A FEW TIPS ON HOW TO TAKE VITAMINS AND SUPPLEMENTS

1) As a general rule, all vitamins and food supplements should be taken with meals, or immediately after the meals. They are better utilized with foods.
2)  Divide all the suggested daily amounts equally between three meals.
3)  Take all vitamins and food supplements continuously, with the exception of high potency B-complex vitamins, large doses of synthetic isolated B-vitamins, and large doses of vitamins A and D – these should be taken for one month, then after a one-month interval, taken for another month, and so on. The reason for this is that the above-mentioned vitamins are cumulative and may cause vitamin imbalances in the system if taken in large doses over a prolonged period of time. Also, the continuous ingestion of certain isolated B-vitamins in large doses may cause deficiencies of other B-vitamins, and/or interfere with the body’s own synthesis of these vitamins in the intestines. Naturally, brewer’s yeast (B-complex) and plain fish liver oils (A & D) can be taken continuously.
4)  Special medicinal supplements, such as digestive enzymes, hydrochloric acid, special vitamins and minerals in massive doses, etc., are recommended. These should be taken only during the treatment or for about one to three months and then discontinued. After a one to three month interval, treatment can be repeated if needed. Between treatment periods, vitamin and mineral-rich natural food supplements should be used, such as brewer’s yeast, bone meal, lecithin, fish liver oils, rose hips, etc. Vitamin С can be used continuously in reduced dosage. When vitamin E is used for a heart condition it also should be used continuously.
5)  Although vitamin E in the form of mixed tocopherols is perfectly safe to take by a healthy person who takes vitamins for preventive purposes, those who take vitamin E for therapeutic purposes or for treatment of specific conditions, should take only the pure d-alpha tocopherol capsules (possibly supplemented by mixed tocopherols). Only the alpha-tocopherol fraction of E vitamin complex is known presently to be effective in treatment of disease.
6)  As a rule, all vitamins and food supplements should be taken together; being synergistic in action, they work best that way and complement each other. There is, however, a notable exception to this rule. Vitamin E and iron supplements are antagonists. Iron tablets have an adverse effect on the utilization of vitamin E. Therefore, when iron tablets are taken, as for example in anemia, they should be taken 8 to 12 hours after or before taking vitamin E. For example, take the total daily dose of vitamin for breakfast and iron tablet at dinnertime. Natural iron-rich foods, however, have no adverse effect on vitamin E utilization.
7) There is no such thing as a common or an average person or patient. As Dr. Roger J. Williams stressed so expertly, “Individual human beings have great diversity in human nutritional needs.” There is also a great difference in every patient’s response to vitamins and other therapeutic substances, depending on his health condition, nutritional stature, the quality of the foods he eats, his ability to assimilate nutrients, the mineral content of the water he drinks, the toxicity degree of his environment, his emotional health, etc. Due to many physical and mental disorders, vitamins may not be utilized properly. Poor teeth, diarrhea, the lack of digestive juices, intestinal parasites, infections, colitis, gall bladder or liver disorders, mental stresses – these are just a few of the conditions which interfere with vitamin utilization. Then there are countless vitamin antagonists which destroy or interfere with ingested vitamins, such as smoking (vitamin C), aspirin and other drugs (vitamin C), alcohol (Vitamin B), rancid foods (vitamin E), chlorinated water (vitamin E), laxatives (vitamins С & В), etc., etc.
Your doctor, upon a careful examination and nutritional and metabolic evaluation of your condition must determine the exact dosage and the duration of the vitamin therapy for you.
8) When possible, all vitamins should be natural, not synthetic.
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GENERAL HEALTH

