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Fascinating Facts About The Cranberry Industry: Reprint from Ocean Spray Fact Sheet During the days of wooden ships and iron men, American vessels carried Cranberries. Just as the English loved limes, American sailors craved cranberries. It was the cranberry's generous supply of vitamin C that prevented scurvy. Only three major fruits are native to North America -- the cranberry, blueberry and Concord grape. If all the cranberry bogs in North America were put together, they would comprise an area equal in size to the tiny island of Nantucket -- approximately 47 square miles. Native Americans used cranberries to make a survival cake known as pemmican. They also used the fruit in poultices and dyes. American recipes containing cranberries date from the early 18th century. The hearty cranberry vine thrives in conditions that would not support most other crops: acid soil, few nutrients and low temperatures, even in summer. Contrary to popular belief, cranberries do not gro...

Check out the Pacific Coast Cranberry Web . And when you're done, sign their GuestMap . GuestMap is a cute little program, like a guest book, but a map. It's a great little feature I use on all my websites.

I am often asked how much cranberry should be consumed for health benefits. Here is the answer! For more information on cranberry health, and to see a larger version of this picture, visit the CranberryFarmers.org health page.

This is a GREAT recipe for cranberry sauce. 1 navel orange 1-1/2 C sugar 1/2 t grated ginger 4 C cranberries 1/2 C (2 oz.) toasted pecans Grate the orange peel and add to a pot with the sugar and ginger. Add the juice from the orange into the pot and simmer over medium heat until the sugar is dissolved. Add cranberries and cook until they pop - about 5 minutes. Add pecans and cool sauce.

Report questions FDA's safety procedures Posted 4/23/2006 8:02 PM ET By Rita Rubin, USA TODAY The Food and Drug Administration "lacks a clear and effective process" for managing postmarket drug safety issues, says a Government Accountability Office report out Monday. The report was requested in late 2004 by Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, chair of the Senate Finance Committee, and Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Concerns about how the FDA handled high-profile drug safety cases — two were Vioxx, the painkiller linked to heart attacks and strokes, and antidepressants, linked to suicidal behavior in children — spurred the request. "GAO observed that there is a lack of criteria for determining what safety actions to take and when to take them," the report states, noting that FDA officials, given a chance to review a draft, called its conclusions "reasonable" but did not comment on its recommendations. In an interv...

HERE is the best place for cranberry recipes. Look at the picture of that salad! YUM!!! I know what I'm making for lunch!

Now THIS is interesting!: New Study Confirms No Blood Tests for Any Mental Disorder in Psychiatry's Billing Bible of Mental "Disorders" — Diagnoses Pharmaceutically Driven University of Massachusetts psychologist Lisa Cosgrove, lead author of new study finds "No blood tests" for mental disorders and more than half of 170 "experts" who developed psychiatric diagnoses criteria had ties to pharmaceutical companies. The Citizens Commission on Human Rights, the world's leading psychiatric watchdog established by the Church of Scientology in 1969, says psychiatry's pseudoscience is finally being exposed: Click the video link to see medical experts expose the fraud of Psychiatry's Billing Bible, the DSM (may take a few minutes to download). "Every psychiatric expert involved in writing the DSM standard diagnostic criteria for disorders such as depression and schizophrenia has had financial ties to drug companies that sell medications for thos...

This is amazing: VIDEO OF MENTAL HEALTH "EXPERTS" ADMITTING THAT ADHD CANNOT BE DEFINED Recent FDA hearings have put the nation's attention on the drugs used to treat so-called ADHD. As these drugs have been linked to heart attack, sudden death and the appearance of psychotic symptoms in children, not generally at risk for such, this is definitely a positive move. But going a step further, the validity of the diagnosis of "ADHD" should also be questioned. In 1998, a group of psychiatrists and doctors attended the U.S. National Institutes of Health consensus conference on "Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder," (ADHD) and attempted to establish the criteria for diagnosing this so-called psychiatric disorder. They failed. Not only did they fail, but the only "certainty" that resulted, by their own admission, was a total inability to even define the symptoms of the ADHD label, with one of the "experts" called upon literally f...

Did you know that there's a magazine that's all about cranberries???? Well... there is! It's called Cranberries Magazine . Check it out!

Check out this wonderful interactive timeline that takes you from the begining of the Ocean Spray Cooperative to present day. Very interesting!

Here's a fun thing to do: Do you want to find out what your emotional tone is? Go HERE to take a cool online Tone Scale test.

Would you like to send someone a cranberry e-card? Well... The Cranberry Lady has them! You can send one by going HERE ... and check out the rest of her site. It's really cute!

The Cranberry Club What is The Cranberry Club? It is where you can get the lastest cranberry recipes, health tips, and more. Just go HERE to join!

This year I was invited to the speak to the Oregon Women for Agriculture about cranberries. Here I am giving my speech. It was a fun day and the women there were some of the nicest people I've ever met. They're a really wonderful group!

Here is a really great article I read this morning. It's called Clean Hands Make a Happy Life . Check it out!

Here's a great new website for both cranberry growers and cranberry lovers. It's the Pacific Coast Cranberry Web . Check it out, and sign their guest map!