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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 |
In many parts of the world, you can almost sense the change. Places long gripped in the cold clutches of winter are gradually inching out from beneath snow and ice towards that much anticipated season, spring. In many cultures, spring is a time for renewal. Gardens and fields are planted. The term “spring cleaning” conjures up, for most of us, pictures of a house-maker working feverishly to render their dwelling spotless. Cleaning during the spring dates back for centuries, and recently another old-fashioned type of “spring-cleaning” has caught the interest of many. I am talking about colon cleansing and detoxification.
The colon is an involuntary muscle that moves fecal matter from the fecal pouch, where it is deposited after the body determines it has no usable material in it. Through a slow, involuntary process, the matter is moved along several feet of colon until it emerges from the body through the anal sphincter. Over the course of a year, many people, especially those with sluggish digestive tracts, can accumulate fecal matter in the folds of the accordion-like colon, some of which dry and harden, becoming impacted. Many practitioners of holistic medicine also believe that some toxic materials can be stored in this “immovable’ fecal material. They advocate, as has been done for many generations, a cleansing of the colon each spring.
Colon cleansings can be something as intense as a series of colon hydrotherapy sessions that work like a slow, steady enema to wash out waste. Though this sounds uncomfortable, the introduction of modern colon hydrotherapy instruments and specialized chairs for the process make it relatively discomfort-free. The cost can be a bit prohibitive, and you will need to look for a provider that is licensed or certified to perform this service, as it is not without risks.
A more popular method of colon cleansing is the kind you can wash down with a glass of water. Health food stores and vitamin shops carry many brands of colon cleansers, each with special ingredients to rid your body of excess fecal matter and the build up of purported toxins. Choosing one can be difficult. If a gradual cleansing of your colon, utilizing pills that are taken at home, sounds as if it would work better for you, then talk to someone knowledgeable about the different types. If you don’t have an Osteopath or holistic medical provider, ask the manager at your health food store. There are also on-line links that allow you to compare different brands and their effectiveness.
Does it help? Many practitioners of traditional medicine decry these treatments as useless, outdated and imply they are dangerous. While they might be unorthodox as far as contemporary medicine is concerned, they have a fairly long history of benefits that can be attested by large numbers of people.
Spring-cleaning the house helps get the home ready for a season of enjoying warm, outdoor weather. Spring-cleaning the inside of your body can help you be ready to enjoy it, as well.
Note: If you are suffering from a serious illness that involves your digestive tract, or some other complicated medical condition, please be sure to ask your doctor before undertaking a colon cleanse.
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Saturday, December 12th, 2009 |
Overview
What comes to mind when you think about a beautiful garden? Do you like wild growth with plenty of color or a formal design with clean lines? Designing a garden in your landscape that fits your personality and goals takes time and effort, but the process can be an enjoyable learning experience by following a few simple garden design rules.
Identify Goals
The first thing to do when designing your garden is to identify goals. Do you want plenty of color or lots of evergreen plants? Do you want low maintenance perennials and native plants or plants that will provide seasonal color and be replaced each spring or fall? Maybe you want to attract butterflies and hummingbirds or grow vegetables. Also, consider the location of your garden. How much sun will it get during a typical day? Will it get more sun during the winter than summer? How far away is it from a water source? Do you want to create a privacy screen or a focal point? These are questions to address in order to design your garden effectively.
Choose Plants
Research and identify different plants that will help meet your goals. Be sure they will grow in your designated USDA horticultural zone. You can find your zone on the widely used USDA horticultural zone map (see Resource below) that designates geographical areas where the climate is warm enough for a certain plant to thrive. Take note of the eventual size of desired plants and any toxicity or thorny growth if children will be present.
Draw Garden Plan
Use graph or plain paper and draw your garden plan from an aerial point of view, sketching in all permanent structures and plants such as trees or large shrubs that will be part of the design. Flower beds with soft flowing lines are more pleasing to the eye and easier to mow around than those with sharp angles. Use a water hose or rope to lay out a potential flower bed so you can get an idea of how it will look. Beds wider than two feet will require you to enter the bed for maintenance, although wider beds have more impact in the landscape. Leave room for lawnmowers and wheelbarrows, and leave room for kids and pets to play. Tall plants go in the back of the garden and shorter plants up front. A garden people will view from all sides has taller plants in the middle.
