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June 2004 CanDrug.com Newsletter
Issue #10, June, 2004
CanDrug Holiday Hours - Closed on Independence
Day July 4th and July 5th
CanDrug Holiday Hours of Operation:
CLOSED: Independence Day - Sun July4th
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Have a happy and healthy holiday weekend from the
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Smart Food
By Chelle Davidson
Source: Rebecca Wood
"The New Whole Foods Encyclopedia"
Welcome to a new monthly article on foods that are good for you and your body. Each month I'll feature a new food and tell you what its health benefits are, as well as where to find it and how to use it. Summer is a great time to try new foods. Bon Appetit!
Blueberry(vaccinium corymbosum)
Peak berry season is upon us. Summer is the prime time to indulge in fresh blueberries, strawberries, raspberries and blackberries. While those are the four most common berries, don't forget about the countless other varieties of berries that can be obtained, like Marion berries, boysenberries, black raspberries, and evergreen blackberries, depending on your geographical location.
Blueberries are the second most popular berry after the strawberry. The United States produces 95% of the world's blueberry crop. This native American plant is related to the huckleberry.
Health Benefits
Medicinal for the blood and liver, bittersweet blueberries are a cooling food, support eye function, and have bacteria-fighting capabilities particularly useful in countering urinary-tract infections. Blueberries are an excellent source of vitamin C and manganese and a good source of vitamin A. Blueberry leaves effectively lower high blood sugar in adult-onset diabetes. They also pack a huge punch of antioxidants!
A cup of berries has only 40 to 80 calories-so go ahead and indulge. If you pick them fresh, you might not manage to get any home before you've eaten them all. (Although all berries, even organic ones, should be thoroughly washed before being consumed. If you do manage to get your berries home, the possibilities are endless for summertime treats. There's no easier way to make fruit salad. (Step 1: rinse. Step 2: dump into bowl.) It takes just a handful of berries and a scoop of sorbet or low-fat ice cream to create a classy, foolproof dessert. And don't forget chilled berry soup. Mix three cups of orange juice with three cups of buttermilk. Add two tablespoons of fresh lemon juice, one tablespoon of honey, and 2 1/2 cups of berries.
Another berry good desert is to warm frozen berries with a fresh pear, bake some oats sprinkled with butter, cinnamon and brown sugar and mix them together to make an easy berry cobbler. Throw on a little low fat ice cream and you've got quite a treat!
Buying/Foraging
When buying in the store, it is sometimes difficult to see a blueberry's qualities because of the cellophane covering. Stains on the carton indicate mashed and moldy berries. Slip off the covering to check the berries. Avoid withered and green berries and go for the fresh, plump berries with a powdery "bloom". This "bloom" is a natural, protective, waxy coat. Blueberries hold far better than other berries, but should be used within a week of picking. This lush berry is at its peak in midsummer.
"Blueberries as big as the end of your thumb,
Real sky-blue, and heavy, and ready to drum
In the cavernous pail of the first one to come!
And all ripe together, not some of them green
And some of them ripe! You ought to
Have seen!"
--Robert Frost
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Researchers Work to Crack Code of Long Life
Supercentenarians May Hold Key to Stopping Hands of Time
Source: By Denise Mann
Reviewed By Brunilda Nazario, MD
on Friday, May 21, 2004
WebMD Medical News
Jeanne Louise Calment knows the secret to a long life. But she's not telling -- and it's not because she doesn't want you to know.
The problem, researchers said Friday at a symposium on aging in New York, is that this secret is tightly locked up in her genes. And until scientists can crack the genetic code, consumers may as well save the money they spend on anti-aging products and procedures.
Jeanne Louise Calment was born in Arles, France on Feb. 21, 1875, and died Aug. 4, 1997, at the age of 122 -- making her the oldest person to ever live. Calment was what is known as a "supercentenarian," or a person who lived to 110 years or more. And supercentenarians may hold the key to immortality. There are 43 such people known to be living worldwide (although this may be an underestimate) and researchers are hoping to crack their genetic codes.
People don't live to be 110 "because they don't age; it's a fortuitous, genetic roll of the dice, so there is not an intervention available to people who are still alive," says L. Stephen Coles, MD, PhD, a gerontologist with the Los Angeles Gerontology Research Group at UCLA. "No one is likely to beat Jeanne Calment's record in our lifetime because she was so exceptional."
Siblings and parents of supercentenarians also live extremely long lives, he adds.
There has been a lot of confusing data suggesting that environment is more important than genes at dictating life span, he notes, but "if you only study supercentenarians, it's probably 70% genes and 30% environment because it is your genes that allow you to get to a very old age," he says.
"There is something special in the genome of our species itself that dictates maximum life span.
"Every anti-aging intervention has practitioners and advocates ... but these types of interventions are nothing more than rearranging the chairs on the Titanic," says Coles, who spoke at the symposium, which was jointly presented by the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery and the American Society of Plastic Surgeons.
"Everything that's being advertised by pharmaceutical companies including vitamins and supplements as the secret to eternal youth are all wrong and not true anti-aging medicine," he tells WebMD. "That's not to say you shouldn't take vitamins or fasten your seatbelt."
To stop aging, scientists have to fully understand and then reprogram the human genome. And this makes cracking the languages of the Rosetta Stone seem simple, he says. Unearthed in July 1799, the Rosetta Stone was the key to the deciphering of Egyptian hieroglyphics.
So how long is this going to take?
"Five years is the minimum because we need a 'parts list' for all the parts that make a human, a human," he says. "If we want to intervene in aging, we need to understand the blueprints that make us who we are."
Such a parts list is currently being generated by companies researching proteomics (the study of proteins that genes direct the body to make).
"We need to understand this language," he says.
"It's putting a puzzle together and five years is the minimum; the maximum may not be in our lifetimes," he says. But when it comes to stopping the hands of time, this is the "true gold," Coles tells WebMD.
Coles says that some of this research should focus on embryology. The study of how a fertilized egg implants and grows into a human being "should be highest priority," he says. Specifically, 80% of all fertilized eggs do not implant and scientists need to know why.
The secret to long life has got to be in the genes, says Putnam County, N.Y.-based researcher Louis Epstein, chairman of the International Supercentenarian Committee. "There is a wide variety of people who happen to make it to 110 -- from vegetarians to junk food junkies, he says.
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