Cinnamon stick as a magic wand.

You may find in your cupboard the same supplements that you would be getting in capsules. Some of these herbs, roots and barks are used mostly for spicing up holiday dishes. Dr. Glen Aukerman, who leads the Center for Integrative Medicine at Ohio State University Medical Center, thinks that many of them we should be using all year round.
Cinnamon is a popular holiday spice that will tirelessly work for your health if used in everyday cooking.
"Cinnamon is a core item for lowering triglycerides (fat) and bad LDL, cholesterol, raising HDL - the good cholesterol necessary to burn fat," says Aukerman.
It is also one of those spices that can lower blood pressure by bringing blood from the center of the body to the surface.
Cinnamon has a bio-active component capable of preventing or combating diabetes. It acts like insulin, lowering blood sugar. Adding cinnamon to your sweets will compensate for lack of sugar and make them taste sweeter. At the same time, it will enrich them with calcium, iron and manganese.
In a study in Denmark, patients suffering from arthritis were able to walk without pain after taking a half teaspoon of cinnamon in the mornings for a month. Truly,
a magic wand!

Perfectly clean and so abundant... doesn't H as a fuel sound like an attractive solution for the pending energy crisis?

According to Dr. Robert Zubrin, an aerospace engineer and author, there are some issues with H cars.

A car running on H fuel must carry15 kg of H (equivalent in energy to 60 litres of gasoline). It needs to be either compressed or liquefied by freezing. Liquid H would require a well insulated 210 litre tank. When concentration of Hydrogen in the air reaches 4% it becomes flammable, and the minimum energy required for its ignition is one twentieth of that for gasoline. Even a very small, practically unpreventable, leakage of gas would turn the car into a bomb! Public parking garages used by such cars could be expected to explode regularly.

For storing compressed H the tank would need to be 490 litres and made of crash protected steel. These two factors would double the weight and size of the car and, of course, drastically increase its fuel consumption.

For decades, in space programs H has been successfully used in fuel cells. Can we use it this way for our terrestrial transportation? This question will be discussed in the next issue.

Eat or Drive?

Do you prefer to eat your food or burn it in the gas tank?

The government biofuels incentives and the rising oil price make producing biofuels increasingly profitable. The land that has been used to grow food is now used to grow fuels, the food production is shrinking, unlike the demand for it, and the prices are going up. The growing worldwide number of mouths to feed, the changing diet from economical vegetarian to less economical meat eating in China and India as well as the much grown appetite for gasoline in these booming economies, frequent droughts and floods brought on by the changing climate, shrinking worldwide fresh water supply all help to drive prices up.

We are talking not only Brazil and Indonesia, Ontario farms are switching to producing corn for fuel with breathtaking speed. Ironically, this consumes just about the same amount of fossil fuels in the form of pesticides and fertilisers. As soil getting destroyed by those, more water and more fertilisers are needed. That will drive the food prices even higher.

According to the World Bank, “the grain required to fill the tank of a sport utility vehicle with ethanol … could feed one person for a year”.

Since we do want to both eat and drive, maybe we should look for another solution? Solar produces 1000x more energy per acre than soy biodiesel as shown by a 2007 study in Colorado.

Licensed To Kill!

No, not you, only your brain cells. A neurosurgeon, Dr. Russell Blaylock, in his book Excitotoxins - The Taste That Kills explains how it happens.

Why does chicken broth in a carton taste better than the one you make at home by boiling a chicken? Much of the credit goes to taste enhancers like MSG and aspartame. Many of us have heard of the dangers of MSG and would not buy anything with it listed in ingredients. What many of us don't know is that “natural flavourings”, “hydrolyzed protein” and “spices” are simply hidden forms of MSG and are to be found in almost all processed food, even those sold in health food stores. The additives are marked as "natural" because they are made from vegetables which are processed and reduced to a high concentration of glutamate and aspartate. All this would sound quite innocent if these two amino acids were not also neurotransmitters. When with a bowl of soup or a can of pop your body gets an injection of neurotransmitters, they become deadly toxins to neurons and nerve cell receptors. They literally excite them to death. Lowering the IQ of your child. And your own.

Lost pounds - gained dollars

This link between excessive weight loss and becoming richer has been found at the Center for Human Resource Research, Ohio University. It seems to apply mostly to young folks and women who lost or gained large amount of weight. Women who dropped their body mass index score by 10 points enjoyed a wealth increase of $11,880 and men - an increase of $12,720 per year.
A one unit increase in a young person's body mass index was associated with a $1,300 or 8 percent reduction in wealth.
Professor of economics J.L.Zagorsky, the leader of the study, emphasizes that people had to shed quite a few pounds to show dramatic improvements in wealth. Since those of the participants who received inheritance and thereby increased their wealth all of a sudden did not decrease their weight in the years to follow, professor Zagorsky suggests that it is weight that influences wealth, not the other way round.

It is not clear from the study how it works, but somehow it works!