Color
When adding color to the garden, most experts agree that colors on the opposite side of the color wheel look best together, such as orange and blue. Masses of one color or the same shades of color have more impact than a variety of color in one place. Warm colors such as red and yellow make a bold statement and blues and greens are more subdued and relaxing. Repeat the same colors here and there around the garden to create cohesion.
Texture and Transition
Different plants create different textures. For example, a cactus has quite a different texture than a bed of snapdragons. Vary the texture within the garden to create interest. Choose plants and designs that create a smooth transition between flowerbeds or points of interest. For example, add plants of medium height between short and tall plants or tall structures.
Scale and Balance
Planting something that will grow big and overwhelm everything will upset the scale and balance of your garden design. Choose plants that work together with other plants without overwhelming them. Also, when thinking about balance, split the design in half to see if the two sides cover about the same space and will create balance when the garden design is mature.
sources : www.gardenguides.com
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Thursday, December 10th, 2009 |
You’ve heard of varicose veins — those swollen veins that sometimes show up in the legs. You’ve probably heard your grandma and her old lady friends talking about their varicose veins and never thought twice about them.
But hopefully you’ve never heard your grandma mention a varicocele, which is also a swelling of the veins. A varicocele happens just to guys, and you probably won’t sit around and talk about it with your pals. That’s because it occurs not in the legs but in a place a bit more private and a lot more tender — the scrotum. It’s generally harmless and basically the same kind of thing as varicose veins in the legs. But what exactly is a varicocele and how do you get rid of it?
What Is a Varicocele?
In all guys, there’s a structure that contains arteries, veins, nerves, and tubes — called the spermatic cord — that provides a connection and circulates blood to and from the testicles. Veins carry the blood flowing from the body back toward the heart, and a bunch of valves in the veins keep the blood flowing one way and stop it from flowing backward. In other words, the valves regulate your blood flow and make sure everything is flowing in the right direction.
But sometimes these valves can fail. When this happens, some of the blood can flow in reverse. This backed-up blood can collect in pools in the veins, which then causes the veins to stretch and get bigger, or become swollen. This is called a varicocele (pronounced: var-uh-ko-seel).
Who Gets Them?
Although they don’t happen to every guy, varicoceles are fairly common. They appear in about 15% of guys between 15-25 years old, and they mostly occur during puberty. That’s because during puberty, the testicles grow rapidly and need more blood delivered to them. If the valves in the veins in the scrotum aren’t functioning quite as well as they should, the veins can’t handle transporting this extra blood from the testicles. So, although most of the blood continues to flow correctly, blood begins to back up, creating a varicocele.
An interesting fact is that varicoceles occur mostly on the left side of the scrotum. This is because a guy’s body is organized so that blood flow on that side of the scrotum is greater, so varicoceles happen more often in the left testicle than the right. Although it’s less common, they can sometimes occur on both sides.
What Are the Signs and Symptoms?
In most cases, guys have no symptoms at all. A guy might not even be aware that he has a varicocele. However, if there are symptoms, they tend to occur during hot weather, after heavy exercise, or when a guy has been standing or sitting for a long time. Signs include:
• a dull ache in the testicle(s)
• a feeling of heaviness or dragging in the scrotum
• dilated veins in the scrotum that can be felt (described as feeling like worms or spaghetti)
• discomfort in the testicle or on that particular side of the scrotum
• the testicle is smaller on the side where the dilated veins are (due to difference in blood flow)
What Do Doctors Do?
It’s a good idea to get a testicular exam regularly, which is normally part of a guy’s regular checkup. In addition to visually checking for any unusual lumps or bumps, the doctor generally feels the testicles and the area around them to make sure a guy’s equipment is in good shape and there are no problems.
A testicular exam may be done while a guy is standing up so that the scrotum is relaxed. (Some abnormalities like a varicocele can be more easily felt in a standing position.) The doctor checks things like the size, weight, and position of the testicles, and gently rolls each testicle back and forth to feel for lumps or swelling. The doctor also feels for any signs of tenderness along the epididymis, the tube that transports sperm from the testicles.
