Diet prevents Polio

Medical science has been able to prevent diphtheria, smallpox, and typhoid fever by vaccination.
We have been able to reduce the mortality from tuberculosis by pasteurization of milk and improved general hygiene. Typhoid fever and cholera have been prevented by chlorination of water and proper sewage disposal. Humans have been protected against these diseases because they have been artificially immunized and because their environment has been controlled to some extent, and not because the body’s inherent ability to prevent infection has been built up.

It is far more important to enable the human to maintain his natural powers against infection than it is to keep bacteria and viruses away from his door, especially since we do not have vaccines available for many common infections. I do not believe that Nature over intended that man should suffer sickness, crippling, and death through infections. From my observations and studies in human nutrition I have become convinced that Nature originally did endow us with natural powers of protection and that we have lost these powers through errors in diet.

Benjamin P. Sandler, M.D.

Isla Bermeja

Es una isla en territorio Mexicano. Pero no es nuestra!! Que decepcion!
Tema para buscar y reflexionar. Urgente hablar de ella!!!

Nutricion... en terminos terrenales

Los carbohidratos, las proteinas, grasas, minerales, vitaminas y agua son los nutrientes necesarios para obtener energia, regular las funciones de los organos, permitir el crecimiento celular y procesar los alimentos.
Los micronutrientes (vitaminas y minerales) no proveen energia por si mismos, mientras que los macronutrientres como las grasas, carbohidratos y proteinas son capaces de proporcionarla, si y solo si, se encuentran presentes los micronutrientes necesarios.

Informacion

Esta semana hablare sobre el contenido calorico de un gramo de grasa, un gramo de proteina y un gramo de carbohidratos. La lista de aminoacidos esenciales y un poco de la historia de su creacion. La relacion que existe entre ciertos tipos de cancer y el consumo de carne. El costo de un kilo de carne y lo que le cuesta (al planeta) producirlo. Los riesgos de ingerir azucar y harina blanca. Las cualidades del Mijo, las lentejas, nueces, algas y la espirulina.

Noticias del Dia (Parte I)

He estado en conferencias!!!


Tainted heparin seized from Ohio company
Federal drug regulators have seized batches of the tainted blood thinner heparin from a Cincinnati manufacturer that used a Chinese-made ingredient linked to 81 U.S. deaths earlier this year.The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said yesterday that it took 11 lots of heparin from Celsus Laboratories that was contaminated with over-sulfated chondroitin sulfate (OSCS), a chemical used only to make fake blood thinner. The ingredient mimics heparin's anti-clotting properties but can cause severe allergic reactions and dangerously low blood pressure, according to reports the agency received beginning in January. http://tinyurl.com/5ccunh


Mexican "water monster" threatens to vanish
The axolotl—a foot-long amphibian reputed by the Aztecs to be a transformed god (but eaten anyway)—is in danger of disappearing for good, like so many of its fellow amphibians. http://tinyurl.com/5zqwek

Pet food making people sick
Some 79 people in 21 states have been sickened with a bacterial infection linked to contaminated pet food — the first time human Salmonella enterica illness has been traced to a contaminated animal food plant. In the past three years, companies have recalled at least 135 pet products, including food and supplements, because of Salmonella contamination. http://tinyurl.com/5g8bgb

Postal Anthrax Aftermath
Keith Rhodes, the Government Accountability Office’s chief technologist, told a congressional hearing in October 2007 that “we are at greater risk today” than before of an infectious disease epidemic because of the great increase in biolaboratories and the absence of oversight they receive. In the past six years, says Rutgers University microbiologist Richard Ebright, “the Bush administration has driven a 20- to 30-fold increase in the number of institutions and individuals with access to live, virulent bioweapons agents,” to about 400 institutions and 15,000 people. Every one of them, he claims, “is a potential source of an attack like the 2001 attack. http://tinyurl.com/6b8a9n

Levels of the greenhouse gas methane begin to increase again
Since early 2007 the balance has been upset, according to a paper on the new findings being published this week in Geophysical Review Letters. The paper's lead authors, postdoctoral researcher Matthew Rigby and Ronald Prinn, the TEPCO Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry in MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Science, say this imbalance has resulted in several million metric tons of additional methane in the atmosphere. Methane is produced by wetlands, rice paddies, cattle, and the gas and coal industries, and is destroyed by reaction with the hydroxyl free radical (OH), often referred to as the atmosphere's "cleanser." Pound for pound, methane is 25 times more powerful as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, the situation will require careful monitoring in the near future. http://tinyurl.com/6by2kr

