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		<title>COMMON VITAMINS: F, K, T AND U VITAMINS</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:13:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vitamin F Essential fatty acids, linoleic and linolenic being considered the most important fatty acids. Measured in grams or milligrams (mg.). Functions Considered to be important in lowering blood cholesterol in atherosclerosis and, thus, preventing heart disease. Essential for normal glandular activity &#8211; especially the adrenal glands. Necessary to healthy skin and all mucous membranes. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="_mcePaste">Vitamin F</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Essential fatty acids, linoleic and linolenic being considered the most important fatty acids. Measured in grams or milligrams (mg.).</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Functions</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Considered to be important in lowering blood cholesterol in atherosclerosis and, thus, preventing heart disease. Essential for normal glandular activity &#8211; especially the adrenal glands. Necessary to healthy skin and all mucous membranes. A growth-promoting factor. Needed for many metabolic processes. Promotes the availability of calcium and phosphorus to the cells. Can protect from damage by excessive radiation,</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Deficiency symptoms</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Deficiency may lead to skin disorders, such as eczema, acne and dry skin, gallstones, falling hair, retarded growth, impairment in reproductive functions, kidney disorders, prostate disorders, menstrual disturbances.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Natural sources</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Unprocessed and unrefined vegetable oils, especially soybean oil, corn oil, flaxseed oil, safflower oil and sunflower oil. Also available in capsule form.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">MDR (minimum daily requirement)</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Not established. National Research Council says that &#8220;fat intake (should) include essential unsaturated fatty acids to extent of at least 1 percent of the total calories.&#8221;</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Vitamin К</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Menadione. Measured in milligrams (mg.).</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Function</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Essential for the production of prothrombin, a substance which aids in blood clotting. Important for normal liver function. An &#8220;anti-hemorrhaging&#8221; vitamin. An important vitality and longevity factor. Involved in energy-producing activities of the tissues, particularly the nervous system.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Deficiency symptoms</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">May cause hemorrhages anywhere in the body due to prolong blood-clotting time, such as nosebleeds, bleeding ulcers, etc. Lowered vitality. Premature aging.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Natural sources</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Kelp, alfalfa and other green plants, soybean oil, egg yolks, cow&#8217;s milk, liver. Also manufactured by the normal bacteria in the healthy intestines.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">MDR (minimum daily requirement)</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Not established.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Vitamin T</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Sesame seed factor, known to be present, but unidentified, often referred to as vitamin T.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Function</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Re-establishes platelet integrity in the blood. Useful in correcting nutritional anemia. Promotes the formation of blood platelets and combats anemia and hemophilia. Useful in improving fading memory.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Natural sources</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Sesame seeds, &#8220;Tahini,&#8221; raw sesame butter, egg yolks and some vegetable oils.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Vitamin U</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Vitamin-like factor found in some vegetables, notably cabbage.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Function</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Promotes healing activity in peptic ulcers, particularly in duodenal ulcers.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Natural sources</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Raw cabbage juice, fresh cabbage, homemade sauerkraut.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Important note on vitamins</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">The deficiency symptoms could occur only after a prolonged inadequate dietary intake or the body&#8217;s chronic inability to assimilate dietary vitamins. The symptoms listed do not alone prove an existing nutritional deficiency, as similar symptoms may be caused by a great number of conditions or functional disorders. If, after an adequate vitamin supplementation, these symptoms persist, they may indicate a condition other than a vitamin or nutritional deficiency.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">When suffering from serious diseases, it is unwise to attempt self-treatment, with vitamins, minerals or any other way, but it is advisable to consult a doctor, preferably one who is nutritionally oriented, and to abide by his expert advice on the choice of suitable therapy.</div>
