Comments (0) Green tea holds promise as new treatment for inflammatory skin diseases
An interesting bit of info. Gonna have to try using it as a topical and see if it helps. The article mentions the water not getting into the cells, wonder if alcohol would work as a vehicle to get it into the skin?
Runners — Let thirst be your guide
Makes a lot of sense to me. Too much of anything is not good fer ya…
ABC News: Microwave Popcorn: Easy. Yummy. Toxic?
It sure is some nasty smelling stuff. Don’t much like popcorn myself but will eat it if it’s NOT the butter flavored/smelling stuff. Don’t even like to be in the same building as that crap. Hope they take it all off the market.
Umami,Monosodium Glutamate, and MSG
Interesting stuff. Not happy about some of the ways the manufactures and packagers have taken to hide the fact that their products DO have MSG in them but would rather know than not. If you have any sensitivity tis a site to bookmark and READ!
Ancient Parasites Show that Cleanliness May Have Been Next to Sickliness
Interesting bit of historical research. Shows that not everything “they” say is good for you is actually “good” for you.
Turmeric Prevents Experimental Rheumatoid Arthritis and Bone Loss, University of Arizona Study Shows
Looks quite interesting.
Kept meaning to get these up but since time flies like a banana, I just got around to it. Gonna put them after the fold so only those really wanting to get grossed out will see them. 😉
And YES it hurt as much as it looks like it would. These pix were taken the evening of Thursday August 10, 2006 no matter what the camera time stamp says.
Wired News: Honey Remedy Could Save Limbs
Interesting article. Will have to try it next time I cut myself. Have used it before but like so many other things had forgotten about it.
MIT material stops bleeding in seconds – MIT News Office
If this doesn’t have other really bad side effects it will revolutionize surgery. Article goes into more detail than I have seen elsewhere today.
One of the main things I need on the iBook is Skype and it doesn’t seem to work under Ubuntu. I’ve downloaded 3 different packages now and none will work. So, for now I am back with OS X running from the external harddrive at least while Cat is out so I can get calls from her if necessary. Will switch back and try some more when she gets back.
Still trying to find where I saw how to get the full uncastrated version of KDE working in Ubuntu and having no luck. Saw it yesterday somewhere but who knows where… 🙁
Also need to find where/how to get the email from the mac hard drive into Ubuntu. Done several searches on both google and yahoo and still no joy.
Another bad day body wise. Course when I get this way the mind doesn’t work right either. Energy level is so low I am having to watch my breathing and force the bod to breathe extra deep about half the time. Bout all I know to do is to hope tomorrow is better. Time for a time out…
Over did it the last few days and am paying today. May post a bit but for the most part am going to try to recoop(?).
Guess it was all the drill use. Don’t have quite this much problem with hands and arms when I use the modified remote battery drill vs the heavy as hell 18 volt sucker.
Downtime is partually due to the last two days spent with the heavy as hell unit in hand putting gutters on one side of the 12×60 and getting metal canopys put up over the doors on the other side before the rain hit.
Trying to cut down on the amount of water that runs down the walls, behind the scrap I have against the sides at the bottom to keep the cats out, under the length of the trailer and then under the end wall of the unfinished rear addition to the q-hut and into the floor.
The flood inside wasn’t quite as bad this time. Of course I ended up putting the last piece of metal up in pouring rain. Put the drill in a large baggie with the bit sticking out one corner and finished up or we would have had a lot more inside. I think this one was a 12 towel leak.
Got a new one at the other end in the bedroom floor. Or that’s where it ends up. Ceiling center 3 feed from the end. Course that is the first seam in the ceilotex so could be from the end to 6 feed or so from it. We were up there a couple of months ago with roof coating so may have caused one then. Tis always something new.
I hope to get metal cut to underpen the trailer and stop the water from getting under in the first place. But I also need to finish with gutters or extended metal water sheads/eaves or something to keep it from getting on what walls are left.  Plan to redo the walls with some cans/bottles/rocks/concrete combo and be done with it fer-ever. One of these days…
Hands are giving out so will close till later…
MIT proton treatment could replace x-ray use in radiation therapy – MIT News Office
Scientists at MIT, collaborating with an industrial team, are creating a proton-shooting system that could revolutionize radiation therapy for cancer. The goal is to get the system installed at major hospitals to supplement, or even replace, the conventional radiation therapy now based on x-rays.
