“spanish bugs in my vegetable garden”

What I am wondering is how they know they are Spanish?

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Sunday Search of the Week 7-05-2009

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Happy 4th of July

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Geocaching Off Line

5:30 pm – Flowers opened wide.

7:30 pm – Closed up tight for the night.

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Wordless Wednesday 7-01-2009

There was one thing that bothered be a bit reading the news of these studies. Several times I saw a statement along the lines of “researchers who looked at fruit consumption found no corresponding benefit”. In other words veggies help, fruit does not. I did not see one person who questioned this statement. Here is the issue I have with that. Some of the items on the list of beneficials were tomatoes, zucchini, squash, and peppers. All of these we call vegetables, but they are really fruit. If there is one thing I think would make this research easier to digest, it would be to have a list of “vegetables” rated from best to least effective in terms of cognitive benefit. I did see one researcher quoted as saying the most benefit came from dark, leafy, greens. That makes sense.

One last thing was looked at in these studies. Researchers found that people who took large amounts of supplements, rather than increasing their vegetable consumption, showed no cognitive benefit. This confirms what other studies have shown. There are many phyto-compounds in vegetables in addition to the vitamins that benefit human health. There is virtually no research that does not show many different kinds of health benefits from eating a plant based diet. The results always show, the more the better. No matter what your current eating habits are, you will benefit from eating more plants.

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Vegetables – The Memory Solution

 Ok, not so wordless this week, but in the past whenever I tried to take a photo of the rain, you could never actually see the rain in the shot. This photo is nothing special, but I did like the lighting, although it was much more dramatic in reality than in the photo. But… you can see how hard it was raining and this is a first for me.

I missed WW last week, but I did post the answer to the photo question from WW on June 10th. Check it out and see if anyone guessed correctly.

And last but not least, please try to put a link to your site in the Mr Linky box below. He has been having trouble getting the widget to work correctly and I would like to test if it has been fixed.

Thanks!

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Wordless Wednesday 6-24-2009

If the U.S. health care system is to be fixed, increasing the number primary care physicians will be a big part of the fix.  Incentives must be put in place now to let current students see there will be help available if the choose to practice in the most needed areas of medicine.  Because becoming an M.D is such a long and arduous process, and medical students often tend to be focused, goal oriented people, letting them know early in their education that they have viable options to practice primary care is critically important.

One of the recent articles can be read at this link.  Let’s hope that our President and his political cohorts make this a part of  any reform.  Without a solution to this particular health care delivery problem, providing primary care to all people will be impossible.

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Health Care Reform and Doctors

“pure needles as a main ingredient for h”

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Sunday Search of the Week 6-21-2009

On a side note, I will never forget my first close-up observation of a Peregrine Falcon.  I was on the 36th floor of a tall office building in San Francisco, standing at a conference room window watching the weather and some pigeons that were flying off from a window ledge.  As one of the pigeons went by my view, there was a blur and an explosion of feathers as a falcon dropped out of nowhere and claimed its dinner.  It happened so fast, I was unclear for a few seconds what I had observed.  As I watched the falcon carry its prize to the top of a shorter office tower, all I could think was how lucky I had been to have been where I was at just the right second in time.

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The Fastest Bird Alive

Anyway this week the search is:  “bugs in my vegetable garden”

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Sunday Search of the Week 6-14-2009