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Why "White Coffee" Has So Many Confused!

d68452s — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 03:00:44 +0000

Todays Health Article

April 14th, 2012

WHITE COFFEE

Today you may know what white coffee is, drive up to your favorite coffee stand and actually get what you asked for…white coffee! But I am willing to guess you will not have to go far down the road from your favorite stop and they will be asking you questions like you have never heard before. Such as ” How much Creamer or Milk, and or sweetener? This is where all the confusion starts… but what about the white coffee bean, it’s referred to also as “White Coffee”!

White Coffee, might just be by definition, of where you are living, its ingredients, and how long the coffee bean has been roasted. Other words “White Coffee” can just be referred to any of a number of coffee or herbal tea beverages around the world.

WHITE COFFEE BEAN

This is a coffee bean that has been under-roasted, which gives it a light color and different taste from the average roasted coffee. While it is mostly a specialty item and not widely available, it can be found in some coffee shops and purchased through select coffee roaster companies. This article was prompted by a sales sign that announced White Coffee Bean coffee which I had not heard of. Yet I am no expert in the taste of coffee, I have written several articles about some rather original coffees and found to be intrigued by the fact…this coffee does not taste like coffee. White coffee is generally used only for making espresso drinks, not simple brewed coffee. With shorter roasting times natural sugars are not caramelized within the coffee beans, leaving no bitter aftertaste. The flavor of white coffee is frequently described as nut like, with pronounced acidity.

Coffee with….

Many English-speaking countries, the definition of “white coffee” is regular black coffee that has had milk, cream or some other “whitener” added to it.

Although the term is almost entirely unheard of in the US, where the same beverage might be called “coffee light” in New York. Yet it may be referred to as “light coffee”, “coffee with milk,” or even “regular coffee” in New England.

These cream varieties are commonly called “creamers” here (US) , can be made of dairy milk, corn syrup derivatives, soy, or nut products. Sweeteners used include cane sugar or artificial ingredients.

White coffee should be distinguished from café au lait, in that white coffee uses room temperature milk or other whitener, while café au lait uses heated or steamed milk.

THE ORIGINAL WHITE COFFEE

This coffee started in the town of Ipoh, Malaysia referring to a drink made from coffee beans roasted in margarine, brewed and served with sweetened condensed milk in a cream-color form.

An example is Chang Jiang White Coffee, or SYL White Coffee. Local coffee manufacturers subsequently mix instant coffee powder with non-dairy creamer or whitener and sugar together, and market the 3-in-1 mixture as White Coffee as well.

Whether roasted with margarine, or prepared in instant 3-in-1 mix, White Coffee in Malaysia should simply refer to how the drink is prepared and presented – added with milk or creamer, so the liquid is cream colored, just like cafe au lait, or Latte in essence.

There is also a form of white coffee, native to Yemen, which refers to the ground shell of the coffee bean. This form of coffee earns its name from its color, and is brewed in the same manner as regular coffee, only with some spices added.

Herbal Tea

“White Coffee” is an herbal tea originating from Beirut, made with orange blossom water. Traditionally served after meals in Lebanon and Syria, it is often accompanied by candied rose petals, served in decorated cups. Unlike coffee made from beans of the coffee plant, white coffee does not contain caffeine and is considered a mild sedative. In Lebanon, orange blossom water is also used as a perfume while bathing or by applying it directly to the skin.

Todays Health Comments

Perhaps the greatest clarification of “White Coffee” may be found by a simple question… What is in it? Other wise you may recieve some drink with perhaps the name, but nothing close to what you had expected. Although not a coffee drinker, the white coffee bean actually may appeal to the non coffee drinkers. The taste is indicated to be nutty, not bitter like the fully roasted coffee, that seems to have had just about everything that man has drank added to it.

Coffee has been acclaimed to have several health benefits, yet its caffeine addiction has led to other studies, indicating its effects of addiction. There are some who have indicated that the higher the coffee bean is roasted, more caramelization occurs, making the coffee extremely bitter, but less caffeine becomes present. So there are those who believe that the white coffee is loaded with caffeine. Some compare to Red Bull or Monster drinks which toe the fact. I strongly urge those to understand the ingredients in what you chose to drink.

Water's Outcome..."The Frogs In The Frying Pan", And You're Not Knowing It!

d68452s — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:23:12 +0000

Todays Health Article

March 26th, 2012

WATER

Todays article about “Water‘s outcome” may be a little alarming! In fact I compare this to… “The Frogs in the Frying Pan”, and we are the frogs, and we are not knowing it. For those who do not understand this common illustration… if you put a live frog into a hot frying pan, immediately he would jump out, recognizing that the heat would endanger him. Yet this same frog, if put into a cold frying pan setting on the burner, he would feel safe. But yet as the burner, being turn on slowly, would not recognize that he was slowly cooking and eventually it would be his demise.

COULD WATER’S OUTCOME… BE OUR DEMISE?

To understand the alarming facts, that we may actually be fitting into the same illustration, we first must come to know the facts. To understand the seriousness of how and why… our water outcome needs to be understood regarding its uses, needs, amounts, and shortages.

Our WATER AMOUNTS on EARTH

Did you know… water actually covers 70.9% of the Earth’s surface? Yet on this earth, 96.5% of the planet’s water is found in oceans. The remaining 3.5% consists of 1.7% in groundwater, 1.7% in glaciers and the ice caps of Antarctica and Greenland, a small fraction in other large water bodies, and 0.001% in the air as vapor, clouds (formed of solid and liquid water particles suspended in air), and precipitation.

You must understand that only 2.5% of the Earth’s water is freshwater, and 98.8% of that water is in ice and groundwater. Less than 0.3% of all freshwater is in rivers, lakes, and the atmosphere.

Water Cycles

Our water on Earth moves continually through what is hydrological cycle of evaporation and transpiration (evapotranspiration), condensation, precipitation, and runoff, usually reaching the sea. This evaporation and transpiration contribute to the precipitation over land.

Water is Essentially Needed

The need for drinking water is essential for us humans and life forms as we know it. The dietary reference to intake of water reported by the United States National Research Council in general recommended (including food sources): 3.7 liters for men and 2.7 liters of water total for women. Specifically, pregnant and breastfeeding women need additional fluids to stay hydrated.

The Institute of Medicine (U.S.) recommends that, on average, men consume 3.0 liters and women 2.2 liters; pregnant women should increase intake to 2.4 liters (10 cups) and breastfeeding women should get 3 liters (12 cups), since an especially large amount of fluid is lost during nursing.

Of this daily intake, about 20% of water intake comes from food, while the rest comes from drinking water and beverages (caffeinated included). With physical exertion and heat exposure, water loss will increase and daily fluid needs may increase as well.

Cold water and Chilling Facts!

The facts presented here should not be taken lightly, water is needed for our existence.

FACT… It is estimated that the population of the world reached one billion for the first time in 1804. It would be another 123 years before it reached two billion in 1927, but it took only 33 years to rise by another billion people, reaching three billion in 1960. Thereafter, the global population reached four billion in 1974, five billion in 1987, six billion in 1999 and, according to a United Nations estimate, seven billion in October 2011. Yet the United States Census Bureau, had anticipated that the world population would not reach seven billion before early 2012.

According to current projections, the global population will reach eight billion by 2025–2030, and will likely reach around nine billion by 2045–2050. Alternative scenarios for 2050 range from a low of 7.4 billion to a high of more than 10.6 billion.

FACT…The scientific consensus is that the current population expansion and accompanying increase in usage of resources is linked to threats to the ecosystem. The InterAcademy Panel Statement on Population Growth, which was ratified by 58 member national academies in 1994, called the growth in human numbers “unprecedented”, and stated that many environmental problems, were aggravated by the population expansion.At the time, the world population stood at 5.5 billion, and lower-bound scenarios predicted a peak of 7.8 billion by 2050.A number that current estimates show will be reached in the late 2020s, yet we have already in 2012 reached the 7 billion.

