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NASA to fly high school experiments.

-Pulled from UPI.com

NASA is inviting U.S. high school students to design and build an experiment or technology demonstration to be flown into the stratosphere.

The space agency says it will send the experiments into the near space environment of the stratosphere — an altitude of 100,000 feet. The Balloonsat High Altitude Flight Competition will be launched on a NASA weather balloon May 25-27 in Cleveland.

“To participate, student teams in grades nine through 12 must submit a research or flight demonstration proposal to NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland by Friday, Feb. 19,” the space agency said in a statement. “Teams of four or more may pursue a wide variety of topics in this competition, including science and weather observations, remote sensing and image processing. A panel of engineers and scientists at Glenn will evaluate and select four top-ranked proposals by Friday, March 5.”

The top four teams will be awarded travel expenses and up to $1,000 to develop their flight experiment or technology demonstration. Teams will participate in three flight days to release, track and recover their experiments.

NASA will host an informational webcast about the competition Wednesday from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. EST. A link to the webcast and additional information about Balloonsat High Altitude Flight is available at http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/balloonsat.

With Thanksgiving only a few days away and the holidays fast approaching I was trying to think of a different but fun experiment to demonstrate how the food we ingest actually assists in repairing and maintaining the health of the human body.

 Where else does one go for fun experiments but to the science wizard?  The prof., who wishes to remain anonymous, sent me this amazing list of healthy hints to the world of dietary needs and challenged myself and our afternoon tutoring group to give it a try and see what we thought.  We conducted this experiment in two days.  I informed the group that each item on the list correlated with a part of the human body and that their job was to match each food item with a part of the human anatomy and then show the group why they felt this way.  The first day we collected all of the food items listed below and discussed what body part each food item might represent.  The second afternoon we verified our hunches, wrote up our, “scientific findings”, and then made a huge salad with our left over materials from out little experiment.  It was a great way to finish off the project and celebrate a different but healthy Thanksgiving feast.

Nature is so amazing!  Too often the clues to our lives and bodies are before our very eyes and somehow we miss them.  Here is a little reminder…..

These are best & more powerful when eaten raw.
Here are some great clues as to what foods help which part of our body!

The Earth’s Pharmacy! Amazing!

A sliced Carrot looks like the human eye.  The pupil, iris and radiating lines look just like the human eye… and YES, science now shows carrots greatly enhance blood flow to and function of the eyes.

A Tomato has four chambers and is red. The heart has four chambers and is red. All of the research shows tomatoes are loaded with lycopine and are indeed pure heart and blood food.

Grapes hang in a cluster that has the shape of the heart.  Each grape looks like a blood cell and all of the research today shows grapes are also profound heart and blood vitalizing food.

A Walnut looks like a little brain, a left and right hemisphere, upper cerebrums and lower cerebellums.  Even the wrinkles or folds on the nut are just like the neo-cortex. We now know walnuts help develop more than three (3) dozen neuron-transmitters for brain function.

Kidney Beans actually heal and help maintain kidney function and yes, they look exactly like the human kidneys.

Celery, Bok Choy, Rhubarb and many more look just like bones. These foods specifically target bone strength. Bones are 23% sodium and these foods are 23% sodium. If you don’t have enough sodium in your diet, the body pulls it from the bones, thus making them weak.  These foods replenish the skeletal needs of the body.

Avocadoes, Eggplant and Pears target the health and function of the womb and cervix of the female - they look just like these organs. Today’s research shows that when a woman eats one avocado a week, it balances hormones, sheds unwanted birth weight, and prevents cervical cancers. And how profound is this?   It takes exactly nine (9) months to grow an avocado from blossom to ripened fruit. There are over 14,000 photolytic chemical constituents of nutrition in each one of these foods (modern science has only studied and named about 141 of them).

Figs are full of seeds and hang in twos when they grow.  Figs increase the mobility of male sperm and increase the numbers of Sperm as well to overcome male sterility.  

Sweet Potatoes look like the pancreas and actually balance the glycemic index of diabetics.

Olives assist in the health and function of the ovaries

Oranges, Grapefruits, and other Citrus fruits look just like the mammary glands of the female and actually assist the health of the breasts and the movement of lymph in and out of the breasts.

Onions look like the body’s cells. Today’s research shows onions help clear waste materials from all of the body cells. They even produce tears which wash the epithelial layers of the eyes.

A working companion, Garlic, also helps eliminate waste materials and dangerous free radicals from the body.

Not only was this experiment educational, it was fun, full of laughs, and after adding some salad dressing and a few crackers to it…..we even got a great meal out of it.  On the experimental scale, our group gave it a very high rating and recommended it as a must do in understanding the correlation between foods and the human anatomy.

Thanks were given to our marvelous science professor and Thanksgiving was shared this afternoon.  May you all have a wonderful and blessed holiday with your family, friends, and remember we are what we eat.