ANTI-CANCER DIET: JUICES AND JUICE THERAPY
March 30th, 2009 | Posted by admin | Category: CancerNo Comments
Freshly made juices are nourishing, living foods in liquid form, providing the body with a rich assortment of vitamins, minerals and abundant enzymes. Raw juices require minimal digestion and can be assimilated by the body very easily.
Juice therapy is a method of detoxifying and cleansing the body of unwanted chemicals, wastes and toxins and supplying beneficial nutrients needed to fight cancer. Fresh juices provide a superior vehicle by which unusually high quantities and concentrations of the food’s life force can be consumed. Fresh juices supply the body with a rich assortment of cancer-fighting vitamins and minerals.
Raw juices are not recommended as the sole form of cancer therapy. They are however natural, safe and well-tried, and have returned many people in the world back to good health. When raw juices are unlocked from plants, pure and vital liquids of great healing power are released and their infinitely gentle action can coax our bodies back to normality. Raw juices have none of the dangerous side effects associated with potent medical drugs, yet they can eliminate health problems arising from many of the deficiencies created from the hustle and bustle of today’s fast-paced world and nutrient-deficient foods. Commercial fruit juices are less therapeutic than freshly squeezed juices, as many brands contain sugar, preservatives and other undesirable ingredients.
It is advisable to try to drink anywhere from four to six wholesome juices throughout the day while fighting cancer, to maintain good blood sugar levels. Regular intake of juices after beating cancer will help to prevent the growth of tumours in the future. It is important to drink the juice within 15 minutes of making it, to ensure you utilise the full benefit of live enzymes contained within the plants, fruits and vegetables. If you plan to drink juices on a regular basis try to buy organic produce, free from fertilisers and pesticides.
Juice therapy can be used in a number of different ways. By eliminating solid foods for a few days and drinking energy packed juices for two to three days, you will give your body a chance to detoxify body wastes and direct its energy towards healing the diseased cells. If juice therapy is undertaken for a longer period, under supervision, the body is given a chance to heal more chronic conditions.
Juices should be watered down 50-50 with spring or distilled water.
Single juice fasts have been undertaken to fight certain types of cancer. One well-known juice therapy diet is the Grape Diet. This diet uses only grapes in season, juiced and drunk every day for one month. It enables the body to rid itself of more chronic conditions. This diet should only be undertaken with supervision by a health professional.
Only light gentle exercise, such as light walking, yoga, stretching, meditation or tai chi should be performed on any juice fast. Continue to drink pure natural drinking water throughout the day and drink juices regularly to maintain blood sugar levels.
Protein powders or supplements, chlorophyll powders, barley grass, wheatgrass powder, beetroot powder or other nutrient packed energy powders can be added to juices for extra energy and revitalising effects. Add one to two tablespoons of flaxseed oil to any juice to enhance the curative effects of juice therapy in cancer treatment.
The healing benefits of juices used in cancer prevention and cancer therapy should never be underestimated. Juice therapy is a powerful tool in beating and preventing cancer, and other serious illnesses.
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CANCER AND IMMUNE SYSTEM: THYMUS GLAND AND SPLEEN
March 30th, 2009 | Posted by admin | Category: CancerNo Comments
The Thymus Gland
The thymus is the major gland or the ‘maestro’ of the immune system. It is one of the major sites for immune cell production. It lies just below the thyroid gland and above the heart. The thymus is responsible for the production of T-lymphocytes and for providing the commands to these cells regarding which enemies to attack. The thymus gland releases several hormones that are responsible for regulating many immune functions. A low level of thymic hormones in the blood is associated with depressed immunity. Thymic hormone levels are low in people with cancer. The thymus gland tends to shrink as we age and in response to nutrient deficiencies.
The spleen is roughly the size of a clenched fist. It is responsible for producing white blood cells, engulfing and destroying bacteria and cellular debris, destroying worn-out red blood cells and platelets, for coordinating the interaction between macrophages, antibodies, T-Lymphocytes and B-Lymphocytes and acting as a blood reservoir. The spleen also releases many potent immune system-enhancing compounds.