CONSIDERING AGING FROM PHILOSOPHICAL POINT OF VIEW

If any of you are beginning to feel that you are getting elderly you should be reassured some by an article which was called to my attention a few years ago. The author, personally known to me, had had the unusual opportunity to study more than seventy nonagenarians and centenarians. He found them, on the whole, little different from the average well-preserved person of seventy. You see, these people had managed to avoid any serious disease, as more and more of us now may, and under these circumstances their bodies had worn out slowly. One striking thing was that, unlike most of you, they had not experienced conditions of abundance and prosperity and continually shortening working hours. (Probably your motto is “A short life and a merry one.”) Few of them had made any deliberate attempt to attain old age. They lived as other people did. Most of them were “passionate smokers and not given to refusing alcohol.” They were not vegetarians. Many of them had been married more than once and had many descendants. Heredity was in their favor, there being usually instances of longevity in their families.
You should see from all this that it is perfectly proper for you to wish for a long life, but foolish and futile for you to persuade yourself that by your own efforts you may have any certainty of obtaining it. At best your bodies will experience what we doctors call atrophy, which is shrinking or wasting away of tissues. In old folks this occurs particularly in the skin, the fat under it, and the muscles. That is why you notice their wrinkles, sunken cheeks, and skinny limbs. The old folks are pot-bellied. This is because their intestines are bigger and the elasticity of the belly wall being less, everything is slumped downward and forward. The cartilages between the bones of the spine atrophy, so some of the height is lost.   The bodily activities may be normal in quality but their volume and rate are decreased. The functions are not regulated with the promptness and smoothness of early life.
Do not be discouraged by this picture. The changes come so gradually that they are not noticed. Each stage seems normal after it has developed. The old folks have been able to adapt themselves to the decrease of their strength and capabilities. “Life proceeds in the tempo of adagio” (slowly, leisurely, and gracefully) and with great calm. None of you is going to equal the age of Methuselah, whose record is not official anyway, but many will reach three score years and ten. So look ahead and be ready to retire to other work, other pursuits in which you are thoroughly interested and which will keep you busy.
And then eventually we all must die. And what is this death towards which each of us has been progressing since the day of birth? Of its ultimate meaning, as of the ultimate meaning and aim of life, I shall not attempt to speak, for here we are dealing with fundamentals of faith and religion-the bases on which man builds his courage to face both life and death. But as to the mere cessation of the life process in our bodies – we have to face the idea and the knowledge that this will occur at some future time, but as it becomes imminent, most of us are destined to be unconcerned. Sir William Osier, commenting on notes made at the bedsides of more than five hundred people who were dying, says that most of us “go out of life as we came into it, unknowing and unafraid.” We should all take comfort from the words of William Hunter, the great eighteenth-century physician, “If I had strength to hold a pen I would write how easy and pleasant a thing it is to die.”
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GENERAL HEALTH

CHILD’S HEALTH/SKIN DISORDERS: LYMPH GLANDS (NODES)

The lymph glands are an important part of the immune system and serve as filters for bacteria. They are distributed throughout the body, and can usually be felt in the neck in normal children, in whom lymph nodes are usually larger than those of adults. Lymph nodes tend to enlarge at times of infection; if your child has tonsillitis, for example, you may notice swollen and tender lumps in her neck. These are the lymph glands which are busily fighting infection. Sometimes they can swell up to 3 cm in size; any lump larger than this should be checked by your doctor.

Lymph nodes can swell in reaction to many different things, for example, cuts, scratches, burns and insect bites. They also become enlarged during certain infections such as a sore throat or glandular fever. Groups of lymph nodes usually function over a certain area — groin nodes are responsible for the legs and lower abdomen, nodes in the armpit drain the arms and chest, neck nodes drain the head and neck region. Lymph nodes can stay enlarged for up to a month after the infection has cleared. Cancer is a rare cause of swollen lymph glands in children.

When to see your doctor

• if there is no obvious cause for your child’s lymph glands to be enlarged;

• if the node is greater than 3 cm in diameter;

• if your child has trouble swallowing or breathing, and has enlarged lymph glands in the neck;

• if your child complains of pain over the area of swollen lymph glands;

• if your child is unwell in addition to having swollen lymph glands.

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COMING HOME WITH YOUR NEW BABY: POSTNATAL DEPRESSION

Having a baby means radical changes in the lives of both parents. It is no wonder that many parents have feelings of ambivalence at times about the newest addition to the family. This is common no matter how eagerly the birth of the baby was anticipated, and is perfectly normal. However, in addition to the extra stresses, fatigue and any feelings of ambivalence that parents may experience, some mothers suffer from more significant emotional stresses after the birth of a baby.

Postnatal depression is now recognised as much more common than was once thought. It is believed to be due to hormonal changes, and in varying degrees to affect up to 15% of women postnatally, and can occur at any time during the initial postnatal period. The clinical features are similar to depression at other times. They include low energy, fatigue, loss of appetite, difficulty sleeping, and loss of interest in social relationships. Often there are feelings of sadness and sometimes hopelessness, and crying bouts for no apparent reason are common. To these symptoms are added often intense feelings toward the baby, ranging from ambivalence and disinterest, to outright anger.

In the majority of cases these symptoms are transient, passing after a period ranging from a few weeks to a few months. Doctors and nurses are now far more aware of the extent of this condition and are able to assist women suffering from postnatal depression at an early stage. Sometimes all that is required is support and understanding; if symptoms are more severe, more intensive help may be needed. Most large centres now have specialised mothers and babies units organised for the short-term admission of the mother and her baby, for appropriate treatment. Usually this consists of specialised counselling and therapy, though sometimes medications are prescribed.

