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THOSE IN SPECIAL NEED OF EXTRA VITAMIN C

admin — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 15:37:12 +0000

Alcoholics. Even social drinkers who take fair quantities of beer and wine or whisky need extra Vitamin C — say an extra 500 mg daily even to detoxify the alcohol, apart from their own bodily needs. Heavy drinkers need even more — one to two grams to combat the deleterious effects.

According to a report of 4 Scottish doctors in the Lancet of 21st September, 1974, the liver depends on Vitamin C to get rid of excess alcohol out of the blood stream. The more Vitamin C there is in the blood the quicker the effects of alcohol are nullified, the less there is the longer the body remains polluted. Drinkers need at least 25 mg more for every glass of grog.

Cigarette Smokers. Each cigarette is calculated by Dr Irwin Stone and others to use up 25 mg of Vitamin C, so smokers need 25 mg more for every cigarette they smoke.

Those taking drugs, anti-biotics and antihistamines of any kind need more than their daily quota. Indeed, many doctors prescribe 1000 mg to be taken with each dose of antibiotic as each improves the effect of the other.

Those subject to colds, coughs and bronchitis. At the onset of a cold — at the very first sign of a dry throat or sniffle or cough the daily intake should be increased (according to Dr Pauling) to 4000 mg a day in divided doses spread over the 24 hours. For severe virus infections even more is needed.

Any infection, either bacterial or viral, warrants taking large and frequent doses of Vitamin C, for ascorbic acid is equally effective against both.

Workers in garages, service stations or in any occupation where the air is polluted with carbon monoxide, fumes from petrol, pesticides or any other poisonous substances should take extra Vitamin C regularly — several grams a day in divided doses.

Those living or working near traffic roads where the air is heavily polluted with car exhaust fumes, not only carbon monoxide but with lead from fortified petrol, need extra Vitamin C and calcium to counteract the long term deleterious effects on their health.

Women on the Pill. Women taking oral contraceptives have significantly lower Vitamin C levels, about 30 per cent less in their blood, than those who do not take them. The oestrogen and progeston in the pill increase the breakdown of the vitamin in the body so that it is likely to be deficient unless extra C is taken daily.

Loss of other vitamins such as B2 (riboflavine) B6, B12 and folic acid are also side effects. All of which may result in depression, irritability, emotional instability, fatigue, difficulty in concentration, loss of libido and disturbed sleep.

There are now available other specially formulated pills or capsules combining all these supplements in sufficient doses (high in Vitamin C) to counteract the side effects of the pill. At least one such supplement should be taken routinely with the oral contraceptive.

Expectant and Nursing Mothers. Both before and after birth the baby is dependent on the Vitamin C in his mother’s diet for his own supplies. If her supplies are low, so are his. It has been shown that the umbilical cord carried Vitamin C to the infant from the mother, and breast milk is high in. the vitamin if the nursing mother keeps up her supply.

The old idea was to delete fresh vegetables, salads and fruits from the diet of the nursing mother as they were supposed to give the baby ‘wind’ or ‘colic’. We now know that this is not so, and that she needs all the Vitamin C rich foods she can take. If she does not have the vitamin, not only she, but her breast fed babe will show signs of scurvy.

Dr Sylvia Nobile, formerly Roche’s Chief Bio-Chemist, in her survey of aboriginal diets in west New South Wales, told me they had seen a definite case of scurvy in a breast fed aboriginal baby, whose mother lived on a diet of white bread, jam, dried milk, tea and sugar — as many fringe-dwelling aboriginal people do.

Even the advised Recommended Daily Allowances of Vitamin C of 45 to 60 to 70 mg a day may prevent scurvy but are not enough for the actual needs of both baby and mother — especially during the undoubted stress of pregnancy, labour, nursing and family care.

At least 1000 mg of C a day when the mother is in good health, more if she is tired or ailing, have been thought to fill the needs of mother and child over the pregnant and nursing period.

Many nutritionists, however, advise much more for positive health and energy of both herself and her new born baby. (See Section on Pregnancy and Lactation).

Sufferers from Rheumatism who have been prescribed aspirin products or anti-inflammatory drugs which must be taken over long periods need extra Vitamin C as both types of drugs use up large quantities of Vitamin C in its efforts to detoxify these foreign substances.

