Friday, August 31, 2012

Vitamin B3 'helps kill superbugs'

Vitamin B3 'helps kill superbugs'
Vitamin B3 could be the new weapon in the fight against superbugs such as MRSA, researchers have suggested. US experts found B3, also known as nicotinamide, boosts the ability of immune cells to kill Staphylococcus bacteria. B3 increases the numbers and efficacy of neutrophils, white blood cells that can kill and eat harmful bugs.

Monday, August 27, 2012

Three Sisters

This was called the Three Sisters.

Make a depression in a small dirt hill

Place two or three small fish and drop in corn, bean and squash seeds

The corn provides a trellis for the beans, the squash shades the ground to keep it moist and to keep weeds away. Corn takes nitrogen from the soil, beans put it back.