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Pearls of wisdom

A clear conscience is the sign of a fuzzy memory.

By RealAge

Yummy for Your Ears

Good for you

In a study, people with the highest average intakes of carotenoid-rich vegetables — like sweet potatoes — and vitamin E-rich foods — like almonds — experienced a 47 percent reduced risk of moderate or greater hearing loss compared with the people who had the lowest average intakes of these nutrients. And in another study from the same research team, people who ate a couple of servings per week of omega-3-rich fish — like salmon – experienced hearing protection as well. After 2 years, the fish lovers had a 42 percent lower risk of developing age-related hearing loss compared with the participants who ate much less fish. (Related: Check out these seven steps to turning your grandkid into a healthy eater.)

Free Radical Phenomenon

Bad Radicals!

As we age, a rising level of free radical molecules may damage the inner portion of the ear associated with hearing. But antioxidant nutrients like carotenoids and vitamin E may help fight that dynamic. And there may be something about the anti-inflammatory qualities of omega-3s that helps protect hearing as well. (Related: Did you know? Anti-inflammatory foods may help make your joints comfier, too.)

First, stick with fresh, healthy foods. Shop the outside aisles of the store. That’s where you’ll find fresh fruits and vegetables, lean meats and dairy.

Studies from around the world show that eating these “low glycemic” foods promotes clearer, healthier-looking skin. The glycemic index (GI) is the measure of the rate of a blood sugar spike after eating carbohydrates. Low glycemic foods do not trigger a rapid rise in blood sugar, and can be a much better choice.

You should strive for a good balance of nutrients, but certain nutrients are especially good for youthful, glowing skin.

Women with higher vitamin C intakes tend to have fewer visible lines and wrinkles.  So, get plenty of this antioxidant vitamin. You’ll find lots of it in green peppers, strawberries and citrus fruit.

health and beauty.

Every cell in your body needs CoQ10 for energy. It’s your skin’s first line of defense against photo-aging, too.  Plus, it helps reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles.  Grass-fed beef, free-range chicken and wild-caught fish are the best foods for CoQ10.

Resveratrol activates an enzyme called telomerase.  This enzyme interacts with cells – including skin cells – to keep them healthy and alive longer. Studies on skin cultures also show resveratrol may be an important antioxidant for your skin.

From Market America web site www.shopwithkagans.com

Primary Benefits of Isotonix® Resveratrol*:

Maintains cell health

Promotes normal cell cycle activity

Promotes apoptosis (programmed cell death) in unhealthy cells

Promotes normal nuclear factor kappa B (NF-Kappa B – protein) and cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2 – enzyme) activity

Promotes normal activity of the SIRT-1 gene (involved in calorie restriction, fat mobilization, mitochondrial function)

Promotes cardiovascular health (promotes normal platelet activity, helps maintain normal vasorelaxation, provides antioxidant protection of LDL particles).

Superior antioxidant and high ORAC value

Promotes a healthy prostate gland

Helps promote apoptosis in unhealthy prostate cells

Isotonic, which means “same pressure,” bears the same chemical resemblance of the body’s blood, plasma and tears. All fluids in the body have a certain concentration, referred to as osmotic pressure. The body’s common osmotic pressure, which is isotonic, allows a consistent maintenance of body tissues. In order for a substance to be absorbed and used in the body’s metabolism, it must be in an isotonic state.

But it’s hard to get enough resveratrol from foods. It’s one nutrient that’s probably best taken as a supplement. Also, look for resveratrol in skin products because it can also be used topically.

My advise

You can see right away if a person is healthy just by looking at her/his face. So it is a logical conclusion that a healthy person got healthy beautiful skin. So please quit smoking, eat healthy and exercise. And considering today’s food quality don’t forget your supplements.

Is genetic engineering good or bad?

Is physics good or bad? 

Is science good or bad?

Well….It depends!

