Varicose veins are knotlike, twisting enlargements of the veins, usually just beneath the skin of the legs. They are the result of a breakdown of the valves that are found at regular intervals in the veins. It is through these valves that the blood flows back to the heart, after having been pumped to the [...]
If we compare the brain to a control centre, we can think of the nervous system as a communications network that directly or indirectly associates all our activities with that centre. Messages from the outside world and from within our own bodies come to the brain, via the nerve network, for a decision on what [...]
Practically everybody can achieve and maintain an ideal weight. Do not delude yourself with the excuse that you have inherited your tendency to be fat or thin; do not pay any attention to the stories you have heard about glandular or metabolic disturbances. Doctors find that most of these stories are untrue. A large proportion [...]
We used to hear a great deal about ptomaine poisoning, a diagnosis made on the incorrect theory that mysterious poisons were created by the digestion of certain foods. However, certain kinds of food poisoning do occur. They can be caused by the contamination of food at its source—for example, milk from a diseased cow, oysters [...]
By excessive drinking, I mean getting intoxicated or drinking to the point where it interferes with one’s job, one’s family life, and one’s relation to society. The person who drinks excessively is practically a criminal when he is behind the wheel of a car or otherwise assumes responsibilities he is not capable of fulfilling. He [...]
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