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EMOTIONS EXPERIENCED DURING CANCER TREATMENT: DENIAL, AVOIDANCE
March 30th, 2009 | Posted by admin | Category: CancerNo Comments
Denial is usually the second and most common emotion felt by the cancer patient and sometimes by his or her own families. It is hard to believe it could happen to you. Once again a feeling of disbelief is followed by denial or avoidance of the situation. You may think such thoughts as, ‘This is not happening to me, this is impossible, someone has made a mistake.’
We often go through life thinking we are invincible, that diseases like cancer usually happen to other people, not to someone like us. Many people believe that cancer usually affects sick, aged and stressed individuals. However this is not always the case. Go into a chemotherapy room or the cancer ward in a hospital, and look at all the babies and children and teenagers and young adults, some very healthy looking, being afflicted with cancer. How could a baby experience so much stress in their short lifetime to develop cancer? Or why is the fit athlete having chemotherapy for bone cancer?
Of course, then, it is easy to go into self-denial and protest when being informed that you have cancer. Denial is a form of human self-defense. If I deny this, then it’s not true. However, at some stage you must face the fact that you have developed cancer and learn to accept your condition, to be able to encourage the healing process. Denial in its essence accompanies disbelief, which ultimately accompanies pre-determined judgments on the way things arc meant to be. By releasing your conditioned judgments, you can learn to accept the fact that no one is perfect and being a human being and living in today’s society, we all run the risk of developing some type of health condition.
At some point you will have to pick yourself up and try to accept your condition, and then look at where you may have slipped off the path. You can then make the necessary changes in your life to help place yourself back on the path to recovery and greater health and happiness. Open your heart to completely accepting your condition. This will allow you the opportunity to embrace your healing completely. If you remain in a state of self-denial and avoidance, it will be difficult to permanently heal your cancer. Full healing takes place when you accept responsibility for past actions, reactions and your own disease.
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CANCER: NATURAL TREATMENTS USED TO COUNTERACT THE SIDE EFFECTS OF CHEMOTHERAPY
March 30th, 2009 | Posted by admin | Category: CancerNo Comments
Broken Capillaries
Diet
• Eat foods rich in bioflavonoids including berries, cherries, buckwheat, citrus fruits, lemons, plums, grapefruit, blackberries, blackcurrants, green peppers, broccoli, tomatoes and apricots.
Vitamins and Nutrients
• Bioflavonoids increase the strength of capillaries, especially the bioflavonoid, rutin. They prevent rupture of the blood vessels and maintain collagen structure. Take vitamin Ñ powder with bioflavonoids daily @ 1000 to 5000 mg of Vitamin Ñ powder containing bioflavanoids including 500 mg of rutin.
• Bromelain accelerates the healing process of the skin. Take 250 to 750 mg per day.
Herbal Teas
• Rosehip herbal tea is rich in bioflavonoids.
• An excellent astringent for capillaries and veins is witch hazel – apply externally (distilled witch hazel can be purchased from a chemist).
• Horse chestnut increases the strength and tone of veins and capillaries and is an excellent circulatory tonic.
Constipation
Diet
Drink 6 to 8 glasses of water per day.
Eat a diet rich in fibre foods including whole grains, fruits and vegetables, nuts and seeds, and brown rice. Good foods include prunes, dates, figs, pears, sweet potatoes, brussel sprouts, cabbage, kale, apples, endive, dandelion greens, beets and okra.
• Avoid spicy foods, full fat dairy products, fried foods, white flour products, processed foods, coffee, sugar and fats.
• A healthy breakfast cereal made from 1/2 part slippery elm, 1 part oat-bran, 1 part lecithin granules, 1 part psyllium husks, 1 part LSA mix and 1/2 part crushed pumpkin seeds mixed together is a fantastic way to begin the day.
Vitamins and Nutrients
• Take a good fibre supplement containing psyllium husks, guar gum, apple pectin or modified citrus pectin, rice-bran, soya bran or oat-bran. Lactobacillus Acidophilus or fructo-oligosaccharides helps to put friendly bacteria into the bowel.
