WATER

#1. 75% of Americans are chronically dehydrated (likely applies to half the world population)

#2. In 37% of Americans, the thirst mechanism is so weak that it is mistaken for hunger.

#3.. Even MILD dehydration will slow down one’s metabolism as 3%.

#4. One glass of water will shut down midnight hunger pangs for almost 100% of the dieters studied in a University of Washington study.

#5. Lack of water, the #1 trigger of daytime fatigue.

#6. Preliminary research indicates that 8-10 glasses of water a day could significantly ease back and joint pain for up to 80% of sufferers.

#7. A mere 2% drop in body water can trigger fuzzy short-term memory, trouble with basic math, and difficulty focusing on the computer screen or on a printed page.

#8.. Drinking 5 glasses of water daily decreases the risk of colon cancer by 45%, plus it can slash the risk of breast cancer by 79%., and one is 50% less likely to develop bladder cancer. Are you drinking the amount of water you should drink every day?

COKE

#1. In many states the highway patrol carries two gallons of Coke in the trunk to remove blood from the highway after a car accident.

#2. You can put a T-bone steak in a bowl of Coke
and it will be gone in two days.

#3. To clean a toilet: Pour a can of Coca-Cola into the toilet bowl and let the ‘real thing’ sit for one hour, then flush clean. The citric acid in Coke removes stains from vitreous china.

#4. To remove rust spots from chrome car bumpers: Rub the bumper with a rumpled-up piece of Reynolds Wrap aluminum foil dipped in Coca-Cola.

#5. To clean corrosion from car battery terminals: Pour a can of Coca-Cola over the terminals to bubble away the corrosion.

#6. To loosen a rusted bolt: Apply a cloth soaked in Coca-Cola to the rusted bolt for several minutes.

#7. To bake a moist ham: Empty a can of Coca-Cola into the baking pan, wrap the ham in aluminum foil, and bake. Thirty minutes before ham is finished, remove the foil, allowing the drippings to mix with the Coke for a sumptuous brown gravy.

#8. To remove grease from clothes: Empty a can of Coke into the load of greasy clothes, add detergent, and run through a regular cycle.. The Coca-Cola will help loosen grease stains. It will also clean road haze from your windshield.

FOR YOUR INFORMATION:
#1. the active ingredient in Coke is phosphoric acid. It will dissolve a nail in about four days. Phosphoric acid also leaches calcium from bones and is a major contributor to the rising increase of osteoporosis.

#2. To carry Coca-Cola syrup! (the concentrate) the commercial trucks must use a hazardous Material place cards reserved for highly corrosive materials.

#3. The distributors of Coke have been using it to clean engines of the trucks for about 20 years.

Now the question is, would you like a glass of water? or Coke?

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The American Council on Science and Health reports that some affects of smoking are permanent and irreversible. Smoking for only five years damages the lungs, heart, eyes, mouth, throat, digestive organs, genitals and skin. Quitting will not repair all the damage.

However, Thomas Osteen, a federal judge of the US District Court of the Middle District of North Carolina, a tobacco-producing state, ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency had accepted the provisions of the 1986 Radon Gas and Indoor Air Quality Research Act, but had not listened to industry voices. At the time the report was issued, even scientists said the agency used too low a standard to constitute causation rather than chance. Thus, the agency had wrongly declared secondhand tobacco smoke a dangerous, “class A” carcinogen in 1993. The judge said, “EPA publically commited to a conclusion before research had begun, excluded industry by violating the act’s procedurla requirements, adjusted established procedure and scientific norms to validate the agency’s public conclusion, and aggressively utilized the act’s authority to disseminate findings to establish a de fact regulatory scheme intended to restrict…products and to influence public opinion.” The ruling had said secondhand smoke was as dangerous as radon or benzene, and the ruling had resulted in many indoor smoking bans. California restricts smoking even in bars. Carol Browner, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, said, “it’s so widely accepted that secondhand smoke causes very real problems for kids and adults.” Secondhand smoke involves low concentrations of carcinogens, and a strong cancer connection is hard to establish. Other reports keep coming that both support and undercut the agency. One thing for sure: the agency had an agenda which they pursued, bending scientific findings and all evidence to fit their preconceived notions. This has backfired, as indeed it should.

Still, Donna Shalala, US secretary of health and human services, says the widespread bans on smoking at work, in restaurants and on airplanes will not be revoked. The US people now “believe it is inappropriate to have to be in a plade where they have to breathe tobacco smoke,” said Matthew Myers, executive vice-president and general cousel for the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.

