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GREEN
Add GREEN to your low-fat diet to maintain:

• A lower risk of some cancers*
• Vision health
• Strong bones and teeth
Go Green. Go Healthy.
Green fruits and vegetables contain varying amounts of potent phytochemicals such as lutein and indoles, which interest researchers because of their potential antioxidant, health-promoting benefits. Go green every day with fruits and vegetables like these:

Avocados
Green apples
Green grapes
Honeydew
Kiwifruit
Limes
Green pears

Artichokes
Arugula
Asparagus
Broccoflower
Broccoli
Broccoli rabe
Brussels sprouts
Chinese cabbage
Green beans
Green cabbage
Celery
Chayote squash
Cucumbers
Endive
Leafy greens
Leeks
Lettuce
Green onion
Okra
Peas
Green pepper
Sno Peas
Sugar snap peas
Spinach
Watercress
Zucchini

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WHITE
Working WHITE into your low-fat diet helps maintain:

• Heart health
• Cholesterol levels that are already healthy
• A lower risk of some cancers*

White for Wellness

White, tan, and brown fruits and vegetables contain varying amounts of phytochemicals of interest to scientists. These include allicin, found in the onion family. Get all the health benefits of white by including foods such as:

Bananas
Brown pears
Dates
White nectarines
White peaches

Cauliflower
Garlic
Ginger
Jerusalem artickoke
Jicama
Kohlrabi
Mushrooms
Onions
Parsnips
Potatoes (white fleshed)
Shallots
Turnips
White Corn

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YELLOW/ORANGE
Make YELLOW/ORANGE a part of your low-fat diet to help maintain:

• Heart health
• Vision health
• A healthy immune system
• A lower risk of some cancers*

Powerful Antioxidants

Orange and yellow fruits and vegetables contain varying amounts of antioxidants such as vitamin C as well as carotenoids and bioflavonoids, two classes of phytochemicals that scientists are studying for their health-promoting potential. Every day, include orange and yellow fruits and vegetables like these:

Yellow apples
Apricots
Cantaloupe
Cape Gooseberries
Yellow figs
Grapefruit
Golden kiwifruit
Lemon
Mangoes
Nectarines
Oranges
Papayas
Peaches
Yellow pears
Persimmons
Pineapples
Tangerines
Yellow watermelon

Yellow beets
Butternut squash
Carrots
Yellow peppers
Yellow potatoes
Pumpkin
Rutabagas
Yellow summer squash
Sweet corn
Sweet potatoes
Yellow tomatoes
Yellow winter squash

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RED

Be sure to include RED in your low-fat diet to help maintain:
• Heart health
• Memory function
• A lower risk of some cancers*
• Urinary tract health

Red-hot and Healthy
The specific phytochemicals in the red group being studied for their health-promoting properties include lycopene and anthocyanins. Get your reds every day by eating fruits and vegetables such as:

Red apples
Blood oranges
Cherries
Cranberries
Red grapes
Pink/Red grapefruit
Red pears
Pomegranates
Raspberries
Strawberries
Watermelon

Beets
Red peppers
Radishes
Radicchio
Red onions
Red potatoes
Rhubarb

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Financial Health & Full Life

Building substantial wealth is not a matter of "lucky breaks, an immense income, or an outstanding genius for investment"; what you need is a steady programme of `saving and investment according to well-established rules'. First, spread your investments "across asset classes that have a low correlation", to reduce "the volatility of your overall returns".

A pyramid shows a common allocation: 10 per cent in trading individual local stocks, 30 in cash, and 60 in own home. If you're certain that you want to keep your home rather than sell it, "remove it from the asset allocation pyramid." Then, Citi provides five samples of model portfolios with different risk-return features, as `essential information for the Asia Pacific investor'.

You know the lifecycle of frogs and butterflies. But what are the four stages of financial life? 20s, 30s, 40s, and 60s. In twenties, when you have "a big appetite for life", learn money-management skills, and be wise enough not to fall into big debts. Thirties are when you must "lay the foundations for future wealth", and can think of purchasing a home. Your forties and fifties is when your earning power peaks, and you have "the experience and money to take a more active approach to investment"; but retirement is not far away, so convert your earnings into investment capital, to the extent possible. When you're in your sixties and beyond, start reaping the rewards, unless you are like most people who withdraw from investments to supplement income, something that can make your investment capital grow more slowly, or even shrink over time. Since you cannot start all over again, it is wise to build wealth over the different life stages.