The 10 countries with the largest total population:
Rank	Country / Territory	Population	Date	% of world population	Source
1	People’s Republic of China^[63]	1,349,900,000	March 26, 2012	19.3%	Chinese Official Population Clock
2	India	1,203,710,000	March 2011	17%	Census of India Organisation
3	United States	313,246,000	March 26, 2012	4.47%	United States Official Population Clock
4	Indonesia	238,400,000	May 2010	3.34%	SuluhNusantara Indonesia Census report
5	Brazil	196,163,000	March 26, 2012	2.8%	Brazilian Official Population Clock
6	Pakistan	179,099,000	March 26, 2012	2.56%	Official Pakistani Population Clock
7	Bangladesh	158,570,535	July 2011	2.26%	2011 CIA World Factbook estimate
8	Nigeria	155,215,000	July 2011	2.22%	2011 CIA World Factbook estimate
9	Russia	141,927,297	January 1, 2010	2.027%	Federal State Statistics Service of Russia
10	Japan	127,380,000	June 1, 2010	1.82%	Official Japan Statistics Bureau

FACT… Access to safe drinking water has improved over the last decades in almost every part of the world. But look at these alarming facts:

• 1.1 billion people one-sixth of the world’s population in the world do not have access to safe drinking water!

• 2.2 million people die every year in developing countries, most of them children, from diseases associated with lack of access to safe drinking water.

• Half of the world’s hospital beds are filled with people suffering from water related illnesses.

• In the past 10 years, diarrhea linked to drinking water, has killed more children than all the people lost to armed conflict since World War II.

• 50 percent, nearly half of the world’s population fails to receive the same level of water services available 2,000 years ago to the citizens of ancient Rome.

• Lack of sufficient funding. That billions of people remain without access despite three decades of international effort and publicity about these water issues. This demonstrates the water problem and the lack of funding priority, and it’s failure to focus on a solution.

Seventeen of the twenty two industrial nations have failed to meet very modest targets set by the United Nations of spending 0.7 percent of the nations Gross National Income on overseas development assistance. With limited funding of such water issues, water access problems remain out of reach for the developing countries.

• Some 6,000 children die every day from disease associated with lack of access to safe drinking water, inadequate sanitation and poor hygiene – equivalent to 20 jumbo jets crashing every day.

• 80 percent of diseases in the developing world are caused by contaminated water

• Waterborne diseases (the consequence of a combination of lack of clean water supply and inadequate sanitation) cost the Indian economy 73 million working days per year.

• It is estimated that pneumonia, diarrhea, tuberculosis and malaria, which account for 20% of global disease burden, receive less than one percent of total public and private funds devoted to health research.

• Just providing access to clean water, without any other medical intervention, we could save 2 million lives a year.

• The water and sanitation crisis claims more lives through disease than any war claims through guns.
– www.water.org

• In China, India and Indonesia, twice as many people are dying from diarrhea diseases as from HIV/AIDS.

• The average person in the developing world uses 2.64 gallons of water a day. The average person in the United Kingdom uses 35.66 gallons of water per day. The average person in the United States uses between 100 and 175 gallons every day at home.

• More than 40 million hours are wasted each year in Africa alone from women and children gathering water.

• In 1998, 308,000 people died from war in Africa, but more than two million (six times as many) died from diarrhea disease.

Water, It is estimated that 5.3 billion people…

Accounting for two-thirds of the world’s population, will suffer from water shortages by 2025. However, some observers have estimated that by 2025 more than half of the world population will be facing water-based vulnerability.

A past report (November 2009), suggested that by 2030, in some developing regions of the world, water demand will exceed supply by 50%.

Water plays an Important Role in the World Economy

There are two assessments. Over 1.4 billion people live in river basins where the use of water exceeds minimum rechrge levels (UNDP Human Development Report 2006). By 2025, 1.8 billion people will be living in countries or regions with absolute water scarcity, and two-thirds of the world population could be under water stress conditions (FAO).

According to consulting firm, Beverage Marketing Corp., Americans drank 8.7 billion gallons of bottled water last year, compared with 8.8 billion in 2007 — the first decline this decade. Per capita consumption dropped from 29 gallons to 28.5. Jeff Cioletti, editor in chief of trade publication Beverage World, said he doesn’t believe bottled water will return to galloping growth for a long while.

The results, according to Food & Water Watch, more than 17 million barrels of oil — enough to fuel 1 million cars for a year– are needed to produce the plastic water bottles sold in the United States annually. And about 86 percent of the empty bottles get thrown into the trash rather than recycled. Beverage companies have responded through recycling initiatives and purchasing carbon offsets.

Total Industrial Water Use

In the world is about 22%, with high-income countries using 59%, and low-income countries using a minuscule 8%. These figures will rise with industrial production.The annual water volume use by industry is increasing at an enormous rate. Annual water volume use will most likely increase from 752 km³/year in 1995 to 1,170 km³/year by the year 2025. All figures are according to the website Water Science For Schools.

Approximately 70% of the fresh water used by humans goes to agriculture.

At the global scale, 2,788,000 km² (689 million acres) of agricultural land was equipped with irrigation infrastructure around the year 2000. About 68% of the area equipped for irrigation is located in Asia, 17% in America, 9% in Europe, 5% in Africa and 1% in Oceania. The largest contiguous areas of high irrigation density are found in North India and Pakistan along the rivers Ganges and Indus, in the Hai He, Huang He and Yangtze basins in China, along the Nile river in Egypt and Sudan, in the Mississippi-Missouri river basin and in parts of California. Smaller irrigation areas are spread across almost all populated parts of the world.Only 8 years later in 2008, the scale of irrigated land increased to an estimated total of 3,245,566 km², what is nearly the size of India.

“The big question is, ‘Will we have enough food?’” notes Nancy Morgan, livestock economist for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. “With the existing animal [population] and good management practices, there is enough livestock to feed the world.”

The FAO tracks livestock populations worldwide. According to their research, there are nearly 19 billion chickens, 1.5 billion cows and 1 billion each of sheep and pigs around the globe. All of which need water to drink.

Natural Disasters on the Rise

GENEVA, Jan. 28 (Xinhua)–There has been a “dramatic” rise in natural disasters during the past decade, the director of the Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) said on Thursday.

“The number of events have gone up very, very dramatically,” CRED Director Debarati Guha-Sapir said in Geneva.

During the 2000 to 2009 period, there were 385 disasters, an increase of 233 percent since 1980 to 1989, and of 67 percent since 1990 to 1999, according to CRED data.

Though earthquakes made up 60 percent of natural disasters from 2000 to 2009, climate-related events, such as droughts, storms and floods, have made up the majority of disasters overall, increasing tenfold since data was first collected in 1950.“Have climate-related disasters increased? The answer is yes,”

With these occurences, many times the life sustaining needs are completely destroyed, requiring emergency essentials for survival… water being first on the list.

WORLD CONFLICT CONCERNING WATER

Drought, floods and a lack of fresh water may cause significant global instability and conflict in the coming decades, as developing countries scramble to meet demand from exploding populations while dealing with the effects of climate change, U.S. intelligence agencies said in a report this last Thursday.

Their assessment reflected the joint judgment of federal intelligence agencies saying the risk of water issues causing wars in the next 10 years is minimal even though water might create tensions within and between states and threaten to disrupt national and global food markets.

But beyond 2022, it says the use of water as a weapon of war or a tool of terrorism will become more likely, particularly in South Asia, the Middle East and North Africa.

At a U.N. news conference in New York marking World Water Day, Ania Grobicki, executive secretary of the Global Water Partnership, which includes government, private sector, academic and nongovernmental groups, said, “Water is a global issue and is increasingly seen as a global risk.”