On the other hand, Michael York, a lawyer for the cigarette maker Philip Morris Cos., said the new ruling would make difficult suing the tobacco companies for lung cancer.

Cocaine use is down among suspects arrested in many USA cities, but methamphetamine use in the western states rose.

INTERNATIONAL: DIABETES
Cause: Insulin, produced in the pancreas, helps blood sugar get into cells, which use it for energy. If the body can’t produce or use insulin effectively to prevent a buildup of sugar in the blood, diabetes results. Pre-diabetes is when blood sugar levels rise to higher than normal, but not high enough to be called diabetes.

Diabetes comes in two major forms:

Type 1, an autoimmune disease, result in losing insulin-producing cells in the pancreas, usually in children and young adults, who need daily insulin shots, and
Type 2, which is 90% of diabetes, and is associated with obesity, inactivity, and reduces ability use insulin effectively.If body size increases, the pancreas churns out more insulin. Eventually, it can’t keep up with demand and sugar levels build up in blood.

Result: sugar levels in blood clog vessels the way gummy oil clogs car engines, reducing circulation that affects the body from brain to feet. Diabetes doesn’t kill, but uncontrolled diabetes causes heart disease risk, damages kidneys, eyes and nerves and can lead to blindness, amputated limbs, kidney failure and dialysis, nerve failure and amputated limbs, increased infection, death.

Treatment: In 1993 it became clear that lowering blood sugar prevented or delayed complications, and in the past decade doctors learned managing blood pressure and cholesterol reduced complications. Treatments improve and decrease incidence of people blind, losing limbs or in dialysis. By reducing high blood pressure and cholesterol and keeping blood sugar levels as close to normal as possible, diabetics can forestall many disabling complications. Simpler, more accurate blood tests and better drugs have improved treatment, says John Buse, endocrinologist at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, but soaring rates of diabetes threaten to overwhelm medical systems.

Reasons for improved treatment:
a. more awareness led to more screening and earlier diagnosis
b. Now there are six types and several classes of drugs. Some boost insulin production, others reduce need for more insulin or lower risk of complications, others act to keep blood sugar levels steady without causing weight gain or hypoglycemia
c. High-tech meters and monitors measuring blood sugar, and insulin pens, pumps and jets, facilitate tighter control. Injected insulin is now so easy that inhaled insulin was pulled from shelves for poor sales.
d. Early, intensive treatment helps. Diet and exercise consistently.
Well-informed patients are highly motivated and treatments ‘so well tolerated that avoidance of complications is a reasonable expectation,’ says Buse.

Five YMCAs in Indianapolis pilot an Indiana University (IU) program to prevent or delay diabetes in people with pre-diabetes. They have 16-week classes for groups of 10-12 people to implement lessons learned from the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) published in 2002, which stated people with pre-diabetes can reduce risk of developing diabetes if they reduce body weight by 5-10% and exercise 30 minutes a day. People can head off risk if they’re heavy and inactive—they can control weight. Obesity affects type-2 diabetes because the body’s demand for insulin increases beyond supply, says American Diabetes Association endocrinologist John Buse.

Most people with diabetes-2 have the body of a SUV but the pancreas of a small sedan. Buse says if they shrink their frame, their pancreas will be fine. By getting fit, losing weight and reducing stress, people can use insulin more efficiently and they’ll feel the difference. ‘I have patients tell me that they believe they’re healthier for having been diagnosed with diabetes. If they hadn’t been slapped in the face, they’d never have taken control, reduced their weight and increased their exercise.’ They recommend exercise, eating chicken and fish rather than red meat, writing down what you eat.
Prospects: IU diabetes researcher David Marrero, who helped develop the pre-diabetes program, says ‘it’s better to catch the horse before it gets out of the barn. Diabetes is reaching epidemic proportions’ and the people with pre-diabetes are 3-4 times those with frank diabetes diagnosis. Meanwhile, diabetes-2 now inflicts about 250 million people worldwide—by 2025, 380 million. Blacks, Latinos and Asians have higher genetic risk of diabetes than do whites. Increasing fatty diets in those communities, with resulting obesity (says Judith Fradkin, director of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases at the National Institutes of Health) helped trigger a diabetes explosion now killing 3.8 million per year, almost as many as malaria and AIDS combined. We must change behavior, as we did for smoking, or we’ll have a society of fatter, sicker people. The problem will ‘get worse before it gets better’, says Ann Albright, director of Center of Disease Control’s diabetes division, while policies are made and people ‘access new technologies and diabetes education.’