• Essential fatty acids or flaxseed oil is needed for good digestion and stool formation. (This is essential if stools are hard and dry.)
• Vitamin Ñ (3 grams/day) and glutamine repairs intestines damaged by chemotherapy.
Herbs
• Aloe vera juice has a healing and cleansing effect on the digestive tract and aids in forming soft stools. Drink 1/2 cup in the morning and night. OR
• Mix — 1 teaspoon of senna leaves/cascara bark/fennel seeds/chamomile – infuse 1 cup or 1 tablespoon of flax seeds ground – swallow with a glass of hot water. OR
• Dandelion herbal tea is useful not only in alleviating constipation but also in enhancing kidney and liver function. OR
• Infuse 1 teaspoon of psyllium seeds in a cup of boiling water and drink twice daily. OR
• Use 1 dessertspoon of whole linseeds and boil in 600 ml of water for 25 minutes. Strain and mix with equal amounts of water and orange juice or lemon juice. OR
• Alfalfa tablets (3 to 5/day) may also prove useful.
Hydrotherapy
• Epsom salts (magnesium sulphate) baths help to stimulate bowel movements.
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CANCER: ALARM BELLS
March 30th, 2009 | Posted by admin | Category: CancerNo Comments
No one knows exactly why cancer cells behave the way they do. We do know however, that a number of causative factors are responsible for the growth of certain types of cancer. The causes of cancer are abundant and diverse. As mentioned in the previous chapter, every day we are exposed to thousands of different environmental, dietary, man-made and plant-made toxins. Our body’s immune system is designed to detoxify these chemicals and maintain a balance in health, preventing illness. Due to any number of factors, our body’s immune functions may become weakened or find it difficult to detoxify as normal. When our body is unable to perform these regulatory functions, disease results.
In the United States alone, one person dies from cancer every minute. Another three million people have cancer and one out of three will eventually die of some form of disease. 1 334 100 new cancer cases are expected to be diagnosed in the year 2003 in that country. Cancer is now the second most common cause of deaths in the United States, running dangerously close to cardiovascular disease. There are more than one hundred different varieties of cancer today. Over 170 000 cancer illnesses in the United States alone are preventable.
In Australia in 1999, 82 135 new cancer cases were reported and there were 34 695 deaths due to cancer, not including non-melanoma skin cancer. Globally, cancer rates are expected to rise by at least fifty per cent to fifteen million new cases in the year 2020, according to the ‘world cancer report’.
The most common types of cancers worldwide in men are lung cancer (which is mainly due to tobacco smoking), prostate cancer and colorectal cancer. The most common cancer worldwide for women is breast cancer followed by lung cancer, colorectal cancer and uterine cancer. These statistics do not include skin cancer, which is on the rise and is extremely prevalent in countries such as Australia.
These are scary statistics, ringing strong alarm bells for all of us. Different types of cancer are more prominent in different cultures and countries. This alerts us to the fact that many factors in our environment do contribute to the development of cancer, more than genetic factors. It is necessary to become aware of these risk factors and limit our exposure to them as much as possible. Repeated exposure to carcinogens over a lengthy period increases the risk of cancer developing. It is important to be aware of contributing factors to cancer development, to prevent both ourselves and our loved ones from developing this life threatening condition.
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TESTING FOR SCABIES AND TREATMENT
March 27th, 2009 | Posted by admin | Category: Men's Health-Erectile DysfunctionNo Comments
Scabies is usually not difficult to diagnose when the rash and symptoms are typical, although the rash may be confused with other skin problems that cause rashes. For this reason it is useful to perform a test to help with the diagnosis. Scrapings of the lesions may show evidence of the burrowing mites or the feces of the mites under the microscope.
