Archives: 2009 April
BETTER QUALITY SLEEP TO EASE AND PREVENT BACK TROUBLE: SOME OTHER POINTS TO CONSIDER
While there is a direct correlation between your sleeping pattern and back pain and sciatica, how well you sleep is also likely to have a major effect on your overall health and stress levels, which in turn may also affect your back problems. Here are some extra facts about sleep that underline the importance of [...]
BECOME A SHREWD OBSERVER OF YOUR OWN MOODS
Just as you need to have some sense of the weather in order to know how to dress and whether to take a raincoat or an umbrella along, so you need to have a good sense of your mood in order to make the necessary adjustments to your lifestyle. Sometimes fluctuations in mood occur during [...]
THE DEFINITION OF EPILEPSY
Although we hope that such gases will never be used, we have deliberately introduced the topic at this point to explain the difference between the diagnosis of ‘an epileptic seizure, and the diagnosis of ‘epilepsy’. It would clearly be ridiculous to label as ‘epileptics’ those soldiers who had convulsed on exposure to the nerve gas. [...]
SKIN PROBLEMS: WART REMOVAL
Warts are local accumulations of skin cells which have become abnormally large and adherent to one another as the result of infection with one of nine possible wart viruses. In people whose warts have become widespread and unusually persistent (warts normally disappear in about nine months), an additional factor — decreased immunity — is also [...]
CHILDREN’S HEALTH: HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE
Symptoms: Most often there are no symptoms. Possible symptoms: Headaches, pounding heartbeat, shortness of breath during exercise, flushed face. Home care: High blood pressure must be diagnosed and treated by a doctor. Precautions - Your child should have regular checkups, and the doctor should measure the child’s blood pressure during each examination. - High blood pressure can [...]
SOLUTIONS TO INFERTILITY: WHY DOES YOUR BLOOD SUGAR LEVEL RISE AND FALL?
After a meal, glucose produced by the breakdown of food (digestion) is absorbed through the wall of the intestine into the bloodstream. At this point, there is, quite naturally, a high level of glucose in the blood. Your body takes what it immediately needs for energy and then produces insulin from the pancreas in an [...]
POSTWAR TRAUMA: THE NEXT WAVE
Though Vietnam, the war most commonly associated with today’s cases of PTSD, was more than 20 years ago, that doesn’t mean that you should expect that all these wounds are healed. “You can learn to live with PTSD, but it never fully goes away,” says Mendel. In fact, when researchers at the University of Pittsburgh [...]
ARTHRITIS: BENEFICIAL SIDE-EFFECTS OF MUSSEL EXTRACT TREATMENT
There is one side-effect which is, in fact, advantageous and well worth mentioning. In almost all cases of the extract being used for the relief of symptoms of arthritis the patients concerned, whether human beings or animals, display a beneficial change in their overall condition. In human beings this is usually described by the person [...]
EATING DISORDERS: RESISTANCE
Dealing with eating disorders would be easy if all we had to do was say, “Eat normal-sized, healthy meals at regular times and you’ll be fine.” While the prescription is basically correct, nothing is that simple. Remember, anorexics often don’t think they are sick. Instead, their illness is their identity. Thinness makes them special. They [...]
GET YOUR BODY MOVING: WHEN IT COMES TO EXERCISE, THE SKY’S THE LIMIT
For most people, vacations and plane travel are times to sit back and relax. For 48-year-old Kathleen Rayson of Munich, Germany, they’re a signal to start moving. Kathleen, her husband, Tom, and their son, T. J., journey to Florida twice a year to spend time at their second home in Sarasota. In the past, Kathleen [...]
