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Summary of main points. • Hunger is a strong physiological sensation regulated in the hypothalamus. • Appetite—physiological, psychological and social—influences eating behaviour. • Distinguishing between biological hunger and emotional hunger is important. • Nutrients in food vary in their ability to suppress hunger, and dietary fat has the least effect on decreasing total energy consumption. [...]

As I sat and listened to his words my whole life flashed before me. My only ambitions in life were to get a job, get married and have children. I had achieved the first two ambitions but the third one had caused me great pain. Now as my doctor’s words echoed inside my head it [...]

Your laparoscopy should be performed by a gynaecologist who is skilled and experienced in performing laparoscopics and diagnosing endometriosis — very few general practitioners have either the skills or the experience to perform laparoscopics. Some gynaecologists believe that a diagnostic laparoscopy for endometriosis is best done just before or during a period when the disease [...]

How well you sleep and what kind of bed you sleep on can affect your sciatica or back pain in several important ways: As we’ve already seen, posture affects the spine – and that also applies to the posture you adopt when you’re in bed. It stands to reason that lying for hours on end [...]

In earlier chapters I have provided some guidelines as to how to diagnose your own depression and when it might make sense to involve a doctor in its treatment. In this chapter I go into greater detail about this. Essentially there are five reasons for involving a doctor in the treatment of depression. First, if [...]

If all of the above changes have been made, and the chronic illness still has not been sufficiently improved, the patient should try eating a diet composed entirely of organic foods for two weeks. Preferably this should be the Rotary Diversified Diet described in Chapter 18. It would be ideal if every person could eat [...]

Knowledge of some of the basic facts about food perishability can help one avoid food poisoning on picnics, Indiana Medicine (79:360) reports. Because the bacteria that cause food poisoning cannot flourish or even survive for long in acid surroundings, special precautions are necessary with foods that are low in acid, such as chicken, ham, eggs, [...]

Symptoms: loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, upper abdominal pain, jaundice (yellowed skin and whites of eyes, dark amber urine, and light-colored stools), fever, headache, general discomfort Home care: Isolate the child, and then call the doctor. When a diagnosis has been made the doctor will order a home care program that includes rest, liquids, and [...]

It’s Who You Know You’ve likely heard it before, but we’ll tell you again. If you gather all the homicide statistics and extract drug-related homicides, the vast majority of murders are between people who know each other. Forty-four percent of people who are murdered are killed by someone they know. Obviously, that doesn’t mean that [...]

The extract is a substance taken from the New Zealand Green-Lipped Mussel at a specific part of the yearly development cycle. The mussels are cultivated on marine farms especially for this purpose. The farms are in areas which have a constant flow of unpolluted, highly productive sea water. This feature ensures the supply of first [...]