Subject: A Banana a day keeps the doctor away!


Stay Healthy!!! - the source of capital. g@m


Brain Power: 200 students at a Twickenham (Middle)
school were helped through their exams this year by
eating bananas at breakfast, break and lunch in a bid
to boost their brain power. Research has shown that
the potassium packed fruit can *** ist learning by
making pupils more alert.

Doctors - Home Remedy: If you want a quick fix for
flagging energy levels there's no better snack than a
banana. Containing three natural sugars -sucrose,
fructose and glucose - combined with fiber a banana
gives an instant, sustained and substantial boost of
energy.

Research has proven that just two bananas provide
enough energy for a strenuous 90 minute workout. No
wonder the banana is the number one fruit with the
world's leading athletes. But energy isn't the only
way a banana can help us keep fit. It can also help
overcome or prevent a substantial number of illnesses
and conditions making it a must to add to our daily
diet.

Depression: According to a recent survey undertaken by
MIND amongst people suffering from depression, many
felt much better after eating a banana. This is
because bananas contain tryptophan, a type of protein
that the body converts into serotonin known to make
you relax, improve your mood and generally make you
feel happier.

PMS: Forget the pills - eat a banana. The vitamin B6
it contains regulates blood glucose levels, which can
affect your mood. (Don't bring a rose, bring a
banana.)

Anemia: High in iron, bananas can stimulate the
production of hemoglobin in the blood and so helps in
cases of anemia. Blood Pressu This unique tropical
fruit is extremely high in potassium yet low in salt
making it the perfect to beat blood pressure. So much
so, the US Food and Drug Administration has just
allowed the banana industry to make official claims
for the fruit's ability to reduce the risk of blood
pressure and stroke.

Hangovers: One of the quickest ways of curing a
hangover is to make a banana milk shake, sweetened
with honey. The banana calms the stomach and, with the
help of the honey, builds up depleted blood sugar
levels, while the milk soothes and re-hydrates your
system.

Heart burn: Bananas have a natural antacid effect in
the body so if you suffer from heart burn, try eating
a banana for soothing relief.

Morning Sickness: Snacking on bananas between meals
helps to keep blood sugar levels up and avoid morning
sickness.

Mosquito bites: Before reaching for the insect bite
cream, try rubbing the affected area with the inside
of a banana skin. Many people find it amazingly
successful at reducing swelling and irritation.

Nerves: Bananas are high in B vitamins that help calm
the nervous system.

Overweight and at work: Studies at the Institute of
Psychology in Austria found pressure at work leads to
gorging on comfort food like chocolate and crisps.
Looking at 5,000 hospital patients, researchers found
the most obese were more likely to be in high-pressure
jobs. The report concluded that, to avoid panic
induced food cravings, we need to control our blood
sugar levels by snacking on high carbohydrate foods
every two hours to keep levels steady.

Ulcers: The bananas used as the dietary food against
intestinal disorders because of its soft texture and
smoothness. It is the only raw fruit that can be eaten
without distress in chronicled cases. It also
neutralizes over acidity and reduces irritation by
coating the lining of the stomach.

Temperature control: Many other cultures see bananas
as a 'cooling' fruit that can lower both the physical
and emotional temperature of expectant mothers. In
Thailand, for example, pregnant women eat bananas to
ensure their baby is born with a cool temperature.

Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD): Bananas can help
SAD sufferers because they contain the natural mood
enhancer, tryptophan.

Quit Smoking: Bananas can also help people trying to
give up smoking. The B6, B12 they contain, as well as
the potassium and magnesium found in them, help the
body recover from the effects of nicotine
withdrawal.

Stress: Potassium is a vital mineral, which helps
normalize the heartbeat, sends oxygen to the brain and
regulates your body's water balance. When we are
stressed, our metabolic rate rises, there by reducing
our potassium levels. These can be rebalanced with the
help of a high potassium banana snack.

Strokes: According to research in 'The New England
Journal of Medicine' eating bananas as part of a
regular diet can cut the risk of death by strokes by
as much as 40%!

Warts: Those keen on natural alternatives swear that,
if you want to kill off a wart, take a piece of banana
skin and place it on the wart, with the yellow side
out. Carefully hold the skin in place with a plaster
or surgical tape!

So you see a banana really is a natural remedy for
many ills. When you compare it to an apple, it has
four times the protein, twice the carbohydrate, three
times the phosphorus, five times the vitamin A and
iron, and twice the other vitamins and minerals. It is
also rich in potassium and is one of the best value
foods around.

So maybe its time to change that well known phrase so
that we say, "A Banana a day keeps the doctor away!"

