Good food habits are easily acquired in youth, and it is more difficult to change the habits of people later in life. Perhaps you have found some of your food habits should be improved, or maybe you can help someone in your family or a friend to improve his. The following suggestions may be helpful.
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Proteins require a generous amount of hydrochloric acid in your stomach in order to be properly digested. When you eat carbohydrate-rich foods such as vegetables, you stomach does not secrete much hydrochloric acid, because it is not needed for the digestion of carbohydrates. If you first fill your stomach with predominantly carbohydrate foods (as you [...]

The key to preventing severe flare-ups of this chronic condition is to treat symptoms as soon as they appear. The mainstay of treatment is the use of cortisone ointments or creams, with small amounts applied several times a day to affected areas. Itching is always worse after hot baths, and at night, so this is [...]

• Is the clinic easily accessible? Is it within walking distance, or are there good public transport connections? Is there adequate parking available within the clinic property or nearby?

Are they courteous and warm? Are the waiting facilities adequate? Do they cater for children, with a bright atmosphere, toys and children’s books, and carpet so that [...]

HYPERSENSITIVITY OF F AND/OR R AREA: I feel like a big stick of dynamite and my penis is the fuse. It is so sensitive that it can hurt.

HUSBAND

Virtually all of the men reported some hypersensitivity of the F and/or R area sometimes during their sexual experiences. Two hundred twenty-one of the men reported it as [...]

I’ll tell you one thing. We are so in tune with each other that it gets us in trouble. If I’m really down on a given day, then he is down. We get down together in minutes. We just reflect each other perfectly, almost like one mood together. We are like one tree in the [...]

Cortisone given by mouth or by injection is not used in psoriasis except to treat severe unstable cases where local treatment is best avoided.

Methotrexate is a drug widely used in treating various cancers. It is effective in some cases of psoriasis because it depresses the over-activity of the cells in the skin.

This is no cure [...]

Crohn’s disease is a chronic inflammatory disorder of the gastrointestinal tract and can affect any part of it from the mouth to the anus.

It is most common at the end of the small bowel just where it joins the large bowel.

The causes are unknown and in many ways, it resembles ulcerative colitis, another chronic inflammatory [...]

BRONCHIOLITIS: Confined to children under the age of two. It is usually due to the respiratory syncytial virus but may have secondary bacterial invaders.

It involves the smallest of the airways — the bronchioles — as well as the larger bronchi.

The illness often starts as a rather mild infection with a nasal discharge and slight cough, [...]

Doctors have developed a sort of shorthand method for describing how extensive a cancer seems to be. We call this the stage of the cancer. For most cancers there are four stages. Here are the essential things which determine the stage of a cancer. I won’t go into details, but for each type there are [...]