A chapter devotes attention to `financial plan' and explains it as "a tool to help you in attaining what you want in life". It can't be rigid because goals may change. To follow the plan, you must know your income and outgoings, assets and liabilities. "Many people set financial goals but do not have an accurate idea of their net worth or their cash-flow, so they cannot invest effectively." Check if you're one of those who finds making calculations obnoxious; the real hitch may be that the numbers remind you of "uncomfortable truths about spending habits." So? Face the problems and find ways to solve them, exhorts the book, because that's all part of "the discipline of financial planning."

Don't let your short-term debt become a long-term habit, cautions the guide. Such a peril meets those who suffer from the `separate pools of money fallacy'; that is, maintaining constant short-term debts that charge high rates of interest, on the one side, and investing, on the other. How to get out of this `self-defeating process' that makes interest on debt grow faster than that on deposit? Pay off as soon as possible and avoid recurrences.

In the discussion on bonds, to explain how they can be used to fund mortgage payments, there's the case of Thanakorn, a resident of Bangkok earning salary in Thai bath. He borrows C$100,000 from a Canadian lender "to purchase a large house in Canada for his two children, who are studying there,"and to repay, he purchases Canadian government bonds maturing in 2025, yielding 4.85 per cent annually.

To explain the `buy high, sell low' error, the book cites the work of Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky. Their `Prospect Theory' suggested that people care about a change in their wealth much more than they care about the actual size of their wealth. Thus, if investors have basked in a period of rising prices, "they feel rich and are willing to take a chance of buying more stock." On the contrary, when prices fall, investors "feel poorer and begin to sell."

Since it may prove difficult for many private investors "to achieve good overall returns by picking individual stocks" they can look at mutual funds. For those who have `substantial wealth and investment experience' the terrain to venture into is `derivatives'. To protect yourself and your family, you'd need life insurance, please remember.

If you've taken care of all the above, you can move to the last chapter, `life in retirement', to face three issues, viz. quality of life, investment, and inheritance. For a full life, pursue your hobbies, and be involved in your profession. Readjust your asset allocation. Also, make a will, rather than dying intestate.

Hope you don't wait for someone to bequeath the book to you.

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Eating Right
Three books offer recipes for the patients with BP, diabetes and heart problem

JUST WHEN you feel you can't possibly have another helping of those cookery books, come three arrivals, published by Prism Books. There are no pretty pictures or glossy art paper here. No-nonsense and functional, the books are aimed at urban hypertensives, heart patients and diabetics, besides a pre-emptive one for children.
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Shashi Raghunath, who already has two cookbooks and several cookery shows on TV to her credit, and Gowri. K, a dietician, have together brought out Eating Without Fear: Cookbook for Diabetics and Eat Right, Live Well: A Cookbook For Hypertensive & Heart Patients. The third book, Growing Up Great & Healthy: Cookbook For Children has Shashi teaming up with Lakshmi Ananthanarayanan, a clinical dietician. Hearteningly, each recipe mentions the calorie, protein, fat and cholesterol content. Eating Without Fear, into its second edition, includes sweets, something diabetics with a sweet tooth will welcome. One cup of the sweets mentioned can substitute for one chapatti or dosa, two idlis, one cup upma, or one glass of milk, say the authors.
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A sample recipe:

Apple and Raisin Pudding

Apples - 2
Raisins - 1 tsp
Sweetener - 3 tablets
Cinnamon powder - a pinch
Lime juice - ¼ tsp

Soak raisins in water for about an hour. Peel and slice apple and mix with the raisin water. Mix cinnamon powder, limejuice and sweetener, and pour into baking mould. Bake for 7-8 minutes in a moderate oven. Serve hot.

Yield: 1 bowl, number of servings: 2, calories: 75 per serving.


