Артрит – Arthritis

Starting school

The child should be prepared well in advance so that he anticipates it in a positive way. The parents can take him to school beforehand, showing him around and perhaps meeting the teachers. He should be involved in purchasing any requirements for school, such as a schoolbag, books or clothes. Sometimes it is beneficial for him to meet other children of the same age, who are starting school at the same time.

Starting creche or kindergarten

Starting kindergarten or daycare is just as stressful as starting school, though the child is younger and it is often more difficult to prepare him for it. During the first couple of days, it may be helpful for a parent to stay a little while, rather than leave immediately. Each kindergarten will have its own way of handling a child’s stress, and the preschool teacher will be experienced in handling separation anxiety in young children. Parents need to make sure that their own feelings of anxiety are not transmitted to the child — this will only serve to make things worse.

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It is a fact that many painkillers are addictive. However, it is extremely rare for people who use painkillers as painkillers to become addicted to them. Addiction is much, much more likely to develop in people who take painkillers not for pain relief, but in order to get a lift, escape from reality or for some other such reason. If you take painkillers for pain, you will find that you can stop taking them quite easily if, and when, your pain is relieved by some other means. Provided you stop them gradually over a couple of days, the worst that will happen is that you may get some mild withdrawal symptoms such as temporary restlessness, difficulty in sleeping and a runny nose. If you get these symptoms, it does not mean that you were addicted. It just means that your body had got used to having the drug around and is now readjusting to being without it again.

I know it is not easy to overcome a fear of addiction and just allow yourself to take as much painkiller as you need. Try to rid yourself of the idea that painkillers are things that enslave you unless you constantly struggle to take them as little as possible. Who would you say is the real slave—the person who is so immobilised and preoccupied by pain that life is miserable for themselves and their family and friends or the one who takes enough painkillers to stay relaxed and comfortable? Uncontrolled pain is a much greater tyrant than painkillers taken so that they do relieve pain.

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Extreme cold from carbon dioxide, snow or liquid nitrogen will also result in death of the warty tissue, which sloughs away and the underlying skin heals usually without a scar.

Warts near the nailbed are prone to come back.

Plantar warts are often called papillomas and these are warts on the soles of the feet.

They are the same as warts elsewhere but because of the pressure of the foot against the ground or the shoe, the warty tissue is forced inwards and this presses on the sensitive nerve endings in the skin and causes pain.

These warts may be treated like those elsewhere but cutting them out or burning them with the electric diathermy may produce a tender scar.

The warts can be softened by using a local application and the base curetted away.

They do respond well to freezing with liquid nitrogen.

Plantar warts are usually multiple. Venereal warts or condyloma acuminata are the same as the others.

Their difference being that the warm moist conditions of the genital or anal areas produces a different type of wart.

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Metatarsalgia involves a breakdown in the horizontal arch of the foot. This arch is formed by the heads of the metatarsals, the long bones of the foot.

When this arch is weak, the ball of the foot flattens when weight is put on it. Pressure of the heads of the metatarsals pushing into the pad on the ball of the foot causes a painful callus.

This is a mechanical problem and requires a mechanical solution. A pad of sponge rubber or plastic foam inside the shoe may cushion the effect as the foot presses down. A metatarsal bar on the sole of the shoe will give relief. This shifts the weight behind the metatarsal heads and eases the pressure.

A Plantar wart may be mistaken for a callus. They occur on the soles of the feet, are often called papillomas and are like warts elsewhere on the body being caused by a virus.

Because of pressure when walking and standing, the wart tends to grow inwards. It is painful because the warty tissue presses on the sensitive nerve endings in the skin.

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Most women with symptoms of bladder irritation will lose these symptoms within a few days, whether treated or not. Those that have been given treatment for their nerves will get better and both they and the doctor may believe the problem is therefore of nervous origin.

In those cases where the urine shows no bacteria, the true cause of the symptoms lies in the urethra or at the base of the bladder where the ureters enter. This is called the trigone.

Often, the first attack of urinary infection may be that embarrassing condition known as «honeymoon cystitis».

This is due to irritation and pressure on the urethra from regular and frequent intercourse in a woman unused to it.

Many a honeymoon has been spoilt for the bride and groom by such an experience, and many women have lost interest in sex because of the discomfort and embarrassment. A few doses of Citralka from the chemist will usually relieve the symptoms. Most doctors will prescribe antibiotics.

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The main technique used in this endeavour is the randomised clinical trial. Here doctors select a fairly uniform group of people—all within a certain age range, with similar types and extent of cancer and about the same degree of physical fitness. To further reduce any possible bias, the people in this already fairly uniform group are allotted randomly (by chance) to one or other of the treatments to be compared. This could be done, say, with the flip of a coin: heads = treatment X, tails = treatment Y. Scientifically-trained doctors believe that such random allocation of people to treatment is the best way of making sure that any differences in results are due to the different treatments and not to any other factor. As I have explained, such techniques are only necessary if we are looking for small differences. For example, trials often include hundreds of people in an attempt to make sure that they do not miss differences of five per cent (one in twenty) in remission rates or of a few weeks or months in average length of life—’statistically significant’ differences. Attention is completely concentrated on ways of expressing results that can be accurately measured and subjected to statistical analysis— things like remission rate and length of life.

