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The Saga Of Pinehill Book II
Money, Marriage And The Way
is now published and available.
Buy direct from:

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If you enjoyed the first book, you
won't be able to put
this one down until you've finished
it. Enjoy.

DO IT NOW WHEN IT'S FRESH IN YOUR MIND

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TODAY'S TRIVIA - - -
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What fish goes "fishing" for other fish?

Will a skunk spray another skunk?

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ANSWERS TO YESTERDAY'S TRIVIA - - - -
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What British mystery novel is credited with saving the life
of a child?

Agatha Christie's novel, Pale Horse, describes thallium
poisoning so accurately that a London nurse recognized the
symptoms in a dying nineteen-month old child, whose case had
baffled doctors. Appropriate testing was done and the child
successfully treated.

Is it true that some ants enslave other ants?

Yes. Several hundred ant species are known to enslave other
ants. The most common are a group known as "amazon ants."
Amazons (so called because all the soldier ants are female)
will attack other ant colonies, disperse or kill all the
adult ants, and steal the colony's cocoon-covered pupae. The
kidnapped ants are then brought up in the amazon ant colony
where they do all the work. Amazon ants have become so used
to this slave system that they are actually incapable of
doing anything but make war. They no longer know how to
construct nests or feed themselves or even raise their own
young. The kidnapped ants do all that. The amazons just sit
around until it's time to go raid another ant colony.

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There are a lot of ways to become a failure,
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thePEBBLE CONTENTS:

1. STRANGE BITS AND PIECES!

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2. COVER STORY
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Around The Net

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3. MEDICAL COLUMN with Karin Henderson

Your Immune System: Delicate Yet Critical
How It Serves You And Why You Need To Keep It Healthy
Why a carrot is good and a chocolate bar is not...
PART 3 of 9

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4. PERCEPTIONS by Ken Darby

What We Thought Was Good - - - Is Killing Us!

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5. WHY DO WE SAY IT?

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6. THINK ABOUT THIS TODAY!
7. HA! HA!HA!
8. CONTACT INFO
9. THE LAST LINE - - - - -


DO IT NOW WHEN IT'S FRESH IN YOUR MIND

The Saga Of Pinehill Book II
Money, Marriage And The Way
is now published and available. Buy direct from:

http://www.publishamerica.com
(enter the name Saga of Pinehill in the search box)

If you enjoyed the first book, you won't be able to put
this one down until you're finished it. Enjoy.

DO IT NOW WHEN IT'S FRESH IN YOUR MIND

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STRANGE BITS AND PIECES!


There is a muppet named Kami that appears on the South
African version of the T.V. show "Sesame Street" that is
HIV-positive.

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COVER STORY
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Around The Net

New York Ban On Trans Fats Could Affect Malaysian Food
Exports

By Manik Mehta

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 7 (Bernama) -- With New York setting the
tone for a radical change in the law governing the use of
trans fats in foods served in restaurants, Malaysian food
exporters should brace to face stricter food standards while
exporting their products to the United States, veritably the
world's largest food market.

New York become the first city in the United States - and
others are expected to follow suit - to announce a ban on
Tuesday on the artery-clogging artificial trans fats in
foods cooked or used in restaurants.

The ban applies to all, be it pizza shops, fast food chain
franchise stores, the bakery shops or the upper-end
restaurants.

To enable restaurants and others to adjust to this
requirement, New York's board of health has allowed them a
deadline to comply with this order.

New York's restaurants, including those serving Malaysian
cuisine, will have to stop using artificial trans fats from
all of its foods by July 2008.

Much to the annoyance of the restaurant owners, they will
also be required to list the fat content on the menu itself,
though fast-food restaurants and other chains have much to
fear.

Malaysia exports a variety of food products such as frozen
parathas, biryani, cooked meat, etc. which enjoy popularity,
particularly, with the burgeoning South Asian community in
this country. Roti channai is as much a popular food with
South Asians as it is with Malaysians.

However, if any of these products contained trans fats, they
are likely to face hurdles while entering the U.S. market in
the future, according to a source with the local health
board.

Speaking on the condition of anonymity, an importer of Asian
food products, located in New York's Chinatown, told Bernama
that the New York office of the Malaysian External Trade
Development Corporation (Matrade) should enquire with the
appropriate authorities to find out how the change in law
governing use of trans fats in foods will affect food
imports from Malaysia.

"You can understand that importers will be reluctant to
import food products from Malaysia if there is a ban on the
trans fats which are found in some of these products. It is
therefore necessary for Matrade to obtain accurate
information from the authorities and then advise both
importers in the United States and exporters in Malaysia
about the change in law," he said.

