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2009-05-08T12:10:05+0000">May 8, 2009 – 12:10 pm
Most recent research now shows the importance of dietary fat in causing increases in body fat. National health targets recommend a reduction in the contribution of fat as a proportion of daily energy intake in adults to 30 per cent. This is a conservative recommendation and takes into consideration what is realistic for individuals to [...]
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2009-05-08T08:57:13+0000">May 8, 2009 – 8:57 am
Visualisation will not get rid of your pain completely or permanently but it should give you a ‘time out’ period where you can use your imagination to create mental images that blot out your pain.
You may focus on your pain by imagining that you are in an open field on a warm sunny day. Just [...]
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2009-05-08T08:49:06+0000">May 8, 2009 – 8:49 am
The pelvic pain associated with endometriosis is not necessarily felt at the time of menstruation but it may trouble the woman at any time throughout die menstrual cycle. The nature of the pain varies widely but it may be described as a dragging or pulling sensation, a sharp tug, or a constant dull ache or [...]
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2009-04-29T10:01:29+0000">April 29, 2009 – 10:01 am
The major organs of the urinary system are the kidneys and the bladder, attached to each other and the outside of the body by tubes. Strictly speaking, however, the process of urination, the removal of wastes from the body, begins at cellular level. As all cells function, converting food into energy and repairing body tissue, [...]
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2009-04-29T08:44:05+0000">April 29, 2009 – 8:44 am
Should we reserve judgement about the effectiveness of St John’s Wort pending the conclusion of the latest studies ?
There does not seem to be much merit in this argument. In the use of St John’s Wort to treat depression, the Europeans have been leaders for over 350 years. Since the publication of Commission E in [...]
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2009-04-28T12:20:13+0000">April 28, 2009 – 12:20 pm
The taking of a medical history also reveals the difference between ours and the traditional approach. Traditional medicine is centered on the body and its various organs. It is called anthropocentric, or body-centered, medicine. A traditional doctor is mainly concerned with treating the body and focusing primarily upon the most distressing physical symptom or “chief [...]
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2009-04-28T11:26:34+0000">April 28, 2009 – 11:26 am
The bleeding from an injured tongue, even when it merely results from an accidental self-inflected bite, is often prolonged and alarming. Usually though, such bleeding can quickly be brought under control, without stitches or help from a doctor, if the victim firmly holds something over the site of bleeding to compress it. A wet handkerchief [...]
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2009-04-28T09:32:31+0000">April 28, 2009 – 9:32 am
Symptom: Pain in legs or feet occurring only while the child is resting or sleeping
Home care:
Massage or apply heat to painful muscles.
Give aspirin or paracetamol for pain.
Having the child wear sturdier shoes may reduce the frequency or severity of the pains.
Growing pains can be quite severe and it’s important to reassure and comfort the child.
Precaution:
If [...]
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2009-04-23T07:48:05+0000">April 23, 2009 – 7:48 am
Many people believe that they will be healthier, and live a longer life if they can get their cholesterol as low as possible. Drug companies would have us believe that the lower we can get our cholesterol levels the better. This is false and is no more than a plot to sell more cholesterol lowering [...]
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2009-04-23T07:14:02+0000">April 23, 2009 – 7:14 am
Hormonal Harmony
Nature has designed your reproductive system to work in harmony, each hormone dependent on the other and all working together as a whole system. Any imbalance in any part of this delicate process will affect the production of hormones and with it the chances of conceiving or staying pregnant once fertilisation has occurred. It [...]
