Oh I got a rise from you folks. Wonderful! I have no idea how much of this is true or not. Just passing time I guess. Here's something from Google Answers: The Somatic Cell Count and Milk Quality "The somatic cell count (SCC) is commonly used as a measure of milk quality. Somatic cells are simply animal body cells present at low levels in normal milk. High levels of these cells in milk indicate abnormal, reduced-quality milk that is caused by an intramammary bacterial infection (mastitis). The majority of the cells in a somatic cell count are leukocytes (white blood cells), and some are cells from the udder secretory tissue (epithelial cells). The epithelial cells are part of the normal body function and are shed and renewed in normal body processes. The white blood cells serve as a defense mechanism to fight disease (infection), and assist in repairing damaged tissue. Milk markets routinely rely on somatic cell counts to help ensure a quality product. SCC levels are monitored to assure compliance with state and federal milk quality standards. Today, most markets pay a premium for low SCC, good-quality milk." http://ianrpubs.unl.edu/dairy/g1151.htm As far as trusting the FDA to monitor what is safe or not, I canÂt say I entirely do trust them. After all they are a Washington bureaucracy. Don't you think there just might be a bit of influence going on there? I've also never trusted the guidelines they set for various preservatives, additives and whatnot. Have they ever figured out the cumulative affect of eating that crap over a lifetime or do take into account that a significant portion of the population only consumes processed foods loaded with that stuff? I don't know. I once worked with a woman who was a total germaphobic. She washed her hands constantly. As I remember they were always red and swollen. People in that office often brought in goodies from home to eat. She wouldn't touch them unless they came from a grocery store or restaurant and she was the first one to open the box or pkg. If someone else beat her to it, she wouldn't touch the food. Oh yes, she ate every single meal in a restaurant. She was also sick a lot. I guess I've never had a thing for germs or critters in food as long as I wasn't aware of them. I just doesn't bother me that much. With that said, until last year I could not eat watermelon. Whenever I looked at those seeds I thought of woodticks. I hate woodticks; especially the big bloated ones. As a kid, I picked enough of them off myself. Then I discovered seedless watermelon. Love it.

Heart attack, sudden death arrive often after long time consumption of bad food in cholesterol.The surated fats are higher bad for heart health. Decrease in blood the bad level of cholesterol LDL. Bad cholesterol food Here is a link that might be useful: Bad cholesterol food

Aren't you glad we don't live in St. Johns, capital of province of Newfoundland-Labrador (Newfoundland is island northeast of mouth of St. Lawrence River, Labrador a large tract on the mainland just northwest of Newfoundland)?? Well over a yard of snow ... in a couple of days ... with 100 m.p.h. winds. People ordered to stay off roads, so snowploughs could work and first responders could navigate. Stores ordered closed for four days, they and pharmacies allowed open today (Tues. 21 Jan), groceries were swamped, they allowed about 100 in at a time, many standing shivering waiting for their turn. Army called in a couple of days ago, they along with regular snow clearers are trucking the snow out of town, not allowed to drop it in the harbour. A couple of feet of snow had fallen since just before Christmas, prior to this latest mess. ole joyful

I think I wrote about this here before - but I never really had a problem with bad dreams. Sure I'd get the occasional nightmare, but not every night. I was having some problems with my allergies and asthma, and nothing was really working. So the doctor suggested Singulair. We talked about the black box warning so I knew what was possible. However I was miserable and nothing was working... Holy Hannah. The nightmares were unreal. Allegedly they can settle down once your body adjusts to the medication, but I couldn't stand it. Vivid, incredibly disturbing horror shows every night. It really stunk because during the day, the medication was the most effective I've ever had in terms of my breathing. But every night was my own personal hell and I just couldn't handle it. I swear I could feel my brain chemistry changing. Yes I know that's probably not possible, but what I was feeling in my head wasn't normal so I gave up after about 2 weeks of much better breathing but night time terrors. Ever since that time I still get really weird dreams, unlike anything I had pre-Singulair. It really bothers me. Fortunately they aren't as horrific as they were when I was on the drug, but here it is maybe 3 years later and I'm still getting very weird dreams which border on nightmares almost every night. I'd give anything to go back to not remembering my dreams...