You don’t have to only drink water and eat toothpicks the rest of your life. Just choose food more healthfully. Only half your calories should be from carbohydrates, which appear in whole grains, vegetables, fruits, desserts, other sweets, so it’s wiser to spend this on vegetables and fruits rich in fiber, vitamins and other nutrients, says registered dietitian and exercise physiologist Ann Albright, hed of diabetes divisuion of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and president of Healthcare and Education for American Diabetes Association (diabetes.org). They suggest ‘rate your plate’ when you sit to eat: draw an imaginary line through the center of your plate, and divide one section in two. One quarter is for grains: brown rice, whole-wheat noodles, etc. One quarter is for protein—lean meats (examples, pork loin, sirloin), fish (twice or thrice a week), poultry (remove the skin from chicken or turkey), beans, tofu, etc. Half the plate should be vegetables picked from a rainbow of colors, and include non-starches like spinach, carrots, broccoli, green beans. You can add non-fat milk and a small whole-grain roll or piece of fruit. See recipe.

Sheri Colberg, associate professor of exercise science at Old Dominion University at Norfolk, Virginia, and co-author with endocrinologist Steven Edelman of Fifty Secrets of the World’s Longest Living People with Diabetes, says ‘these peole have gone…to the point of embracing diabetes’, saying, ‘“Diabetes saved my life. I look around and see people so unhealthy, and I’m healthy.”’ She says heeding that wake-up call is crucial, or diabetes can shorten life by twelve years and complications can reduce life’s quality for the last twenty years of life. Now, people can get a diabetes reading in seconds, new insulin pumps work with glucose meters to allow on-spot adjustments and tighter control of sugar levels. Learn about diabetes and share information. Exercise. Be physically active, on the go, or have a structured exercise program. Eat well and in moderation.

USA: Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and eicosatentaenoic acid (EPA) are two omega-3 heart-healthy fats helping prevent heart attacks, and are most often found in fish or pill supplements. Sometimes companies claim milk, eggs, yogurt, cereal, orange juice, butter substitutes, mayonnaise and other products help, but these contain OTHER omega-3 fats less heart-healthy. American Dietic Association registered dietitian Katherine Tallmadge says they make huge claims for tiny benefits. Center for Science in the Public Interest nutritionist Bonnie Liebman reviewed omega-3 food claims and published results in a recent cspinet.org article. She says the advertisements mislead consumers. For instance, a carton of yogurt has less DHA than a teaspoon of salmon, and a bottle of mayonnaise has another omega-3 fat, alpha-linolenic acid (ALA), and ALA increases prostate-cancer risk. So if product packaging says omega-3 but doesn’t say DHA or EPA, it’s probably ALA and you get that better from walnuts, ground flaxseeds and tofu. Studies suggest you need 500 milligrams a day of DHA or EPA, and you’ll get that by eating fatty fish twice weekly. Patients with coronary heart disease should double the dosage, says the American Heart Association.

1. Brush twice a day!

2. Dress right for the weather.

3.  Visit the dentist regularly.

4.  Get plenty of rest.

5.  Make sure your hair is dry before going outside.

6.  Eat right.

7.  Always wear a seatbelt.

8.  Get outside in the sun every once in a while.

9.  Control your drinking of alcoholic beverages.

10.  Smile!  It will make you feel better.

11.  Don’t over indulge yourself.

12.  Bathe regularly.

13.  Read to exercise the brain.

14.  Surround yourself with friends.

15.  Stay away from too much caffeine.

16.  Use the bathroom regularly.

17.  Get plenty of exercise.

18.  Have your eyes checked regularly.

19.  Eat plenty of vegetables.

20.  Believe that people will like you for who you are.

21. Forgive and Forget

22. Take plenty of Vacations.

23. Celebrate all Special Occasions.

24. Pick up a Hobby

25. Love your neighbors as yourself.

Do all these things and you will be a happier, healthier person!

