Aspartame in Milk: More ?Real Milk? Myths ? DrAxe.com

You may have heard about the latest uproar: the dairy industry wants the FDA to change its definition of milk. Why? They claim that it will benefit children?s health, that kids will drink more milk if they don?t realize it?s sweetened with aspartame. They?re referring to chocolate milk and other flavored milks for the most part, but low-fat milks also contain added sweeteners.

Some school systems have banned sugary beverages in order to combat childhood obesity, including flavored milks containing added sugar or high fructose corn syrup. The dairy industry reacted by offering reduced-calorie chocolate milk. They now claim that terms such a ?reduced calorie,? ?reduced sugar,? ?low-calorie? or ?diet? turns kids off. The FDA presently requires that any ?non-nutritive? additive be boldly listed on the front label as well as being included in the ingredient list. In addition, non-nutritive additives change milk composition so much that the FDA decided these altered drinks cannot be simply called ?milk? or ?chocolate milk,? but must be labeled as ?low-calorie? or ?reduced calorie? beverages.

The dairy industry purports that milk lower in sugar and sweetened with aspartame is a healthy choice for our kids. The industry is playing on parent?s concerns: many parents still think that their children are getting needed nutrients by drinking chocolate milk that they wouldn?t get otherwise. If you think this is true, you may want to take a look at my article: ?Which is More Deadly: Aspartame or Sugar?? ?In an NPR.com article, nutrition professor Barry Popkin says that there is no real evidence that flavored milks increase milk consumption among children.

Does Milk Contribute to Obesity?

Low-fat dairy choices are common today. We?ve been told that whole milk can contribute to weight gain and heart disease. Yet, reducing fat reduces flavor. That?s why low-fat milk often has added sugar or artificial sweetener.

The Physicians for Responsible Medicine (PFRM) report that a recent study published in Archives of Disease in Childhood found that low-fat milk did not lower obesity rates among small children. In fact, kids that drank one percent or skim milk were more likely to be overweight or obese than kids that drank whole milk.

An earlier study, published in Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, came up with similar results. Tracking 12 adolescents for four years, the researchers found that drinking skim milk and one percent milk was associated with weight gain but milk fat was not.

Plus, researchers are finding that artificial sweeteners can change the chemistry of our brain and satiation receptors, leading to sweet cravings and unhealthy eating. You can read more about this in ?Sweet Addiction: Artificial Sweeteners Not So Sweet After All.?

Got Strong Bones?

Many parents believe their kids need to drink milk at school in order to get needed calcium for strong bones. PFRM thinks milk should be taken off the school menu because studies don?t support milk consumption and bone health. A Harvard study found that drinking milk doesn?t prevent the risk of bone fracture in women and recent studies find that drinking milk doesn?t prevent stress fractures in adolescent girls.

Milk fat is what helps us to absorb calcium. Stripping the fat and pasteurizing milk prevents us from absorbing its nutrients adequately.

What?s Real Milk?

First of all, consider what you?re getting in milk. Cows are fed grains rather than grass. They?re loaded with hormones to boost milk production and given antibiotics to prevent disease. They?re exposed to fertilizers and pesticides. If you aren?t buying locally, you don?t know what kind of conditions surround the milk you drink. Check out ?Are These Chemicals in Your Milk?? to see what you may be ingesting.

Then there?s pasteurization. High heat destroys helpful bacteria in milk so that it?s more vulnerable to population by bad bacteria. This heat destroys and denatures enzymes that help us to digest milk and utilize its nutrients. Pasteurization destroys the majority of vitamins A, C, D, E and the B vitamins. And calcium? We become less able to absorb calcium in milk because the pasteurization process destroys phosphatase, an enzyme we?d normally use to take calcium up.

Raw milk is real milk. To understand the truth about the dangers of pasteurized milk and the benefits of raw milk, read ?Raw Milk Myths: Are We Prisoners of Pasteurization?? ?I don?t think that pasteurized milk should be labeled as real milk, never mind low-fat milk with aspartame. There are plenty of healthy food choices you can give your kids to make sure they get needed nutrients. Just as the dairy industry shouldn?t be able to trick children and parents into choosing an artificially sweetened drink, parents shouldn?t be okaying sugary drinks like chocolate milk because they contain calcium. Teach your kids to eat and appreciate real foods and you won?t have to worry about what the food industry is trying to pass off as real food.

Lessons Learned

• Low-fat milk contains added sugar or artificial sweeteners.
• Low-fat, flavored milks are linked to weight gain in children.
• Pasteurization destroys nutrients in milk.
• Real milk is raw milk.

