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What's best? Soy milk, cow's milk, raw milk and fermented milk (kefir)
One of the most common questions I'm asked concerns my recommendations for milk or milk alternatives. My answer on this question has evolved over the years, so today, I'll share my latest preferences for milk and milk-like beverages. One of the most common questions I'm asked concerns my recommendations for milk or milk alternatives. My answer on this question ... more
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Emperor - Chapter 7
Therapeutic Use of Cannabis
There are more than 60 therapeutic compounds in cannabis that are healing agents in medical and herbal treatments. The primary one is THC, and the effectiveness of therapy is directly proportionate to the herb’s potency or concentration of THC. Recent DEA reports of increasingly potent marijuana therefore represent a major medical advance; but, incredibly, the government uses these very numbers to solicit bigger budgets and harsher penalties.
On November 5, 1996, 56% of California citizens voted for the California Compassionate Use Act (medical marijuana initiative) ending all legal state efforts to keep marijuana from being used as medicine by California citizens.
Arizona citizens, in November 1996, also passed, by an even greater margin—
65%—a drug declassification initiative that included medical marijuana, backed by, among others, the late U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater.
Arizona’s governor and legislature, exercising their veto override ability on their state initiative laws for the first time in 90 years, struck down this popular initiative passed by the people. Arizona citizens angrily responded by recollecting more than 150,000 signatures in a 90-day referendum period and promptly returned the medical marijuana initiative to the ballot for November 1998.
The following explains how people will benefit when the freedom of choice of doctors and patients is once again respected. Therapeutic Use of Cannabis ... more -
Alcohol cuts risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis
People who drink alcohol are less prone to the sometimes crippling disease called rheumatoid arthritis compared with non-drinkers, according to a Scandinavian study published on Wednesday.
People who had a moderate alcohol consumption were 40 and 45 percent less likely to develop rheumatoid arthritis compared with people who did not drink or drank only occasionally, it found.
Among those who had a high consumption, the risk was reduced by 50 and 55 percent respectively.
Most surprising was that the biggest benefits were seen among smokers with a genetic profile known to make them vulnerable to the disease.
Rheumatoid arthritis affects between 0.5 and one percent of people, according to figures for the industrialised world.
It happens when the immune system attacks the joints, causing inflammation and damage to the cartilage and bone.
A mixture of environmental factors, especially smoking, and genetic heritage are the deemed causes of the disease.
The authors, led by Henrik Kaellberg of the Institute of Environmental Medicine at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, note previous research that suggests alcohol interferes with inflammatory processes that trigger heart disease.
Doctors advising patients about the disease say they should urge smokers to kick tobacco, but not necessarily to stop consumption of alcohol in moderate quantities.
High consumption of alcohol, while apparently protective for rheumatoid arthritis, is itself linked with many other health problems.
The paper appears in Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, a specialist journal published by the British Medical Association (BMA). People who drink alcohol are less prone to the sometimes crippling disease called rheumatoid arthritis compared with non-drinkers, acc... more -
Rosehip 'better than painkillers' for arthritis
The pain-relieving properties of rosehip, which has previously been linked to reduced inflammation in osteoarthritis, have been suggested for decades. Now scientists have found that powder made from a wild variety of rosehip, Rosa canina, is better at reducing pain in patients than paracetamol.
It is hoped that the fruit of the plant could bring relief to the more than two million sufferers of osteoarthritis in Britain, many of whom suffer acute pain.
A review of studies, published in the medical journal, Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, looked at the effect of the powder on more than 300 patients who were given different pain-relieving medications for an average of three months.
They found that rosehip was almost three times more effective than standard paracetamol at relieving pain. It was also almost 40 per cent more effective than another common therapy, the drug glucosamine.
NOT SOMETHING THE DRUG COMPANIES WILL BE PROMOTING I BET! The pain-relieving properties of rosehip, which has previously been linked to reduced inflammation in osteoarthritis, have been sugges... more -
As Earth Warms Up, Tropical Virus Moves to Italy
Aided by global warming and globalization, Castiglione di Cervia has the dubious distinction of playing host to the first outbreak in modern Europe of a disease that had previously been seen only in the tropics. Aided by global warming and globalization, Castiglione di Cervia has the dubious distinction of playing host to the first outbreak in ... more
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