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		<title>By: Leo Braun</title>
		<link>http://galusaustralis.com/2009/10/2103/judaism-under-the-microscope/#comment-41520</link>
		<dc:creator>Leo Braun</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:51:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;The medical world today is very proud of its shiny fabulous new tool, called &#039;evidence-based medicine&#039;. EBM, as it is known in short, is basically the simple-sounding idea that you don&#039;t do anything without having data to show that it works&quot;! [&lt;a href=&quot;http://galusaustralis.com/2009/10/2103/judaism-under-the-microscope&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Liz Paratz&lt;/a&gt;]

• Yeah, if not for the fact that the explored data regarding &quot;Rhesus factor disease&quot;, no longer is made available by the &quot;NHS Direct Online Health Encyclopaedia&quot;. As a result the above nominated link within my attempt to share information about the &quot;birth complications and frequent child afflictions&quot;, proved to be futile. So much for the &quot;evidence-based medicine&quot;! 

Doesn&#039;t it bother anyone, why such a vital info being kept away from the women? Why the powers that be -- are reluctant to disclose our blood type? When a commonsense logic dictates that our medical file ought to be affixed with such a crucial marker. Replicated each time blood pathology results are made available to us. So in the emergency situations anyone would be able to recall such a basic info, our life and the wellbeing of our dear ones depended upon!

&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1259627/Man-golden-arm-James-Harrison-saves-2million-babies-half-century-donating-rare-blood.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;What for biology lectures or sex education when such a fundamental essence being omitted?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;

Otherwise rhesus factor disease is preventable, once rhesus-negative pregnant woman carrying rhesus positive baby is given postnatal anti-D immunoglobulin injection within 72 hours of giving birth (if there is a chance that her blood has come into contact with the rhesus positive baby&#039;s blood). Thus preventing sensitisation happening by destroying the rhesus positive blood cells that have crossed over into mother&#039;s blood stream -- before her organism has a chance to produce antibodies.

Should further tests during the subsequent pregnancy to show that woman has been sensitised already (&lt;a href=&quot;http://galusaustralis.com/2010/06/3205/are-jewish-women-condemned-to-hard-labour/#comment-41360&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;thus producing antibodies to rhesus positive blood&lt;/a&gt;), reportedly modern medicine offered in such instances the antenatal anti-D immunoglobulin injections, usually at 28 and 34 weeks. Because if the disease isn&#039;t treated, it can cause child learning difficulties, deafness or blindness. In severe cases antibodies reaction can lead to stillbirth (when a baby isn&#039;t born alive).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;The medical world today is very proud of its shiny fabulous new tool, called &#8216;evidence-based medicine&#8217;. EBM, as it is known in short, is basically the simple-sounding idea that you don&#8217;t do anything without having data to show that it works&#8221;! [<a href="http://galusaustralis.com/2009/10/2103/judaism-under-the-microscope" class="local-link">Liz Paratz</a>]</p>
<p>• Yeah, if not for the fact that the explored data regarding &#8220;Rhesus factor disease&#8221;, no longer is made available by the &#8220;NHS Direct Online Health Encyclopaedia&#8221;. As a result the above nominated link within my attempt to share information about the &#8220;birth complications and frequent child afflictions&#8221;, proved to be futile. So much for the &#8220;evidence-based medicine&#8221;! </p>
<p>Doesn&#8217;t it bother anyone, why such a vital info being kept away from the women? Why the powers that be &#8212; are reluctant to disclose our blood type? When a commonsense logic dictates that our medical file ought to be affixed with such a crucial marker. Replicated each time blood pathology results are made available to us. So in the emergency situations anyone would be able to recall such a basic info, our life and the wellbeing of our dear ones depended upon!</p>
<p><b><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1259627/Man-golden-arm-James-Harrison-saves-2million-babies-half-century-donating-rare-blood.html" class="ext-link" rel="external" target="_blank">What for biology lectures or sex education when such a fundamental essence being omitted?</a></b></p>
<p>Otherwise rhesus factor disease is preventable, once rhesus-negative pregnant woman carrying rhesus positive baby is given postnatal anti-D immunoglobulin injection within 72 hours of giving birth (if there is a chance that her blood has come into contact with the rhesus positive baby&#8217;s blood). Thus preventing sensitisation happening by destroying the rhesus positive blood cells that have crossed over into mother&#8217;s blood stream &#8212; before her organism has a chance to produce antibodies.</p>
<p>Should further tests during the subsequent pregnancy to show that woman has been sensitised already (<a href="http://galusaustralis.com/2010/06/3205/are-jewish-women-condemned-to-hard-labour/#comment-41360" class="local-link">thus producing antibodies to rhesus positive blood</a>), reportedly modern medicine offered in such instances the antenatal anti-D immunoglobulin injections, usually at 28 and 34 weeks. Because if the disease isn&#8217;t treated, it can cause child learning difficulties, deafness or blindness. In severe cases antibodies reaction can lead to stillbirth (when a baby isn&#8217;t born alive).</p>
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		<title>By: Leo Braun</title>
		<link>http://galusaustralis.com/2009/10/2103/judaism-under-the-microscope/#comment-41507</link>
		<dc:creator>Leo Braun</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 02:49:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Blood was, and still is, sacred to the God of Israel. When the Israelites were kept in the wilderness for forty years (a biblical generation), the imposed isolation meant to cleanse their blood. Because after many years of intermarriages with A+ and B+ blood types, their once &#039;pure&#039; bloodline was becoming corrupt. So, once &#039;&lt;a href=&quot;http://galusaustralis.com/2010/06/3205/are-jewish-women-condemned-to-hard-labour/#comment-41344&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;clean breed&lt;/a&gt;&#039; of people were instructed to marry only within the other Israelite tribes. Thus preventing contamination of their bloodline by producing only RH &#039;O&#039; negative blood children.

