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Did you ever go to a soda fountain for a fancy sundae after taking an examination? Or have you sometimes rewarded yourself for finishing a difficult job with an especially good meal in a restaurant? Do you recall with pleasure certain meals at birthday parties or holidays? Food is often used in one way or another to express or to cover up our feelings of happiness, love, security, worry, grief, loneliness, and so on.
The baby who is held when he is fed associates his food with warmth and security. But a child who is scolded for being messy may associate certain foods with unhappiness. Some teenagers overeat to compensate for a poor record in school or unpopularity with their classmates. Elderly persons living alone often eat far too little, because they are lonely and unhappy. People who are grieving or who can’t face the problems that beset them are known to gain excessive weight in some instances, because they find relief in eating excessive quantities of food.
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GENERAL HEALTH
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The Airola Optimum Diet of three basic foods – seeds, nuts and grains; vegetables; and fruits – supplemented with the special super-foods and food supplements named above, will assure you a complete and adequate supply of all required nutrients for optimum health, including sufficient amounts of complete high quality proteins. A moderate amount of eggs, fish or meat may be added to this basic diet, if desired (particularly the fish in coastal areas or meat in far northern regions with long winters), but their inclusion is not necessary. In temperate, subtropical and tropical climates, the highest level of health and extended longevity can be best achieved and maintained without meat.
Furthermore, when diet is used therapeutically, that is as a part of an overall program in healing disease, the pure vegetarian or lacto-vegetarian diet is always preferable. Animal proteins, especially meat, always have a detrimental effect on the healing processes.
But even in a diet aimed at preventive or prophylactic purposes, an excessive consumption of animal proteins should be avoided. A high animal protein diet is definitely detrimental to health and may cause or contribute to many of our most common diseases.
In this era of “high protein cult” you have been brought to believe that a high protein diet is a must if you wish to attain a high level of health and prevent disease. Health writers and “experts” who advocated high protein diet were misled by slanted research, which was financed by dairy or meat industries, or by insufficient and outdated information. Most recent research, worldwide, both scientific and empirical, shows more and more convincingly that our past beliefs in regard to high requirement of protein are outdated and incorrect, and that the actual daily need for protein in human nutrition is far below that which has long been considered necessary. Researchers, working independently in many parts of the world, arrived at the conclusion that our actual daily need of protein is only 25 to 35 grams – even less if raw proteins from milk and vegetable sources are used (raw proteins being utilized twice as well as cooked). Independent researchers, not associated with or paid by dairy or meat industries, also point out that, contrary to past beliefs, proteins from many vegetable sources are superior or equal to animal proteins in their biological value – not inferior, as some meat cultists claim. Almonds, sesame seeds, soybeans, buckwheat, peanuts, sunflower seed, pumpkin seeds, potatoes, and all leafy green vegetables contain complete proteins, which are comparable in quality to animal proteins. This revealing information comes from the most reliable and respected nutrition research organization in the world, the Max Planck Institute for Nutritional Research, in Germany.
But, what is even more important, the worldwide research brings almost daily confirmation of the scientific premise and which shocked high-protein-brainwashed Americans – that proteins, essential and important as they are, can be extremely harmful when consumed in excess of your actual need. Especially an excess of cooked animal protein can cause serious health disorders.
The metabolism of proteins consumed in excess of the actual need leaves toxic residues of metabolic wastes in tissues, causes autotoxemia, over-acidity and nutritional deficiencies, accumulation of uric acid and purines in the tissues, intestinal putrefaction, and contributes to the development of many of our most common and serious diseases, such as arthritis, kidney damage, pyorrhea, schizophrenia, osteoporosis, atherosclerosis, heart disease and cancer. A high protein diet also causes premature aging and lowers life expectancy.
All the above mentioned results of a high-animal-protein diet are well documented by reliable scientific research.
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Centipede bites
Centipedes inflict bites via front fangs. Although their venom is not poisonous, their bites can cause severe pain and swelling. Give your child paracetamol in recommended doses and if the pain persists, see your doctor.
Flea bites
Domestic pets are notorious carriers of fleas, especially in the summer months. Fleas can live in carpets and furniture for several months.
Special preparations are available for treating your pets, and the carpets and furniture should also be sprayed. You should suspect the presence of fleas in your house if you notice small, itchy red marks on the ankles of members of your family. The fleas jump up from the carpet, in search of a warmer host! If you have moved into a new house, and the previous owners kept pets, you would be well advised to spray the carpet against fleas.
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You’re right that there are changes that come with aging. Changes in your skin, your hair, even your eyes, and other general mechanical deterioration are a fact of life over time no matter what we do. Research shows, however, that memory, intelligence, mobility, even such things as high blood pressure and circulatory changes are affected by the oldest principle in the world. Use it or lose it seems to be correct for many aspects of life and aging, and that is certainly true for sex. I think we’ll find, if we have the courage to study it, if we have the sensitivity to the needs of our older population to care, that the neurochemical changes that accompany sex are vital for staying healthy. Aging is strongly related to changes in brain chemistry, and I suspect that such changes could in turn be affected by sexual activity. It is not enough just to condone sex in aging, it must be advocated. In studying cultures where sex is not only allowed but expected of their aging populations, scientists have written that continuing to be sexual later into life is one of the major components of longevity.
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I don’t know. Sometimes it’s not me or her that doesn’t feel sexy. It’s more like “it,” the environment, just doesn’t seem right.
