Greetings…

Last Sunday I started a new ‘life-style’ change, first
starting off with a more healthy eating habit. I honestly
couldn’t believe how much better I felt after just a week of
being careful what I put in my body. I use to drink atleast 2
cans of Pepsi a day, and now I’ve just been drink water
all day with one can of diet soda for dinner. More fruits
and veggies everyday. If I eat pasta it’s the whole grain
pasta, more fish – less meat, etc.

Everyday about 2pm I would hit a wall, and be exhausted
the rest of the day. I couldn’t believe how great I’ve
been feel, no more being tired come 2pm.

As the weeks go on I’m gonna start introducing some cardio
and light weight-lifting. I’m really excited to incorporate
these things in the next few weeks, if I feel this good now
I’m gonna feel like a million bucks by Christmas

Today I featured 10 Tips To Healthy Eating to help you
or loved ones get on the right track.

Be Well,
Kris

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HEALTH TIP: 10 Tips To Healthy Eating

*  Eat a variety of nutrient-rich foods. You need more
than 40 different nutrients for good health, and no
single food supplies them all. Your daily food
selection should include bread and other whole-grain
products; fruits; vegetables; dairy products; and meat,
poultry, fish and other protein foods. How much you
should eat depends on your calorie needs. Use the Food
Guide Pyramid and the Nutrition Facts panel on food
labels as handy references.

*  Enjoy plenty of whole grains, fruits and vegetables.
Surveys show most Americans don’t eat enough of these
foods. Do you eat 6-11 servings from the bread, rice,
cereal and pasta group, 3 of which should be whole
grains? Do you eat 2-4 servings of fruit and 3-5
servings of vegetables? If you don’t enjoy some of these
at first, give them another chance. Look through cookbooks
for tasty ways to prepare unfamiliar foods.

*  Maintain a healthy weight. The weight that’s right for
you depends on many factors including your sex, height,
age and heredity. Excess body fat increases your chances
for high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, diabetes,
some types of cancer and other illnesses. But being too
thin can increase your risk for osteoporosis, menstrual
irregularities and other health problems. If you’re
constantly losing and regaining weight, a registered
dietitian can help you develop sensible eating habits
for successful weight management. Regular exercise is
also important to maintaining a healthy weight.

*  Eat moderate portions. If you keep portion sizes reason-
able, it’s easier to eat the foods you want and stay
healthy. Did you know the recommended serving of cooked
meat is 3 ounces, similar in size to a deck of playing
cards? A medium piece of fruit is 1 serving and a cup of
pasta equals 2 servings. A pint of ice cream contains 4
servings. Refer to the Food Guide Pyramid for information
on recommended serving sizes.

*  Eat regular meals. Skipping meals can lead to out-of-
control hunger, often resulting in overeating. When you’re
very hungry, it’s also tempting to forget about good
nutrition. Snacking between meals can help curb hunger, but
don’t eat so much that your snack becomes an entire meal.

*  Reduce, don’t eliminate certain foods. Most people eat for
pleasure as well as nutrition. If your favorite foods are
high in fat, salt or sugar, the key is moderating how much
of these foods you eat and how often you eat them.

Identify major sources of these ingredients in your diet and
make changes, if necessary. Adults who eat high-fat meats or
whole-milk dairy products at every meal are probably eating
too much fat. Use the Nutrition Facts panel on the food label
to help balance your choices.

Choosing skim or low-fat dairy products and lean cuts of meat
such as flank steak and beef round can reduce fat intake
significantly.

If you love fried chicken, however, you don’t have to give
it up. Just eat it less often. When dining out, share it
with a friend, ask for a take-home bag or a smaller portion.

*  Balance your food choices over time. Not every food has to
be “perfect.” When eating a food high in fat, salt or sugar,
select other foods that are low in these ingredients. If you
miss out on any food group one day, make up for it the next.
Your food choices over several days should fit together into
a healthy pattern.

*  Know your diet pitfalls. To improve your eating habits, you
first have to know what’s wrong with them. Write down every-
thing you eat for three days. Then check your list according
to the rest of these tips. Do you add a lot of butter, creamy
sauces or salad dressings? Rather than eliminating these
foods, just cut back your portions. Are you getting enough
fruits and vegetables? If not, you may be missing out on vital
nutrients.