All that said and what was left out was how often a doctor will tell an
older patient to *stop* eating bananas because the patient's potassium
level is too high.

It happened to both my grandmother and to my boss.

Glenna
(who likes that yellow
fruit very much!)

On Mon, 07 Jun 2004 15:53:22 -0700 in
fc.003d094101c86b2e3b9aca002c5ad7bf.1c86b3b@pmug. org,
(Glenna Rose) graced the world with this thought:

All that said and what was left out was how often a doctor will tell an
older patient to *stop* eating bananas because the patient's potassium
level is too high.

It happened to both my grandmother and to my boss.

Glenna
(who likes that yellow
fruit very much!)

On the other hand, doctors also tell some other elderly, my mother
included, to eat more bananas as a source of potassium because they
don't have enough... because medications can leach potassium from
their system. Hence the leg cramps old people are famous for getting
in their sleep.
All in all, I suppose people who have been told not to eat them are
generally intelligent enough not to start just because some guy said
so in a newsgroup... but you never can tell!

"TOM KAN PA" wrote in message
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Subject: A Banana a day keeps the doctor away!


Stay Healthy!!! - the source of capital. g@m


Brain Power: 200 students at a Twickenham (Middle)
school were helped through their exams this year by
eating bananas at breakfast, break and lunch in a bid
to boost their brain power. Research has shown that
the potassium packed fruit can *** ist learning by
making pupils more alert.

But nothing can (apparently) protect them from damn fool censorship.
--
Brian
"What's the point in growing up if you can't behave like a kid when you want
to."

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"TOM KAN PA" wrote in message
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Subject: A Banana a day keeps the doctor away!


Stay Healthy!!! - the source of capital. g@m


Brain Power: 200 students at a Twickenham (Middle)
school were helped through their exams this year by
eating bananas at breakfast, break and lunch in a bid
to boost their brain power. Research has shown that
the potassium packed fruit can *** ist learning by
making pupils more alert.

But nothing can (apparently) protect them from damn fool censorship.

better yet, for the life of me, I can't figure out what the ***
replaces....

*** = ass............ ***ist = assist


"belly" wrote in message
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"TOM KAN PA" wrote in message
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Subject: A Banana a day keeps the doctor away!


Stay Healthy!!! - the source of capital. g@m


Brain Power: 200 students at a Twickenham (Middle)
school were helped through their exams this year by
eating bananas at breakfast, break and lunch in a bid
to boost their brain power. Research has shown that
the potassium packed fruit can *** ist learning by
making pupils more alert.

But nothing can (apparently) protect them from damn fool censorship.

better yet, for the life of me, I can't figure out what the ***
replaces....

On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 13:31:50 GMT in
, "Brigitte J."
graced the world with this thought:

*** = ass............ ***ist = assist


ah, thank you... then, of course, the logical question would be why he
felt the need to block it out....
other than to be annoying, that is... or do you suppose he actually
lives his life that way?

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"TOM KAN PA" wrote in message
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Subject: A Banana a day keeps the doctor away!


Stay Healthy!!! - the source of capital. g@m


Brain Power: 200 students at a Twickenham (Middle)
school were helped through their exams this year by
eating bananas at breakfast, break and lunch in a bid
to boost their brain power. Research has shown that
the potassium packed fruit can *** ist learning by
making pupils more alert.

But nothing can (apparently) protect them from damn fool censorship.

better yet, for the life of me, I can't figure out what the ***
replaces....

On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 13:31:50 GMT in
, "Brigitte J."
graced the world with this thought:

*** = ass............ ***ist = assist


ah, thank you... then, of course, the logical question would be why he
felt the need to block it out....
other than to be annoying, that is... or do you suppose he actually
lives his life that way?

"belly" wrote in message
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On Mon, 7 Jun 2004 21:40:59 +0100 in ,
"Brian Watson" graced the world with this
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"TOM KAN PA" wrote in message
...
Subject: A Banana a day keeps the doctor away!


Stay Healthy!!! - the source of capital. g@m


Brain Power: 200 students at a Twickenham (Middle)
school were helped through their exams this year by
eating bananas at breakfast, break and lunch in a bid
to boost their brain power. Research has shown that
the potassium packed fruit can *** ist learning by
making pupils more alert.

But nothing can (apparently) protect them from damn fool censorship.

better yet, for the life of me, I can't figure out what the ***
replaces....

"belly" wrote in message
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On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 13:31:50 GMT in
, "Brigitte J."
graced the world with this thought:

*** = ass............ ***ist = assist


ah, thank you... then, of course, the logical question would be why he
felt the need to block it out....
other than to be annoying, that is... or do you suppose he actually
lives his life that way?


