Is the latest declaration about training hospitals to prepare for a surge in patients? Or is the declaration about giving maxiumum power to the government in order to have more control because the idea of a flu pandemic makes the feds feel so out of control?
Is the response about government action that has to be taken to have more control over the population? There are two sides to every news break. Maybe the need for more power is related to a need for better dietary habits? Could it all point to a nutrition problem rather than a surge in power event?
Breaking health news for October 24, 2009 is found in the article, "President Obama declares national emergency over swine flu pandemic; but why?" by: Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor. "According to the CDC, swine flu infections have already peaked, and the pandemic is on its way out. Peak infection time was the middle of October, where one in five U.S. children experienced the flu, says the CDC."
You can read the statistics yourself at the CDC site which publishes weekly flu updates. According to the article, President Obama declares national emergency over swine flu pandemic; but why? "Of nearly 14,000 suspected flu cases tested during the week ending on October 10, 2009, 99.6% of those were influenza A, and the vast majority of those were confirmed as H1N1 swine flu infections." Check it out for yourself at the CDC site .
So the reason the President now declares a national emergency, according to the White House, is to "allow hospitals to better handle the surge in patients" by letting hospitals bypass certain federal laws. Now that the H1N1 flu has peaked at least regarding the infection of children, what other news focuses on what you can eat to protect yourself against the ravages of rapid aging before your time?
For more reading about why the President has declared a swine flu pandemic national emergency, check out the following mainstream news sources:
Obama declares swine flu emergency News Source: Sydney Morning Herald | about 7 hours ago
White House declares H1N1 flu national emergency News Source: The Washington Times | about 8 hours ago
Obama declares swine flu national emergency News Source: The Hill | about 9 hours ago
Obama declares swine flu a national emergency News Source: Hindustan times | about 10 hours ago
When it comes to health and nutrition news there is hard news and soft news. Hard news is about national emergencies. Soft news is about the results of research studies that show health benefits of certain foods.
Now compare that national emergency breaking news with the latest news from Healthy News Service that includes recent studies this month finding that olive oil "seems to possess the ability to help prevent Alzheimer’s disease or combat it. It’s the oleocanthal in extra-virgin olive oil. How it works is that the compound that alters the structure of neurotoxins that contribute to the effects of Alzheimer’s. For further information, check out the article, "Olive oil prevents, and may combat, Alzheimer’s ," October 8, 2009.
The neurtoxins are called ADDLs. They disrupt nerve cell function, leading to memory loss, cell death and the complete disruption of the brain’s functions. You can read the study, researched by the science team at Northwestern University in Chicago. The researchers identified the ADDLs in 1998, and have since perfomed laboratory tests that demonstrate that oleocanthal encourages antibodies to attack the harmful neurotoxins. What’s needed next, of course, is a clinical trial. You can read more on this research in the journal, Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, 2009; 240: 189-97). Also see the article, "What Doctors Don’t Tell You," published October 8, 2009.
On another note, see the article in "ScienceDaily: Nutrition News," published October 14, 2009. Also see the article, "Alzheimer’s Researchers Find High Protein Diet Shrinks Brain." And then there’s the article on beans, "
A few beans could reduce your risk of heart attack." published in ScienceDaily on July 12, 2009. According to that article, if you add a few beans daily to your diet, it could reduce your blood pressure and lower your risk of heart disease.
The latest study, "Glutamic Acid, the Main Dietary AmDietary glutamic acid may have independent BP-lowering effects, which may contribute to the inverse relation of vegetable protein to BP.ino Acid, and Blood Pressure. The INTERMAP Study (International Collaborative Study of Macronutrients, Micronutrients and Blood Pressure)" published in Circulation, July 6, 2009: doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.108.839241), shows that scientists now discovered that a 4 per cent increase of glutamic acid – found in beans, pasta, whole grain rice or tofu – reduces systolic blood pressure (measured when the heart beats), and may take it out of the danger zone.
Should you have a meal of beans and whole grain brown rice with a spoon of tofu on the side and a serving of pasta? How would your body react to that meal?
According to the study, across the US, this small dietary change would save 8,600 lives a year from stroke, and 17,800 lives from heart attack. The conclusion of the study’s abstract noted, "Dietary glutamic acid may have independent blood pressure-lowering effects, which may contribute to the inverse relation of vegetable protein to blood pressure."
The research focused on a cross-sectional epidemiological study with 4680 persons 40 to 59 years of age from 17 random population samples in China, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In that study of 4,680 people aged between 40 and 59, researchers found that a 4.72 per cent increase in glutamic acid – which accounts for a quarter of the protein in vegetable protein – lowered systolic blood pressure by 1.5 to 3 millimeters of mercury (mmHg), and average diastolic blood pressure, when the heart rests, fell by 1 to 1.6mmHg.
For further information, helpful articles include the following:
Eggs are good for us after all
AMD: Eat more fruits to reduce failing eyesight
Food: Half of all popular snacks and drinks contain mercury
Fluoride: Now it can be added to our food
Why porridge is the best start to the day
Heart: Eggs are good for us after all
AMD: Eat more fruits to reduce failing eyesight
Superbugs found in fertilizers – and they could pass to humans
Kansas Says “No” to Consumers’ Right to Know
Photo credits: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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