Sources

• Allison Aubrey, ?Can Milk Sweetened With Aspartame Still Be Called Milk?? National Public Radio, March 3, 2013, http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/03/06/173618723/can-milk-sweetened-with-aspartame-still-be-called-milk
• ?Low-Fat Milk Does Not Prevent or Reverse Childhood Obesity,? Physicians for Responsible Medicine, March 20, 2013, http://www.pcrm.org/health/medNews/low-fat-milk-does-not-prevent-or-reverse-childhood
• ?Let?s Really Move Milk Out of School Lunches,? Physicians for Responsible Medicine, http://www.pcrm.org/health/healthy-school-lunches/letsreallymove/lets-really-move-milk-out-of-school-lunches

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Chicago Sun-Times lays off photography staff

CHICAGO (AP) ? The Chicago Sun-Times has laid off its entire full-time photography staff.

Sun-Times Media released a statement Thursday to The Associated Press confirming "the very difficult decision" to do away with the positions at the city's tabloid newspaper and its suburban sister publications.

The statement noted that the "business is changing rapidly" and audiences are "seeking more video content with their news."

The newspaper company's statement cited its efforts to bolster reporting capabilities with video and other multimedia elements and said the resulting restructuring of multimedia goes "across the network."

Steve Buyansky (beye-AN'-skee), a photo editor for three of the group's suburban newspapers, says about 30 photographers heard from Sun-Times editor Jim Kirk that they were laid off at a mandatory meeting Thursday morning.

He says the photographers are "in shock."

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NYC police: Notes to Obama, mayor had gun threats

FILE - In this Jan. 14, 2013 photo, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks at a gun violence summit at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, where he outlined his proposals for federal gun control reforms. Police said Wednesday, May 29, 2013, that threatening letters containing traces of the poison ricin were opened Friday, May 24, 2013 at New York City?s mail sorting facility and Sunday, May 26, in Washington at the headquarters of the nonprofit started by Bloomberg, Mayors Against Illegal Guns. Both were addressed to Bloomberg and contained threats referencing the debate on gun laws. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

FILE - In this Jan. 14, 2013 photo, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks at a gun violence summit at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, where he outlined his proposals for federal gun control reforms. Police said Wednesday, May 29, 2013, that threatening letters containing traces of the poison ricin were opened Friday, May 24, 2013 at New York City?s mail sorting facility and Sunday, May 26, in Washington at the headquarters of the nonprofit started by Bloomberg, Mayors Against Illegal Guns. Both were addressed to Bloomberg and contained threats referencing the debate on gun laws. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? A suspicious letter mailed to the White House and intercepted this week was similar to two threatening, poison-laced letters on the gun law debate sent to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, one of the nation's most potent gun-control advocates, officials said Thursday.

Yet another letter became known publicly on Thursday, one tainted with the poison ricin and mailed to President Barack Obama from Spokane, Wash., the FBI said. Authorities have arrested a man in Spokane in connection with that letter, which was intercepted May 22.

The Secret Service said the White House-bound letter similar to the ones Bloomberg was sent was intercepted by a White House mail screening facility. Two similar letters postmarked in Louisiana and sent to Bloomberg in New York and his gun control group in Washington contained traces of the deadly poison ricin.

It wasn't immediately clear whether the letter sent to Obama contained ricin. It was turned over to the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force for testing and investigation.

The two Bloomberg letters, opened Friday in New York and Sunday in Washington, contained an oily pinkish-orange substance.

New York Police Department Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Thursday the same machine or computer had produced the two letters to Bloomberg and the similar one to Obama and that they may be identical. He referred specific questions to the FBI.

The FBI said in a statement that field tests on the letters were consistent with the presence of a biological agent, and the letters were turned over to an accredited laboratory for the kind of thorough analysis that is needed to verify a tentative finding. "More letters may be received," the statement said, without elaboration.

The body of the letter mailed to New York was addressed to "you" and referenced the gun control debate. Kelly said the unsigned letter says, in so many words: "Anyone who comes for my guns will be shot in the face." He refused to quote directly from the letter, saying he didn't want to do the author's bidding.

Bloomberg has emerged as one of the country's most important gun-control advocates, able to press his case with both his public position and his private money.

The New York letter was opened at the city's mail facility in Manhattan in a biochemical containment box, which is a part of the screening process for mayor's office mail.

"In terms of the processes and procedures that are in place now we think they worked," Kelly said. "This is sort of an effect of the post-9/11 world that we live in that these checks and facilities are in place and the system worked."

The second letter was opened Sunday by Mark Glaze, director of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, the Washington-based nonprofit Bloomberg started.

The letter Glaze opened tested positive for ricin initially. The other letter to Bloomberg at first tested negative but tested positive at a retest Wednesday.

The postal workers union, citing information it got in a Postal Service briefing, said the letters bore a Shreveport, La., postmark. Kelly would not comment on the origin of the letter.

Louisiana State Police spokeswoman Julie Lewis said state authorities have deferred to the FBI and have not opened an investigation. The Shreveport postal center handles mail from Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas, so the letter could have come from any of those states, Lewis said.

The people who initially came into contact with the letters showed no symptoms of exposure to the poison, but three officers who later examined the New York letter experienced minor symptoms that have since abated, police said. The mayor visited the mailroom on Thursday but made no public comments on the topic.

