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-PILGRIMS BEFORE THE 

MAYFLOWER 

Carrying The Saints that the 

King of England gave them 

permission to leave the 

Church of England, 

“provided they carried 

themselves peaceably.” 

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May Flowers Issue: 

-Some say Love it is a Flower 

HOW “THE ROSE” CAME 

TO BE 

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PILGRIMS BEFORE THE 

MAYFLOWER 

In 1608, a congregation of 

disgruntled English Protestants 

from the village of Scrooby, 

Nottinghamshire, left England and 

moved to Leyden, a town in 

Holland. These “Separatists” did not 

want to pledge allegiance to the 

Church of England, which they 

believed was nearly as corrupt and 

idolatrous as the Catholic Church it 

had replaced, any longer. (They 

were not the same as the Puritans, 

who had many of the same 

objections to the English church but 

wanted to reform it from within.) 

The Separatists hoped that in 

Holland, they would be free to 

worship as they liked 

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The Separatists 

who founded the 

Plymouth Colony 

referred to 

themselves as 

“Saints,” not 

“Pilgrims.” The 

use of the word 

“Pilgrim” to 

describe this 

group did not 

become common 

until the colony’s 

bicentennial. 

menial, low-paying jobs. Even 

worse was Holland’s easygoing, 

cosmopolitan atmosphere, which 

proved alarmingly seductive to 

some of the Saints’ children. (These 

young people were “drawn away,” 

Separatist leaderWilliam 

Bradford wrote, “by evill [sic] 

example into extravagance and 

dangerous courses.”) For the strict, 

devout Separatists, this was the last 

straw. They decided to move again, 

this time to a place without 

government interference or worldly 

distraction: the “New World” across 

the Atlantic Ocean. 

THE MAYFLOWER 

First Thanksgiving Dinner. 

In fact, the Separatists (they called 

themselves “Saints”) did find 

religious freedom in Holland, but 

they also found a secular life that 

was more difficult to navigate than 

they’d anticipated. For one thing, 

Dutch craft guilds excluded the 

migrants, so they were relegated to 

First, the Separatists returned to 

London to get organized. A 

prominent merchant agreed to 

advance the money for their 

journey. The Virginia Company 

gave them permission to establish a 

settlement, or “plantation,” on the 

East Coast between 38 and 41 

degrees north latitude (roughly 

between the Chesapeake Bay and 

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the mouth of the Hudson River). 

And the King of England gave them 

permission to leave the Church of 

England, “provided they carried 

themselves peaceably.” 

sailor had been “a proud and very 

profane yonge man.”) 

In August 1620, a group of about 40 

Saints joined a much larger group 

of (comparatively) secular 

colonists–“Strangers,” to the 

Saints–and set sail from England 

on two merchant ships: the 

Mayflower and the Speedwell. The 

Speedwell began to leak almost 

immediately, however, and the 

ships headed back to port. The 

travelers squeezed themselves and 

their belongings onto the Mayflower 

and set sail once again. 

Love is a flower 

HOW “THE ROSE” 

CAME TO BE 

People often ask me what inspired me to 

write The Rose. Here is the story: 

some time in 1970-something. 

I was listening to the radio. A song came on the radio. It was 

Because of the delay caused by the 

leaky Speedwell, the Mayflower had 

to cross the Atlantic at the height of 

storm season. As a result, the 

journey was horribly unpleasant. 

Many of the passengers were so 

seasick they could scarcely get up, 

and the waves were so rough that 

one “Stranger” was swept 

overboard and drowned. (It was 

“the just hand of God upon him,” 

Bradford wrote later, for the young 

“MAGDALENA” by Danny O’Keefe, sung by Leo Sayer. I 

liked it immediately. My favorite line was “Your love is like a 

razor. My heart is just a scar.”I thought,”Ooh, I love that 

lyric.” 

As I continued to drive down the road the thought came, I 

don’t agree with the sentiment. I don’t think love is like a 

razor. (I was younger then.) What, then, do I think love is? 

Suddenly, it was as if someone had opened a window in the 

top of my head. Words came pouring in. I had to keep 

reciting them to myself as I drove faster and faster towards 

home, so I wouldn’t forget them. I screeched into my drive 

way, ran into the house, past various bewildered dogs and 

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cats and husbands, and sat down at the piano. Ten minutes 

later, THE ROSE was there. 

to the Universe for speaking to me in the first place and for 

showing me what I truly believe. 

I called my husband, George, into the room and played it for 

him, as I always did with my new songs. He listened, and 

quietly said to me, “You’ve just written a standard.” I 

protested that no one but my pals would ever hear it. (This is 

long before I had ever recorded anything.) He said,”Mark my 

words, something is going to happen with this song.” 

*Here are the lyrics: 

Some say love, it is a river 

That drowns the tender reed 

Some say love, it is a razor 

That leaves your soul to bleed 

Some say love, it is a hunger 

An endless aching need 

A year or so later, a great young songwriter named Michele 

Brourman, who became my primary musical collaborator and 

best friend, said “Listen. There is this movie coming out 

called “The Rose”. They are looking for a title tune. Do you 

want me to submit this to them?” I had never really tried to 

submit this song to anyone. I didn’t consider myself a song 

writer at the time. So I said, “Sure.” Originally the film had 

been called THE PEARL, which was Janis Joplin’s nick 

name. But her family refused permission to use that name. 

