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Greetings,
This week: Could your prescription meds be making you fat? Can flame retardants be causing us to be ill? Tax wisdom? Does your sweat smell like ammonia? Are long lasting light bulbs that bad?
Have a great week.
- D.I. Minkoff
Could your prescription meds be making you fat?
Fat accumulation is monitored by many things. Hormones, calorie intake, overall activity level, and metabolic rate. Metabolic rate is the body's overall "burn rate" of calories. People with high metabolism can take in more calories and not gain weight because they're resting burn rate is higher. The metabolic rate is controlled by several hormones including adrenalin, thyroid hormone, and growth hormone. Another hormone leptin controls the hunger switch.
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Do you smell like ammonia when you sweat?
Proteins are the only food group that contain nitrogen. Fats and carbohydrates do not. Each protein is made up of chains of simpler compounds called amino acids. There are 22 amino acids commonly found in the human body structure. Amino acids contain, along with nitrogen, carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and sometimes sulfur.
Interestingly, when we eat protein, most of the amino acids are broken down and used for energy and not for building body structure. In this case the nitrogen is cleaved off and the carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen portion gets burned as a fuel.
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Follow up on long lasting light bulbs
In the Los Angeles area there is currently a lot of promotion on the radio on how great these bulbs are. That if everyone replaced only 5 bulbs in their house it would be the same as taking 400,000 cars off the road. That is dramatic and would have a favorable effect on the environment as far as carbon emissions were concerned. But, as we commented on in the last issue, the long lasting energy efficient light bulbs have a very significant downside: they contain mercury.
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Tax Wisdom in action...
Tax his land,
Tax his bed,
Tax the table
At which he's fed.
Tax his tractor,
Tax his mule,
Teach him taxes
Are the rule.
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Can flame retardants be causing human illness?
Yes they can. The flame retardant called Deca is a chemically very similar to PCB's, and two other flame retardants already banned in Europe and California. It is a part of a family of flame retardants called PBDE's. Polybrominated diethyl ethers. Deca is the only one left on the market.
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Recipe of the Week:
Sweet Potato Casserole
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