In return, Israelites &#039;were promised&#039; a land, given eventually after their long quarantine endured in the wilderness, but only the younger generations were allowed to enter the promised land -- those under the age of twenty who were born in the wilderness with both RH &#039;O&#039; negative blood Israelite parents.

Before young Israelites were set free to go down to the promise land, they were instructed not to marry outside their own tribes. But eventually scattered in all directions the Israelites married other than Israelite spouses. Thus RH positive factor in all types of blood soon took over. Some 85% of humans are RH positive these days as amid the worldwide populace remained 15% RH negative blood descendants of the earlier species. 

&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk/articles/article.aspx?printPage=1&amp;articleId=319&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;No wonder for birth complications and frequent child afflictions&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/b&gt; 

Because, once coming in contact with the foetal/baby&#039;s blood, pregnant mother&#039;s organism of the RH negative blood will produce antibodies, geared up to eliminate her positive blooded baby in the womb by targeting red blood cells. Thus depriving baby of oxygen, since her body fights the Rhesus Factor as a foreign element. At the time when RH positive blood mother&#039;s organism does not reject the (rhesus free) RH negative blood baby, she is carrying.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Blood was, and still is, sacred to the God of Israel. When the Israelites were kept in the wilderness for forty years (a biblical generation), the imposed isolation meant to cleanse their blood. Because after many years of intermarriages with A+ and B+ blood types, their once &#8216;pure&#8217; bloodline was becoming corrupt. So, once &#8216;<a href="http://galusaustralis.com/2010/06/3205/are-jewish-women-condemned-to-hard-labour/#comment-41344" class="local-link">clean breed</a>&#8216; of people were instructed to marry only within the other Israelite tribes. Thus preventing contamination of their bloodline by producing only RH &#8216;O&#8217; negative blood children.</p>
<p>In return, Israelites &#8216;were promised&#8217; a land, given eventually after their long quarantine endured in the wilderness, but only the younger generations were allowed to enter the promised land &#8212; those under the age of twenty who were born in the wilderness with both RH &#8216;O&#8217; negative blood Israelite parents.</p>
<p>Before young Israelites were set free to go down to the promise land, they were instructed not to marry outside their own tribes. But eventually scattered in all directions the Israelites married other than Israelite spouses. Thus RH positive factor in all types of blood soon took over. Some 85% of humans are RH positive these days as amid the worldwide populace remained 15% RH negative blood descendants of the earlier species. </p>
<p><b><a href="http://www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk/articles/article.aspx?printPage=1&amp;articleId=319" class="ext-link" rel="external" target="_blank">No wonder for birth complications and frequent child afflictions</a>!</b> </p>
<p>Because, once coming in contact with the foetal/baby&#8217;s blood, pregnant mother&#8217;s organism of the RH negative blood will produce antibodies, geared up to eliminate her positive blooded baby in the womb by targeting red blood cells. Thus depriving baby of oxygen, since her body fights the Rhesus Factor as a foreign element. At the time when RH positive blood mother&#8217;s organism does not reject the (rhesus free) RH negative blood baby, she is carrying.</p>
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		<title>By: Leo Braun</title>
		<link>http://galusaustralis.com/2009/10/2103/judaism-under-the-microscope/#comment-41361</link>
		<dc:creator>Leo Braun</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 03:14:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.buzzle.com/articles/blood-type-and-personality.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;We are what we eat&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, hits close to home!

