FRUIT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT FOOD AND HERE IS WHY!

 

EATING FRUIT  This is informative! We all think eating fruit means just buying fruit, cutting it up and popping it into our mouths. It's not that easy. It's important to know how and when to eat fruit.  What's the correct way to eat fruit?  IT MEANS NOT EATING FRUIT AFTER A MEAL!  FRUIT SHOULD BE EATEN ON AN EMPTY STOMACH.  Eating fruit like that plays a major role in detoxifying your system, supplying you with a great deal of energy for weight loss and other life activities.  FRUIT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT FOOD. Let's say you eat two slices of bread, then a slice of fruit. The slice of fruit is ready to go straight through the stomach into the intestines, but it's prevented from doing so.  In the meantime, the whole meal rots and ferments, and turns to acid. The minute the fruit comes into contact with the food in the stomach, and digestive juices, the entire mass of food begins to spoil.   Eat your fruit on an empty stomach, or before your meal! You've heard people complain: Every time I eat watermelon I burp, when I eat durian my stomach bloats, when I eat a banana I feel like running to the toilet, etc. This will not happen if you eat the fruit on an empty stomach. Fruit mixes with the putrefying other food and produces gas. Hence, you bloat!    There's no such thing as some fruits, like orange and lemon are acidic, because all fruit becomes alkaline in our body, according to Dr. Herbert Shelton who did research on this matter. If you have mastered the correct way of eating fruit, you have the Secret of Beauty, Longevity, Health, Energy, Happiness and normal weight. When you need to drink fruit juice drink only fresh fruit juice, NOT the concentrated juice from the cans. Don't drink juice that has been heated. Don't eat cooked fruit; you don't get the nutrients at all. You get only the taste. Cooking destroys all of the vitamins.  Eating a whole fruit is better than drinking the juice. If you should drink the juice, drink it mouthful by mouthful slowly, because you must let it mix with your saliva before swallowing it. You can go on a 3-day fruit-fast to cleanse your body. Eat fruit and drink fruit juice for just 3 days, and you will be surprised when your friends say how radiant you look!  KIWI: Tiny but mighty, and a good source of potassium, magnesium, vitamin E and fiber. Its vitamin C content is twice that of an orange!  AN APPLE a day keeps the doctor away? Although an apple has a low vitamin C content, it has antioxidants and flavonoids which enhances the activity of vitamin C, thereby helping to lower the risk of colon cancer, heart attack and stroke.  STRAWBERRY: Protective Fruit. Strawberries have the highest total antioxidant power among major fruits and protect the body from cancer-causing, blood vessel-clogging free radicals.  EATING 2 - 4 ORANGES a day may help keep colds away, lower cholesterol, prevent and dissolve kidney stones, and reduce the risk of colon cancer.  WATERMELON: Coolest thirst quencher. Composed of  92% water, it is also packed with a giant dose of glutathione, which helps boost our immune system. Also a key source of lycopene, the cancer-fighting oxidant. Also found in watermelon: Vitamin C and Potassium. GUAVA & PAPAYA: Top awards for vitamin C. They are the clear winners for their high vitamin C content. Guava is also rich in fiber, which helps prevent constipation. Papaya is rich in carotene, good for your eyes.  Drinking Cold water after a meal = Cancer! Can you believe this? For those who like to drink cold water, this applies to you. It's nice to have a cold drink after a meal, however, the cold water will solidify the oily stuff that you've just consumed, which slows digestion. Once this 'sludge' reacts with the acid, it will break down and be absorbed by the intestine faster than the solid food. It will line the intestine. Very soon, this will turn into fats and lead to cancer. It is best to drink hot soup or warm water after a meal.  A serious note about heart attacks. HEART ATTACK PROCEDURE Women should know that not every heart attack symptom is going to be the left arm hurting. Be aware of intense pain in the jaw. You may never have the first chest pain during the course of a heart attack. Nausea and intense sweating are also common symptoms. Sixty percent of people who have a heart attack while they're asleep do not wake up. Pain in the jaw can wake you from a sound sleep. Be careful, and be aware. The more we know, the better our chance to survive.  A cardiologist said if everyone who gets this message, should  forward it to 10 people, you can be sure that we'll save at least one life. It  can even be your life!

