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Archive for October, 2009

The cause of anxiety is well established. When enough stress is presented to the physical-mental-emotional body, nervous behaviors are likely to surface. Excessive concern and thought may disturb initial stages of restful sleep. Internal organs deficient of energy will present with a long list of imbalancing symptoms such as high blood pressure, spasms, palpitations, restless leg and insomnia, etc. attributable to energy deficiency. Take care of yourself, remove distractions from rest, exercise, be around caring people until you can master the challenges you are confronted with. Eat nutritious food and take natural herbs that don’t add to the imbalance but rather help in re-establishing your center. Consider working with a counselor/pychotherapist to find alternatives to your current anxiety management strategies. 

Here is one piece of the puzzle. Beneficial foods which diminishes characteristics of anxiety. 

ANXIETY FREE DIET 

Foods to Counter Anxiety: Apricot, Cherry, Date, Fig, Grape, Grapefruit, Olive, Papaya, Peach, Strawberry, Tomato, Beet, Button mushroom, Cabbage, Carrot, Celery, Chard, Cucumber, Eggplant, Kuzu, Lettuce, Potato, Shitake mushroom, Spearmint, Squash, Sweet Potato, Yam, Almond, Chestnut, Coconut, Sesame seed/oil, Sunflower seed, Amasake, stevia, Agave nectar, Ganoderm, Dill, Basil, Mulberry, Lemons, Brown rice, Oats, Ghee, Green tea

Foods to Avoid: Beef, Tofu, Tempeh, Soy milk, Spinach, Miso, Asparagus, , Millet, Salt, Seaweed, Tangerine, Pinenut, Persimmon, Pear, Honey, Sugar, Oyster, Clam, Mussel, Pork, Peanut

Processed Foods to Avoid: Artificial Sweeteners, Coffee, Wine (beyond 1 oz. per day), Baked Beans (sugar), Baked Goods (doughnuts, cakes contain excess trans fats, sugars), Breakfast Cereals (sugar, processed grain, low nutrition), Campbell’s Condensed Soups (hi sodium), pot pies (hi calory/fat), Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) foods, Hotdogs (unknown ingredients, sodium nitrate), Luncheon Meats (too many additives, sodium nitrate), Margarine (highly toxic), Ramen Noodles (no nutrients, excess sodium), Refined Vegetable Oils (corn, cottonseed, soybeans, safflower seeds and canola), Saltines (excess carb & sodium), Sausages & cured meats (too many additives, sodium nitrate), White & Wheat bread (no nutrition), White Pasta (extremely hi carb & sodium), White Potatoes (solanine-calcium depletion & arthritic pain), Chips & French fries, Cocktails (excess sugar/liver toxicity), Fruit Juice (loaded w/ sugar), Fruit Smoothie (loaded w/ syrup, make your own), Dairy products except goat’s milk (pure mucous), Sodas (removes rust from metal, excess carbon dioxide, imbalances digestive system), Excessive Protein (loss of calcium, damages kidneys)

When I had an anxiety attack, I didn’t know about nutrition and herbology and at that time, I could not imagine that traditional Chinese herbs would have been effective with other modalities of treatment. In this stressed-out state, you want fast, potent relief. Longevity is founded on healthy foods, herbs and natural medicinal approaches to health and balance.

Individual Constitution will affect outcomes from all foods. For instance, a person that has a cold constitution should not eat foods that make the body colder. If they do, pain will show up, wherever one feels cold. Body function becomes sluggish. But in general the above selection benefits most people. If you want to get customized then I would suggest contacting, specifically, an Asian Medicine Herbalist. Understand, I am not selecting accupuncturists. It is very important to find someone who specializes in Chinese herbs or herbology  and food therapy regarding customized food and herb strategies.   

Anxiety relief can be found naturally with food therapy & traditional Chinese herbs.
  

If you’re snoring is particularly heavy you may be thinking about undergoing surgery for snoring.Snoring is more than just an annoyance and inconvenience; it’s something that can cause damage to your throat, mouth, lungs, and even your ears depending on the volume! Of course, it is not necessarily the actual snorer who is looking at having surgery it is just as likely to be the long suffering partner.

Happily there are several options available when it comes to snoring surgery. Some are very quick and painless and are done on an outpatient basis alone whereas others are more involved and of course riskier. When considering any type of surgery for snoring you must first try and find the root cause of your snoring so you should really take advice from your doctor or dentist. This is going to be different for everyone and this will determine just which type of surgery is going to be right for you. Somnoplasty is one type of surgery. Somnoplasty refers to a cutting away or stiffening and tightening of the tissue in and around the soft palate, which is the area at the roof of the mouth in the back. Flabby or excess tissue in this area vibrates when a person breathes through their mouth when sleeping and it is this vibration that produces the snoring sound. On the whole somnoplasty as a surgery option is quite straightforward and relatively painless. Some patients only experience mild discomfort and can get back to normal the very next day.