She pointed to the World Economic Forum’s 2011 Global Risk Report which for the first time included water as one of the top five global risks. The report said the rapidly rising global population and growing prosperity are putting “unsustainable pressure” on resources and demand for water, food and energy is expected to rise by 30 percent to 50 percent in the next two decades.

Another report in summary does not identify the specific countries most at risk. But it notes that the study focused on several specific rivers and water basins. Those included the Nile in Egypt, Sudan and nations farther south, the Tigris and Euphrates in Iraq and the greater Middle East, the Mekong in China and Southeast Asia, the Jordan that separates Israel from the Palestinian territories, the Indus and the Brahmaputra in India and South Asia as well as the Amu Darya in Central Asia.

Todays Health Comments

Today we must understand that water is limited globally, population is now a factor, and agriculture is required to feed this population. Today water may not only become a serious problem, but like those frogs in the frying pan, slowly we may befacing our demise. We have not recognize the problem as to severity, we are just on low heat, but when the severity reaches to high heat, there will be little that we can do. We are being complacent while others are suffering or dying from no access to safe water. It is those who survive on less water than what it takes to flush 1 flush our toilet ( 2and1/2 gallons of water, yet we use an average of 140 gallons a day. Just think about those 6000 children who are dying every day for the lack of water.

This does not dramatize the fact…7billion people now share the same amount of water that once was shared with less than the first billion in 1804. Just 200+ years, our population at 7 billion, expecting with in less than 50 years could reach the 10 billion, now is the time to take action. Is is already too late? The funding needed to gain control may be out of reach! The solution may be for those who have to start considering how much water we actually use.

When desperation sets in, the need for water becomes more prevalent, the control of water will become also, this may become not only local issues in our country, but water will be fought over, especially in those countries where population is great, and their neighboring countries control the rivers and streams that provide their water now. It will not be over financial greed or control of strategic land, but for water to survive.

The solution may be that now is the time.

We have an abundance of water… it’s our managent of water, that is wreclkless!We use it like it is never going to run out. We have not faced the water shortages like other countries and our priorities have certainly not been placed on conservation of the water we do have. All these practices, plus the production of food must play a greater part in the future. We must sustain as a nation, but globally as well. We must begin to think of others when you turn on the faucet and the water continues to pour out… what would your thoughts be if it was for the very last time. I do not know what our future holds in store, God willing, he will provide us answers.

GreenTea Benefits And How Much To Drink | green tea

d68452s — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 22:35:22 +0000

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March 20th, 2012

Today you most likely heard about green tea, and it’s health benefits. But what you may not know… are actually what are the health benefits, how you might obtained these healthy benefits, and how much should you drink?

Green Tea originated from the country of China and then further became known through out Asia. Green tea has just become more wide spread in the western civilization recently, although they have in the past, been black tea drinkers.

There are Many Varieties of Green Tea

Where the confusion starts to set in is that there are many varieties of green tea now being grown. Also these varieties of green tea can differ substantially due to the growing conditions, production, and processing. I have included a link below this article for further reading that may be beneficial.

What are the Actual Benefits of Green Tea?

Within the last few decades green tea has been subjected to several studies to determine its benefits to those who drink green tea. These medical studies have found that regular green tea drinkers may have lower risk of developing heart disease and certain types of cancer. Continuing with the medical studies, they have shown that green tea does not raise the metabolic rate enough to activate immediate weight loss, a green tea extract containing polyphenols and caffeine, has been shown to induce thermogenesis and stimulate fat oxidation, boosting the metabolic rate 4% without increasing the heart rate.

Flavonoids in an average cup of green tea is higher than that in the same volume of other food and drink items that are traditionally considered of health contributing nature, including fresh fruits, vegetable juices or wine.

Flavonoids are a group of phytochemicals in most plant products that are responsible for such health effects as anti-oxidative and anticarcinogenic functions.

However, based on the same USDA survey, the content of flavanoids may vary dramatically amongst different tea products.

Green tea’s antioxidants, called catechins, scavenge for free radicals that can damage DNA and contribute to cancer, blood clots, and atherosclerosis. Grapes and berries, red wine, and dark chocolate also have potent antioxidants.

How to obtain the Green tea benefits

Because of green tea’s minimal processing — its leaves are withered and steamed, not fermented like black and oolong teas. Simply by choosing the desired taste, which may be by visiting you local tea house, or by buying a few at a time. The key is to look for those who have the least additives and preservatives. Tea houses are the easiest to try several varieties of teas.

The Real Question is “How Much do I Drink?”

But there’s still a question of how much green tea do you need to drink to reap its health benefits.Many people still confuse about how much green tea should be drank everyday to provide certain health benefit for us.

Is a cup of green tea enough, or should be drinking more? this articles is explaining about how much cups of green tea shouldwe drink to get its beneficial effects.There are no real side effects of drinking green tea.

The problem that green tea might impose on our health, is if green tea is taken over the daily recommended levels.

Experts recommend at least 3 cups of green tea per day to effectively lose weight.

Taking over 6 cups a day can cause palpitations (when you can hear your heart beating or irregular heart beating) due to caffeine overdose. The average cup of green tea contains anywhere from 8 to 20 mg of caffeine, while black tea contains at least twice that amount — 40 to 60 mg.

Overdose (quantities more than 300 mg caffeine, more than 5 cups/day) can lead to negative effect on the CNS and irritation of the stomach.

Most of the research showing the health benefits of green tea is based on the amount of green tea typically consumed in Asian countries-about 3 cups per day (which would provide 240-320 mg of polyphenols. A cup (200 mL) of green tea (Gun Powder,Hangzhou, China) contains about 142 mg EGCG, 65 mg EGC, 28 mg ECG, 17 mg EC,and 76 mg caffeine.

Researchers at Japan’s Tohoku University studied 1003 subjects over age 70, comparing their green tea intake and mental sharpness, using a Mini-Mental State Examination, a well-accepted standardized test for measuring cognitive function. Drinking more than 2 cups a day of green tea slashed odds of cognitive impairment in elderly Japanese men and women by 64%! And a Japanese cup of green tea is much smaller than its American counterpart-only about 3.2 fluid ounces. At every level of cognitive impairment-from minimal to severe-those drinking the most green tea experienced significantly less mental decline than those drinking the least. Compared with elderly Japanese who drank less than 3 cups a week, those drinking more than 2 cups a day had a 54% lower risk of age-related declines in memory orientation.

Todays Health Comments

Today, Green Tea is becoming more and more popular amonst tea drinkers for its taste as well as it’s health benefits. Though I drink tea on an occasion or two… it is something my family enjoys on a routine basis. I do believe the benefits certainly are beneficial to our health. Green tea will most likely benefit those who consistently drink on a regular basis.

Shelf Life for Healthy Juice

d68452s — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 20:10:44 +0000

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January 12th, 2012

Today you could simply ask the question…how many people want to take the necessary actions to enact a more healthier lifestyle, among others, by drinking their fruit juice. There are some who just love their juice. But is it still healthy.

Then the lives we live, have become so busy, we tend to take short cuts or not always focused on how to accomplish the very thing we need to do to stay healthy.

Although some choose to making their own juice, most of you buy your juice in cartons or bottles at the supermarket, and then store it in the fridge. Here is where we fall short of drinking healthy!

Drinking Our Juice or Not

However, when does our juice actually get drank or not, depending on a number of factors, mostly because we are too busy, and we neglect to check, or take the time to check the juice in the refrigerator. If you are not a real juice drinker or you buy in abundance, the juice is left there for weeks! Now the discovery may be by the expiration date… which is not likely, because few of of us read them after the juices are in the frig… but when it’s blah or spoiled! The question is when is our juice still healthy for us, and when is it not?

