Bitter Melon
Bitter melon a common vegetable in China, India and South America could be a magic cure for breast cancer. Scientist have found that the bitter melon extract kills the cancer cells while not killing the good cells. Yes it is in early stages and clinical testing has to happen but this could be a major break through in fighting cancer.
In China they eat bitter melon soup all the time. I wonder if women in China who consume the soup have a lower incidence of breast cancer? An interesting research project.
Maybe we should start to import Bitter Melon Soup and sell in the holistic food stores as a possible cancer cure? Or maybe use it in stir fry mixes. Do we have any takers?
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Happy Chinese New Year – Year of the Tiger
Noon Seattle office celebrating Year of Tiger!
Year of the Tiger
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Ogori Cafe located in Kashiwa, a very nice town in Chiba is a restaurant with a twist.
You order and pay.
You receive what the customer in front of you ordered.
Your order is given to the customer following you.
Ordering at Cafe Ogori
Your order will be a complete surprise because you have no idea what the person in front of you order. Likewise the person to follow you has no idea what you order.
Sign Cafe Ogori
You might spend $30 on your meal but only get a coffee!
Or the person behind you might want a glass of orange juice but receives your hamburger and fry’s.
What a novel idea.
Would this work at your local restaurant? Supermarket?
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Eight Standards of Zhan’s Zero Pesticide Residual
On November 8th, 2009 several of China’s top agriculture experts (the eight standards) met in Beijing. One of the presenters of interest was Professor Zhan Jingchun who spoke of his research on his Zero Pesticide Residual.
This should be of interest to all of us who are concerned about pesticides on our foods. Professor Zhan after 18 years of work has developed what he calls the Zero Pesticide Residual degradation technology. At its core it will control a series of biochemical reactions in the plants that will cause it to degrade pesticide residual to zero or near-zero. In addition it will reduce heavy metal toxins by 50% to 86%. The product is to be applied either by seed treatment, leaf application or through irrigation into the root of the plants. The product does not have any negative side effects or contamination.
After review and discussion by the experts it was determined that the Zero Pesticide Residual be approved and further testing be done on a commercial basis. The experts feel that not only will the process comply with China’s eight standards but will also meet the standards of Europe, Japan and USA. All efforts will be concentrated on moving forward and getting final registration in Beijing.
We look forward to seeing more details and explanation of the entire process and how it impacts the plants.
Source: Chinese Food Quality Newspaper, Nov 9, 2009
Eight Standards: Fruits, Vegetables, Fruits and Vegetable Powder, Tea, Cereals, Ginseng, Herbs and Cottonseed.
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A report from PaiPai who has been monitoring the news out of China:
“China is suffering the coldest winter (record breaking cold temperature in 30 years history) in Northern, NW, East coast (Yangzi River Triangle Area farm land grounds are frozen solid which is very unusual in that area) part of China, even Southern provinces are affected. The Winter/Spring Crops are damaged. People are scrambling to source fresh vegetables from Sichuan province to many parts of metropolitan areas, like Shanghai for example and prices are going sky high. Many frozen vegetable processing /packing facilities are all having nothing to do, due to lack of raw materials, because fresh vegetables are all going to local markets for people’s daily consumption. Fresh Broccoli and Cauliflowers are in huge demand and hard to come by for frozen vegetable processors. We will see severe shortage of these items in the near future.
This condition will get worse, if the weather condition will not improve in short period of time. It will affect our packers’ ability to get decent prices and good quality/quantities of raw materials in order to fulfill our contracts.”
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If you would like to donate or help here are some links that might be useful:
The White House Website
American Red Cross
Partners In Health
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Obama lunch special in Rio de Janeiro.
Linguine with shrimp
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Lily and Ed celebrate the New Year in Buenos Aires.
Lily
Edward
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Merry Christmas. While we enjoy the season let us not forget all the suffering through out the world.
A video worth watching: Merry Christmas Video
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