If You Are Vegetarian
If you are vegetarian, you will have realised by now that it is difficult to undertake an exclusion diet and to stick to a vegetarian regime. Some of the most common problem foods – eggs, cow’s milk, cheese, grains, nuts, beans, soya, pulses – are the building blocks of a vegetarian diet. [...]
There are other tests available that, it is claimed, can identify allergies and other sensitivities. These include the cytotoxic test, in which white blood cells are exposed to allergens. This has been shown to be a valid test, but accurate only in up to 70 per cent of cases. Until its accuracy can be improved, [...]
The following is an index of clothing, listed alphabetically by category, providing detailed advice, plus sources of unusual and hard-to-find products. The sources given are mainly for pure cotton, silk and linen clothes, and clothes with low levels of chemical treatment. Wool, most synthetics, viscose and synthetic blend clothes are widely available and sources for [...]
If you are chemically sensitive generally, or if you know you are specifically sensitive to:
• Nylon
• Polycotton blends
• Latex
• Acrylics
• Other pure synthetics
you should avoid using synthetic, latex or synthetic blend bedding, mattresses and pillows.
You are unlikely to be able to use any of the anti-dust mite bedding covers and systems available which use synthetic [...]
Extracts from plants are used as ingredients in many manufactured products (including perfumes, fragrances, flavouring agents, solvents, medicines, foods, adhesives, plastics, resins, paper and fabric finishes). It is predominantly chemicals with complex structures from the oleo-resin fraction of plant chemicals that cause sensitivity – including essential oils, phenols, terpenes, resins and camphors.
Sensitivity to these is [...]
Saturated fats can raise the level of cholesterol in your blood. They tend to be found in the same foods that have cholesterol: red meats, dairy products (except for no-fat varieties] and different types of shortening. On the other hand, small amounts of polyunsaturated fats, found in vegetables such as corn, soybeans and safflower seeds, [...]
Surgical methods to improve potency have undergone major advances in recent years. Blocked arteries that prevent blood from traveling to the penis can now be reopened or bypassed. Leaky veins that sabotage erection can be tied off, restoring potency. And penile prostheses, or implants, can restore potency to men who otherwise would have to resign [...]
Jason learned a painful lesson about the importance of choosing the right doctor. It had taken this reserved and very private man a long time to finally decide to seek help for his persistent erection problem. He was too uncomfortable to really ask any questions when he made an appointment with a doctor he had [...]
Some women, especially those in relationships where potency had been a long-standing unresolved problem, felt cheated. Some saw erection as proof that they were truly desire< by their husbands, and to them, the absence of erection meant rejection. As a child, Jenny, now 47, had learned rigid ideas about what constituted “normal” sexual behavior, and [...]
This was exactly the case with Jack, a thirty-two-year-old advertising executive whose bike accident dramatically altered his life. Riding his high-tech twenty-one-speed mountain bike in one of the many regional races he entered throughout the year, he hit a patch of gravel and started to go down. Yanking his foot from the pedal in an [...]