On Wednesday, he said he didn't know why they were sent.

One of the letters "obviously referred to our anti-gun efforts, but there's 12,000 people that are going to get killed this year with guns and 19,000 that are going to commit suicide with guns, and we're not going to walk away from those efforts," said Bloomberg, adding that he didn't feel threatened.

According to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, ricin is a poison found naturally in castor beans. Symptoms can include difficulty breathing, vomiting and redness on the skin depending on how the affected person comes into contact with the poison.

The letters were the latest in a string of toxin-laced missives, but authorities would not say whether the letters to Bloomberg and Obama were believed to be linked to any other recent case.

In Washington state, a 37-year-old was charged last week with threatening to kill a federal judge in a letter that contained ricin. On Thursday, the FBI said a suspicious letter containing ricin was mailed to Obama from Spokane on the same day similar ricin-tainted letters were mailed to the judge and to a post office. A fourth letter, sent to nearby Fairchild Air Force Base, continues to undergo testing, officials said.

About a month earlier, letters containing the substance were addressed to Obama, a U.S. senator and a Mississippi judge. One of the letters postmarked in Memphis, Tenn., was traced back to Tupelo, Miss., and a Mississippi man was arrested.

Bloomberg and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino founded Mayors Against Illegal Guns, which now counts more than 700 mayors nationwide as members. It lobbies federal and state lawmakers, and it aired a spate of television ads this year urging Congress to expand background checks and pass other gun-control measures after the school shooting in Newtown, Conn. The background check proposal failed in a Senate vote in April, and other measures gun-control advocates wanted ? including a ban on sales of military-style assault weapons ? have stalled.

Separately, Bloomberg also has made political donations to candidates who share his desire for tougher gun restrictions. His super PAC, Independence USA, put $2.2 million into a Democratic primary this winter for a congressional seat in Illinois, for example. Bloomberg's choice, former state lawmaker Robin Kelly, won.

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Associated Press Writers Jennifer Peltz and Frank Eltman in New York, Holbrook Mohr in Jackson, Miss., and Pete Yost in Washington contributed to this report.

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Singapore to require operating licenses for Yahoo, other select news sites starting June 1st

Singapore isn't necessarily known for its generous media freedoms, but the Southeast Asian city-state is planning to tighten the reigns even further next month. Beginning June 1st, any online news outlet with more than 50,000 unique monthly visitors within Singapore that also reports on the country at least once each week will need to obtain an operating license from the Media Development Authority. According to a press release, the objective of such a policy, which already covers print publications, is to "provide greater clarity" when it comes to text and visual media the government will not allow to be published, such as "content that undermines racial or religious harmony." The agency's release lists a total of 10 online publications that will be affected by the new policy, including sg.news.yahoo.com, businesstimes.com.sg and straitstimes.com. According to a Reuters report, blogs are currently excluded, though we could see stricter regulation on that front in the future.

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Search for passenger in NY plane crash in 4th day

EPHRATAH, N.Y. (AP) ? A search for the body of a brain cancer patient who was on a volunteer medical flight that crashed last week and is presumed dead is going into its fourth day.

Frank and Evelyn Amerosa of Utica, N.Y., were aboard an Angel Flight on Friday night when the twin-engine aircraft went down in Ephratah, about an hour west of Albany, according to police and family members.

Rescue workers have been scouring woods and a big, murky pond where the bulk of the aircraft was submerged. Wreckage from the crash was dispersed over a large area, with pieces of the plane and documents found as far as five miles away.

John Campbell, 70, of Stamford, Conn., was flying the couple back from the Boston area, where Frank Amerosa was being treated for brain cancer, officials and family said.

The bodies of both Campbell and Evelyn Amerosa were recovered from the rural crash site. Searchers continued to look for the body of 64-year-old Frank Amerosa on Monday, authorities said.

Ephratah Town Supervisor Todd Bradt said the effort would resume Tuesday.

Frank Amerosa, a retired trucker, had been diagnosed with brain cancer more than a year ago.

Campbell was a volunteer pilot for Angel Flight, a nonprofit group that arranges free air transportation for the sick. Angel Flight Northeast said it has set up free air transportation and medical care for more than 65,000 children and adults on about 60,000 flights covering more than 12 million miles. It was founded in 1996.

National Transportation Safety Board spokesman Eric Weiss said equipment and personnel were expected at the scene to begin pulling the fuselage from the water. Other debris has been collected from surrounding woods and fields and will be examined along with the main body of wreckage.

The Piper PA 34 departed from Hanscom Field in Bedford, Mass., and was headed to Rome, N.Y., before it crashed just after 5 p.m. Friday, Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen said. The plane did not issue a distress call before losing radar and radio contact, the NTSB said.

Weiss said a preliminary NTSB report on the accident will be issued in about two weeks, with a final report on the probable cause in about 18 months.

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Rescuers save a newborn from sewer pipe in China

BEIJING (AP) ? Chinese state media say firefighters and medics have rescued a newborn boy from a sewer pipe below a squat toilet.

