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Thursday, December 2, 2010
Naturally Cure for Headaches Part 1 of 40 articles
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Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Accelerated Disease of the Aged in Alzheimers
Due to economical, social, healthcare, education, and other factors the diseases in our older generation are accelerating. Older people may lack education that helps them to spot signs at early stages, which can help geriatrists find cures to various diseases. In addition, as one grows older they tend to avoid socialization. The lack of socialism has caused acceleration of disease. Healthcare is deficient, which has also caused major problems for the older generation, as well as the younger societians.
With so many continuing problems experts of specialize in healthcare for senior citizens is finding solutions, yet these answers is not enough to stop the acceleration of diseases.
Alzheimer’s is a form of dementias, which can escalate to progeroid syndrome. The condition will cause aging signs to increase dramatically, which shortens the expectancy of life. We see this type of disease in our younger generation as well. Children who bald early, or have hunches in the back has encountered accelerated aging conditions.
The condition moves to form Hutchinson - Gilford syndrome, or progeria. Werner’s syndrome may also develop early. In addition, various other diseases may follow, including Down syndrome. This is where Alzheimer’s come in, since it is a general condition known as the sister of progeroid syndrome. Downs starts the aging process to accelerate swiftly. The condition affects glucose, which is the sugar source of energy that promotes proteins, fats, and carbohydrates. Blood vessels are affected as well, which starts another disease that leads to intolerance. Gradually the disease begins affecting the entire body, which can develop into cancer. In addition, the disease can escalate to degenerative bone illnesses. Once the bones are hit, thus the body diminishes rapidly. As well, Down syndrome can cause hair loss, which is another symptom of acceleration of aging. Moreover, the disease can cause death prematurely. Down syndrome is damning, since it will target CNS (Central Nervous System), which leads to retardation. The brain starts to deteriorate, which causes Alzheimer’s disease to develop, as well as dementia.
How to fight back
To ward off these diseases early detections must be considered. Most diseases will send signals at the early stages to warn you. If you notice any symptoms emerging, seek medical treatment immediately. Even if the condition is minor, the doctor can move to action to prevent further problems.
The best thing we have in life is the ability to communicate. Use the gift we have, and speak with your physician regularly. Staying informed is another gift, which we have a wide array of information to help us learn. Learning is a beautiful gift and condition that we use to grow healthy. Use it to your advantage.
Statistics has not only shown, but has also proven that those who effectively communicate with their healthcare experts, discussing their condition with the professional medical experts, thus statistics have shown that these people live longer and healthier. Effectively communication however is not only speaking, but it is also the act of joining in the actions to better your health. This moves us back to learning.
When you are informed, you have knowledge that drives you to a well-versed solution. The strategies to take to prevent the diseases include, talking, taking action, partaking, listening, learning (specifically about your condition and overall health), visit your physician at regular intervals, and taking steps with your doctor to prevent disease.
Studies has shown that elders with Alzheimer’s disease also has sister diseases, which counteract the other. To avoid such complications one must consider primary healthcare, and know when to contact the doctor when symptoms emerge. Record keeping can help you continue to monitor your health, which is an outstanding method to reduce disease.
Goal Setting With Hypnosis Chapter 6
Learn Better Ways To Achieve Your Goals One highly powerful benefit of using hypnosis is the power to train your mind to stay centered on the successful accomplishment of your goal. You will be able to program a specific effect and retain the ability to consciously divert your attention to it in a favorable,success-affirming manner. You can as well eradicate self-sabotage and remove the negative feelings and ideas that are blocking your path to success.
Here are a few ideas for using hypnosis as a goal accomplishment tool.
1. Envision. Program yourself with your desired result. While under the influence of self hypnosis visually imagine that your goal is already achieved and your objective has been accomplished. See it as true. See it through your own eyes and feel all the marvelous feelings associated with that goal accomplishment.
2. Doggedness. Get down into your subconscious mind and alter your inner character traits to match those people who never quit. Program your subconscious mind to be relentless regardless of what is going on in any given state of affairs. Post hypnotic suggestions to formulate an iron will and relentless approach to your goals will be priceless in times of stress and disenchantment.
3. Believe Positively. Discover how to think positively. The subconscious mind has a disposition to replay past memories and cast them back into consciousness in the form of questions and fears. Through the practice of self hypnosis you are able to completely eliminate them. Program your subconscious mind to believe positively and anticipate positive results.
4. Program out the Trouble. Inevitably some trouble will arise when you go after worthwhile goals. Through hypnosis you are able to solve these troubles reasonably quickly. While in trance see yourself successfully passing over the obstacle. You don't have to see how you did it, just visualize yourself at the other side, alleviated, happy and proud that you "figured it out" and reached the other side. If this, in itself, is a problem for you, or you find it difficult to do then look for the advice of a qualified hypnotherapist. A competent hypnotherapist will determine the root of your trouble probably in the fits consultation!
