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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

“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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 Chinese “boat people” of Hong Kong, according to Lancet, traditionally feed their babies only from the right breast and, among their menopausal women who develop breast cancer, tumors are several times more common on the left side than the right. Other populations sometimes show a slight difference in breast tumor sidedness but never a [...]