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How to Tell If an Egg Has Gone Bad

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Useful information from Bon Appétit tells you how to distinguish good eggs from bad. The method is simple: All you have to do is drop them in water. If they sink, they’re fresh; if they’re submerged with the wide end up they’re old but still useful. But if they float, they’re bad.

With that out of the way, all we have to do is talk about how good eggs are for your health and as a palate-pleasing entrée on your plate. The myth that eggs are bad for you has pretty much been proven for what it is: a myth. The truth is you can easily eat a dozen eggs a week with no adverse health events, as studies now show that eating that many eggs has no effect on cholesterol levels or triglyceride levels compared to eating less than two eggs per week — even for people with heart disease or type 2 diabetes.

One of the great things about eggs is that they’re abundant in antioxidants and vitamins such as choline, lutein, zeaxanthin, copper, calcium and folate — all things that many people are deficient in. When eating eggs, be sure to consume the yolks, which are full of these substances and more, including omega-3 fats. Egg yolks provide other valuable vitamins (A, D, E and K), too, most of which are not found in egg whites.

When choosing eggs, either get them from someone local who raises their own free-ranging, pastured chickens or always look for organic brands at the store, with labels that say the chickens were raised in free-range pastures.

Source:mercola.com

I Had No Idea Drinking From Copper Can Do THIS To My Body – Ancient Egyptians Secrets

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When it comes to dishware, almost everyone has a favorite go-to look.

You might be hard-pressed to find a connection between your dishware and your health, but trust us, it’s there.

More specifically, it’s in the material; people have suspected for millennia that there’s something special about cups crafted from copper.

Since ancient Egyptian times, people have worn copper jewelry against their skin, and stored water in copper jars, citing extensive medical benefits.

Today, science shores up those claims, with many scholarly studies confirming that copper is a “contact killer” for many harmful materials.

While too much copper is bad for the body, you can still harness its benefits at home with ease, by taking up the ancient Vedic practice of drinking out of a copper cup or vessel, no more than four times a week.

It’s a simple lifestyle change that can make a major difference in your health!

HOW DOES COPPER AFFECT OUR BODIES?

In addition to being used for jewelry and tools, copper has a long history of being used for its medicinal properties.

Both ancient Egyptians and the Vedic people of India used copper vessels to store large amounts of water — as it was noticed these vessels kept water fresh, and thus was safer to drink.

Today, that observation is backed by science, and — though copper is a heavy metal not safe to consume in large quantities — small amounts of the metal may have remarkable effects on overall physical health.

So grab your favorite copper mug (buy here) and learn how drinking from this special metal could benefit your health!

COPPER BENEFIT #1: STIMULATES THE BRAIN

We all know how frustrating it can be to feel slow and sluggish. The key to speeding up your brain on a slow day may lie in adding copper to your system.

Copper as a micronutrient is known to stimulate your body to restore and produce myelin sheaths, which are a key part of the nervous system in the brain, and allow synapses to jump from point A to point B.

Essentially, improving the health of your myelin sheaths with copper will make it easier for those synapses to fire lightning-fast.

COPPER BENEFIT #2: SOOTHES JOINTS

There’s long been a rumor that consuming copper or wearing it against your skin is an effective treatment against joint pain, especially if the copper oxidizes and turns green, turning the skin around it green as well.

This particular treatment may be more folktale than actual remedy, but the theory is that the copper can help promote the growth of lost cartilage, which can relieve some pain associated with arthritis and other joint pain.

While the scientific community is dubious, many longtime practitioners swear by copper for sore and swollen joints.

COPPER BENEFIT #3: AIDS THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM

Consuming small amounts of copper may help your body to digest more efficiently, because copper may stimulate the contraction of digestive muscles that helps move waste through the intestines, toward elimination.

It also kills bacteria, which can be helpful for eliminating dangerous microorganisms that cause stomach unrest.

That said, copper consumption should be limited to prevent it from damaging your “good” gut bacteria.

COPPER BENEFIT #4: BALANCES THE THYROID

Copper is one of many trace nutrients that the body needs to perform daily functions.

Specifically, thyroid disorders such as hypo- or hyperthyroidism are often associated with copper deficiency in the system.

The illness are associated with major weight changes, hormonal fluctuations, and mood changeability, so supplementing your copper intake may help the body to balance its thyroid function and restore order.

COPPER BENEFIT #5: SUPPORTS CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM

Copper intake isn’t a catchall solution for all cardiovascular problems, but it has been demonstrated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture that copper may improve heart and vascular health when taken as a supplement.

While copper is by no means a replacement for a healthy lifestyle and physician-prescribed medication, supplementary copper may help to reduce arterial plaque and open up blood vessels, helping to prevent or improve blockages.