Remarkably, as per Japanese convention, blood type is purportedly the indicator of one&#039;s personality. They believe that blood type of a person can reveal many secretes of a person&#039;s traits and mindset. Hence, as per Japanese convention, people having O negative blood type are born leaders! They are independent, self confident, competent and competitive. They are also said to be passionate, loyal and actually trend setters.

At times peculiarly though, RH factor wasn&#039;t considered while deciding personality types. So people with O negative blood type could get by with O positive blood type diet. However, according to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.buzzle.com/articles/o-negative-blood-type-diet.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dr D&#039;Adamo&lt;/a&gt;, it is very important to eat right for your blood type, involving RH factor. Thus less complications and more benefits as far as individual health is concerned. 

Nonetheless in general terms my research concluded that people with blood type O are likely to fall for health conditions such as thinning of blood; insufficient iodine levels, leading to the hypothyroidism. Symptoms included muscle loss, fatigue and fluids retention -- causing in turn bloating and weight gain. Foods contributing to the weight gain interfered with insulin, thus slowing metabolism.

Even though this theory is not supported by the &quot;scientific evidence&quot;, right died for your blood type can really be a great option, if one think logically. Just like the prevalent in particular ethnic group diseases, treated with the specific remedies, cannot be applied across-the-board for everyone in the wider community -- likewise, one cannot stay fit and healthy by following wrong diet. 

What does one mean by saying &#039;eat right for your blood type&#039;? Well, Dr James D&#039;Adamo, a naturopathic doctor in his book &quot;Eat Right 4 Your Type&quot; has explained that lectins (sugar containing proteins) cause clotting of blood cells in an individual of the particular blood type which is incapable to mitigate the wrongly consumed unsuitable food. What besides the weight gain, may lead to kidney or liver problems.

Furthermore Dr D&#039;Adamo explains that increased urine indicant levels can be an aspect of the specific blood types, affected by the interaction of the ingested food with the bacteria in the intestine. What may result in diseases ranging from inflammatory bowel diseases, pancreatic insufficiency, diverticulitis, celiac disease, etc. 