USA: Bedbugs: First, very itchy bites, raised welts overnight; Second, scarlet spots on your sheets, or clusters of little black dots; Third, red bugs, slightly bigger than ticks, crawling on sheets, pillows, legs. ‘This insect is a cryptic, bloodsucking parasite that bites people at night while sleeping, and it’s one tough critter….They used to be extremely common in hospitals and movie theaters, and now, that’s where you pick them up’, says Michael Potter, entomology professor at University of Kentucky. He adds, ‘Every major university in the US has bedbugs in their housing, but they don’t know it or don’t want to admit it.’ (So that tells us his university does.) Bedbugs often feast on one person and ignore another—even in the same bed. They want human blood, but don’t spread a known disease. When they appear to be gone, that’s not the end. ‘They can live for up to a year without a meal….You’ll always have these lingering questions. It’s a little like living with cockroaches, but these guys are living off you’, says Michael Raupp, entomology professor at University of Maryland. They can burrow and live in spaces as thin as a credit card—behind picture frames, in floor cracks and crevices, inside wooden hangers.

They’ve returned to life in the West due to: cheap air travel to exotic locales where the pest was never eradicated; elimination of long-lived pesticides people placed along baseboards. If you go four months or longer without being bitten, you’re probably safe, but check hotel mattress and linens.

BELGIUM: Ernst Rietzschel, with team, of Ghent University conducted a study of 1,301 women aged 33 to 55 in two Belgian towns, 81% of whom use the pill, and found that women who use the pill have triple the expected levels of an enzyme linked with cardiovascular inflammation. They used ultrasound to test carotid arteries on each side of the neck and femoral arteries in each leg. A woman’s odds of having plaque in one carotid artery increased by 17% and in both carotids by 42% for every ten years of pill use. The odds of having plaque in a single femoral artery increased by 28% and in both by 34%. Together, this means birth control pills can cause plaques that build up 20-30% every ten years in arteries and can endanger the heart.

The pill is already known to increase blood pressure and risk of blood clots. Jennifer Mieres of New York University School of Medicine, says, ‘If you’re going to take birth control pills, you need to be aggressive about reducing your other risk factors: smoking, high blood pressure, cholesterol, diet and lifestyle.’

Better solution, long since known to South Indian women: eat papaya every day for breakfast—that’s a preventative. If you want a child, stop eating papaya. If you haven’t been eating papaya, and suddenly want a morning-after pill, eat green papaya.

Loud noises are bad for you, so London’s Royal Opera House set a limit at 85 decibels and spent $100,000 on noise-reducing screens and high-tech earplugs to protect staff, and set a ‘noise schedule’ to make sure musicians don’t over a day average more than 85d. Since ‘Madame Butterfly’ can hit 135d, the opera house feels someone cramped their style. Tough.

A pneumatic drill or chain saw can reach 120d, as can a bagpipe band playing with at full volume, Glasgow’s International Piping Festival director, Roddy MacLeod, says this law is unworkable. Bagpipes are Highland instruments, anyway, so Glasgow’s International Piping Festival can bury its pipe dream and everyone can go to Inverness for this.

Village Care Workers:  “A village care worker is a person who helps lead family and neighbors toward better health.  Often he or she has been selected by the other villages as someone who is especially able and kind.  Some village health workers receive training and help from an organized program, perhaps the Ministry of Health.  Others have no official position, but are simply members of the community whom people respect as healers or leaders in matters of health.  Often they learn by watching, helping and studying on their own.  In the larger sense. a village health workers is anyone who takes part in making his village a healthier place to live.  This means almost everyone can and should be a health workers:  mothers and fathers can show their children how to keep clean; farm people can work together to help their land produce more food; teachers can teach schoolchildren how to prevent and treat many common sicknesses and injuries; schoolchildren can share what they learn with their parents; shopkeepers can find out about the correct use of medicines they sell and give sensible advice and warning to buyers…; midwives can counsel parents about the importance of eating well during pregnancy, breast feeding, and family planning….health needs.  But to help your village be a healthy place to live, you must also be in touch with their human needs.  Your understanding and concern for people are just as important as your knowledge of medicine and sanitation.  Here are some suggestions that may help you serve your people’s human needs as well as health needs:

1.  Be Kind.  A friendly word, a smile, a hand on the shoulder, or some other sign of caring often means more than anything else you can do.  Treat others as your equals.  Even when you are hurried or worried, try to remember the feelings and needs of others.  Often it helps to ask yourself, “What would I do if this were a member of my own family?”  Treat the sick as people.  Be especially kind to those who are very sick or dying.  And be kind to their families.  Let them see that you care.