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That is the problem, they don't know sh*t

A stranger was seated next to a little black girl on the airplane when the stranger turned to her and said, "Let's talk. I've heard that flights go quicker if you strike up a conversation with your fellow passenger." 

The little girl, who had just opened her coloring book, closed it slowly and said to the stranger, "What would you like to talk about?" 

"Oh, I don't know," said the stranger. "Since you are an Afro American, do you think that So-called President Barak Obama is qualified for the job?" and he smiles. 

"OK", she said. 'That could be an interesting topic. But let me ask you a question first. A horse, a cow, and a deer all eat the same stuff - grass -. Yet a deer excretes little pellets, while a cow turns out a flat patty, and a horse produces clumps of dried grass. Why do you suppose that is?"

The stranger, visibly surprised by the little girl's intelligence, thinks about it and says, "Hmmm, I have no idea." 

To which the little girl replies, "Do you really feel qualified to discuss President Barak Obama...when you don't know shit?"

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Look to the Light

I accidentally clicked on this video, and I listened the first time with out watching. It caught me off guard because the words were so intense. Now the second time had more meaning because I saw who was delivering the message

! I realized quickly that it was not about being a Mormon, christian, catholic, but a statement of a belief in god! This video is not about what they were, but what they were becoming when they opened their heart and let him in.

All that I ask is that you look listen and feel the message, for it has no denomination, it offers you nothing but the message just keep giving!

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The 20-year-old becomes the youngest winner of NASCAR's premier event Sprint Cup Series

Rookie NASCAR driver Trevor Bayne celebrates with his racing team after winning the Daytona 500 on Sunday. (Matthew Stockman / Getty Images for NASCAR / February 20, 2011)

This year's Daytona 500 was blanketed with emotion on the 10-year anniversary of the crash here that killed Dale Earnhardt, the iconic NASCAR champion known even to casual fans of stock car racing.

But Trevor Bayne, a Knoxville, Tenn., native who was about to turn 10 years old when Earnhardt died on the last lap of NASCAR's crown-jewel race, marked a different 10-year milepost at Daytona with a shocking upset Sunday.

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After surviving a spree of crashes that collected many of NASCAR's top drivers, Bayne held off a charging Carl Edwards and David Gilliland to win a wild Daytona 500 for the Wood Brothers — a once-famous team that fell on hard times and hadn't won a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race since the year Earnhardt died.
Bayne did so one day after turning 20, becoming the youngest winner in the 53-year history of the Daytona 500 by a wide margin. Jeff Gordon previously held the record, winning the 1997 race at 25.
The win also came in only Bayne's second race in NASCAR's premier series; he mainly competes in its second-tier Nationwide Series.
The Wood Brothers "gave me a rocket ship" of a car, Bayne said, a No. 21 Ford that was painted in the same red, white and gold colors that made the team famous in the 1960s and '70s with such legendary NASCAR drivers as Cale Yarborough and David Pearson.
Pearson, in fact, was the last Wood Brothers driver to win the Daytona 500, in 1976.
"I never expected to be sitting here," Bayne said after celebrating in Victory Lane, which he briefly had trouble finding after crossing the finish line. "I can't thank these guys enough. It's incredible. This will be the best birthday celebration I've ever had."
Edwards was second, Gilliland third and veteran Bobby Labonte was fourth.
For a sport hoping to reverse recent declines in attendance and television ratings, and for a Daytona 500 hoping to rebound from a debacle last year caused by a big pothole, Sunday's season-opening race in front of an estimated 182,000 seemed the compelling remedy.
It began on the third lap with a tribute to Earnhardt, with fans going silent and holding up three fingers so that the only sound heard was the roar of the 43-car field barreling around the 2.5-mile, high-banked Daytona International Speedway.
But from that point on the race was tense, often chaotic and extremely competitive. It featured 74 lead changes among 22 drivers and 16 caution periods for 60 laps, all of which smashed previous records, and in the closing laps about a dozen drivers were only feet apart with a chance to win.
Dale Earnhardt Jr., NASCAR's most popular driver and the sentimental favorite on the anniversary of his father's death, led nine laps and still was in contention when the race went into a two-lap overtime finish, which was needed because the scheduled 200 laps ended under a caution period.
But a wreck involving Ryan Newman and Martin Truex Jr. also collected Earnhardt, who smashed into the backstretch wall and finished 24th.
"It just got crazy at the end," Earnhardt said.
That crash forced a second two-lap overtime and Bayne, getting a powerful push from Labonte, held off Edwards — who likewise was getting a push from Gilliland — along with Kurt Busch, Juan Pablo Montoya and Regan Smith.
Drivers paired off like that all day long because, after the speedway was repaved in the off-season, teams discovered that two cars running nose to tail ran the fastest, as opposed to the packs of cars that formerly dominated Daytona racing.
But the changes didn't eliminate the packs, or their danger. On the 29th lap there was a massive crash in the middle of the field that involved 14 drivers, including reigning Cup champion Jimmie Johnson and his Hendrick Motorsports teammate, three-time Daytona 500 winner Gordon. They finished 27th and 28th, respectively, after their Chevrolets needed lengthy repairs.
Indeed, it wasn't the NASCAR powerhouse teams such as Hendrick, Roush Fenway Racing and Joe Gibbs Racing that prevailed Sunday as expected. It was the oldest team in the sport, the Wood Brothers.
The win "hasn't really sunk in yet," said team co-owner Eddie Wood. "You begin to think you'll never get back, but you keep trying."