The theory adds that the different blood levels affect the secretion of digestive juices. Therefore, following specific blood type diet is one of the easiest ways of keeping healthy. Obviously, right diet for specific blood type can only be determined, once a person ascertains one&#039;s blood type and Rh factor.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;<a href="http://www.buzzle.com/articles/blood-type-and-personality.html" class="ext-link" rel="external" target="_blank">We are what we eat</a>&#8220;, hits close to home!</p>
<p>Remarkably, as per Japanese convention, blood type is purportedly the indicator of one&#8217;s personality. They believe that blood type of a person can reveal many secretes of a person&#8217;s traits and mindset. Hence, as per Japanese convention, people having O negative blood type are born leaders! They are independent, self confident, competent and competitive. They are also said to be passionate, loyal and actually trend setters.</p>
<p>At times peculiarly though, RH factor wasn&#8217;t considered while deciding personality types. So people with O negative blood type could get by with O positive blood type diet. However, according to <a href="http://www.buzzle.com/articles/o-negative-blood-type-diet.html" class="ext-link" rel="external" target="_blank">Dr D&#8217;Adamo</a>, it is very important to eat right for your blood type, involving RH factor. Thus less complications and more benefits as far as individual health is concerned. </p>
<p>Nonetheless in general terms my research concluded that people with blood type O are likely to fall for health conditions such as thinning of blood; insufficient iodine levels, leading to the hypothyroidism. Symptoms included muscle loss, fatigue and fluids retention &#8212; causing in turn bloating and weight gain. Foods contributing to the weight gain interfered with insulin, thus slowing metabolism.</p>
<p>Even though this theory is not supported by the &#8220;scientific evidence&#8221;, right died for your blood type can really be a great option, if one think logically. Just like the prevalent in particular ethnic group diseases, treated with the specific remedies, cannot be applied across-the-board for everyone in the wider community &#8212; likewise, one cannot stay fit and healthy by following wrong diet. </p>
<p>What does one mean by saying &#8216;eat right for your blood type&#8217;? Well, Dr James D&#8217;Adamo, a naturopathic doctor in his book &#8220;Eat Right 4 Your Type&#8221; has explained that lectins (sugar containing proteins) cause clotting of blood cells in an individual of the particular blood type which is incapable to mitigate the wrongly consumed unsuitable food. What besides the weight gain, may lead to kidney or liver problems.</p>
<p>Furthermore Dr D&#8217;Adamo explains that increased urine indicant levels can be an aspect of the specific blood types, affected by the interaction of the ingested food with the bacteria in the intestine. What may result in diseases ranging from inflammatory bowel diseases, pancreatic insufficiency, diverticulitis, celiac disease, etc. </p>
<p>The theory adds that the different blood levels affect the secretion of digestive juices. Therefore, following specific blood type diet is one of the easiest ways of keeping healthy. Obviously, right diet for specific blood type can only be determined, once a person ascertains one&#8217;s blood type and Rh factor.</p>
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		<title>By: Leo Braun</title>
		<link>http://galusaustralis.com/2009/10/2103/judaism-under-the-microscope/#comment-41357</link>
		<dc:creator>Leo Braun</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 02:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;The cost of being a religious Jew is not cheap, and is made more difficult in a culture of finding new stringencies. There is the Pesach food, one or two large family meals every week, the lulav (which can cost several hundred dollars), and then there are the separate milk and meat dishes. And there are more that I have not mentioned, but I would like to focus on 2 examples. There is a new drive to build &#039;kosher kitchens&#039;. Yet there is no such thing as building a kosher kitchen! Any kitchen in the world can be made kosher or not. I personally have only one sink, one oven and a kitchen that if I turn around I hit my nose on the opposite wall, and yet I have a 100% kosher kitchen with both milk and meat&quot;.

Sadly, &quot;that is not enough today (even though my grandparents would have seen this kitchen as a lap of luxury). We need separate sinks for milk and meat, then one for parve. And then separate ovens. Then separate microwaves. Then separate kitchens. But this is nothing compared to the extortion racket that is running in the community under the guise of kosher meat. If you compare kosher chicken in Coles to normal chicken we are paying almost 3 times the price. We are even paying about double what you would pay for free range! I understand that we have to pay for specialist slaughterers and the kosher authority -- but triple the price&quot;? 

&quot;If I were inclined towards conspiracies I would suggest the various kosher authorities didn&#039;t want Jews to eat kosher any more. Judaism has become a religion for the rich, with some poorer members -- and there seems to be the mentality in the community that its such &#039;poor&#039; people&#039;s bad planning and foolishness -- that they don&#039;t make the money they should have&quot;! [&lt;a href=&quot;http://galusaustralis.com/2011/07/4821/the-jewish-frankenstein-how-to-breathe-life-into-a-dying-community/#comment-38449&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Yaron Gottlieb&lt;/a&gt;]

• Well, in case someone wondered as to the definition of the parallel universes, go no further than to fathom Rabbi Gottlieb exposed absurdity. Persevering out-of-sight out-of-mind of the shunted wider community. Manifestly, there are none so blind as those who refuse to see the reality. Pertaining to those who know not what they are unable to know, yet incessantly toying at collecting items of the ignorant intellect. Ever expanding the darkness of their cave!

No wonder for a dismal failure to notice struggling Aussie families, striving to afford the nutritious feed. Ideally, free of preservatives, pesticides, insecticides and herbicides residue. If not for the creed-of-greed mania gripped evildoers, hell-bent to profiteer whatever it takes as non-kosher meats are injected, pumped up with hormones and antibiotics to plump up the livestock. Just as genetically modified grains, fruit and veggies displaced wholesome varieties -- people longed after their texture and taste. 

No surprise, consumed over the years govt condoned toxic residues, ultimately resulted in numerous health problems. Clearly, there virtually is no part or process in our body that is not influenced in one way or another by the food we eat and physical activity. Often we are told: &quot;change your lifestyle, your eating habits, what you eat, and exercise your body -- made up of the vital organs -- for the body systems to produce healthier tissue cells&quot;!

