Archive for October, 2007

Pregnancy - Vitamins and Diets

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

If before giving birth, a normal woman needs 2100 calories. A pregnant woman will start from 2300 and fresh cheese. For the beginning you don’t like milk, you don’t like milk, you can adapt it will be replaced with yogurt and fresh cheese. For the beginning you have to the beginning you have to […]

Studies Confirm: Vitamin C a Cure for Cancer

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

In 1954 and 1959 Dr. W. J. McCormick, a Canadian physician, hypothesized that cancer is a collagen disease, secondary to a vitamin C deficiency. His theory was based on the fact that collagen is the “mortar” that binds cells together and if cells stick together, tumors would have a more difficult time breaking away […]

Asthma Blamed on Cleaning Sprays and Air Fresheners

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

Household cleaning sprays and air fresheners could be to blame for the high rates of asthma. Use of the sprays on a regular basis increased the risk of developing the disease by between 30 to 50 per cent, a study of 3,500 peopleread more | digg story
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Tuberculosis outbreak blamed on stripper

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

Dozens of people in St. Maarten are being treated for latent tuberculosis after health officials warned that they may have been exposed to the illness by a stripper infected with an active form of the disease.read more | digg story
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Medicinal Uses of Marijuana: Nausea, Emesis and Appetite Stimulation

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

Marijuana is effective in treating nausea, anorexia and wasting.
Nausea, anorexia, and wasting are common symptoms of many cancers and AIDS.(36) These symptoms are also the common adverse side effects of chemotherapy and other aggressive therapies used to treat those diseases and associated pain.read more | digg story
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Food Borne Diseases

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

Mostly food borne disease are becoming nowadays, also they are considered emerging. Due to the new microorganisms in the role of food it has been recognized recently. One of the food borne disease is Listeria Monocytogenes is considered emerging. If this disease comes for the pregnant women it may cause abortion. […]

Hygiene

Sunday, October 14th, 2007

Every year due to diarrhoeal diseases most of the children less than 5 years are dying because of unhygiene. The highly affected areas are high population normally peri-urban dwellers or rural inhabitants. The main problems for this unhygienic is lack of priority given to the sector, financial problems, poor water supply, sanitation services, […]

Leprosy

Thursday, October 4th, 2007

Leprosy is caused by Mycobacterium leprae, an acid –fast, rod-shaped bacillus. This affects mainly in the skin. It may occur in all ages from infant to the old age. The chronic course of leprosy is incurable and physical abilities are never been calculated. G.A. Hansen discovered mycobacterium leprae in the early […]