Actually, you may know, that some foods and drinks could actually lose the benefits of vitamins and antioxidants after exposure to air in a matter of days or weeks?

Brierley Wright, MS, RD, a master’s in Nutrition Communication at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, provides some clues about how long should we store certain kinds of food. To be sure, certain nutrients will be lost after exposure to oxygen, heat (when cooking), and light.

Orange Juice

A glass of orange juice, to meet the vitamin C required in a day, that may be packaged in a box or bottle, after opening will lose all the benefits of antioxidants after 1 week.

To get your vitamin C, buy frozen juice concentrate and drink in a few days. Frozen concentrate can be exposed in a little light and air and provide a healthy drink.

Apple Juice

With Apple juice refrigeration will slow down the spoilage, but it won’t kill the bacteria that will form after a time. So eventually, bacteria will attack the natural sugars present in the juice, causing the juice to ferment.

Just like the other juices, the vitamin C that is naturally in the apple juice, will break down as well. Since vitamin C is an antioxidant and helps the product keep its color, after the expiration date, there is a gradual loss of taste, quality, color, and nutrition, although there is no danger to the consumer. However, there is a lose of health benefits, and your apple juice will turn into vinegar, leaving not such a nice taste.

Cranberry Juice

Cranberry juice depending the percentage of water and added fill-ins to sweeten the taste falls into a similar case as the other juices. But if we are actually talking about 100% cranberry juice, its shelf life in the frig is a lot longer due to the acidity of the drink and the low content of sugar. You might be surprised that some brands due not even have expiration date regarding the use. However, if exposed to sunlight will discolor as well. It is best like any other juice to drink within a short time frame to benefit from this very healthy drink

Pineapple Juice

You may have wondered why pineapple juice either is frozen or comes in those old fashion cans. It use to be that most fruit juices were sold that way, but not today after the plastic bottle has basically taken over the packaging of juices. Well pineapple is very susceptible to light, thus the can provides the best protection and the longest life. Putting the juice in a can gives the juice a two to three year life span if stored in a cool dry area.

Once Juices are Opened

If fruit juices are exposed to sunlight or over the temperature of 65degrees… the health benefit becomes to lessen and the shelf life as well. This must be taken into consideration regarding how long your juice will be healthy and have the best flavor. So once the glass is poured, its best to return to the frig and not leave sitting on the table.

Todays Health Comments

Fruit juices today are important for a healthy diet considering you are drinking the juice within the shelf life that allows you to benefit the fullest. It is important to manage them like any other food or drink in the frig that the will spoil and turn into fermentation at some point. If you think they have been opened for a period of time, it easy to open and smell or if they have expiration dates to verify the continued use. To healthy drinking.

Further Reading

Orange Juice

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Ice Water, Diet, Weight Loss!

d68452s — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 04:23:23 +0000

Ice Water

Todays Health Article

December 29th, 2011

Today we are closing in on the end of the year, and like most people, we begin thinking about all those New Years Resolutions. Many of you will give some thought to losing weight or eating less of the junk food after the Holidays end. Perhaps you do not want to weight and get started now. For those who are reading this, you could simply just work on what you now drink. It was just a year ago when I came to realize that Soda Pop was no longer going to be a daily drink, and water was become a regular part of my diet. Amazing that now I can hardly stand to drink the stuff. I still like my Root Beer once and awhile. I have lost 25lbs just contributing to that fact and the consumption of water.

Body Exposed To Cold Temperatures

I recently discovered that winter time is great time to rev up your weight loss. When the body is exposed to cold temperatures, it burns extra calories to keep yourself warm, thus increasing the metabolism by up to 50% in the process. The human body is constantly trying to maintain a static temperature of 98.6 degrees. The colder the surrounding or internal conditions, the more calories the body burns to keep warm. Metabolism acts like a furnace that must burn fuel to keep the body nice and toasty. Luckily, the body’s fuel of choice for keeping warm is “brown fat.”

Drinking Ice Water

Drinking iced water is just one of several ways to harness this mechanism for Weight loss, since the body must compensate for the sudden temperature drop. Just One 16 ounce glass of cold water can burn up to 17.5 calories. Cold showers, a lowered thermostat, and vigorous swims can also contribute to the burning of calories.

Weight Loss

Glass of Ice Water

Drinking ice water will contribute to a lose of calories and replacing it from the sugary drinks will definitely contribute to weight loss but it is just one facet or part of your weight loss. So do not run out in a snow bank in your summer attire and expect to loose weight immediately… you might just catch a good case of the shivers.

Warning

On the other side of the coin… our body only can sustain to keep

us warm to a certain point. When it is cooling down faster than our body can keep up, Hypothermia symptoms sets in. This can be life threatening. Also those who are exposed to extreme cold might be at risk of of other complications, such as heart conditions, resulting in Heart attacks.

Diet

Be certain to drink that glass of Ice Water with those healthy fruits and vegetables. A Tip drink a glass of ice water before you eat your meal. Not only will the ice water burn off some calories, it will take up space in your stomach that would other wise be used for food. Plainly you eat less when you drink ice water before a meal. Another Tip is drinking ice water between meals…allows you not to feel as hungry.

Todays Health Comments

Today we may need all the help we can get in curbing obesity. It is national problem that started with each one us contributing to the tipping scales.There is a portion of our society that have approved or endorsed that big is better. For sometime I think all of us wanted more for our buck… and now our bodies are paying for that era of time when we were blindly looked the other way.

Ice Water is one of those drinks that just may be the answer to a lot of our health problems and we need to drink more. I know in some parts of the world it is actually hard to get clean water, and bottled water is a luxury. But for those who have plenty of water, are not drinking enough. Drink up that ice water for good health.

Grampa's "Tea of Nutrients" from the Farm

d68452s — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 03:36:59 +0000

Todays Health Article

November8th, 2011

Todays article takes me back to the day when we had acres of hay fields. Though we cut the hay for our dairy cows, who found the hay very nutritious and their large milk production was the result of it. Although I never was a great fan of tea when I was a child, my grampa would always show up after the hay was drying in the fields, and gather bundles and tie them up and place the stems face down into burlap bags, so not to loose the leaves. As to curiosity one day, I thought they were taking the Alfalfa hay to feed their rabbits, who seemed to enjoy it as well, but I was wrong! Come to find out later, they received the remainder of the plant, after grampa had removed the leaves from the shaken bag. The leaves were treated just like tea leaves and Alfalfa tea became the drink. Having come from across the sea, he explained to me, it was a tea drank regularly back in the days.

Alfalfa

Alfalfa ( /æ l ˈ f æ l f ə /; Also known as (Medicago sativa, lucerne, holy-hay, and trefoil, ) seen at the right, is a flowering plant, belonging in the pea family, Fabaceae. As mentioned above, it is cultivated as an important forage crop through out the world. It perhaps in some ways resembles clover, with it’s clusters of small purple flowers.

Alfalfa is a perennial plant, which normally lives 4–8 years, but can live more than twenty years, depending on it’s variety and the climate. The plant grows to a height of up to 3 ft, sometimes higher, with the right weather conditions. Alfalfa has a very deep root system, sometimes stretching more than 49 ft underground, capturing the moisture necessary to survive those dry spells.

History Of Alfalfa

May be dated back to a Roman writer by the name, Palladius, who in the 4th century AD, includes a section about alfalfa, in his book on agriculture. Palladius says: “One sow-down lasts ten years. The crop may be cut four or six times a year…. An [Roman] acre of it is abundantly sufficient for three horses all the year…. It may be given to cattle, but new provender is at first to be administered very sparingly, because it bloats up the cattle.” Palladius called alfalfa “medica”, a name that referred to the Medes, a people who lived in ancient Iran.