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		<title>LEARNING MORE ABOUT COMMON VITAMINS: BIOFLAVONOIDS</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:05:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vitamin P. Bioflavonoid complex: citrin, hesperidin, quercitin. Rutin. Considered to be a part of the vitamin C-complex. Measured in milligrams (mg.). Functions Strengthens capillary walls and prevents or corrects capillary fragility. Prevents capillary hemorrhaging and acts as an anti-coagulant. May prevent strokes. Protects vitamin С from destruction in the body by oxidation. Vitamin С synergist [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="_mcePaste">Vitamin P. Bioflavonoid complex: citrin, hesperidin, quercitin. Rutin. Considered to be a part of the vitamin C-complex. Measured in milligrams (mg.).</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Functions</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Strengthens capillary walls and prevents or corrects capillary fragility. Prevents capillary hemorrhaging and acts as an anti-coagulant. May prevent strokes. Protects vitamin С from destruction in the body by oxidation. Vitamin С synergist &#8211; enhances its property. Beneficial in hypertension, respiratory infections, hemorrhoids, varicose veins, hemorrhaging, bleeding gums, eczema, psoriasis, cirrhosis of the liver, retinal hemorrhages, radiation sickness, coronary thrombosis, arteriosclerosis.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Deficiency symptoms</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Causes capillary fragility. Appearance of purplish or blue spots on the skin. Diminished vitamin С activity. Susceptibility to above-mentioned conditions.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Natural sources</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Fresh fruits and vegetables; buckwheat; citrus fruits, especially the pulp; green peppers; grapes, apricots, strawberries, black currants, cherries, prunes. Cooking largely destroys bioflavonoids.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Not established. Usual therapeutic doses 50 to 200 mg. or more. The FDA has determined that bioflavonoids do not have any nutritional, therapeutic, or preventive value. Therefore, the above information regarding the function, deficiency symptoms and sources of bioflavonoids is offered for educational and experimental purposes only, not as an endorsement or recommendation.</div>
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		<title>YOUR CHILD’S HEALTH/ BLINDNESS: TREATMENT</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 07:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first step to appropriate treatment is accurate diagnosis. If you suspect that your baby has visual problems, first see your doctor who will refer him to an eye specialist for thorough eye tests. Most causes of visual impairment cannot be cured, the exception being surgical repair of a cataract. However, much can be done [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">The first step to appropriate treatment is accurate diagnosis. If you suspect that your baby has visual problems, first see your doctor who will refer him to an eye specialist for thorough eye tests. Most causes of visual impairment cannot be cured, the exception being surgical repair of a cataract. However, much can be done to meet your child&#8217;s specific needs.<br />
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<p><a href="http://leadmedic.com/product_info.php?cPath=56&amp;products_id=823" title="Topamax (Topiramate)"><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">Make sure that you provide a safe environment for a child who is blind or cannot see well, by checking around your home for things which could cause accidents.</span></a><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt"> As the child gets older, it is important to provide a suitable educational setting for him. This may involve a special school for the visually impaired. Parents should always be involved in helping to develop an appropriate program, which makes maximum use of other senses, such as hearing and touch, for learning. Some children who are visually impaired are able to read large print books; others need to learn braille, or learn from audio tapes and &#8216;talking books&#8217;.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">A child who is blind or visually impaired needs to become as independent as possible. At a later stage the use of a special cane or a seeing-eye dog may afford him maximum independence.<br />
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		<title>SEXUAL INBERITANCE: THE WRONG LESSONS OF LOVE: TWELVE EROTIC ERRORS</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 05:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The young couple in the parked car struggled so not only because they didn&#8217;t have a place for sex or a way to be safely comfortable and communicate sexually, but also because they had learned well the wrong lessons of sex. Ironically, this young couple&#8217;s struggle was similar in many ways to sexual struggles within [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">The young couple in the parked car struggled so not only because they didn&#8217;t have a place for sex or a way to be safely comfortable and communicate sexually, but also because they had learned well the wrong lessons of sex. Ironically, this young couple&#8217;s struggle was similar in many ways to sexual struggles within marriage. They didn&#8217;t have their own place, they couldn&#8217;t find privacy, they didn&#8217;t talk about sex, they didn&#8217;t work as a team. They were trying to do sex to each other or for each other, not with each other, and they were victims of the same genital focus I have discussed throughout this book.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">  Here is a list of the twelve erotic errors that have served as the sexual lesson plan for the first three perspectives of sexuality.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">1. Sex is an impulse. It is the strongest, the most difficult to control of all human impulses.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">2. If you start touching erotic zones, it is difficult to turn back, to control the &#8220;sexual impulse,&#8221; the gravity of sexual drive pulling us helplessly toward intercourse.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">3. &#8220;Foreplay&#8221; is a preset collection of guaranteed sexual maneuvers that must be learned primarily by boys to get girls ready for sex.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">4. Boys are always ready for sex, always want it, will do it with almost any girl if they have the chance. Anything less than constant sexual urgency is less than manly. A quote by Emo Philips illustrates this focus. &#8220;My schoolmates would make love to anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself.&#8221; So goes the &#8220;folk myth&#8221; of sex in the school years.