1 lb. soft tofu, drained (about 2 cups)
1 Tablespoon dry parsley
2 eggs
1 lb. extra lean ground beef
1 medium onion, finely chopped
½ cup dry breadcrumbs
1/4 cup tomato sauce
Additional tomato sauce (optional)

Preheat oven to 350o F. Combine tofu, parsley, and eggs in a large bowl and mix. Add ground beef, onions, breadcrumbs, and tomato sauce, mixing well. Lightly oil a loaf pan. Spoon wet mixture into pan. Top with more tomato sauce if desired. Bake for 1 to 1 ½ hours. Serve hot with more tomato sauce if desired. Yield: 8 servings.

Nutrition Information per Serving:
Calories 190
Carbohydrates 10 gm
Fat 8 gm
Protein 20 gm
Sodium 310 mg
Fiber 1 gm
Calcium 200 mg

The flu which broke out in Mexico and found in the US is now being found in many other countries. The traditional media and sources have a few guidelines for prevention which I will site here.Once again, there is no need to panic.  You are going to be seeing headlines spreading fear everywhere.  There is no need to panic.
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1. WASH YOUR HANDS
 According to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the avian influenza virus is easier to destroy than other influenza viruses. It appears that it is very sensitive to detergents — i.e., soap — which destroy the outer fat-containing layer of the virus. This layer is needed to enter cells of animals and, therefore, destroys the infectivity. So, when you have been in public places, use soap to wash your hands before touching your face. I’m not talking getting all Howard Hughes about it, but teach your family to keep their hands washed! A few times a day!

DRINK TONS OF WATER
8 glasses a day removes toxins inside the cells and organs. Remember, coffee, sodas and juices are liquids, but not water!

GET SOME REST
What a foreign concept. The world won’t stop spinning if you miss a few days of work. Your body needs to go to sleep early and sleep deeply, undisturbed. This is the time your body recharges and detoxifies. You cannot catch up on sleep.

GARGLE WITH DILUTED APPLE CIDER VINEGAR
This will kill any germ. Also use for salad dressing.

ADD SOME SEA SALT
Salt kills critters. Think of how your great grandparents cured their meat in the days before refrigerator.

GET SUNSHINE OR COD LIVER OIL
Vitamin D increases your body’s natural infection fighting process.

KEEP COLLODIAL SILVER ON HAND
A great broad spectrum anti everything.

BUY SOME EYCALYPTIS SPRAY
Breathing this stuff in will kill any critter in the sinuses and lungs.

LAY OFF SUGAR! Germs feed off it!

OIL CHANGE
Coconut Oil has anti-viral lipids!

Looks like Swine Flu is the newest virus threatening North America. After killing 61 people in Mexico and sickening another thousand, swine or “Pig Flu” is making its way to the United States. So far only 7 cases have been reported in California and Texas, but the World Health Organization believes this could be more than just a passing flu. Although usually rare in humans, this strain seems to be different.

If you have swine flu, the symptoms are likely to be fever, lack of appetite, lethargy and coughing. Some who get it also have a sore throat, runny nose, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. If not treated early, it can lead to serious infections like pneumonia and, in some vulnerable people, even death.

Not from pork. You can get swine flu, first, by handling infected pigs in pig barn. If you have it, you can spread it by coughing or sneezing near other people. You also can get it if you touch something that someone with the flu has touched and then you touch your eyes, nose or mouth. You don’t get it by eating pork.So watch out. If you think you might have it, see your doctor. At this time, CDC recommends the use of oseltamivir or zanamivir for the treatment and/or prevention of infection with swine influenza viruses .

Be sensible. Wash your hands. If you can, stay away from the sickness. Especially if you have the flu, cover your mouth with a tissue if you cough or sneeze around other people, and throw the tissue away. If you’re sick, stay home.

MEXICO CITY – A unique strain of swine flu is the suspected killer of dozens of people in Mexico, where authorities closed schools, museums, libraries and theaters in the capital on Friday to try to contain an outbreak that has spurred concerns of a global flu epidemic.

The worrisome new virus — which combines genetic material from pigs, birds and humans in a way researchers have not seen before — also sickened at least eight people in Texas and California, though there have been no deaths in the U.S.

“We are very, very concerned,” World Health Organization spokesman Thomas Abraham said. “We have what appears to be a novel virus and it has spread from human to human … It’s all hands on deck at the moment.”

The outbreak caused alarm in Mexico, where more than 1,000 people have been sickened. Residents of the capital donned surgical masks and authorities ordered the most sweeping shutdown of public gathering places in a quarter century. President Felipe Calderon met with his Cabinet Friday to coordinate Mexico’s response.

The WHO was convening an expert panel to consider whether to raise the pandemic alert level or issue travel advisories.

It might already be too late to contain the outbreak, a prominent U.S. pandemic flu expert said late Friday.

Given how quickly flu can spread around the globe, if these are the first signs of a pandemic, then there are probably cases incubating around the world already, said Dr. Michael Osterholm at the University of Minnesota.

In Mexico City, “literally hundreds and thousands of travelers come in and out every day,” Osterholm said. “You’d have to believe there’s been more unrecognized transmission that’s occurred.”

There is no vaccine that specifically protects against swine flu, and it was unclear how much protection current human flu vaccines might offer. A “seed stock” genetically matched to the new swine flu virus has been created by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, said Dr. Richard Besser, the agency’s acting director. If the government decides vaccine production is necessary, manufacturers would need that stock to get started.

