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NITRATES AND NITRITES

admin — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 10:48:11 +0000

Many foods today, particularly all processed meats, are preserved with these toxic chemicals. They are used on fresh meats to enhance the color. Even baby foods contain nitrates. Also, nitrate fertilizers, commonly used today, contaminate the soil and pollute the water supplies.

Nitrosamines, formed in the body from ingested nitrates and secondary amines, are extremely toxic and proven carcinogenic substances. They cause cancer in the liver, stomach, brain, esophagus, bladder, kidneys and several other organs. They also cause high blood pressure and heart disease.

Nitrates and nitrites interfere with the conversion of carotene into vitamin A in the body, and even destroy the body’s own storage of vitamin A.

Protection

1. Vitamin С. Large doses up to 5,000 mg. a day. In acute cases of poisoning, 2,000 mg. every one and one-half hours for one day, then reduce to 5,000 mg. a day. A recent study conducted at the University of Nebraska’s Eppley Institute For Cancer Research, showed that vitamin С can effectively neutralize and destroy nitrites in the stomach, and prevent their conversion into the nitrosamines. Vitamin С should always be taken in large doses when nitrite containing foods have been eaten. It is best to use vitamin С daily as a preventive measure, as these toxins are hard to avoid these days.

2. Vitamins B-complex, A, E and Lecithin are other substances that have been found to be helpful in neutralizing or minimizing the damaging effect of nitrates and nitrites.

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GENERAL HEALTH

IMMUNITY AND INFECTION

admin — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 10:47:21 +0000

Pain, rest, and inflammation, then, are protective devices, guarding our bodies against injuries. It seems certain that the greatest injuries sustained are the results of infection. Our chief infections are from bacteria, animal parasites, and viruses.

Probably most of you think of bacteria as little “bugs” causing disease. You are mostly wrong. In the first place they are plants; and secondly, the different kinds of bacteria in the world are as the sands of the sea, and only a few kinds cause disease. The others have useful jobs and animal life could not exist without them.

Somewhere about the time of our Civil War, Louis Pasteur, a French chemist, showed that fermentation and putrefaction always were caused by living organisms. If I remember rightly, the first disease that he showed to be produced in this way was a blight attacking silk worms. Quickly after that, many diseases attacking human beings were shown to be due to bacteria, a particular kind producing each disease.

These latter bacteria are called pathogenic, which means disease producing and they attack only living tissue. They have been well advertised. Probably less well known to you are the saprophytic, which work only on dead organic matter, that is, plants and animals, and break it up. If it were not for them, the whole world would soon be buried in dead matter.

Innumerable are the good deeds done by bacteria. Collecting nitrogen is one of the chief of these. The animal body is largely protein, and the distinctive thing about protein is that it contains nitrogen. The supplies of nitrogen on the earth are limited but the air is mostly nitrogen. Certain bacteria collect this air nitrogen for the plants and then it comes automatically to us.

Even in the body there are many bacteria that do us no harm but are actually necessary for our health. One of the bad things about the modern antibiotic treatment is that not only the disease-producing bacteria are killed off but also the helpful ones suffer at times the same fate with bad results for us. One unfortunate fellow that I know was given penicillin and for some weeks was miserable with a sore throat and cough. After a heavy steel instrument was put through his mouth and throat and a piece cut out of a vocal cord, it was found that, the normal bacteria having been killed off, the yeast took that opportunity to grow in abundance and irritate him.

So you see that you must be careful how you condemn and chastise whole groups, either of people or bacteria.

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GENERAL HEALTH

CHILD’S HEALTH/INFECTIOUS DISEASES: CHICKENPOX (VARICELLA) CLINICAL FEATURES

admin — Thu, 21 May 2009 07:19:44 +0000

The incubation period for chickenpox is 2-3 weeks after contact. Symptoms tend to be much milder in children than in adults, so you may actually be doing your child a favour if you let him catch chickenpox! The illness usually starts with a general feeling of tiredness and lethargy, which is soon followed by the outbreak of a characteristic rash. At first this rash appears as red spots which develop into crops of small blisters over the trunk. These begin to appear soon on the rest of the body, and may occur even in the mouth, ears or on the genitalia. The blisters are extremely itchy, and new ones keep forming as older ones are scabbing over and drying up. Your child remains contagious until the last blister has scabbed over and the blisters are all dry. The scabs may take several weeks to fall off. The rash does not leave any scars unless your child scratches the blisters or scabs, or they become infected. The rash may be accompanied by a fever, which is usually more marked in adults.

In healthy children complications of chickenpox are unlikely, although they do occasionally occur. These include pneumonia and encephalitis. Children who have reduced immunity, such as those with cancer or those taking immunosuppressant medication, can suffer severe attacks of chickenpox and should be kept away from those who have it. Elderly people cannot get shingles from chickenpox, but children can develop chickenpox after contact with someone who has shingles.

