Space Sattelites To Reveal Winemaking Secrets?

-- Posted by kmyers001 on Tuesday, February 7 2006

An EU-funded project called "Bacchus" is using sattelites in space as part of project to use space technology to improve wine industry management, reports BeverageDaily.

"Satellite and airborne radar images of last autumn's grape harvest in Frascati, nestling in the hills above Rome, are at the centre of a new pilot scheme to better document and understand the many nuances of Europe's vast wine territories.

The Frascati images, taken between 5 and 25 October, are currently being examined by a team from the European Space Agency's (ESA) European Centre for Earth Observation and the University of Tor Vergata, near Rome.

Professor Domenico Solimini, of Tor Vergata, said the scientists were looking at a range of factors, including roughness and moisture of the terrain, grape density and weed height as well as leaf height and dimensions.

...The results should help the researchers understand more about the factors affecting wine 'terroir'; a somewhat mystical term that loosely translates into the environmental conditions and mini eco-system in which vines are grown. "

The similarities between the complexities of growing grapes for wine and growing goji berries for Goji Juice were already highlighted in one article here on Best Liquid Vitamins... and explains how weather, amount of sun, soil conditions and more can have a major impact on the final berries used in the end product.

Even though the sattelite images may help understand some of the many complexities involved in growing the optimum grape, wine-makers agree that there is a great deal that happens after harvest that creates the final product.

Vintners, however, point out that a wine is also shaped by the individual winemaker; something no satellite could appreciate. Thierry Hasard, a southern French vintner, said a wine's personality could reflect its maker: “It depends on the way you pick it, treat it and nurture it.”

Perhaps the wine industry may want to speak with Dr. Mindell and his team, and apply their patented "spectral signature analysis" process that works so well to produce the optimum Goji Juice.

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Author: K. Myers (aka kmyers001)
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January 2006 Updates to BLV Health Watch

-- Posted by kmyers001 on Thursday, February 2 2006

Have you been getting our blog Health Watch items? If not, here's the January roundup:

- American Heart Association on Blood Pressure
- Omega-6 FA Link To Cancer
- Nitrates and Nitrites In Meat
- What Is Ambergris?
- Omega-3 and Aggressive Behavior
- Caffeine Lovers Get More Bad News
- New Lawsuits to Target Soft Drink Firms
- Carbon Monoxide in USA Packaged Meats

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Author: K. Myers (aka kmyers001)
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7 Easy Tips To Get Your Daily Fruit and Vegetable Requirements

-- Posted by kmyers001 on Thursday, February 2 2006

Living in today's fast paced world can make it difficult to focus on having a healthy diet.

Wondering what a serving size is? Here's the examples from the 5-A-Day website:

A serving size is:
- one medium sized fruit
- 1/2 cup raw, cooked, frozen or canned fruit (in juice) or vegetable
- 3/4 cup (6 oz.) 100% fruit or vegetable juice
- 1/2 cup cooked, canned or frozen legumes (beans)
- 1/2 cup raw, leafy vegetables
- 1/4 cup dried fruit

But, getting 5 or more servings of fruits and vegetables into your diet is easier than you think. Here are 7 easy tips to help you get your daily fruits and vegetables requirement:

1. Drink 100% Juice Products

In our area where fruits and vegetables are rarely available fresh, Goji Juice has become a staple in our home. Just 3 ounces in the morning and 2 to 3 ounces in the evening provide us with the equivalent of 1 to 2 servings of fruit everyday. It's 100% non-pasteurized juice, loaded with all the natural polysaccharides of the whole goji berry -- the most nutritionally dense food on our planet.

2. High Quality Supplements

We add "Fresh Harvest" to our diets during winter months when we can't enjoy fresh vegetables from our garden. Just 2 caplets provides 52 fresh fruits and vegetables in every serving -- that's the equivalent of 10 glasses of juice!

Note: the 4 master molecules found in Goji Juice are not present in Fresh Harvest. That's why we also drink Goji Juice daily, even when we use Fresh Harvest.

3. Simple Fruit Snacks

An apple or banana is a great one serving mid-morning snack. Or how about sprinkling berries onto your morning cereal? Even better -- for added taste and crunch, toss some fresh fruit in with your salad!

4. Creative Fruit Additions To Meals

Adding raisins, apples or pineapple chunks to deli salads such as chicken, tuna or pasta can make meals even more delicious while at the same time increase your daily intake. I've even added raisins to stuffing for extra flavor my whole family enjoys. Next time you bake, try substituting that 1/2 cup of oil with a 1/2 cup of applesauce. And "customizing" our oatmeal is often a fun game -- adding peaches, or cantalope chunks, or raisins are the top favorites here. Have you ever tried cantalope and/or honeydew melon chunks with small curd low fat cottage cheese or yogurt? Yummy!

