Although the above seems like a simple enough question that should evoke an equally simple answer, the truth is that, as is so often the case, experts do have widely differing views. What’s more, what is a good and comfortable bed for one person is not necessarily so for the next, as what suits best [...]
The voice on my answering machine says, T am calling to cancel my appointment for tomorrow. I am just too upset to come in and talk about it.’ This is the paradox of severe depression. It is a downward spiral. You feel so bad you have no wish to seek assistance nor any hope that [...]
It is important for anyone undertaking this program of prevention to maintain a constructive point of view. These problems are predominantly physical and external in origin, yet to the extent that psychological factors come into play, it is important to maintain a positive attitude. The necessary changes in lifestyle should be made of one’s own [...]
Common in Florida from early February through late August every year, outbreaks of ciguatera fish poisoning occur after ingestion of certain types of ocean fish, especially grouper and snapper. Beginning two to 30 hours after a meal, this illness usually starts with diarrhea and vomiting, which may cause such severe dehydration that hospitalization for intravenous [...]
Signs and symptoms First symptoms are fever, malaise (body discomfort), headache, and sometimes signs of a common cold. The key symptoms are a marked loss of appetite (often with nausea, vomiting, and upper abdominal pain) and the onset of jaundice (yellowed skin, yellowed whites of eyes, dark amber urine, and light-colored stools). Jaundice lasts [...]
Farmers give their cattle antibiotics to speed their growth as well as hormones to increase the supply of milk per cow. A generation ago, an individual cow would produce approximately 9 liters (2 gallons) of milk per day; now it yields 56 liters (12 gallons) per day. These hormones must surely end up in the [...]
Drive your car into a tree and it’s an act of stupidity. Put a patch of ice under your tires and suddenly it’s God’s fault. Though scientists hate the phrase “act of God,” everyday folks have been blaming not-so-everyday disasters like twisters, blizzards, and floods on random acts of the divine since Noah picked up [...]
The experimental and clinical trial work which forms the basis for the answers which follow has been done using mussel extract produced by McFarlane Laboratories of Auckland, New Zealand. This company is believed to be the only one producing the pure extract. To avoid the use of trade names under which this extract is marketed [...]
Anyone who has ever been on a diet knows it is extremely difficult to keep weight off once it is lost. Sure, she might shed a few pounds in the first weeks or so but, try as she might, that weight almost invariably returns. When it does, the person usually blames the diet or, more [...]
Talk about your dynamic duo! In the mid-1990s, Patti Pottebaum and her husband, Gary, kicked their 20-year smoking habits. The couple, who live in the Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania, say that attacking the problem as a team helped them succeed. But in the months that followed, the usually trim Patti and Gary found their waistlines [...]