We humans manage to adapt every scientific discovery to kill each other.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

Monsanto’s Corn Is Toppling Over

Monsanto

“As the summer growing season draws to a close, 2011 is emerging as the year of the superinsect – the year pests officially developed resistance to Monsanto’s genetically engineered (ostensibly) bug-killing corn.

“In late July scientists in Iowa documented the existence of corn rootworms (a ravenous pest that attacks the roots of corn plants) that can happily devour corn plants that were genetically tweaked specifically to kill them. Monsanto’s corn, engineered to express a toxic gene from a bacterial insecticide called Bt, now accounts for 65 percent of the corn planted in the US.

“The superinsect scourge has also arisen in Illinois and Minnesota.

“‘Monsanto’s insect-killing corn is toppling over in northwestern Illinois fields, a sign that rootworms outside of Iowa may have developed resistance to the genetically modified crop,’ reports Bloomberg. In southern Minnesota, adds Minnesota Public Radio, an entomologist has found corn rootworms thriving, Bt corn plants drooping, in fields.

Not a Sci-Fi

“[A] 2008 study, conducted by University of Missouri researchers and published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that within three generations, rootworms munching Monsanto’s Bt corn survived at the same rate as rootworms munching pesticide-free corn-meaning that complete resistance had been achieved. Takeaway message: rootworms are capable of evolving resistance to Monsanto’s corn in ‘rapid’ fashion.”

- “Monsanto Denies Superinsect Science,” by Tom Philpott, Mother Jones, September 8, 2011. http://www.organicconsumers.org/bytes/ob294.htm

The ecological, economic and agro- nomic disaster accompanying herbicide-tolerant transgenic crops is by now well known: over 10 million acres of superweeds resistant to Monsanto’s weedkiller, Roundup; farm machinery breaking on Roundup-resistant pigweed thick as a baseball bat; Monsanto paying farmers to spray their fields with competitors’ herbicides; a new gener- ation of transgenic crops in the pipelineengineered to withstand older even more dangerous chemicals like 2,4-D.

The Earth population is growing exponentially. We need more and more food.

So what do we do? How do we solve the problem?

The short answer: I don’t know!

The long answer: population grows is in inverse proportion to the advancement of the society.

The conclusion: you decide!

Pearls of wisdom

Hospitality is making your guests feel at home even when you wish they were.

Childhood world

We all remember how bright and full of wonders the world was when we were kids.

Long lazy summer days full of smells and sounds and sights and doing nothing. Just absorbing the world. The world so bright, so full of mystery and promise of wonders and adventure.

And than…we grew up. And for most of us the colors faded, the sounds changed, the daily routine replaced the promise.

The time accelerated. As if the life is just passing by, leaving us behind.

We became “adults”. Now we have important things to do.

So we are busy doing important things that adults have to do.

Time meltdown

We are in a hurry, always in a hurry. And in our daily busy routine we lost something important.

We forgot how to live. We lost not just the childhood.

We lost our true selves.

The simplicity of living. Or just living:

‘Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves – slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future. Live the actual moment.’ ~Thich Nhat Hanh

Adults miss childhood. We all miss pure joy of just being. Being an inseparable part of the World.

And we wonder-what happened?,why are colors fading? Why we don’t see the moment. Why our lives, our Time became a blur, the wonder and happiness gone?

Wonder years.

“Actually, the answer is CHILDREN LIVE IN THE MOMENT!!! Every new discovery is amazing, the world is huge and you don’t want to miss a thing….as you get older you think you know everything. A Child can’t wait til the next Moment….All Adults care about is the weekend…We can’twait til next month….time flies….We can’t wait til next year….time flies…..when we aren’t living in the moment, we aren’t creating memories. And memories is what makes out childhood seem long…”

“I was searching for my article and stumbled on this one:http://zenhabits.net/slow-down-to-enjoy-life/

The first time I was in Sweden, one of my colleagues picked me up at the hotel every morning. It was September, bit cold and snowy. We would arrive early at the company and he would park far away from the entrance (2000 employees drive their car to work). The first day, I didn’t say anything, either the second or third. One morning I asked, “Do you have a fixed parking space? I’ve noticed we park far from the entrance even when there are no other cars in the lot.” To which he replied, “Since we’re here early we’ll have time to walk, and whoever gets in late will be late and need a place closer to the door. Don’t you think? Imagine my face.

