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From USA Today:

Some of your favorite foods may be fakes.

Foods masquerading as something else - a more nutritious something else - have been big news in the past two years. Chinese food companies in particular have been blamed for making deadly alterations to dairy, baby and pet foods by adding melamine. The chemical makes it appear that the food or beverage has the required level of protein.

This information was released on PR Wire. I hesitate to give the company free publicity for a product they are selling, but in this case I think it is worthwhile for FitEyes.com readers to know about this.

VisionRx GlaucomaCheck^TM Is the First Patented, Clinical-Grade Online Glaucoma Visual Field Test

Now that you know what they are offering, let me tell you the limitations before you read the whole press release.

 This information was released on PR Wire. I hesitate to give the company free publicity for a product they are selling, but in this case I think it is worthwhile for FitEyes.com readers to know about this.

VisionRx GlaucomaCheck^TM Is the First Patented, Clinical-Grade Online Glaucoma Visual Field Test

Here are my GDx Nerve Fiber Analysis results from my eye exam today. The results are slightly better than my last GDx exam as well as my GDx exam from about two years ago. At this point I doubt we can say anything concrete about the significance of the positive change except that things are certainly not getting worse!

Here are two books I just started reading.

Born On A Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant

Embracing the Wide Sky

 Training in relaxation and visual imagery with patients who have open-angle glaucoma:

http://www.springer link.com/ content/y1017p1p 012m0654/

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/01/05/meditation.stress.reduction/index.html

The following article is from U.S. News & World Report, hence it takes a financial angle on stress. See the original article here: http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/living-well-usn/2008/12/29/how-to-beat-stress-and-angst-through-meditation.html

 I urge you to watch this 10 minute video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLziFMF4DHA

If you are interested in vision, watch this. It is worth a few minutes of your time. Watch the video.

For people who actually need it for hypotrichosis, I'm sure this new product is welcome. However, I suspect most users will acquire this drug purely for cosmetic enhancement of normal eyelashes. Read more below or see full article here.

Allergan Inc. will be able to sell its Lumigan glaucoma drug for cosmetic use now that the Food and Drug Administration has approved the product to enhance eyelashes.

Research has shown that stress can physically reshape the brain, causing both extensive and long-lasting damage to the human brain. Brain cells can shrink and the connections between neurons can decrease. In short, stress causes big changes to the human nervous system. In 2008, new knowledge regarding the effects of short-term stress were measured at University of California, Irvine, and breakthrough research on the effects of long-term, chronic stress were conducted at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

According to nutritionist Paavo Airola, we should not eat potatoes that have any green tint and he mentioned a toxin called solanine (a nerve toxin) as the reason why. Potatoes often develop this green tint after exposure to light in the supermarket, but farming and harvesting practices play a role as well.

I purchased a very nice soapstone cooking pot recently. The instructions suggest curing the pot as followings:

Here are a couple interesting stories about acupuncture: http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,164071,00.html andhttp://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/12/air-force-turns.html

According to a Wikipedia article about the optic nerve, the optic nerve is the second of twelve paired cranial nerves but is considered to be part of the central nervous system as it is derived from an outpouching of the diencephalon during embryonic development. Consequently, the fibers are covered with myelin produced by oligodendrocytes rather than the Schwann cells of the peripheral nervous system.

These images come from GE's IN Cell Image Competition. The source article can be found here: http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/dn16308-inner-workings-of-cells/1

See comments below the images.

The original article is found on the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) website. HHMI investigator Simon W. M. John shares our perspective on intraocular pressure monitoring. He recognizes that intraocular pressure can vary quite a lot even in one day and that the value of measuring intraocular pressure only twice a year, as is typically done in practice, is very limited.

It Was a Bad Week for Modern Medicine
So National Institutes of Health Launches 'Inquisition' Into Use Of Dietary Supplements and Alternative Therapies

Read the full article here: http://www.lewrockwell.com/sardi/sardi98.html

Here is an excerpt: