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EDITED: Updating the link above to:
Harness The Power of the Peanut

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posted September 25, 2013 04:55 PM            

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Originally posted by Randall:
A handsome chap!

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posted September 28, 2013 07:49 PM            

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Originally posted by Randall:
Seinfeld had an episode on Mr. Peanut.

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I remember that one...

posted September 29, 2013 05:44 PM            

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Girls who eat peanut butter may improve breast health later in life​​​​​

Here’s some news worth spreading: Girls who eat more peanut butter could improve their breast health later in life.

That’s according to a study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Harvard Medical School. The research shows that girls ages 9 to 15 who regularly ate peanut butter or nuts were 39 percent less likely to develop benign breast disease by age 30. Benign breast disease, although noncancerous, increases risk of breast cancer later in life.

“These findings suggest that peanut butter could help reduce the risk of breast cancer in women,” said senior author Graham Colditz, MD, DrPH, associate director for cancer prevention and control at Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine.

The research was published in the journal Breast Cancer Research and Treatment.

Colditz also is the Niess-Gain Professor in Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine. He led the study with Catherine Berkey, MA, ScD, a biostatistician at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

The findings are based on the health histories of 9,039 U.S. girls enrolled in The Growing Up Today Study from 1996 through 2001. Later, from 2005 through 2010, when the study participants were 18 to 30 years old, they reported whether they had been diagnosed with benign breast disease that had been confirmed by breast biopsy.

The researchers found that participants who ate peanut butter or nuts two times each week were 39 percent less likely to have developed benign breast disease than those who never ate them. The study’s findings suggest that beans, lentils, soybeans and corn also may help prevent benign breast disease, but consumption of these foods was much lower in these girls and thus the evidence was weaker.

Past studies have linked peanut butter, nut and vegetable fat consumption to a lower risk for benign breast disease. However, participants in those studies were asked to recall their high school dietary intakes years later. This new study is the first to use reports made during adolescence, with continued follow-up as cases of benign breast disease are diagnosed in young women.

Because of the obesity epidemic, Colditz recommended that girls replace high-calorie junk foods and sugary beverages with peanut butter or nuts.
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This work was supported by the Breast Cancer Research Foundation and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) (DK046834).

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Cheap Alzheimer's Test Made from Peanut Butter and Ruler - October 10, 2013

Alzheimer's disease is difficult to diagnose before symptoms start showing up, because there is no single test that can definitively determine whether a person has the degenerative brain disease.

Could a scoop of peanut butter and a ruler become that elusive test?

That's what researchers at the University of Florida's McKnight Brain Institute Center for Smell and Taste are hoping. They found patients with early-stage Alzheimer's disease had more difficulty smelling peanut butter held at short distances from their nose than people without the disease.

"At the moment, we can use this test to confirm diagnosis," graduate student Jennifer Stamps, who led the research, said in a statement. "But we plan to study patients with mild cognitive impairment to see if this test might be used to predict which patients are going to get Alzheimer's disease."

About 5.2 million Americans have Alzheimer's or another form of dementia, according to the Alzheimer's Association, with about 13.8 million cases expected by 2050. The disease is marked by declines in cognitive function and memory skills, and people aren't typically diagnosed until they take mental status exams or doctors rule out other diseases that cause dementia-like symptoms.

Stamps was under the tutelage of Dr. Kenneth Heilman, a distinguished professor of neurology, when she noticed his patients had not been tested for their sense of smell. According to the graduate student's research, the ability to smell is associated with the first cranial nerve -- a set of nerves on the brain's surface -- called the "olfactory nerve." The olfactory nerve is often one of the first things to be affected in cognitive decline, even before memory loss, she pointed out.

"Dr. Heilman said, 'If you can come up with something quick and inexpensive, we can do it,'" she said.

For the study, researchers took a tablespoon of peanut butter and a metric ruler, and asked more than 90 people with either mild cognitive impairment, Alzheimer's, other forms of dementia or no neurological problems, to close their eyes and mouth, and block one nostril. The researchers then moved a peanut butter container one centimeter at a time up the ruler until the patient could detect the odor. The experiment was repeated again 90 seconds later with the other nostril.

The researchers were blinded to whether subjects had already been diagnosed with early stage Alzheimer's.

Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a condition that's characterized by memory loss and cognitive declines beyond what's expected from normal aging, but the declines don't impact daily functioning unlike dementia, according to the University of California, San Francisco Memory and Aging Center. Not everyone with MCI will go on to develop Alzheimer's, though they are at an increased risk. But at this time, doctors can't tell who with MCI will go on to develop Alzheimer's.

The study showed all 18 patients with early-stage Alzheimer's had trouble smelling the peanut butter with their left nostril until it was an average of 10 centimeters closer to their nose than their test with the right nostril. Patients at the clinic who had other forms of non-Alzheimer's dementia did not show this discrepancy in smelling ability, or had a worse right nostril than the left.

Of the 24 patients with MCI, 10 had left nostril impairment and 14 did not, which suggests the former group might go on to develop Alzheimer's. The researchers warned more studies are needed to fully understand the implications.

But, the University of Florida plans to add the peanut butter test to its arsenal to help distinguish Alzheimer's from other memory disorders, according to the statement.

"If we can catch it at that earlier stage, we can start treatment more aggressively at that earlier stage, and you can prevent a lot of the progression," added Stamps in a YouTube video explaining her study.

The pilot study was published in a recent issue of the Journal of Neurological Sciences.

This isn't the only recent attempt at finding a cheap test to predict early dementia.

Northwestern University researchers reported in August that testing subjects with 20 black and white pictures of famous people including John F. Kennedy and Bill Clinton may provide clues into dementia risk. People with early-onset dementia, as confirmed by loss of brain tissue seen on MRI scans, scored an average of 79 percent on the test when people without dementia scored nearly 100 percent.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-204_162-57606985/cheap-alzheimers-test-made-from-peanut-butter-and-ruler-researchers-report/

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Go nuts for nuts -- they may help you live longer

By Jenn Harris
November 21, 2013, 3:33 p.m.

Eating nuts may help you live longer -- and your best bet for a long life is to munch on them regularly, according to a Harvard University study published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine.

In the largest study of its kind, funded by the U.S. International Tree Nut Council Nutrition Research & Education Foundation and the U.S. National Institutes of Health, researchers followed 120,000 people for 30 years. They found the people who ate nuts regularly were less likely to die during the study.

Compared with people who didn't eat any nuts, people who ate a daily portion of nuts reduced the death rate by 20% over the course of the study. People who ate four portions of nuts a week were recorded as having a 13% reduction in the death rate.

Even the people who ate nuts once a week were 11% less likely to die during the study.

"The most obvious benefit was a reduction of 29% in deaths from heart disease, but we also saw a significant reduction -- 11% -- in the risk of dying from cancer," said the study's lead researcher, Dr. Charles Fuchs of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women's Hospital.

The study concluded that people who eat nuts are more likely to have healthy lifestyles, but that the nuts themselves are also beneficial.

"Nuts are a tiny food that pack a powerful nutrition punch," said Rachel Berman, health content manager at About.com and a registered dietitian. "They are rich in heart healthy monosaturated fats, fiber, protein and disease-fighting antioxidants like vitamin E."

Berman said that having nutrient-dense nuts as a snack can help keep you fuller longer, and she recommended incorporating one ounce per day into your diet.

She suggested pistachios, which are 49 nuts per 160-calorie serving; almonds, which are 22 nuts per serving; and walnuts, which are rich in omega-3 fatty acids and have been shown in studies to help reduce the risk and symptoms of many conditions including heart disease, arthritis and depression.

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posted December 17, 2013 06:53 PM            

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* LINDA GOODMAN'S STAR SIGNS - LEXIGRAMS *

When you're decoding secrets through Lexigrams you first make a list of all the words contained within the single word -- the name -- or the multiple word phrase you want to penetrate. Remember that you don't need to use all the words in your final Lexigram --only as many of them as you need to make the meaning you're seeking clear.

After you've made your list of words you tune into your Higher Self, through intuition, using your sixth sense, as you place the words together, on a separate sheet of paper, to form short phrases or sentences. Your own instinct will then overshadow you, filling your mind with inspiration, as you place the words on the page in patterns that reveal such astonishing insights, you'll sometimes gasp aloud in the sheer delight of discovery.

It takes a little practice, then all of a sudden you find that you can do it, and you'll feel as though someone had switched on a bright light in a dark room. After that it's like eating potato chips or Goobers Peanuts. You can't stop.

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Success-timonal: Harness the Power of the Peanut for Love

Love & LIght ,
Stephanie

Ps. Put down the pumpkin chocolate chip cookie, Michael!

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