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ASTHMA IN CHILDREN: THE INHALED ALLERGENS – INDOOR ALLERGENS – CONTROLLING HOUSE DUST ALLERGY

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Patients allergic to house dust are more liable to suffer allergic reaction throughout the year, with likely aggravation in the rainy season when the humidity and temperature are more congenial for the growth of the mites.
More cases of asthma are reported during the month of Diwali festival. This festival is associated with cleaning and decorating of houses; cleaning results in raising of accumulated settled dust. When children with allergic condition are exposed to this house dust, they show symptoms of the disease or suffer a severe attack. Diwali fireworks and crackers also aggravate the symptoms.
Temperature and humidity are low at higher altitudes. Lower temperature and humidity inhibit the growth of house dust mites. As a result people travelling to hilly regions often show fewer symptoms of asthma.
In dry regions at higher altitudes, like Leh in Ladakh, cases of bronchial asthma are likely to be far fewer because mites don't grow, and sparse growth of vegetation results in lowering the pollen concentration in the air. However, other chest diseases are prevalent.
Students sometimes report fewer symptoms of asthma when they move from their homes to hostels. This may be traced to house dust allergy. The house dust in the hostel rooms usually has a lower concentration of mites because of the austere nature of the furniture. Scanty furnishings also mean better and easier daily cleaning of hostel rooms.
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December 18th, 2010 |



COMMONLY AVAILABLE PLANTS TESTED FOR LOWERING BLOOD SUGAR

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Most of Indian population live in rural areas. These areas are rich in vegetation. The people of these places suffer from various common diseases like tuberculosis, cancer, diabetes, etc. Due to diabetes great loss occurs to human life. If it is detected at early stage the cure to this disease can be done even by using locally available plant species. In allopathic treatment it can be controlled by insulin which is a small protein containing 51 amino acids.

Diabetic persons show the symptoms of polydypsia, poly-phagia, poly-urea, numbness and increase amount of sugar in blood. The increase in sugar can be worked out by glucose oxidase/peroxidase method. In normal person the amount of sugar in blood is 120 mgm/dil. (Fasting) and post meal below 180 mgm/dil. In acute stages this blood sugar goes up to 270 mgm/dil or even more.

Arerhi and Sewania the villages selected for the study are situated in the vicinity of Bhopal (about 8 Km.). The Jamun plants are very common in these villages and Karela is a common vegetable (fruit) being grown by the villagers. Case history of 20-people was studied in the year 1992-93 who were suffering from diabetes. They showed 250-280 mgm/dil post prandial blood sugar. Twelve persons were selected for the test. They were treated for lowering the blood sugar by using the extract prepared from Karela and Jamun.
Karela (Momordica charantia) (Family-Cucurbitaceae): 250 gm of Karela were washed and peeled off. The peeling was crushed and sieved with muslin cloth. A half cup of this juice was given to the patients thrice a day for one month.
Jamun (Syzygium cumini) (Family-Myrtaceae): The dried seeds of Jamun were powdered. A tea-spoon of this powder was given to the patient with water in empty stomach condition. This treatment was continued for one month. The dried leaves of Jamun were used for the treatment of diabetic patients in Brazil.

The patients treated with Karela extract showed fall in blood sugar from 270 to 185 within 4 months.

The patients treated with Jamun extract also showed positive effects. They showed lowering of blood sugar from 270 to 190 mgm/dil.

From the above results, it can be concluded that the extract prepared from Karela is most effective in lowering blood sugar. Experimentally aqueous extract of Karela was also tested on alloxan diabetic rats. The significant fall of blood sugar after 3 weeks was observed.

Regular check up of these patients under controlled diet showed constant level of sugar in the blood.
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December 11th, 2010 |



FIRST SEXUAL EXPERIENCE: ARE YOU BOTH WANT IT?

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Consent is an important issue in sexual relationships that needs to be observed by both parties, whether it is a casual meeting, a first date, or a marriage. The point needs to be made as strongly as possible to both men and women that it is not okay to cross another person's boundaries. If your partner says 'enough' or 'stop now', it means exactly that.