Lucky for me. “Pearl” is MUCH harder to rhyme. 

I say love, it is a flower 

And you, its only seed 

It’s the heart that fears the breaking 

That never learns to dance 

It’s the dream, afraid of waking 

That never takes the chance 

It’s the one who won’t be taken 

Who cannot seem to give 

And the soul, afraid of dying 

That never learns to live 

She submitted the tune to the producers, who HATED it. 

They thought it was dull and a hymn and NOT rock and roll 

and totally wrong. They put it in the reject box. But the divine 

Paul Rothchild, who was the music supervisor on the film, 

and had been Janis Joplin’s producer, hauled it out and 

asked them to reconsider. They again said no. So he mailed 

it to Bette. She liked it, and that’s how it got into the film and 

changed my life forever. 

When the night has been too lonely 

And the road has been too long 

And you think that love is only for the lucky and the strong 

Just remember in the winter 

Far beneath the bitter snow 

Lies the seed 

That with the sun’s love, in the spring 

Becomes the flowers 

I have never written another song as quickly. I like to think I 

was the window that happened to be open when those 

thoughts needed to come through. I am eternally grateful… 

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Fashion Statement Flower Style 

Flower power! Why 

chintz is back in fashion 

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Kate Finnigan, FASHION FEATURES 

DIRECTOR 

7 MAY 2016 • 6:30AM 

I realise that saying florals are a la 

mode for summer is about as surprising 

as claiming boots are in vogue for 

walking holidays, but those accustomed 

to these pages will know that fashion 

trends in florals can veer wildly, yes, 

WILDLY, I say, from one year to 

another. Sometimes the catwalks sprout 

nothing but ditsy prints, sometimes 

they’re awash with painterly petals, 

sometimes abstract splodges. 

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Karen Walker x Liberty print 

sunglasses, £195, Liberty; Framed 

Varsity Jacket, £650, Coach 

But for the summer of 2016 I have to tell 

you that we are knee-deep in suburban 

soft-furnishings. Shy not away from the 

1930s tea-room look: chintz is in. 

With the sun finally making an 

appearance, temperatures up and 

Chelsea Flower Show on the horizon, we 

are now in optimum position to embrace 

the busy floral. Matchesfashion.com 

have timed it well with a capsule 

collection of what they’re calling “retro 

florals in orange, raspberry and lilac” 

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created by the designer Emilia 

Wickstead, which launches this week. 

Both the London brand House of 

Hackney and the Bath-based designer 

Joe Richards have used the botanical 

prints of William Morris in their current 

collections. 

Floral midi skirt, £550, Emilia 

Wickstead at Matches Fashion 

Wickstead’s main collection for spring 

included similar prints, on light-as-afeather 

silk gazar. “I always like to make 

a collection very twee but also very 

modern,” says the designer. Wickstead 

is someone very much on the side of 

women and whose clothes are worn by 

the Duchess of Cambridge, Samantha 

Cameron and many an elegant red 

carpet regular. If she approves of a 'twee’ 

and chintzy floral we are in no position 

to argue. As she says: “I design for 

women of all ages, myself [she’s in her 

30s], my mother, a woman in her 

twenties.” 

Meanwhile, Gucci is rolling out rose and 

hydrangea smothered shoes, bags, 

dresses and sweatshirts in quantities not 

seen since the Women’s Institute last 

had a used-curtains sale. 

Another hip brand of the moment, 

Vetements, is selling oversized floral 

dresses in what Natalie Kingham, 

buying director of matchesfashion.com, 

calls “a 1980s wallpaper” print. 

Blue Floral Jacquard Dress, £120, 

Laura Ashley; Floral bird empire midi 

dress, £45.99, Warehouse 

For anyone alive in the 1970s these 

patterns will have been more familiar as 

curtains and cushions. We had both, oh 

la-di-dah. Surprising, isn’t it? But do not 

mock the chintz. It got a bad press in the 

late 20th century for its middle-class 

aspirations, but it has a more rock 'n' 

roll history than you might think. 

In the 17th and 18th centuries chintz 

was the subject of both protest and 

punishment. Any stylish lady strolling a 

London square in a dyed floral cotton 

number was at risk of being fined a 

whopping £10 - and I don’t mean by the 

Fashion Police. In the 1700s it really was 

illegal to wear chintz in England, thanks 

to a raft of legislation that was designed 

to protect English linen, wool and silk 

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weavers who were unable to produce the 

by-now popular fabric. 

When merchants started importing 

them in the 17th century, the surge in 

popularity alarmed the linen, wool and 

silk weavers of England who didn’t have 

access to cotton nor the fast dyes to 

make the exotic, hand painted textiles. 

With everyone who was anyone 

suddenly simply mad about chintz it 

threatened the ruin of the European 

textile market. 

Gucci leather trimmed printed canvas 

shoulder bag, £600, Net-a-Porter; Mule 

sandals, £45.99, Zara 

Imported from India, chintz had been 

used initially as a furnishing fabric. But 

when the upper classes handed down 

their older textiles to their household 

servants these exotic patterns started 

being used as clothes linings and then 

garments. 