Indian temperature rise 'will exceed projected rainfall'
(NEW DELHI) One of India's leading climate change scientists says the country needs to address the impact of climate change on its agriculture, water resources and health "right away", as projected temperature rise will far exceed the increase in rainfall by the end of the century. "Studies have shown that even a one degree rise in temperature can cause a ten per cent reduction in [crop] yield. And we are talking about three degrees change expected in future in India," http://tinyurl.com/6om7g8

Mercury pollution and the Northeast states
In the Northeast, elevated levels of mercury in certain fish species have resulted in statewide fish consumption advisories covering more than 10,000 lakes, ponds, and reservoirs, and over 46,000 river miles in the region. The persistent need for these advisories comes despite nearly a decade of work within the Northeast that substantially reduced regional mercury emissions and discharges. Multiple research studies have shown that the majority of mercury in the states’ waters now comes from out-of-region sources such as coal-fired power plants, whose mercury emissions drift to the region on air currents and then fall directly into waterways or get carried by runoff into them. http://tinyurl.com/68rouk

Enfermedades

Hoy en dia, existen cientos de productos que prometen matar el 99.9% de los virus y bacterias causantes de enfermedades "comunes". Las vacunas han mejorado notoriamente, y a traves de procesos sanitarios y de esterilizacion nos hemos protegido de enfermedades. Pero la capacidad de nuestro cuerpo para prevenir las infecciones no ha avanzado. No seria a caso mas sencillo aumentar esta capacidad, que librar una batalla a muerte para mantener a los patogenos fuera de casa? Entonces surge una pregunta altamente excitante! Como podemos aumentar la capacidad natural de prevenir infecciones? Indudablemente algunas cosas que ingerimos pueden enfermarnos, muchos de nosotros hemos experimentado mas de una infeccion estomacal, entonces es logico suponer que algo que comamos puede aumentar la capacidad de prevenir infecciones.
Que alimentos pueden ayudarnos ? Que alimentos representan una amenaza para nuestra salud?
No tengo que contarles cuentos y leyendas obscuras a cerca de ingredientes que pueden poner en riesgo la vida misma!! (melamina, es el caso mas reciente y notorio)
Dejenme leer, reflexionar y validar nuevas fuentes de informacion, que simplemente abren una nuevo mundo de posibilidades.

Noticias del dia

A third of all commercially harvested seafood goes to animals, which could undermine the entire oceanic food web. Adam Hinterthuer reports

Farmers are fattening up their animals with anchovies and sardines at an alarming rate. In fact, one-third of the world's commercially harvested seafood now is used to feed pigs, chickens and farm-raised fish.Researchers from the University of British Columbia and Stony Brook University spent nine years compiling data on how humans caught, processed and consumed seafood. They report that 37 percent of all the fish caught are small forage fish like sardines and anchovies. And 90 percent of that catch ends up as fishmeal or fish oil, used primarily in animal feed. Forage fish are popular because they can be caught in massive quantities and sold at cheap prices. But, researchers say, these fish support the marine food web, and they’re nutritious staples for coastal-dwelling people in developing countries. So it might be time to rethink the menu. If you feed a pig a fish, it'll eat for a day. But if you feed fish to millions of pigs, well, you might just run out of fish.

http://tinyurl.com/66ntob

Every year 130 million tons of America’s trash ends up in landfills.

Together the dumps emit more of the greenhouse gas methane than any other human-related source. Engineers have developed an efficient torch for blasting garbage with a stream of
superheated gas, known as plasma. When trash is dropped into a chamber and heated
to 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit, its organic components—food, fluids, paper—vaporize into a hot, pressurized gas, which turns a turbine to generate electricity. Emissions are far lower than in standard incineration, and the process reduces landfill volume and methane release

http://tinyurl.com/6hf4n2

Prince Charles has called for rich countries to pay an annual "utility bill" for the benefits given to the world by its rainforests.

Speaking in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, the prince called rainforests the "world's greatest public utility"."The rest of us have to start paying for it, just as we do for water, gas and electricity." As developed nations were the driving force behind their destruction, through a demand for products like beef, palm oil, soya and logs, they should be billed for their protection, he said.