5. Pre-pave your route. Conceive of yourself meeting the correct people and being in the correct place at the correct time. Program your mind like this, by the power of hypnosis, and your subconscious mind will pick up on non-verbal hints, process the 1000000s of bits of information you receive every minute and guide you to the right course of action.
6. Develop Trust. utilize hypnosis to convince the subconscious mind that your destination is already a reality. "Fake it till you make it". Fool your subconscious mind into thinking the "real" world is really exactly like the world you have been envisioning. In the profoundly relaxed state that hypnosis offers you are able to get fully involved in your mental image. Truly feel how great it is to have already achieved all those things you wanted for so long. Enjoy the fact that you're enjoying the benefits of having accomplished that goal.
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Immediate Gratification For Breaking Bad Habits
A habit is any process that we have executed so often that it becomes virtually an involuntary response. If we believe this habit to be unsuitable then we might label it a "bad habit". Individuals spend infinite hours and dollars yearly attempting to break these bad habits and oftentimes don't have any success. How come? Because there's no magic bullet. Modification is hard work and there's no short cut to accomplishing it. The steps an individual needs to take, though, can be very simply outlined. To force a change in habits, one needs to bring the action back into the region of consciousness and find the power to make choices.
The beginning step in breaking a bad habit is to view why you find this action so compelling. Put differently, what's the reward for doing this apparently damaging thing? Since you've already relegated this as a "bad" habit you might be tempted to say there isn't one. However look closer. There's always a reward. Let's say your bad habit is screaming at your kids. What's in it for you? You blow off some steam and feel a bit better for the time being. Or you've a bad habit of leaving the dishes dirty? The reward may be that you get to spend more time on the Net!
Following, consider the trade-off. What is it that you're missing by doing your habit? This step ought to be easier. Just consider why it is that you believe it a bad habit in the first place. Screaming at your children is a bad habit as it leaves everyone feeling tense and pulls down your kid’s self-regard. You're trading a temporary dismissal of tension for the emotional wellness of your kids. Leaving the dishes dirty is a bad habit as your kitchen is a stinking mess. To have more Net time you're swapping off having pleasant living surroundings. When you view it that way it doesn't seem like you're making very sensible choices, does it? There has to be a more beneficial way.
By now you ought to realize that the only way to carry on with a bad habit for very long is to settle back into denial of why you're doing it in the first place. For each one time you start to restart your old patterns the thought will pass across your mind that you're trading X for Y for each one time you execute that action. You'll be forced to make a choice, whether good for bad, about persisting in your habit. What selections will you make? The one that makes you feel sorry about yourself or the one that makes you feel fine? It's up to you.
Monday, October 25, 2010
Protein Evaluation
Proteins are made up of amino acids. Some of these amino acids are indispensable, others may be made from the essential amino acids.
No two proteins have the same amino acid content. Some of them are very deficient in one or more of the essential amino acids. Either the amino acid is entirely absent or it is present in such minute quantity that one would be forced to consume enormous quantities of the protein to secure an adequate supply of the deficient amino acid. Proteins lacking in an essential amino acid are inadequate proteins.
According to their adequacy, individual proteins are grouped as:
- Complete: Those maintaining life and providing for normal growth of the young and reproduction in the adult when fed as the sole protein food. Examples of complete proteins are excelsin of the Brazilnut, glycinin, of the soy-bean, casein and lactalbumen of milk, ovalbumen and ovovitallin of eggs, edestin, glutenin and maize glutellin of cereals. Rose showed that the proteins most suitable for maintaining growth in dogs are lactalbumen (milk), ovalbumen and ovavitellin (eggs); that next in order of suitableness are glutenin (wheat), casein (milk), glutelin (corn) and glycinin (soy bean). Gliadin(wheat and rye) and legumin (peas) are capable of maintaining nitrogen balance, but not growth. Zein and gelatin can do neither.
- Partially Complete: Those maintaining life but not supporting normal growth. Examples of these are gliadin, of wheat, hordein of barley and prolamin of rye, legumin of peas, legumenin in the soybean, conglutin, in blue and yellow lupin, phaseolin in the white kidney bean, legumin and vignin in vetch.
- Incomplete: Those incapable either of maintaining life or of supporting growth. Gelatin from horn and other hard parts of the animal is the most conspicuous example of an incomplete protein, Zein of corn (maize) is another example of this class.
Let us take a look at an incomplete protein. With zein as the sole source of amino acids, growth is impossible. In fact, experimental animals fed zein as their sole protein, lose weight. If tryptophan isadded to the zein, weight is maintained but growth does not occur. Only after both lysine and tryptophan are added can normal growth take place. Zein is deficient in tryptophan, glycine, lysine and glycocoll.
Gliadin, found abundantly in wheat and rye, lacks sufficient lusine to maintain growth. Gelatin lacks tyrosin and tryptophan. Unless these are supplied to the animal fed on gelatin as its sole source of protein,
it soon dies.
it soon dies.