The spermatic cord is also examined for any indication of swelling. If the doctor suspects a varicocele, he or she might confirm suspicions by using a stethoscope to hear the blood flowing backward through the faulty veins or might even use an ultrasound, which can identify malfunction of the veins and also measure blood flow.
Do Varicoceles Cause Permanent Damage?
Although there is no way to prevent a varicocele, it usually needs no special treatment. A varicocele is usually harmless and more than likely won’t affect a guy’s ability to father a child. Some experts believe, though, that in some cases a varicocele might damage the testicle or decrease sperm production. In those cases, a doctor will probably recommend surgery.
What If the Doctor Finds a Varicocele?
Varicoceles are generally harmless, but if there is any pain and swelling the doctor may prescribe an anti-inflammatory medication to relieve it. If the varicocele is causing discomfort or aching, wearing snug underwear (like briefs) or a jock strap for support may bring relief. If pain is persistent and support doesn’t help, the doctor may recommend a varicocelectomy (a surgical procedure to remove the varicocele).
A varicocelectomy is done by a urologist (pronounced: yoo-rah-luh-jist), a doctor who specializes in urinary and genital problems. The procedure is usually done on an outpatient basis (meaning there’s no need for an overnight stay in hospital). The patient usually receives general or local anesthesia. Then, the doctor simply ties off the affected vein to redirect the flow of blood into other normal veins.
In some cases, instead of surgery, doctors can pass a plastic tube into the vein that’s causing the varicocele and treat the problem by causing a blockage in the blood flow to the enlarged vein. Talk with your doctor about whether this form of treatment might be an option for you.
After surgery, the doctor probably will recommend that a guy wears a scrotal support and places an ice pack on the area to bring down any swelling. There may be discomfort in the testicle for a few weeks, but after that, any aches and pains will go away and everything should be back in full working order.
Reviewed by: Steven Dowshen, MD
Sources : http://kidshealth.org
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Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 |
Simple tips of losing your weight
Many people try to looks proportional with diet, they think not eat any food could make their loss their weight fastly maybe they’re right, but they could harm their health. There is save diet that could make you losing your weight without feel any hunger and without harm your health. The simple ways aere, follow simple tips below.
1. breakfast
breakfast is important, you should not leave breakfast. We need energy use on our daily activity such as work, sport, and etc. and that energy are mostly taken from your breakfast, so don’t leave your breakfast, a sandwich or cereal with glass of milk are good enough.
2. dinner
do dinner minimum 4 hours before you go to bed, eat before sleep will produce more fat, because when you’re sleeping, there is no activity in your body which is means there is no energy burned.
3. sport
Do sport minimum twice a week, I know most of you are very busy, but we’re all know that sports is important to our health
. you can’t do that? Buy a treadmill, and walk on it 5 minutes right after you’re off to bed.
4. consume more vegetables and fruits
Believe me that vegetables and fruits contain much fiber, it can help you losing your weight and it can avoid you from cancer.
5. sleep well
Sleep at least 8 hours per day is a bullshit, the most important thing that you get a high quality sleeping. Sleep longer will make you feel more hunger, and you will eat a lot. By sleep well, you can save your good time to spent with your happy family. Life is too important to do sleep right?
We hope this simple tips of losing weight are useful for you, and correct me if I do wrong.
regards
many people try to looks proportional with diet, they think not eat any food could make their loss their weight fastly maybe they’re right, but they could harm their health. There is save diet that could make you losing your weight without feel any hunger and without harm your health. The simple ways are, follow simple tips below.
1. breakfast
breakfast is important, you should not leave breakfast. We need energy use on our daily activity such as work, sport, and etc. and that energy are mostly taken from your breakfast, so don’t leave your breakfast, a sandwich or cereal with glass of milk are good enough.
2. dinner
do dinner minimum 4 hours before you go to bed, eat before sleep will produce more fat, because when you’re sleeping, there is no activity in your body which is means there is no energy burned.