The state-run news site Zhejiang News says a tenant heard the baby's cries in the public restroom of a residential building in eastern China's Puijian county Saturday and notified authorities. Firefighters removed an L-shaped section of the pipe ? about 10 centimeters (3 inches) in diameter ? and rushed it to a hospital where it was dismantled and the baby was treated.

Video footage of the rescue was broadcast nationally overnight.

Zhejiang News says the child ? named Baby No. 59 from the number of his incubator ? is safe.

Police are treating the case as an attempted homicide, and are looking for the mother and anyone else involved.

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Judge: Ariz. sheriff's office profiles Latinos

PHOENIX (AP) ? A federal judge ruled Friday that the office of America's self-proclaimed toughest sheriff systematically singled out Latinos in its trademark immigration patrols, marking the first finding by a court that the agency racially profiles people.

The 142-page decision by U.S. District Judge Murray Snow in Phoenix backs up allegations that Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's critics have made for years that his officers violate the constitutional rights of Latinos in relying on race in their immigration enforcement.

Snow, whose ruling came more than eight months after a seven-day, non-jury trial, also ruled Arpaio's deputies unreasonably prolonged the detentions of people who were pulled over.

The ruling represents a victory for those who pushed the lawsuit. They weren't seeking money damages but rather a declaration that Arpaio's office engages in racial profiling and an order that requires it to make policy changes.

"For too long the sheriff has been victimizing the people he's meant to serve with his discriminatory policy," said Cecillia D. Wang, director of the ACLU Immigrants' Right Project. "Today we're seeing justice for everyone in the county."

The sheriff, who has repeatedly denied the allegations, wouldn't face jail time or fines as a result of the ruling. His lead attorney in the case said an appeal was planned in the next 30 days.

A small group of Latinos alleged in their lawsuit that Arpaio's deputies pulled over some vehicles only to make immigration status checks. The group asked Snow to issue injunctions barring the sheriff's office from discriminatory policing and the judge ruled that more remedies could be ordered in the future.

Stanley Young, the lead lawyer who argued the case against Arpaio, said Snow set a hearing for June 14 where he will hear from the two sides on how to make sure the orders in the ruling are carried out.

The group also accused the sheriff of ordering some immigration patrols not based on reports of crime but rather on letters and emails from Arizonans who complained about people with dark skin congregating in an area or speaking Spanish. The group's attorneys pointed out that Arpaio sent thank-you notes to some who wrote the complaints.

The sheriff said his deputies only stop people when they think a crime has been committed and that he wasn't the person who picked the location of the patrols. His lawyers also said there was nothing wrong with the thank-you notes.

Young, the group's lawyer, said he was still reading the decision Friday afternoon but noted it contained "very detailed findings of discriminatory intent and effect."

Tim Casey, Arpaio's attorney, added that MCSO's position "is that it has never used race and will never use race in its law-enforcement decisions." Casey said the Sheriff's Office relied on training from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and "what is also clear is that the MCSO received bad training from the federal government ? ICE."

A call to ICE officials in Phoenix for comment wasn't immediately returned Friday evening.

Snow's ruling marks a thorough repudiation of the immigration patrols that have made Arpaio a national political figure.

Arpaio, who turns 81 next month, was elected in November to his sixth consecutive term as sheriff in Arizona's most populous county.

Known for jailing inmates in tents and making prisoners wear pink underwear, Arpaio started doing immigration enforcement in 2006 amid Arizona voter frustration with the state's role as the nation's busiest illegal entryway.

Snow wrote that "in the absence of further facts that would give rise to reasonable suspicion or probable cause that a violation of either federal criminal law or applicable state law is occurring," Arpaio's office now is enjoined from enforcing its policy "on checking the immigration status of people detained without state charges, using Hispanic ancestry or race as any factor in making law enforcement decisions pertaining to whether a person is authorized to be in the country, and unconstitutionally lengthening stops."

Snow added that "the evidence introduced at trial establishes that, in the past, the MCSO has aggressively protected its right to engage in immigration and immigration-related enforcement operations even when it had no accurate legal basis for doing so."

The trial that ended Aug. 2 focused on Latinos who were stopped during both routine traffic patrols and special immigration patrols known as "sweeps."

During the sweeps, deputies flood an area of a city ? in some cases, heavily Latino areas ? over several days to seek out traffic violators and arrest other offenders. Immigrants who were in the country illegally accounted for 57 percent of the 1,500 people arrested in the 20 sweeps conducted by his office since January 2008, according to figures provided by Arpaio's office.

At trial, plaintiffs' lawyers drew testimony from witnesses who broke down in tears as they described encounters with authorities, saying they were pulled over because they were Hispanic and officers wanted to check their immigration status, not because they had committed an infraction. The sheriff's attorneys disputed such characterizations, typically working to show that officers had probable cause to stop the drivers based on a traffic violation.