HUSBAND
Albert Krueger and David Sobel write that “there are ions in the’ air around us all the time, but changes in their concentration, or in, the ratio of positively to negatively charged molecules, can have marked biological effects on plants and animals.” I have stressed the fact that super marital sex depends on viewing sexual response as a system, an interactional flow between partners within their environment. We are living in an ocean of air, breathing at least ten thousand liters of air every twenty-four hours. To believe that this does not affect our health and therefore our sexual response is to ignore the fact that how we feel affects whatever we do.
That fresh, invigorating smell and feeling you sense after a rainstorm relates to the negative air ions that occur. It is invigorating because the ratio of positive to negative air ions has been distorted in our cement and steel world, and the rain hitting cement or stone restores a temporary healthy balance. Tropical islands and ocean-front areas are so popular because they usually have a natural healthy ion ratio.
Purchasing an air ionizer may improve your overall feeling in your private place. Inhalation of negative air ions actually alters our brain chemistry, possibly relating to secretion of pleasurable chemicals called endorphins. The increase in respiration during sex can result in either more “bad” air or more “good” air going in. For your own sex clinic, I suggest you place a tested, high-quality air ionizer in your room. Be careful. There are many fraudulent claims about these ionizers. Buy from a trusted dealer. Opening a window and letting in some fresh air for sex can help, too.
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Super Marital Sex Rule: The solution to marital problems and strategies for super marital sex are found within each marriage, nol from a prescribed set of steps, neighbor or relative advice, magazine or talk-show “easy steps” to a better marriage. Looking for techniques is much less effective than learning a new way and place for looking.
I saw it on Phil Donahue. I got the book, left it by her cup of coffee.
How direct could I be? It was right there in front of her. She never
mentioned it once. What was I supposed to do, just tell her what I
thought?
HUSBAND
When we are maritally bankrupt, we may fall into the hands of, receivers. An entire industry is thriving that is made up of marital therapy, marital seminars, marital encounters, marital self-help books, sex manuals, talk shows, and even video- and audiotapes teaching sex in marriage. In fact, most therapists themselves are! struggling in marriage or with divorce, with their own relationship!
problems. At the very least, they are attempting to help marriages with no real healthy model.
The model of wellness in America is based on individuals. Those persons we see as models of enlightenment, as gurus and teachers of health, are typically unmarried or have been unable to maintain one marriage. Sex manuals have typically been separate from marriage manuals, suggesting ways to save and fix marriages. Until this book, we have not had a model of the healthy marriage beyond the cliche of good communications, good sex, tolerance, and hard work. There have been ideas for what to do, but few if any models for how to be. I suggest it is time we looked at the possibility of super, hardy marriages.
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The pathological change in Paget’s disease is that this resorption of bone takes place at an increased rate. To counteract this the bone that is laid down is different in its structure.
This condition may produce no symptoms and it may only be discovered by an observant doctor while checking the patient for some other condition, or it may show on X-ray.
Sometimes the bony changes produce pain. This is usually of a dull, aching type. In some cases it may be severe. Because of the rich blood supply to the bone the over-lying skin feels warm to touch.
The softened bones are prone to break following even a simple fall. A few patients with Paget’s disease, about five per cent, may develop a tumor in the affected bone.
Treatment until recently has been unsatisfactory. However, in recent years a new chemical has been introduced which has been of benefit.
This is calcitonin, a hormone produced in the thyroid gland in man and certain other animals.
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Many people are obsessed with their bowel function.
Constipation is not a disease, it is a symptom. It means delay in the passage of faeces through the bowel.
It is accepted by most people that they should empty their bowel once each day. Yet the freqency and amount will depend on many factors.
The normal transit time of food taken by mouth through the bowel is about 72 hours. The bowel motion should be soft, formed and easy to pass. If it is, then the person is not constipated, even if the bowel is only emptied every second or third day.
The highly refined diet of the western world has had most of the roughage or indigestible fibre removed.
This bulk was thought to be unnecessary. We now believe that removing this natural bulk from the diet has led to an increase in certain diseases including appendicitis, diverticulitis, haemorrhoids and cancer of the bowel.
Diets low in bulk cause an increase in the muscular movements of the bowel which are concerned with mixing the contents, but a decrease in those movements which move them on. Low residue diets lead to an increase in the pressure inside the bowel.
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Many boys around puberty may develop swelling and pain in one or both breasts.
This is believed due to an upsurge of hormones which occurs with the onset of puberty. Both sexes produce male and female hormones and, at times, there may be a temporary dominance of the hormone of the opposite sex.
The soreness usually lasts only a week or two but the hard swelling may persist for a couple of months.
Babies may also suffer from swollen breasts shortly after birth and some secretion, called “witches milk”, may even be expressed.
This swelling is probably due to the mother’s hormones entering the baby’s circulation. The swelling subsides within a few weeks.
Swelling of the male breast at other ages may have a number of causes, but should always be investigated.
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Many people talk and think about cancer as if it is a single disease entity. In fact, there are over a hundred different types of cancer. They do share certain features which allow us to group them under the one word ‘cancer’. However, there are many very important differences between them — they look different, start in different parts of the body, spread differently, react to different treatments, and so on.
To understand what cancer is, and why there are so many different types, we need to know something about the body’s normal structure and function. We all know that our bodies are made up of many distinctly different parts. Our heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, brain, muscles, skin, etc all look quite different and all have completely different jobs to do to keep our bodies working.
Just as they all look quite different to the naked eye, so specimens from any of these looked at through the microscope can easily be distinguished from one another. Only a very small specimen is needed because the body is made up of millions and millions of very tiny units called cells. There are about 100,000 cells in a specimen 1mm across. The pathologist looking down the microscope can identify a specimen by assessing the types of cells in it and the way in which they are arranged. Cells which have different functions look completely different.
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