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Enter when you come in every week because I draw a name Saturday morning, call you if you’re a winner, empty the basket and start over again. We hope you win and use your $50 to try new products. Please support our independent businesses up and down Commonwealth Avenue and in your neighborhood too! Winners since the last newsletter are Marcia Gulesian, Dottie Scotten, Joan Arena and Oiver Lussky-Wafer. Will you be next?
Ask Gracie
(This is Part II of Gracie's answer)
Last month I emphasized that what you eat is critical to regain health when dealing with rheumatoid arthritis. This month I want to focus on alternative/natural therapies.
Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic inflammatory disorder that typically affects the small joints in your hands and feet. Unlike the wear-and-tear damage of osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis affects the lining of your joints causing a painful swelling that can eventually result in bone erosion and joint deformity. Early rheumatoid arthritis tends to affect your smaller joints first - the joints in your hands, wrists ankles and feet. As the disease progresses, your shoulders, elbows, knees, jaw and neck also can become involved. It is two to three times more common in women than in men and generally occurs between the ages of 20 and 60. If a family member has rheumatoid arthritis, you may have an increased risk of the disease.
Facebook ... US??? Yup!
We now have a page on Facebook. Better late than never, and the fact we’re on means Facebook is probably on its way out! But today we need your help bringing our Facebook page to life. I even went on and asked two questions, trying to get some conversation started. Amanda is our administrator, so tell her what you’d like to see on our page. Please become a fan. Click “like” to see our updates. If I can go on Facebook, you can go on Facebook.
The word cauliflower means “cabbage flower.” It’s one of the few vegetables I find it hard to grow because in buggy New England the worms always seem to win, and eat before I get to. Maybe I’ll have better luck next year if I refer to the great gardening book we have called Tiny Game Hunting.
In May, the Government Accountability Office of the United States Congress released a report on herbal supplements, alleging that they are often marketed deceptively, and contaminated with the heavy metals arsenic, cadmium, lead and mercury[1]. The report was authored by Stephen D. Kutz, the GAO’s Managing Director of Forensic Audits and Special Investigations.
Of course the report got a lot of press. Once again, herbal supplements were made to appear scary, dangerous, and—here’s that word again—unregulated.
This wasn’t the first time these issues have been raised, and it certainly won’t be the last. But this particular report, coming as it does from the “investigative arm of Congress,” presented as testimony to the Senate Special Committee on Aging, as a likely precursor to Congressional hearings regarding the future of the supplement industry, demands scrutiny.
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