Authorities in Mexico urged people to avoid hospitals unless they had a medical emergency, since hospitals are centers of infection. They also said Mexicans should refrain from customary greetings such as shaking hands or kissing cheeks. At Mexico City’s international airport, passengers were questioned to try to prevent anyone with flu symptoms from boarding airplanes and spreading the disease.

Epidemiologists are particularly concerned because the only fatalities so far were in young people and adults.

The eight U.S. victims recovered from symptoms that were like those of the regular flu, mostly fever, cough and sore throat, though some also experienced vomiting and diarrhea.

U.S. health officials announced an outbreak notice to travelers, urging caution and frequent handwashing, but stopping short of telling Americans to avoid Mexico.

Mexico’s Health Secretary Jose Angel Cordoba said 68 people have died of flu and the new swine flu strain had been confirmed in 20 of those deaths. At least 1,004 people nationwide were sick from the suspected flu, he said.

The geographical spread of the outbreaks also concerned the WHO — while 13 of the 20 deaths were in Mexico City, the rest were spread across Mexico — four in central San Luis Potosi, two up near the U.S. border in Baja California, and one in southern Oaxaca state.

Scientists have long been concerned that a new flu virus could launch a worldwide pandemic of a killer disease. A new virus could evolve when different flu viruses infect a pig, a person or a bird, mingling their genetic material. The resulting hybrid could spread quickly because people would have no natural defenses against it.

Still, flu experts were concerned but not alarmed about the latest outbreak.

“We’ve seen swine influenza in humans over the past several years, and in most cases, it’s come from direct pig contact. This seems to be different,” said Dr. Arnold Monto, a flu expert with the University of Michigan.

“I think we need to be careful and not apprehensive, but certainly paying attention to new developments as they proceed.”

The CDC says two flu drugs, Tamiflu and Relenza, seem effective against the new strain. Roche, the maker of Tamiflu, said the company is prepared to immediately deploy a stockpile of the drug if requested.

Both drugs must be taken early, within a few days of the onset of symptoms, to be most effective.

Cordoba said Mexico has enough Tamiflu to treat 1 million people, but the medicine will be strictly controlled and handed out only by doctors.

Mexico’s government had maintained until late Thursday that there was nothing unusual about the flu cases, although this year’s flu season had been worse and longer than past years.

The sudden turnaround by public health officials angered many Mexicans.

“They could have stopped it in time,” said Araceli Cruz, 24, a university student who emerged from the subway wearing a surgical mask. “Now they’ve let it spread to other people.”

The city was handing out free surgical masks to passengers on buses and the subway system, which carries 5 million people each day. Government workers were ordered to wear the masks, and authorities urged residents to stay home from work if they felt ill.

Closing schools across Mexico’s capital of 20 million kept 6.1 million students home, as well as thousands of university students. All state and city-run cultural activities were suspended, including libraries, state-run theaters, and at least 14 museums. Private athletic clubs closed down and soccer leagues were considering canceling weekend games.

The closures were the first citywide shutdown of public gathering places since millions died in the devastating 1985 earthquake.

Mexico’s response brought to mind other major outbreaks, such as when SARS hit Asia. At its peak in 2003, Beijing shuttered schools, cinemas and restaurants, and thousands of people were quarantined at home.

In March 2008, Hong Kong ordered more than a half-million students to stay home for two weeks because of a flu outbreak. It was the first such closure in Hong Kong since the outbreak of SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome.

“It’s great they are taking precautions,” said Lillian Molina, a teacher at the Montessori’s World preschool in Mexico City, who scrubbed down empty classrooms with Clorox, soap and Lysol between fielding calls from worried parents.

U.S. health officials said the outbreak is not yet a reason for alarm in the United States. The five people sickened in California and three in Texas have all recovered.

It’s unclear how the eight, who became ill between late March and mid-April, contracted the virus because none were in contact with pigs, which is how people usually catch swine flu. And only a few were in contact with each other.

CDC officials described the virus as having a unique combination of gene segments not seen before in people or pigs. The bug contains human virus, avian virus from North America and pig viruses from North America, Europe and Asia. It may be completely new, or it may have been around for a while and was only detected now through improved testing and surveillance, CDC officials said.

The most notorious flu pandemic is thought to have killed at least 40 million people worldwide in 1918-19. Two other, less deadly flu pandemics struck in 1957 and 1968.
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By MARK STEVENSON, Associated Press Writer Mark Stevenson, Associated Press Writer – Fri Apr 24, 7:39 pm ET
Associated Press Writers Maria Cheng in London; Traci Carl in Mexico City; Mike Stobbe in Atlanta, Georgia; and Malcolm Ritter in New York contributed to this report. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090424/ap_on_he_me/med_swine_flu

1½ cups strawberries
8 oz vanilla low fat yogurt
3/4 cup skim milk
1 Tablespoon brown sugar
1/8 teaspoon cinnamon

In a blender container combine yogurt, strawberries, milk, brown sugar, and cinnamon. Cover and blend till smooth. If desired,garnish each glass with a whole

strawberry. Makes 4 (6-ounce) servings.

Nutrition Information per Serving:
Calories 90
Carbohydrates 15 gm
Fat 1 gm
Protein 5 gm
Sodium 65 mg
Fiber 1 gm
Calcium 165 mg