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YOUR MARITAL HEALTH/WIVES’ SEXUALITY: “ORGASMIC DYSFUNCTION”

admin — Mon, 18 May 2009 12:26:17 +0000

Orgasmic denial was replaced with orgasmic obligation, and capacity was mistaken for requirement. Women were no longer to be made love “to” but to be made love “for.” The female sexual-response cycle was seen as separate in many ways from the male’s, totally devoid of a refractory period, and dependent on much more general, romantic stimulation than the male’s. Women were now seen as intensely responsive, multiply orgasmic sexual athletes who, once appropriately and rigorously stimulated, lost all control, succumbing to their unlimited “carnal lust.” Men had to learn, according to the third perspective, to harness this infinite lust through clever stimulation, self-control, timing, endurance, and the patience to wait for the emergence of this special sexual capacity. Why they were no longer sexual objects to be used and abused, women were now to be “handled with care,” erotic puzzles to be solved by liberated men.

Women were never seen as prematurely orgasmic. Indeed, there was no limit to their sexual capacity. Only men “came too soon.” Women were seen as having “orgasmic dysfunction,” as not having orgasms or not having enough or intense-enough orgasms. Men, of course, were always easily orgasmic. In fact, they were seen as too easily orgasmic in comparison to these sexual women whose orgasmic threshold was high and required intense, generalized, and prolonged stimulation in order for “the force” to be released.

For men, the female orgasm became a goal. For women, it became an assignment, a signal of the effectiveness of their male partner. Even though many women talked privately of the fact that orgasms were highly subjective and that sometimes they were totally irrelevant to sexual fulfillment, they knew they had better have them if sexual relationships were to flourish. Group therapy for women was offered, “orgasm groups” helping women to find the way to their inner sexual potential. If men had their orgasms too soon, women tended to take too long. While men put desensitizing creams on their penises to numb themselves, women sought “sexual inventions” for easy orgasmic release. They discovered a magical spot that could help with all of this. After all, we were now living in a pushbutton culture, so why not look for the female sex button? Men didn’t need one, because they were turned on all the time anyway, but it seemed important to look for the female “on switch.”

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TRUE HEALING – PRACTICAL ADVICE/DETOXIFICATION PROCESS: OXYGEN THERAPIES – OZONE TREATMENT

admin — Mon, 18 May 2009 09:24:32 +0000

Ozone (03) is a very active form of oxygen. It exists naturally in the atmosphere – it is created from molecular oxygen (02) by the UV rays from the sun. Ozone is the essential ingredient of fresh air. Ozone is unstable: it breaks down into oxygen after only a few minutes at room temperature (25 deg C), but its supplies are continuously updated using the UV energy from the sun. High in the mountains there is a lot of ozone in the air. We can create ozone in our home, by yet again imitating the ways of nature: using a quartz lamp to generate UV rays. Because ozone is so active, it neutralises (by oxidisation) all odours very effectively. Breathing air, with the concentration of ozone similar to that in the mountains, is quite beneficial. Be careful not to exceed natural concentrations of ozone in the air you breathe. Your body will give you a warning if you are doing so: dryness of the throat and/or discomfort in your lungs. Do not ignore it.

Do not ever breathe ozone produced using a high voltage arc. Such ozone is initially very hot and it is so active, that it reacts with the nitrogen in the arc plasma, creating nitrogen oxides, which are quite toxic. The air around a high voltage arc contains not only ozone, but also nitrogen oxides, which are dangerous.

“Cold” ozone, generated at low room temperature by an UV quartz lamp is safe. Such “cold” ozone is naturally produced in the atmosphere by the activity of the sun and is an essential ingredient of fresh air.

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MIGRAINE – MIGRAINE HEADACHES

admin — Fri, 15 May 2009 09:46:32 +0000

Migraine headaches rarely last beyond one day and, if not relieved with drugs, may go once the person goes to sleep. Where the headache persists for days, it is usually initially a migraine which develops into a tension headache and the sufferer has difficulty separating them.

Ergotamine is a drug which constricts the arteries and is the treatment of choice for most vascular headaches. These drugs are often combined with an antihistamine to stop nausea and vomiting.

They must be taken at the onset of the migraine so as to abort an attack.

Ordinary analgesics, even strong ones, are of little use in relieving migraine. The stronger narcotic drugs like morphine and pethidine should be used with extreme caution.

If the attacks are infrequent, taking an ergota-mine preparation to relieve the attack is all that is necessary. More severe or frequent attacks usually require the use of one of the preventive drugs taken on a regular basis, usually for many months.

Some cases resistant to other measures do well with manipulation of the neck, hypnosis or acupuncture.

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CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME – GENERAL INFORMATION

admin — Fri, 15 May 2009 07:58:04 +0000

It is common in pregnancy and here it is believed to be due to swelling of the nerve and the overlaying band of ligament as part of the general retention of fluid in the body which may occur in pregnancy.

It may be relieved if the pregnant woman takes a diuretic; a drug that washes fluid and salt from the body. The symptoms are usually relieved following delivery.

Carpal tunnel syndrome causes pain in the hand and fingers, but this pain may spread up the forearm as well.

Pins and needles and numbness may affect the hands and fingers. The fifth finger is never involved because of its different nerve supply.