A Timeline in the progressive spread of Alfalfa through out the world

The 13th century Arabic dictionary Lisan al-Arab says that “al-fiṣfiṣa” (alfalfa) is cultivated as an animal feed and consumed in both fresh and dried form.
In medieval Spain, the Arabic name “al-fisfisa” mutated into the Spanish name “alfalfa”
Alfalfa in medieval Spain was cultivated as fodder for horses and had a reputation as the best fodder for them.
In the 16th century, Spanish colonizers introduced alfalfa to the Americas as fodder for their horses.
The English name “alfalfa” dates from mid-19th century far-west USA, from the Spanish.
Alfalfa seeds were imported to California from Chile in the 1850s. That was the beginning of a rapid and extensive introduction of the crop over the western US States

Alfalfa Tea

Grampa’s Alfalfa Tea was made from the dried leaves that were soaked in boiling water anywhere from 10 to 15 minutes. Now Grampa’s formula was not very scientific but seemed to satisfy his taste. This was usually a handful of leaves grabbed from the bag. I guess the formula today may be similar but more specific.The recommended dose today is 40 mg of alfalfa seed or 5,000 to 10,000 mg of alfalfa leaves and stems drank a couple times a day.

Capsules and tablets of whole alfalfa may be substituted for Grampa’s drink, but somehow it seems to take all the nostalgia out of making the tea that has been drank by our past heritage.

Alfalfa Tea Nutrients

Perhaps before Grampa days, and civilizations in the past, they both may have been well informed of the nutrients of Alfalfa tea. Alfalfa is considered highly versatile due to its nutritional content. The alfalfa plant has all the known vitamins such as vitamin K and vitamin D, has a high chlorophyll content, and a balanced group of minerals including calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, and potassium. Alfalfa leaves likewise contain eight essential amino acids and high protein content. For this reason, tea made from the alfalfa plant, provides a good nutritional source for us, too.

Alfalfa Benefits

Some of the healthy properties of alfalfa tea include:

Helping in the lowering of your cholesterol levels.
Keeping the calcium in bones and out of artery linings.
May help to lower blood sugar levels.
Help in treatment of upset stomach.
Found to be useful in the treatment of arthritis.
Alfalfa Tea is a diuretic to alleviate kidney and bladder woes.
May help stimulate the immune system.
Alfalfa Tea may help purify your blood

Other Benefits

Antioxidants

Antioxidants are substances that can protect the body from damage caused by free radicals, highly reactive chemicals that can change the structure of molecules, causing mutations. Antioxidants can slow, prevent or repair damage to cells. Cells that are damaged may mutate into precancerous or cancerous cells.As of 2010, a food’s antioxidant capacity is measured using an ORAC score. Clemson University states that alfalfa has a very high ORAC score, 930.Drinking alfalfa tea can provide beneficial antioxidants that may help reduce risk for cardiovascular and other diseases.

Since antioxidants may be able to prevent damage to cells, drinking alfalfa tea may help prevent some of the signs of aging such as cognitive decline and poor eyesight.

Crohn’s Disease

According to a discussion published by the Baylor School of Medicine, alfalfa may be a beneficial alternative in the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease, or Crohn’s Disease.The abundance of nutrients and antioxidants along with the minimal processing of green grasses may contribute to the efficacy of alfalfa, including alfalfa tea, in treating bowel diseases.

Drinking teaDisplaces the consumption of nutrient-poor beverages such as sodas and alcohol, the Center for New Crops & Plants Products states that alfalfa may help prevent or aid with the management of certain conditions such as scurvy, constipation, high cholesterol and hormonal issues. Because of its ecbolic and stimulant properties, alfalfa tea may be helpful during childbirth.

Today’s Health Comments

Today, Alfalfa Tea may not being served up in your favorite Tea House, but perhaps it should. It is a Tea of Nutrients and health benefits that most everyone could take advantage of. Grampa certainly acclaimed how well he enjoyed the benefits of his Alfalfa tea. He was probably right, since he did almost live to 102 yrs. of age. However, this is not like all tea’s as it strongly enriched and too much of a good thing… can go bad. You may experience bloating and should not be drank if you are a kidney transplant patient, with out contacting your doctor. For those who wish to boost your immune system or enrich the nutrients into your system… Alfalfa tea maybe the answer.

Herbal and Amla, It's Remedies Today

d68452s — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 15:42:07 +0000

Today Health Article

October 3rd, 2011

Todays advantages of herbal beverages, is that they rarely do any harm to the body. They are unlike the flavored sodas of today, which are loaded with sugar, calories, artificial flavors, and preservatives. The herbal beverages come with health benefits along with healing properties.

One of the most admired herbal beverages today is the green tea.Green tea is popular because of its antioxidant properties which are clinically proven to postpone aging and fight cancer. Green tea is recommended for diabetic patients too. It has a unique aroma and is very refreshing after a long day at work. Teas blended with herbs, seed, roots and dried flowers like basil, ginger, camomile and so on, herbal tea is considered to have therapeutic benefits. Though these are on a little higher side when compared with conventional black tea, the money spent on them is worthwhile for healthy living.

Amla juice

Amla, the Indan Gooseberry, is another herbal beverage today that has attracted attention to many health conscious people. The tree is small to medium in size, reaching 8 to 18 m in height, with a crooked trunk and spreading branches. The branches are 10–20 cm long and are usually deciduous. The leaves are simple, and are closely set along the branch, and are light green in color.

The flowers are greenish-yellow, with the fruit being nearly spherical, light greenish yellow in color. The fruit is also quite smooth and hard on appearance, with six vertical stripes or furrows.

The berries ripening in autumn, and are harvested by hand, after climbing to upper branches bearing the fruits. The taste of Indian gooseberry is sour, bitter and astringent, and is quite fibrous.

In India, it is common to eat gooseberries steeped in salt water and turmeric to make the sour fruits palatable.

Amla

This fresh-green berry is a remedy to scores of diseases and infections. It is claimed to also delay aging. Loaded with vitamin C, amla juice is recommend for skin, hairs and joints. If drank regularly it boasts the immune system and the metabolic system, which fine tunes the body to be fit and healthy.

Finding this magical juice at your nearest store might be a remote possibility. You can still benefit from the amla juice concentrate by buying it over the Internet. It is normally suitable for consumption by people of all ages. You can have it as many times in a day and enjoy the renewed energy within you. It is recommended for premature hair greying. Amla juice is an effectual hair tonic. Mix the juice with water and use it for the last rinse on shampooed hairs. Leave to dry naturally for soft and tangle free hairs.

Aloe juice is next on the list of healthy beverages. A lot has been said about the wonderful qualities of aloe. From skin problems to cancer, aloe has been clinically proven to reduce symptoms of many life-threatening diseases. Aloe juice is recommended for relieving joint pain. Mixture of aloe and amla juice is an effective remedy for stomach related problems. Add it with water and have it at least once a day to keep health problems a bay.

Perhaps owing to its medicinal qualities, the Hindus, treat it as a very sacred tree and worship on ‘Akshaya Navami’. In the Kartik month (mid Oct. to mid Nov.) if one takes its dose regularly it provides complete protection against all the disorders due to cold. Amla is unique as it doesn’t leave its chemical ingredient even if it is heated. It is a tree whose no part is useless. It also has the atmosphere purifying qualities. Chemically, besides being the best source to get Vitamin C from, it also has gallic acid, tannic acid, sugar, albumen, calcium, protein, phosphorus, carbohydrates, irons etc.

Amla and Health Remedies Offered

It seems that taking Amla and Black Til (black sesame seeds) in equal quantity with honey or ghee is linked to increasing mental and physical weaknesses. By taking a cupful of sugarless milk with the murraba of Amla, it helps to revitalize the brain. Some suggest taking every morning with water makes one’s resistant enough to fight off various ailments.

Also the suggestion of taking milk in the morning after licking one teaspoon of ground Amla powder mixed with honey imparts freshness and strength to the body.