The fundamental idea is to harness the cell-killing power of protons — the naked nuclei of hydrogen atoms — to knock off cancer cells before the cells kill the patient. Worldwide, the use of radiation treatment now depends mostly on beams of x-rays, which do kill cancer cells but can also harm many normal cells that are in the way.
What the researchers envision — and what they’re now creating — is a room-size atomic accelerator costing far less than the existing proton-beam accelerators that shoot subatomic particles into tumors, while minimizing damage to surrounding normal tissues. They expect to have their first hospital system up and running in late 2007.
Room-size atomic accelerator. Now there is a downsized item for you. And gonna have it in the same room as the patient being treated. I hope they make it work. From a couple of things I have read the proton systems do a lot less damage to the surrounding tissue than the x-ray systems now in use.
First penis transplant patient hated it
You got to wonder:
Was it too big.
Was it too small.
Was it the wrong color.
How he lost his in the first place.
And why after getting another one he had it cut off… 🙁
The Top 10 Foods to Eat Organically
This is a real good news/bad news thing. The most used foods have the highest pestiside levels. These are some of them and a selection of foods to replace them.
Need A Cooker? Use Your Cell Phone
This cook an egg with 2 cell phones came up a while back and was shown up as a hoax but not this particular case. These folks used over an hours worth of phone operation between the two phones and had a tape recorder running with voices on it playing close by so they would both be transmitting for the whole time. Makes me wonder what the real story is…
The Blog | Tom D’Antoni: Job #1 Is NOT Iraq | The Huffington Post
Damn if he ain’t right! If you have medical insurance you are being robbed. If you have to have medical help and have no insurance you are gonna be raped. Kinda a catch 22 but concidering that everyone needs health care sooner or later they ARE gonna get you. Go, read, get pissed off.
Burn more than you eat and you do this every time. Amazing how that works.
Holy Smoke: Burning incense, candles pollute air in churches: Science News Online, Aug. 19, 2006
Incense and candles release substantial quantities of pollutants that may harm health, a detailed new study of air quality in a Roman Catholic church suggests.
Even brief exposure to contaminated air during a religious service could be harmful to some people, says atmospheric scientist Stephan Weber of the University of Duisburg-Essen in Essen, Germany. A previous study in the Netherlands indicated that the pollutants in smoke from incense and candles may be more toxic than fine-particle pollution from sources such as vehicle engines.
Now are these pollutants something that has always been in candles and incense or are they the result of using oil based wax in the candles and chemical binders in the incense. I personally suspect the latter.  As well as the tightness of the buildings now that central air and heating have become the norm (in the US anyway).
Personally I have much more trouble with the perfume and assorted deorderants, hair sprays and such that most folks wear to church and just about everywhere else. I’d much rather smell honest sweat or even unwashed bodys than to smell the stinkums that most folks wear. Does make me wonder what these odors contributed to the test that was done though…
Treehugger: MBDC’s Pick for All-Purpose, Non-Toxic Cleaning
Last Week, we told you that sustainable product and process design consulting firm McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry (MBDC) had awarded Begley’s Best All Purpose Cleaner with Cradle to Cradle Certification, one of the most prestigious sustainable honors out there. So what’s so special about this stuff? Well for starters, it is non-toxic, non-caustic, non-fuming, non-flammable, non-explosive, non-irritating, non-allergenic, and 99 percent biodegradable in seven days. Then, you have the ingredients that sound more like a gourmet party dip: Extracts of pine, palm, de-acidified citrus, maize, fermented sugar cane, and olive seeds.
This sounds good to me. I have been having health problems with all of the commercial cleansers for years mainly due to the stinkum that they put in them. We had been using Ivory liquid, but with their change to a new formulation a couple of years ago, when they added a stinkum to the new and improved version, had to quit because I couldn’t eat or drink from dishes that had been washed with it, unless they had been double or tripple rinsed, and even then most times I could still smell it. So now to see if our local (nearly 20 miles away) health food store carries Begleys Best and try it. Looks like a good for all that needs cleaning product without added stinkum. Cool! Thanks for thinking of the environment (and unknowlingly me) Ed!
UCR News: Sunscreens Can Damage Skin, Researchers Find
Interesting article. This one that is. The one I first say was on (guess where) (right) physorg.com and was butchered as usual. So will no longer link to their crap but search for the original and post it instead.
physorg.com link below:
Sunscreens can damage skin, researchers find
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