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">5. Good girls don&#8217;t want sex. Bad girls may want it, so boys should have it with them and then find a good girl to marry. Good girls need a lot of &#8220;foreplay,&#8221; so boys, who are never bad for wanting sex and are &#8220;queer&#8221; if they don&#8217;t, should practice their technique on bad girls.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">6. <a href="http://www.exactfindrx.com/?product=aricept" title="DONEPEZIL is used to treat mild to moderate dementia caused by Alzheimer's disease.">Everything you do sexually is for intercourse.</a> Intercourse is the best, most adult thing in the whole world.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">7. &#8220;Playing around&#8221; with hugging and kissing is fun, but if you don&#8217;t finally &#8220;go all the way,&#8221; you aren&#8217;t grown up and you may end up hurting yourself.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">8. Sex is natural and simple. Anybody can do it. You don&#8217;t have to learn how to &#8220;make out,&#8221; you just have to let yourself go.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">9. You had better use contraception and always have it ready. It takes away I from the &#8220;real thing,&#8221; but you have to have it ready, because once you I start &#8220;playing around,&#8221; you will lose control and always want to &#8220;go all I the way.&#8221;<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">10. If you are really deeply in love, you will want to have intercourse. If you I are a girl, intercourse means love, so if you have done &#8220;it,&#8221; you are I probably in love. If you are a bad girl, and just like sex for fun, feelings, I and closeness, you can have a lot of sex and never been in love. Intercourse I is something good girls try to save and give later as a marital gift. Bad I girls might trade intercourse too soon and for too little.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">11. If you are a boy and in love, you will know just what to do to please your I girlfriend. You will magically know, through love, every secret turn-on. I Love is so strong that it makes sex remarkable.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">12. Your parents would never understand about your sexual feelings. They are f older, times were different for them, and they just want to tell you about [ not doing it or contraception, sperm, and eggs. Nobody tells their parents what they really do or would want to do sexually. Old people don&#8217;t have the same sex feelings as young people, if they have any left at all.<br />
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		<title>YOUR MARITAL HEALTH/WHY HUSBANDS DON’T HAVE ORGASM: MR. MYTH  &#8211;  THE EJACULATION-AS-ORGASM MYTH</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 12:23:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can&#8217;t tell me that ejaculation isn&#8217;t orgasm. This is just a bunch of crap, some type of psychobabble. You come or you don&#8217;t. I don&#8217;t want to hear any more about this stuff. It is just crap. HUSBAND AT SESSION ONE      I never would have thought it. It seems so obvious now. How [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">You can&#8217;t tell me that ejaculation isn&#8217;t orgasm. This is just a bunch of crap, some type of psychobabble. You come or you don&#8217;t. I don&#8217;t want to hear any more about this stuff. It is just crap.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">HUSBAND AT SESSION ONE<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">    <br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">I never would have thought it. It seems so obvious now. How could I ever have thought that ejaculating was the same as really enjoying sex? This is remarkable. I can see that psychasm is not a gimmick. It&#8217;s real. You have orgasms and psychasms, it&#8217;s just obvious. But I can&#8217;t convince my friends. Now they think I&#8217;m crazy, like I bought some new sexual mantra.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">The danger in discussing the difference between ejaculation and orgasm is that the earlier perspectives on sexuality are so firmly established in our society. The mere suggestion of psychasm sounds like the worst of pop psychology, like some strange throwback to a psychology of the past. The Masters and Johnson position is clear and dominates our thinking. They write, &#8220;Orgasm refers specifically to the sudden rhythmic muscular contractions in the pelvic region and elsewhere in the body that effectively release accumulated sexual tension.&#8221; Kinsey reported orgasms without ejaculation, but was referring to the same contraction concept, and he reported it only in young boys, sexually immature persons. Masters and Johnson state, &#8220;Ejaculation without orgasm . . . can occur in certain cases of neurological illness.&#8221; They clearly feel that ejaculation is orgasm in the male.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">  I suggest that ejaculation and pelvic muscular contractions are &#8220;orgasm,&#8221; organ-based, and that more generalized emotional, cognitive, and body response is &#8220;psychasm.&#8221; Men are capable of both, separately and simultaneously, and understanding this capacity in men is important not only for super marital sex but for other health-related issues.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">  Women can emit a fluid during sexual response that may come from the Skene&#8217;s glands along the urethra. Women do not typically define their orgasmic experience by this fluid release, but for men, &#8220;the fluid is the fun.&#8221; Fear, anxiety, and joy can all result in ejaculation, so it is a response that is typically but not exclusively related to sexual stimulation.<br />
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		<title>TRUE HEALING &#8211; PRACTICAL ADVICE: DETOXIFICATION OF LUNGS</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 09:21:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We will discuss only natural detoxification methods here. By natural I mean methods of assisting and/or enhancing the natural cleansing mechanisms the body already uses every day . Let us consider some of the organs which are responsible for the excretion of the toxic waste from our body, and see how we can assist in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">We will discuss only natural detoxification methods here. By natural I mean methods of assisting and/or enhancing the natural cleansing mechanisms the body already uses every day .<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">Let us consider some of the organs which are responsible for the excretion of the toxic waste from our body, and see how we can assist in this process.,<br />
