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 My favorite line about eggplant is from “How to Pick a Peach,” an appreciation of seasonal produce by Russ Parsons. “Let’s get one thing straight: most eggplants are not bitter (even though they have every right to be after everything that has been said about them).”
People do have strong feelings about eggplant. If they don’t like it, they usually cite its bitterness or heaviness. Salting does improve eggplant’s texture if it’s to be fried, Parsons notes, but that’s the only reason to purge it.
The problem with frying is that eggplant will soak up every ounce of fat in the skillet, which is why so many eggplant dishes are heavy. But there’s an alternative. I get around frying eggplant, even in dishes where eggplant is sautéed, by roasting it first. Then I cut it into pieces and cook it again with the other ingredients in the dish. Roasted eggplant has a deep, complex flavor. As long as you don’t need firm slices, roasting is a great way to avoid making it heavy. The New York Time
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 New research from Canada suggests that some studies have exaggerated the benefits of the flu vaccine in reducing death rates among elderly patients and that while it confers protection against specific flu strains, other factors like unidentified "healthy user" effects have produced small but statistically insignificant reductions in all-cause mortality rates.
The study was led by principal investigator Dr Sumit Majumdar, associate professor in the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and is published in the first issue for September of the American Thoracic Society's American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
Majumdar and colleagues found that the widely held perception that flu shots reduced death risk in the elderly did not stand up to scrutiny. Medical News Today
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The Dalai Lama is in hospital in Mumbai, India with "abdominal discomfort ... and there is no cause for concern," Reuters reports, quoting a hospital spokesman who called the Dalai Lama "cheerful."
A statement posted on the Dalai Lama's official web site yesterday attributed the Dalai Lama's discomfort to "exhaustion" and said the Dalai Lama has cleared his schedule for the next three weeks while he undergoes more medical tests.
The brief statement reads, in full, "His Holiness the Dalai Lama has been experiencing some discomfort in the past couple of days. His personal physicians attributed this to exhaustion and have advised him to cancel his engagements for the time being and instead complete the remaining medical tests that began earlier this month in Mumbai [the Indian city formerly called Bombay]. It has therefore been decided that all his schedules for the next three weeks, including the visit to Mexico and the Dominican Republic, are being canceled with immediate effect."
That statement leaves a lot of questions unanswered, such as the type of discomfort the Dalai Lama -- who is 73 years old -- has been having, what medical tests he has already had, and what additional medical tests he will get in Mumbai. WebMD
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 A pioneering global study of people with cardiac disease has confirmed the major role that heart beat rate plays in the risk of heart attack.
The study took in 11,000 people, across 33 countries, who were already receiving treatment for heart problems.
Those who had a heart rate above 70 beats per minute were found to have a significantly higher incidence of fresh heart attacks, new hospital admissions and the need for surgery.
"If you have a high heart rate there was an increase in heart attack, there was about a 46 per cent increase in hospitalisations for non-fatal or fatal heart attack," University of Sydney professor of cardiology Ben Freedman told AAP from Munich. Life & Style
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 A genetic link controlling both appetite and fertility has been found by US researchers.
A gene, TORC1, appears to act as a "master switch", switching off food intake and allowing pregnancy.
The gene probably offered an evolutionary advantage, by stopping women getting pregnant in times when food was scarce, the researchers said.
Mice lacking the gene were unable to reproduce, and grossly overweight, reported the journal Nature Medicine.
Both underweight and severely overweight women may have fertility problems, and the research at Salk Institute in California is suggesting that TORC1 may play a role in both. BBC News
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Children love playing video games, and playing active versions of these games may help stop children from becoming obese, University of Hong Kong researchers report.
In fact, children playing active video games have higher heart rates and burn four times as many calories a minute than children playing passive video games, according to this new study. USA Today
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 Coccidia are single-celled intestinal parasites that currently represent one of the greatest challenges to the broiler industry. To keep the level of infection low, farmers commonly add coccidia-inhibiting chemicals (coccidiostats) to broiler feed. While this does not kill the parasites, it greatly reduces the incidence of overt sickness and death from infection. While clinical coccidiosis is therefore not a problem, veterinary authorities have never been able to gauge the extent of subclinical coccidiosis and the consequences this may have for animal welfare issues and production costs.
