Retinopathy

A study of omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids found that a diet rich in omega-3s protected against retinopathy in mice. Retinopathy in premature babies, diabetic retinopathy, and "wet" age-related macular degeneration are the 3 leading causes of blindness. While Western diets tend to have a 10:1 ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 fatty acids, the ideal ratio range is 2:1 to 5:1. A Japanese style diet more closely matches the ideal ratio of fatty acids.

Bird Flu

According to the World Health Organization, Avian influenza, or “bird flu”, is a contagious disease of animals caused by viruses that normally infect only birds and, less commonly, pigs. Avian influenza viruses are highly species-specific, but have, on rare occasions, crossed the species barrier to infect humans.
In domestic poultry, infection with avian influenza viruses causes two main forms of disease, distinguished by low and high extremes of virulence. The so-called “low pathogenic” form commonly causes only mild symptoms (ruffled feathers, a drop in egg production) and may easily go undetected. The highly pathogenic form is far more dramatic. It spreads very rapidly through poultry flocks, causes disease affecting multiple internal organs, and has a mortality that can approach 100%, often within 48 hours.

The Smallest Fish

foto courtesy of Natural History Museum

If I post about the smallest primate in the world, before. This time I want to post about the smallest fish in the world. Amazing, like the smallest primate that found in Indonesia, so did with the smallest fist also fond in Indonesia too. Smallest fish in the world that found recently in the muddy swamps Sumatera, Indonesia. The size of the fish is only about 7.9 mm long, more or less of mosquitoes. Fish body is transparent and does not have a bone head. They live in dark tea-colored waters with an acidity of pH3, which is at least 100 times more acidic than rainwater.

Medical Reference Software

I believe almost all doctors equip themselves with a smart phones call as PDA to support their activities. With the device, as long as it’s connected, they are able to access any medical information any where and any time. Of course they’re able to access vital drugs too. In short with the devices it’s not hard to get all information needed when they are making a prescription.

As a leading company in this field, Epocrates has come out with PDA CME software which doctors can access to information on drugs such as doses, side effects and other drug reference. More than 500,000 healthcare professionals use this Epocrates medical reference software now.

This announcement was paid for by Epocrates.

The Smallest Primate

Cute Primates

What do you think about that primates? It’s so cute, isn’t it? That primate’s name is Mono Titi and they are among the smallest of all primates, weighing in at around one and half pounds, the Mono Titi is as endearing as any creature in nature. Known as the “peaceful primates”, their social structure is unique in the egalitarian nature of their interactions. Both male and female nurture their young and they enjoy equal status within their troops. They live, they play and they love with the youthful exuberance of a band of mischievous teenagers on a holiday bash.

Prior to the middle of the twenty-century, the Pacific Coast of Central America was a sparsely inhabited frontier of wild coastal jungle. The Mono Titi had a range that extended hundreds of miles along the Pacific Coasts of Panama and Costa Rica. During the 1950’s Costa Rica emerged from third-world impoverishment through a nation wide effort to develop large-scale agricultural capacity across the country. The Pacific Coast region experienced widespread deforestation with the introduction of banana and cattle. This trend has played itself out to a degree where the habitat of the Mono Titi has now become so fragmented that their long-term survivability is in jeopardy.

Today Mono Titi’s habitat has been reduced to two restricted areas. There is a population in and around the Manuel Antonio National Park and there is another population in Corcovado National Park to the south. The Manuel Antonio habitat is an area that is less than 3000 acres in total. It is estimated that only around 1,700 of the animals are left in existence.

Science and Religius

There was a time when science seemed to be the enemy of religious belief -that time is no more! Modern physics and cosmology (science of the origin and development of the universe) now provide firm objective evidence of the existence of God, confirm the primary attributes of God, and show how God created the physical existence out of 'nothingness'. This knowledge comes from a critical analysis of the 'Big Bang' theory, Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, and work being done in quantum physics. The concepts behind this esoteric scientific knowledge can now be presented in such a way as to be understood by any person with a modern education.

1. We now know according to the most widely accepted theories of cosmology that the physical universe we see today was created out of nothingness (meaning - no time, no space, and no matter).

2. We also know that the beginning of the creation of the universe took place by light coming into existence at a singularity (a point with no dimension).

3. We know that the matter of the physical universe was brought into being by photons (little packages of light energy) which, when colliding with each other, formed the virtually infinite number of protons, neutrons and electrons, which in various combinations make up everything in our physical world.

4. In essence we can now accurately say that all the matter of the physical universe, ourselves included, is actually light slowed down.

5. We know that the space which contains our physical universe is expanding. This is a concept so alien to human thought that until Albert Einstein developed his General Theory of Relativity early in the 20th century it had never occurred to any of the world's great minds, but was stated in the Qur'an over 1400 years ago when Allah told us, "I am expanding the universe with my power". Even Einstein was so astounded by his discovery that he falsified his data to show a universe that was not expanding, because he well understood that an expanding universe implies there was somewhere in the distant past a moment of creation for the universe.

6. Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity (which he actually called his Absolutism Theorem because he realized he had found the one thing in a relative universe that was absolute) is about the special qualities of light.

7. The Special Theory of Relativity allows us our first objective glimpse into that which exists beyond the material world.

