The Most Powerful and Advanced Ionizers - So much More than Clean Water ...

Last year there were more Jupiter Melody ionizers sold in the USA than by all other retail models by all other companies combined!

With a great value price, super reliability, new Biostone filter, fully automated features, 9 levels of pH, strongest ORP and two year warranty, the Melody has been the preferred choice for the USA and for such authorities as Sang Whang (author of Reverse Aging) and Dr Robert Young (author of The pH Miracle).

Although now on the market for about two years, no other company has yet produced a model like the Melody, that always gives alkaline water - even when it cleans.

No other model offers a Biostone filter as fine as .01M and no other model is as yet as reliable or powerful.

That is, no other model until Jupiter released the best of the best for those who want clean water AND the ultimate healthy water.

So what makes these latest models, the Aquarius and Orion, even more user friendly and advanced than the Melody?

The new improvements are:
Design: Until now, all ionizers had a certain Asian sameness in their design. The Aquarius and Orion/ Alphion, while identical on the inside, present to you a choice of two distinctive Westernized exteriors.

The Orion with its sleek curves and stainless steel look is an easy match for those liking understated eloquence. The Aquarius with its flat front panel, displays a subtle mix of dark crimson tones, that brings out a pleasing warmth to any kitchen.

Consistency
In the USA the water supply can vary a lot from state to state. Because of this difference in source water, different ionizers at the same alkaline settings will produce different alkaline levels. Now in the new Jupiter Aquarius and Orion there is a patented SOL valve and triple diaphragms that adjusts the water flow automatically. This means that you now get the correct pH level no matter what your input water is, or if there is a change in your water pressure or flow rate.

Durability
These new units include the patented DARC (double action reverse cleaning) system. This feature completely removes any scale from the electronic cell helping to make sure your ionizer stays in top working condition.

*** NOTE - If you are using well water, a water distiller or a Reverse Osmosis machine please contact us first so we can help you remineralize or clean your water before it enters your Jupiter ionizer.

Company Background
Jupiter Science has been making water ionizers since 1982 and before that were making medical equipment. Their research department is constantly at work looking at how to improve performance without having to increase power consumption or take up extra room with a bulky ionizing chamber.

As the leading manufacturer of quality water ionizers, Jupiter has an ISO9001 certified production plant that can produce well over 100,000 ionizers a month (90% of all water ionizers).

All Jupiter's ionization chambers are made in their Japanese factory where 21 Engineers with Doctorates continue to research and improve on design, functionality and durability. It is Jupiter models that continue to be the choice brand for such large companies as Huyundai, Samsung, LG and Toyo. Jupiter also sells more units in the USA than all the other water ionizer companies combined.

You can have confidence that Jupiter's quality control, advanced research and great pricing will make your ionizer purchase a happy and trouble-free experience.

Performance
In their latest models are five of the most advanced platinum-titanium electrodes in the world. When a cross section of an electrode is examined at 700 times magnification, you can see that the electrodes are now covered in a super fine mesh with very distinct points and valleys.

This greatly increases the surface area without having to increase the size. We guarantee that no other models, regardless of price, will produce, under similar conditions, such a high and low pH or ORP (Oxygen reduction Potential).

Ease of Use
The easy to read digital indicator tells you the remaining water filter life. Optimum performance is ensured by always changing your filter on time. In addition to the digital counter, a new indicator light will flicker when your current filter life is up, reminding you to change your filter.
Your new ionizer also has an attractive colored LCD display that easily identifies your selections. Easy to understand symbols and colors identify the type and level of water you have selected.

MICOM Technology
The MICOM control system optimizes the pH and ORP of your water and helps keeps your ionizer in top working condition. A new indicator light alerts you if service is needed on your ionizer.

3 Year Warranty: With a record low return rate on existing models, Jupiter and IonLife offer with confidence a full three year warranty on the Aquarius and Orion/ Alphion. Offering a three year warranty is another world first for Jupiter Science.

Similar to the Melody, The Aquarius and Orion also include:
A top quality, 9 step, single-body multi-stage filter. Premium filter materials ensure production of healthier and cleaner water, trapping a wide variety of contaminants while allowing beneficial minerals to pass through. These filters contain NSF carbon from the UK, Natural mineral calcium from Japan and KDFA certified Biostone ceramics from Korea.

A voice indicator that alerts you to your selection of alkaline, acidic or purified water. You can adjust the volume level or simply switch the sound ON/OFF as you desire.

9 settings of pH with easy convenience of one-touch operation.

Enhanced convenience in filter replacement - the spring-loaded filter housing makes it a snap to replace your filter.