Having your tonsils removed could be all the surgery for snoring you need. If the tonsils, adenoids, uvula, or other areas of the throat are swollen or infected these too can cause snoring as they will vibrate when a person breathes. A successful snoring cure can result from having any of these removed. Of course this type of surgery is a bit more complicated and may require an overnight hospital stay or a longer recovery time. Any surgery to cure snoring that you’re considering should be given careful consideration and preparation. Not every surgery will work for everyone but most are very successful.

Most of us find choosing the right water filter system to be a task that is both challenging and also very daunting. There are many things that need to be considered including identifying whether something is wrong with the existing water supply, especially as there are so many contaminants present in the water today that it can become very dangerous to drink the water straight from the taps. After testing the water supply one can assess the appropriate water filter system for his home.

Virtues Of Picking An Expensive Water Filter System

When it comes to picking a water filter system there are a number of different options to choose from with some being inexpensive and which only remove heavy particles from the water while others are more expensive and better at removing virtually all contaminants from the water. In fact, the best water filter system which is sure to be very costly will be designed to remove minute microbes and reverse osmosis is of course a technology that can remove contaminants of as tiny a size as 0.1 microns.

Before selecting a water filter system you need to also ensure that it can remove bacteria that is a serious health concern and which has to be dealt with adequately by every water filter system. The best option is to use a system that works on ultra-light while at the same time it is necessary that you avoid using a cheap water filter system because they cannot remove bacteria and will only remove sediments.

Filtration of water from deep well is necessary as it can also be unsafe to drink. Any bacteria in the water can prove to be hazardous for your health and so it is necessary to buy a water filter system that can remove even microscopic bacteria so as to ensure making the water safe to drink and it will also improve the appearance of the water and improve the odor and also its taste. The right water filter system must be able to deal with all these issues.

There no doubts the fact that a good home water filter system can dramatically improve the quality of your drinking water in the home. Even ground water is not as pure as it should be and so the need to filter out the contaminants is very high which is why you should even consider getting professional advice to help you pick the right water filter system for your home.

Jeffrey was a high school ninth grader who regularly seemed to be living on the edge. Jeffrey had a risk taking personality and regularly wanted to do what his older brothers were doing. The central drawback with this was that all three of his brothers were at least 21 years old and were consequently legally able to drive a truck or car and to drink alcohol.

Jeffrey, nevertheless, had a hard time figuring out that as a fifteen-year-old individual he should not be drinking alcoholic beverages. In fact, nevertheless, Jeffrey commonly drank with his guy friends after school, predominantly on the weekends.

One weekend, Jeffrey was invited to drive around with some of his older buddies. One of his friends was old enough to purchase alcohol. After purchasing some beer, wine coolers, and wine, Jeffrey and all of the guys went to a park and drank for around two or three hours.

Jeffrey Experiences Alcohol Poisoning Symptoms

After drinking something like ten wine coolers, Jeffrey started to feel nauseous and then threw up. When he passed out on the football field, one of his buddies called 911 for immediate assistance. It was fortunate that the call for emergency help was made because when his cronies went to the hospital to see Jeffrey, they were notified that Jeffrey had been going through alcohol poisoning symptoms. More to the point, Jeffrey had overdosed on alcohol.

When Your Buddies Drink Abusively

Jeffrey had heard that drinking heavily can lead to an alcohol overdose but he never thought that this could ever affect him. After all, some of his pals time after time articulated that they could drink two or three six packs of beer in a day without experiencing any major setbacks.

Based on this, Jeffrey was truthfully flabbergasted to hear that he had overdosed on alcohol because he “only” had more or less ten drinks. When he stated this to the attending physicain at the hospital, then again, the healthcare professional notified Jeffrey that drinking ten alcoholic beverages over a two or three hour time frame could surely be substantially more alcohol than can be metabolized by the body. The healthcare practitioner further articulated how excessive alcohol can cause the brain to shut down a person’s respiratory system and that when this comes about, a person can pass away.

The First Warning of Excessive Drinking

This was the first word of warning to Jeffrey that he was drinking in a harmful fashion and that there are ramifications for such activities. The doctor told Jeffrey that he was a fortunate young man because he almost died from an alcohol overdose the night before.

The healthcare practitioner also talked to Jeffrey’s parents and suggested that they get alcohol therapy for Jeffrey. His parents were thrilled that Jeffrey was out of harm’s way and informed the doctor that they would get Jeffrey alcohol rehabilitation.

