Variety is the key to enjoying your food and eating for health, fertility and pregnancy. You need to choose your food carefully, because healthy food means healthy babies. Most supermarkets now stock quite a lot of organic produce. But you can also try shopping at health food shops and organic farm shops, some of which [...]
What is it? An abrupt intake of air followed by a forcible, explosive blowing out. Coughing is a protective reflex aimed at ridding the body of mucus or debris that is irritating the breathing passages. Often, though, a cough has no such protective effect and is simply a nuisance. The dry, unproductive cough of tonsillitis [...]
With regard to the benefit derived animals respond very well indeed. However, the response with regard to the ease with which the animals accept the administration of the extract depends very much on the individual and partially on the species. For instance, it is usual, though not universal, to find that cats enjoy taking the [...]
Physical examination If the patient’s primary physician hasn’t already done so, I order a detailed medical workup, including complete blood count, blood chemistries, thyroid-function tests, urinalysis, and electrocardiogram. Even though a problem may appear to be psychological in origin, I have to rule out potentially treatable physical causes, such as a brain tumor. For example, [...]
Dolly Higgin’s slow-speed life—and her metabolism—cranked up several notches once she started chasing Alisha. When 70-year-old Dolly retired, her lifestyle took a turn for the worse. The Boston grandmother found herself sleeping and eating a lot. Soon, she weighed 170 pounds, far too much for her 5-foot-2-inch frame. The excess weight pressed on a herniated [...]