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In herbivorous animals, those that eat grass, there is a large extension of the caecum where many bacteria break down and digest the insoluble cellulose which forms the bulk of plants. The appendix may be a left-over organ in the process of evolution. Appendicitis was a rare condition until the end of the 19th Century. [...]

‘What are the chances of my passing this disease on to a daughter?’ a patient asks his doctor. At thirty-eight years old, Terri is pregnant for the first time after successfully battling endometriosis. A routine test— amniocentesis—has indicated she is carrying a girl. Terri fears that her child will suffer from the disease as she [...]

Herpes simplex—’cold sores’—is a common, blistering condition caused by the Herpes Hominis virus. There are two distinct strains of this virus. Type I is responsible for the more common lip or eye disease, while type II is responsible for the genital disease. The initial type I infection occurs mainly in infancy and childhood, when it [...]

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, [...]