Archives: 2009 April 23
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 [...]