COPPER BENEFIT #6: STRENGTHENS HAIR

As a micronutrient, copper is a major component in producing melanin, which is a core part of hair health. Copper may be especially beneficial to restoring thinning hair.

It may also help for regrowing hair after chemotherapy, because it enlarges the hair follicles and reduces the time it takes for hair to grow and add length.

They may also naturally slow graying by increasing melanin in the hair.

COPPER BENEFIT #7: SUPPORTS THE LIVER AND SPLEEN

While it’s not necessarily known that copper is beneficial for the liver and spleen, it’s an old piece of Vedic wisdom that it’s healthy for the liver, spleen, and lymphatic system.

This may only be true in case of copper deficiency, since the liver is responsible for filtering out excess copper and other metals in the blood.

COPPER BENEFIT #8: IMPROVES SKIN

The same melanin production that’s so beneficial to your hair is also extremely beneficial to your skin.

Copper peptides can help promote healthy skin cells production and smoothness, and are especially good for healing damaged or dry skin.

They also promote collagen production, which improves skin elasticity and health.

Copper bed rails kill hospital-related infections on contact

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  • Copper is a bacterium’s worst nightmare, so researchers are coating hospital bed rails in it to curb the hundreds of millions of cases of healthcare-acquired infections around the world.
  • You know what’s not cool? Checking yourself into hospital for one illness, only to contract another illness purely by virtue of the fact that you’re currently in a hospital. That’s bad news for everyone, because you have to stay in hospital for longer, which means more cost for hospital to keep you there and treat you.

    But new research has come up with a way to curb all the gross infections spread in hospital wards – copper bed rails. Because, apparently, copper kills everything.

    According to the US Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, one in 25 hospital patients are affected by hospital-related infections, such as pneumonia, urinary tract infections, and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), and it costs $40 billion a year to treat them.

  • For developing countries, that rate is even higher. In Australia, there are reportedly around 200,000 cases in hospitals every year. Sometimes people die from these infections.

    Eighty percent of these infections are spread because of surface contact in hospitals, and the biggest offender is the bed safety railing, touched by all manner of staff and patients throughout the day. Calling them “the most contaminated surface”in the room, researcher Constanza Correa from a Chile-based start-up called Copper BioHealth has installed 150 copper bed rails in four hospitals around the country to see if they can curb the rate of infection.

    It sounds odd, but copper is actually a known microbe killer. In fact, according to Hannah Bloch at NPR, people have known about its antimicrobial properties since at least 2,600-2,000 BC, when an ancient Egyptian medical text was written about how it could be used to sterilise wounds and treat water. “Bacteria, yeasts and viruses are rapidly killed on metallic copper surfaces, and the term ‘contact killing’ has been coined for this process,” Correa and her team report in the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 

    Talking to Goats and Soda, Correa says these copper railings cost between $60 to $100 per bed per month, which seems pretty steep, but she says by reducing the cost of infection treatment, they’ll have paid for themselves within three years.

    While the results of Correa’s copper bedrail experiment are yet to be published,Bloch points to another study that was published by US researchers last year. Reporting in the journal Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, the team led by Cassandra D. Salgado from the Medical University of South Carolina in the US reported that the presence of copper bed rails “reduced the number of healthcare-acquired infections from 8.1 percent in regular rooms to 3.4 percent in the copper rooms”.

    It’s not entirely clear why copper, as Correa puts it, “kills everything”. It’s been suggested that the process occurs in two stages – firstly as soon as a single-cell bacterium comes into contact with a copper surface, the interaction causes its outer membrane to rupture and become full of holes.

    According to the International Copper Association (ICA), this occurs because this outer membrane is maintained by a “stable electrical micro current”, also known as a transmembrane potential, which causes a voltage difference between the inside and outside of the bacterium. “It is strongly suspected that when a bacterium comes in contact with a copper surface, a short circuiting of the current in the cell membrane can occur,” says the ICA. “This weakens the membrane and creates holes.”

    The other option is that copper molecules can actual cause ‘rust’ to occur in the cell membrane.

    Now that the bacterium’s outer membrane is full of holes, we arrive at the second deadly stage – copper ions start rushing into the single-cell bacterium, overwhelming it and grinding its metabolic activity to a halt. “The bacterium can no longer ‘breathe’, ‘eat’, ‘digest’ or ‘create energy’,” says the ICA, and so it dies.

    Correa says if their experiment proves a success, she’ll push for copper surfaces elsewhere in hospitals, such as on bedside tables, IV poles, and mattress covers.

    Sources: NPR, International Copper Association

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