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The History of Onions

Mon, 24 Dec 2007 08:31:01 GMT

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It probably originates from Central Asia (between Turkmenistan and Afghanistan) where some of its relatives still grow in the wild

In Caananite Bronze Age settlements, traces of onion remains were found alongside fig and date stones dating back to 5000 BC.

Archaeological and literary evidence suggests cultivation probably took place around two thousand years later in ancient Egypt

Workers who built the Egyptian pyramids may have been fed radishes and onions

Egyptians worshipped it, believing that its spherical shape and concentric rings symbolized eternal life

In ancient Greece, athletes ate large quantities of onion because it would lighten the balance of blood

Roman gladiators were rubbed down with onion to firm up their muscles

The onion was introduced to North America by Christopher Columbus on his 1493 expedition to Haiti

Onions are a staple food in India, and are therefore fundamental to Indian cooking

The Common Cold Becomes Very Powerful

Mon, 24 Dec 2007 21:17:54 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This is not pretty. 1,035 infected and 7 dead in Oregon alone this year.

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A high school varsity athlete, a sturdy guy with a health history blissfully free of blips, 18-year-old Joseph Spencer had little reason to think anything was seriously wrong when he got sick last April.

Within hours, Spencer's fever was 104 degrees. Within days, he was in the intensive care unit at Providence Portland Medical Center in Oregon with full-blown pneumonia. Spencer's doctor was afraid this sturdy teenage boy was going to die.

But as perplexing as what would make a hardy young man so sick -- so quickly -- was his diagnosis: adenovirus, the virus that usually causes nothing worse than a nasty cold.

"In the past, we considered adenovirus a 98-pound weakling," says Dr. Dean Erdman, leader of the respiratory diagnostic program at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. "But adenovirus is causing severe disease and, in some cases, death in normal, healthy people."

"People need to be aware there's a killer out there."

Peanuts help in weight lost

Tue, 25 Dec 2007 02:25:25 GMT

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Peanuts help in weight lost

Posted : Mon, 24 Dec 2007 18:47:16 GMT

HOUSTON, Dec. 24 Mexican-American children who skipped school meals, but substituted peanuts or peanut butter after school for other snacks, lost weight, a study found.

Principal investigator Dr. John Foreyt of Baylor College of Medicine and colleagues at the U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service Children's Nutrition Research Center in Houston found Mexican-American children ages 10 to 15 successfully lost weight and improved blood lipids in a school-based intensive intervention program.

All of the children at the school received a snack during the school period -- for some, traditional snacks, such as chips and snack cake, were replaced with peanuts/peanut butter with a fruit or vegetable.