Plaintiffs' lawyers also presented statistics to show Latinos are more likely to be stopped on days of immigration patrols and showed emails containing offensive jokes about people of Mexican heritage that were circulated among sheriff's department employees, including a supervisor in Arpaio's immigrant smuggling squad.

Defense lawyers disputed the statistical findings and said officers who circulated offensive jokes were disciplined. They also denied the complaint letters prompted patrols with a discriminatory motive.

The ruling used Arpaio's own words in interviews, news conferences and press releases against him as he trumpeted his efforts in cracking down on immigrants. When it came to making traffic stops, Arpaio said in 2007 that deputies are not bound by state laws in finding a reason to stop immigrants.

"Ours is an operation, whether it's the state law or the federal, to go after illegals, not the crime first, that they happen to be illegals," the ruling quoted Arpaio as saying. "My program, my philosophy is a pure program. You go after illegals. I'm not afraid to say that. And you go after them and you lock them up."

The ruling went on to say that some immigrant traffic stops were made "purely on the observation of the undercover officers that the vehicles had picked up Hispanic day laborers from sites where Latino day laborers were known to gather."

The judge also said the sheriff office declared on many occasions that racial profiling is strictly prohibited and not tolerated, but at the same time witnesses said it was appropriate to consider race as a factor in rounding up immigrants.

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Modulating the immune system to combat metastatic cancer

May 24, 2013 ? Cancer cells spread and grow by avoiding detection and destruction by the immune system. Stimulation of the immune system can help to eliminate cancer cells; however, there are many factors that cause the immune system to ignore cancer cells. Regulatory T cells are immune cells that function to suppress the immune system response.

In this issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, researchers led by Ronald Levy at Stanford University found that regulatory T cells that infiltrate tumors express proteins that can be targeted with therapeutic antibodies.

Mice injected with antibodies targeting the proteins CTLA-4 and OX-40 had smaller tumors and improved survival. Moreover, treatment with these antibodies cleared both tumors at the primary site and distant metastases, including brain metastases that are usually difficult to treat. These findings suggest that therapies targeting regulatory T cells could be a promising approach in cancer treatment.

In an accompanying commentary, Cristina Ghirelli and Thorsten Hagemann emphasize that in order for this approach to be clinically relevant, it will be important to show that targeting regulatory T cells in metastatic tumors also blocks growth.

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Windows 8 Tablet Ad: Using Siri Against Apple

Shots fired! In the latest ad for Windows 8, Microsoft shows an iPad and one of their brand new Windows 8 Tablets side by side. The video continues as both devices run through the same tasks, but the Windows 8 tablet is able to use Powerpoint, and search for something else while watching a Youtube video. As the Windows tablet does something different, Siri?s voice comes on and complains that she can?t do the things the Windows tablet is doing, saying phrases like, ?I?m sorry I can?t do that? or ?I?ll just play Chopsticks then.? The final attack comes in the form of a price point: the $449 price point of the 64GB ASUS VIvoTab, and $699 price of Apple?s 64GB iPad model.

The last in the Mac vs. PC war feels like a call back to Apple?s ?Get a Mac? campaigns and Microsoft?s counter response of ?I?m a PC? ads. It?s actually quite nice to see these two companies dueling again. For a while, it seemed that Apple had everything go it for it: market share, better advertising, cooler products, and Steve Jobs at the helm. While Apple is still a leader on many of these accounts, the death of Jobs has seemed to stifle the company?s once famed innovation. No longer is Apple on the cutting-edge of technology. Rather, they just seem to be responding to trends. Instead of creating brand new devices like they did with the first iterations of smartphones and tablets, Apple seems content to simply make their current devices marginally better each year.

This is not to say that Apple?s products are bad by any means. I still think that if you?re willing to spend the money, and MacBook or iPad device is considerably than its Windows counterpart. But competition is healthy and necessary for technology to innovate and expand. Without competition, we would have one company dominating with a complete monopoly on the technology market. Domination stifles technological advances, so I for one am glad to see that Microsoft is back in the race once again.

Microsoft has 1 billion dollars ready to go for the next iteration of Windows ads, so this ad certainly won?t be the last of its kind. I just hope the next one is actually funny.

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The Health Benefits of Mimosa Pudica for Hemorrhoids

Mimosa Pudica is a small evergreen that grows in Brazil, Asia, Africa, and India. The plant has a number of nicknames, including shameful plant, touch-me-not, and sensitive plant. Mimosa Pudica earned these names because of an interesting quality- its leaves close when they?re touched.

In Ayurvedic medicine, Mimosa pudica is known as lajjalu and its inclusion within the system is not because of its dancing leaves, but the therapeutic benefits the compounds within the plant offers. Many hemorrhoid sufferers have experienced relief as a result of this special plant?s pharmacological profile and antioxidant activity. ^[1][2]

Mimosa Pudica and Hemorrhoids

Hemorrhoids describe an uncomfortable problem in which the blood vessels in the anal area swell and become very sore. Hemorrhoids can originate from straining during bowel movements, pregnancy, being overweight, and other factors. Swelling, discomfort, and even bleeding are common indications of hemorrhoids and they?re all miserable for the person experiencing them. In fact, in Ayurvedic medicine, hemorrhoids are known as ?arsha shoola? which translates to ?pain from pricking like needles.? Ouch!