Debra recalls one early experience. 'The first sexual experience I remember was at a school dance and the lights were down low. This boy put his hand up my dress. I didn't have a clue what he was doing and before I knew it he had his hand inside my panties having a good grope around. The worst thing though was that I had my period at the time and it was in the days before I started using tampons. Very messy. Absolutely humiliating. I didn't go out with him again. It would have been too embarrassing. It was ages before I would let a boy get anywhere near me.'

This is a very simple example of the impact that sexual contact without consent can have.

A recent study by the Australian Institute of Criminology found that acquaintances, dates and boyfriends accounted for thirty-nine percent of rape cases and husbands and ex-husbands accounted for thirteen percent ... and they were only the ones that were convicted. There is no easy answer to the problem of 'date rape', and it is probably far more common than we realize. The effect on your attitude to future sexual relationships can be very similar to the effect of any sexual abuse — being afraid of intimacy, feeling dirty, not being able to trust a partner. Part of the answer lies in the best possible preparation of both men and women for their early sexual experiences. Asking each other what you want, working out exactly what types of sexual activity you both consent to and respecting the wishes of your partner are essential elements of any relationship.
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September 27th, 2010 |

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FIRST SEXUAL EXPERIENCES: DRUNK AND PARTY FOR FIRST TIME

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Many people say their first time was when they were drunk at a party or a dance. This happens so often because your usual inhibitions disappear. The best of intentions can be blown away in a matter of minutes by the influence of drugs and alcohol. All the self-talk and assertiveness in the world is not going to protect you if you drink so much alcohol, or do so many drugs, that your judgment goes out the window. The old story of waking up to a stranger in bed next to you who doesn't look a bit like the person you thought you brought home can be a jarring reminder of the tricks alcohol can play on a brain.

It is very easy to be coerced into intercourse before you are ready if you don't have a lot of self-confidence and if you are not willing to stick up for your rights. Some of the methods of coercion are more sophisticated than others. It's hard to believe that old lines like, 'I'll tell everyone you're frigid' or 'What's wrong with you? All your friends do it!' or "Why not, are you gay or something?' can work, but they have stood the test of time. Parents would do well to prepare their children with a healthy dose of cynicism and a few clever retorts.
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September 27th, 2010 |

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NUTRITION FOR PRESCHOOL AND SCHOOL CHILDREN: FOOD SELECTION AND HABITS

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The Four Food Groups provide the basis for planning the diet for young children. The following list indicates the range in the amounts that are ordinarily eaten.
2 to 3 cups vitamin D milk
3 to 4 per week eggs
1 to 4 tablespoons chopped meat, poultry, and fish; some cottage cheese or peanut butter may be substituted
1/3 to 2/3 cup citrus fruit juice; or whole orange; or twice as much tomato juice
1/4 to 1/2 cup fruits such as applesauce, peeled apple, apricots, banana pears, peaches, prunes, etc.
1/4 to 1/2 cup cooked vegetable; select dark green leafy or deep yellow vegetable at least every other day
1 serving raw vegetables: carrots, cabbage, tomatoes, lettuce, rutabagas
2 to 4 tablespoons white or sweet potatoes
1/3 to 2/3 cup enriched or whole-grain cereal
1 to 3 slices enriched or whole-grain bread
Few foods need to be omitted entirely from the diet of children, but some discretion in food selection is necessary. The appetite is ordinarily a good guide, but parents have a responsibility to provide a choice of foods within the framework of the Four Food Groups. When the child is permitted to eat freely from sweets and other empty-calorie foods, he will not obtain sufficient nutrients.
Young children prefer plain, blandly flavored foods that are only lightly seasoned. Mixtures, as in casseroles, are well accepted only as the child becomes older. Some foods that require chewing are essential, but meats that are not chopped or ground may be tough for the preschool child. Lukewarm, rather than hot, foods are preferred. Vegetables arc least well liked of all food groups. Strongly flavored vegetables may not be accepted until late school years; some children never learn to like them.
Children sometimes go on food jags; that is, they will eat only certain foods—for example, peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches. Usually these diversions of appetite do not last too long if the parents make no particular point of them. If milk is refused as a beverage, it can be given in puddings, or will be accepted if it is occasionally flavored or even colored with vegetable color! American cheese is a good substitute.
Children require snacks to provide for their relatively high energy needs and to avoid excessive hunger at mealtimes. The snacks should be selected largely from the Four Food Groups: fruits and fruit juices; milk; cheese cubes; crackers and peanut butter; raw vegetables; small sandwiches.
By the time a child is ready for school his food likes have increased, but he faces other problems relative to maintaining good nutrition. Mornings in many homes are too often rushed, so that breakfast is a hurried meal or may be skipped entirely. A child who is ill at ease at school may eat poorly at lunch. A short lunch period may be upsetting to the slow eater. Children or this age, who are extremely active may become unduly tired before meals.
Observation of the following points will encourage good food habits.
1.   Serve meals in a pleasant place and a calm unhurried atmosphere.
2.   Provide meals that are colorful, varied in texture and flavor, and attractively served.
3.   Don't serve the same food over and over again even if it is a favorite. Even well-liked foods can become tiresome.
4.   Provide eating utensils and dishes that are easy for the child to hold and to use. Many vegetables, fruits, meats, and bread may be served as finger foods.
5.   Allow sufficient time for meals; breakfast need not be hurried if children are awakened early enough.
6.   Don't let the child become too tired before meals. Plan for adequate rest and early bedtime.
7.   Plan for snacks as carefully as the meal. Snacks can provide good nutrition. They should not be eaten so close to meals that the appetite is spoiled for the meal.
8.   Remember that appetite decreases as the rate of growth slows down during the second, third, and fourth years of life. The toddler may refuse certain foods at this time in trying to assert his independence; don't make too much of this.
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June 3rd, 2010 |