TREATMENT
Scabies is treated by applying a cream (permethrin, lindane, or crotamiton) from the neck down, which kills the mites. The creams are only available with a prescription. The lindane and permethrin creams are usually left on overnight and washed off in the morning. The crotamiton cream is used for two nights in a row and then washed off forty-eight hours after the last application. It may be necessary to apply a second regimen of crotamiton to eliminate scabies. Sexual partners and close household contacts should also be treated, even if they do not have symptoms. People who do not have body contact or share clothing or bedding with the infected person do not need to be treated.
Lindane generally has more side effects, such as nausea and vomiting, and is to be avoided in pregnant and breast-feeding women and in children. It should not be applied to mucous membranes (such as those around the eyes, mouth, and vaginal area) and should not be applied after a bath or shower. Lindane should also be avoided in people with an extensive rash from scabies or other conditions and in anyone with a neurological disorder, since it can sometimes cause seizures in these persons.
The itching may persist for a week or two after treatment. Medications that relieve itching, such as diphenhydramine, are available without a prescription. If new skin rashes are seen after treatment, then the treatment may not have been successful, and another application may be necessary. Frequent reapplication of the medications can be irritating to the skin, however, and it may cause a rash that may be misinterpreted as being caused by persistent scabies. If the symptoms persist longer than a few weeks after treatment, then a return visit to a health care provider is a good idea.
The nodules that sometimes occur with scabies may take longer to disappear than the rash and itching—sometimes several months. Injection of steroids into the lesions or the use of a topical steroid cream for a short period of time may help to speed resolution. These treatments can be administered by your health care provider.
Just as important as treatment with medication is treatment of clothes and bedding that have been in contact with an infected person within the last seventy-two hours. They should be laundered in hot water and dried on a hot cycle, dry cleaned, or kept out of contact for more than seventy-two hours, after which time the mites will have died of starvation. Furniture and pets do not need to be treated.
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HERPES: TREATMENT AND PREVENTION OF OUTBREAKS
March 27th, 2009 | Posted by admin | Category: Men's Health-Erectile DysfunctionNo Comments
There is no cure for herpes, but there are very good medications that can prevent symptoms from occurring and can treat symptoms when they do occur. Some of these medications are useful for both type 1 and type 2 herpes. They are available only by prescription in the United States, and they are expensive. Acyclovir, valacyclovir, and famciclovir are all available in pill form to be taken by mouth; acyclovir is also available as a cream; and penciclovir, the active ingredient of famciclovir, is available as a cream as well. Acyclovir has been available by prescription since 1982; valacyclovir and famciclovir became available in 1996.
These medications do not prevent infection if an uninfected person takes them. They only benefit people who have herpes. Steroids should not be used to treat herpes, because they can make the infection worse.
Acyclovir, valacyclovir, and famciclovir are converted into their active forms by an enzyme present in the herpes virus but not in the human body. These antiviral medications act by interrupting the virus’s ability to replicate itself. They do not remove the virus from the body, but by stopping its replication they shorten the duration of an outbreak and decrease the severity of the symptoms (if taken episodically, that is, during an outbreak). To prevent outbreaks in one who is infected, these medications can also be taken daily [suppressively]. All three are useful for both the prevention and treatment of genital herpes outbreaks, whether caused by HSV-1 or HSV-2.
The cream form of acyclovir has not been proven effective in preventing or treating outbreaks of oral or genital herpes. A newer cream form of famciclovir has recently been approved for the treatment of recurrent cold sores (but not genital herpes). It shortens the duration of outbreaks and diminishes their symptoms. Someone with a history of penciclovir cream.
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STD: TESTING FOR HPV
March 27th, 2009 | Posted by admin | Category: Men's Health-Erectile DysfunctionNo Comments
Genital warts have a very characteristic appearance and can generally be recognized by an experienced health care provider. No test is available in clinical practice to screen a person for the virus that causes warts.
A technique used in research studies (the polymerase chain reaction test or PCR) detects the genetic material of the virus, but it is not routinely available and is very expensive. It is not even clear at this time if a negative test would definitively mean that a person is not infected with the warts virus. In the near future, a blood test may be available to screen for the antibodies to the virus, but this will not help distinguish between people who still have the infection and those who have cleared the infection.