“In an interesting move this was then 

adopted by the higher classes who also 

saw the attraction in wearing these fast 

bright colours on clothes,” says Divia 

Patel, curator of The Fabric of India, last 

year’s exhibition at the Victoria & Albert 

Museum. “The furnishing fabrics 

required large flowers, but when people 

started wearing them the merchants 

went back to India saying that a 

European audience might prefer, say, a 

cream background to a red and smaller 

sprays of flowers to the larger, so you 

started getting smaller patterns and a 

different look to the fabrics.” 

Black sleeveless floral dress, £590, 

Emilia Wickstead at Matches Fashion 

Such was the risk to the domestic textile 

industry that in the late 17th century five 

thousand weavers protested outside the 

Houses of Parliament. In 1701 imports 

of Indian dyed or printed cottons were 

banned and in 1720 Parliament enacted 

a law that forbade 'the Use and Warings 

in Apparel of imported chintz, and also 

its use or Wear in or about any Bed, 

Chair, Cushion or other Household 

furniture.” The ban remained in place 

for fifty years, by which time European 

manufacturers had worked out how to 

do it themselves. 

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from £1060, Fendi at Selfridges 

Bag, 

It doesn’t take perhaps quite as much 

gall to wear a chintz now as it did in the 

1700s (it not being a crime and all), but 

still a vibrant print can be tricky. So how 

to wear one? 

Natalie Kingham says Wickstead’s 

'Dolce Vita feel’ collection suits a lot of 

different body shapes and different ages. 

“The skirts look great teamed with a 

knotted denim or white shirt or a 

cardigan, and the frocks work with gold 

hoop earrings, a black heel or an 

espadrille and a basket.” 

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Wickstead herself has been seen wearing 

similar skirts with a plain white t-shirt. 

While Vetement’s die-hard fashion fans 

will be wearing chunky heeled black 

ankle boots with their tent-ish, floral 

frocks, for event dressing you may prefer 

to take your lead from the elegant 

actress Stacy Martin’s wallpaper-ish but 

nonetheless stunning floral-sprigged 

Miu Miu gown worn at the Metropolitan 

Museum of Art’s Gala earlier this week. 

Martin accessorized with green suede 

sandals and chandelier earrings – what 

else with wallpaper? 

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Health and Fitness 

Why Water Is Key for Anti- 

Aging 

To me, water is a gift from above, a living, 

nourishing substance important not just for life 

but for quality of life as well. Yet water is so 

taken for granted that people don’t tend to think 

of it in health or anti-aging terms. They should. 

Don’t Forget Nutrient # 1 − 

Water 

“Water contributes much towards health.” − 

Hippocrates, On Airs, Waters, and Places 

unwatered house plants. They hardly drank 

water. They drank coffee and sodas, and, not 

unfrequently, too much alcohol. But not 

what their body needed: water. They were 

unwell and they were dehydrated. To what 

degree dehydration contributed to their 

conditions, I couldn’t precisely say, but I 

always had a hunch it was a contributing 

factor. I used to ask patients about how 

much water they drank on a daily basis. It 

wasn’t much. Maybe a glass. Two at the 

most. Maybe nothing. 

I always told them to drink more. 

In his writings on public hygiene, 

Hippocrates (460-354 B.C.), considered the 

Father of Medicine, emphasized the 

importance of water in the maintenance of 

health. In our modern age, twenty-five 

centuries later, no one doubts the validity of 

the wise Greek’s words. 

In a review article (Popkin) on the role of 

water in health, nutrition researchers at the 

University of North Carolina summed it up 

succinctly: “Water is essential to life. Water 

represents a critical nutrient whose absence 

will be lethal within days.” 

How important is water? Just look at a house 

plant when you forget to water it, and look 

again after you do. 

In my medical practice, I used to see many 

patients who were dried-up like those 

Unfortunately, for many years I didn’t 

practice what I personally preached. I recall 

visiting a doctor friend one time and he 

checked me out and said I was extremely 

dehydrated. My joints were rather stiff at the 

time, and lack of hydration could have been 

partly to blame. Since that time, I’ve made it 

a point to put water into my daily routine. 

Water and Heart Disease 

You’d never imagine it, but plain old water 

is probably one of the most overlooked tools 

against heart disease. Researchers from 

Loma Linda University in California 

confirmed this some years ago by checking 

the water intake of about twenty thousand 

well-educated men and women (ages 38 to 

100) as a possible risk factor for fatal 

coronary artery disease (heart attacks). In a 

2002 study (Chan), they concluded that 

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water indeed had a strong protective 

association for both sexes. 

To be sure, statistical studies can only 

provide an indication, and are not outright 

proof of cause and effect. What was 

interesting to me is that the researchers here 

found elevated viscosity (blood thickness), 

volume of red blood cells (hematocrit), and 

fibrinogen (a protein involved in the clotting 

process) among individuals who drank less 

than two glasses of water daily compared to 

those who drank five or more. When 

elevated, and even at high normal range, 

these factors are associated with coronary 

heart disease. They make blood thicker, 

something I have consistently found among 

heart and diabetic patients. Elevated values, 

in fact, are found years before acute 

cardiovascular problems show up, in early 

stages of atherosclerosis (arterial disease) 

and high blood pressure. Such elevations 

can result from chronic dehydration. 

