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Passover 2010 this year falls out on March 30, 2010. The holiday will begin nightfall on Monday, March 29th will be the passover 2010 first seder. Passover will last a total of eight days outside the land of Israel, and will end on April 6th.

Passover begins early this year, so it is best to start preparing as soon as possible. If you are staying home and cooking Passover foods by yourself, there are a variety of ingredients already available for your cooking use.

There are also Passover cookies and cakes available now before the pre-Passover rush begins.

Purim has now ended. It is time to prepare for Passover 2010. Start cleaning up your home, and turning over your kitchen into a kosher-for-Passover cooking station.

Berlin, Germany - Eating pistachios daily may reduce the risk of lung and other cancers, according to a US study cited by the German Lung Foundation.
The nuts are a rich source of gamma-tocopherol, a form of vitamin E and, as such, an antioxidant. Antioxidants are substances thought to protect cells from damage that can be caused by molecules known as free radicals. This protection could help prevent cancer from developing, the foundation said.

It pointed out, however, that pistachios had a high fat content and eating large quantities of them could cause weight gain.

The foundation cited a recent study conducted at Texas Woman's University - Houston Centre. Half of the study's participants were given 68 grams of pistachios daily for four weeks in addition to their normal diet. Afterwards, the level of gamma-tocopherol in their bodies was

found to be significantly higher than that of the control group.
There is no need to fear a vitamin E overdose, the foundation noted. It said that vitamin E, in contrast to other fat-soluble vitamins, was not stored in the body's fatty tissue, but was quickly excreted by the liver and kidneys.

Source monstersandcritics.com