5. Save Time With Pre-Cut Mixes

Pre-cut salad and/or fruit mixes can save a tremendous amount of time for families on the go. Frozen mixed vegetables are another handy item to have on hand. It only takes a few quick minutes in the steamer for a delicious healthy side dish of "fresh" vegetables.

6. Creative Vegetable Additions

Have you ever tried adding frozen vegetables to that can of soup your heating? Some of my favorites include "spring vegetables" added to chicken soup, broccoli and/or cauliflower added to cream of mushroom (and other cream soups), and vegetable medly (corn, beans, carrots, cellery) added to beef barley -- delicious! Plus, I frequently add frozen veggies to the Kraft Dinner our son loves so much. Have you ever tried spinach lasagna? Get creative and have fun with it!

7. Trail Mix Snacks

You might be surprised how quickly that 1/4 cup serving of dried fruit can be accomplished munching on high quality trail mixes on the run.

Keep things simple -- like having a bowl of prewashed fresh fruit handy -- and you and your entire family may find yourselves meeting the 5-a-day challenge quickly and easily.

Take the "5-A-Day Challenge" by downloading this colorful chart and posting it on your wall to track your progress.

Good luck! And Enjoy!

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Author: K. Myers (aka kmyers001)
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Adenovirus Research Suggests Obesity is Contagious

-- Posted by kmyers001 on Wednesday, February 1 2006

"The nearly simultaneous increase in the prevalence of obesity in most countries of the world is difficult to explain by changes in food intake and exercise alone, and suggest that adenoviruses could have contributed," said the authors of a new study appearing in the January issue of the American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology.

According to the authors, although the notion that viruses can cause obesity is a subject of dispute among scientists, their evidence suggests that the spread of the epidemic is not only a result of people's eating and exercise habits.

"The prevalence of obesity has doubled in adults in the United States in the last 30 years and has tripled in children. With the exception of infectious diseases, no other chronic disease in history has spread so rapidly, and the etiological factors producing this epidemic have not been clearly identified," said the authors.

"The nearly simultaneous increase in the prevalence of obesity in most countries of the world is difficult to explain by changes in food intake and exercise alone, and suggest that adenoviruses could have contributed," they added.

Leah Whigham who led the research at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, noted that other diseases once thought to be the product of environmental factors are now known to stem from infectious agents. For example, ulcers were once thought to be the result of stress, but researchers eventually implicated bacteria, H. pylori, as a cause.

"It makes people feel more comfortable to think that obesity stems from lack of control. It's a big mental leap to think you can catch obesity," she said.

In the latest study, the scientists separated chickens into four groups, exposing three of these groups to different adenovirus types. The fourth control group was not exposed to any viruses. The researchers measured food intake and tracked the weight of the chickens for three weeks.

Out of the four groups, chickens inoculated with Ad-37 had "much more" body fat compared to the other groups, although the amount of food they consumed was the same.

The scientists concluded from their findings that Ad-37 is the third human adenovirus known to increase body fat in animals, but added that not all adenoviruses produce obesity.

"The role of adenoviruses in the worldwide epidemic of obesity is a critical question that demands additional research," they said.

Personally, I'm thinking they should carry the research in another important direction, as well, namely -- grocery store shelves.

What I'd like to see is packages of meat purchased randomly from various grocery stores and analyzed for traces of the adenovirus (as well as other bacteria) to find out how much of our problems today are actually coming from factory-farming practices which have grown at a shocking rate over the past 30 years.

Next, if the adenovirus is found, what happens when the meat is cooked? How long can it survive on/in the meat? What about the juices/liquids of meat transferred to our hands while preparing dinner? Any adenovirus presence there?

But, these are studies you are highly unlikely to see in developed countries such as Canada, USA, EU and others where factory-farming of meat is strongly encouraged by agricultural departments.

If you use the research I've completed over the past 4 months on the factory-farming subeject, you will most likely agree that Governments don't want you, or me, seeing how that meat reaches our dinner tables -- it would severely cripple the factory-farming industry.

For example, since learning what I've learned, our family has an all out ban on pork. If you knew what we knew, you probably wouldn't ever eat it again.

The meat industry is one area that needs a complete and thorough review, in my humble opinion. But it won't happen anytime soon... there's too much money and power in that direction. It's far easier, and much more comfortable, to lay a guilt trip on consumers and make them believe they've been making unhealthy lifestyle choices.

In most cases, I sincerely believe it's the things we don't know about in the food industry that are hurting us the most.

Source - ‘Contagious’ obesity to be tackled with vaccine?

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