"NEW LINK BETWEEN CANCER & MOBILE PHONE USE"

A study has found that exposure to mobile phone signals from a handset for just 5 minutes stimulated human cells to split in 2. This is a natural process during cell growth but is also central to the development of cancer. The 6-year 'Mobile Telecommunications & Health Research Programme' is expected to present its final report in September. Official guidance that mobile phones were safe was based on the idea that human cells would only be damaged by heat from mobile phones. But the new evidence supports the position that mobile handsets can trigger potentially harmful cell changes without temperature changes. Professor Rony Seger, cancer researcher at Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, found cell damage after just 5 minutes of exposing cells to such radiation. He identified...

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Vacation, All I Ever Wanted

Hey everybody,I'm on vacation until Monday. In the meantime, feel free to check out past posts, like the very lovely Pesto one located directly below this letter.Oh, and come on back for next week's articles, including:Behold! The Great Zucchini (Bread)!Broiled Eggplant Japonaise: Ugly, but GoodandWhen Frugality Pays Off: See Ya, Sallie MaeHearts,Kris...

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Light Pesto: The Miracle of Basil

If fresh basil was a person, it’d be George Clooney, Olivier Martinez, and that dude from Under the Tuscan Sun rolled into one beautiful, musk-scented studmuffin. I’d date it. I’d marry it. I’d trail it from junior high class to junior high class, silently willing it to notice me, until, in a fit of pubescent insanity, I dropped a love letter in its locker.If fresh basil was a drug, I’d be Keith Richards, Keith Moon, and Stevie Nicks rolled up into one mega-burnout. (Hopefully with Stevie’s hair.) I’d smoke it, apply it to brightly-colored stamps, ingest it in ways that couldn’t be printed in an Ozzy Osbourne memoir, much less a family-friendly...

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Posted in: 15 Minutes or Less,Dips and Sauces

Tuesday Megalinks

I’m away Thursday and Friday, so please enjoy these ever-so-lovely entries in the meantime:Consumerist/Spoofee: How to Pick a Good WatermelonQuick! Read this before the season’s over and we have to make do with the cool, refreshing taste of turnips.Freakonomics Quorum: What is the Right Way to Think About the Obesity ‘Epidemic’?A.k.a. “Are We Fatties? Discuss.”Get Rich Slowly: The Grocery Game AND Grocery Store vs. Farmers Market: Which Has the Cheapest Produce?I link to GRS so often for two reasons:A) JD is a thoughtful, technically solid writer, and,B) He focuses a good chunk of the blog on food.Check out his archives for more mealtime wonder.The Simple Dollar: Getting Over the “Taboo” of Generics and Store BrandsThat stuff about Get Rich Slowly? The same goes for Simple Dollar.Frugal Upstate:...

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Stock in the Name of Love: Chicken Stock from Scratch

When I was first told that homemade stock was tastier, cheaper, and easier than buying a big ol’ can, I almost burned the messenger for blasphemy. (I couldn’t help it. I was feeling burny.)Since the urge to set things aflame never fully subsided, I decided to test it out on said homemade stock. I grabbed a chicken skeleton, some leftover skin (both from Marcella Hazan's Roast Chicken with Two Lemons), and stuck it all in a pot with a few vegetables and some water. An hour later, the arson urge was gone, the apartment smelled like Per Se (er, not that I’d know), and I was beating The Boyfriend off with a ladle.In other words, the stock was stellar,...

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Posted in: Soups and Stocks

Magnetic fields detrimental to blood pressure

This article dates to about 2000 or before. Cell phones started appearing in 1985 depending on the country of use. Cell phone use has skyrocketed as has hypertension and other health problems.In 2003 I presented a program to health care professionals discussing EMF as a cause of modern and mostly undiagnosable disease. With the accumulation of research on the impact of EMF and health, I still do not believe I am off course in my thinking.Cells phones carried by doctors contribute to higher infection rates in hospital. EMF contributes to asthma because the non-ionizing redaction from cell phones attracts particulate matter, causing it to adhere to lung tissue.Hands free gadgets used in cars create a very high amount of EMF radiation that can lead to accidents and poor driving decisions.I...

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Health Freedom: Beware of False Messengers

Please read this carefully and distribute widely if you values your right of access to health care of your choice.For more information see these key sites as well,pFAM HealthInternational Advocates for Health FreedomByron RichardsANH Rebuttal to NSFThe following is an email reply from our international affiliate, Alliance for Natural Health in response to another health freedom organization sending misinformation in regards to the recent win in Europe. We agree with ANH’s position of not contributing to the dissention in the health freedom community, but occasionally, such erroneous information is published that it needs a rebuttal. The following is ANH’s response to Dr. Rima Laibow/Natural Solutions Foundation email sent on Tuesday evening, August 21, 2007 regarding the recent ANH victory...

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Cheap Healthy Vacation Food: 61 Tips for Travel Eats on a Budget

(Usually, I post a recipe on Fridays, but I wanted to get this in for the pre-Labor day weekend. Look for Chicken Stock on Monday and Light Pesto next Wednesday instead.)As the summer draws to a close, several bajillion Americans (self included) are itching to get the hell out of work; to soak up the last lingering rays of another warm season gone by.Also, they’re hungry.Transportation and housing aside, food’s a major budget concern when planning a vacation. Since most travelers are just trying to find a decent, affordable meal, nutritional considerations nearly always fall by the wayside.What follows, then, is a plan: the ultimate guide to saving dough on food while you’re away, with extra emphasis on healthy options.BEFORE YOU GO1. Research. Dear god, you must. Citysearch, Frommers, Zagat,...