Intellect gets sharpened if one takes the pulp of fresh Amla or Amla juice with honey or ghee every morning and evening.

Other Remedy Facts to Consider

As an eye tonic and cure of eye ailments
For curing relief in heart ailment
Relieves Pain of Migraine.
Curing involuntary nocturnal emission
Remedies for Sexual Impotence
Problems connected with uro generative system
Acidity and digestive problems
Female ailments
Blood impurities
Diabetes
Piles
Stone-problem
Constipations
Cold and cough
Skin troubles
Baldness and other allied problems
Gives relief in Jaundice
Gout
Removing the spots left by measels, chicken pox, small-pox etc.
Boils in mouth
Lice in hair
Amla as the beautifying agent
Checking menstrual disorder
Insect-bite

What you might find so amazing is this gooseberry has so many benefits regarding our health, and so many remedies, I believe one could write a book on this very subject. Some have studied this berry with great interest and have found what the Hindu’s may have already learned, that this gooseberry is perhaps very key to our longevity and good health.

Todays Health Comments

This article today made believe I should run out and buy some Amla juice, but knowing we just do not have these trees growing in our backyard, the health food stores or the Internet is the most probable resource to purchase. Although we actually grew native gooseberries, I had no idea that their were others with such health benefits, so I will have to check out our local gooseberries as well. There is numerous health remedies which have included this juice or other parts of the plant, which have aided in our health.

Further Reading

Yokozawa T, Kim HY, Kim HJ, et al. (Sep 2007). “Amla (Emblica officinalis Gaertn.) attenuates age-related renal dysfunction by oxidative stress”. J Agric Food Chem. 55 (19): 7744–52. doi:10.1021/jf072105s. PMID 17715896.

^ Rao TP, Sakaguchi N, Juneja LR, Wada E, Yokozawa T (2005). “Amla (Emblica officinalis Gaertn.) extracts reduce oxidative stress in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats”. J Med Food 8 (3): 362–8. doi:10.1089/jmf.2005.8.362. PMID 16176148.
^ Jacob A, Pandey M, Kapoor S, Saroja R (Nov 1988). “Effect of the Indian gooseberry (amla) on serum cholesterol levels in men aged 35-55 years”. Eur J Clin Nutr 42 (11): 939–44. PMID 3250870.
^ Qureshi SA, Asad W, Sultana V (Jan 2009). “The Effect of Phyllantus emblica Linn on Type — II Diabetes, Triglycerides and Liver — Specific Enzyme”. Pakistan Journal of Nutrition. 8 (2): 125–128. doi:10.3923/pjn.2009.125.128. http://www.pjbs.org/pjnonline/fin991.pdf.
^ Tarwadi K, Agte V (Aug 2007). “Antioxidant and micronutrient potential of common fruits available in the Indian subcontinent”. Int J Food Sci Nutr 58 (5): 341–9. doi:10.1080/09637480701243905. PMID 17558726.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Dharmananda S. Emblic Myrobalans: Amla, Institute of Traditional Medicine [2]
^ Habib-ur-Rehman, Yasin KA, Choudhary MA, et al. (Jul 2007). “Studies on the chemical constituents of Phyllanthus emblica”. Nat. Prod. Res. 21 (9): 775–81. doi:10.1080/14786410601124664. PMID 17763100.

Just How Badly Do We Love Our Sugary Drinks Today?

d68452s — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 04:42:42 +0000

Todays Health Article

Sept 8th, 2011

Sugary Drinks

Today, most everyone, including our infants have indulged in a sugary drink. We have had a great love for our sugar, since the beginning of time. However, it seems the natural fruits, and even our water now, is now having its share of sugar added. It is not my imagination, but even the so called energy drinks are loaded up with the sweet stuff. What’s a person to do, if they choose not to drink all this sugar? Now I know it sounds crazy, but some of you, REALLY LIKE YOUR SUGAR! Even McDonald’s got in on the marketing scheme, with their Sweet Tea. I find for some of you, the more sugar, the more you drink. How is your Health by the way?

Just How Badly

The sugar craze has undeniably touched everyone… but how badly are we consuming these drinks? The fact is, not too long ago, we drank sun tea, lemonade, milk and water, and occasionally we drank those sugary drinks ( Sodas).

Today, it’s a daily drink, just a everyday way of life in America. You do not have to look to far those inviting vending machines at almost every business, and even at hospitals. The scheme of super size, has huge bucket-like containers at the gas stations, convenience stores, concerts, the movies, and most likely served with your fast-food meals.

In today’s carbonation nation, half of the U.S. population over age 2 consumes sugary drinks daily, according to a report released by National Center for Health Statistics.

The sugary drinks include sodas, sweetened waters, energy drinks,, sports and fruit beverages. Not included in the total were diet drinks, 100% fruit juices, sweetened teas and flavored milk. The report states that sugary drinks have been linked to “poor diet quality, weight gain, obesity, and in adults, type 2 diabetes.”

: Todays Sugary Drinks

The recent CDC report also found that while half of the population doesn’t drink sugary beverages… about 25% consumes amounts of the drinks that total fewer than 200 calories per day. About 5% drink about 567 calories on any given day, which amounts to more than four 12-ounce cans of cola.About 5% of people ages 2 and older consume at least 567 calories a day from
such drinks.

That’s a national problem, nutrition experts say. “Sugar-sweetened beverages are the No. 1 single source of calories in the American diet and account for about half of all added sugars that people consume,” says Rachel Johnson, a spokeswoman for the American Heart Association and a nutrition professor at the University of Vermont.

The Bad News… Good News

We will deal with the Bad first…

Did you know that you can consume half or more of your recommended daily calories within sugar-sweetened beverages and not even realize you’ve done it?

Do you give out a moan, not believing you drank the whole thing. Rarely do we hold back our groaning how after drinking a 20 ounce cola, at 230 calories.

If you add up those calories your drinking everyday and you will be very surprised. A loaded latte…250 calories. A Double Gulp soda with lunch…600 calories (OK, let’s say half of a Double Gulp for 300 calories). A couple of beers after work… 250 calories. Sweetened iced tea with dinner…200 calories. A highball or two in the evening…400 calories.

Many experts have even proposed that a large part of the obesity crisis in America today is singularly caused by the sugar-sweetened beverages we drink!

Good News

That’s bad news! Now it’s the good news because usually sugary beverages are easy to cut down on or quit completely. I found substituting water was for me, others might have with their water a slice of lime, a diet drink, or sparkling water with lemon flavoring.

In the beginning, down-sizing that latte; drinking a small glass of sugary drink rather than the large

Whenever you become thirsty, drink water first so you can sip your calorie-containing drink rather than using it to quench your thirst.

Todays Health Comments

Today we seem to consume way too much sugar, and sugary drinks have certainly contributed to our consumption, leading to a intake of calories that have no value other than our waistlines. Many argue that sugar does not contribute, but the word is… if you intake more calories than you burn, the excess is going somewhere. I think a lot us, actually 64% are overweight because they simply do not understand this simple theory. So reality watch calories, drink more water, downsize your drinks, and of course exercise daily for better health.

Todays Health Forum

1. How much sugary drinks do you drink a day?

2. Does Sugar contribute to ill-health

Further Reading

Sugary drinks add 300 calories a day to youths’ diets -
USATODAY …

yourlife.usatoday.com/fitness-food/diet

How Much Sugar
in Sodas and Beverages?

www.sugarstacks.com/beverages.htm

What Our Water Today, Might Some Day Become!

d68452s — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:22:36 +0000

Todays Health Article

August 19th, 2011

Today, people just may have completed or kicked this line around with several answers. Perhaps it may never even touched you in way that seemed to matter. Why should this subject, be even given such consideration. Perhaps ridiculous, when the world as we see it, is a planet full of water, lakes and streams. Simply put, we need water every day to stay healthy… and today when you think about it, all the vegetation on this earth, and all life existence, is in need of water, as well. It very well may be, to the average person, who seems surrounded by accessibility to water, it’s too much to even to compensate how much water is being used on this earth each and every day. What our water today, might one day become, simply not enough, very costly, controlled or rationed, and or contaminated. Where do we go from here.