The health care provider will carefully examine the entire genital and anal area to look for warts. The anal area is often overlooked by health care providers, especially when they are examining heterosexuals, but even without a history of anal sexual contact this is an area where warts can recur. The mouth should also be examined if the person has engaged in oral-genital contact. It is possible, although very uncommon, to see warts in this area.
One of the treatments for warts, freezing them with liquid nitrogen, can also help to diagnose them. Warts tend to “hold” the freeze longer than the surrounding normal skin, so they stay white from the freeze longer. This characteristic can be helpful to distinguish them from skin tags (little pieces of excess skin), which do not react in this way. Applying vinegar (3 percent acetic acid) may also make warts show up more clearly—warts tend to turn white with acetic acid, which normal skin does not do. This is not a specific test, however, and skin bumps that are not warts can also turn white with this test, leading to unnecessary treatment. In addition, the fact that areas of the skin show no white areas when washed with vinegar does not mean that a person is not infected with the virus. It only means that there are no detectable warts present at that time.
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FOR SAFE OR SAFER SEX: RECEIVE A VACCINATION AGAINST HEPATITIS B
March 27th, 2009 | Posted by admin | Category: Men's Health-Erectile DysfunctionNo Comments
There is a vaccine available that offers lifelong protection against acquiring hepatitis B, a common, sexually transmitted type of hepatitis. All newborns and children are now being vaccinated as part of their routine immunization series to offer them protection later in life, and all sexually active adults should consider being vaccinated. The vaccine is given as a three-shot series over a six-month period and is well worth the effort and cost. Some facilities, such as county health departments, may offer the vaccine at a reduced cost.
In addition, for those who engage in oral-anal contact as part of their sexual practice, a vaccination against hepatitis A should be considered. Hepatitis A is usually thought of more as a food-borne infection (usually transmitted through fecal contamination of food), with occasional outbreaks at restaurants. However, it can also be transmitted sexually through oral-anal contact with a partner who is infected. People receive two vaccinations: an initial one and then a second one six to twelve months later as a booster. This series should also offer lifelong protection.
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WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT GENITAL SORES, RASHES, ABRASIONS, OR BUMPS
March 27th, 2009 | Posted by admin | Category: Men's Health-Erectile DysfunctionNo Comments
Many of the sexually transmitted infections, and other nonsexually transmitted skin conditions, can cause bumps or sores in the genitals. When a person notices a rash, sores, or lesions, he or she should see a health care provider as soon as possible after the symptoms start, since the appearance of the rash may change over time and seeing the rash as soon as possible helps the health care provider make the correct diagnosis. Certain of the most common causes of genital skin changes are listed in this section; many other, nonsexually transmitted, infections can also cause genital rashes (as well as rashes in other areas of the body), but they are beyond the scope of this book.
Note: Some men may have pearly penile papules, which are painless, tiny bumps around the head of the penis. Although often mistaken for warts, they are a normal part of male anatomy.
Allergic reaction. Usually the symptoms from an allergic reaction (to a condom or spermicide, for example) occur immediately after a person comes into contact with the allergen and recur whenever there is further exposure to it. The symptoms generally include a red, itchy rash in the genitals, where contact took place.
Behget’s disease. Behget’s disease is an autoimmune disease (other autoimmune diseases include lupus and rheumatoid arthritis) that causes mouth and genital ulcers. It is more common in women, and the cause of the disease is not known. The ulcers are very painful; there are usually many of them and they tend to recur. People with Behget’s disease are sometimes mistakenly diagnosed as having herpes, because the ulcers may look like herpes lesions and recur.
Chancroid. Chancroid is another cause of genital ulcers, although in the United States it is much less common than herpes or syphilis. There can be one or several ulcers, with several being the more common condition. They are usually painful. The lymph nodes in the groin usually swell and also become very painful. They may spontaneously rupture and drain thick yellow fluid. If not treated, the lesions may persist for one to three months and then spontaneously vanish, although the underlying infection remains, and the lesions may recur over time.
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