Choice of three repair depots in the USA. We guarantee caring, ongoing support and prompt service.

Jupiter Science
Aquarius and Orion/Alphion
Energized, healthy water as close as your kitchen sink!

To order your Aquarius or Orion/Alphion go to: http://www.phmiracleliving.com/jupiter.htm
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Bad Diet? Urine Test May Tell

(HealthDay News) -- A simple test to check potassium levels in urine may help doctors assess and improve patients' eating habits, a Canadian study finds.

Diet plays a key role in overall health, especially when it comes to risks for heart disease, stroke, and cancer risk. But there is no simple, objective and inexpensive way for family doctors to assess a patient's diet, according to the researchers.

Current methods rely on asking patients to report their eating habits on questionnaires or to record their food consumption for several or more days. These approaches are time-consuming, and patients often fail to provide accurate information.

Blood and urine tests provide alternative ways to assess a person's diet. In this study, researchers focused on urinary potassium as a potentially useful marker of a healthy diet.

They noted that foods promoted by current dietary guidelines are good sources of potassium, and evidence suggests that a diet high in potassium reduces the risk of developing a number of health problems.

The researchers collected urine samples from 220 people, ages 18 to 50, who also provided information about their eating habits over the previous year. The participants' blood pressure, heart rate, weight and height were also checked.

The study found a link between increased levels of potassium in the urine, a healthier diet, and lower weight, blood pressure and heart rate.

"These findings suggest, for the first time, that the amount of potassium in the urine is a valid, objective indicator of diet quality," researcher Dr. Andrew Mente, of the Prosserman Center for Health Research in Toronto, said in a prepared statement.

"This urinary marker is a simple, objective, universally available measure of diet quality that may aid physicians in providing effective dietary counseling. Physicians can now establish targets for therapy, monitor the effectiveness of dietary interventions over time, and provide effective dietary counseling to patients at risk because of poor food choices," Mente said.

The study was to be presented Friday at the annual meeting of the American Society of Nephrology, in San Diego.

More information
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has more about healthier eating.

Health Tip: Keep a Food Diary

(HealthDay News) -- A food diary may be helpful in the battle to lose weight. It can help you track what you eat for a week or even a day, and help you realize how much every little snack matters when counting calories.

Here are suggestions on what to record, courtesy of the American Academy of Family Physicians:

• Write down the portion size of every food you eat. Record the dimensions, weight, volume or count.
• List exactly which foods you ate, including any sauces or condiments used.
• Record what time you ate, where you ate, and if you ate with company. Recording these things can help monitor trends in your eating habits.
• Include what you were doing while you were eating -- watching TV, reading, etc. -- and how you felt while you were eating.

Staying Trim on Turkey Day

(HealthDay News) -- With Thanksgiving tables expected to be laden with an abundance of food, overeating and weight gain are tough to avoid during the holiday.

But Kathy McManus, director of nutrition at Brigham and Women's Hospital, offers some advice for a healthier holiday feast.

For cooks:

• Ask guests ahead of time if they have any food allergies or dietary restrictions. Include a few dishes that suit multiple diets, such as steamed vegetables flavored with herbs.
• Experiment with recipe substitutions.
• Eat a satisfying meal before you start preparing the Thanksgiving meal in order to control your munching while you cook.
• Don't serve high-fat, high-calorie appetizers, such as dips or cheeses. Instead, serve fresh vegetables and sliced fruit.
• Skin the fat off refrigerated gravy or broth before you use it.
• Limit desserts to one or two choices and provide guests with a lower-fat, lower-calorie option.
• Plan a post-Thanksgiving stroll with your family and guests.

For guests:

• Exercise and eat healthy before Thanksgiving.
• If you have a special dietary need, offer to bring a health dish to share with the hosts and other guests.
• Eat a fiber-rich snack before the Thanksgiving meal to help prevent you from eating too much or too fast. Drink plenty of water to keep your body hydrated.
• Make wise choices when you're loading your plate. Take only small amounts of foods with saturated fat and high calorie content. Divide your plate into sections: half vegetables, a quarter lean protein and a quarter starch.
• Beware of "hidden" calories in alcoholic beverages and sugary mixed drinks.
• Limit yourself to a small serving of dessert.
• Eat slowly and stop before you're full. It takes about 20 minutes before your body registers that it's full.

More information
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has more about doing holidays the healthy way.

Heavier Young Women at Lower Breast Cancer Risk

(HealthDay News) -- Women who are heavier in young adulthood have a lower risk of developing breast cancer before they reach menopause, new research shows.

