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Epidemiology Of Sexual Dysfunction
By David Crawford · 14 years ago
Numerous population surveys in this and other countries indicate a high prevalence of sexual problems in the general population. These surveys indicate that about 40% of women have evidence of psycho-sexual dysfunction. The corresponding number ...
Sexual Disorders - Evolution of Current Treatment Approaches
By David Crawford · 14 years ago
In the 1960s, psychiatric treatment of sexual problems was predominantly psychoanalytic psychotherapy. In the mid- to late-1960s, behavioral therapists began publishing clinical series documenting the successful treatment of sexual problems by the use of classical ...
Premenstrual Tension and Menstrual Cramps
By David Crawford · 14 years ago
Because the decreased blood calcium acts as a stress, the production of cortisone and aldosterone are stimulated and salt and water are retained in the body, often causing the breasts, hands, face, and feet to ...
Sex Depends on Buoyant Good Health
By David Crawford · 14 years ago
One of the tragedies of illness is that it usually prevents a normal sex life. Because sex is a means of expressing love and is perhaps the deepest form of human communication, a marriage without ...
Diet for Kidney Diseases
By David Crawford · 14 years ago
Kidney hemorrhages
Because of stress, medications, and high urinary losses, a vitamin-C deficiency can be readily produced during any kidney disease; hence the danger of hemorrhaging is tremendously increased. Even a mild lack causes blood ...
Dropsy or Edema
By David Crawford · 14 years ago
Excessive water retention, spoken of as dropsy or edema, may be noticeable only as swollen ankles or puffiness around the eyes yet be so extensive that an emaciated person appears overweight. Such a condition usually ...
Causes of Kidney Disease
By David Crawford · 14 years ago
As with atherosclerosis, any deficiency that prevents lecithin production appears to cause kidney disease. Nephritis has been produced in almost every type of animal, including insects, by diets deficient in essential fatty acids. Cholesterol and ...
Diseases of the Kidneys
By David Crawford · 14 years ago
Kidney are bean-shaped organs, lying below the waist on either side of the vertebrae, are only about four inches long, two inches wide, and an inch thick. Yet arranged in orderly precision around the outer ...
Ways To Prevent Gout
By David Crawford · 14 years ago
In animals given incomplete proteins or diets lacking any of the essential amino acids, the production of uric acid increases. Similarly, if separate amino acids are fed and too much of some and too little ...
Gout is on the Increase
By David Crawford · 14 years ago
Gout is a painful disease in which one is literally stuck by thousands of needles. These needles, which settle in the soft tissues around joints and cause inflammation, are crystals of uric acid combined with ...
Sprue and Celiac Disease
By David Crawford · 14 years ago
Sprue
Another intestinal disease, sprue, characterized by sore mouth and tongue, anemia, severe diarrhea, and large amounts of fat in the stools, is caused by the lack of the B vitamin folic acid. The tiny ...
Problems Involving the Gall Bladder
By David Crawford · 14 years ago
The gall bladder, a pear-shaped sack hanging between the lobes of the liver, is a reservoir for bile. A small, V-shaped canal, or duct, carries bile from both the gall bladder and the liver to ...
Inflammation of the Gall Bladder and Bile Duct
By David Crawford · 14 years ago
Autopsy studies and examinations of inflamed gall bladders removed surgically show that bacteria are rarely involved. Inflammation of the gall bladder can be caused by drugs, chemicals and bacterial toxins,6 in which case the liver ...
Diverticulosis
By David Crawford · 14 years ago
When tension is so great that gas cannot be expelled normally but is forced-or diverted-against the intestinal walls, it sometimes forms small balloon-like protuberances known as diverticula. A person with these little uninvited guests, usually ...
Vitamin C Can Perform Near Miracles
By David Crawford · 14 years ago
A tremendous amount of research has proved that vitamin C is vitally important in overcoming infections, but the use of antibiotics-and greater profits made from their sale. In a single year no less than 45 ...
Stress May Increase Susceptibility to Infections
By David Crawford · 14 years ago
When attacked by bacteria or viruses, the healthy body mobilizes its navy, air force, army, and marines so quickly that no infection occurs. These armed forces consist of lymph cells, white blood cells, antibodies, or ...
Skin Problems are More Than Skin Deep
By David Crawford · 14 years ago
When nutrition is less than normal, the skin is subject to the number of abnormalities; and the synthetic beauty fostered by the cosmetic industry is poor counterfeit for genuine attributes of health.
Oily or Dry ...
A Psychosomatic Illness and Arthritis
By David Crawford · 14 years ago
The Diet Must Meet the Needs of Prolonged Stress
All nutrients that increase cortisone production must be particularly emphasized in the diet of any individual with arthritis. Because stress has caused a continuous destruction of ...
Increasing The Insulin Output
By David Crawford · 14 years ago
It has long been known that if the nutritional needs of a diabetic can be reduced, the disease sometimes disappears. If a diabetic has been under stress and the stress is removed-for instance, a sick ...
Your Health-Building Program
By David Crawford · 14 years ago
The thyroid glands determine the speed at which energy is produced; therefore iodine, vitamin E and all nutrients required by these glands are essential to achieving normal weight and must be most carefully supplied. Sufficient ...