Linda’s comment:  I made this and it is a great summer recipe.  enjoy….

Ingredients

Read more: http://www.kitchendaily.com/recipe/triple-decker-tomato-and-avocado-panini-with-mozzarella-and-pesto-143389#ixzz0uAFXvsrA

Linda’s comments:  This recipe is AWESOME…enjoy.

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  • 2 tablespoons unsalted organic butter, cut into chunks
  • 2 pounds organic celery root (about 1 large), peeled, cut into 1 1/2-inch chunks
  • 2 cups organic  whole milk
  • 1 cup organic heavy cream
  • 1 large organic shallot
  • 1 teaspoon sea salt

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  • 1/4 cup whole peppercorns
  • sea salt
  • 4 (6-ounce) organic filet mignon steaks, each at least 1 1/2-inches thick
  • 2 tablespoons organic olive oil
  • 3 cups organic baby spinach leaves

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  • 2 teaspoons organic olive oil
  • 1 organic shallot, finely chopped
  • 1 cup dry red wine
  • 1 large fresh organic thyme sprig
  • 4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) organic unsalted butter

Full article can be read on the IMVA site. Don’t miss the excellent videos!

Excerpt:

We have an increasingly dangerous and poisoned world exactly for the reason that the people at the top of the human heap make a lot of money poisoning our world and the people in it and they are not going to tell you about it. The whole idea of poison through the ages was to knock off adversaries without any clear trace back like an arrow in the back gives. What’s the point of an assassin advertizing his dirty deed?
 
Scientists Consensus Statement on the Use of Chemical Dispersants
in the Gulf of Mexico calling for the Obama Administration to
immediately halt chemical aerial spraying in the Gulf region.
 
They have not been warning people about living downwind of a coal-fired power plant or about the dangers of mercury in medicine and dentistry. They certainly have no intention of changing their tune so they will not be warning anyone about the true dangers of oil toxicity and the chemicals they are using to disperse the oil. It looks like certain communities along the Gulf are turning into overly large gas chambers and British Petroleum thinks they care about people. And the Obama administration is allowing it all to go on and history will remember that President Obama did not go down into the Gulf in the early days with the Army, Navy and Marines to stop BP from using Corexit.
 
 

Linda’s comment:  Well folks I have been here and done this with the lung Cancer not once but twice.  I learned….The FIGHT protocol is what I follow.  It is unfortunate, but today we have to protect ourselves from the toxic environment, which is becoming more toxic by the day.  I also take 20,000 mg ofBio En’R-Gy C, daily.   

Full article: http://www.nhiondemand.com/HSJArticle.aspx?id=859&utm_source=NHI+OnDemand+Newsletter+List&utm_campaign=1f74ca364f-HSJ_July13_2010&utm_medium=email

Excerpt:

Lung cancer is a disease that forms in tissues in one or both lungs and usually in the cells lining the air passages. The majority of lung cancers are malignancies that arise from epithelial cells. Lung cancers most commonly metastasis to the adrenal glands, liver, brain and bone. There are two types of lung cancer; one being small cell lung cancer and the other one being non-small cell lung cancer. Cigarette smoking causes most lung cancers but high levels of pollution, radiation and asbestos exposure may also increase the risk. Statistical estimates in the US for 2008 including both types of lung cancer would be 215,020 new cases and 161,840 deaths.

Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine) is a water soluble vitamin that is instrumental in more than 100 enzyme reactions in the body. These activities are mostly related to the metabolism of amino acids and proteins. Vitamin B6 deficiency is one of the most common nutritional deficiencies. Much of this is due to the fact that a lot of vitamin B6 is lost during cooking and food processing. A U.S. Department of Agriculture study reported that 80 percent of Americans consume less than the recommended dietary allowance (RDA) for vitamin B6.
Methionine is important to a variety of biochemical pathways; most cells can use homocysteine as a substitute for methionine. However, there are methionine-dependent cells that cannot use homocysteine in place of methionine. Methionine levels affect the amount of sulfur-containing compounds, such as glutathione, which defend against toxic compounds, in the liver. When higher levels of toxic compounds are present, more methionine is needed.

Current research has found that higher blood levels if vitamin B6 and methionine reduce the risk of lung cancer.

Full article: http://www.jneuroinflammation.com/content/7/1/3

Excerpt:

Luteolin, a plant derived flavonoid, exerts a variety of pharmacological activities and anti-oxidant properties associated with its capacity to scavenge oxygen and nitrogen species. Luteolin also shows potent anti-inflammatory activities by inhibiting nuclear factor kappa B (NFkB) signaling in immune cells. To better understand the immuno-modulatory effects of this important flavonoid, we performed a genome-wide expression analysis in pro-inflammatory challenged microglia treated with luteolin and conducted a phenotypic and functional characterization.