Vitamin C not only reduces the side effects of aspirin, anti-inflammatory medicines and pain killers, but actually improves their action in the body.

One aspirin tablet is said to use up 25 mg of Vitamin C. So the minimum daily dose should be worked out by each individual.
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CAN LARGE DOSES OF VITAMIN C BE DANGEROUS?

admin — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 15:32:02 +0000

There has been a great deal of criticism of Vitamin C taken in greater amounts than the Recommended Daily Allowance. The critics state that large doses of Vitamin C can be dangerous or cause side effects.

Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) is non-toxic even in large doses, but some mild side effects may occur owing to its acidity. Large doses of Vitamin C can cause side effects in sensitive persons especially if taken on an empty stomach or when large doses are taken suddenly at one time. Indigestion, vomiting, diarrhoea, headache, mild skin rashes may occur, but disappear on reducing the dose or ceasing ascorbic acid.

These symptoms can be avoided by substituting the non-acid sodium ascorbate, by taking doses with meals or by gradually building up to the required dose instead of initially starting with the full amount. Intolerance then usually disappears.

In cases of severe illness or allergy it is better to take Vitamin C in small doses every 2 hours round the clock to obtain full effect without trouble.

Loose Motions. Large doses of ascorbic acid especially when taken suddenly and on an empty stomach may cause gastro-intestinal irritation and loose motions. This can be prevented by starting with smaller doses and working up to the full quota, and always taking the tablets with, or just after, a meal. Flavored tablets can be sucked slowly. Crystals buffered with sodium ascorbate or effervescing tablets dissolved in water do not upset the stomach.

Frequency of Urine. Large doses act as a mild diuretic, which is all to the good in most cases where fluid retention has been a problem.

Burning, from very acid urine has been noticed when large doses of ascorbic acid are taken suddenly, or when some medicine such as Mandelamine has been taken at the same time to cause extra acidity in the urine.

The dose of ascorbic acid should be raised gradually, except in an emergency, and acidifying medicines and ascorbic acid unbuffered should not be taken together.

There are many Vitamin C preparations buffered with sodium ascorbate on the market. They will prevent too acid urine and the burning sensation.

Kidney Stones. One of the ‘scare’ ideas used by the critics of high daily doses of ascorbic acid is that it causes the formation of oxalic acid kidney stones.

The Vitamin C-Kidney Stone story is a myth according to Dr Frederick Klenner, M.D. — bio-chemist and physiologist as well as medical practitioner of 40 years’ standing.

Dr Klenner has used massive doses of ascorbic acid or its salt — sodium ascorbate — by mouth, and by injection for 30 years in his hospital at Reedsville, North Carolina.

He and other experts consider that the oxalic acid kidney stone hypothesis is but another of the ‘scare’ weapons used by the critics of high daily doses of ascorbic acid.

There are certainly a small number of people who have an inborn tendency to form high levels of oxalic acid in the urine. -

For the oxalic acid to precipitate out as calcium-oxalate stones or crystale (gravel) it must be alkaline and be held in the bladder for some time (urinary stasis). As ascorbic acid and its salts maintain the acidity of the urine and act as a mild stimulant to the flow (diuretic) the oxalic acid, even if high, is held in solution and there is no tendency to form stones.

The Federal Drug Administration of U.S.A. published a ‘warning’ about high doses of ascorbic acid and sodium ascorbate. Dr Klenner replied that before giving massive doses of Vitamin C he always tried it out on himself with no ill effects.

‘I can state,’ he writes, ‘that for many years I have taken 10 to 20 grams (that is 10,000 to 20,000 milligrams) of sodium ascorbate by mouth daily, and my blood sodium remains normal. These levels are checked by an approved laboratory. Twenty grams each day and my urine remains at or just above ph6 (normal urine acidity). I do not have diabetes and neither do I have a kidney stone.’

Dr Klenner has confirmed these findings with his many patients over 30 years of using massive doses of Vitamin C when their condition demanded it.

In U.S.A. an analysis of 1000 cases of kidney stones showed that 52 per cent were of calcium phosphate, 33 per cent calcium oxalate, 6 per cent urate stones, 3 per cent cystime.

Doses of 500 mg to 1000 mg ascorbic acid render the urine acid and clear any phosphatic sedimentation from the urine.