For those experiencing the misery and agony of hemorrhoids, Mimosa pudica offers several benefits. If you know anything about the history of shaving, you may have heard of a styptic pencil, which is a small, crayon-like device that?s able to stop the bleeding that results from a shaving cut. Mimosa pudica has similar styptic qualities to stop bleeding. This can be invaluable for bleeding hemorrhoids. A topical paste made from Mimosa pudica leaves has been known as a hemorrhoid therapy since at least the 16th century. ^[1][3] Additionally, mimosa pudica?s phenol content and antioxidant action is believed to help wounds, like bleeding hemorrhoids, heal faster. ^[4]

Supplementing with Mimosa Pudica

If the uncomfortable presence of swollen, burning hemorrhoids is ruining your day, natural herbal therapies like Mimosa pudica may be an avenue for relief. It?s backed by at least 500 years of traditional use and contains no synthetic compounds or harmful chemicals. That?s more than can be said for many of the conventional medications available at your local drugstore.

Although herbal remedies may reduce discomfort, it?s also important to understand that addressing your hemorrhoids at the source needs to be part of the equation. If you?re overweight or strain during bowel movements, these are not factors that Mimosa pudica will remedy, you need to take action and correct those separately.

Have you used any supplements that contain Mimosa pudica? What were your results? Please leave a comment and share your experience with us!

-Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN, DABFM

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Tonight's flood-insurance meeting is for business owners | IndyBlog

Local News Tonight's flood-insurance meeting is for business owners

Posted by J. Adrian Stanley on Tue, May 21, 2013 at 9:51 AM

Ever since the Waldo Canyon Fire, we've been hearing about the risk of severe flooding off the burn scar. Risk has largely been discussed in terms of lost lives and homes. But many businesses also lie in threatened flood plains, leaving owners to wonder how best to protect their livelihood.

Tonight's meeting is especially for them. Read on:

WHEN: Tuesday, May 21 2013
8-10am (Doors Open at 7:30am)

WHERE: Business of Art Center
513 Manitou Avenue
Manitou Springs, CO 80829

COST: FREE! Registration Required @ www.cssbdc.org or call 719 685-5089

Presentation, Q&A Counseling on what you can do to protect your business from effects of flooding. A consolidated 1 HOUR discussion on the following topics:

? Flood Insurance

? Flood Plain

? Business Interruption/Loss of Income Insurance

? Hazard

? Inventory Coverage

After the 1 HOUR Presentation you will have the opportunity to have a ?One on One? with the counselors.

Don?t miss this opportunity to get all of the information you need to make informed decisions on how you can protect your business from the flood potential.

Hosted by iManitou and the SBDC Disaster Relief Program

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Obama pledges urgent aid to Oklahoma town

President Barack Obama, accompanied by, from left, Vice President Joe Biden, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and FEMA Deputy Administrator Richard Serino. talks about the Oklahoma tornado and severe weather, Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

President Barack Obama, accompanied by, from left, Vice President Joe Biden, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and FEMA Deputy Administrator Richard Serino. talks about the Oklahoma tornado and severe weather, Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

President Barack Obama, right, accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden, talks about the Oklahoma tornado and severe weather, Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington. Earlier, the president met with his disaster response team to talk about the tornado that tore through the Oklahoma City suburb Monday. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

President Barack Obama, left, walks away from the podium after talking about the Oklahoma tornado and severe weather, Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington. Earlier, the president will met with his disaster response team to talk about the tornado that tore through the Oklahoma City suburb Monday. At right is Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama pledged urgent government help for Oklahoma Tuesday in the wake of "one of the most destructive" storms in the nation's history.

"In an instant, neighborhoods were destroyed, dozens of people lost their lives, many more were injured," Obama said from the White House State Dining Room. "Among the victims were young children trying to take shelter in the safest place they knew ? their school."

The president added that the town of Moore, Okla., "needs to get everything it needs right away."

The White House said it had no announcement yet of a presidential trip to Oklahoma, only that Obama wants to make sure any travel he makes to the disaster area doesn't interfere with recovery efforts. Presidential spokesman Jay Carney said Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano would travel to the state Wednesday to make sure state officials are getting the federal assistance they need.

Obama spoke on the disaster following a meeting with his disaster response team, including Napolitano and top White House officials. On Monday, he spoke with Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin and Republican Rep. Tom Cole, whose home is in the heavily damaged town of Moore, a suburb of Oklahoma City.

The president has also declared a major disaster in Oklahoma, ordering federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts. Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Craig Fugate was due in Oklahoma later Tuesday to ensure that federal resources are being properly deployed.

Carney said FEMA has enough funds at this time to pay for recovery efforts, but did not rule out an additional request for money from Congress in the future.