Thus it may be seen that since the nutritive value of proteins is determined by the kinds and quantities of amino acids they contain, all proteins are not of equal value to the body and cannot be used interchangeably. The nutritive value of foods cannot be determined by reference to a table of food composition. This fallacy was exposed by Prof. Huxley many years ago. Sophie Leppel followed him in protesting against the belief that tables of food analysis give reliable indexes to food values. All the fuss made about the need for 118
grams of protein daily, without specifying the kinds of proteins, does not amount to much.
While I have emphasized the fact that the various proteins are not interchangeable, it is necessary to distinguish between the various isolated proteins and the common protein foods. All protein foods
contain two or more proteins. The deficiencies of one protein of a food are often made up by the other protein of the same food. For example, tryptophan may be lacking in one protein and one of the
other proteins in the same food may be rich in this amino acid. Returning to zein of corn, which, as we have seen, will not maintain life; it is supplemented by glutelin, of which the corn possesses almost an equal amount, and these two proteins are capable of supporting a normal rate of growth. Gliadin of wheat and rye lack
sufficient lysine to maintain growth. But wheat contains other proteins which supply liberal portions of this amino acid.
contain two or more proteins. The deficiencies of one protein of a food are often made up by the other protein of the same food. For example, tryptophan may be lacking in one protein and one of the
other proteins in the same food may be rich in this amino acid. Returning to zein of corn, which, as we have seen, will not maintain life; it is supplemented by glutelin, of which the corn possesses almost an equal amount, and these two proteins are capable of supporting a normal rate of growth. Gliadin of wheat and rye lack
sufficient lysine to maintain growth. But wheat contains other proteins which supply liberal portions of this amino acid.
We do not eat isolated individual proteins and do not depend upon but one such protein as our source of amino acids. On the contrary, we eat whole foods which contain two or several proteins. We also eat several foods, all of which contain proteins. Just as one protein in a food may supplement another protein in the same food, so the protein of one food may supplement the protein of another food. Two inadequate proteins may prove adequate when supplied to the same individual. This can be so, of course, only when they are not both
inadequate in the same amino acids. If each is abundant in what is lacking in the other, the combined proteins will prove adequate. The sum total of the various proteins in the diet, if the diet is varied, will prove fully adequate.
inadequate in the same amino acids. If each is abundant in what is lacking in the other, the combined proteins will prove adequate. The sum total of the various proteins in the diet, if the diet is varied, will prove fully adequate.
It is customary to use young rats in testing the value of the various proteins. It is obvious to everyone that young rats never attempt to live on isolated and single proteins. They eat the whole food and eat different kinds of protein foods so that they receive all of the needed amino acids. Most of the experiments with the different vegetable and grain proteins have been made with denatured proteins and may not prove all that they are supposed to prove. They have been performed with isolated, individual proteins and Hindhede aptly says of these substances that, far from being remarkable that these isolated proteins have so little value, "it is remarkable that such substances, isolated by complicated chemical processes, have any value at all." It may be ideal for experimental purposes, in testing the value of the different proteins, to use only single isolated proteins, but it is a far cry from this experimental condition to the eating practices of man and animals. It is not only true that the diets of both man and animals commonly contain more than one kind of protein food, but it is also true that all protein foods contain two or more proteins. If only a single protein food were consumed, the diet would contain more than one protein. Note the different proteins in corn, wheat, milk and eggs. It frequently happens that the protein in one food is abundant in the amino acids in which the protein in another food is deficient. Thus the two proteins supplement each other so that, together, they constitute a complete protein. Often the deficiency in a protein is so small that a very slight addition of the deficient amino acids from another source suffices to support normal growth and maintenance. All proteins are, therefore, capable of supplying the body with important nutritive substances. The mere fact that a protein is inadequate is not sufficient reason for rejecting it completely.
It is true that some mixtures of protein foods have been shown to be inferior, even, to certain single articles of protein. This is especially true of the grains as compared to milk. Some of the cereal proteins are adequate, but only so when fed in large amounts. Glutenin from wheat may be made to supply a sufficiency of amino acids in which it is deficient only by separating this protein from the wheat and feeding it in concentrated form and in amounts one could not secure by eating wheat. Edistin of hemp is another example of this kind. In
small quantities it does not supply sufficient lusine. The same thing is true of the casein of milk. It is low in cystine, hence in small quantities, does not supply sufficient of this amino acid. Thus it becomes apparent that some complete proteins may prove to be partially incomplete when fed in reduced amounts.
A mixture of grains will not suffice to maintain growth and repair. Rye and barley are about the only grains that are adequate for the adult body. Even a mixture of as many as ten varieties of grains does not provide adequate protein for growth due to the fact that all of them are poor in lysin and cystin and most of them contain too little tryptophan.
In regular practice we do not consume casein as our sole source of protein, nor do we live upon an exclusive grain diet. We regularly consume many other protein-containing foods. Hygienists, on the other hand, have long contended that grains form no normal part of man's diet and have long considered them to be inferior foods. Dr.Densmore was the first to point out the inferiority of grains as an article of human consumption. We are not surprised that the experimenters have fully verified most of his contentions. More of this in a later Post
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