The finding, published in the Nov. 27 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, confirms and expands on previous research suggesting that larger body size before menopause helps fend off breast cancer.

That's not a license for women to gain weight, however, experts stressed.

"We have to remind women that obesity is pretty much bad for everything else and, as soon as you become postmenopausal, obesity is one of the strongest predictors of breast cancer," said lead researcher Karin B. Michels, an associate professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive biology at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

"It's never a good idea to be obese because of other health effects," added Dr. Jay Brooks, chairman of hematology/oncology at Ochsner Health System in Baton Rouge, La. "The problem is that women who are postmenopausal, which is where the largest number of breast cancers are, have a very hard time losing weight."

Recent research has shown that postmenopausal women can cut their breast cancer risk by shedding extra pounds.

However, the situation is somewhat different for younger, premenopausal females. In this group, prior studies had shown that as body-mass index (BMI) went up, breast cancer risk declined.

Some had speculated that this was because a higher BMI is associated with irregular or long menstrual cycles and the development of polycystic ovary syndrome --- all of which are associated with problems in ovulation. Ovulatory dysfunction, in turn, decreases levels of estrogen and progesterone. Lower levels of these sex hormones -- long linked to breast cancer -- could account for a lowered risk of malignancy.

For this study, Michels and her colleagues tracked outcomes for more than 113,000 premenopausal women who were part of the Nurses' Health Study II, a group of female registered nurses who have been followed by researchers since 1989. The women were followed until 2003, or until they developed breast or other cancer, died or reached menopause, whichever came first.

Women with a current BMI of 30 or higher (considered obese) had a 19 percent lower risk of breast cancer compared with those who had BMIs of 20 to 22.4 (in the normal range).
Women whose BMI at age 18 was 27.5 or higher (considered overweight) had a 43 percent lower risk of developing breast cancer, compared with women whose 18-year-old BMI was between 20 and 22.4.

"We have indeed seen this inverse association between BMI and premenopausal breast cancer, but what's new is that the earlier we go in a woman's life, the stronger that association becomes," Michels said. "BMI earlier in her life is more important than her more immediate past."

The findings held true even after adjusting for menstrual cycle patterns and infertility as a result of ovulatory disorder (usually polycystic ovary syndrome or the use of birth control pills).
"We basically figured that ovulation was not an explanation -- which had been hypothesized before, but nobody had put it to the test," Michels said.

So, the exact explanation for the weight-breast cancer link in young women remains unclear.
"We don't really know what the explanation is," Michels said.

For now, the findings may be more pertinent to researchers than to patients.

"It doesn't necessarily have clinical implications other than to say that we want to be aware of earlier life and of the importance of earlier life," Michels said. "For researchers, it is important and interesting to better understand premenopausal breast cancer, because it is not very well understood, and it's increasing. And, I think, it's particularly tragic when young women get breast cancer."

More information
Calculate your BMI at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Hormone Imbalance Could Spur Some Bed-Wetting

(HealthDay News) -- An imbalance in a hormone-like substance called prostaglandin could explain tough-to-treat bed-wetting in some children, Danish researchers report.

Most children have their bed-wetting controlled by a medication called desmopressin, which reduces the amount of urine they produce at night. But about 30 percent of kids don't respond to the drug.

"Our understanding of bed-wetting is continuously improving, and we are getting better in helping children that suffer from the condition." said lead researcher Dr. Konstantinos Kamperis, from the University of Aarhus, Denmark. "How the body treats salt may play an important role in the etiology of the condition."

His team found that children with the type of bed-wetting that does not respond to desmopressin have more salt and urea in their nighttime urine, possibly caused by an imbalance of prostaglandin.

The report is published in the December issue of the American Journal of Physiology-Renal Physiology.

Bed-wetting is a common and bothersome problem. In fact, 5 million to 7 million children in the United States ages six and over wet their beds at night, according to the National Kidney Foundation.

In the study, researchers studied 46 seven-to-14-year-old children suffering from bed-wetting, all of who were treated as outpatients at Aarhus University Hospital. The youngsters had not responded to desmopressin. This group was compared to 15 children of similar age who had no bed-wetting problem.

The children spent two nights at the hospital. The first night was to acclimatize them to the hospital environment. During the second night, the researchers collected blood and urine from the children without waking them.

"We found that bed-wetters excrete larger amounts of salt at night, probably the reason for their bed-wetting," Kamperis said. "Apart from that, these children excrete larger amounts of prostaglandins, and this could explain both the large excretion of salt at night as well as the inability of desmopressin to treat this condition," he explained.