.http://tinyurl.com/6mbv8f

Bill Clinton: "We Blew It" On Global Food.

Today's global food crisis shows "we all blew it, including me when I was president," by treating food crops as commodities instead of as a vital right of the world's poor, Bill Clinton told a U.N. gathering on Thursday. Clinton took aim at decades of international policymaking by the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and others, encouraged by the U.S., that pressured Africans in particular into dropping government subsidies for fertilizer, improved seed and other farm inputs, in economic "structural adjustments" required to win northern aid. Africa's food self-sufficiency subsequently declined and food imports rose.

http://tinyurl.com/5e68r7

Many pesticides in EU may damage human brain: study

OSLO (Reuters) - Many pesticides used in the European Union may damage brain growth in fetuses and young children, according to a study published on Friday. "Laboratory experimental studies using model compounds suggest that many pesticides currently used in Europe...can cause neuro-developmental toxicity," Grandjean and two colleagues in Denmark wrote in the journal Environmental Health. The developing brain of the fetus and young child is far more sensitive than the adult brain to disruptions from chemicals, they said. Pesticides used on food crops in the EU exceed 140,000 tonnes a year, corresponding to 280 grams (10 ounces) per EU citizen, the study said.

http://tinyurl.com/5eoyj4

Bush team rushes environment policy changes

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As the U.S. presidential candidates sprint toward the finish line, the Bush administration is also sprinting to enact environmental policy changes before leaving power. Whether it's getting wolves off the Endangered Species List, allowing power plants to operate near national parks, loosening regulations for factory farm waste or making it easier for mountaintop coal-mining operations, these proposed changes have found little favor with environmental groups. The Bush team has urged that these regulations be issued no later than Saturday, so they can be put in effect by the time President George W. Bush leaves office on January 20. If they are in effect then, it will be hard for the next administration to undo them, and in any case, this may not be the top priority for a new president. Industry is likely to benefit if Bush's rules on the environment become effective, Madia said. "Whether it's the electricity industry or the mining industry or the agriculture industry, this is going to remove government restrictions on their activity and in turn they're going to be allowed to pollute more and that ends up harming the public," Madia said in a telephone interview.

http://tinyurl.com/5o7gxf

El sentido del olfato y las gripas

Parte de los cambios que he atribuido a mi dieta vegetariana es la exarcerbacion de mi sentido del olfato, lo cual tiene sus pros y contras. Entre los pros, puedo detectar por medio del cambio de "humor" de Andres, si se encuentra enfermo o no. Ayer lo probamos, detecte una gripa, simplemente por que Andres tenia un olor muy caracteristico y definido, aunque no sintio los efectos de la gripa, sabemos que la enfermedad estuvo con el un dia y una noche. Afortunadamente ya no esta enfermo, ya huele bien!!!

Noticias del dia

Entre las cosas que me llamaron hoy la atencion...

Y lo que mas necesitamos son armas....

Líbia arrossegava un deute amb Rússia de 4.600 milions de dòlars per la compra d’armament soviètic. http://tinyurl.com/59g4de

El mejor resumen del periodo Bush....

Bush va heretar de Bill Clinton un superàvit de 168.000 milions de dòlars i deixa un dèficit de 400.000. Va abraçar una economia en cicle expansiu i deixa el país enfonsat en una greu crisi econòmica i moral, i el món tremolant pel daltabaix de Wall Street. Defensor de la desregulació, el seu mandat acaba amb la injecció de diner públic més gran de la història en els mercats financers.
http://tinyurl.com/59qx7e

El artico, el mar mas cerca....

In the past few decades, average Arctic temperatures have warmed roughly 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius); average temperatures in Antarctica have warmed slightly less than 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit (1 degree Celsius). if the eastern and western Antarctic ice shelves were to melt completely, they would raise sea levels by as much as 230 feet (70 meters); the collapse of smaller shelves like Larsen B has sped up the flow of glaciers behind them into the sea, contributing to the creeping up of high tide levels around the world. And that's likely to get worse before it gets better."There will be continued residual warming no matter what greenhouse gas reductions we make," Monaghan warns. "We really need to pay closer attention to what is going on with this ice sheet."
http://tinyurl.com/6gaxm7

menos hielo, mas metano, mas calor, menos hielo, menos hielo, mas metano....

