A Natural Success

Posted on August 25th, 2006 in Personal by Vegan Momma

I thought I would include this article. I really respect this woman’s research.

A Natural Success–Nutritional Immunologist Jau-Fei Chen

Claire Liu

Although still young, Chinese-American scientist Jau-Fei Chen has already carved out a territory of her own. Starting with immunology and combining it with Chinese herbal medicine, she has created “nutritional immunology.” Though a new field of study, its existence proves yet again the old adage that “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”

“Our immune system is like an army, protecting us from invading pathogens. B-cells produce all kinds of weapons, antibodies, which recognize different invaders. Macrophages are like street cleaners, responsible for eliminating the corpses of cells killed in battle, eating bacteria. . . ” more


Black Isn’t a Personality Type

Posted on August 25th, 2006 in Personal by Vegan Momma

Black Isn’t a Personality Type
May 12, 2002

By John H Mc Whorter
John H. McWhorter is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and an associate professor of linguistics at UC Berkeley. He is the author of “The Power of Babel.”

BERKELEY — Remember Franklin in the “Peanuts” comic strip? In the wake of the criticism of mainstream popular culture for depicting a “whitewashed” world, Charles Schulz followed a trend by introducing this little fellow in 1968. But what was Franklin “like”? Charlie Brown was a loser, Lucy was bossy, Snoopy was insane–but Franklin was, well, “black.” One of the TV specials had him giving Charlie Brown “five” once. But overall, Franklin had no personality traits at all. Beyond the tint required to render his skin tone, Franklin was a blank.

Updates

Posted on August 25th, 2006 in Personal by Vegan Momma

I finally updated to WordPress 2.0.3. The new version was automatically included on my Ferret website. I’ve been working on the main website and blogging about everything ferty. I was so impressed with the new version of WordPress that I finally updated here. It really wasn’t hard since it required me to log into my admin panel and click “update”. That was easy!

These days I’m studying

Posted on August 25th, 2006 in Clayton College of Natural Health by Vegan Momma

Ok most days I’m studying but it is usually for personal enrichment. I’m back in college again. I really like my academic advisor. She’s very personable. She’s a Naturopathic Doctor, what I’m going back to college for. We had a wonderful chat yesterday. I rarely take a lunch break at work but I’ll be doing that now. That time will be spent catching up on my studies. I’m attending Clayton College of Natural health. I’ll be taking the courses online.