Archive for May, 2009
YOUR CHILD’S HEALTH: CYSTIC FIBROSIS
Cystic fibrosis is an inherited disorder which occurs in approximately 1 in every 2500 births. Children with the disease have excessive amounts of salt in their sweat, and produce thick mucus which blocks the pancreas and the lungs. This leads to many long-term problems, including repeated chest infections, poor growth (failure to thrive), and occasionally [...]
SEXUALITY, ILLNESS, AND HEALTH: FERTILITY AND SEXUALITY- SOME OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS
Here are some of the recommendations I give to the couples after consultation with their referring doctor. 1. It is not true that “just when someone adopts, they get pregnant.” There are many such stories, but statistics do not bear them out. Nonetheless, a necessary first step in solving a fertility problem is to discuss [...]
YOUR MARITAL HEALTH/WHY HUSBANDS DON’T HAVE ORGASM: THE FRICTION FALLACY
Just put your first two fingers against your thumb and move your hand up and down and everyone will know what you mean. That is how men come. TEENAGER The early perspectives of sexuality asserted that men experience orgasm by thrusting, resulting in friction to the outer third of the penile shaft, which in turn [...]
THE JOY OF PERFECT HEALTH: THE PURITY OF THE PHYSICAL BODY FREES ENORMOUS RESOURCES OF THE MIND
The purity of the physical body frees enormous resources of the mind. If properly directed, such resources could be used to acquire many natural skills considered miraculous or supernatural by normal people. Creating matter by a pure thought, flying around the galaxy and the Universe in your various astral bodies, being consciously present at several [...]
LEPROSY – INTRODUCTION
Leprosy has been known since Biblical times, and is still a scourge throughout the world. It still occurs in parts of the Middle East, Asia, the Pacific, Africa, Central and South America, Southern Europe around the Mediterranean and in Northern Australia There are about 10 to 15 million sufferers throughout the world. But, contrary to [...]
BORNHOLM DISEASE
The Coxackie viruses belong to a group which cause a number of seemingly unrelated diseases. They were named after the U.S. town where the two patients from whom the virus was first isolated lived. Different varieties of the virus can cause meningitis or inflammation of the coverings of the brain and spinal cord. Other illnesses [...]
ENDOMETRIOSIS: STRESS-REDUCTION TIPS
Tryptophan is found naturally in cow’s milk, turkey, tuna and some carbohydrate-high foods like apples. Breast milk, too, is especially high in this amino acid—one reason why Infants fall asleep after feeding. Supplying tryptophan to the adult body, though, is more than a matter of ingesting any of these foods before bedtime or taking it [...]
SKIN CARE: HAIR AND NAIL DISORDERS
Both hair and nails are derived from the epidermis, and both consist of the same dead tissue—the protein, keratin. Because of their derivation from the epidermis it is not surprising that diseases affecting the skin may affect the hair and nails as well. In addition, there are a number of disorders which are peculiar to [...]
SOME WELL KNOWN DIET PLANS
Diets in most books and magazines advocate energy restriction. Some, such as ‘The Complete F-Plan Diet’ and The Pritikin Program’, are based on credible information, incorporating a high-carbohydrate/fibre, low-fat eating plan, although they tend to be extreme and may be difficult to sustain for a lifetime. Less reasonable but readily available diets that either exclude [...]
UTERINE FIBROIDS (MYOMAS)
These knobs of muscle tissue grow from the lining of the uterus into its interior, from the outer surface of the uterus, or they may be buried in the myometrium, the muscular wall of the uterus. They vary from the size of pumpkin seeds to oranges, although they can become even bigger, and usually grow [...]