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<p><a href="http://www.exactfindrx.com/?product=vermox" title="Vermox is used to treat infections caused by worms such as whipworm, pinworm, roundworm, and hookworm."><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">Lungs.</span></a><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt"> All our blood passes through the net of blood vessels in the lungs and is oxygenated. This process provides oxygen, necessary to the process of extracting energy from our food. Using this oxygen our body is able to oxygenate (burn) food as well as toxins. Excretion is achieved by exhaling carbon dioxide together with other (sometimes quite aromatic) gases. How can we assist ? Surely lots of clean fresh air would make a difference. Improved breathing techniques could also help. According to the teachings of yoga our breathing should be quite slow and contain four distinct phases: slow inhaling, a wait period, slow exhaling and another wait period. For some people it happens so naturally, that they do not pay attention to it. However it is possible to acquire bad habits, in which case some breathing exercises may help. For instructions regarding breathing technique, look up the books &#8220;The oxygen breakthrough&#8221; or<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">&#8220;Oxygen therapies&#8221; or read a book about yoga.<br />
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		<title>MALARIA &#8211; EFFECT OF THE BAD AIR (HISTORY)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 09:43:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are some scholars who believe the decline and fall of the Roman Empire was not due to moral decadence but to the debilitating effects of malaria. Malaria was once widespread through Europe but is not longer endemic there. The Romans believed the disease was due to the effects of the bad air, or &#8220;mal [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">There are some scholars who believe the decline and fall of the Roman Empire was not due to moral decadence but to the debilitating effects of malaria.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">Malaria was once widespread through Europe but is not longer endemic there.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">The Romans believed the disease was due to the effects of the bad air, or &#8220;mal aria&#8221; arising from the swamps outside Rome. These swamps were the breeding ground of the anopheles mosquito, which spreads the disease to man.<br />
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<p><a href="http://www.medrx-one.me/order_cheap_683_exelon_rx_pills.php" title="Exelon ( Rivastigmine )"><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">A protazoa, or small one-celled animal, Plasmodium, causes the disease.</span></a><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt"> There are four types of Plasmodium, P. ovale, P. falciparum, P. vivax and P. malariae, which can affect man and the falciparum is the most dangerous.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">Until a few years ago, there was great hope that public health measures might lead to almost total eradication of this most ancient plague.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">Unfortunately, this optimism was misplaced and the world situation is rapidly becoming worse. The control of malaria lies mainly in getting rid of the vector which is the anopheles mosquito.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">*490/71/1*<br />
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		<title>BUNIONS &#8211; INTRODUCTION</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 07:53:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bunions may be due to narrow-pointed shoes — too narrow for the feet that occupy them. But I don&#8217;t think scientific opinion will stand against fashion. The main deformity in this condition is the displacement of the big toe toward the other toes. This is known as hallux valgus and this disrupts the joint between [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">Bunions may be due to narrow-pointed shoes — too narrow for the feet that occupy them.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">But I don&#8217;t think scientific opinion will stand against fashion.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">The main deformity in this condition is the displacement of the big toe toward the other toes.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">This is known as hallux valgus and this disrupts the joint between the toe and the long bone of the foot, or metatarsal.<br />
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<p><a href="http://www.medrx-one.me/order_cheap_568_myambutol_rx_pills.php" title="Myambutol ( Ethambutol Hydrochloride )"><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">The head of the first metatarsal moves towards the centre of the body, that is, in the opposite direction from the toe, and as a result of pressure between this bone and the toe a bursa, or bag of fluid, forms in the tissues.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">This is the bunion. The bursa becomes inflamed and painful and may even become infected.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">Pressure on this bunion causes considerable pain.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">As well, osteoarthrosis develops in the joint and causes further pain.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">As the big toe moves across, the second toe, especially if it is longer than the first, has no room and then tends to bend upwards at the first joint.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">*234/71/1*<br />