Viscosity is a big deal – an important, but 

overlooked risk factor for cardiovascular 

disease. The thicker your blood, the slower 

it flows through the thousands of miles of 

your circulatory system and the greater the 

risk of nasty things happening, 

like inflammation, clots, plaque, and cardiac 

and vascular trouble. Your heart works 

harder. Thicker blood is often full of toxins, 

bacteria, excess glucose and insulin, and 

other substances that stoke inflammation 

and damage to the fragile endothelial lining 

of blood vessels. Healthy blood is more like 

the consistency of wine, and not sludgy like 

ketchup. 

Many of my patients were dehydrated and 

that status likely contributed to their thicker 

blood. However, the research (see Sugaya) 

doesn’t show that flooding your body with 

water will necessarily decrease viscosity, or 

prevent heart attacks and stroke. It will, for 

sure, increase urinary frequency. The key 

thing is not to become dehydrated. 

One of the best, and simplest, ways to 

reduce blood viscosity is to “Earth” or 

“ground.” To ground is to provide your body 

with the natural, gentle electric energy 

omnipresent on the surface of the Earth by 

regularly walking barefoot outside or 

sleeping, working, relaxing indoors in direct 

skin contact with conductive sheets, mats, 

bands, or patches. In my experience, such 

contact, whether outside or inside, has a 

blood-thinning effect and improves 

circulation. I conducted a study on this 

amazing effect, which I believe has 

significant implications for both prevention 

and treatment of cardiovascular disease. You 

can learn more about Earthing here, and read 

the blood viscosity study here. 

“Dr. Batman” − the Water 

Doctor 

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You may never have heard of Fereydoon 

Batmanghelidj, M.D., who became a 

celebrity in the health world during the 

1980s and 1990s for his unusual story and 

work with water. Batmanghelidj 

(pronounced Batman-gey-lij) studied the 

effects of water (or lack of it) in the human 

body for more than twenty-five years before 

his death in 2004. 

Often referred to as “Dr. Batman” because 

Americans couldn’t pronounce his name, he 

championed the healing benefits of water in 

lectures and books. He believed that chronic 

dehydration contributes to many of today’s 

serious illnesses, such as heart disease, 

asthma, hypertension, lupus, and multiple 

sclerosis. He often said that a chronic lack of 

water caused the body to cry out in pain, and 

pointed to arthritis and joint pain as an 

example. 

“If you have chronic pain in the spine, 

hands, or legs, that means those joints are 

thirsting for water,” he said. “You are not 

drinking enough water. The pain is due to 

dehydrated joints, plus wear and tear, and 

the inability of the cartilage to repair the 

damage.” 

His interest in water went back to his native 

Iran where the London-trained physician 

was jailed as a political prisoner from 1979 

to 1982. When fellow prisoners asked him to 

help another man suffering from an acute 

peptic ulcer attack, all he had to offer was 

water. He gave the man two glasses of 

water. To his surprise, the prisoner’s pain 

vanished in minutes. During the next two 

years as one of the prison’s doctors, he 

researched and applied the use of water for 

treating people under stress. A clinical 

report describing his treatment of more than 

three thousand peptic ulcer cases with water 

appeared in a 1983 issue of theJournal of 

Clinical Gastroenterology. 

After his release from prison, he found his 

way to the United States and devoted his 

full-time attention to researching, writing, 

and lecturing about dehydration-related 

health problems. Part of his lasting legacy is 

a wonderful book I highly recommend 

reading: Your Body’s Many Cries for Water 

(available throughwww.watercure.com). 

Water Facts 

According to University of North Carolina 

experts (see Popkin), thirst plays little dayto-day 

role in the control of water intake in 

healthy people. Here are some other 

facts about water and your health from their 

review: 

Total fluid intake increased from 79 

fluid ounces daily in 1989 to 100 in 

2001 among U.S. adults, all from 

caloric beverages like sodas. 

The elderly have low water reserves 

compared to younger people. Because of 

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this, it is prudent for seniors to learn to 

get into the water drinking habit more. 

Body water loss through sweat is an 

inherent cooling mechanism in hot 

weather and during physical activity. 

Sweat loss needs to be compensated for 

with fluid intake. 

Dehydration can influence cognition and 

even a mild level can disrupt mood, 

concentration, alertness, and short-term 

memory in children, young adults, and 

the elderly. 

Constipation has a number of causes, 

including medications, inadequate fiber, 

poor diet, and illness. An increase in 

fluid intake is popularly recommended 

as a remedy, but the evidence suggests 

that more liquid is only effective for 

individuals who are dehydrated. In the 

elderly, however, those who consume 

the least amount of fluid have over twice 

the frequency of constipation compared 

to those consuming the most. 

Your kidneys have a primary role in 

regulating water balance and blood 

pressure as well as removing waste from 

the blood stream and excreting it 

through the urine. Water is necessary for 

the filtration of waste. 

Dehydration can lead to headaches, 

including migraine, and in the case of 

water-induced headache, drinking water 

often provides relief within 30 minutes 

to 3 hours. The role of water, however, 

as a form of prevention in the general 

 

 

population of headache sufferers, is not 

known. 