He is trying to hide what an *** he is.

writes:

ah, thank you... then, of course, the logical question would be why he
felt the need to block it out....
other than to be annoying, that is... or do you suppose he actually
lives his life that way?

Actually, some readers come with blocks to disallow certain words (or what
they read as certain words!). Irony is that they work in rather absurd
ways. For instance, when I was talking about screwing standards into the
wall in a chat room one night, it would allow the word "screw" but not
"screwing." In that case, the entire word was replaced with asterisks on
everyone's screen; they had to ask be what I was saying so had to phrase
it a bit differently. Go figure.

My email program will not allow me to send email to a city employee who
has the last name of "Cummins." I have to send the email to a third
person and ask them to forward the contents to her. What a pain in the
order of things!!! The same program, however, allows her address to be
received. Geez.

I suspect this could be the case (the program) in this instance . . . or
it could be a joke. g (However, the word "potassium" came through which
leads one to lean toward the joke issue.)

Glenna

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On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 13:31:50 GMT in
, "Brigitte J."
graced the world with this thought:

*** = ass............ ***ist = assist


ah, thank you... then, of course, the logical question would be why he
felt the need to block it out....
other than to be annoying, that is... or do you suppose he actually
lives his life that way?


He is trying to hide what an *** he is.

snort

On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 13:52:13 -0700 in
fc.003d094101c889133b9aca002c5ad7bf.1c88970@pmug. org,
(Glenna Rose) graced the world with this thought:

writes:

ah, thank you... then, of course, the logical question would be why he
felt the need to block it out....
other than to be annoying, that is... or do you suppose he actually
lives his life that way?

Actually, some readers come with blocks to disallow certain words (or what
they read as certain words!). Irony is that they work in rather absurd
ways. For instance, when I was talking about screwing standards into the
wall in a chat room one night, it would allow the word "screw" but not
"screwing." In that case, the entire word was replaced with asterisks on
everyone's screen; they had to ask be what I was saying so had to phrase
it a bit differently. Go figure.

Great, parental controls by force... lol

My email program will not allow me to send email to a city employee who
has the last name of "Cummins." I have to send the email to a third
person and ask them to forward the contents to her. What a pain in the
order of things!!! The same program, however, allows her address to be
received. Geez.

This may possibly be the program of the receiver, not yours. I've got
a friend whose business blocks out the damnedest subject lines, but
lets others through with no problem. What really sucks is they send
you a bounce message, and don't tell you what message bounced, or why,
so if you sent four or five messages, it's a matter of best guess as
to which one he didn't get, based on the times of messages you sent
and the time of the bounce message. Real good IT department there.

I suspect this could be the case (the program) in this instance . . . or
it could be a joke. g (However, the word "potassium" came through which
leads one to lean toward the joke issue.)

Glenna

He posted using AOL, I kind of doubt that's the case, particularly, as
you point out, potassium came through just fine. Of course, if he's
posting while using parental controls.... who knows...

"On the other hand, doctors also tell some other elderly, my mother
included, to eat more bananas as a source of potassium "

Maybe it should be 'some doctors tell some patients'.


"belly" wrote in message
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On Mon, 07 Jun 2004 15:53:22 -0700 in
fc.003d094101c86b2e3b9aca002c5ad7bf.1c86b3b@pmug. org,
(Glenna Rose) graced the world with this thought:

All that said and what was left out was how often a doctor will tell an
older patient to *stop* eating bananas because the patient's potassium
level is too high.

It happened to both my grandmother and to my boss.

Glenna
(who likes that yellow
fruit very much!)

On the other hand, doctors also tell some other elderly, my mother
included, to eat more bananas as a source of potassium because they
don't have enough... because medications can leach potassium from
their system. Hence the leg cramps old people are famous for getting
in their sleep.
All in all, I suppose people who have been told not to eat them are
generally intelligent enough not to start just because some guy said
so in a newsgroup... but you never can tell!

I once created a password with the word "fart" in it.
I got a message "You must change your password" with
no mention of the infraction.
My first thought was that they had no right to know my
password, but then I realized that there was some
program which checked for offensive words.
Of course, no one should have seen the password to be
offended by it.
"TOM KAN PA" wrote in message
...
Subject: A Banana a day keeps the doctor away!


Stay Healthy!!! - the source of capital. g@m


Brain Power: 200 students at a Twickenham (Middle)
school were helped through their exams this year by
eating bananas at breakfast, break and lunch in a bid
to boost their brain power. Research has shown that
the potassium packed fruit can *** ist learning by
making pupils more alert.

