Monthly Archives: March 2009

IF YOU GET CONFUSING RESULTS AFTER FOOD EXCLUSION

Are You Eating Too Much of a Food? You may be able to tolerate a food if you eat just a little of it. Eat smaller portions and see if things improve. If you are on a rotation diet, put the food on a longer rotation – eat it once a month for a while, [...]

DETECTING YOUR ALLERGIES

There are three basic methods of detecting whether or not you have allergies, or other kinds of intolerance or sensitivity, and of identifying the cause of your reactions. These are: • analysing the pattern of your reactions to identify suspects • medical and laboratory tests • undertaking an elimination programme to see if symptoms improve [...]

CHOOSING COTTON CLOTHES: IF YOU ARE ALLERGIC TO COTTON

If you are allergic to cotton but choose to wear it because of mulitiple allergies, or reasons of cost or practicality, certain types of cotton fabric are less troublesome than others. Cotton causes allergy when you inhale, or come into contact with, the cotton flock – the small particles given off from the fibre. You [...]

ALLERGY BABYCARE\SENSITIVITY TO CHEMICALS: VITAMINS, MEDICINES, TOOTHPASTE AND VACCINATIONS

Take care with anything that a potentially sensitive baby ingests, absorbs or swallows. Only use medicines or vitamin supplements if your doctor considers them absolutely essential, and use low-allergen versions where possible. Medicines, such as anti-histamines, can be prescribed in low-sugar syrups without colourants. Some vitamin supplements are tolerated well by some highly sensitive babies [...]

PETS AND OTHER ANIMALS: WHAT CAUSES ALLERGY PROBLEMS?

Animals, birds and domestic pets are frequent causes of allergy. Specialist doctors estimate that up to a third of people with allergies are sensitive to pets”, birds and other animals. The symptoms arising are those of true allergy, especially nasal and breathing symptoms, itchy eyes, eczema and dermatitis. Some people who come into close contact [...]

SEX THERAPY FOR WOMEN: HOW TO HELP YOURSELF (AS YOU HELP YOUR PARTNER)

Potency isn’t just a man’s issue. When your partner’s erection is absent you feel the loss as much as your partner. One of the first ways you may react to your lover’s trouble with erections is to doubt yourself and your relationship. You might feel lonely, isolated and deprived of much-wanted physical and emotional attention. [...]

REIGNITING YOUR SEX LIFE: GET BACK IN TOUCH

The following exercises will allow you to explore the erotic sensation of your skin and that of your partner. Taking the time you need and want, these movements can promote closeness and trust. Done with gentle, caring hands, these massages can lead to sex. But don’t regard them as foreplay. Rather, they should be performed [...]

THE VIRILITY-ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM THE ANTIOXIDANT EFFECT

Recent research from the University of Maryland Medical Center shows how antioxidants work. After being fed one high-fat (50 grams of fat) breakfast, the blood vessel function of twenty healthy hospital employees between the ages of twenty and fifty-four was found to be impaired for as long as four hours. Blood flow had been significantly [...]

THE VIEILITY SOLUTION: WOMEN AND THE “OTHER” PILL

When birth control pills became widely available, they sent a ripple effect throughout our society. For the first time, women could not only reliably avoid the risk of pregnancy, they had, in essence, the freedom that men had to have sex whenever they wanted it. The miracle they had dreamed about didn’t cause a disruption [...]

IMPOTENCE: WHERE THERE’S SMOKE, THERE’S NO FIRE

Cigarettes have long been part of the mystique of romance and sexuality—look at Bogart and Bacall curling gray smoke from their lips as they speak seductively to one another—but in reality smoking can make sex go up in smoke. There is much scientific evidence that smoking can lead to hardening of the arteries—including arteries that [...]