In her doctorate, Anita Haug looked at the incidence, epidemiology and significance of coccidiosis in the broiler industry in Norway. In order to complete such an extensive study, it was necessary for her to use diagnostic tools that could identify relevant coccidia strains quickly and reliably.
Existing test methods proved inadequate, and in several instances, intestinal changes characteristic of coccidia were not specifically identified by existing test methods. Haug therefore developed new test methods by simplifying traditional ones, and also developed a robust, effective and sensitive molecular-biological test. Science Daily
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 More than a hundred years ago, the Gila River, siphoned off by farmers upstream, all but dried up here in the parched flats south of Phoenix, plunging an Indian community that had depended on it for centuries of farming into starvation and poverty.
If that was not bad enough, food rations sent by the federal government — white flour, lard, canned meats and other sugary, processed foods — conspired with the genetic anomalies of the Indians to sow an obesity epidemic that has left the reservation with among the highest rates of diabetes in the world.
Now, after decades of litigation that produced the largest water-rights settlement ever in Indian country, the Indians here are getting some of their water back. And with it has come the question: Can a healthier lifestyle lost generations ago be restored? The New York Time
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 Scientists in New Zealand found that while they observed systemic and airway inflammation in people with obesity and asthma, two diseases that are known to be strongly linked in some way, there was no clear evidence of an interaction between the two.
The study appears in the first issue for September of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, published by the American Thoracic Society, and was the work of lead researcher, Dr D Robin Taylor, from the University of Otago in New Zealand, and colleagues.
Inflammation is one characteristic shared by asthma and obesity, and animal studies have suggested that obesity causes airways to trigger an immune response, but human studies have failed to show clear evidence of either an additive or synergistic link between asthma and obesity via the inflammation route. Medical News Today
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Your Chances of Good Health Have a Lot to Do With Where You Live.
A girl born today can expect to live to be either more than 80 years old or less than 45 depending on what country she calls home, according to a World Health Organization (WHO) report.
The report addresses health inequities because of economic status -- worldwide as well as within individual countries. It calls for closing health inequities within a generation.
"Inequities in health, avoidable health inequities, arise because of the circumstances in which people grow, live, work and age, and the systems put in place to deal with illness," the report states. "The conditions in which people live and die are, in turn, shaped by political, social and economic forces."
WHO set up the Commission on Social Determinants of Health in 2005 "to marshal the evidence on what can be done to promote health equity and to foster a global movement to achieve it." WHO is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations. WebMD
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Yoga A great tool in kicking caffeine and cigarette cravings, yoga helps addicts regain a sense of grounding. As yoga aims to discipline erratic breathing habits, the ancient Indian form sparks extreme clarity and encourages people to take a good, hard look at their lifestyle. For those struggling with addictions, it's a terrific way to pinpoint where a habit stems from mentally. So, if you're desperate for the "calming effect" a cigarette gives you or the "alertness" a shot of coffee provides and you manage to find the same feeling through a yoga session, you may be able to replace your addiction with regular practice. It's certainly a far healthier alternative. Celebrity fans Jennifer Aniston kicked the fags and took up organic food as a result of yoga and Gwyneth Paltrow shunned alcohol after regular sessions. Christy Turlington and Julia Roberts have also managed to give up smoking through yoga. Life & Style
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 Pregnant women have been told that using perfumes or scented creams may increase the risk of unborn boys developing infertility in later life.
Edinburgh University researchers claimed a crucial window between eight and 12 weeks of pregnancy determined future reproductive problems.
They believe that exposure to chemicals found in cosmetics during this period may affect later sperm production.
But they stressed there was not yet conclusive proof this was the case.
The research team was led by Professor Richard Sharpe of the Medical Research Council's Human Reproductive Sciences Unit, based in Edinburgh. BBC News
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