This means that the glands that produce the hormones which direct and control everything that goes on in your body, stay healthier and stronger. The result is a more youthful appearance, more strength, energy, and a super strong immune system that will keep you healthy by protecting organism against diseases, even serious illnesses such as cancer!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;The cost of being a religious Jew is not cheap, and is made more difficult in a culture of finding new stringencies. There is the Pesach food, one or two large family meals every week, the lulav (which can cost several hundred dollars), and then there are the separate milk and meat dishes. And there are more that I have not mentioned, but I would like to focus on 2 examples. There is a new drive to build &#8216;kosher kitchens&#8217;. Yet there is no such thing as building a kosher kitchen! Any kitchen in the world can be made kosher or not. I personally have only one sink, one oven and a kitchen that if I turn around I hit my nose on the opposite wall, and yet I have a 100% kosher kitchen with both milk and meat&#8221;.</p>
<p>Sadly, &#8220;that is not enough today (even though my grandparents would have seen this kitchen as a lap of luxury). We need separate sinks for milk and meat, then one for parve. And then separate ovens. Then separate microwaves. Then separate kitchens. But this is nothing compared to the extortion racket that is running in the community under the guise of kosher meat. If you compare kosher chicken in Coles to normal chicken we are paying almost 3 times the price. We are even paying about double what you would pay for free range! I understand that we have to pay for specialist slaughterers and the kosher authority &#8212; but triple the price&#8221;? </p>
<p>&#8220;If I were inclined towards conspiracies I would suggest the various kosher authorities didn&#8217;t want Jews to eat kosher any more. Judaism has become a religion for the rich, with some poorer members &#8212; and there seems to be the mentality in the community that its such &#8216;poor&#8217; people&#8217;s bad planning and foolishness &#8212; that they don&#8217;t make the money they should have&#8221;! [<a href="http://galusaustralis.com/2011/07/4821/the-jewish-frankenstein-how-to-breathe-life-into-a-dying-community/#comment-38449" class="local-link">Yaron Gottlieb</a>]</p>
<p>• Well, in case someone wondered as to the definition of the parallel universes, go no further than to fathom Rabbi Gottlieb exposed absurdity. Persevering out-of-sight out-of-mind of the shunted wider community. Manifestly, there are none so blind as those who refuse to see the reality. Pertaining to those who know not what they are unable to know, yet incessantly toying at collecting items of the ignorant intellect. Ever expanding the darkness of their cave!</p>
<p>No wonder for a dismal failure to notice struggling Aussie families, striving to afford the nutritious feed. Ideally, free of preservatives, pesticides, insecticides and herbicides residue. If not for the creed-of-greed mania gripped evildoers, hell-bent to profiteer whatever it takes as non-kosher meats are injected, pumped up with hormones and antibiotics to plump up the livestock. Just as genetically modified grains, fruit and veggies displaced wholesome varieties &#8212; people longed after their texture and taste. </p>
<p>No surprise, consumed over the years govt condoned toxic residues, ultimately resulted in numerous health problems. Clearly, there virtually is no part or process in our body that is not influenced in one way or another by the food we eat and physical activity. Often we are told: &#8220;change your lifestyle, your eating habits, what you eat, and exercise your body &#8212; made up of the vital organs &#8212; for the body systems to produce healthier tissue cells&#8221;!</p>
<p>This means that the glands that produce the hormones which direct and control everything that goes on in your body, stay healthier and stronger. The result is a more youthful appearance, more strength, energy, and a super strong immune system that will keep you healthy by protecting organism against diseases, even serious illnesses such as cancer!</p>
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		<title>By: Ivan B</title>
		<link>http://galusaustralis.com/2009/10/2103/judaism-under-the-microscope/#comment-5819</link>
		<dc:creator>Ivan B</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:52:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Moses took annotation of several fowl soups and its putative health benefits, but chicken soups existed for a long time, and in several parts of the world; it is nutritive, inexpensive (chicken are fed with anything) and easily transported.