Doctors - Home Remedy: If you want a quick fix for
flagging energy levels there's no better snack than a
banana. Containing three natural sugars -sucrose,
fructose and glucose - combined with fiber a banana
gives an instant, sustained and substantial boost of
energy.

Research has proven that just two bananas provide
enough energy for a strenuous 90 minute workout. No
wonder the banana is the number one fruit with the
world's leading athletes. But energy isn't the only
way a banana can help us keep fit. It can also help
overcome or prevent a substantial number of illnesses
and conditions making it a must to add to our daily
diet.

Depression: According to a recent survey undertaken by
MIND amongst people suffering from depression, many
felt much better after eating a banana. This is
because bananas contain tryptophan, a type of protein
that the body converts into serotonin known to make
you relax, improve your mood and generally make you
feel happier.

PMS: Forget the pills - eat a banana. The vitamin B6
it contains regulates blood glucose levels, which can
affect your mood. (Don't bring a rose, bring a
banana.)

Anemia: High in iron, bananas can stimulate the
production of hemoglobin in the blood and so helps in
cases of anemia. Blood Pressu This unique tropical
fruit is extremely high in potassium yet low in salt
making it the perfect to beat blood pressure. So much
so, the US Food and Drug Administration has just
allowed the banana industry to make official claims
for the fruit's ability to reduce the risk of blood
pressure and stroke.

Hangovers: One of the quickest ways of curing a
hangover is to make a banana milk shake, sweetened
with honey. The banana calms the stomach and, with the
help of the honey, builds up depleted blood sugar
levels, while the milk soothes and re-hydrates your
system.

Heart burn: Bananas have a natural antacid effect in
the body so if you suffer from heart burn, try eating
a banana for soothing relief.

Morning Sickness: Snacking on bananas between meals
helps to keep blood sugar levels up and avoid morning
sickness.

Mosquito bites: Before reaching for the insect bite
cream, try rubbing the affected area with the inside
of a banana skin. Many people find it amazingly
successful at reducing swelling and irritation.

Nerves: Bananas are high in B vitamins that help calm
the nervous system.

Overweight and at work: Studies at the Institute of
Psychology in Austria found pressure at work leads to
gorging on comfort food like chocolate and crisps.
Looking at 5,000 hospital patients, researchers found
the most obese were more likely to be in high-pressure
jobs. The report concluded that, to avoid panic
induced food cravings, we need to control our blood
sugar levels by snacking on high carbohydrate foods
every two hours to keep levels steady.

Ulcers: The bananas used as the dietary food against
intestinal disorders because of its soft texture and
smoothness. It is the only raw fruit that can be eaten
without distress in chronicled cases. It also
neutralizes over acidity and reduces irritation by
coating the lining of the stomach.

Temperature control: Many other cultures see bananas
as a 'cooling' fruit that can lower both the physical
and emotional temperature of expectant mothers. In
Thailand, for example, pregnant women eat bananas to
ensure their baby is born with a cool temperature.

Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD): Bananas can help
SAD sufferers because they contain the natural mood
enhancer, tryptophan.

Quit Smoking: Bananas can also help people trying to
give up smoking. The B6, B12 they contain, as well as
the potassium and magnesium found in them, help the
body recover from the effects of nicotine
withdrawal.

Stress: Potassium is a vital mineral, which helps
normalize the heartbeat, sends oxygen to the brain and
regulates your body's water balance. When we are
stressed, our metabolic rate rises, there by reducing
our potassium levels. These can be rebalanced with the
help of a high potassium banana snack.

Strokes: According to research in 'The New England
Journal of Medicine' eating bananas as part of a
regular diet can cut the risk of death by strokes by
as much as 40%!

Warts: Those keen on natural alternatives swear that,
if you want to kill off a wart, take a piece of banana
skin and place it on the wart, with the yellow side
out. Carefully hold the skin in place with a plaster
or surgical tape!

So you see a banana really is a natural remedy for
many ills. When you compare it to an apple, it has
four times the protein, twice the carbohydrate, three
times the phosphorus, five times the vitamin A and
iron, and twice the other vitamins and minerals. It is
also rich in potassium and is one of the best value
foods around.

So maybe its time to change that well known phrase so
that we say, "A Banana a day keeps the doctor away!"

TOM KAN PA wrote:


Research has proven that just two bananas provide
enough energy for a strenuous 90 minute workout.

Which is another way of saying that just two of those little buggers means
you will need to workout an additional 90 minutes.