Full article: http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&id=20621802&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks

Excerpt:

Lyme optic neuritis (ON) is a rare disease and only a few cases
have been reported. We describe two cases of isolated Lyme ON,
one with recurrence 9 months after the appearance of initial
symptoms. Diagnosis criteria for multiple sclerosis and
neuromyelitis optica were not met. The etiological diagnosis was
based on European case definition criteria for neuroborreliosis.
Both patients had positive serum and cerebrospinal fluid
serology, a positive intrathecal anti-Borrelia antibody index,
and a good outcome on ceftriaxone. Specific diagnosis of Lyme ON
is important since improvement of visual acuity is possible with
specific antibiotherapy, even after many months. Copyright (c)
2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Excerpt:

Brain inflammation plays a central role in multiple sclerosis (MS). Dimethylfumarate (DMF), the main ingredient of an oral formulation of fumaric acid esters with proven therapeutic efficacy in psoriasis, has recently been found to ameliorate the course of relapsing-remitting MS. Glial cells are the effector cells of neuroinflammation; however, little is known of the effect of DMF on microglia and astrocytes. The purpose of this study was to use an established in vitro model of brain inflammation to determine if DMF modulates the release of neurotoxic molecules from microglia and astrocytes, thus inhibiting glial inflammation. Methods: Primary microglial and astrocytic cell cultures were prepared from cerebral cortices of neonatal rats. The control cells were treated with LPS, an accepted inducer of pro-inflammatory properties in glial cells, and the experimental groups with LPS and DMF in different concentrations. After stimulation/incubation, the generation of nitric oxide (NO) in the cell culture supernatants was determined by measuring nitrite accumulation in the medium using Griess reagent. After 6 hours of treatment RT-PCR was used to determine transcription levels of iNOS, IL-1beta, IL-6 and TNF-alpha mRNA in microglial and astrocytic cell cultures initially treated with DMF, followed after 30 min by LPS treatment. Moreover, we investigated possible involvement of the ERK and Nrf-2 transduction pathway in microglia using western blot analysis.

How many illnesses you are seeing are related to food poisoning?  Many more than you might suspect. So many people have low stomach acid and yet believe that they have excess acid and might be on Nexium to increase their likelihood of succumbing to tainted food with acute or chronic GI related symptoms.

Garry F. Gordon MD,DO,MD(H)
President, Gordon Research Institute
www.gordonresearch.com

Full article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/opinion/25schlosser.html?_r=1&th&emc=th

Excerpt:

EVERY day, about 200,000 Americans are sickened by contaminated food. Every year, about 325,000 are hospitalized by a food-borne illness. And the number who are killed annually by something they ate is roughly the same as the number of Americans who’ve been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2003.

Those estimates, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, suggest the scale of the problem. But they fail to convey the human toll. The elderly and people with compromised immune systems face an elevated risk from food-borne pathogens like listeria, campylobacter and salmonella. By far the most vulnerable group, however, are children under the age of 4. Our food will never be perfectly safe — and yet if the Senate fails to pass the food safety legislation now awaiting a vote, tens of thousands of American children will become needlessly and sometimes fatally ill.

Almost one year ago, the House of Representatives passed the Food Safety Enhancement Act with bipartisan support. A similar bill, the F.D.A. Food Safety Modernization Act, was unanimously approved by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee in November. This legislation would grant the Food and Drug Administration, which has oversight over 80 percent of the nation’s food, the authority to test widely for dangerous pathogens and improve the agency’s ability to trace outbreaks back to their source. Most important, it would finally give the agency the power to order the recall of contaminated foods — and to punish companies that knowingly sell them.

Full article: http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&id=20618647&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks

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During the years 1999-2002, a total of 4,898 individuals of 26
species of hematophagous insects (4,149 mosquitoes, 583 black
flies, and 166 tabanid flies) was examined for the presence of
spirochetes using dark-field microscopy. There was an overall
recovery of spirochetes from the midguts of Culicidae and
Simuliidae of 23.5% and 11.4%, respectively. Spirochetes were not
detected in Tabanidae. Seven spirochetal strains have been
successfully recovered from mosquitoes and black flies: BR149
(Culex pipiens), BR151 (Cx. pipiens), BR173 (Cx. pipiens), BR177
(Cx. pipiens), BR193 (Aedes cinereus), BR208 (Cx. pipiens), and
BR231 (Simulium noelleri). The strains have been adapted to
laboratory conditions (BSK-H Complete medium). Their preliminary
determination based on 16S rRNA gene sequencing has shown that
they differ from the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi
sensu lato as well as other members of the Order Spirochaetales
indicating novel bacterial species in the Family Spirochaetaceae.