Cranberry Juice – Administering Oral Prescription To Get Rid Of Medical Problems

August 31st, 2010

Almost every health-conscious human soul surviving on this Blue Planet is now turning to cranberry juice for extracting the maximum nutritive value from it. Containing Vitamin C in small fraction, this fruit also contains other important nutrients (such as manganese) that are advantageous to human body.Interestingly the demand for cranberry juice has over consumed its utility as fruit. Now only 5 percent of the total produced cranberries are sold as fruit in market, while remaining percentage is harvested and instantaneously processed into various other health-benefiting products such as cranberry sauce. It is even used in extreme dry version, in the forms of dried cranberries apart from the much-popular juice.The juice apparently is known for possessing chemical properties that prevent the growth of different types of cancers in the body. The juice also works well in improving anti-clotting properties of the human body. But that is not the end of it. There is more to it.The cranberry juice can really work as a potent medical alternative for treating problems like urinary tract infections which are quite common these days among people. However the juice is chiefly known for its excellent ability to terminate the growth of dental plaques bacteria in the tooth cavity. The tooth decay thus prevented becomes possible only if a person consumes the juice on regular basis as this in turn prevents the formation of Streptococcus Mutans Bacteria which are responsible for the decay.That’s not all; the juice has even emerged as a solid answer to the problem of kidney stones. Tooth decay, Kidney stones, and urinary tract infections are a few problems that almost every second person, especially those who are living in the metropolitan areas of the country, are seen detected with these days. In many cases, situation only worsens because of the fact that both sides, patient as well as doctor, fail to diagnose the intensity of problem. Thus in process they (doctors) either suggest an overstated prescription or an understated one, both of them, in any case are not good enough to cure the problem. What follows next is the long list of bills and other expenses to be paid, which in any case can never be good for anyone. Hence it would be advisable to people if they really go for cranberry juice to seek a perfect answer to all medical problems mentioned above.The powerful compounds contained in cranberry juice are the perfect ways of redeeming faith in people who have been living life on a disappointing note due to urinary tract infections, kidney stones and tooth decay problems.

Mom, Please Help: a True Anorexia – Bulimia Story. Part 1

August 31st, 2010

Well, I guess it was 11 years ago I started to notice something was not right with Amy. She had just turned 13 when I caught her always looking at herself in the mirror. She would ask me if I thought she put on weight. I told her of course not, she always looked just right for her age.
You know, I never even thought anything was wrong I took it as just being a teenage thing and really thought no more about it. I remember myself in those teenage years worrying about my looks and going on diets and silly stuff like that, it was what a lot of my friends did too.
I didn’t even pickup on the fact that Amy would just play with her food at the dinner table and just shift it around her plate, eating very little. Of course I would say to her about not eating her food, but she would say she had a lot to eat at school, or at a friends place or some other excuse and I would fall for it.
Now in hindsight I feel really guilty as a mom for not being more aware of things at that time and I go through the “if only I had noticed back then I maybe could have done something” but I didn’t and the 10 years of living hell was about to begin.
Amy had always been a beautiful intelligent girl, always thinking of other people, always nice and kind. When she was 8 she would always do things for her grandmother (who had come to live with us) she always asked if she needed help cleaning or if she could do anything for her. She always volunteered to take Gran’s dinner to her and bring back the dirty dishes; nothing was too much for her.
Amy was 12 when her grandmother passed away. We thought she would be really upset but she seemed to handle it probably better that any one, even her younger brother Ben seemed more upset. We put it down to the fact that Gran had been sick for over 6 months and we had explained to her that we thought Gran would not live that much longer.
Even at the funeral Amy did not cry but seemed to be in full control, but again I was too upset at losing my Mom, that I did not really pay attention.
My God! What an idiot I was back then how could I miss all the little signals that Amy was sending me? Why didn’t I see the warning signs, how could I have been so stupid? They were all there to be seen but I didn’t notice a thing.
I think what really sent Amy on the trip that nearly cost her life was what to her, became a major disappointment when she was 13. Amy just loved to dance and she was good at it and she had a real passion for dancing.
She always said the she wanted to be a dancer when she grew up and if any dancing came on TV she would not miss it. Even if there was a family outing or a birthday party, if dancing was on TV she would refuse to go, until the show had ended.
I have to tell you at this point that Amy was not a typical little 13 years old. She was quite developed for her age with breasts and more of a mature shapes to her body, more like a 16 year old that a 13 year old.
Most of her friends were still waiting to develop breasts and were still the thin little girls with no shape. I didn’t know it then but Amy was teased about her body by some of the girls at school, who would call her fat and tell her she had a big bottom. Of course this was not true, Amy was just more developed but to her she was starting to think she was really fat.
It was the 18 November 1996 that I believe was the catalyst for the 10 years of hell we were about to face. Amy had been practicing for months to get into the school dance troop. It was the auditions for the Christmas extravaganza and Amy wanted so badly to get the lead dance role.
Two days before the auditions she got ill and by the time her dance trials came she was not in good health. She failed to get the lead role; in fact she danced so badly she did not even make the team. When she was leaving the stage I heard one of the girls who was successful say, I told you are too fat.
This episode in Amy’s life was a major turning point (or trigger) that started her 10 years of suffering with anorexia-bulimia. This was the start of my horror anorexia-bulimia ordeal.

Easy Weight Loss Plan: A Simple Secret To Ensure Weight Loss Sucess

August 30th, 2010

I know what you are thinking “Easy Weight Loss Plan”, Ya, Right! As a doctor I am always been given information by patients on this and that diet or strategy and it can be unbelievably confusing. Even as a doctor, I am confused. I have taken all sorts of course on nutrition and health and to be quite honest it is all a little over the top for me.I hear all sorts of great evidence to support eating carbs, not eating carbs, eating lots of protein and not eating any protein especially from animal products.While creating more information for my blog, I can across a program that at first looked like another diet but when I actually read through the material, it absolutely blew me away.The concept that you have to completely resrict what you eat and how much you exercise is completely false, and I sort of already had that feeling.Heres the thing, eating more or eating less is not the key it is timing your eating so that you maximize your metabolic burn.This explains a lot for me as a doctor because there are many times I have patients who say they have lots weight yet spent the last two days at a buffet table.If you want to lose weight you need to cycle through consuming more food with less food. Our bodies work and function like waves they are sometimes up and sometimes down.If you can figure out when to ride the wave and when not too, you have figured out the harmonic balance of the body.A simple test is to spend a couple weeks exercising on a regular basis everyday doning your favorite activity, but go through periods of eating more calories followed by periods of eating less calories.Monitor you weight everyday and make note of when your weight starts to drop is it on days after you eat more calories or on days when you eat less calories.Then it is a matter of mastering the weight loss with your cycle. You can find a more detailed explanation at easy weight loss plan