Compared with children who responded to desmopressin, the children who did not respond excreted twice as much urine during the night. In addition, the urine of children who wet their beds during the experiment contained more sodium, urea and prostaglandin than the other children, the researchers found.

"These findings point towards new treatment possibilities for bed-wetting with agents that reduce the amount of salt excreted in urine," Kamperis said. "Such studies are being conducted at the moment. Furthermore, we would be interested in researching the exact etiology of this excess nocturnal salt excretion. That could help our understanding of bed-wetting," he added.
One expert thinks that, while it is possible that prostaglandin might be involved in bed-wetting, the data from this study can't be used to change clinical practice right now.

"This study has some biological plausibility, because some studies suggest that prostaglandin inhibitors are useful in the treatment of bed-wetting," explained Dr. Joseph G. Barone, an associate professor of pediatrics and urology at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, N.J. "Prostaglandin inhibitors include Motrin and Advil, but, in my experience, these medications have not been effective against bed-wetting," he added.

Although bed-wetting is very common, there are few basic science studies on this condition, Barone said. "This study adds useful information to the medical literature, and it may lead to further studies. However, clinical recommendations cannot be made based on the results of this study," he said.

Barone noted that desmopressin is not a cure for the problem. "It works in about 50 percent of cases, in my experience," he said. "When desmopressin works, it is not a cure, just a Band-Aid. The theory is that desmopressin reduces the amount of urine at night, and the child does not, therefore, wet the bed."

Bed-wetting continues to be a multifaceted condition that is commonly associated with developmental immaturity, Barone said. "The most compelling evidence that bed-wetting is developmental in nature is the child's natural tendency to outgrow the problem in 99 percent of cases," he said.

More information
There's more on bed-wetting at the National Kidney Foundation.

Milk May Be Pleasant Alternative for CT Scans

(HealthDay News) -- Undergoing a scan of one's intestines isn't a pleasant experience for patients with conditions like Crohn's disease, especially since it means downing a concoction made with barium.

But a new study suggests there may be a more palatable alternative: milk.

Researchers found that milk coats the intestines well enough so that radiologists can properly view the organ in a CT scan.

The milk alternative "is interesting, and it's certainly cheap enough. Reading this, I might try it on regular patients," said Dr. Laurence Needleman, chief of CT at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia.

Still, Needleman -- who's familiar with the study findings -- said milk may not be ideal for all patients, especially since it seems to produce images that are less precise.

Specific types of CT scans are often used to examine the intestines along with the liver and spleen, Needleman explained. Patients typically ingest one chemical and are injected with another; the two combine to create contrast and allow radiologists to better view the inside of the body.

In cases of Crohn's disease and other conditions, the purpose of these scans is to detect kinks or obstructions in the intestines, Needleman said.

Patients commonly drink a "contrast agent" called VoLumen, which includes barium. "I've tried it. It's one of the things I made sure I did," Needleman said. "It's not pleasant. It's not a positive experience to drink it. Drinking four glasses of milk probably will be easier."

In the new study, researchers compared VoLumen to milk in patients who were about to undergo CT scans of the abdominal/pelvic area.

Of those, 62 drank VoLumen, while 106 drank two doses of whole milk (one 400-600 milliliter glass, then a 200-400 milliliter glass -- a total of as much as one liter).

The study findings were to be presented Wednesday in Chicago at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America.

The researchers found that VoLumen was better at allowing radiologists to view certain kinds of images. However, 42 percent of VoLumen patients reported abdominal side effects -- Needleman said it can cause diarrhea -- while only 25 percent of the milk patients did.

As to cost, VoLumen was $18 per patient compared to $1.39 for those who drank milk.

"We hope that substituting milk for other contrast agents will reduce the number of people who refuse imaging tests because they do not want to drink the oral contrast, especially children," Dr. Lisa Shah-Patel, a radiology resident at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital in New York City, said in a statement. She is one of the study's authors.

But Dr. Raul N. Uppot, assistant radiologist at Harvard Medical School, is skeptical that milk will be a viable alternative. "I don't believe we should sacrifice image quality for improved tolerability," he said, adding that some patients may not be able to drink milk due to allergy, lack of ability to tolerate milk products, or existing bowel disease.

"This is only a small study, and when applied to the larger population of patients undergoing CT, I feel you will run into more complaints of discomfort and diarrhea (with milk)," he said.

In addition, Uppot said, "most patients at our institution tolerate the VoLumen with a few complaints of diarrhea."

More information
There's more on CT scans at RadiologyInfo.