8. We could have found anything once we got our first glimpse beyond the material world, but what we did find is indeed remarkable. We find Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity showing us that the non-material existence beyond the physical world consists only of absolutes, and some of those absolutes are remarkably similar to what everyone's religion has considered to be among the primary attributes of God.

9. Example One: As the speed of light (300,000km per second) is approached then time slows, and at the speed of light time does not pass. This means for a photon of light which travels at exactly the speed of light, time does not pass. Therefore the photon is outside of time, and ETERNAL.

10. Example Two: Since no time passes for a photon of light, and that photon can be observed at different places in space, therefore that photon of light is simultaneously in those different places (and many other places)at the same time, and therefore OMNIPRESENT.

11. Example Three: Since every bit of matter in the physical universe is created by the energy of light, and that light energy constantly sustains and directs the activity of every bit of matter in the physical existence, then there is no power other than the power of light, light energy is all the power that exists, and therefore OMNIPOTENT.

12. Example Four: Since all knowledge that exists, that ever existed, or will exist, is stored by light energy and transmitted through light energy then there is no knowledge beyond that intrinsic to light, and therefore OMNISCIENT.

13. Furthermore, light does not actually exist within the physical existence although we can somehow perceive it. As you approach the speed of light one of the three dimensions (length, height, or width), the dimension in line with the direction of motion, becomes progressively less, and at the speed of light that dimension becomes zero. To determine volume we multiply height times width times length, but if any one of those three dimensions is zero then the volume is zero, and that thing therefore does not exist in the material universe. Light occupies no volume of space and therefore has no existence in the physical universe.

14. And, while everything in the physical universe has some mass greater than zero, which is a necessary characteristic for existence in the material world, light has no mass at all. As you approach the speed of light mass increases, at the speed of light mass is infinite. Regardless of how tiny the amount of mass you begin with, that mass rises to infinity at the speed of light. Since photons travel at the speed of light and do not reach infinite mass it means that they had zero mass to begin with, and light therefore does not actually exist in the material world.

15. In the physical existence everything is relative, the absolute existence or non-existence of any quality is not and can not be expressed, everything exists between those two extremes of the continuum from absolute expression to absolute non-__expression. We find, though, that beyond the material existence all qualities exist
either in an infinite state or have no existence at all, there is nothing in between.

The great significance of the above findings is that they destroy any possible notion of the physical universe existing as a fixed number of material particles which are moved about by a fixed set of physical laws. It is exactly this incorrect understanding of the physical existence which forms the basis of the scientific philosophy of materialism. It is the philosophy of materialism, particularly secular materialism, which has allowed the belief in God to be so powerfully challenged by unbelievers in these past few hundred years, more or less from the time of Sir Isaac Newton.

It is no longer intellectually possible nor logically reasonable, in light of the finding of modern physics and cosmology, to hold the view of the atheists (that there is no God). The only logically reasonable, and intellectually honest, conclusion that can be drawn from the findings of modern science is that God does exist, that the attributes
of God are absolute, and that God did create the physical universe including human life). We are presently at the beginning of the transition point from a secular materialistic world-view to a spiritual, God-centered world-view.

NOTE: These are only some of the simplified conclusions of a major work in progress, but we felt they are of such great significance that we had an obligation to offer them to the ummah (the human society of Allah's Creation). The scientific facts behind these interpretations represent a virtual consensus by a number of the world's leading physicists, including several Nobel Prize winning theoretical physicists. The interpretations themselves are at the cutting-edge of Islamic theological thought, but have so far been very warmly received by Muslim scholars across the world.(I am forgot who's writer this good topic in our mailing yahoogroups.Could anybody inform me? thank you)

Our Body

The compartments of the body have various parameters or values which are maintained at and optimum level to perpetuate and preserve life. If these parameters fall outside `normal' levels, the body has various intrinsic mechanisms to normalize those values. If unable to keep the value within the desired range, the body inclines to a state of disease. If there is a further change away from the normal range, after all attempts are made to normalize and compensate for the abnormal values, the body may suffer loss of an organ, or, in extreme circumstances death.

How do people become infected by Bird Flu?

Direct contact with infected poultry, or surfaces and objects contaminated by their faeces, is presently considered the main route of human infection. To date, most human cases have occurred in rural or periurban areas where many households keep small poultry flocks, which often roam freely, sometimes entering homes or sharing outdoor areas where children play. As infected birds shed large quantities of virus in their faeces, opportunities for exposure to infected droppings or to environments contaminated by the virus are abundant under such conditions. Moreover, because many households in Asia depend on poultry for income and food, many families sell or slaughter and consume birds when signs of illness appear in a flock, and this practice has proved difficult to change. Exposure is considered most likely during slaughter, defeathering, butchering, and preparation of poultry for cooking.

Omega-3 Can Protect Against Retinopathy

A recent study of omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids found that a diet rich in omega-3s protected against retinopathy in mice. Retinopathy in premature babies, diabetic retinopathy, and "wet" age-related macular degeneration are the 3 leading causes of blindness. While Western diets tend to have a 10:1 ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 fatty acids, the ideal ratio range is 2:1 to 5:1. A Japanese style diet more closely matches the ideal ratio of fatty acids.
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