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I’M CONFASED ABOUT THE G.I. OF RICE. SOME PEOPLE SAY IT HAS A HIGH G.L FACTOR, OTHERS SAY IT IS LOW.

Rices in Australia usually have a high G.L factor because their amylose content is low. On page 34 we described how amylose is a form of starch which is more difficult to digest and results in lower G.L factors. Doongara and Basmati, are high in amylose and have relatively low G.L factors. You can guess at the G.L factor of rice by its appearance after cooking. If it is sticky and individual grains clump together, the rice is likely to have a high G.L factor. On the other hand, if the rice is dry and the grains separate, it is likely to have a relatively low G.L factor. There are many varieties of rice which show intermediate characteristics and therefore have intermediate G.I.s.

A high fat food may have a low G.I. factor. Doesn’t this give a falsely favourable impression of that food for people with diabetes?

Yes it does. The G.L factor of potato crisps or French fries is lower than baked potatoes. The G.L of corn chips is lower than sweet corn. It is important not to base your food choices on the G.L factor alone. It is essential to look at the fat content of foods as well. Low-fat eating is best for everyone, especially people with diabetes.

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Climate. The effects of cold on the fat loss response to exercise have been studied extensively and have been reviewed by Professor Roy Shephard of Toronto University in Canada.9 Basically results show that repeated and prolonged moderate exercise in a cold environment creates a greater energy deficit than in a warm environment. Shephard’s group demonstrated this with Canadian soldiers on manoeuvres in the Arctic. The fat loss of these men was compared with that of soldiers in mainland Canada in the summer, whilst on an identical dietary and exercise regime.

Explanations for the extra effects of the cold include an altered sensitivity of catecholamine receptors, and increased thermogenesis through shivering. Endurance activity in the cold appears to have specific fat loss benefits, although this effect seems to be less well developed in men than in women. Exercising in the Arctic is obviously the extreme situation, but it probably carries some lessons for fat loss in extreme conditions. Exercise in the cold may give added advantages in therapy for obesity, provided vigorous exercise is not attempted with cold muscles.

Conversely, over-heating by rugging up with warm clothing while exercising, as is often done in an attempt to ‘sweat off fat, may be counter-productive for fat loss. The loss of sweat may result in some weight loss but much of it will be fluid loss.

The body maintains an optimal core temperature of around 37.5°C. In a hot environment, the body has to work to prevent its core temperature from rising. However, the human system for cooling (i.e. Sweating) is passive and costs little extra energy and there is also a natural decrease in energy use to allow dissipation of heat For this reason, techniques of over-heating (i.e. such as saunas and steam baths) are likely to have little long term effect on body mass other than a decrease in body weight through loss of water from sweating.

Myth-information. It is usually believed that heat treatments are better for fat loss than cold. However, it takes less energy for the body to passively cool itself than it does to maintain body heat. Theoretically then, a freezer would be a better fat loss treatment than a sauna bath.

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Overfatness has typically been inferred from measures of body mass, such as weight or body mass index. Mass is not always a good measure of fatness, because of the influence of muscle and other lean body tissue. However, measures of body mass index (BMI) still show a correlation with disease risk, and particularly mortality levels, or the risks of premature death. Mortality levels have a ‘tick-shaped’ association with BMI with the highest risks of mortality at increasing levels of obesity over a BMI of 25. There is also a slightly increased risk of mortality at BMI levels below 20, which is largely explained by the presence of existing disease and smoking, both of which are causes of lower weight and higher mortality.

Fat is the highest source of food energy that can be obtained (9kcal/g compared with 4.5kcal/g for carbohydrate or protein), so fatty foods would have had survival value in a hunter-gatherer

environment. Relative risk (RR) is an indication of the proportional increase in risk of disease from a standard measure of 1.0. Hence, a RR of 2.0 means the risk of contracting that disease is twice that of someone with a normal BMI.

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The Russian Minister of Health told the story of a Russian centenarian from Caucasus who lived to the respectable age of 146 years. When asked for the reasons for his enviable longevity, the man said:

«I have never had a boss over me—I have never been envious of what others have—and I have periodically rejuvenated myself by marrying three times!»

Vibrant health, long life and sexual virility go hand in hand. All vital functions of the body should collaborate in perfect harmony, including the functions of the vital reproductive system. The health of the reproductive system is closely tied to the general state of health, which is, as we have already seen, dependent on vital nutrition.