If you do feel awful after the birth of your baby, make sure you discuss things with your doctor or maternal and child healtn nurse. Do not wait until things get out of hand. It is often most helpful to talk to an understanding health professional. Make sure that you talk to your partner too, and enlist the help of your support network.

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YOUR MARITAL HEALTH/GETTING FIXED UP SEXUALLY: SECRET TOUCHING FOR THE SECRET SPOT

Lie naked in bed and take turns trying to discover the tensest spot in your spouse’s body. Use lotion to lubricate your searching touch while your spouse tries mentally to guide you to the single tensest area. No talking is allowed, and even though the genitals or other erotic zones might be the tensest areas at a given time, remember to touch everywhere so you don’t miss a spot. Couples reported that they could learn to lead their spouses right to the spot.

One husband stated, “What I liked was not touching just for sex. It was fun, almost a game, but we sort of merged, my hands, her hands, our thoughts. She led me to my spot, too, or I directed her with my thoughts. We just both knew when we found the spots. Just like you told us, when we found the spot, we gave it a gentle kiss and then switched who did the touching and who had the spot.”

Nongenitally focused touching, mutual cooperation, combining physical and mental processes, and learning to cooperate sensually can all result from this procedure.

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COURTING, RE-COURTING, AND THE SUPER SEX BOND: THREE LOOKS AND A SHIFT

“Oh no! He’s coming over here.” The woman placed both hands around her glass of Perrier water, looking down as if preparing to dive into the carbonation. She had been married for nineteen years, had recently divorced, and was making her debut on the courtship carousel.

“You brought him over here, Sheila,” said her friend Pam, a veteran of three marriages and several years in what she now called “meat-ing places.” “You never look at one of them three times unless you want them to come over.”

“I wasn’t looking at him. He was looking at me,” said Sheila, still afraid to look up from her drink.

“Come on,” said Pam, “How did you know he was looking if you weren’t looking? I don’t believe you. If you look three times, he comes. Now you better go to the ‘shift.’ ”

“What is the shift?” Sheila could feel her heart pumping, skipping beats as it had done when she first used the word “divorce” seriously.

“It’s survival,” said Pam. “The shift means giving him to me. I can get rid of him, but you have to shift him to me.”

He arrived tableside, his glass of half-flat beer held between himself and Sheila. “I know this sounds like a line, but you look familiar.”

At any other time, Sheila would have been unable to hold back a giggle. He might as well have tried “Come here often?” Now, however, Sheila was a player, not an observer safely protected within a stable relationship. There was nothing funny about this. Her heart was beating faster, and her mouth was dry. She remembered this feeling from her speech class in college. She had failed to master this eye-contact thing then, too.

“I am,” she stammered, looking into his beer. “No, I mean, you think I am, but I’m not—familiar to you, that is.” She felt her face glowing. Unbelievable, she thought. I’m an English teacher and I can’t even talk.

“Now that I hear your voice, I guess I was mistaken.” he said. She could see his undershirt beneath his shirt. It was the old-fashioned type, with shoulder bands. She had never liked that style. In fact, she had never liked undershirts at all. This style in particular usually meant the man was wearing boxer shorts, the kind that goes down both legs and comes in weird prints. She hated those. Where do they put their penis in that kind of shorts? To which side?

She was startled by her own thoughts. Why was she thinking these things now, about this stranger? Who cared anyway?

Pam took his beer glass and led him to the dance floor. She glanced back over her shoulder at Sheila with a “now look what you made me have to do” look.

Sheila looked around, hoping that no one else had seen this disaster. She wet her napkin with the bottom of her glass, lifted it, and let it drop, playing a lonely game, waiting for Pam to return.

She saw Pam coming back, putting her finger to her throat in a mock gesture of self-induced nausea. “Let’s join his table,” said Pam. “That’s where the action is.”

Sheila rose with her glass, napkin still attached. The three of them grouped around a small table already crowded with more than ten people. Someone shoved a chair into her thighs and she fell into it. She was two rows from the table, a bench player in the dating game. The man next to her offered her a pretzel.

Sheila summoned all of her courage. “You look familiar,” she said, and then bit into the pretzel. It shattered into little pieces, with one big piece left dangling from her mouth. Another piece n0w floated in her drink with the napkin still attached.

“Have you met Al?” asked the man. Sheila had just been shifted by an expert.