The skin contains about 30 percent 

water, but there is little evidence 

indicating that drinking more water 

every day (such as 8 to 10 glasses) will 

flush toxins from the skin and generate a 

“glowing complexion,” as is widely 

touted in beauty magazines and via the 

Internet. Adequate skin hydration won’t 

prevent wrinkles or other signs 

of aging that are typically connected to 

genetics, the sun, and environmental 

damage. Skin dryness is usually linked 

to exposure to dry air, prolonged contact 

with hot water, and scrubbing with soap, 

as well as certain medical conditions 

and medications. 

Good water intake reduces the risk of 

developing stones in the urinary tract 

(kidneys, bladder, and urethra). 

Can Water Help You Lose 

Weight? 

Yes, according to a 2010 study (Dennis), 

and all it takes is just two 8-ounce glasses of 

water just before you eat. 

In the study, researchers from Virginia Tech 

found that over a 12 week period, dieters 

who drank water before meals, three times a 

week, lost about 5 pounds more than dieters 

who did not increase their water intake. 

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Previous studies have hinted that drinking 

water before meals reduces calorie intake. 

But this was the first study that 

compared weight loss among two groups of 

dieters randomly selected to either drink 

water before low-calorie meals or not to. 

Forty-eight adults (55-75 years) participated 

in the study. After 12 weeks, the water 

group lost on average 15.5 pounds, the nondrinkers, 

about 11. 

Brenda Davy, Ph.D., the lead author, 

indicated that water’s effectiveness may 

simply be due to the fact it supplies no 

calories and fills up the stomach. People feel 

fuller and eat less. 

If you are overweight and stumped about 

how to lose weight, try a double shot of 

water before meals the next time you go on 

a diet. You will likely not find anything 

simpler or less expensive. And, in the 

process, you will contribute to your 

hydration status. 

How Much Water Should 

You Drink? 

Obviously, in hot weather or when you 

sweat a lot, you need to compensate for the 

fluid loss from your body. One 2012 study 

(Armstrong) conducted with a group of 25 

young women found that even mild 

dehydration, a result of not drinking enough 

fluids to replace fluids lost through exercise, 

can generate adverse changes in mood, 

vigor, and fatigue, as well as increased 

headaches and difficulty concentrating 

among young women. 

The overall issue of how-much-to-drink is 

somewhat complex, because physical 

activity and energy expenditures affect the 

need for water, as does body size. Other 

considerations are the water content of food, 

such as milk, fruits, and vegetables, and the 

growing increase in consumption of 

sweetened beverages. Researchers (Popkin) 

admit that there is little understanding 

globally of measuring total fluid intake or 

even of measuring the hydration status of 

individuals. 

According to the U.S. Institute of Medicine, 

the generally recommended amounts for 

daily water consumption, including from 

beverages and food, are 2.7 liters (91 

ounces) for women and 3.7 liters (125 

ounces) for men. About 80 percent of total 

intake comes from drinking water and 

beverages, and the other 20 percent from 

food. 

Here’s my general advice on fluid intake, 

some of which is just plain old common 

sense: 

Drink water when you are thirsty. 

Drink more when the weather is hot and 

you sweat a lot from exercise. 

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If you work at a desk, sip water 

throughout the day. 

Drink water out of glass containers. Try 

to avoid the plastic water bottles as they 

are made from many different chemicals 

that have the potential to leach into the 

water – and those chemicals your body 

doesn’t need whatsoever. 

Sip warm or hot water during a meal, 

not ice drinks to help with digestion. 

Eat fruits and vegetables high in water 

content. This habit provides not just 

fluid but vitamins, minerals, and other 

healthy nutrients. Soups are another 

good source of fluid plus nutrients. 

Try to avoid beverages like sodas that 

are sweetened with sugar, high fructose 

corn syrup, and other ingredients that 

your body doesn’t need. They provide 

little, if anything, in the way of 

nutrients, and if consumed regularly, can 

contribute to metabolic syndrome and 

diabetes, and a host of problems. 

Med Plus: Mediterranean Plus Primary Offering 

is Food and Restaurant review. 

There are many diets-du-jour to 

choose from. And most likely 

you’ve heard and read about 

most of them. But when it 

comes to promises of better 

health and a sleek physique — 

few can stand up to the 

Mediterranean diet. 

In fact, the benefits you gain 

from the foods of 

the Mediterranean diet are so 

strong, the most recent study 

shows the diet can decrease 

your risk of stroke, heart attack 

or death more than if you gave 

up all of the the bad foods, like 

grains, deep-fried foods and 

sugary sweet desserts and 

drinks, typical of the Western 

diet followed by most 

Americans. 

In other words, it looks like you 

have proof that you can mostly 

follow the healthy 

Mediterranean diet, eat more 

fresh fruits and vegetables, fish 

and olive oil — and cheat with 

some of those “guilty-pleasure 

foods” — yet still hold onto your 

health. 

So why is your doctor forcing 

you to eat only the “healthy 

foods?” Likely because he’s 

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hung up on outdated advice. 

Because you’ll soon see that you 

can have your cake — or fried 

pie — and eat it too without 

going into cardiac arrest… 

The study, which is published in 

the European Heart 

Journal, 1 showed that for every 

100 people eating the highest 

proportion of healthy 

“Mediterranean” foods, there 

were three fewer heart attacks, 

strokes or deaths than 

compared to 100 people eating 

the least amount of healthy 

foods during nearly four years of 

follow-up from the time the 

participants joined the study. 