As the nation passes through what has become a health crisis
of epidemic proportion - two out of five Americans are
expected to have heart problems, diabetes and other related
ailments caused by a sedentary lifestyle and a diet relying
excessively on saturated and trans fats.

This situation is also having a serious impact on the
nation's depleting resources as the national budget
continues to be stretched to the limit with an increasing
number of Americans showing reluctance to give up
high-cholesterol causing foods or simply ignorant of the
harm such foods can cause.

There are also parallels to the situation in Malaysia where
a growing, prosperous middle class is increasingly turning
its back on traditional cuisine and resorting more and more
to the fast food culture with all its harmful effects on the
consumer. The proliferation of both type 1 and 2 diabetes
amongst Malaysians is also causing alarm to Malaysian health
experts.

Malaysia's palm-oil suppliers and the Malaysian Palm Oil
Board should note that there is a growing aversion amongst
the U.S. health authorities not only against trans fats but
also against saturated trans fats which have spelt disaster
for the general public health, leading to spiraling health
bill for the government. Researchers and health specialists
have established that trans fats, in particular, have
contributed to the deteriorating public health.

According to the Food & Drug Administration (FDA), the
country's food and drug regulating authority, the average
American consumes about 4.7 lbs of trans fats each year.

This quantity can destroy the health of an average man,
considering that trans fats are created on conversion of
liquid oils into solid fats with the addition of hydrogen in
a process called hydrogenation.

A widely-used form of trans fats is hydrogenated vegetable
oil which is used for frying and also in preparing biscuits,
pizza dough, crackers and other products. Hydrogenated
vegetable oil is also used in Malaysia.

Many U.S. food manufacturers had already voluntarily stopped
using trans fats in their products after the FDA made it
mandatory for companies to reflect the trans fat content in
labels stuck on their products.

Fast food chains such as McDonald's, KFC, Burger King,
Wendy, etc., which have operations in Malaysia, are on alert
in the United States, and know they will have to make
drastic changes not only in the preparation of their foods
but also in their supply chain.

Experts predict that other cities and states will, sooner or
later, also emulate New York's example and ban the harmful
trans fats. The Midwestern region of the United States is
also under tremendous pressure from health and environmental
groups to issue a ban on trans fats.

In fact, Chicago is already considering imposing
restrictions on trans fats instead of an outright ban at the
outset. It is taking what is described as a "selective
approach", suggesting that it would at first target the big
restaurants whose annual sales exceed US$20 million.

However, certain medical groups such as the American Heart
Association are realistic enough to understand that the
gastronomy sector will need time to make a switch from trans
fats to non-harmful oils.

The AHA has, consequently, cautioned the New York health
authorities that if the gastronomy sector is not given
adequate time to comply with the new requirements,
restaurants might resort to using other substances such as
palm oil which has a high saturated fat content.

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Love dissolves road blocks, brick walls and evil thoughts.
---- Ken Darby

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MEDICAL COLUMN - - - - with Karin Henderson


Your Immune System: Delicate Yet Critical
How It Serves You And Why You Need To Keep It Healthy
Why a carrot is good and a chocolate bar is not...
PART 3 of 9

"THE IMMUNE SYSTEM The immune system protects the body from
potentially harmful substances by recognizing and responding to
so-called antigens. Antigens are large molecules (usually
proteins) on the surface of cells, viruses, fungi, or bacteria.
Some non-living substances such as toxins, chemicals, drugs, and
foreign particles (such as a splinter) can be antigens.
Substances that contain these antigens are recognized and
destroyed by the immune system. Even your own body cells have
proteins that are antigens (these include a group of antigens
called HLA antigens). Your immune system learns to see these
antigens as "normal" and does not usually react against them."

IMMUNE RESPONSE
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000821.htm
"The immune response is the way the body recognizes and defends
itself against microorganisms, viruses, and substances
recognized as foreign and potentially harmful to the body."
THE BODY'S FIRST LINE OF DEFENSE
http://www.niaid.nih.gov/final/immun/immun.htm
"The immune system is a complex of organs--highly specialized
cells and even a circulatory system separate from blood
vessels--all of which work together to clear infection from the
body. The organs of the immune system, positioned throughout the
body, are called lymphoid organs. The word "lymph" in Greek
means a pure, clear stream--an appropriate description
considering its appearance and purpose."

RECOGNIZING INVADER
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/imagepages/19331.htm
"An allergy occurs when the immune system reacts to substances
(allergens) that are generally harmless and in most people do
not cause an immune response. Antibodies are formed by the
immune system in response to the presence of an antigen such as
pollen, mold, dust or dander." These are important definitions
and descriptions.