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Raw Vegetarian Diet Leads To Low Bone Mass, But Bones Stay Healthy
Friday, June 17, 2005

Vegetarians who follow the practice of not cooking their food are known to have low bone density and bone mass, which is often associated with osteoporosis and risk of fracture. However, a study conducted by a team of researchers at Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine indicates that their bones seem to be healthy.

Researchers found that individuals who ate only raw food and completely eschewed animal proteins had lower body-mass indices and lower bone mass, but they did not have markers that normally accompany conditions like osteoporosis. The raw-food eaters also had lower levels of inflammation.

Overview:

* Vegetarians who don't cook their food have abnormally low bone mass, usually a sign of osteoporosis and increased fracture risk.
* But a School of Medicine research team has found that raw-food vegetarians have other biological markers indicating their bones, although light in weight, may be healthy.
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* Those on the raw-food diet had lower body mass indices and significantly lower bone mass in important skeletal regions such as the hip and lumbar spine, sites where low bone mass often means osteoporosis and fracture risk.
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* The raw-food group also had less inflammation, indicated by low levels of C-reactive protein, which is made by the liver as a response to inflammation in the body.
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* And in spite of the fact that the raw-food group didn't drink milk or eat cheese, they had higher vitamin D levels than people on a typical Western diet.



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Learning to Eat vs. Learning to Diet

# I was 13-years old the first time someone announced they thought I was "chubby." What a laugh. What they thought was chubby, I thought was a voluptous Goddess. ...
# I decided to try a "diet." Naturally I turned to ... the latest diet craze – "The Atkins Diet" ... fat laden meats, eggs, cheese, butter, oils, anything fat is okay, but no breads (whole grain or otherwise), grains, rice, beans and little if any vegetables or fruits.
# By the third day of hamburger pattys I was pretty sick of it, but I couldn't think of anything else I could eat. And I was starving. All I could think about was toast. I decided to call it quits. I don't know if I lost weight. I don't remember.
# My next eating weirdness was the apple machine in high school. ... I was given lunch money, and discovered the joy of the 10-cent apple. ... Since I was hardly eating any lunch I'd be starving ... I'd eat entire bags of potato chips and get in trouble for that.
# Another one of my bright ideas, fasting. ... Just don't eat anything. ... the fourth day. Suddenly back came my hunger with a vengeance, and it was not to be denied. So okay. Fast over.
Recap
One three-day diet, and one four-day fast. My dieting history so far was working out to be a joke. Meanwhile I'd go back to my usual eating habits. The mono-food style of eating stayed with me because it required the least of my attention. From that day forward I tended to eat the same foods, as most people do, on a regular basis. For an entire year I had a cheeseburger and fries at the company cafeteria, every day, without fail. I liked the taste (still liked those burgers). My weight stayed between 130 - 135 lbs., which for my height was fine.

Another year I ate a bagel and yogurt every day for lunch. Every day, day after day, until I couldn't face bagels for a very long time. There has been a Chunky Soup phase, every day for lunch in my office. I use the poptop cans and eat it cold, straight out of the can ...


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Video Gamers May Have Quicker Eyes
Fri Jul 1, 2005
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Video game players may spend a lot of time on the couch, but when they're ready to go out they can find their keys quicker than the rest of us, a study suggests.

Researchers found that gamers who devote much of their free time to Grand Theft Auto and Super Mario may be able to scan their environment and spot the target of their search more quickly than non-gamers can.

In experiments with college students who were either hard-core video game players or novices, the researchers found that players were quicker to detect target objects on a busy computer screen than their peers were.

The findings, published in the journal Acta Psychologica, suggest that the vigilant watchfulness video games require makes for quicker visual processing.

Gamers' brains don't appear to have any specialized search strategy, they're just faster, explained lead study author Dr. Alan Castel, a post-doctorate fellow in psychology at Washington University in St. Louis. ...



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"Eating Light Eating Right" - The Healthy Heart Program's Cook Book


- Frances Johnson/ Shauna Ratner HHP Dietitians


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"Light Bikes For The Right Hearted ?!?"