It’s not just a matter of reducing clutter or saving money … it’s a matter of slowing down to enjoy life more, of savoring life’s simple pleasures, of rejecting on some level the materialistic culture we are all caught up in and embracing fellow humans instead. It is about changing our values and priorities.

Running toward??

Many of us live our lives running behind time, but we only reach it when we die of a heart attack or in a car accident rushing to be on time. Others are so anxious of living the future that they forget to live the present, which is the only time that truly exists. We all have equal time throughout the world. No one has more or less. The difference lies in how each one of us does with our time. We need to live each moment. As John Lennon said, “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans”.

I found a cool site called Slow Down Nowthat offers some tips for slowing down, including:

1. Have a cup of tea, put your feet up and stare out of the window. Warning: don’t try this while driving.
2. Spend some quality time in the bathtub.
3. Write down these words and place them where you can see them, “Multitasking is a Moral Weakness.”
4. Try to do only one thing at a time.

Just sit down. Just breathe. Think about what do you really want? Imagine you live the life you really want. Does thinking about it, imagining it makes you feel good, makes you happy?

Does Time slows? So you got your answer.

http://youtu.be/D_SESCy4tcw

You and your doctor

If your condition seams to getting better, it’s probably your doctor getting sick.

Life and fear

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. ~Marie Curie

Rejoice!

Beer is actually good for you!

Enjoy!

But what the public doesn’t know is that the health value of beer has been known, documented and applied for centuries. But there are folks out there who don’t want you to know about it.

Beer is made from grains, water and yeast. Grains commonly used are barley and wheat (with cheaper, mass-produced beers relying on corn and rice), both of which are loaded with a variety of vitamins that survive the fermentation and filtering process. And the vitamin value of the yeast is conserved in the hundreds of unfiltered beers that are on the market — both on tap and in bottles.

Surprising Health Benefits of Beer

by Kaboodle.com, on Mon Sep 27, 2010 12:04pm PD

Reduce Your Risk of Heart Disease

According to several studies, including one done at the Institute of Epidemiology at the University of Muenster, moderate beer drinking reduces the risk of coronary heart disease. The reasons are simple: Alcohol can increase HDL (good cholesterol) levels and reduces the chances of hardening of the arteries and thickening of the blood—two main contributors to heart attacks.

Drink Your Vitamins

Years ago, Guinness used the slogan “Guinness is Good for You.” It looks like they might have been right.

According to a Dutch study conducted at the TNO Nutrition and Food Research Institute, beer drinkers had 30% higher levels of vitamin B6 in their blood than non-beer-drinkers—twice the amount of red-wine drinkers.

Avoid Kidney Stones

According to a study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology, risk of kidney stones was decreased 40% in middle-aged beer-drinking men, as compared to non-beer-drinkers.

Helps Women Age Better

Cheers!

Better Brain Power. While excessive alcohol intake can cause irreparable brain damage, moderate daily consumption actually safeguards a sharp mind, research shows. A Harvard study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, showed moderate alcohol consumption assisted in preserving the mental faculties of older women,

Tufts University study concluded alcohol can help preserve bone density, a frequent health issue for aging females. Additionally, some bioflavonoids found in hops (a major ingredient in beer) have similar properties as estrogen, which may serve as a natural form of hormone replacement therapy in post-menopausal women.

Prevent Cancer

Early studies show xanthohumol, a compound found in hops, may help inhibit certain enzymes that can trigger cancer and aid the body in breaking down carcinogens. The compound is current being tested in hopes of creating a preventative treatment for prostate and colon cancers.

So my friends enjoy life (and beer) but in moderation! Too much of anything can kill you.