The state medical examiner's office has revised the death toll from the tornado to 24 people, including seven children. Authorities had said initially that as many as 51 people were dead, including 20 children.

Teams are continuing to search the rubble in Moore, 10 miles south of Oklahoma City, after the Monday afternoon's more than half-mile-wide twister.

The Senate, meanwhile, held a moment of silence Tuesday for the victims of the tornadoes.

Associated Press

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Will You Buy an Xbox One?

The Xbox One: a totally new control that listens to your voice, gives you an immersive TV watching experience, Skype while you're playing games, and major multitasking. From the looks of it, Microsoft's new console is a nice version of the entertainment future. But will you buy one?

The system has been upgraded in several areas?hardware and new architecture, new Kinect and SmartGlass accessories, and an updated Xbox Live. Xbox One offer a truly all-in -one entertainment system that recognizes your voice, and lets you do a number of tasks at once. For example, thanks to snap mode could make a Skype call while you're watching a live NFL game and checking on your fantasy team. But what do you think? Let us know below.

Source: http://gizmodo.com/will-you-buy-an-xbox-one-509126713

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Head of embattled G4S security force retires

LONDON (AP) ? The chief executive of security firm G4S is to retire after a tumultuous year that saw the company fail to fulfill its Olympic contract.

The company said Tuesday that Nick Buckles will be replaced by Ashley Almanza, a senior executive from the oil and gas company BG Group.

G4S had agreed in February to take an 85 million pound hit after failing to provide agreed upon security personnel for last summer's London Olympics.

That figure includes extra costs paid by the government to provide military and police security to cover the G4S shortfall.

Despite the setback, the company has been hired in a support role to help secure the G-8 summit of world leaders in Northern Ireland next month.

The new CEO is scheduled to take over on June 1.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/head-embattled-g4s-security-force-retires-081932089.html

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Rebels attack C. African Republic villages; 8 dead

BOUCA, Central African Republic (AP) ? Residents say armed men invaded a remote village in Central African Republic and killed six people.

The attack comes just days after rebels assaulted another nearby town, where they killed two people.

Residents in Bouca say four vehicles full of armed gunmen entered the village on Friday, where they shot six people.

Witnesses said the men did not speak Sango, the local language of Central African Republic.

Rebels overthrew the country's president in March, and for some time there have been allegations of involvement from Sudanese and Chadian fighters.

The rebels have been accused of rampant lootings, summary executions and the recruitment of child soldiers since their rebellion began in December.

Last week the United Nations envoy to the country said it "has collapsed into a state of anarchy."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/rebels-attack-c-african-republic-villages-8-dead-121019684.html

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Slow earthquakes: It's all in the rock mechanics

May 20, 2013 ? Earthquakes that last minutes rather than seconds are a relatively recent discovery, according to an international team of seismologists. Researchers have been aware of these slow earthquakes, only for the past five to 10 years because of new tools and new observations, but these tools may explain the triggering of some normal earthquakes and could help in earthquake prediction.

"New technology has shown us that faults do not just fail in a sudden earthquake or by stable creep," said Demian M. Saffer, professor of geoscience, Penn State. "We now know that earthquakes with anomalous low frequencies -- slow earthquakes -- and slow slip events that take weeks to occur exist."

These new observations have put a big wrinkle into our thinking about how faults work, according to the researchers who also include Chris Marone, professor of geosciences, Penn State; Matt J. Ikari, recent Ph.D. recipient, and Achim J. Kopf, former Penn State postdoctural fellow, both now at the University of Bremen, Germany. So far, no one has explained the processes that cause slow earthquakes.

The researchers thought that the behavior had to be related to the type of rock in the fault, believing that clay minerals are important in this slip behavior to see how the rocks reacted. Ikari performed laboratory experiments using natural samples from drilling done offshore of Japan in a place where slow earthquakes occur. The samples came from the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, an international collaborative. The researchers reported their results recently in Nature Geoscience.

These samples are made up of ocean sediment that is mostly clay with a little quartz.

"Usually, when you shear clay-rich fault rocks in the laboratory in the way rocks are sheared in a fault, as the speed increases, the rocks become stronger and self arrests the movement," said Saffer. "Matt noticed another behavior. Initially the rocks reacted as expected, but these clays got weaker as they slid further. They initially became slightly stronger as the slip rate increased, but then, over the long run, they became weaker."

The laboratory experiments that produced the largest effect closely matched the velocity at which slow earthquakes occur in nature. The researchers also found that water content in the clays influenced how the shear occurred.

"From the physics of earthquake nucleation based on the laboratory experiments we would predict the size of the patch of fault that breaks at tens of meters," said Saffer. "The consistent result for the rates of slip and the velocity of slip in the lab are interesting. Lots of things point in the direction for this to be the solution."

The researchers worry about slow earthquakes because there is evidence that swarms of low frequency events can trigger large earthquake events. In Japan, a combination of broadband seismometers and global positioning system devices can monitor slow earthquakes.