3. sport
Do sport minimum twice a week, I know most of you are very busy, but we’re all know that sports is important to our health . you can’t do that? Buy a treadmill, and walk on it 5 minutes right after you’re off to bed.
4. consume more vegetables and fruits
Believe me that vegetables and fruits contain much fiber, it can help you losing your weight and it can avoid you from cancer.
5. sleep well
Sleep at least 8 hours per day is a bullshit, the most important thing that you get a high quality sleeping. Sleep longer will make you feel more hunger, and you will eat a lot. By sleep well, you can save your good time to spent with your happy family. Life is too important to do sleep right?
We hope this simple tips of losing weight are useful for you, and correct me if I do wrong.
regards
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Friday, November 6th, 2009 |
1. Choose the “useful” type of food. for example, choose protein foods that contain unsaturated fats, such as tuna and salmon. In addition to animal protein must also be accompanied by such vegetable protein, tofu and, nuts.
2. Observe feeding, which is nutritionally balanced meal three times a day at the right time, ie breakfast, lunch, and dinner and two snack meals.
3. Do not eat on the condition of hunger because it will make your meal in a hurry and more. The result will make your stomach warm. But do not eat at the time your stomach was full. It is feared that this becomes a habit that can store fat in the body.
4. Eat variation foods, consume of processed foods, fresh food manufacturing processes that are not too long. Thus, the nutritional content is expected to be obtained to the fullest.
5. Eat enough. Do not obey your appetite was increasing or decreasing the current vice versa.
what should be avoided?
1. As far as possible avoid preserved foods, which usually contain dyes or artificial sweeteners.
2. Avoid high-calorie foods, which contain lots of sugar or high fat, but contain less nutrients. For example junk food, fizzy softdrink and a high sugar yield, or snacks such as potato chips, sweet potato chips, and the like which are consumed in excess.
3. Reduce intake of fatty foods like cheese, full cream milk, intestines, fatty meats, brain, including the organ meats. These habits will store more fat, also trigger the emergence of the disease.
4. Meat, fish, chicken and other animal protein sources, which are not cooked properly do not kill the bacteria, so it is very harmful to the body. Therefore, cook until completely cooked.
5. Avoid alcohol, even in small amounts either in the form of food or drink.
6. Reduce consumption of caffeine contained in many beverages such as coffee, chocolate, and soft drinks. Caffeine and tannins they contain can inhibit the absorption of some nutrients.
regards, i hope this simple tips are useful for you and your family
sources : www.bidandesa.com
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Saturday, October 31st, 2009 |
One cause of dialysis in the world is kidney damage due to stones in the urinary tract. There are several factors that make a person has kidney stones. In addition to age and heredity, diet is not balanced, also affected the formation of kidney stones. Here are some ways you can do to prevent kidney stones,
1. Reduce consumption of foods containing purines (spinach, organ meats, emping) because it can result in high levels of uric acid in the urine. (more…)
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Saturday, October 31st, 2009 |
If you work and still want to keep fit and healthy, there are a few tips for you and hopefully can also add your work productivity.
There are a few tips for all of you. refer to some of the following tips:
1. Do not forget to eat breakfast before work, little food or rest time between the fruit. Take care not to late for lunch or dinner. Eat nutritious foods in a balanced way.
2. Attitude and body position at work is affecting our ability to complete a job. Do not sit, stand, bend, squat continuously. Less good for health. While sitting keep your spine is not curved, so the chest is not doubled. Try not to stand idly rigid, all-time gerakkkan feet, a little walk. Also, when bent, do not be too far with things done. (more…)
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Saturday, October 31st, 2009 |
1. sport
do some sport activity like you can play football, badminton, tennis and many others, most important things that you are enjoying of doing that sport activity.
2. hang out
hang out with your family, friends, and many others. you will feel happy when you’re with them, and offcourse that will make you relaks
3. do traveling
you can do it by expensive traveling (ir you’re rich person) or do backpacking, i recommend backpacking because it had many challenge that would make you happy when you can handle it
we hope this simple tips important to you and we will try to make another health tips soon
regards
” use your brain and develope your own “
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