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Coronary Disease And Effect Of Coffee, Alcohol, Diuretics
By David Crawford · 14 years ago
Alcohol, coffee, and diuretics, or medication given to stimulate urine production, appear to increase the urinary losses of all nutrients which dissolve in water, Of the 40 nutrients required for health, all but five-vitamins A, ...
Those Cholesterol Problems
By David Crawford · 14 years ago
Almost everyone in America now appears to have abnormal fatty substances - of which part is cholesterol-deposited in the walls of the arteries, a condition known as atherosclerosis. These deposits, may narrow the channels through ...
Valuable Information Related To Drug Toxicity
By David Crawford · 14 years ago
A number of drugs interfere with digestion and the absorption of all foodstuffs and of most vitamins and minerals, resulting in deficiencies which, in turn, cause some damage to every part of the body. Several ...
Vitamins Can Protect You From Every Form Of Stress
By David Crawford · 14 years ago
Experimental stress has been produced in untold thousands of animals by exposing them to loud noises, blinking lights, extreme heat or cold, rarefied air, electric shock, and x-rays and other forms of radiation; by injecting ...
Body Reaction To Stress
By David Crawford · 14 years ago
Any condition that harms the body, breaks down, or causes the death of cells is defined as stress. If the diet is adequate, repair quickly occurs, but when rebuilding fails to keep pace with destruction, ...
Let’s Get Well
By David Crawford · 14 years ago
There are so many of them-the people who do not feel well. The statistics of illness in the United States are too depressing to examine for long: 40 million with allergies; 17 million with ulcers; ...
Thyroid And Parathyroid Dysfunction
By David Crawford · 14 years ago
Thyroid Gland Couples with a healthy relationship communicate with each other on a regular basis. The lines of communication are always open. Healthy couples are able to tell each other when something is wrong. Healthy ...
Vitamin B Complex Deficiency
By David Crawford · 14 years ago
Riboflavin Deficiency The vitamin B complex includes not only niacin and thiamin but also riboflavin and other substances. When riboflavin is deficient the symptoms noted include principally fissures and soreness at the corners of the ...
Vitamin C, A, D And Nicotinic Acid Deficiencies
By David Crawford · 14 years ago
Vitamin C The discovery that the lack of certain essential substances in the body-either because they were not in the diet or failed to be absorbed and utilized-would cause serious disturbances of growth and health, ...
Overweight And Diets
By David Crawford · 14 years ago
Articles on weight reduction are featured everywhere. Weird diets and reducing fads have their day or month and disappear. Even the old Hollywood 18-day-diet is being revived. Formerly just the women were interested, but now ...
Loss And Gain Of Weight
By David Crawford · 14 years ago
A careful medical examination ways includes a record of the patient's weight and, particularly, information as to whether he has been gaining or losing weight rapidly. Doctors have tabulations which show the average weight for ...
Allergic Disorders Are An Important Public Health Problem
By David Crawford · 14 years ago
Not until 1915 did bronchial asthma, hay fever, urticaria and certain forms of eczema or inflammation of the skin come to be called allergic disorders. At that time the idea of sensitization and reaction of ...
Oxygen Is Essential For Our Energy And Health
By David Crawford · 14 years ago
Oxygen In The Body The tissues of the body have to have oxygen to live. When the supply of oxygen is inadequate the condition is called "anoxia." The shortage of oxygen may be apparent in ...
Your Heart And Circulation
By David Crawford · 14 years ago
Trouble with the human body may be approached from the point of view of its structure or its function. The heart may be enlarged, or its valves may leak or be narrowed, or its blood ...
Signs Of Serious Diseases
By David Crawford · 14 years ago
Shortness Of Breath Called Dyspnea When people get so short of breath that the very effort of breathing is difficult and when breathing is harsh and labored, anyone can tell that something is wrong. Since ...
Understanding Symptoms Of Physical Disorders
By David Crawford · 14 years ago
Weakness People come to the doctor saying, "I'm weak." Or they may say "I get tired easily." People who are healthy have vim and vigor. Ben Hecht once said: "They have bounce." Elasticity in both ...
Basic First Aid Responses To Common Emergencies
By David Crawford · 14 years ago
Accidents are fourth in the list of causes of death in the United States. Motor-car accidents constitute one fourth of all that occur. Under such circumstances, people ought to be aware of the immediate steps ...
Life-Threatening Rickettsial Infections
By David Crawford · 14 years ago
Rickettsial Infections The Rickettsiae are minute infectious agents, smaller than most germs and larger than most viruses. Most classifications put them midway between the bacteria and the viruses. Rickettsia are too large to pass through ...
Prevention Of Respiratory Tract Infections
By David Crawford · 14 years ago
Hemolytic Streptococcus Infections The streptococcus is one of the most widely distributed and variable organisms that attacks mankind. Such conditions as sore throat, sinus infections, scarlet fever, erysipelas, puerperal fever, or lymphangitis may be caused ...
Risk-Factors Associated With Viral Infections
By David Crawford · 14 years ago
Influenza Influenza is an acute infectious disease caused by a virus. It comes on suddenly with fever, muscular aches, chilliness, and a cough. After, an attack, serious weakness is common for some weeks. Although outbreaks ...