Most of upper airways infeccions (by rinoviruses) are controlled after few days by a nourished person, chicken soup or not. And you can&#039;t assume that a recovered person wouldn&#039;t do so (or would take less time) without the chicken soup.
I&#039;ve made an extensive analysis of the cited  scientific paper (Chicken Soup Inhibits Neutrophil Chemotaxis In Vitro), and it has many flaws, from methodology to conclusions (and yes, I am a scientist). It has no evidences that if you eat chicken soup, your neutrophils will have its migration inhibited; it shows only that if you mix the soup DIRECTLY with neutrophils, they will be scrambled (which don&#039;t happens actually, since the soup never enter in direct contact with your neutrophils).
To date, no evidence was gathered to support the view that chicken soup has medicinal properties (or at least more than the average balanced food).
We can keep eating chicken soup, but can&#039;t expect it to be a substitute for medicine (and do not abuse it,  since it has a high content of salt and calcium, indeed).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Moses took annotation of several fowl soups and its putative health benefits, but chicken soups existed for a long time, and in several parts of the world; it is nutritive, inexpensive (chicken are fed with anything) and easily transported.<br />
Most of upper airways infeccions (by rinoviruses) are controlled after few days by a nourished person, chicken soup or not. And you can&#8217;t assume that a recovered person wouldn&#8217;t do so (or would take less time) without the chicken soup.<br />
I&#8217;ve made an extensive analysis of the cited  scientific paper (Chicken Soup Inhibits Neutrophil Chemotaxis In Vitro), and it has many flaws, from methodology to conclusions (and yes, I am a scientist). It has no evidences that if you eat chicken soup, your neutrophils will have its migration inhibited; it shows only that if you mix the soup DIRECTLY with neutrophils, they will be scrambled (which don&#8217;t happens actually, since the soup never enter in direct contact with your neutrophils).<br />
To date, no evidence was gathered to support the view that chicken soup has medicinal properties (or at least more than the average balanced food).<br />
We can keep eating chicken soup, but can&#8217;t expect it to be a substitute for medicine (and do not abuse it,  since it has a high content of salt and calcium, indeed).</p>
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		<title>By: Galus Australis &#187; They Tried To Kill Us, We Survived, Let’s Overdose On Opioids</title>
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		<dc:creator>Galus Australis &#187; They Tried To Kill Us, We Survived, Let’s Overdose On Opioids</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] and Jewish practice are in fact good for the Jews. Previous posts in the series can be found here, here, and here. This week it&#8217;s chagim under the [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Galus Australis &#187; Why Brit Milah is Good for you and Davening can be Dangerous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Galus Australis &#187; Why Brit Milah is Good for you and Davening can be Dangerous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:51:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] This article is the third in a series on the medical benefits (or otherwise) of Jewish food, culture, and religion. In this series, Liz Paratz peruses the medical literature for evidence-based answers to the big question: Being Jewish – is it good for the Jews? This week Liz investigates Jewish clothing and ritual. (You can find the other articles in this series here and here) [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] This article is the third in a series on the medical benefits (or otherwise) of Jewish food, culture, and religion. In this series, Liz Paratz peruses the medical literature for evidence-based answers to the big question: Being Jewish – is it good for the Jews? This week Liz investigates Jewish clothing and ritual. (You can find the other articles in this series here and here) [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Leo Braun</title>
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		<dc:creator>Leo Braun</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Luckily, micro-analysing our Jewish lives has been preoccupying (mainly Jewish) doctors and scientists for decades now. And amazingly, such ethno-specific EBM research has made it into some of the most prestigious medical journals. I&#039;m talking about articles on the medical benefits and side effects of chicken soup&quot;....&quot;It&#039;s all out there in the scientific literature; sometimes analysed in excruciating detail, and sometimes just a case study description&quot;! [&lt;a href=&quot;http://galusaustralis.com/2009/10/judaism-under-the-microscope&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Liz Paratz&lt;/a&gt;]