*  Make changes gradually. Just as there are no “superfoods” or
easy answers to a healthy diet, don’t expect to totally revamp
your eating habits overnight. Changing too much, too fast can
get in the way of success. Begin to remedy excesses or
deficiencies with modest changes that can add up to positive,
lifelong eating habits. For instance, if you don’t like the
taste of skim milk, try low-fat. Eventually you may find you
like skim, too.

*  Remember, foods are not good or bad. Select foods based on
your total eating patterns, not whether any individual food
is “good” or “bad.” Don’t feel guilty if you love foods such
as apple pie, potato chips, candy bars or ice cream. Eat them
in moderation, and choose other foods to provide the balance
and variety that are vital to good health.

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Study offers hints for fighting bacteria

MEMPHIS, — U.S. medical researchers say they’ve discovered
how parasites living inside cells can thwart the body’s
immune system by blocking nitric oxide production. The St.-
Jude Children’s Research Hospital scientists said they found
a mechanism by which intracellular pathogens can halt the
production of nitric oxide — one of the body’s key chemical
immune system weapons. The researchers, using a mouse model,
found the microbes accomplish that task by subverting the
biochemical machinery used by immune cells called macrophages
to produce the chemical. “Although the findings are basic,
they suggest that it might be feasible to develop drugs to
block such pathogens’ biochemical subversion, restoring nit-
ric oxide production and empowering macrophages to attack
the invaders,” said Peter Murray, an associate member of the
St. Jude departments of infectious diseases and immunology.
The research — supported, in part, by the National Insti-
tutes of Health, the German Research Foundation, the American
Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities and the Sandler Program
for Asthma Research — appears in the advance online edition
of the journal Nature Immunology.

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West Nile virus vaccine under development

LEIPZIG, Germany, — German scientists say they are develop-
ing a DNA-based West Nile virus vaccine that can also be
effective after onset of the disease. The researchers at the
Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology in
Leipzig said in their vaccine DNA molecules known as plasmids
are extracted from the pathogen and are used for inoculation,
instead of the whole virus. “They contain the genetic code
for the antigens that stimulate the body to produce antibod-
ies,” said Matthias Giese, who is leading the vaccine devel-
opment. “We can thus replicate the virus’s natural infection
route without actually triggering the disease.” Such vaccines,
he said, are inexpensive and do not require refrigeration,
which makes them ideal for use in subtropical and tropical
climates. And unlike conventional vaccines, DNA vaccines can
be used both prophylactically and therapeutically. Giese
expects the laboratory research to be completed by the end
of 2009. After that, at least another three years will be
needed for clinical trials and regulatory approval. Then,
he said, it is hoped, the world’s first therapeutic West Nile
virus vaccine will be ready for market.

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New treatment created for neuroblastoma

HOUSTON, — U.S. medical scientists say they have created a
new technique for fighting a form of childhood cancer called
neuroblastoma. Researchers at the Baylor College of Medicine
and Texas Children’s Hospital say adding an artificial tumor-
specific receptor to immune system cells called T-lymphocytes
that target a particular virus extended and improved the
cells’ ability to fight neuroblastoma. “This is a way to con-
vert a naturally occurring problem into a benefit in treating
cancer,” said Dr. Malcolm Brenner, director of the Center for
Cell and Gene Therapy at Baylor and a professor of pediatrics
and medicine. He and his colleagues used the new treatment
in 11 patients with recurring neuroblastoma. “For the first
time, we started to see tumor responses. We have one complete
remission and others who have had stable disease for more
than a year.” Brenner said the patients responded after only
the one infusion of cells because the cells last a long time
in the body and their numbers can increase. The research is
reported in the early online edition of the journal Nature Medicine.

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Joint replacement wait times studied

LONDON, Ontario, — Canadian and U.S. scientists studying
joint replacement wait times in Ontario found politically
popular strategies aren’t likely to have much impact. The
scientists from the University of Western Ontario, Massachu-
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Case Of Patient “Cured” Of HIV Baffles Doctors

Doctors and experts are baffled by the case of a 42-year
old male American patient living in Berlin whose 10-year
long HIV infection appears to have been “cured” by a bone
marrow transplant given to treat his acute myeloid leukemia.

The patient, who wishes to remain anonymous, was given the
bone marrow transplant some 20 months ago, using cells from
a donor with a natural genetic resistance to HIV, and his
doctors reported last week that they could find no trace
of the virus in his system: it’s not in his bone marrow,
blood, lymph nodes, intestines, or brain, they told the
press on Wednesday.