The people who participated in 

the study — all 15,482 of them 

— had been previously 

diagnosed with coronary artery 

disease. After participating in a 

food survey, they were given a 

Mediterranean diet score (MDS) 

which assigned points — from 0 

to 24 —based on their 

consumption of healthy foods. 

The amount of unhealthy foods 

they ate was assigned a Western 

diet score (WDS). 

The participants fell into the 

three major MDS score ranges: 

15 or over (those who ate the 

most amounts of healthy foods); 

13-14 (somewhere in the 

middle); and 12 or lower (ate 

the least healthy). 

Almost four years later, 

researchers followed up. They 

saw that 10.1 percent (1,588) of 

the folks in the study had 

experienced a major adverse 

cardiovascular event (MACE) — 

either a heart attack, stroke or 

death. 

What did their 

scores mean in all 

of this? 

Not surprisingly, the lowest 

percentage of people 

experiencing a MACE event — 

7.3 percent — fell within the 

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group with the highest MDS 

score range of 15. Among those 

who had scored MDS of 13-14 — 

10.5 percent had a MACE, while 

10.8 percent of those with an 

MDS score of 12 or lower did. 

Professor Ralph Stewart, from 

Auckland City Hospital, 

University of Auckland, New 

Zealand, who led the study, 

said: “After adjusting for other 

factors that might affect the 

results, we found that every one 

unit increase in the 

Mediterranean diet score was 

associated with a seven percent 

reduction in the risk of heart 

attacks, strokes or death from 

cardiovascular or other causes 

in patients with existing heart 

disease.” 

But this part Dr. Stewart adds is 

where it gets real interesting… 

“In contrast, greater 

consumption of foods thought 

be less healthy and more typical 

of Western diets, was not 

associated with an increase in 

these adverse events, which we 

had not expected.” 

So the obvious health-boosting 

effects of the Mediterranean diet 

seemed to rise to the top 

regardless of whether the folks 

in the study also ate foods from 

the not-so-healthy Western diet. 

Is this proof-positive perhaps 

that strict adherence to extreme 

dieting is not necessary to 

experience better health and 

reduce your risks of disease and 

death? 

Though this study didn’t delve 

deeply into details like caloric 

intake and fats, that’s exactly 

what is seems to say… 

According to Dr. Stewart, “The 

main message is that some 

foods — and particularly fruit 

and vegetables — seem to lower 

the risk of heart attacks and 

strokes, and this benefit is not 

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explained by traditional risk 

factors such as good and 

bad cholesterol or blood 

pressure. If you eat more of 

these foods in preference to 

others, you may lower your risk. 

The study found no evidence of 

harm from modest consumption 

of foods such as refined 

carbohydrates, deep fried foods, 

sugars and deserts. […]” 

Those traditional risk factors 

Dr. Stewart mentions — 

like cholesterol — are often used 

as scape goats and are only one 

small part of a much bigger 

picture. It’s becoming more 

obvious, especially with studies 

like this, that the conventional 

medical dietary advice that’s 

been spouted for years is in 

much need of an update. 

Editor’s note: Fortunately more 

doctors are beginning to think 

outside of the box. But it might 

take a while for them to catch up 

to what Dr. Michael Cutler has 

known for years. To find out 

how easy it is to obtain your best 

health ever — without extreme 

diets, dangerous pills or brutal 

workouts, check out Dr. Cutler’s 

new guide, The Part-Time Health 

Nut. It’s chock-full of sensible 

health and weight loss tips, 

including the five superfoods for 

weight loss everyone should be 

eating. 

The 20 Worst 

Casual Dining 

Restaurant 

Chains In The 

Nation USA. 

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20. Lone Star Steakhouse 

Considered the second-best steak house 

of the five in the Nation’s Restaurant 

News survey, Lone Star’s worst mark is 

for value. But it scores highest among 

steak places for cleanliness and diners 

saying they’re likely to come back. 

19. Longhorn Steakhouse 

This steakhouse left diners wanting 

more for their money, and it also got 

mediocre marks for craveability and 

customers being likely to return. 

16. California Pizza Kitchen 

The chain scored worst on value and 

received so-so marks for atmosphere 

and customers being likely to return. 

15. O’Charley’s 

This chain’s lowest ratings were for 

value and atmosphere. 

18. Outback Steakhouse 

The home of the Bloomin’ Onion was 

scored poorly on value and got secondrate 

marks for craveability and diners 

being likely to return. 

17. Joe’s Crab Shack 

This chain actually beat other seafood 

restaurants in the survey on value but 

lagged its competitors in the rankings 

for seven other categories. 

14. Red Robin Gourmet 

Burgers & Brews 

The chain may promote its yummm, but 

diners in the survey were less excited 

about the value it offers. 

13. Famous Dave’s 

The worst ratings for this restaurant 

chain were for atmosphere and diners 

being likely to return. 

12. TGI Fridays 

The famous chain with the classic red 

and white striped logo fared poorly in 

survey categories of value, atmosphere 

and craveability. 

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11. Beef ‘O’ Brady’s 

The chain that advertises “Good Food, 

Good Sports” didn’t get very good marks 

for craveability, atmosphere, reputation, 

menu variety and value. 

