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It's Obama Fried Chicken! OFC pops up in China... but can the President also match the secret recipe of Colonel Sanders?
By Mike O'brienLast updated at 6:49 AM on 1st October 2011
Now that's change you can't really believe in.
But in Beijing, China, a restaurant is actually calling itself OFC with a logo that looks alarmingly like the President dressed in the colonel's clothes.
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The presidential eatery: The Obama Fried Chicken restaurant in Beijing
Broad smiles: President Obama and the original master of Southern Fried Chicken Colonel Sanders
The Obama Fried Chicken could be a response to the U.S. filing a complaint with the World Trade Organization about Chinese tariffs on American chicken exports.
According to the New York Times, the tariffs affect an industry that employs about 300,000 people and range from 50 to 100 per cent, which means some Chinese importers paid as much as twice the price for American chicken.
Obama obsession? A lookalike of the president was used in an actual for KFC in Hong Kong
Earlier this year in Hong Kong, an Obama lookalike was employed to advertize KFC.
The restaurant's sign was first spotted by TheShanghaiist.com and picked up by msnbc.com.
There are, of course, New York versions that caused quite a stir.
There is one in Harlem and one in Brooklyn.
Some people have complained the name plays into old racial stereotypes.
Controversial: The Obama Fried Chicken joint in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn has been accused of racial stereotyping
Selling point: Obama's name also made it way on to the awning of this fast food joint in Harlem, New York
high fat meal decreases blood flow progressively over the next 4 hours; Cocoa antioxidants prevented this effect almost completely
Endothelial cells lie shoulder to shoulder like a carpet lining blood vessel walls. These cells have to react to changes in the volume of blood flow pushing blood vessels wider; otherwise there is pressure on the heart and blood pressure rises. Poor function of endothelial cells is seen in coronary heart disease, hypertension, diabetics, smokers, and people with high cholesterol. Failure of these cells to function properly can be very dangerous. Endothelial dysfunction is a key event in the development of atherosclerosis; hardening of the arteries due to a build up of cholesterol plaque within arterial walls (a major cause of death).
Eating a high fat meal prevents these cells from functioning. Scientists from Magdeburg University Hospital performed a placebo-controlled, randomized, double-blind cross-over clinical trial. 18 healthy people were fed a high fat meal with either cocoa rich in antioxidants or cocoa lacking the antioxidants. They then were crossed over to the other group (cocoa with antioxidants or cocoa without). The high fat meal decreased endothelial function and reduced blood flow progressively over the next four hours. But the same meal along with the cocoa antioxidants had much less of a negative effect. The study is published online ahead of print on December 8th, 2010 in the journal Heart and Vessels.
http://www.invitehealth.com/radio_studies/2011/2011_01_11.html
Endothelial cells lie shoulder to shoulder like a carpet lining blood vessel walls. These cells have to react to changes in the volume of blood flow pushing blood vessels wider; otherwise there is pressure on the heart and blood pressure rises. Poor function of endothelial cells is seen in coronary heart disease, hypertension, diabetics, smokers, and people with high cholesterol. Failure of these cells to function properly can be very dangerous. Endothelial dysfunction is a key event in the development of atherosclerosis; hardening of the arteries due to a build up of cholesterol plaque within arterial walls (a major cause of death).
Eating a high fat meal prevents these cells from functioning. Scientists from Magdeburg University Hospital performed a placebo-controlled, randomized, double-blind cross-over clinical trial. 18 healthy people were fed a high fat meal with either cocoa rich in antioxidants or cocoa lacking the antioxidants. They then were crossed over to the other group (cocoa with antioxidants or cocoa without). The high fat meal decreased endothelial function and reduced blood flow progressively over the next four hours. But the same meal along with the cocoa antioxidants had much less of a negative effect. The study is published online ahead of print on December 8th, 2010 in the journal Heart and Vessels.
http://www.invitehealth.com/radio_studies/2011/2011_01_11.html
Powdered mushrooms build immunity
by S. D. Wells(NaturalNews) Western medicine cannot make money if you don't get sick and visit doctors regularly. So why would a doctor tell you what organic food to buy? For many Americans, if you mention taking medicinal mushrooms, they look at you like you're some kind of witch doctor, or a traveling medicine man with a covered wagon carrying little vials full of potions and concoctions.
America loves immediate gratification, and if something's wrong with someone's health, they jump to buy a "quick fix" pain killer at a convenient store, or race to their doctor to get a prescription to suppress the symptoms. Many drug stores are open 24 hours now, and Patient First and Doctors on Call are waiting to bill you a couple hundred bucks for your "weekend emergency."
But what if you didn't get sick anymore because your immune system was so well stocked, that when your spouse or siblings came down with something, or your children brought a cold or virus home from school, you never got it?
One of the World's leading authorities on nutrition, David Wolfe, travels all over the world seeking natural ways to build immunity. Certain mushrooms we never see on grocery shelves or even at the farmer's market are for sale in powdered form at just about every local health food store you can find, and they're not expensive at all.
Japan and China have known about the benefits of mushrooms that grow on trees for thousands of years, especially the Reishi mushroom. Reishi, commonly known as Ling Zhi in Chinese, is the oldest herbal mushroom known to have been used as a medicine. The emperors in ancient times ate them like we eat lettuce and cucumbers.
Possessing over 400 active biomolecules, Reishi mushroom is a superior herb that can be taken for long durations without any side effects of any kind. Unlike the poisonous mushrooms that grow out of the ground in your yard, medicinal mushrooms grow off of bark, absorbing all the nutrients from the trees. By simply buying the mushrooms in powder form, or in pill form and opening the capsules and mixing them into your favorite smoothie or veggie drinks, or even in your tea, you are promoting healthy blood circulation, digestion, bowel regularity, and reducing fatigue, and that's just for starters.
Medicinal mushrooms build your immunity to common colds, flu, disease, virus, bacteria, and much more. Wolfe recommends buying mushroom complexes that contain at least five Reishi, Cordyceps, Astragalus, Maitake, Shiitake, Lion's Mane, and Oyster.
In case you were wondering, the common grocery store button mushroom, Agaricus Bisporus, isn't so special, and can often carry mold under the cap that the pondering eye doesn't catch. Portabello mushrooms and Crimini are nothing more than matured stages, or brown strains, of the button mushroom.
In the United States, most doctors go to medical school at prestigious universities to learn how to prescribe pharmaceuticals and perform surgery. That's where the big money is made, and that's how "patients for life" get costly, chronic care. Natural remedies are real and for sale at reasonable prices at your local health food store and vitamin shop.
Remember, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Sources:
http://www.superfoodliving.com/worl...
http://successultranow.com/inspirat...
http://www.mushroomexpert.com/agari...
http://www.naturalnews.com/z033746_mushrooms_immunity.html
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