Methane is the second most important greenhouse gas in the atmosphere after carbon dioxide, accounting for nearly 20 per cent of global warming since the industrial revolution.
Dr Fraser says that recent analyses of global data by CSIRO and collaborators at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the University of Bristol suggest that the methane increase is, at least in part, due to methane releases in the high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere."Such increases have been predicted as rapid Arctic ice melting creates more high latitude wetland sources," says Dr Fraser.
http://tinyurl.com/2ov5qc

China y la comida de hoy ...

China accused of covering up outbreak of maggots in oranges. According to state media, a farm in Sichuan, in the south-west of the country, first reported its crop of mandarin oranges had failed on September 21, and fruit fly was diagnosed. But though surveys found orchards across major mandarin-producing counties of Sichuan had been affected, the provincial authorities did not publicly confirm the outbreak until after a local newspaper had broken the story on October 4. http://tinyurl.com/5z6s4w

Three more Chinese brands of chicken's eggs have been found to contain high levels of the chemical melamine. Tests in Hong Kong first revealed dangerously high levels of the substance in eggs from a mainland supplier earlier this week. Local officials say melamine was illegally mixed into chicken feed to make eggs look richer in protein than they were, but central authorities have not commented. http://tinyurl.com/6cemdq

Cadbury pulls melamine-laced chocolate from China.
Cadbury, the British chocolate manufacturer, is pulling chocolate made in China, citing melamine concerns. Additionally, Kraft Foods, makers of Oreo cookies, and Mars, makers of M&M's and Snickers, are complying with an Indonesian recall for melamine-tainted chocolate in samples of their products made in China.It is important to note that none of these products have made their way to the United States and that stricter controls are in place. Nota, la pagina original de esta noticia estaba en NYT, pero la liga ya no coincide con la noticia original. Una copia de la noticia se encontraba en news yahoo! pero ya no funciona. Anexo las ligas originales
http://tinyurl.com/6xvrxt
http://tinyurl.com/3go284
http://tinyurl.com/5bx382

Japan finds melamine in Chinese-made pumpkin steam buns
An investigation was launched after traces of the chemical were detected in buns which were made in China and served in Japan by the buffet restaurant company Nilax Inc.http://tinyurl.com/5l9wn3

Indira

Hoy en 1984 fue asesinada Indira Gandhi.

Ofrenda de Muertos

Hoy preparamos la ofrenda de dia de muertos, aunque no pude poner pan de muerto y me hizo falta la calaverita de azucar o chocolate, creo que quedo bien. Me encanta esta tradicion de mexico y preservarla es muy importante para mi. El altar esta dedicado principalmente a mi padre y mi tia Nena, dos de las personas que mas quiero y que ya estan mejor que nosotros ;)

Hoy vienen las almas de los peques, asi que hay chocolates y pastel de chocolate!!!

Cambios, cambios y mas cambios!

Cuantas cosas pueden cambiar cuando cambias tu dieta? Miles? Cientos? Docenas? Pero cambiar tu dieta es muy diferente a hacer una dieta, el proposito aqui no es bajar de peso ;) No solo cambiar la figura y mucho menos haciendo sufrir a tu cuerpo.


Un cambio de dieta en mi caso, fue un cambio de vida. Desde los minusculos detalles como mis dientes se ven mas blancos!! Hasta, es increible como mi temperamento ha sido mas constante, sin cambios abruptos. He estado mas predispuesta a pensar!!??!! y reflexionar, lo que antes requeria un esfuerzo de concentracion ahora es un estado permanente de mi mente.


Mi figura no ha cambiado mucho, lo he de adminir si queria bajar de peso, pero por otro lado haciendo varias horas de ejercicio al dia, estaba un poco preocupada por mi condicion fisica, pero esa sigue ahi, es mas la capacidad que tengo para recuperarme ha aumentado! (yuppy!!) Asi que si antes regresaba a casa como un trapo, despues de spinning, pilates, pesas y kick-boxing ahora puedo dejar que mi cuerpo repose unos 15 minutos y listo!! Quien se anota para el segundo round!!! ???!!

Mi salud ha mejorado tambien, sospecho que durante la epoca de gripa ( en la oficina de Andres mas de uno fue victima ) nos enfermamos 1/2 dia, y digo sospecho, porque estornude 2 veces y tuve dolor de cabeza. Pero despues de una rica sopita de verduras con mucha cebolla, y hago incapie en la cebolla, por que es un excelente remedio contra la gripa, no volvimos a sentir sintoma alguno.