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What the Gay Marriage News Means

Earlier today, President Obama directed the Justice Department to stop defending the law that bans federal recognition of same-sex marriages. And while the decision will — and should — be celebrated by gay couples across the country, practically speaking, their lives won’t change much for some time.

After all, the move doesn’t actually repeal the so-called Defense of Marriage Act. So  same-sex couples will still remain strangers, for the most part, in the eyes of the federal government. Couples will still be unable to jointly file their federal tax returns, and they won’t be eligible to receive Social Security benefits based on their spouse’s earnings record.

Individuals will still owe extra income taxes on the value of their partner’s domestic health benefits. Perhaps most frightening, many individuals could still find themselves in a situation where they are not recognized as the legal spouse of their ailing husband or wife in a hospital emergency room. And the list of inequalities goes on.

But what did happen today, gay advocacy and legal experts agree, is a big step towards eventually putting same-sex couples on equal financial footing with heterosexual married couples.

“They have concluded that laws that discriminate based on sexual orientation should be presumed to be unconstitutional and those laws should be struck down by the courts unless the government can prove that those laws are necessary to advance an important and legitimate government interest,” said John Davidson, legal director at Lambda Legal. “That, in and of itself, is something we have been fighting for since we opened our doors. The executive branch is now saying that the courts should treat those laws as suspect.”

So given the latest development, what will it take for same-sex marriage to be recognized at the federal level – and thus eliminate many of the barriers to financial equality? “The federal government will continue to enforce the Defense of Marriage Act, and it will remain in effect until the law is either repealed by Congress or finally declared unconstitutional in court,” said Mary Bonauto, the civil rights project director at Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders, known as GLAD.

Currently, there are six lawsuits winding their way through the courts where the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act is at issue, Mr. Davidson said. The Justice Department said it will not defend the law in the two challenges pending in the courts within the jurisdiction of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.

So ultimately, it’s up to the courts to decide. Only then will it become possible for, say, a legally married same-sex couple to get health insurance through their spouse’s employer without having to pay extra taxes that a heterosexual spouse doesn’t have to pay.

Some experts said that they would expect more same-sex couples to come forward with challenges of their own. “The government has set up a situation in which many more same-sex married couples may challenge the enforcement of DOMA,” said Nan D. Hunter, an associate dean at Georgetown Law School and legal scholarship director of the Williams Institute. “In the short term, this situation may lead to considerable confusion. There may be different rulings in the different circuits. The administration will have to decide at what point to say, ‘Look, this is sufficiently clear now, we will stop enforcing the law.’”

“From the point of view of the individual couple, the most beneficial thing that could happen is an appellate court ruling in the region where the couple lives because that would be binding on the administration in terms of dealing with couples living in that region,” she added. “For a period, there could be some geographic unevenness in how this issue progresses. Ultimately, the Supreme Court will likely resolve the constitutionality” of the Defense of Marriage Act.

Meanwhile, the prospects of a Congressional repeal of the Act seem dim for now. Two members of Congress have started work on legislation that would repeal the Act. But both measures are unlikely to survive in the near term, experts say, given the Republican majority in the House.

