Facts on Vitamin D, the sun from the vitamindcouncil.com

"Vitamin D is a steroid hormone precursor that has recently been found to play a role in a wide variety of diseases. Current research indicates vitamin D deficiency plays a role in causing seventeen varieties of cancer as well as heart disease, stroke, hypertension, autoimmune diseases, diabetes, depression, chronic pain, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, muscle weakness, muscle wasting, birth defects, and periodontal disease—and it probably doesn't stop there, there is still much more research that needs to be done."

Healing Cancer Naturally, Dr. Johanna Budwig’s Healing Diet & Protocol

I just love the way healingcancernaturally.com does their links:

 

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Rooibos tea plant, red bush, red tea, headline in the Atlanta Journal Constitution 12/28/06, Tea could be sweet relief, Entrepreneur wages on anti-inflammatory drink
 

"Escoe's wife, Tracy, had been diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis and carpal tunnel syndrome. She wore braces to perform even simple tasks, like tying her children's shoes or turning on a faucet. At night she often sobbed from the pain, she said.

"Someone at the tea company suggested that Escoe's wife try some of their Rooibos tea, made from a flowering shrub found only in South Africa. The tea —- pronounced ROY-boss —- was known to work as an anti-inflammatory.

"Before long, Tracy's pain eased as she drank one hot cup of the red-colored tea every morning and one cup at night, she said. Soon, she stopped wearing her braces.

"The Escoes said they became true believers when they took off with their four children for a trip to the lake. Tracy didn't take her tea and was awakened at night to the familiar pain, which left her sobbing once again, she said.

"Back at home, Tracy began brewing big batches of the tea for her family, icing the red drink down and sweetening it with Splenda. The Rooibos tea has no caffeine, so she didn't worry about the kids drinking it, and it was perfect for their diabetic daughter, now 8.

"And Tracy noticed something else. Her little girl's eczema began to clear up as well."

And it's anti-carcinogenic, antimutagenic, anti-allergic, anti-inflammatory, prevents cardiovascular disease, stroke,  and may help with asthma, insomnia, colic in infants and skin disorders.

Read more on Rooibos on Atlanta Business Chronicle, A Big Push for Red Bush Tea

More from the BBC Rooibus (Red Bush) Tea

Buy Roobos Tea at Coffee Bean Direct, It's cheap! Or you can go to Sam's Club or just google it. There are lots of sellers and did I say it's cheap?

Celestial Seasonings African Orange Mango Rooibus Tea

Linus Pauling Institute

nature International weekly journal of science

Study: Fat,

boozing mice stay healthy

Resveratrol study on red wine substance counteracts bad diet, extends life

NYT: Substance in Red Wine Extends Life of Mice

"Can you have your cake and eat it? Is there a free lunch after all, red wine included? Researchers at the Harvard Medical School and the National Institute on Aging report that a natural substance found in red wine, known as resveratrol, offsets the bad effects of a high-calorie diet in mice and significantly extends their lifespan."
Published: November 1, 2006

Resveratrol instead of aspirin for heart health

Resveratrol articles on Life Enhancement, just type in resveratrol in the 'Find Articles by Keyword' on the top right hand side of screen.

Coffee causing tummy turmoil? Try this: hevlacoffeeco.com  Low Acid - Gentle Java

Problems? Then 'pretend to laugh' "You don't need to be happy to laugh. If you have problems in your life, pretend to laugh and your body will create happy chemicals. Laughter is a form of exercise. It's a release. It can make you feel better when you are angry or sad."

http://www.laughteryoga.org/

Laughter Yoga, "a form of jogging for the innards" 

http://www.hinduonnet.com/folio/fo0003/00030440.htm

Laugh and be well, hinduonnet

NQA Healing Wave Project,The Healing Wave Project was implemented a few years ago, when our community realized that Qigong could help in many situations facing our nation. The Healing Wave Project continues as an outreach promoting the health and healing benefits of  practicing Qigong.

Mobbing in the Workplace, [maybe the folks who gang up on women should do a little Laughter Yoga...It couldn't hurt?

Bullying in the workplace or anywhere else in the stratosphere?

Vitamin A-Like Compound Fights Lung Cancer, In mice, bexarotene slowed malignancy by 50 percent, study found

Herbal Remedies for Cancer

Grape Seed Oil

Grape Seed Extract on wholehealthmed.com

Wikipedia on Grape Seed Oil

http://shopping.yahoo.com/s:Oils & Vinegars:30607-Gourmet Oil Type=Grape Seed Oil

Environmental Working Group

Chemical Combo Could Cause Carcinogen in Sodas & Juice Drinks

"28 FEB 2006 | In 1990, without notifying the public, the FDA asked beverage manufacturers to remove chemicals in soda and juice drinks that can combine to form the cancer-causing chemical benzene. Apparently many companies did not comply, and an ongoing FDA investigation has found benzene in juices and soft drinks. EWG is demanding that the FDA release its findings. In the meantime, we provide a list of some products with the problematic chemical mixture."