Sunpongo que en el primer aniversario de mi nueva vida podre hacer un resumen mas detallado de los cambios aparentes y no tan aparentes!

Camino al vegetarianismo

En Abril de este 2008, empece a lado de mi familia el camino del vegetarianismo. Aquellos que nos conocen se han sorprendido un poco en el caso de mi esposo, ya que su dieta anterior estaba basada en literalmente los siguientes ingredientes: carne ( pollo, pavo, vaca ); papa; arroz; elote; chicharos ( si estaba de buenas ); pastas ( sin queso, ese es un camino que aun no hemos recorrido); manzanas, platanos, lentejas y huevo.

Con una batalla perdida por los lacteos, las frutas y las verduras. Hoy sin embargo nos encontramos en un camino totalmente diferente, han sido diversas las razones, pero la que inicio este viaje fantastico fue un detalle de salud. Menciono que fue un detalle, ya que hemos actuado antes de que se convierta en un problema de salud. Y hoy unos cuantos meses despues me siento mucho mejor, no solo por que he logrado superar el terror de desnutrirnos, y con ello causar otra cadena de males igual o peor que la anterior, sino por que en verdad, creo que este camino es el correcto y debimos tomarlo mucho antes.

Superar el terror a una mala alimentacion cuando literalmente muchas de las recetas de "buenas comidas" tuve que desechar, fue muy dificil. Pero afortunadamente la solucion es la misma para cada "problema" en el que me encuentro y ese es: Investiga, estudia, lee y preparate, solo asi he podido enfrentar lo que la vida me ofrece ;)

He leido un poco ( aun tengo miles de fuentes que consultar), reflexionado y hoy como siempre ( no se entonces por que me sorprendo!) me quede perpleja! Cuanto mal estaba creandole a mi cuerpo con esa dieta"sana". Si he de unir el termino "sano" a la "carne" seria en otros vocablos como "insano" o "malsano".


Es por esto que quiero dejar algunos pensamientos y reflexiones acerca de "lo que soy" y "lo que como" en algun lugar. Regresare a mis libros para extraer mas informacion que quiero resumir y compartir.

Curan cancer de piel avanzado con nuevo tratamiento medico

Investigadores de EUA, reportaron utilizar celulas del sistema inmunologico de un paciente con cancer de piel en estado avanzado. Despues de aislar las celulas T CD4+ que atacan un quimico encontrado en la supercifie del melanoma, las multiplicaron por billones en el laboratorio. Estas celulas fueron reintroducidas al paciente que despues de 2 meses no mostro rastro alguno de los tumores.

Articulo Original

Endulzantes artificiales : Engordan mas!

Investigaciones recientes sugieren la existencia de una relacion entre los endulzantes artificiales y problemas de salud ( Incremento en el riesgo de enfermedades cardiovasculates y del metabolismo). En un estudio, varias ratas fueron alimentadas con yogurth endulzado artificialmente y dada la respuesta del cerebro ( los receptores son estimulados, pero no se satisface la necesidad de dulce con lo sustitutos de azucar) estas comian mas!!! El autor del estudio sugiere que los endulzantes artificiales pueden disminuir la habilidad del cerebro para contabilizar calorias y determinar en que momento debemos de dejar de comer.

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(Estados Unidos) Nelson Mandela ya no es un presunto terrorista

El congreso de los Estados Unidos (USA) ha retirado a Nelson Mandela, premio Nobel de la paz, de su lista de presunto terroristas.

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Libros: Obras judaicas raras robadas en Irak reaparecen en Israel

Dos libros escritos en hebreo reaparecen en Israel, despues de haber sido "extraviados" durante el viaje entre Irak (donde fueron hallados por primera vez) y Estados Unidos a donde fueron enviados para su restauracion.
Un comentario del Libro de Job publicado en 1487 y un volumen de las profecias biblicas publicado en Venecia en 1617.

Es muy bueno saber que ya "reaparecieron" pero en uno de los articulos se establece que fueron "varios" libros los que se extraviaron. Asi que faltan "otros" por aparecer.

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Inmunidad para Berlusconi

El gabinete del primer ministro Italiano Berlusconi le otorga inmunidad durante el tiempo en funciones, a pesar de que enfrenta cargos de corrupcion. A principios de la semana el lider comparo la justicia Italiana al cancer.

Articulo Orginal