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BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE AIROLA DIET: VEGETABLES AND FRUITS

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Vegetables are extremely important sources of minerals, enzymes and vitamins. Most green vegetables also contain complete proteins of highest quality; in fact often of better biological value than proteins of animal sources - proteins of potatoes and green leafy vegetables are complete proteins of highest biological value.
Most vegetables should be eaten raw in form of raw salads. Some vegetables, such as potatoes, yams, squashes or green beans can also be cooked, baked or steamed.
Generous use of garlic, onions and numerous herbs and natural spices will improve your health and turn dull vegetable dishes into gourmet food.
Food is your best medicine - and vegetables (herbs) are your best medicinal foods.
Like vegetables, fruits are excellent sources of minerals, vitamins and enzymes. Fruits are a cleansing food. They are easily digested and exert a cleansing effect on the blood and the digestive tract.
In addition to all available fresh fruits, in season, the Airola Diet can include dry fruits, particularly when fresh fruits are not available. Unsulfured, organically grown raisins, prunes, dried apricots and figs are available from health food stores.
Fruits are best eaten for breakfast in the morning or as a snack between meals. Roughly, each food group should supply the bulk of one of the three meals: Fruits for breakfast, seeds, nuts or cereal for lunch, and vegetables for dinner; although this order can be interchanged, of course.
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June 3rd, 2010 |

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CHILD’S HEALTH/INFECTIOUS DISEASES: SCARLET FEVER

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Scarlet fever does not occur often nowadays, and is a much milder illness than it used to be, for reasons not well understood.

Cause

Scarlet fever is caused by a Streptococcus germ, spread by sneezing and coughing.

Clinical features

Symptoms of scarlet fever vary greatly between children. The commonest symptoms are a mildly sore throat, swollen, tender lymph glands in the neck, a mild fever, and a characteristic rash. The rash covers the whole body and consists of tiny red spots. The tongue may be bright red (strawberry tongue). Nowadays complications of scarlet fever are very rare, due to effective treatment with antibiotics. Rheumatic fever used to be a serious complication, but is rarely seen in association with scarlet fever now.

Treatment

Scarlet fever can be treated effectively with antibiotics of the penicillin group. (If your child is allergic to penicillin, other antibiotics can be used.)

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May 21st, 2009 |

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LEAVING YOUR CHILDREN SOMETHING TO LOVE BY: CHILDREN’S QUESTIONS ABOUR SEX

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"Why would a woman let a man put his thing in her?"