Patients may be unaware that the little finger is not involved and claim that their symptoms involve the whole hand. But when they are made aware of it and they take particular note, they will find that this finger is spared.

That is a very important point in making the diagnosis. Pressure on the nerve in the neck will usually involve all five digits. Sometimes weakness and inco-ordination of the muscles, particularly those of the thumb, may be part of the problem.

The pain appears to be worse following use of the hand but it also commonly comes on at night and may wake the person in the early hours of the morning. It is usually relieved by hanging the hand down over the side of the bed.

In mild cases the use of one of the antiinflammatory drugs to relieve the inflammatory swelling of the nerve in the tunnel may produce relief. This is often combined with the taking of a diuretic to reduce fluid retention.

If these simple measures do not work, it is worth a trial of applying a plaster of Paris splint to the wrist to be worn only at nights.

Nerve conduction studies will confirm the diagnosis. Where conservative measures fail, operation gives excellent results.

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CHILDREN’S MENINGITIS: PRECAUTIONS AND TREATMENT

admin — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:46:37 +0000

Precautions

• The unnecessary use of antibiotics for an upper respiratory tract infection may mask the onset of meningitis.

• A child who is suffering from exhaustion or extreme weakness, and who has fever and a stiff neck is in danger and should be taken to a medical facility immediately.

Medical treatment

Your doctor will take the child’s complete medical history and perform a thorough examination. The doctor will then order a spinal tap. Spinal fluid will be examined for cells, bacteria, and abnormal chemical components. This is the only way to differentiate between meningitis and encephalitis (inflammation of the brain), which is also a life-threatening disease. The doctor will also require cultures of the spinal fluid, blood, and nose and throat mucus. Immediately following the spinal tap and cultures your doctor will administer intravenous fluids and antibiotics. If the infecting organism is unknown, the doctor may put the child on two antibiotics at the same time. If the meningitis turns out to be caused by a virus, no antibiotics will be used, since viruses do not respond to antibiotics.

If your child has been in contact with a person with meningococcal or Haemophilus influenzae meningitis, your doctor may choose to administer penicillin, sulphonamide, or rifampin by mouth prevent your child from developing meningitis.

Vaccines against meningococci, pneumococci, and Haemophilius influenzae are available, but they are still in the experimental stage and not currently recommended for general use.

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SELF-HELP PREVENTION: HEAT RASH (PRICKLY HEAT) AND HEATSTROKE

admin — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:31:45 +0000

Heat rash (prickly heat)

It is an itching skin condition caused by heavy sweating (usually in hot climates). Little red pimples occur in sweaty areas.

What causes it?

Inflammation of the sweat ducts.

Prevention

• In hot and sweaty climates reduce your physical activity and hence the amount you sweat.

• Don’t drink hot drinks.

• Wear as few clothes as possible, preferably made of light, natural fibres.

• Shower in tepid water and use no soap. Dry carefully and use a dusting powder.

• Soothe the bad areas with calamine lotion.

Heatstroke

Heat stroke is a condition in which the body is unable to lose heat, for example in extremely hot climates in which the air is hotter than the body so that the body does not lose heat into the air. It can also occur in very humid conditions in which the body is unable to sweat and so lose heat. The skin is hot, dry and red, and the sufferer has a rapid pulse and a high temperature and may also vomit and be irritable. If severe, it can lead to a coma.

What causes it?

An inability of the body to cool off by normal heat loss or via sweating (which also reduces body temperature).

Prevention

• Avoid extremely hot situations.

• Drink ice-cold liquids to lower the body temperature.

NB This is not a treatment. No one with this condition should be cooled quickly.

• When in hot climates wear thin, natural-fibre clothes and keep out of the direct sun.

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THE DANGERS FOR WOMEN WHO CONTINUE TO SMOKE

admin — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 08:11:28 +0000

The bad news is that women are continuing to smoke, and younger women are taking it up more readily than did their mothers at the same age. Approximately 40 percent of teenage girls, but only 30 percent of teenage boys, are reported to be smokers.

For women who smoke, the facts are simple:

• Premenopausal smokers have three times the heart attack rate of their nonsmoker colleagues.

• Women smoking more than forty cigarettes a day increase their heart attack risk by twenty fold.

• Combining smoking with diabetes hugely increases the heart attack risk in women, well above that in similar men.

• Oral contraceptive users who smoke heavily increase their risk of thrombosis in the pelvis, legs, and brain. The risk rises very steeply from their mid-thirties onwards.

Surgery for Women with Angina

Women with angina who are offered a coronary artery bypass operation should accept the chance. Even though they tend naturally to have narrower coronary arteries than men, the results of bypass grafts in women and men are equally good. Women with angina who have never had a heart attack do even better after bypass surgery than similar men.

So go for it! Your doctors have been alerted to the fact that you have had a raw deal and need to be treated more vigorously.

For your own part, recognize that you are at risk by not ignoring that pain in your chest. Do not smoke—at all. Have regular health checks. If you have high blood pressure and /or diabetes, be meticulous about their control. And try to keep to a normal weight—not overweight, but not too thin, either. Finally, if you are menopausal or older, do consider HRT It could do your heart a lot of good.

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