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There is no featured recipe this period.  Personally, I lose the heart to prepare and eat fine meals when I know others are hungry.  Instead, here's a request. You are undoubtedly planning to celebrate the New Year. We are too, and we have a lot to celebrate.  But when you do, buy a little less bubbly, purchase a cheaper meal, or just give thanks for your good fortune this past year, even through possible difficulties such as we personally have undergone in 2004.  Give thanks for a place you call home that keeps off rain and sun and gives you privacy. Safe drinking water. Something to eat. A way to earn more of the same.  Then it's payback time.

The worse disaster to hit the world in years, perhaps as grievous as World War II, or the grand explosion of Krakatoa with it's fallout around the world, has taken place in dozens of countries in the western Pacific and Indian Ocean. Imagine having perhaps lost a spouse and some of your children, your home wiped away down to a mere stain where the foundation was, no clean drinking water, no food except perhaps what you can scavenge. You know you may lose what may be left of your family - and your own life - in the coming days due to disease and starvation. And even if you survive you have lost all means of employment for the foreseeable future. For just a moment, try to imagine and put yourself in that person's place - walk in their footprints.

Diabetes type 2, the kind you get as a middle-age or older adult, can turn those expected golden years into a rusted, tarnished horror story.  New studies suggests that a cause may be a common, universally consumed food.  Read about this research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, as well as other recent sources. 

Then celebrate the New Year in the best and most satisfying way. Call it being part of the human family, Christian (or other religion) charity, or simply your responsibility to your fellow man. Food and water can only be purchased and transported with money. Send whatever donation you can to the International Red Cross quake aid (or the Red Crescent if you are Muslim). It will be the most satisfying beginning to the New Year.  I truly believe that what you give will come back to you in one way or another tenfold in the coming year.

News flash:  here's a possible cholesterol- and fat-burner with only good side effects, according to studies by the US Dept. of Agriculture.

Pregnant women really are eating for two.  Here's proof.

See how a small change in your diet can keep your skin softer and smoother.

Suffer from fibromyalgia?  Try EFT; see Gary Craig's article. 

I just received the ultimate in fraudulent email.  For about one second, I almost bit.  Answering this email could wipe out your checking and charge account.  Take a look and be forewarned.

Reputedly, if all the Oreo cookies sold to date were stacked one on top of another, the height of the stack would be almost as tall as 10 million Sears Tower Buildings!!!  It's not just the fast food that gets us, obviously it's the snacks too.  Imagine if that stack fell on you.  Death by chocolate?

Is our government about to "throw out the baby with the bathwater"?  Read about this proposed attack on the sanctity and privacy of our homes, activities and communications, including a way to get around our constitutional right to avoid "unreasonable search and seizure", in Government Seeks Freedom to Snoop.  And see what I believe is the connection between our lack of security and the present health care system.

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