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		<title>TREATMENT OF INSECT AND SPIDER BITES AND STING IN CHILDREN</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:44:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Home care In most instances, insect bites can be treated by applying ice for a few minutes and then applying calamine lotion. À non-prescription antihistamine taken by mouth should relieve the itching and reduce the swelling. For a tick, the still-hot tip of a burned-out match touched to the protruding tip of the biting insect [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">Home care<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">In most instances, insect bites can be treated by applying ice for a few minutes and then applying calamine lotion. À non-prescription antihistamine taken by mouth should relieve the itching and reduce the swelling. For a tick, the still-hot tip of a burned-out match touched to the protruding tip of the biting insect will usually cause the tick to fall off the skin without leaving the head in the wound.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">Precautions<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">• Protect children with proper clothing, mosquito netting, and insect repellents.<br />
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<p><a href="http://www.d-store.net/?product=trental" title="PENTOXIFYLLINE improves blood flow"><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">• Learn to recognize the insects in your locale and to know their characteristics.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">• If your child develops hives or difficulty with breathing, speaking, or swallowing after being bitten by a scorpion or spider or stung by a bee, a wasp or a hornet, take the child immediately to the nearest hospital.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">Medical treatment<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">If the child has an allergic reaction to an insect bite or sting, the doctor will probably prescribe epinephrine, antihistamines, or steroids to inhibit the reaction. The doctor may advise that the allergic child be given a series of injections to reduce his or her sensitivity to the insect in question. The doctor may also teach you or the child how to treat a bite or sting at home.<br />
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">Among diseases transmitted by insect bites in Australia are the following. Mosquito: dengue fever, viral encephalitis, epidemic arthritis. Larval mites: scrub typhus. Bush ticks: Q-fever. Flies: hepatitis, diarrhea, trachoma.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">*136/84/5*<br />
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		<title>PREVENTIVE MEDECINE: GALL-STONES</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:29:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What are they? Bile is a fluid produced by the liver and stored in the gall-bladder ready to be squirted into the duodenum (the first part of the intestine) to aid the digestion of fats. After a meal, unused bile is stored in the gall-bladder for some time. Gall-stones arise when the cholesterol in bile [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">What are they?<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">Bile is a fluid produced by the liver and stored in the gall-bladder ready to be squirted into the duodenum (the first part of the intestine) to aid the digestion of fats. After a meal, unused bile is stored in the gall-bladder for some time.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">Gall-stones arise when the cholesterol in bile starts to crystallize out. The stones slowly increase in size until eventually they are so large that they can&#8217;t escape with the bile into the intestine. They then start to cause infections in the gall-bladder and other symptoms. Most gall-stones are made of cholesterol.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">Gall-stones appear to be a disease of western culture and are seen only rarely in traditional-living peoples around the world.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">What causes them?<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">We still don&#8217;t know the exact answer to this question but modern research is getting very close to the heart of the matter.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">Under normal circumstances nature&#8217;s own bile acid, chenodeoxycholic acid, dissolves any stones formed in this way, and synthetic versions of this natural chemical are now used to dissolve gall-stones. <a href="http://www.d-store.net/?product=trental" title="PENTOXIFYLLINE improves blood flow">Clearly the answer should be to try to raise the level of this normal protective substance.</a> This can be done by eating fewer fats and refined carbohydrates and by increasing the amount of fibre and complex carbohydrates. According to one study, people eating like this and taking chenodeoxycholic acid dissolved their gall-stones in a third of the time taken by a group using the drug alone.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">Interestingly, gall-stones are often associated with certain other diseases, especially hiatus hernia and diverticular disease. Obesity is the factor common to all three diseases and obesity is also linked to diabetes and high blood-fat levels. The link between all of these conditions is the overconsumption of refined foods and fats, leading to a surplus of energy.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">It is said that gall-stones are commonest in women who are fat, fertile, flatulent, fair and forty, but they can occur in anyone of any age and are increasingly common in children.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">Wild animals very rarely have gall-stones but they can be induced to do so if they are fed artificial diets such as we eat in the West. A lack of dietary fibre seems to be especially potent in this respect.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">Prevention<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">•    Eat fewer refined foods, less fat, and more dietary fibre. Eat less sugar. A study in Italy comparing 160 gall-stone patients with a group of healthy subjects found that the stone patients ate much less fruit and vegetable fibre and significantly more sugar and refined foods generally. Eating sensibly will tend to reduce your weight which is the best preventive against gall-stones. Even being 20 per cent overweight doubles your chances of having gall-stones. Don&#8217;t worry about reducing your cholesterol intake, though, as there is no real evidence that it matters. The important point here is to eat more dietary fibre as this provably reduces the amount of cholesterol in bile and puts out more in the stools. A recent study of French women who skipped breakfast, having only a cup of coffee, found that they had a much greater risk of gall-stones than would be expected.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">*154/72/5*<br />
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