Urate and cystine stones are comparatively rare, but the presence of ascorbic acid in the urine maintains both cystine and urate in a soluble condition and prevents them from crystallizing out into insoluble forms.

Infertility. Suspicion has been cast on Vitamin C in large doses as a cause of infertility and a tendency to cause miscarriage. I have yet to find any authentic evidence of this in the literature, and certainly not among my cases.

In fact, the Recommended Daily Allowance for pregnant women is raised from 30 milligrams for expectant and 80 to 100 milligrams for nursing mothers in recognition of their increased needs for the vitamin.

Excess ascorbic acid destroys B12 if taken at same meal. The investigations made to prove that C destroys Vitamin B12 and that the blood of those taking large doses of C lacked B12 were based only on 4 out of 9 veteran soldiers. No case of pernicious anaemia has been reported in high Vitamin C takers. _v

The case for destruction of B12 was made by giving groups of people in an institution 1500 mg, 1000 mg, 500 mg and zero mg of C daily; then taking equivalents of all the food eaten in a day by the group, mixing each lot up in 4 gallon drums and comparing the B12 content of the food samples of those taking no supplement of C with those taking the varying amounts up to 1500 mg daily.

There was less B12 in the food of those taking large doses of C than in those taking moderate doses. Who is to know what other factors besides Vitamin C entered into these diets? There is no mention of what these dietary samples consisted.

That large doses of C invalidated tests for liver efficiency. Does this matter? In those few cases which require liver tests, surely the vitamin can be discontinued temporarily.

That animals and persons taking large doses of C over long periods become more susceptible to scurvy when it is reduced than those on the Recommended Daily Allowance.

This may be true of animals who manufacture their own Vitamin C, for an excess may reduce their own ability to make it, just as giving large doses of cortisone reduces the ability of the adrenal glands to produce their own cortisone. Indeed, this may be the very reason which caused monkeys, primeval man and guinea pigs to lose their capacity to make ascorbic acid. Their ordinary diet was so overloaded with the vitamin that they had no need to make it themselves, and so in the course of body economics they lost the ability.

To us who depend on outside sources for our ascorbic acid an excess above the mere anti-scurvy doses need pose no problem.

The benefits of adequate saturation of the tissues and organs such as the adrenals, the pituitary and thymus glands, the lens of the eye and the white corpuscles of the blood and the liver — with ascorbic acid far outweigh the minor side effects and problematic disadvantages that may accrue with megavitamin doses.

gallon drums and comparing the B12 content of the food samples of those taking no supplement of C with those taking the varying amounts up to 1500 mg daily.

That large doses of C invalidated tests for liver efficiency. Does this matter? In those few cases which require liver tests, surely the vitamin can be discontinued temporarily.

That animals and persons taking large doses of C over long periods become more susceptible to scurvy when it is reduced than those on the Recommended Daily Allowance.

To us who depend on outside sources for our ascorbic acid an excess above the mere anti-scurvy doses need pose no problem.

FOOD AND EMOTIONS

admin — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 14:05:58 +0000

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

BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE AIROLA DIET: AVOID AN EXCESS OF PROTEIN IN YOUR DIET

admin — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 14:05:33 +0000

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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GENERAL HEALTH

YOUR CHILD’S HEALTH CARE: CENTIPEDE BITES AND FLEA BITES

admin — Thu, 21 May 2009 07:23:10 +0000

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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SENIOR CITIZEN SEX EDUCATION: SENIORS’ SEX PROBLEMS AND FEARS

admin — Tue, 19 May 2009 05:13:42 +0000

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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YOUR MARITAL HEALTH/OWNING AND OPERATING YOUR OWN SEX CLINIC: BUILDING THE CLINIC AND REMODELING THE “BORED” ROOM – THE SEXUAL ATMOSPHERE: SEX IN THE AIR

admin — Mon, 18 May 2009 12:32:55 +0000

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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THE DESEXUALIZATION OF THE AMERICAN MARRIAGE/WAY TO LEAVE YOUR LOVING: UNMARRIAGE THERAPISTS AND VIDEO ADVISERS

admin — Mon, 18 May 2009 10:08:08 +0000

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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PAGET’S DISEASE – SYMPTOMS

admin — Fri, 15 May 2009 09:50:57 +0000

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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CONSTIPATION – INTRODUCTION

admin — Fri, 15 May 2009 08:17:38 +0000

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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