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"Be Fruitful & Multiply"

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"Eat Right & Live Longer"

EAT RIGHT, LIVE LONGER -Neal Barnard, MD (Recipes/Menus by Jennifer Raymond)
A practical guide focusing on ways to enhance and maintain the body's health and youthfulness. According to Barnard, the aging process can be slowed by life habits, the foods you choose to eat, and exercise. He gives specific recommendations for many common conditions. The book gives an eight-step program, proceeding from deep inside of your body, outwards. 1995, 5x6" 390 pages $13.00

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LIFE!

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Scumbag Spam!

Over the last four days nearly 800 bits of scumbag spam slipped through my filters. Now, when it came to deleting them, I inadvertently wiped out a lot of comments, being the utter IT spastic that I am. Sorry, nothing personal, it is all my fault!

Also, sorry if I have inadvertently banned anyone … but of course, if you are banned, it is somewhat unlikely that you will be reading this … doh!


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Fit & Fun ... Through Exercise!

Dr. Don Chu's Plyoplay for Kids - US$16.95

Something fun for the kids! This book describes exercises that relate to the children on their level. Plyo Play is designed to address the motor development patterns of children as they advance in age. Exercise games with the medicine ball and individual developmental movements are covered.

This book contains dozens of fun-filled games that develop all sorts of skills, coordination, and strength, and also focus on self-confidence, self-esteem, and social interaction. It also contains sport-specific exercises focusing on Basketball, Baseball/Softball, Gymnastics, Vollyball, Soccer, Tennis, Track and Field, and Swimming.

Using varying size balls can help you tailor your program to match your training needs. ...


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WHO RESEARCHES AND DEVELOPS MEDICINES?
I. Government research institutes like the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research;
II. Academic institutions, often funded by government grants;
III. Private pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.

How Much Does It Cost to Make a New Medicine?
The US government’s Walter Reed Army Institute of Research spent $30 million to research and develop mefloquine, a treatment for malaria. The Global Alliance for TB Drug Development predicts that it will need $70-$110 million to develop new drugs for multi-drug resistant TB. The pharmaceutical industry claims that it costs over $800 million to bring a new drug to market, while refusing to release the true costs. So, how much does it cost to make a new medicine? Your guess is as good as ours.

Patents and R&D
The patent system was set up to make allowances for the costs of R&D, giving producers a monopoly and the right to set the price of their medicines for several years. Pharmaceutical companies usually acquire basic research from publicly-funded or academic institutions. They then develop and bring the drug to market. The fact that the research may have been funded with government money is not reflected in lower pricing - the companies can still set the price as they see fit.

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Dr Bill’s Pill … BILL!

One day I fell ill,
So I went to Dr Bill,
Who lived near the mill,
At the foot of the hill.

He was fat like a null,
And looked very dull.
He examined me full,
Including my skull.
He gave me a pill,
Made of fish gill.
I got rid of my chill.
He recommended me some drill.
In the early morning chill.
When he showed me his bill,
I again fell ill.

- N Swetha, Std VIII, TNIE / School, Wed 7 Sep 2005, p 3

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How to Stay Out of the Hospital if You Have Congestive Heart Failure

How to Stay Out of the Hospital if You Have Congestive Heart Failure

I have congestive heart failure. What is it?

Your heart has lost some ability to pump blood. This can cause shortness of breath, weakness and fluid retention. Congestive heart failure (CHF) is serious, but many treatments can help you feel better. If you know a lot about CHF, you have a good chance of staying out of the hospital.

What causes CHF?

The most common causes of CHF are:

* Uncontrolled high blood pressure
* Heart attacks
* Too much alcohol
* Viral infection of the heart

What can I do to help my CHF?

Salt and salty foods (like canned vegetables or soups, chips and pizza) in your diet can cause your body to retain water. Talk to your doctor about salt substitutes because they contain potassium and may not be a good idea for you to take. This will depend on your kidney function and what drugs you are taking. Some people need extra potassium but other people don't.

Although drinking a small amount of alcohol (one drink a day) seems to be helpful in some people with heart disease, drinking too much may cause heart failure and interfere with medicines. Ask your doctor if it's safe for you.

Keep your blood pressure well controlled. High blood pressure strains your heart. The strain can further weaken it.

You'll be healthier if you exercise. Ask your doctor to recommend an exercise program for you.