There are currently about 50,000 same-sex couples who have married in the U.S., according to estimates calculated by the Williams Institute, a research group that studies sexual orientation policy issues. They estimate that as many as 30,000 additional couples may have married in other countries like Canada, which would bring the total to about 80,000. Another 85,000 same-sex couples have entered civil unions or domestic partnerships in states that recognize those legal relationships.

Taken together, the Williams Institute said that these figures suggest that 9 percent of same-sex couples in committed relationships have married in the U.S., along with as many as 5 percent more in other countries, and 15 percent are in civil union-like legal relationships.

“Today was a tremendously important moral turning point, but the work of making it a legal reality in the lives of couples still remains ahead of us,” said Evan Wolfson, president of Freedom to Marry, an advocacy group.To see more of Whats on your mind click here

CHANGES ARE COMING ----

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Whether these changes are good or bad depends in part on how we adapt to them. But, ready or not, here they come

1. The Post Office. Get ready to imagine a world without the post office. They are so deeply in financial trouble that there is probably no way to sustain it long term. Email, Fed Ex, and UPS have just about wiped out the minimum revenue needed to keep the post office alive. Most of your mail every day is junk mail and bills.

2. The Check.  Britain is already laying the groundwork to do away with checks by 2018. It costs the financial system billions of dollars a year to process checks. Plastic cards and online transactions will lead to the eventual demise of the check. This plays right into the death of the post office. If you never paid your bills by mail and never received them by mail, the post office would absolutely go out of business.

3. The Newspaper. The younger generation simply doesn't read the newspaper. They certainly don't subscribe to a daily delivered print edition. That may go the way of the milkman and the laundry man. As for reading the paper online, get ready to pay for it. The rise in mobile Internet devices and e-readers has caused all the newspaper and magazine publishers to form an alliance. They have met with Apple, Amazon, and the major cell phone companies to develop a model for paid subscription services.

4. The Book. You say you will never give up the physical book that you hold in your hand and turn the literal pages. I said the same thing about downloading music from I-Tunes. I wanted my hard copy CD. But I quickly changed my mind when I discovered that I could get albums for half the price without ever leaving home to get the latest music. The same thing will happen with books. You can browse a bookstore online and even read a preview chapter before you buy. And the price is less than half that of a real book. And think of the convenience! Once you start flicking your fingers on the screen instead of the book, you find that you are lost in the story, can't wait to see what happens next, and you forget that you're holding a gadget instead of a book.

5. The Land Line Telephone. Unless you have a large family and make a lot of local calls, you don't need it anymore. Most people keep it simply because they've always had it. But you are paying double charges for that extra service. All the cell phone companies will let you call customers using the same cell provider for no charge against your minutes

6. Music. This is one of the saddest parts of the change story. The music industry is dying a slow death. Not just because of illegal downloading. It's the lack of innovative new music being given a chance to get to the people who would like to hear it. Greed and corruption is the problem. The record labels and the radio conglomerates are simply self-destructing. Over 40% of the music purchased today is "catalog items," meaning traditional music that the public is familiar with. Older established artists. This is also true on the live concert circuit. To explore this fascinating and disturbing topic further, check out the book, "Appetite for Self-Destruction" by Steve Knopper, and the video documentary, "Before the Music Dies."

7. Television. Revenues to the networks are down dramatically. Not just because of the economy. People are watching TV and movies streamed from their computers. And they're playing games and doing lots of other things that take up the time that used to be spent watching TV. Prime time shows have degenerated down to lower than the lowest common denominator. Cable rates are skyrocketing and commercials run about every 4 minutes and 30 seconds. I say good riddance to most of it. It's time for the cable companies to be put out of our misery. Let the people choose what they want to watch online and through Netflix.

8. The "Things" That You Own. Many of the very possessions that we used to own are still in our lives, but we may not actually own them in the future. They may simply reside in "the cloud." Today your computer has a hard drive and you store your pictures, music, movies, and documents. Your software is on a CD or DVD, and you can always re-install it if need be. But all of that is changing. Apple, Microsoft, and Google are all finishing up their latest "cloud services." That means that when you turn on a computer, the Internet will be built into the operating system. So, Windows, Google, and the Mac OS will be tied straight into the Internet. If you click an icon, it will open something in the Internet cloud. If you save something, it will be saved to the cloud. And you may pay a monthly subscription fee to the cloud provider. In this virtual world, you can access your music or your books, or your whatever from any laptop or handheld device. That's the good news. But, will you actually own any of this "stuff" or will it all be able to disappear at any moment in a big "Poof?" Will most of the things in our lives be disposable and whimsical? It makes you want to run to the closet and pull out that photo album, grab a book from the shelf, or open up a CD case and pull out the insert.