2.  Share your knowledge.  As a health workers, your first job is to teach.  This means helping people learn more about how to keep from getting sick.  It also means helping people learn how to recognize and manage their illnesses, including the sensible use of home remedies and common medicines.  There is nothing you have learned that, if carefully explained, should be of danger to anyone.  Some doctors talk about self care as if it were dangerous, perhaps because they like people to depend on their costly services.  But in truth, most common health problems could be handled earlier and better by people in their own homes.  Because you learn something about modern medicine does not mean you should no longer appreciate the customs and ways of healing of your people.  Too often the human touch in the art of healing is lost when medical science moves in.  This is too bad, because…

[3] If you can use what is best in modern medicine, together with what is best in traditional healing, the combination may be better than either one alone.  In this way, you will be adding to your people’s culture, not taking away.  Of course, if you see that some of the home cures or customs are harmful…you will want to do something to change this.  But do so carefully, with respect for those who believe in such things.  Never just tell people they are wrong.  Try to help them understand WHY they should do something differently.  People are slow to change their attitudes and traditions, and with good reason.  They are true to what they feel is right.  And this we must respect.  Modern medicine does not have all the answers either.  It has helped solve some problems, yet has led to other, sometimes even bigger ones.  People quickly come to depend too much on modern medicine and its experts, to overuse medicines, and to forge how to care for themselves and each other.  So go slow—and always keep a deep respect for your people, their traditions, and their human dignity.  Help them build on the knowledge and skills they already have.  No matter how great or small your knowledge and skills, you can do a good job as long as you know and work within your limits.  This means…

[4]  Do what you know how to do.  Do not try things you have not learned about or have not had enough experience doing, if they might harm or endanger someone.  But use your judgment.  Often, what you decide to do or not do will depend on how far you have to go to get more expert help….Do not take unnecessary chances.  But when the danger is clearly greater if you do nothing, do not be afraid to try something you feel reasonably sure will help.  Know your limits—but also use your head.  Always do your best to protect the sick person rather than yourself.

5. Keep Learning.  Use every chance you have to learn more.  Study whatever books or information you can lay your hands on that will help you be a better worker, teacher, or person.  Always be ready to ask questions of doctors, sanitation officers, agriculture experts, or anyone else you can learn from.  Never pass up the chance to take refresher courses or get additional training.  Your first job is to teach, and unless you keep learning more, soon you will not have anything new to teach others.

6. Practice what you teach.  People are more likely to pay attention to what you do than what you say.  As a health worker, you want to take special care in your personal life and health, so as to set a good example for your neighbors.  Before you ask people to make latrines, be sure your own family has one.  Also, if you help organize a work group—for example, to dig a common garbage hole—be sure you work and sweat as hard as everyone else.  A good leader does not tell people what to do.  He sets the example. 

7.  Work for the joy of it.  If you want other people to take part in improving their village and caring for their health, you must enjoy such activity yourself.  If not, who will want to follow your example?  Try to make the community projects fun.  For example, fencing off the public water hole to keep animals away from where people take water can be hard work.  But if the whole village helps do it as a work festival—perhaps with refreshments and music—the job will be done quickly and be fun.  Children will work hard and enjoy it, if they can turn work into play.  You may or may not be paid for your work.  But never refuse to care, or care less, for someone who is poor and cannot pay.  This way you will win your people’s love and respect.  These are worth far more than money.”  (excerpted from David Werner’s Where There Is No Doctor:  A Village Health Care Handbook, p 1-7, published by Hesperian Foundation, PO Box 1692, Palo Alto, CA 94302 USA.  English editions adapted for India can be obtained from Voluntary Health Association of India, C-14 Community Centre, Safdarjung Development Area, New Delhi 110016, India.)

Some time ago a Melbourne, Australia, cinema, a person sat on something poking that was on one of the seats.  When she got up to see what it was, she found a needle sticking out of the seat with a note attached saying, “You have just been infected by HIV.”  The Disease Control Centre in Melbourne reports many similar events in many other cities recently.  All tested needles ARE HIV positive. 

The Centre also reports that needles have been found in the cash dispensers at Public Banking Machines (ATMs).  Therefore, use extreme caution:  inspect all public chairs/seats with vigilance and caution before use.  A careful visual inspection should be enough.  Recently, a doctor narrated a similar instance.  At a cinema, a girl engaged and about to be married in a couple of months was pricked while the movie was going on. 

The tag with the needle had the message, “Welcome to the World of HIV and family.”  Though the doctors told her family it takes about six months before the virus grows strong enough to start damaging your system, the girl died in four months, perhaps at least partly from shock.