the liver from where any unnecessary excess can be processed for excretion.

The 'noddy-science' of the so-called 'functional food' manufacturers would have us believe that there is such a thing as 'bad' cholesterol and 'good' cholesterol. This is, in fact, totally untrue. The cholesterol itself, whether being transported by LDL or HDL, is exactly the same. Cholesterol is simply a necessary ingredient that is required to be regularly delivered around the body for the efficient healthy development, maintenance and functioning of our cells. The difference is in the 'transporters' (the lipoproteins HDL and LDL) and both types are essential for the human body's delivery logistics to work effectively.

Read the rest of this article HERE

Sunday, 25 March 2012

Drug-resistant strains of TB out of control, warn experts

Mar 25 2012 07:21

The fight against new, antibiotic-resistant strains of tuberculosis has already been lost in some parts of the world, according to a senior World Health Organisation expert. Figures show a 5% rise in the number of new cases of the highly infectious disease in the UK.

Dr Paul Nunn, head of the WHO's global TB response team, is leading the efforts against multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB). Nunn said that, while TB is preventable and curable, a combination of bad management and misdiagnosis was leaving pharmaceutical companies struggling to keep up. Meanwhile, the disease kills millions every year.

"It occurs basically when the health system screws up," said Nunn. "Treating TB requires a carefully followed regime of medication over six months. In places where health services are fragmented or underfunded, or patients poor and health professionals ill-trained, that treatment can fall short, which can in turn lead to patients developing drug-resistant strains. It's been estimated that an undiagnosed TB-infected person can infect 10 others a year.

"There's a vicious circle, because when new drugs come out they are expensive, so there is no demand. Without the volume of demand, the cost will not come down. If we can't tackle this, we are going to finish up with a lot more people being diagnosed with multi-drug resistant strains. We've already lost the battle in places such as the former Soviet Union, and so we need a huge expansion of effort, especially in places like India and China." He added: "In some areas we have probably already lost the battle. Globally, it is still just 5% of the total number of TB cases, but with sloppy management of treatment we are moving towards an accelerating problem."

Tuberculosis is long thought to have lost out as donors preferred to fund HIV research and healthcare for children. "The absolute numbers were seen to be falling and TB seemed somehow to lose out and never had the profile of other health issues; it was the orphan child and just didn't get the same funding," said Nunn. But while there were few drugs on the horizon, new rapid diagnostic tests were a "wonderful" breakthrough.

It is 130 years since the German scientist Dr Robert Koch astounded the world by announcing that he had discovered the cause of tuberculosis, the TB bacillus. At the time TB was raging through Europe and the Americas, killing one in seven people. Today tuberculosis remains an epidemic in much of the world, causing the deaths of several million people each year, most of them in developing countries. The combination of HIV and TB has proved catastrophic. More than 350 000 people living with HIV died because of TB in 2010.

TB was once the biggest killer in Britain, but cases are now concentrated in London and among people not born in the UK. Provisional figures from the Health Protection Agency showed there were 9 042 new cases in 2011, compared with 8 587 in 2010. But Professor Ibrahim Abubakar, head of the TB section at the HPA, cautioned: "Despite the observed increase in TB cases in 2011, this provisional data should be interpreted with caution, because numbers are likely to change due to late notifications and de-notification of cases. It is therefore too early to determine whether this is a return to the upward trend of cases seen in the past two decades in the UK. TB continues to disproportionately affect those in hard to reach and vulnerable groups, particularly migrants, so it is crucial that we have specific strategies in place to address this."

The UK is also under pressure to restore funding to the Global Fund, first established to tackle what is often called the "big three" of HIV, malaria and TB. A $1.7-billion reduction in funding to tackle TB over the next five years will affect the treatment of 3.4-million TB patients and could reverse gains made in tackling the disease, says new evidence released by three charities.

Results UK, the International HIV/Aids Alliance and the Stop Aids Campaign say they no longer have the resources to continue expanding their work. They are urging the UK to back emergency action to replenish the Global Fund at the G20 meeting in Mexico in June. The fund provides more than four-fifths of all funding to fight TB.

Read more HERE

It seems Marijuana is becoming the next miracle drug that cures all known disease

It seems Marijuana is becoming like so many other alternative / complementary products that start out being marketed or suggested for the treatment of some condition and then eventually ends up being a miraculous cure-all for any condition from the common cold to cancer.

Another Reason Marijuana is Illegal: It Prevents The Spread of HIV

The overwhelming evidence of the curative powers of marijuana and cannabinoids leave little doubt that the pharmaceutical industry is behind marijuana prohibition laws. The amount of research now validating the truly remarkable nature of this healing plant is simply enormous. According to new findings published in the journal PLoS ONE, researchers have now have now discovered that marijuana-like chemicals trigger receptors on human immune cells that can directly inhibit a type of human immuno-deficiency virus (HIV) found in late-stage AIDS.

The U.S. Patent 6630507 was specifically initiated when researchers found that cannabinoids had specific antioxidant properties making them useful in the treatment and prophylaxis of wide variety of oxidation associated diseases, such as ischemic, age-related, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The cannabinoids are found to have particular application as neuroprotectants, for example in limiting neurological damage following ischemic insults, such as stroke and trauma, or in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and HIV dementia.

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