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Posted in: Buying Food,Dining Out,Frugality

A bit more of an advisory please

This recent FDA alert is very important. It is a bit late in my mind. The first thing I thought of when I read it several days ago was why is it an issue after-the-fact.Where are the minds of the doctors and other controlled substance prescribers giving nursing mothers a script for this drug.This clearly reinforces my recent correspondence to the FDA: too many prescribers are not participating in legally required informed consent explanations of the risks and benefits of drugs.This almost smacks of an attempt to promote "bad mother" propaganda. The story line might be something like "Somnambulent mother on codeine trying to care for her nursing baby, both at risk of grave harm. And what about the doctor? What about the pharmacist? Seems like mainstream medicine and Big Pharma are off...

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Noise pollution and health

By any standard noise is annoying. I'd say the decibel level of city life is a bit more than I can take too much of since I live in a rural community of under 1000 people.The other day a friend of mine near the Portland-Vancouver metro area suggested to a friend of hers driving to Pullman to visit his daughter at college. While her friend visits Cougarland, my friend would stay here.In the conversation, he said, "There's nothing there!"She replied, "That's why she (referring to me) lives there."I guess noise is in the eye of the beholder.Now today, for instance, I went to town, and as always, I am happy when I start heading home. It's the quiet you know.No road rage for me amidst the 20,000 or so who inhabit that town about thirty minutes away.Noise is a vibration. Its the vibration that...

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Cheap Healthy Beef Part II: Beef Tips

For more information and recipes, check out Cheap Healthy Beef Part I: Recipes and Methodology.First, "Hi!" to all the folks linking over from A Good American Wife. Blogmistress and fellow foodie Anne penned a super-nice post about CHG, for which I should give her many cupcakes. If you haven't seen AGAW yet, please check it out. The writing is aces and the recipes are to die for. (See: Rice and Eggs.)Now - business. Yesterday, we set off on quest to find relatively inexpensive, lean cuts of bovine. Today, some tips to keep in mind:PURCHASINGKnow how to spot bum beef. This tip sheet from the Beef Council is a great resource, including who-knewisms like, “Fresh ground beef does go through a number of color changes during its shelf life,” and “Choose steaks, roasts and pot roasts that are firm...

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Posted in: Buying Food,Cooking,Frugality

Skin Cream Alert

From Hippocrates Health Centre of Australia we received a report on the consequences of using Aldera cream for skin cancers, warts and genital warts, molluscum, actinic keratosis and related issues.Aldera Side effects - http://www.rxlist.com/cgi/generic/imiquimod_ad.htmWe believe it is important to inform readers about the concerns with this product.3M Pharmaceuticals are flogging ALDARA, a "cure" for skin cancer and genital warts, that can have cataclysmic side effects -- anaphylactic shock, irreversible autoimmune disease and even death.The medical establishment and the media won't help -- Big Pharma are too rich and powerful. Only people power can stop 3M and the other multinationals in their greedy quest to dominate our fragile planet. Please help us spread the word. Click here for the...

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Asia urged to use vitamins and minerals to battle malnutrition

From the Flour Fortification Initiative (FFI)"Malnutrition can cost the global economy between 180 to 250 billion dollars in healthcare costs over the next decade, the group said."And at the same time the US FDA, Canadian Health Protection Board and other similar agencies are acting to block your access to vitamins and minerals that do protect your health.I wonder what the cost in the US is from the nutritional deficiencies caused by prescription drugs?Maybe you should wonder too...

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The new diabetes generation and more

Adult psychiatric drug for the treatment of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in children and adolescents.Here's what most people on this drug don't get told...www.rxlist.com/cgi/generic/risperid.htmIncreased Mortality in Elderly Patients with Dementia-Related PsychosisElderly patients with dementia-related psychosis treated with atypical antipsychotic drugs are at an increased risk of death compared to placebo. RISPERDAL®(risperidone) is not approved for the treatment of dementia-related psychosis (see BOXED WARNING).Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome (NMS)A potentially fatal symptom complex sometimes referred to as Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome (NMS) has been reported in association with antipsychotic drugs. Clinical manifestations of NMS are hyperpyrexia, muscle rigidity, altered mental status,...

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Cheap Healthy Beef Part I: Recipes and Methodology

Tomorrow … Cheap Healthy Beef Part II: Beef Tips(Writing this article involved more research than all of my college papers combined. That’s either terrible statement about the quality of my public university education, or a wonderful one about the complexity of cow.)My goal with this post (my goalpost?) was to find inexpensive, high-quality, lean cuts of beef, and then list several recipes that best demonstrate their qualities. What I found instead was this:There are approximately 46,000 cuts of beef.Those cuts have 46,000,000 different names.According to federal guidelines, only 29 of them are lean.Their prices vary greatly.The quality and flavor...

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Posted in: Buying Food,Cooking,Frugality,Health,Mains,Meat and Fish