Talk to your doctor before you take any medicine. Standard arthritis medicines like naproxen (brand name: Naprosyn) and ibuprofen (brand name: Advil) can cause fluid retention.

When should I call my doctor?

Talk to your doctor if you have any of the following:

* Shortness of breath that gets worse
* A gain of more than 5 pounds in one week
* Leg swelling that is new for you
* Coughing or wheezing in the night, or needing to sleep propped up or sitting up
* Chest pain or a heavy feeling in your chest
* Side effects from the medicine
* Failure to lose weight even though you take more water pills

Where can I get more information?

Check these Web sites:

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http://www.americanheart.org/chf

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A Cook-Book ... To Lose Kilos

* With the PC becoming our best friend, our lifestyles are progressively becoming sedentary. Fast lives command fast bites. ... people are looking for a magic potion that will help them reach that seemingly impossible equilibrium between "fat and fit" and at the same time not radically upset their routine.
* In this crazed scenario however, Niru Gupta, a popular cuisine writer and cook show hostess, along with Dr. Shikha Sharma, seems to have found the answer to happy and healthy living. Gupta, also a yoga and Tai chi practitioner, had in the past, tried several weight loss programmes herself. It was only when she followed Dr. Sharma's dietary programme that she lost seven kilos in six weeks. Exhilarated by the results of this effortless dieting when her publisher asked her to write a cookbook on weight loss, she got in touch with Dr. Sharma. Dr. Sharma, on the other hand, confesses that she herself was overweight (13 kg) until a few years ago. After experimentation with weight loss techniques, she evolved her own method based on what she calls "individual constitution".

"I evolved this pattern of eating which helped in losing weight, making it interesting and not torturous!" She wanted to share this achievement with other people who want to lose weight without feeling deprived or sorry for themselves. The collaborative effort resulted in The Weight Loss Cookbook — a practical handbook to guide you into a healthy and enjoyable way of losing weight. (The Weight Loss Cookbook, New Delhi, Value Books, 2002, p. 141, $15 — for more information contact:

(vedams@vedamsbooks.com)

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Diets: A Primer

The first recorded effort of someone changing his diet to lose weight may have been William the Conqueror. In 1087, he discovered he was too fat to ride his horse. He confined himself to bed and stopped eating food - taking in only alcohol. No word on how much weight he lost - but he was reported to have ridden his horse later that year.

There's nothing magical to losing weight. The average 150-pound person burns about 1,800 calories a day just in the act of living. Add any kind of activity to that, and your body will need more fuel to maintain that weight. If you increase your activity but keep your calorie intake the same, you will eventually lose weight.

The bottom line: if you consume more calories than you burn, you will gain weight. And it doesn't take long. For every 3,500 excess calories consumed, you will gain a pound. You can do that every two months or so by eating one cookie a day. Or you could burn off that cookie by running a little under a kilometre.

Low-carb, low-fat, high-carb, high-fat - to your body, a calorie is a calorie - and if you take in more of them than you need, you will gain weight.

Still, diets are a multibillion-dollar industry as people look for ways to help themselves lose weight. Much research has been conducted to try to determine if some regimens do help people achieve their goals.

Here's a brief look at some of them*****. ....
***** Banting, Atkins, South Beach, Scarsdale, Deal a Meal, Weight Watchers, Pritikin Program for Diet & Exercise, The Beverly Hills Diet, Grapefruit Diet, The Cambridge Diet, The Zone, The Last Chance Diet, Fletcherism, Vinegar^^^^^ and Dr. Sawdust.

^^^^^ Vinegar

In 1811, poet Lord Byron decided vinegar is the key to weight loss. He drenches his food in vinegar and goes from 194 pounds to less than 130.

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Lose Weight ... Four Ways ... - Four Top Diets Go Head-to-Head

The first week in January is starting time for a lot of new dieters. So wouldn't you like to know which diet works best? Doctors this week came up with an answer: all of them—if you stick with them. People who swear that low-carb Atkins is better than small-portion Weight Watchers, or that the nutrient-focused Zone is better than both, may have to change their tunes. Arguments over which diets melt away pounds the best may not be as important as arguing over which one is easiest to adhere to. The diets also proved equally adept at reducing heart-disease risk factors. ...

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