&lt;a href=&quot;http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/1721.1/39446/1/86108306.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Harry Ostrer:&lt;/a&gt; &quot;To the public and the geneticist alike, the Jewish people are something more than an ethnic group that has maintained its social and genetic cohesiveness over 2,500 years despite geographic dispersion to all regions of the globe. A century ago, popular wisdom held that Jews were a race with a distinctive build and physiognomy&quot;!

In the way, discovering the genes linked with disease will dramatically help the search for better treatment. &quot;It&#039;s very hard to develop treatments without actually having a clue what&#039;s causing disease&quot;, Altshuler said. &quot;One of the most effective ways to determine that is to focus on groups of people with genetic similarities. Even though the percentage of the genome that varies from person to person is mere 0.1%, that still leaves 2 to 3 million nucleotides for researchers to sift through. The vast majority of those will be totally irrelevant to the disease in question. 

So geneticists often study families, comparing family members who do have a disease, like cancer, with those who do not. Because family members share more genes than strangers do, some of the background noise is reduced, allowing scientists to narrow their search on the variations that might actually matter (it&#039;s a lot easier to find one blue marble in a jar of red marbles than it is to find it in a jar of red, green and yellow marbles). 

The result is that ethnic groups are useful to geneticists for two reasons. The first is that some diseases have become more concentrated in certain ethnic groups, making it easier to study sometimes rare diseases. Second, like studying families, studying ethnic groups minimizes the background genetic variation, allowing researchers to more easily identify genetic mutations relevant to disease.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Luckily, micro-analysing our Jewish lives has been preoccupying (mainly Jewish) doctors and scientists for decades now. And amazingly, such ethno-specific EBM research has made it into some of the most prestigious medical journals. I&#8217;m talking about articles on the medical benefits and side effects of chicken soup&#8221;&#8230;.&#8221;It&#8217;s all out there in the scientific literature; sometimes analysed in excruciating detail, and sometimes just a case study description&#8221;! [<a href="http://galusaustralis.com/2009/10/judaism-under-the-microscope" class="local-link">Liz Paratz</a>]</p>
<p><a href="http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/1721.1/39446/1/86108306.pdf" class="ext-link" rel="external" target="_blank">Harry Ostrer:</a> &#8220;To the public and the geneticist alike, the Jewish people are something more than an ethnic group that has maintained its social and genetic cohesiveness over 2,500 years despite geographic dispersion to all regions of the globe. A century ago, popular wisdom held that Jews were a race with a distinctive build and physiognomy&#8221;!</p>
<p>In the way, discovering the genes linked with disease will dramatically help the search for better treatment. &#8220;It&#8217;s very hard to develop treatments without actually having a clue what&#8217;s causing disease&#8221;, Altshuler said. &#8220;One of the most effective ways to determine that is to focus on groups of people with genetic similarities. Even though the percentage of the genome that varies from person to person is mere 0.1%, that still leaves 2 to 3 million nucleotides for researchers to sift through. The vast majority of those will be totally irrelevant to the disease in question. </p>
<p>So geneticists often study families, comparing family members who do have a disease, like cancer, with those who do not. Because family members share more genes than strangers do, some of the background noise is reduced, allowing scientists to narrow their search on the variations that might actually matter (it&#8217;s a lot easier to find one blue marble in a jar of red marbles than it is to find it in a jar of red, green and yellow marbles). </p>
<p>The result is that ethnic groups are useful to geneticists for two reasons. The first is that some diseases have become more concentrated in certain ethnic groups, making it easier to study sometimes rare diseases. Second, like studying families, studying ethnic groups minimizes the background genetic variation, allowing researchers to more easily identify genetic mutations relevant to disease.</p>
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		<title>By: Galus Australis &#187; The milchig-fleishig quandry and other Jewish and gastronomic medical observations</title>
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		<dc:creator>Galus Australis &#187; The milchig-fleishig quandry and other Jewish and gastronomic medical observations</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] article is the second in a series on the medical benefits (or otherwise) of Jewish food, culture, and religion. In this series, Liz [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:22:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Lets not forget the non-nutritional benefits of chicken soup.

Chicken soup brings one in close proximity with family members during meal times, and that&#039;s a good thing, at least in the long term.

Also, chicken soup allows for lengthy conversations comparing grandmothers and mothers, and develops the amusing hyperchodria of eostrogen-hating, chicken-soup loving Jews.

Social benefits aside, key ingedient: Salt.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Lets not forget the non-nutritional benefits of chicken soup.</p>
<p>Chicken soup brings one in close proximity with family members during meal times, and that&#8217;s a good thing, at least in the long term.</p>
<p>Also, chicken soup allows for lengthy conversations comparing grandmothers and mothers, and develops the amusing hyperchodria of eostrogen-hating, chicken-soup loving Jews.</p>
<p>Social benefits aside, key ingedient: Salt.</p>
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