“We have waited every day for a bad reading”, said Dr Gero
Hütter last week. Hütter is a hematologist in the Clinic
for Gastroenterology, Infections and Rheumatology at the
Charité-Medical University in Berlin, Germany, where the
patient is being treated. He first reported the case at a
conference in February this year, according to a report in
MedPage Today.

Apart from a very few people with a unique mutation in an
immune cell, once a person is infected with HIV there is
no cure. The gene is called CCR5 and the mutation is
called dubbed delta32: it blocks a receptor that HIV uses
to get into cells.

However, this case suggests it may be possible to select
specific donor stem cells from a person with the unique
mutation, implant them into an HIV infected patient, or
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“cure” them of HIV.

It was no accident that the patient received bone marrow
from a donor who had the rare immune cell mutation that
protects against HIV infection. The doctors knew the
patient had HIV so they deliberately chose a donor with
two copies of the mutated CCR5 gene. The mutation occurs
in about 3 per cent of Europeans said the researchers.

The transplant was successful and there were no “remarkable
irregularities” said the doctors, apart from the fact that
the HIV treatment ceased on the day the patient received
the transplant and he has not had any since. Not only has
the leukemia disappeared, but so has the HIV, it seems.

However, even if it turns out that the patient has been
“cured” using donated bone marrow, neither the patient’s
doctors nor bone marrow transplant experts consider bone
marrow transplant an effective and safe way to treat HIV
patients. Not only is it very expensive it is also very
high risk: it kills one third of patients. Before a
patient can have a bone marrow transplant their own bone
marrow has to be completely destroyed, effectively
knocking out their immune system and leaving them
extremely vulnerable to even the mildest of infections.

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by others, is establish what scientists call “proof of
concept”, that is there is a suggestion that “gene
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It might be too early to say for certain that the virus
is no longer in the patient’s system: it could be hiding
or the doctors may have missed it.

There is currently no cure for HIV which can hide in the
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but they could not exclude the possibility that the
patient still has HIV, said a Reuters report.

“The virus is tricky,” said Hütter, and “It can always
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Google Offers a Flu Tracker Map

Google has found it can monitor search data such as “flu
symptoms,” “fever,” “influenza,” as a way to determine
the number of flu cases occurring in the United States.
They are now offering an interactive map where users can
click to see the number of outbreaks in a specific area,
based on the searches collected, allowing for populations
to be aware of possible flu outbreaks.

While the United States Center for Disease Control (CDC)
tracks flu cases, their data is usually two weeks behind.
Google’s flu tracker, known as Flu Trends, shows the number
of flu cases in almost real time with an interactive map
of the U.S. that can be accessed at anytime, through the
internet. Google’s Flu Trends Map appears to be the first
to use search engines as a way to track diseases and
possibly opening an avenue for other opportunities. The
newly released flu tracker allows a user to view trends
by state and can provide alerts as flu symptoms searches
elevate to certain levels. The system also allows for
downloads of historical and current flu trends

Google software engineers Jeremy Ginsberg and Matt Mohebbi,
explained that the company compared their data gathered
from queries entered into Google searches against the data
that was provided by the U.S. CDC and discovered a very
close relationship between the frequency of Google’s
search queries and the number of flu cases per week, as
reported by the CDC. Google’s product uses a selected
grouping of words devised by their engineers that are
related to the flu. A few of those are thermometer, flu
symptoms, muscle aches, chest congestion and several others.

The CDC relies on data that is collected from thousands of
health care providers, labs, emergency rooms and other
sources which slow their reporting. According to some
public health care experts, Google’s data could potentially
speed up the response of doctors, hospitals and public
health officials against flu season, and reduce the spread
of the disease and even save lives. Many people don’t
realize the mass affects of the flu each year, but there
are approximately 36,000 early deaths annually attributed
to the flu.

Symptoms of the flu according to the CDC include: high
fever, headache, tiredness, cough, sore throat, runny or
stuffy nose, body aches, diarrhea or vomiting.

Google’s Flu tracker is currently only available for
tracking the flu in the U.S., but the company hopes to
expand the tracking area eventually worldwide. The company
points out that Flu Trends tracking is aggregated and can’t
be traced to individual searchers.

Getting vaccinated is certainly the best way to ward off
the Flu, but Google’s Flu Tracker can help Americans to be
aware when the Flu is affecting their area. Google hopes
users will take advantage of their new product and take
precautions if the disease is in their area.