Science is on coca's side

"Similar to the case of marijuana, there has long been scientific research to back claims of coca's health benefits. In 1981, Harvard-trained health guru Andrew Weil reported in the American Journal of Epidemiology that coca in leaf form does not produce toxicity or dependence and suggested its usefulness in treating gastrointestinal ailments and motion sickness. He reported that coca could aid weight-loss regimes and even act as a fast-acting antidepressant. And its power to regulate carbohydrate makes it a possible combatant for hypoglycemia and diabetes.

"Such findings mean little to the prohibitionist sensibilities of Washington, which has long used the principal of conditionality to push its drug regime and suppress scientific findings it dislikes. Case in point: In 1995, the United States threatened to pull funds from the World Health Organization if it published the results of the world's largest study on cocaine, a 22-country study that also studied coca. In effect, say a range of drug policy advocates, the study was suppressed.

"The report essentially said what everyone seems to know and agree [on] with few exceptions," says Craig Reinarman, a sociologist at the University of California at Santa Cruz who worked on the study but never saw a final copy. "The gist was that coca has been around for millennia and more or less used without abuse or problems by native people of Andes regions where it grows. And with respect to refined powdered cocaine, the study found that people mostly used it as a treat, with some abuse, with some people getting into trouble but most not."

Can Cinnamon Fight Cancer?
In laboratory study, cinnamon extract halts
the proliferation of human cancer

 

The fact that cinnamon seems to be
beneficial for both diabetes and
cancer is one bit of evidence
suggesting that there may indeed be a
connection between these diseases.

 

Love and madness not that different?

Jan. 20, 2006
Courtesy National Geographic
and World Science staff

To be madly in love might be exactly that—madness. The term “lovesick” is surprisingly accurate, claims a cover story in this month’s National Geographic magazine, citing research published over the last several years.

People experiencing romantic love have a chemical profile in their brains similar to that of people with obsessive-compulsive disorder, noted the author, psychologist Lauren Slater.

Study: eating less may delay human aging

Jan. 15, 2006
Courtesy American College of Cardiology
and World Science staff

"A new study is the first to associate a low-calorie diet with delayed signs of aging in humans, its authors say.

"The hearts of people who follow a low-calorie, yet nutritionally balanced, diet resemble those of younger people when examined by sophisticated ultrasound function tests, the study found. They also tend to have more desirable levels of some markers of inflammation and excessive fibrous tissue, it concluded. 

"The study appears in the Jan. 17 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology."

Lung cancer and tea

New Black Tea Study: Lung Cancer Reduced By Nearly 50% In Mice

"This is the first time that the preventive benefits of brewed tea have been shown in spontaneous lung cancer," says Dr. Chung S. Yang, a principal author of the study. "We were able to show that brewed black tea reduced the incidence of cancer in mice that were genetically susceptible to cancer," says Dr. Yang. "This broadens the benefits of tea beyond slowing the progress of lung tumors in invasive cancer, demonstrated in our prior studies where tumors were induced by a tobacco-derived carcinogen."

Peter Jennings, don't give up hope. Recent news reports have all but given up on you, saying that chemotherapy only increases one's chances of living two-five years past a lung cancer diagnosis.

HealthSentinel.com

Great website on health news, here a few examples:

"Cancer hope for green tea extract", BBC News, March 15, 2005,
Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4348059.stm

Just don't take it when you're pregnant

Walking link to low dementia risk (9/22/04) -- Walking is linked to a reduced risk of dementia, research suggests. A study of over 2,000 men over 71 found those who walked least had almost twice the risk of developing dementia than those who walked the most. A second study of 18,000 women showed those who did more exercise scored better on mental agility tests. "In summary, higher levels of physical activity, including walking, are associated with better cognitive function and less cognitive decline."

We should all eat like a Mediterranean (9/22/04) -- In a study in today's Journal of the American Medical Association, mortality rates were 65% lower among elderly people who combined a so-called Mediterranean diet with 30 minutes of daily exercise, moderate drinking and no tobacco use. Although experts say there is no single Mediterranean diet, doctors say cuisines from these regions favor olive oil rather than butter and include lots of legumes, nuts, seeds, grains, fish, vegetables and potatoes but little meat and dairy.
 

Perilla-derived Rosmarinic Acid's Effectiveness Against Hay Fever Confirmed


"Perilla-derived Rosmarinic Acid's Effectiveness Against Hay Fever Confirmed", Medical News Today, February 28, 2005,
Link: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=20464


Meiji Seika Kaisha (TSE: 2202) has announced that it will make a presentation of its latest research on rosmarinic acid at the 1st Symposium of the Japanese Society for Food Immunology to be held on February 26. Specifically, the company will report the curative properties of rosmarinic acid against hay fever.
 

 
Studies: Chronic Pain Comes From the Brain (2/28/05) -- "I think when people say pain is 'all in my head,' it suggests it's not real," said Catherine Bushnell, a researcher at McGill University's Center for Research on Pain in Montreal. "These studies don't say it's not real, they show that brain activity can create a situation that produces real pain." Using brain imaging, Bushnell has shown that something as simple as being distracted has a real effect in decreasing the intensity of pain signals in the brain. She and her colleague, Chantal Villemure, subjected volunteers to slightly painful pulses of heat and, in other tests, they had them listen to different tones at the same time. Bushnell, meanwhile, believes her work also suggests that alternative cures, including hypnosis, acupuncture and relaxation techniques may be promising.