Month: February 2011

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Combine Broccoli with Chicken and Tomatoes

Read an interesting bit of data on eating broccoli at the same time as chicken. Broccoli contains the cancer preventative sulforaphane. A deficiency in selenium has been linked to many types of cancer. Chicken and Brazil nuts are good sources of selenium. The combination of sulforaphane and selenium apparently gives you 13 times more cancer fighting properties than either one alone. Eating broccoli with tomatoes is also a great combo. Tomatoes contain the antioxidant lycopene which neutralises DNA damaging free radicals while broccoli helps flush carcinogens from the body. http://www.newsmaxhealth.com/headline_health/Reasons_to_Eat_Broccoli/2011/02/07/374837_3.html

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Inside the Battle to Define Mental Illness

Every so often Al Frances says something that seems to surprise even him. Just now, for instance, in the predawn darkness of his comfortable, rambling home in Carmel, California, he has broken off his exercise routine to declare that “there is no definition of a mental disorder. It’s bullshit. I mean, you just can’t define it.” Then an odd, reflective look crosses his face, as if he’s taking in the strangeness of this scene: Allen Frances, lead editor of the fourth edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (universally known as the DSM-IV), the guy who wrote the book on mental illness, confessing that “these concepts are virtually impossible to define precisely with bright lines at the boundaries.” For the first time in two days, the conversation comes to an awkward halt. http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/12/ff_dsmv/all/1