9. Privacy. If there ever was a concept that we can look back on nostalgically, it would be privacy. That's gone. It's been gone for a long time anyway. There are cameras on the street, in most of the buildings, and even built into your computer and cell phone. But you can be sure that 24/7, "They" know who you are and where you are, right down to the GPS coordinates, and the Google Street View. If you buy something, your habit is put into a zillion profiles, and your ads will change to reflect those habits. And "They" will try to get you to buy something else. Again and again.

All we will have that can't be changed are Memories.
19 Facts About The Deindustrialization Of America That Will Blow Your Mind

The United States is rapidly becoming the very first "post-industrial" nation on the globe.  All great economic empires eventually become fat and lazy and squander the great wealth that their forefathers have left them, but the pace at which America is accomplishing this is absolutely amazing.  It was America that was at the forefront of the industrial revolution.  It was America that showed the world how to mass produce everything from automobiles to televisions to airplanes.  It was the great American manufacturing base that crushed Germany and Japan in World War II.

But now we are witnessing the deindustrialization of America .  Tens of thousands of factories have left the United States in the past decade alone  Millions upon millions of manufacturing jobs have been lost in the same time period.  The United States has become a nation that consumes everything in sight and yet produces increasingly little.  Do you know what our biggest export is today?  Waste paper.  Yes, trash is the number one thing that we ship out to the rest of the world as we voraciously blow our money on whatever the rest of the world wants to sell to us..  The United States has become bloated and spoiled and our economy is now just a shadow of what it once was.  Once upon a time America could literally out produce the rest of the world combined.  Today that is no longer true, but Americans sure do consume more than anyone else in the world.  If the deindustrialization of America continues at this current pace, what possible kind of a future are we going to be leaving to our children?

Any great nation throughout history has been great at making things.  So if the United States continues to allow its manufacturing base to erode at a staggering pace how in the world can the U.S. continue to consider itself to be a great nation?  We have created the biggest debt bubble in the history of the world in an effort to maintain a very high standard of living, but the current state of affairs is not anywhere close to sustainable.  Every single month America    goes into more debt and every single month America gets poorer.

So what happens when the debt bubble pops?

The deindustrialization of the United States should be a top concern for every man, woman and child in the country.  But sadly, most Americans do not have any idea what is going on around them.

For people like that, take this article and print it out and hand it to them.  Perhaps what they will read below will shock them badly enough to awaken them from their slumber.  

The following are 19 facts about the deindustrialization of America that will blow your mind....

#1 The United States has lost approximately 42,400 factories since 2001.  About 75 percent of those factories employed over 500 people when they were still in operation.

#2 Dell Inc., one of America ’s largest manufacturers of computers, has announced plans to dramatically expand its operations in China with an investment of over $100 billion over the next decade.

#3 Dell has announced that it will be closing its last large U.S. manufacturing facility in Winston-Salem , North Carolina in November.  Approximately 900 jobs will be lost.

#4 In 2008, 1.2 billion cell phones were sold worldwide.  So how many of them were manufactured inside the United States ?  Zero.

#5 According to a new study conducted by the Economic Policy Institute, if the U.S. trade deficit with China continues to increase at its current rate, the U.S. economy will lose over half a million jobs this year alone.

#6 As of the end of July, the U.S. trade deficit with China had risen 18 percent compared to the same time period a year ago.

#7 The United States has lost a total of about 5.5 million manufacturing jobs since October 2000.

#8 According to Tax Notes, between 1999 and 2008 employment at the foreign affiliates of U.S. parent companies increased an astounding 30 percent to 10.1 million. During that exact same time period, U.S. employment at American multinational corporations declined 8 percent to 21.1 million.

#9 In 1959, manufacturing represented 28 percent of U.S. economic output.  In 2008, it represented 11.5 percent.

#10 Ford Motor Company recently announced the closure of a factory that produces the Ford Ranger in St. Paul , Minnesota .. Approximately 750 good paying middle class jobs are going to be lost because making Ford Rangers in Minnesota does not fit in with Ford's new "global" manufacturing strategy.