10. Applebee’s 

Neighborhood Grill & Bar 

This neighborhood grill and bar had the 

lowest rating for craveability among the 

26 chains in its category. It also scored 

abysmally for value and landed so-so 

marks for atmosphere and customers 

being likely to come back. 

9. Sonny’s Real Pit Bar-B-Q 

Diners in the survey gave this chain the 

worst ranking for atmosphere among 

the 26 competitors in its category. It also 

received low scores for menu variety and 

service. 

7. Dave & Buster’s 

Among the 26 non-specialized food 

chains, Dave & Buster’s got the lowest 

score for value and food quality. It also 

put up an uninspired mark for 

craveability. 

5. Uno Chicago Grill/Uno 

Pizzeria & Grill 

This chain’s worst rankings were for 

value and craveability. 

5. Uno Chicago Grill/Uno 

Pizzeria & Grill 

This chain’s worst rankings were for 

value and craveability. 

8. Hooter’s 

Known for its chicken wings and 

breasts, Hooter’s got low rankings for 

value, menu variety and craveability. 

Unsurprisingly, the highest ratings for 

the chain were for service and 

atmosphere. 

4. On the Border Mexican 

Grill & Cantina 

This restaurant had the lowest marks for 

service and for customers being likely to 

return among the 26 “varied menu” 

chains. It also earned a low rating for 

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value. 

to recommend it. It also notched a poor 

mark for value. 

There are many diets-du-jour to choose from. 

And most likely you’ve heard and read about 

most of them. But when it comes to promises of 

better health and a sleek physique — few can 

stand up to the Mediterranean diet. 

3. Ruby Tuesday 

Who could hang a name on you? 

Customers, apparently. Ruby Tuesday 

had the worst reputation among the 26 

“varied menu” chains in the survey. It 

also got awful marks for value and 

craveability. 

2. Logan’s Roadhouse 

Logan’s received the lowest ranking of 

any steakhouse in nine of the 10 

categories surveyed, making it the worst 

of the six overall. 

In fact, the benefits you gain from the foods of 

the Mediterranean diet are so strong, the most 

recent study shows the diet can decrease your 

risk of stroke, heart attack or death more than if 

you gave up all of the the bad foods, like grains, 

deep-fried foods and sugary sweet desserts and 

drinks, typical of the Western diet followed by 

most Americans. 

In other words, it looks like you have proof that 

you can mostly follow the healthy Mediterranean 

diet, eat more fresh fruits and vegetables, fish 

and olive oil — and cheat with some of those 

“guilty-pleasure foods” — yet still hold onto your 

health. 

So why is your doctor forcing you to eat only the 

“healthy foods?” Likely because he’s hung up on 

1. Buffalo Wild Wings Grill & 

Bar 

The worst of the worst, this wing joint 

has the lowest ratings for cleanliness, 

menu variety and customers being likely 

outdated advice. Because you’ll soon see that you 

can have your cake — or fried pie — and eat it 

too without going into cardiac arrest… 

22



The study, which is published in the European 

Heart Journal, 1 showed that for every 100 people 

eating the highest proportion of healthy 

“Mediterranean” foods, there were three fewer 

heart attacks, strokes or deaths than compared 

to 100 people eating the least amount of healthy 

foods during nearly four years of follow-up from 

the time the participants joined the study. 

The people who participated in the study — all 

15,482 of them — had been previously diagnosed 

with coronary artery disease. After participating 

in a food survey, they were given a 

Mediterranean diet score (MDS) which assigned 

points — from 0 to 24 —based on their 

consumption of healthy foods. The amount of 

unhealthy foods they ate was assigned a Western 

diet score (WDS). 

The participants fell into the three major MDS 

score ranges: 15 or over (those who ate the most 

amounts of healthy foods); 13-14 (somewhere in 

the middle); and 12 or lower (ate the least 

healthy). 

Almost four years later, researchers followed up. 

They saw that 10.1 percent (1,588) of the folks in 

the study had experienced a major adverse 

What did their scores mean in all of this? 

Not surprisingly, the lowest percentage of people 

experiencing a MACE event — 7.3 percent — fell 

within the group with the highest MDS score 

range of 15. Among those who had scored MDS 

of 13-14 — 10.5 percent had a MACE, while 10.8 

percent of those with an MDS score of 12 or 

lower did. 

Professor Ralph Stewart, from Auckland City 

Hospital, University of Auckland, New Zealand, 

who led the study, said: “After adjusting for 

other factors that might affect the results, we 

found that every one unit increase in the 

Mediterranean diet score was associated with a 

seven percent reduction in the risk of heart 

attacks, strokes or death from cardiovascular or 

other causes in patients with existing heart 

disease.” 

But this part Dr. Stewart adds is where it gets real 

interesting… 

“In contrast, greater consumption of foods 

thought be less healthy and more typical of 

Western diets, was not associated with an 

increase in these adverse events, which we had 

not expected.” 

cardiovascular event (MACE) — either a heart 

attack, stroke or death. 

23



So the obvious health-boosting effects of the 

Mediterranean diet seemed to rise to the top 

regardless of whether the folks in the study also 

ate foods from the not-so-healthy Western diet. 