While talking to his parents, Jeffrey notified them that there must be a good reason why he did not pass away and that he felt a sense of thankfulness that he was still alive. He also informed his parents that the odd part about the entire drinking situation was that he had learned about alcohol poisoning the previous week at school in health class.

When Learning Something in Class Can Change Your Life

At the time, what his health teacher, Mr. Franklin, was saying didn’t seem to make a lot of sense to Jeffrey. Now that he almost passed away, in spite of this, he felt that he should have listened more carefully in Mr. Franklin’s health class and applied what he had learned to his life.

Jeffrey told his parents that he couldn’t wait to go back to the classroom and apologize to Mr. Franklin for not displaying more attention to a topic that was as pertinent as learning about alcohol abuse and how to stay away from an alcohol overdose.

His parents smiled at Jeffrey and said that they were thrilled with the way he was being accountable for his dangerous actions. All he had to do now was to let this almost deadly experience impact his life in a productive manner so that he would never again suffer from a case of alcohol poisoning.

Denny is a sixteen-year-old teenager who has finally made up his mind to go and see his doctor about his drinking problems. At first, Denny thought he would be able to basically go on the Internet, look for some basic alcohol info and come to a decision whether or not he was addicted to alcohol.

Not unexpectedly, he found quite a few websites that spelled out some of the general alcoholism symptoms. That’s the good news. The less positive news, unfortunately, was that Denny showed evidence of more than a few of these alcoholism symptoms.

Symptoms of Alcoholism: Some Examples

For example, Denny has been drinking substantially more than usual and he has started to have more fiery bickering with the female he is dating. Additionally, for the first time in his life he has been experiencing sleeping problems. Likewise, Denny regularly has felt depressed and on a growing basis he has been demonstrating less than normal attention to detail in class. Furthermore, he has felt stressed out and more jumpy on a day-to-day basis and for the past few months he has shown signs of murky thinking in class. Because Denny has been demonstrating all of these symptoms, he was rightly worried about his drinking behavior.

So Denny finally made up his mind that he needed to contact his family physician and ask for an appointment. To tell the truth, this was tough for Denny because his family healthcare practitioner was also his parents’ physician. The origin of his disquiet was this: at the risk of embarrassing his family, he had to go and reveal his careless and excessive drinking behavior to his healthcare practitioner.

When Denny arrived at the family physician’s office, he explicitly informed the family doctor about the concern he feels about his irresponsible drinking behavior. When the family physician asked what was setting off this trepidation, Denny declared that he had gone online and read about alcohol dependency and especially about alcoholism symptoms. He then mentioned all of the alcoholism symptoms that he unmistakably thought he manifests.

An Exhaustive Physical Appraisal and Outpatient Alcohol Treatment

The healthcare professional notified Denny that it was prudent of him to concentrate on his drinking problems, he gave Denny an in depth physical exam, and suggested that he talk to his Mother and Father about enrolling in an out-patient alcohol rehabilitation facility that was supervised by Doctor Rudnick, one of his doctor associates who is an alcohol addiction and alcohol abuse specialist.

In the same way, when Denny said that he has been feeling a sense of melancholy more frequently, the family doctor told Denny that depression and alcoholism on a fairly regular basis occur in the same person. Thus, the healthcare professional also recommended that Denny talk to his parents about obtaining therapy in order to deal with his sense of gloom. In fact, Denny can go to the local counseling center and make an appointment with Doctor Arndt, a distinguished counseling psychologist who specializes in treating youth.

The Significance of Facing Your Drinking Issues and Getting Motivated About Making Positive and Healthy Changes in Your Life

The family physician made it a point to tell Denny that he might not necessarily be an alcoholic, but that he was undoubtedly drinking in an irresponsible manner. Stated another way, Denny was involving himself in teen alcohol abuse. The healthcare professional then told Denny that the reason he suggested alcohol treatment in the first place was because he wanted him to face up to his drinking issues, make sure that he prevented them from escalating, and start to live in a more healthy manner, even if it meant that he had to totally abstain from drinking.

When all’s said and done, by successfully treating his problem drinking, Denny would be able to get his drinking difficulties under control and stop the negative series of events that could in all probability result in alcohol dependency.

Denny understandably did not look forward to facing his parents about his depression and his excessive drinking. And he undoubtedly did not want to face the thought of enrolling in an alcohol rehabilitation center. And last but not least, he was not euphoric about going to a therapist about his depression. In the face of these apprehensions, nevertheless, Denny actually felt some emotional relief for the first time in many months because he finally stopped making excuses for himself and at long last determined that he needed to do something productive about his drinking behavior.