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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.

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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.

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A Good Test

Just hung up from Rhonda Jones. Rhonda is a herbalist who helps people get on top of candida and other ailments. She told me she is now using a taste of my Nutrition Booster Bar as an instant health test! Apparently she is giving each person who calls on her a small taste of it. If they do not like the taste, she knows instantly that person has something wrong with their digestive system. Rhonda said it is a great time saver for her.
After a course of treatment and with the problem resolved, she says they take another taste of the bar and say, “That tastes great! Is it a new recipe?”

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Be The Example That By Emulation Will Save The World

Hear Earth, she is crying,
In her pain she is lying,

To make profits we haste,
Leaving her burdened by waste,

Destroyed, pillaged and plundered,
Many lands torn asunder.

Her beauty we admire,
But to plunder we conspire,

We overuse and replenish not,
Till the land, it grows not,

If we take more than we give,
How will our granchilren live?

The problem is really not carbon,
It is pollution in the garden,

For us plastic’s fantastic,
But for fish it’s now drastic,

Coporate greed might have won first place,
But it destroyed Earth in the race.

Psyche and street drugs first dull men’s senses,
Excreted, mash fauna’s defenses,

I fear big pharma have gambled,
When fish DNA becomes scrambled,

To forsee disaster from their profit,
You do not need to be a new prophet.

We eat what is promoted,
Too much till we’re bloated,

Our waistlines are growing,
Our lifespan is slowing,

The more artificial the food,
The gloomier becomes our mood.

The authorities in whom we trust,
Be severely corrected they must,

Else our trajectory is plotted,
Until in our graves we are slotted,

We must rise above our disinterest,
To overcome greed, vested interest.

So let us vote with our spending,
Insanity to be ending,

We need to clean up our collective act,
To make “Earth – a salvaged planet” a fact,

We need to set an example to our friends,
Our mind, body and earth we do need to mend.

Tom Grimshaw
January 27, 2011