Is this proof-positive perhaps that strict 

adherence to extreme dieting is not necessary to 

experience better health and reduce your risks of 

disease and death? 

Though this study didn’t delve deeply into 

details like caloric intake and fats, that’s exactly 

what is seems to say… 

According to Dr. Stewart, “The main message is 

that some foods — and particularly fruit and 

vegetables — seem to lower the risk of heart 

attacks and strokes, and this benefit is not 

explained by traditional risk factors such as good 

and bad cholesterol or blood pressure. If you eat 

more of these foods in preference to others, you 

may lower your risk. The study found no 

evidence of harm from modest consumption of 

foods such as refined carbohydrates, deep fried 

foods, sugars and deserts. […]” 

Those traditional risk factors Dr. Stewart 

mentions — like cholesterol — are often used as 

scape goats and are only one small part of a 

much bigger picture. It’s becoming more 

obvious, especially with studies like this, that the 

conventional medical dietary advice that’s been 

spouted for years is in much need of an update. 

Editor’s note: Fortunately more doctors are 

beginning to think outside of the box. But it 

might take a while for them to catch up to 

what Dr. Michael Cutler has known for years. To 

find out how easy it is to obtain your best health 

ever — without extreme diets, dangerous pills or 

brutal workouts, check out Dr. Cutler’s new 

guide, The Part-Time Health Nut. It’s chock-full of 

sensible health and weight loss tips, including 

the five superfoods for weight loss everyone 

should be eating. 

On Social Trends and Human Behavior 

Your suspicions have finally been confirmed. 

Men forget more than women do. Nine out of 

10 men have problems with remembering 

names and dates, according to an analysis of 

a large Norwegian population-based health 

study. 

If your husband is absent-minded, 

forgets your wedding anniversary or 

the name of your new neighbor, 

don't worry. You are not the only 

one with a forgetful man in the 

house. Even researchers were 

surprised by how much men forget. 

"It was surprising to see that men forget more 

than women. This has not been documented 

before. It was also surprising to see that men 

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are just as forgetful whether they are 30 or 60 

years old. The results were unambiguous," 

says Professor Jostein Holmen, from the 

Norwegian University of Science and 

Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim. The results 

were published in BMC Psychology in late 

2013. 

What did I do one year ago? 

Holmen and his co-workers asked nine 

questions about how well people think they 

remember as a part of a large longitudinal 

population health study conducted in mid- 

Norway called HUNT3. 

HUNT3 is one of the largest health studies 

ever performed, with answers from over 

48,000 people as part of the research 

material. 

The participants were asked how often they 

had problems remembering things, whether 

they had problems with remembering names 

and dates, if they could remember what they 

did one year ago and if they were able to 

remember details from conversations. Men 

reported the most problems for eight out of 

nine questions. 

"We have speculated a lot about why men 

report more frequent problems with 

remembering than women do, but have not 

been able to find an explanation. This is still 

an unsolved mystery," says Holmen. 

Higher education associated with better 

memory 

Women have the same problems with 

remembering as men do, but to a lesser 

extent. Names and dates are also hardest to 

remember for women. 

believed before. Women forget just as much 

whether they are 30 or 50 years old. 

The study also shows that people who are 

more highly educated forget less than those 

with less education. People who suffer from 

anxiety or depression forget more than other 

people do. This is true for people of both 

sexes. 

Importance for dementia 

Memory problems begin to accelerate overall 

in the 60-70 year-old group, the researchers 

found. 

Holmen wants to see whether people who 

self-reported problems with remembering at a 

younger age are also at a higher risk of 

developing dementia. 

"That was the reason why we included these 

questions. It is important to emphasize that we 

still don't know what clinical importance these 

problems with remembering have. But we 

might know this in a few years. Problems with 

remembering at a younger age might not have 

any importance either. I know this from my 

own experience, but now I know that I am not 

alone," Holmen says. 

Holmen, by the way, was born in 1947. 

Story Source: 

The above post is reprinted 

from materials provided by Norwegian 

University of Science and 

Technology. Note: Materials may be edited 

for content and length. 

These problems accelerate with age, but to a 

much lesser extent than the researchers 

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suspended roadway, two cables, each 

The Golden Gate Bridge 

San Francisco 

more than 7,000 feet in length and both 

containing 80,000 miles of wire stretch 

over the top of the towers and are rooted 

in concrete anchorages on shore. More 

than 10 years in planning due to 

formidable opposition, but only four years 

in actual construction, the Golden Gate 

Bridge brought the communities of San 

Francisco and Marin counties closer 

together. 

Once called "the bridge that couldn't be 

built," today it is one the seven wonders of 

the modern world. This magnificent span, 

perhaps San Francisco's most famous 

landmark, opened in 1937 after a four-year 

struggle against relentless winds, fog, rock 

and treacherous tides. 

Crossing the strait of the Golden Gate 

from San Francisco to the Marin 

headlands for 1.7 miles is the worldrenowned 

Golden Gate Bridge, easily 

identified by its International Orange color. 

Opened in 1937, the bridge was built at a 

cost of $35 million in principal and $39 

million in interest and 11 workers’ lives. 

The single-suspension span is anchored 

by twin towers that reach skyward 746 

feet, and was once taller than any building 

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