#11 As of the end of 2009, less than 12 million Americans worked in.

 manufacturing.  The last time less than 12 million Americans were employed in manufacturing was in 1941.

#12 In the United States today, consumption accounts for 70 percent of GDP. Of this 70 percent, over half is spent on services.

#13 The United States has lost a whopping 32 percent of its manufacturing jobs since the year 2000.

#14 In 2001, the United States ranked fourth in the world in per capita broadband Internet use.  Today it ranks 15th.

#15 Manufacturing employment in the U.S. computer industry is actually lower in 2010 than it was in 1975.

#16 Printed circuit boards are used in tens of thousands of different products.   Asia now produces 84 percent of them worldwide.

#17 The United States spends approximately $3.90 on Chinese goods for every $1 that the Chinese spend on goods from the United States .

#18 One prominent economist is projecting that the Chinese economy will be three times larger than the US. economy by the year 2040.

#19 The U.S. Census Bureau says that 43.6 million Americans are now living in poverty and according to them that is the highest number of poor Americans in the 51 years that records have been kept.

So how many tens of thousands more factories do we need to lose before we do something about it?

How many millions more Americans are going to become unemployed before we all admit that we have a very, very serious problem on our hands?

How many more trillions of dollars are going to leave the country before we realize that we are losing wealth at a pace that is killing our economy?

How many once great manufacturing cities are going to become rotting war zones like Detroit before we understand that we are committing national economic suicide?

The deindustrialization of America is a national crisis.  It needs to be treated like one.

If you disagree with this article, I have a direct challenge for you.  If anyone can explain how a de-industrialized America has any kind of viable economic future, please do so below in the comments section.

America is in deep, deep trouble folks. It is time to wake up.

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Philly Teen Murders Mother After She Takes Away His PlayStation

Thirty-seven-year-old Rashida Anderson had decided enough was enough.

After her son was accused of stealing a laptop from his school, they argued for over an hour on November 26, 2010, before she finally took away his Play Station, according to the NY Daily News.

Two days later, her partially charred body was discovered in an alley behind their South Philadelphia home.

According to his confession, 16-year-old Kendall Anderson paced the floors for three hours while his mother slept before deciding to murder her:

"I couldn't stand the arguing," the teen said in a statement read by Philadelphia police homicide Detective Thorsten Lucke during a preliminary hearing.

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So he struck his mother with a claw hammer 20 times before attempting to "cremate" her in the oven.

When that failed, the 11th grader at Daniel Boone School in North Philadelphia repeatedly smashed her head with a chair leg before dragging her bloodied corpse in to the alley, where it remained undetected until family members became suspicious.

In December, Philadelphia Municipal Court Judge Karen Yvette Simmons ordered the youth to stand trial for murder, possession of an instrument of crime and abuse of corpse.

"If I could, I would not do it again," he said in his confession. "I really miss my mom. ... She was the only person who cared for me."

Kendall is not the first child to ruthlessly murder his mother over a game.

In 2007, 17-year-old Daniel Petric shot both his parents, killing his mom, after they refused to let him play the violent video game Halo 3, leading some experts to suggest a rapidly growing phenomenon known as video game addiction as the true perpetrator of these crimes.

Symptoms, such as loss of appetite, depression, anxiety, lethargy and withdrawal, are all signs of this addiction, which is similar to the addiction with drugs and alcohol.

While the American Academy of Pediatrics suggests two-hour maximum screen time daily, most children are allowed far in excess of that number, oftentime sitting transfixed before a screen for eight hours or more.

And it's not just the children who are unraveling due to technology overdose.

• In 2008, Tyrone Spellman of Philadelphia killed his 17-month-old daughter, after she broke his Xbox.
• In 2010, Alexandra Tobias of Jacksonville, Florida, plead guilty to second-degree murder, after shaking her baby to death for interrupting her while she played Farmville, a game popular with Facebook users.
• Also in 2010, Alejandro Morales stabbed 9-year-old Anthony Maldonado to death while playing a Tony Hawk video game.

The concept of video game addiction has continued to be controversial, with the American Medical Association recently withdrawing support from a proposal for it to be included in the next edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) in 2012.