If you read this passage in disbelief, then you have not been on the dating circuit for a long time. The game goes on. Courtship in America is training for divorce, a hypocritical, stressful, dishonest, and sad attempt to find someone to love. It is based on five rules that can be learned only in the field of action. No one can teach you; you must learn by experience.

Take some time now to rethink your own courtship, to recall the bonding process in your own marriage. How, why, and where did you fall in love, bond, decided to commit to and with someone else? Failure to understand that process results in the continued reliving of the same errors within your own relationship. This chapter adds the bonding dimension to the intimacy and systems concepts you have learned in the first two chapters. This bonding is not a onetime thing; it goes on forever. The thousand couples learned much from reliving their bonding process on the way to super marital sex, on the way to a stronger, more adaptive martital bond.

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SCABIES – CONCLUSION

However, it is necessary to apply these to the whole body from the neck down and not just to the itchy red spots. Other chemicals can be used and appear to be equally effective but may not be as acceptable as the two most common ones.

These chemicals should be left on the skin for several hours. There is a limit to how long the treatment should continue as they may irritate the skin. Usually, four day’s treatment should be sufficient.

Prolonged use may lead to a contact dermatitis and this may cause a reddened rash and lead the person to suspect the scabies is still present, so the anti-scabies treatment is continued and the secondary rash continues.

It is not usually necessary to disinfect clothing and bedding but all members of the family should be adequately treated. This includes those who have no symptoms, because the mite may be present on their skins but show no signs as sensitivity has not yet developed.

Antihistamine tablets may relieve the itch and sometimes cortisone creams are used to relieve the irritable skin.

If the diagnosis and treatment are correct, the condition can be rapidly brought under control.

There are varieties of scabies mites which affect animals and these may spread to man, but the mites do not thrive as do those which normally affect man. They usually die off and the condition settles of its own accord.

Don’t be horrified if you or yours are unfortunate enough to be infested with these parasites. Early treatment will result in full cure.

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CONTACT DERMATITIS – INTRODUCTION

Contrary to what most people believe, there are few contagious skin diseases. I have sometimes seen several workers from one section who develop a contact dermatitis to some irritant and wrongly believe they are passing it on from one to the other. The poor fellow who develops it first often gets a bad time from his workmates.

Contact dermatitis is a common problem in industry — but almost as many cases come from housewives whose skins are irritated by chemicals they come in contact with in normal chores or from men and women tinkering around with chemicals in hobby pursuits.

Some skin is more sensitive. This may be as important as the irritant substance.

Contact dermatitis usually affects the face or the hands. These are the areas most exposed to chemicals and work may unfairly be blamed as the source of the problem because few people realise they can become sensitive to soap, detergents, cosmetics or even creams or ointments they use for some other rash.

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DOWN’S SYNDROME – COUNSELLING

However, if this rare hereditary type is discovered, then the parents would need to be carefully counselled and they would need to make a decision whether they should have further children because, with each pregnancy the risk would be one in four of having a child affected.

When a child is born with Down’s syndrome, the earlier diagnosis is made, the better. The parents will need counselling to cope with the normal human emotions.

The parents become depressed, they become angry and they often reject the child. Most parents overcome this initial emotion and accept the child.

Most children with Down’s syndrome can be managed at home. It is only the severely handicapped who may need institutional care.

Most children with Down’s syndrome are happy, contented individuals capable of giving and receiving love.

It is not easy for children in the type of society in which we live to feel free to discuss with their peers the fact that they have a retarded brother or sister. But in those families who adjust there is great happiness. Of course many families experience problems and the retarded child may require special schooling.

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YOUR CANCER YOUR LIFE – SYMPTOMS OF THE PRIMARY GROWTH (GENERAL SYMPTOMS) INTRODUCTION

As well as producing the local symptoms which I have described (symptoms which depend on the location of the cancer), cancer also produces some general symptoms. These are often vague such as lack of energy, loss of weight, loss of appetite and just not feeling your usual self. Lack of energy can be due to anaemia and doesn’t always mean that the cancer is extensive. ‘Anaemia’ means not enough red blood cells to carry the oxygen around the body. You need oxygen for energy. If you have lost so much blood (and what seems like a little bit in the bowel motion every day soon adds up) that your body can’t make enough red blood cells to keep up, you become anaemic. Anaemia can also develop because the presence of cancer in the body sometimes impairs the bone marrow’s ability to produce blood. This can happen even when the cancer is not actually growing in the bone marrow. Another possible reason for anaemia is that some cancers make the red blood cells very fragile, so that they don’t live as long as normal. Again, if the bone marrow can’t keep up with the unusual demand, anaemia is the result.

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