Recognize that these definitions and links come from
well-respected and trustworthy sites. (I think I have said those
words before, but it IS really important that unless you have
this kind of reliable knowledge, you can be so easily misled.)
All of these sites have research studies attached. This is Step
One in the care and feeding of your Immune System.

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Karin Henderson is a registered nurse and is thePEBBLE's
columnist for our MEDICAL COLUMN.
We appreciate her input very much. Thanks Karin.
You can send Karin questions at
mailto:kflh@shaw.ca

Health Information Newsletter.
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PERCEPTIONS . . . by Ken Darby

-----------------------DISCLAIMER

Some around me think I am an opinionated old goat.
Whether that be true or not I will sometimes, in this column,
talk about things people don't like to talk about - or don't want
out in the open. Take it all with a grain of salt.

Do your own thinking, and don't accept the things I say as
gospel. They are only mental meanderings from a simple soul.

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What We Thought Was Good - - - Is Killing Us!

Boy! In North America we rush headlong into anything some
company says is good. Look at the tobacco scandal. For years
they got away with telling us cigarettes had no relationship
to lung cancer while their own research showed they knew all
along.

Now we have the trans fat scandal. We have, for years, been
using margarines and other “hydrogenated” or “partially
hydrogenated” oils because they were cheaper. Today we find
out they have been a deadly part of our diet for decades.

Apparently what these fats do is decrease the “good”
cholesterol and increase the “bad” cholesterol. People have
been dying by the thousands for years with this problem. It
might be time the nation as a whole took on the producers of
such products, just as they did the tobacco people.

New York City has now enacted a law that bans the use of
these products in any of it’s restaurants, some 20,000
establishments. Good for New York City.

And, of course, we should all read the label on oils and
margarines we are feeding our families. “Hydrogenated” or
“partially hydrogenated” means you are slowly poisoning the
ones you love.

On another matter, and relatively unimportant, there is now
some speculation the ancient Egyptians did not carve out and
transport all those heavy stones for the pyramids. Instead
it is beginning to look like they poured them in place, much
like our present day concrete. Neat huh?

The papers and news agencies are real quiet on global
warming lately. It is almost as if they want to forget about
it. DO NOT BE FOOLED. The problem is still there, still
creeping up on us and will one day not too far away, become
a condition we will be forced to deal with.

Do whatever you can to get yourself debt free. What you owe
money on - sell - and get a lesser one on which you owe no
money. I know this is a little “Noah’s Ark-ish” yet it is
your life and the more detached you can become from the ways
of the world, business, government, the more likely you will
survive the conditions forthcoming.

That’s it for this week folks. Have a good weekend and I’ll
see you Monday.

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WHY DO WE SAY IT?


Bachelor's Button: How did the flower known as "bachelor's
button" get that name?

The flower got its name from its similarity in appearance to
the buttons on men's clothing - since these were originally
covered with rough cloth. Then, because of its name, the
flower came to have significance interpreting the chances of
a bachelor with his sweetheart. If a bachelor put one of
these flowers in his pocket and it did not fade but simply
dried out he could hope for the best; but it it wilted and
dies it was a bad omen.

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DO IT NOW WHEN IT'S FRESH IN YOUR MIND

The Saga Of Pinehill Book II
Money, Marriage And The Way
is now published and available. Buy direct from:

http://www.publishamerica.com
(enter the name Saga of Pinehill in the search box)

If you enjoyed the first book, you won't be able to put
this one down until you've finished it. Enjoy.

DO IT NOW WHEN IT'S FRESH IN YOUR MIND

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THINK ABOUT THIS TODAY!


We have but one life--whether we spend it laughing or
weeping.
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HA! HA! HA!


Muldoon lived alone in the countryside with an Irish setter
he doted on.

The dog died, and Muldoon went to the parish priest.

"Father, me dog is dead," he said. "Could ye be saying a
Mass for the creature?"

Father Patrick replied, "No, we cannot have services for an
animal in the church, but there's a new denomination down
the road. No telling what they believe. Maybe they can be
doin' something for ya."

Muldoon said, "I'll go right now. Do ya think a couple
o'thousand is enough to donate for the service?"]

Father Patrick placed a hand on Muldoon's forearm. "For
God's sake, man, why didn't ya tell me the dog was
Catholic?"

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THE LAST LINE - - - - -

You are a fortunate person, indeed, if you can begin
each day accepting the fact that during that day there
will be ups and downs, good breaks and bad ones,
disappointments, surprises, unexpected turns of
events. 
Roy Benjamin

 
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If you would live, be prepared to give up all that you have.
---- Ken Darby