We can speculate that Anderson was in the throes of this addiction when he murdered his mother, and that's probably the politically correct direction this conversation should take.

However, there's another equally plausible reason:

He's just another spoiled juvenile delinquent who didn't consider the long-reaching ramifications of his barbaric actions.

We've seen it before.

Child gets in to trouble, parent attempts to tighten the reins after years of allowing the child to run fancy free, child then responds to parent in disrespectful and previously accepted way.

Sadly, that disrespect sometimes turns fatal, and the horrific irony of a Mother giving birth to her death is impossible to escape.

I cannot begin to imagine the dynamics of a parent-child relationship that allowed this heinous crime to occur - or the depths of the mental instability present in the child - but I have no problem presuming that it was a perfect storm of unhealthful behavior that culminated with Rashida Anderson being bludgeoned to death by her own son and dumped in to an alley in South Philly.

As I look at this child's mugshot, I am reminded that he could be my son, or your son, or our neighbor's son. There is no them, there is only us, and we have to figure out where we're going wrong.

Where was Kendall's father? Why was Kendall being accused of theft? Were there issues inside the home? Were they struggling financially?

While there are too many unresolved questions to play this child's judge and jury, I do know you can only get out of a child what is put in to them.

In this young man's case, violence, selfishness and rage seemed to emboldened him to kill.

His actions were unconscionable, and inexcusable, and hopefully he receives the lesson in accountability he needs while behind bars. More than likely, though, two murders were committed on November 26th, 2010: Rashida Anderson's and Kendall's future.
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The Stroke Belt is linked to higher date rate in these southern states

A study shows that the rate of death from stroke in a Southern states has many referring to as America's "stroke belt".
The study shows that their may be a higher consumption of fried fish in that region, new research suggests.

A study published in today's Neurology shows people living in the stroke belt — which comprises North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas and Louisiana — eat more fried fish and less non-fried fish than people living in the rest of the country, and African-Americans eat more fried fish than Caucasians.

"Differences in dietary fish consumption, specifically in cooking methods, may be contributing to higher rates of stroke in the stroke belt and also among African Americans," says study author Fadi Nahab, medical director for the Stroke Program at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta.

The research, part of a large government-funded study, Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS), involved 21,675 participants from across the country; the average age was 65.

Of the participants, 21% were from the "stroke buckle," the coastal plain region of North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia where stroke mortality rates are even higher than they are in the rest of the stroke belt. Another 34% were from the rest of the stroke belt and 44% were from the other states.

Participants were interviewed by phone and then given an in-home physical exam. The questionnaire asked how often they ate oysters, shellfish, tuna, fried fish and non-fried fish. The American Heart Association recommends people eat fish high in omega-3 fatty acids—essential fatty acids humans get through their diet—at least twice a week, baked or grilled but not fried.

Fewer than one in four overall ate two or more servings of non-fried fish a week. Stroke belt residents were 32% more likely to eat two or more servings of fried fish each week than those in the rest of the country.

African-Americans were more than 3.5 times more likely to eat two or more servings of fried fish each week than Caucasians, with an overall average of about one serving per week of fried fish compared with about half a serving for Caucasians.

When it came to eating non-fried fish meals, stroke belt residents ate an average of 1.45 servings per week, compared with 1.63 servings eaten by people elsewhere.

"This is good stuff. It's a well-done study, but I think one thing to bear in mind is that it's not specifically a study of stroke risk. You're looking at a community and seeing how it's behaving on the whole," says Daniel Labovitz, a stroke neurologist at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx.

"This study can't tell you causation. It can't tell you there's a direct link between one thing and another, it just tells you they're associated," says stroke neurologist Victor Urrutia, an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

How might eating fried fish impact stroke?

It could be that frying the fish leaches out the omega-3s, says Jeremy Lanford, stroke director at Scott & White Healthcare in Roundrock, Texas.

Or the increased fat calorie content from the frying oil may contribute to stroke, says author Nahab. He also notes that fish used for frying, such as cod and haddock, tend to be the types lower in healthy fats.

More research is needed to tease out whether cooking methods affect stroke risk, Labovitz says.

"In other words, is fried fish a problem, or is it another red herring?" he says.

The study was supported by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, the National Institutes of Health, and the Department of Health and Human Services. Funding was provided by General Mills for coding of the food frequency questionnaire.

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