When you grow up and can take care yourself and others, there times when a woman wants to love, to hold, and to kiss and touch a man, and a man wants to do the same thing. Sometimes, but not every time, the man and woman want to join together and have the penis inside the vagina. This is one of the most important things to do in all the world, and a baby can start to grow when the sperm goes with the egg. It is a way of loving, a very special grown-up way of sharing yourself with someone, so it should only happen when you are married and going to be together forever.

    "How can a baby eat in there?"

The baby is inside something like a space capsule, and food and other things needed to live are brought in from the mother. There is a special capsule filter that only lets in what the baby needs to live. The baby grows in this capsule and gets food through a cord attached at her or his belly button. The mother and baby are a team and are living together making each other healthier.

"Why doesn't the baby drown in the water in the sac?"

You are very smart. Yes, there is something like water made by the mother that the baby floats in inside the uterus. It keeps the baby from getting hurt and keeps the baby safe and healthy. The baby can't drown because he or she does not breathe through the mouth until he or she comes out. It's just like a person in space, with all the food and even their oxygen coming in through that special cord.

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May 19th, 2009 |

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YOUR MARITAL HEALTH/WIVES’ SEXUALITY: MS. MYTH – THE FEMALE-FANTASY MYTH

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I hate those X-rated videotapes. They are disgusting. A bunch of naked bodies humping each other. I like the parts where you can see some feeling, but that almost never happens.

WIFE WITH HUSBAND PRESENT

I get turned on a lot with those tapes. I feel guilty, but I got one out to look at while he was at work and I masturbated. I know it's filth, but some parts turn me on.

WIFE IN PRIVATE INTERVIEW

The early perspectives assumed that men looked and women felt. I did not find this assumption to be the case with the couples \ interviewed. Women were aroused by visual stimulation, and sometimes were quite specific in their report. "I love the turn in the shoulders by a man's neck, sort of the neck and shoulder area. I love to sort of smooth out his suit coat or jacket by running both my hands out from that turn on both sides of his neck to his outer shoulders. I love to look at men in the theater from behind and look at their shoulders." This wife's report illustrates a strong visual reaction, and other examples were similar.

The individual love maps of men and women, not their gender, determine what stimuli will elicit a sexual response at any given time. If we tell women that they do not respond visually, then they are likely to report that they do not. If we ask open questions without gender bias, we get the same range of responses in husbands and wives.

Talk together about your reactions to erotica and you will discover that both of you are turned on and off to various visual cues. Asking whether or not a woman is turned on to X-rated material is like asking if someone is turned on to books. It depends! And remember, the sexual-response system is not a closed energy system with an on-and-off switch. It is a flowing, ever-changing system. We do not really get turned on or off, we respond to varying degrees.

When we free our relationship from the mechanical orientation of the early sex perspectives, we learn that we we always "on," and in control of our response through our selection, sharing, and awareness of our love maps and the variables that determined it.

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May 18th, 2009 |

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THE DESEXUALIZATION OF THE AMERICAN MARRIAGE:THE DE-EROTICIZATION OF THE AMERICAN MARRIAGE

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I suppose to you this will sound perverted. We have done almost everything together. We haven't missed a posture. But we never seem to experience anything together. We sleep next to each other, but not with each other. Our sex life is like masturbating, like using each other to masturbate. You might say we are the founders of the term "completing the act."

WIFE

Super Marital Sex Rule: Any part of the marriage that is ignored will disappear, and this rule is particularly true for sex. For most couples, the amount of enjoyment they derive from their sexual relationship corresponds with the amount of attention they pay to their sexual interaction. The sexual return from a marriage will usually match the intimacy investment. The following are ten areas in which the couples failed to invest appropriately or enough.

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May 18th, 2009 |

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  • FIRST SEXUAL EXPERIENCE: ARE YOU BOTH WANT IT?
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  • NUTRITION FOR PRESCHOOL AND SCHOOL CHILDREN: FOOD SELECTION AND HABITS
  • BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE AIROLA DIET: VEGETABLES AND FRUITS
  • CHILD’S HEALTH/INFECTIOUS DISEASES: SCARLET FEVER
  • LEAVING YOUR CHILDREN SOMETHING TO LOVE BY: CHILDREN’S QUESTIONS ABOUR SEX
  • YOUR MARITAL HEALTH/WIVES’ SEXUALITY: MS. MYTH – THE FEMALE-FANTASY MYTH
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