But if your choice is diet soda or beer-go for the beer!

Life and fear

Those who fear life are already three parts dead.  ~Bertrand Russell

UV exposure is bad for you

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080918081046.htm

Moderation!

In one of three papers in the series published today, Dr David E Fisher, dermatologist and president of the Society of Melanoma Research, and colleagues from the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston have explored the social issues and molecular mechanisms related to tanning caused by UV exposure. Reviewing published data in the field, the authors report that both tanning and skin cancer seem to begin with the same event – DNA damage caused by UV exposure. This leads them to suggest that a ‘safe’ tan with UV may be a physical impossibility

Skin cancer is the most common malignancy in the US; the American Academy of Dermatology reports than one American dies every 62 minutes from melanoma. The WHO estimated that, in the year 2000, up to 71 000 deaths worldwide were attributed to excessive UV exposure

Source

Department of Medicine, Section of Endocrinology, Nutrition, and Diabetes, Vitamin D, Skin, and Bone Research Laboratory, Boston University Medical Center, Boston, MA 02118, USA. mfholick@bu.edu

Sun is good for you

Life is good!

Most humans depend on sun exposure to satisfy their requirements for vitamin D. Solar ultraviolet B photons are absorbed by 7-dehydrocholesterol in the skin, leading to its transformation to previtamin D3, which is rapidly converted to vitamin D3. Vitamin D deficiency is an unrecognized epidemic among both children and adults in the United States. Vitamin D deficiency not only causes rickets among children but also precipitates and exacerbates osteoporosis among adults and causes the painful bone disease osteomalacia. Vitamin D deficiency has been associated with increased risks of deadly cancers, cardiovascular disease, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, and type 1 diabetes mellitus.

http://www.diet.com/g/rickets

Rickets was once considered an extremely common disorder of childhood. The term itself is derived from the old English word for “twist,” or “wrick,” and throughout history children with rickets could be identified by their bowed legs and knock knees, which gave them a twisted appearance.

Rickets is caused by a deficiency in vitamin D. During growth, human bone is made and maintained by the interaction of calcium,phosphorus, and vitamin D. Calcium is deposited in immature bone (osteoid) in a process called calcification, which transforms immature bone into its mature and familiar form. However, in order to absorb and use the calcium available in food, the body needs vitamin D. In rickets, the lack of this important vitamin leads to low calcium, poor calcification, and deformed bones.

Infants and children who are not exposed to sunlight, like those in smog-filled cities or those who remain indoors or covered for cultural or religious reasons, are also at increased risk of developing rickets. In children with darkly pigmented skin, melanin acts in a similar way to block sunlight’s ability to help the skin make vitamin D. Dark-skinned people require almost six times as much sunlight exposure to make the same amount of vitamin D as those with lighter skin.

Researchers have found that as little as twenty to thirty minutes of sun exposure per week in children in temperate climates is sufficient to maintain adequate levels of vitamin D in the blood. Other studies have found that oral supplements of 400 IU of vitamin D daily, often in the form of fish-liver oil, can prevent the disease in at-risk populations.

Too much Water is bad for you

By Alison McCook

Water is good, right?

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A new review of three deaths of US military recruits highlights the dangers of drinking too much water.

The military has traditionally focused on the dangers associated with heat illness, which has killed a number of healthy, young enrollees, Colonel John W. Gardner of the Office of the Armed Forces Medical Examiner in Rockville, Maryland told Reuters Health. However, pushing the need to drink water too far can also have deadly consequences, he said.

“The risk has always been not drinking enough,” Gardner said. “And then people who aren’t medically attuned get overzealous,” inducing recruits to drink amounts of water that endanger their health, he added.

Just use common sense and don’t be overzealous.

Sun is good for you-in moderation

Water is good for you-in moderation

Food is good for you-in moderation

Alcohol is good for you-in moderation

Sex is good for you-in moderation

I hope you got my point. Enjoy life and do what you like to do.

Just don’t go crazy!