You can help your child to have healthy teeth by ensuring the following:
• Check to see if the water in your area is fluoridated. If not, add fluoride supplements to the baby’s diet. Your dentist can recommend the correct dose and form.
• Do not let your baby or young child go to bed with a [...]
The drugs in this list which are asterixed are ones which I do not recommend for control of cancer pain, but I have included them because they are often recommended. These drugs are more likely than the other painkillers to produce side effects such as lightheadedness, difficulty in concentrating, confusion and hallucinations. They are also [...]
Nicotinamide, or Vitamin B7, is also widely distributed in most foodstuffs.
Lack of this vitamin — and usually wittf an associated lack of riboflavin — produces the disease known as pellagra, and this usually is seen in those whose staple diet is maize and little else.
Vitamin B6, or pyridoxine, is required for the proper functioning of [...]
Genteel ladies of the Victorian age were prone to attacks of “the vapors”.
Smelling salts, whose pungent odor revived them, was a most necessary constituent of any first aid kit of the time.
Syncope, a faint, a vasovagal attack, are all labels for this common condition.
A faint occurs when the blood pressure suddenly drops and the output [...]
Changes may occur in the cells of the cervix. This is known as dysplasia and can be recognised on the Papanicolaou smear. It is believed these changes may be pre-malignant so that treatment at this stage could prevent the development of cancer.
Cancer-in-situ is also detected by the smear. This is cancer at its earliest when [...]
Your inside knowledge is just as important with these ongoing modifications to treatment as it was with the initial decision. Your practitioner may advise you to continue intensive chemotherapy because the secondary deposits on your chest X-ray have stopped growing since starting treatment. This means that the cancer has stopped getting bigger, but has not [...]
There are really no big distinctions between sugars and starches in either nutritional terms or in the G.I. sense. Some sugars such as fructose or fruit sugar have a low G.I. factor. Others, such as glucose, have a high G.I. factor. The most common sugar in our diet, ordinary table sugar (sucrose), has an intermediate [...]
Aerobics, or exercise to music classes are popular, particularly amongst females, because of their social involvement, safety and the support of numbers. Some modem aerobics classes now cater for the body image concerns of big people by insisting on big T-shirts, floppy clothes and no body-hugging leotards (even on instructors). In line with the previous [...]
Clearly both the environment and genetics are responsible for obesity, but how do they interrelate? There are large differences in the amount of obesity between populations. Some of this variation can be explained by differences in body frame which makes it difficult to compare, for example, Samoans with Cambodians. However, even within Caucasian populations there [...]
Men have sought the fountain of youth since the dawn of history. The medicine man of the Stone Age, in addition to being a specialist in driving the evil spirits away, also tried to restore virility to aging men. Records from early medical history show a variety of herbs used to retard aging processes and [...]
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