Where is Earth’s Water Located?

You may have concluded that… water is continually moving around, through, and above the Earth as either water vapor, liquid water, and ice. The Earth may be compared closely to the likes of a terrarium, whereby it neither, as a whole, gains nor loses much matter, including water.

If you think about it, not too get far off the subject, little matter, other than meteors from outer space, are captured by Earth, and very little of Earth’s substances escape into outer space. This is an important concept to understand which certainly holds true about water. This means that the same water that existed on Earth millions of years ago is still here. Think there is no idea how old or where the water you just drank came from.

Water on and in the Earth

Picture of Earth showing if all Earth’s water (liquid, ice, freshwater, saline) was put into a sphere it would be about 860 miles (about 1,385 kilometers) in diameter. Diameter would be about the distance from

Salt Lake City, Utah to Topeka, Kansas, USA.
Credit: Illustration by Jack Cook, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; USGS.
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FACTS

By viewing these bar chart, about 97 percent of all water is in the oceans and about three percent of all Earth’s water is freshwater. The majority of that, about 69 percent, is locked up in glaciers and icecaps, mainly in Greenland and Antarctica.

You might be surprised that of the remaining freshwater, almost all of it, is below your feet, as ground water. No matter where on Earth you are standing, chances are that, at some depth, the ground below you is saturated with water.

Of all the freshwater on Earth, only about 0.3 percent is contained in rivers and lakes—yet rivers and lakes are not only the water we are most familiar with, it is also where most of the water we use in our everyday lives exists.

Simply Not Enough!

Wong Poh Poh, a professor at the National University of Singapore, told a regional conference that global warming was disrupting water flow patterns and increasing the severity of floods, droughts and storms — all of which reduce the availability of drinking water.

Wong said the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found that as many as 2 billion people won’t have sufficient access to clean water by 2050. That figure is expected to rise to 3.2 billion by 2080 — nearly tripling the number who now do without it.

At the beginning of the decade, the World Health Organization estimated that 1.1 billion people did not have sufficient access to clean water.

The New York Times article, “Southeast Drought Study Ties Water Shortage to Population, Not Global Warming”, summarizes the findings of Columbia University researcher on the subject of the droughts in the southwest between 2005 and 2007. The findings were published in the Journal of Climate. They say the water shortages resulted from population size more than rainfall.

Lawrence Smith, the president of the population institute, asserts that although an overwhelming majority of the planet is composed of water, 97% of this water is constituted of saltwater; the fresh water used to sustain humans is only 3% of the total amount of water on Earth (Hoevel). Therefore, Smith believes that the competition for water in an overpopulated world would pose a major threat to human stability, indeed, world wars may be fought over the control of thinning ice sheets and nearly desiccated reservoirs.^[6] 2 billion people have gained access to a safe water source since 1990.

According to the California Department of Water Resources, if more supplies aren’t found by 2020, the region will face a shortfall nearly as great as the amount consumed today. Los Angeles is a coastal desert able to support at most 1 million people on its own water; the Los Angeles basin now is the core of a megacity that spans 220 miles (350 km) from Santa Barbara to the Mexican border. The region’s population is expected to reach 41 million by 2020, up from 28 million in 2009. The population of California continues to grow by more than two million a year and is expected to reach 75 million in 2030, up from 49 million in 2009. But water shortage is likely to surface well before then

Water Very Costly

It was not that long ago when most of thought that selling bottled water was a joke someone came up with, who in their right mine would buy a bottle of water, yet today its is one of the bigger share of the beverage industry. Who would ever thought that what was for many FREE for the taking is now dollars for a gallon. I remember our water came from a spring that ran out of the side of the mountain into a a concrete reservoir which then was gravity fed to our house… no electricity required. Yes, all you had to do was turn on the faucet and the water freely flowed out. Those were the days.

Now if you live in a city or even now miles from one, their control or regulation to pay the price that they demand seems to be a way of life… even in the Great North West! We have have seen the price of a gallon of water to continually escalate whether we have had large snow fall or little, makes no difference here. I have not heard of a water bill going down.

“Water bills future” was Googled and many of the major cities all over the world indicated that the need for increase costs for their water prices. Therefore, as the demand for water is being indicated, so does the price escalate. Needless to say, where will the price stop, will water be afforded, only by the wealthy.

On 23 April 2010, the World Bank held a high-level private meeting about water in New York, at which higher prices were discussed. Days before that the OECD, which represents the world’s major economies, issued three water reports calling for prices to rise. “Putting a price on water will make us aware of the scarcity and make us take better care of it,” said Angel Gurría, the OECD secretary-general. It has also been a key theme of meeting of industry leaders in Paris, hosted by Global Water Intelligence.

The discussion at the World Bank was raised by Lars Thunell, chief executive officer of the International Finance Corporation. “Everyone said water must be somehow valued: whether you call it cost, or price, or cost recover,” said Usha Rao-Monari, senior manager of the IFC’s infrastructure department. “It’s not an infinite resource, and anything that’s not an infinite resource must be valued.”

Controlled or Rationed by !

Whether we like it not, this country, government, state, and city, have many of these regulations all ready in place to ration water if need be or they do so by the cost of water. Many of our elderly or fixed income families use very little water compared to the average household. There is also brown yards, no grass watered, nor do they take long showers. Water for these people is already a commodity that has out priced their household income.

Reminds me of our farming days, where sometimes the only green grass was in our yards because the horses and cows had eaten the grass to barren ground, so we let them in the yard to mow the grass and clean up the neglected weeds.

It’s no secret that water is being rationed, as we speak,in many parts of the world… either because of droughts or heat waves, or just unhealthy water, or natural disasters. Rationing is a form or control that allows all to share… sort of. I remember a few years ago our city chose to do so, as well. We could only water on even days, night only, because our address was an even number. There was city crews patrolling, “the water patrol” giving tickets to those who chose not to adhere to the rules.

Just think how this might become should our neighborhood become one of those areas that has not seen rain for a very long time, and haveexcessive heat! Poor Texas!

Contamination on the Rise

The Facts of contamination are certianly on the rise

Every day, 2 million tons of sewage and industrial and agricultural waste are discharged into the world’s water (UN WWAP 2003), the equivalent of the weight of the entire human population of 6.8 billion people.
The UN estimates that the amount of wastewater produced annually is about 1,500 km3, six times more water than exists in all the rivers of the world. (UN WWAP 2003)
An estimated 500,000 abandoned mines in the U.S. will cost $20 billion in management and remediation of pollution; many of these sites will require management in perpetuity. (Septoff 2006 and http://www.abandonedmines.gov/ep.htm
In the U.S. state of Colorado alone, some 23,000 abandoned mines have polluted 2,300 km of streams. (Banks, et al. 1997)
Chlorinated solvents were found in 30 percent of groundwater supplies in 15 Japanese cities, sometimes traveling as much as 10 km from the source of pollution. (UNEP 1996)
Roughly one unit of mercury is emitted into the environment for every unit of gold produced by small-scale miners, a total of as much as 1000 tons of mercury emitted each year. (UNEP/GRID-Arendal)
In a recent comparison of domestic, industrial, and agricultural sources of pollution from the coastal zone of Mediterranean countries, agriculture was the leading source of phosphorus compounds and sediment. (UNEP 1996) Nutrient enrichment, most often associated with nitrogen and phosphorus from agricultural runoff, can deplete oxygen levels and eliminate species with higher oxygen requirements, affecting the structure and diversity of ecosystems.
Nitrate* is the most common chemical contaminant in the world’s groundwater aquifers. (Spalding and Exner, 1993) And mean nitrate levels have risen by an estimated 36% in global waterways since 1990 with the most dramatic increases seen in the Eastern Mediterranean and Africa, where nitrate contamination has more than doubled. (GEMS 2004)
According to various surveys in India and Africa, 20-50% of wells contain nitrate1 levels greater than 50 mg/1 and in some cases as high as several hundred milligrams per liter. (cited in FAO 1996)