In the last ten years many studies have been made which indicate that man’s sexuality is not an isolated phenomenon, but is an inseparable part of his total health entity. Doctors have found that man’s sexual capacity is directly related to his health and his mental and physical well-being. Furthermore, they have found that there is a direct relationship between man’s sexual health and the foods he cats. Recognizing that psychological causes are behind many cases of impotency and other sexual disturbances, the fact remains that nutrition is the most important single factor affecting one’s health, including the health of the reproductive system. Malnutrition and nutritional deficiencies may affect every aspect of man’s physical well-being. His sexual functions are no exception.

Just how does nutrition affect man’s sex life?

Man’s sexual life is directed by his glandular system, particularly by the so-called endocrine glands. The hormones produced by these glands, and by the ovaries and testes, hold the secret of your sexual power. Estrogen plays a vital part in the sexual life and reproductive functions of women; testosterone, the male sex hormone, plays an equally important part in man’s sexual life. These hormones and other secretions of the endocrine glands are your spark plugs, which provide sex stimulus and drive to your body as well as to your mind. The decreased function of the endocrine glands and diminished secretion of sex hormones will slow down all vital life processes and lead to premature aging. The healthy function of the endocrine glands is imperative not only for sexual virility and libido, but is also absolutely essential for your general health and for your feeling and looking younger far into advanced age. In other words, you are as old as your glands!

What can you do to keep your endocrine and sex glands in good working condition so that you will remain vital and virile as long as you live?

You can feed your glands! Your glands need certain nutrients in order to function properly. If the food you eat does not supply these essential nutrients, the normal function of the glands will be impaired, and hormone production diminished. Lost interest in sex and diminished or totally lost physical capacity for love will be the ultimate result.

Since the beginning of time man had certain remedies and foods for prolonging or increasing his sexual power. Every nation and every race had their favorites: honey, sesame seeds, oysters, nuts, eggs, etc. Modern medical science laughed at the notion that there is a relationship between food and man’s physical capacity for love. But in the last decade or two we have seen profound changes taking place in the attitudes of scientists toward sex. Doctors stopped laughing and began a serious inquiry into the mysteries of sex life. Now it is not only an old wives’ tale, but a well-established scientific fact that your libido and capacity for physical love are directly related to your nutrition.

It would take a book to relate to you all the exciting facts the scientists are coming up with with regard to the relationship between nutrition and sex. Much research is being done in Russia, France, and Germany in this field. There is also corroborative research being done in the United States. Here are a few revealing facts discovered by scientists.

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The most successful of all attempts to treat multiple sclerosis are the two dietary methods used extensively in Europe, particularly in Germany—the Evers therapy and the Waerland therapy.

Joseph Evers, M.D., is the founder of the only clinic in the world which specializes in the treatment of multiple sclerosis. He has treated well over 10,000 multiple sclerosis cases in his clinic and has achieved very dramatic results. Patients come from all over the world to Dr. Evers* clinic and in most cases they leave his clinic healed and restored to health. Naturally, advanced cases cannot be helped. If a major portion of the central nervous system is damaged and most of the vital organs affected, nothing can help the patient.

In his excellent books, The Changed Aspects of Diseases and Directions for Treatment of Multiple Sclerosis, Dr. Evers points out that multiple sclerosis is a metabolic disease caused by faulty nutrition. In the past, man has lived for thousands of years on pure unadulterated natural foods without poisons and toxic chemical substances. Today our foods, because of wrong agricultural methods, processing and chemical additives, contain over 2,000 substances to which man is not adapted and which his system is not able to handle. Dr. Evers specifically points out a replacement of wholesome sourdough whole-meal bread by devitilized white bread, and raw milk by pasteurized and homogenized milk, as some of the most serious assaults on man’s natural foods. Thus, denatured foods cause metabolic disorder and are responsible for the many degenerative metabolic diseases, such as obesity, arthritis, diabetes, and a host of other diseases, including multiple sclerosis.

Dr. Evers’ program

First, all manufactured, canned, processed, refined, frozen, and denatured foods are omitted. Anything made from white flour and white sugar is specifically prohibited, as such foods are lacking in the vital nutrients of vitamins and mineral salts. Coffee, tea, chocolate, salt, sugar, mustard, pepper, and vinegar are also prohibited.

Dr. Evers’ patients receive a diet of raw fruits, root vegetables, raw milk, raw eggs, raw rolled oats (freshly prepared and not steamed), honey and water. In addition, the patients receive sprouted seeds* and raw fermented foods, such as sauerkraut, fermented wheat and fermented dairy products. In less severe cases, and when the patients are well on their way to recovery (and also in the case of older patients), raw meat is added to their diet. Dr. Evers specifically uses raw ham and raw bacon. He permits an occasional glass of pure wine. As you can see, the emphasis is on raw foods.

Dr. Evers also treats with his diets other metabolic diseases, such as leukemia, rheumatoid arthritis, lymphogranulomatosis, and plasmocytoma. He has achieved especially good results in hundreds of cases of infantile muscular dystrophy.

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