For the Japanese and others in earthquake prone areas, a few days of foreknowledge of a potential earthquake hazard could be valuable and save lives.

For slow slip events, collecting natural samples for laboratory experiments is more difficult because the faults where these take place are very deep. Only off the north shore of New Zealand is there a fault that can be sampled. Saffer is currently working to arrange a drilling expedition to that fault.

The National Science Foundation and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft supported this work.

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/~3/8I4KmSqzd7g/130520114021.htm

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Up to 60 injured after car drives into Va. parade

DAMASCUS, Va. (AP) ? An elderly driver plowed into dozens of hikers marching in a Saturday parade in a small Virginia mountain town and investigators were looking into whether he suffered a medical emergency before the accident.

About 50 to 60 people suffered injuries ranging from critical to superficial, but no fatalities were reported. Three of the worst injured were flown by helicopter to area hospitals. Their conditions weren't immediately available.

Another 12 to 15 victims were taken to hospitals by ambulance and the rest were treated at the scene, where some paramedics and other first-responders were participating in the parade.

It happened around 2:10 p.m. during the Hikers Parade at the Trail Days festival, an annual celebration of the Appalachian Trail in Damascus, near the Tennessee state line about a half-hour drive east of Bristol.

Damascus Police Chief Bill Nunley didn't release the driver's name or age but said he was participating in the parade and he had traversed the Appalachian Trail in the past. Multiple witnesses described him as an elderly man.

Nunley said the man's 1997 Cadillac was one of the last vehicles in the parade and the driver might have suffered an unspecified medical problem when his car accelerated to about 25 mph and struck the crowd on a two-lane bridge along the town's main road. The driver was among those taken to hospitals.

"It is under investigation and charges may be placed," Nunley said.

Witnesses said the car had a handicapped parking sticker and it went more than 100 feet before coming to a stop.

"He was hitting hikers," said Vickie Harmon, a witness from Damascus. "I saw hikers just go everywhere."

Amanda Puckett, who was watching the parade with her children, ran to the car, where she and others lifted the car off those pinned underneath.

"Everybody just threw our hands up on the car and we just lifted the car up," she said.

Keith Neumann, a hiker from South Carolina, said he was part of the group that scrambled around the car. They pushed the car backward to free a woman trapped underneath and lifted it off the ground to make sure no one else was trapped.

"There's no single heroes. We're talking about a group effort of everybody jumping in," he said.

Nunley cited quick action by police, firefighters, paramedics and hikers to tend to the victims, including a volunteer firefighter who dove into the car to turn off the ignition. The firefighter, whose name wasn't released, suffered minor injuries.

Mayor Jack McCrady encouraged people to attend the festival on Sunday, its final day.

"In 27 years of this, we've never had anything of this magnitude, and is it our job to make sure it doesn't happen again," he said.

McCrady said a donation fund was being set up to assist the injured, some of whom don't have medical insurance.

"We want to make sure they don't suffer any greater loss than they already have," he said.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/60-injured-car-drives-va-parade-212302227.html

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Greece to sell Postbank, Proton in July, stress-test big banks

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's bank rescue fund will aim to sell Hellenic Postbank and Proton by mid-July with big banks continuing to absorb small lenders as part of plans to revive the battered sector, the country's foreign lenders said in an inspection review.

Greece is recapitalizing its four big banks and winding down others deemed non-viable to improve the sector's capacity to fund the economy out of a deep six-year recession. Banks suffered heavy losses from debt writedowns and bad loans.

Small lenders Hellenic Postbank and Proton were split into "good" and "bad" parts and are now fully owned by the Hellenic Financial Stability Fund (HFSF), a state capital backstop funded with 50 billion euros from the country's bailout package.

The European Union and the International Monetary Fund's review said the 50 billion euro sum is enough to cover recapitalization and resolution costs and would leave enough funds for follow-up stress testing for the sector to be completed by end-2013.

The new tests will assess the adequacy of solvency buffers and loan-loss provisions as banks still face rising credit impairments because of the recession. Bad loans rose to 24.2 percent of their books last year from 16.5 percent in 2011.

The recapitalization of Greece's four core banks - National , Alpha , Piraeus and Eurobank - is expected to be wrapped up by June 14.

The four lenders need 27.5 billion euros to plug capital holes and must raise at least 10 percent from private investors via share offerings to retain management control. The bulk of the funds will be pumped in by the HFSF rescue fund.

The report said entities belonging to the general government cannot buy bank shares in the recapitalization or support third parties with loans, guarantees or subsidies, meaning cash-strapped state pension funds may not take part.

By mid-July authorities will devise a comprehensive strategy to further consolidate the banking sector and privatize banks falling under HFSF control. Any mergers among the four core banks will only be considered after the strategy is defined.

(Reporting by George Georgiopoulos; editing by Keiron Henderson)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/greece-sell-postbank-proton-july-stress-test-big-122412772.html

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