Todays Health Comments

Today water is no dougbt a main health issue… It is our very existance to survival. What Our Water Today, Might Some Day Become is dependent on actions today and not wasting and not contaminating for tommorrow. With our every day growing population… to exceed a 40% growth by by the year 2020… will our water supply be an enough? Will water become the most costly commodity on this earth… or will find the solution to utilize what we have? There may come a time when natural disasters, like the tsunami in Japan, where water may become rationed to only those type of disasters. With the need to provide more and more food supply to feed the worlds population, what will be the next chemicals used to fertilize those crops, to control the ever increasing contaminates found in our water? Many questions will need to be resolved and there is not much time for some action to be taken. Our industrial waste and sewage is becoming a costly action necessary to continue to provide clean water.

Is Drinking Defining or Defying A Free Society?

d68452s — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 15:39:42 +0000

Todays Health Article

June 4th, 2011

Today, is drinking alcohol, readily accepted, having been defined by our Society, perhaps now defying our past culture. For some, drinking is a past time , but for all who do drink, they have become part of our defining our rights as as a Free Society. Drinking is an exercise defined by society, and by legal age and consumption. This definition, defining drinking has been a around for generations “If your able to fight for the Freedom of our country and vote for those you choose to run your country, then by all means your are entitled to drink, it is your right in today’s society”. There is no rebuttal to the fact, that it is your right to do so, and it has been defined by our society, since man discovered it to be considered a beverage of pleasure.

What has been perhaps a pastime of pleasure for some, or an addiction for many, with those actions are we on our way to defining a new Society? What are those actions, exercising our freedom to do so, what is our Society facing today?

Society Defines…

Drinking of Alcohol

Is a beverage containing ethanol, most commonly known to us as alcohol.These drinks are divided into three categories: beers, wines, and spirits. They are legally consumed in most countries, and over 100 countries have laws regulating their production, sale, and consumption. In particular, such laws specify the minimum age at which a person may legally buy or drink them. This minimum age varies between 16 and 25 years, depending upon the country and the type of drink. Most nations have age requirements 18 to 21′

In many cultures, drinking plays a significant role in social interaction — mainly because of alcohol’s neurological effects.

Alcohol is a psychoactive drug that has a depressant effect. By drinking such beverages a high blood alcohol content may be obtained and is usually considered to be legal drunkenness, because it reduces attention and slows reaction speed. Alcohol can be addictive, and the state of addiction to alcohol is known as alcoholism.

Drinking by the Under Age

Underage Drinking

The alcohol use by persons under age 21 years is defining a major public health problem to our Society. Alcohol has become the most commonly used and abused drug among youth in the United States. It has exceeded tobacco and illicit drugs. Although drinking under the age of 21 is illegal, people aged 12 to 20 years drink 11% of all alcohol consumed in the United States.

Did you know that more than 90% of this alcohol, is consumed in the form of binge drinks. Also on the average, underage drinkers, consume more drinks per drinking occasion than adult drinkers.

In 2008, there were approximately 190,000 emergency rooms visits by persons under age 21 for injuries and other conditions linked to alcohol.

http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/topics/underagedrinking/

http://www.udetc.org/documents/Drinking_in_America.pdf [PDF–1.08MB]. Accessed March 28, 2008.

Reducing Underage Drinking: A Collective Responsibility.

Drinking Levels among Youth

The 2009 Youth Risk Behavior Survey found that among high school students, during the past 30 days

42% drank some amount of alcohol.
24% binge drank.
10% drove after drinking alcohol.
28% rode with a driver who had been drinking alcohol.

Other national surveys indicate

In 2008 the National Survey on Drug Use and Health reported that 28% of youth aged 12 to 20 years drink alcohol and 19% reported binge drinking.
In 2009, the Monitoring the Future Surveyreported that 37% of 8th graders and 72% of 12th graders had tried alcohol, and 15% of 8th graders and 44% of 12thgraders drank during the past month.

Drinking by College Students

Drinking by College students, has long been an ongoing part of College atmosphere, although most colleges would like to redefine this part of their Society, it has severely been ingrained by years of active drinking college students. Through the drinking, underage students as well, have now defined alcohol by college students as their greatest health risk.

The consequences of excessive and underage drinking affect virtually all college campuses, college communities, and college students.

Death: 1,825 college students between the ages of 18 and 24 die from alcohol-related unintentional injuries, including motor vehicle crashes (Hingson et al., 2009).
Injury: 599,000 students between the ages of 18 and 24 are unintentionally injured under the influence of alcohol (Hingson et al., 2009).
Assault: 696,000 students between the ages of 18 and 24 are assaulted by another student who has been drinking (Hingson et al., 2009).
Academic Problems: About 25 percent of college students report academic consequences of their drinking including missing class, falling behind, doing poorly on exams or papers, and receiving lower grades overall (Engs et al., 1996; Presley et al., 1996a, 1996b; Wechsler et al., 2002).
Health Problems/Suicide Attempts: More than 150,000 students develop an alcohol-related health problem (Hingson et al., 2002), and between 1.2 and 1.5 percent of students indicate that they tried to commit suicide within the past year due to drinking or drug use (Presley et al., 1998).
Drunk Driving: 3,360,000 students between the ages of 18 and 24 drive under the influence of alcohol (Hingson et al., 2009).
Vandalism: About 11 percent of college student drinkers report that they have damaged property while under the influence of alcohol (Wechsler et al., 2002).

Further Reading www.yic.gov/drugfree/alcabuse.html

Defying a Free Society

A Free definition… used somewhat derogatory is for every Freedom defined by Society, comes responsibility for our actions and to the Freedom given to us, yet we by our very human nature seem to defy the responsibilities of these action. In other words we as a Society readily have accepted that people are going to drink, pain and suffering may be inevitable, lives may be endangered, yet there is the continuous use of those acting in drunken capacities, threatening to be completely irresponsible to our Society.

So with the staggering stats of underage drinking, whom will soon be adults, college students whom are knocking on the door to become Doctors, Lawyers, Nurses, Fireman, Policeman, and much much more, and add those stats to the acoholic problems the world already knows…Is this the Society we are currently defining? A Society either with massive alcohol problems or the Freedoms of drinking will come under tight scrutiny of laws and regulation.

The Fedral and State laws may come to intervene if those now drinking do not become more responsible to others. The perfect example of this was the use of tobacco products. Advertising curtailed, warning Labels, to where you can and can not smoke. High taxes continue to haunt most smokers today and their freedoms to light up any where… has gone for good. Otherwise by defying some freedoms of our Society, new ones have been defined.

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If you believe the writing is on the wall regarding alcohol, just wait, you will see, that we can not have a Society defined as a nation or a world ( if you care) full of intoxicated people acting irresponsibly.Its a matter of time… Perhaps Prohibition will return, or most likely deterrents will come to be with stiffer regulations fro m the State and Federal levels. Drinking is now the number 1 health risk for youth, and that is a lot of unsupervised youth and parents and our educational systems need to step up and do their part. The stats are shocking how many young people loose their lives to drinking each and every year.

If we continue down this road, are we not redefining what use to be unacceptable in our Society, to now defining excessive drinking to be looked upon as a way life for all, now including our children? The Stats show almost 20% of all alcohol consumed today, is drank by underage… our youth!

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