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...easing your hangover with some prickly pear fruit extract. Researchers in?where else??New Orleans asked 55 volunteers, of ages 21 to 35, to get drunk and endure a hangover for the sake of science. Half the tipplers were given an extract of the prickly pear cactus plant before their binges; the other half were given a placebo. The following morning, people who took the cactus extract suffered significantly less from nausea, dry mouth and loss of appetite than those who got placebos. The latter group also had 40% higher blood levels of C-reactive protein, a marker for inflammation...
...makes you gag, try easing your hangover with some prickly-pear fruit extract. Researchers in--where else?--New Orleans asked 55 volunteers, ages 21 to 35, to get drunk and endure a hangover for the sake of science. Half the tipplers were given an extract of the prickly-pear cactus plant before their binges; the other half were given a placebo. the following morning, people who took the cactus extract suffered significantly less from nausea, dry mouth and loss of appetite than those who got placebos. The latter group also had 40% higher blood levels of creactive protein, a marker...
Furthermore, highly toxic pesticides and fertilizers are often used in order to give the flowers their impeccable appearance that U.S. and European markets demand. Workers handle these chemicals without proper safety equipment or training. According to Corporación Cactus, a non-governmental organization that advocates for flower workers, this exposure leads to health problems for nearly two-thirds of the work force, which is largely female. Miscarriages and birth defects are common consequences. If you would rather buy a bouquet with a less-tainted past, head to Kabloom—it sells organic flowers...
Armed combat is hardly what families hope to encounter as they head for their summer vacations in America's national parks and forests. But drug smugglers, methamphetamine cooks and cannabis cultivators are invading federal lands as never before. A U.S. Park Service ranger in Arizona's Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument was gunned down by a Mexican pot smuggler last August. In Missouri's Mark Twain National Forest, 192 meth labs have been dismantled over the past three years. And marijuana farms are infesting Kentucky's Daniel Boone National Forest and Alabama's Talladega National Forest...
...tilapia and catfish swim in a tank in the seafood department, and fresh lemongrass and rambutan are stacked in the produce aisle--all favorites of Alief's large Asian community. In San Antonio's Deco-District there are fresh-baked pan dulce and nopalitos, an edible part of a cactus plant, for the area's many Hispanic shoppers. And in Houston's Westchase H-E-B, Indian shoppers can pick up aromatic ajwain and black mustard seeds...