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		<title>Kidney Stones home treatments &#8211; Simple but Effective Cures.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 22:46:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Dave Johnston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Whats worse is when you dont have the money for a dear treatment. Nonetheless , early detection of kidney stones will allow early treatment by applying easy, yet cheap kidney stone home-made treatments. Besides, the majority of the cures listed below will only need your resolution and self- discipline to be handy. Homemade remedies [...]]]></description>
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<P>Whats worse is when you dont have the money for a dear treatment. Nonetheless , early detection of kidney stones will allow early treatment by applying easy, yet cheap kidney stone home-made treatments. </P><br />
<P>Besides, the majority of the cures listed below will only need your resolution and self- discipline to be handy. Homemade remedies For Treating Kidney Stones : Increase your consumption of bran and oats bran and oats naturally contain lots of fiber. High fiber foods like bran and oats then can help in reducing oxalate levels by binding with these excesses and carries them out of the body. It is suggested that your consumption shouldn&#8217;t surpass more than two grams a day. </P><br />
<P>The over-consumption of these products causes the pH level in your blood to become really acidic. You want to get masses of calcium and magnesium from healthy sources like organic, plant-based vitamins. You also have to beef up your diet with varied sea plants, which are naturally alkaline. It is suggested that your consumption shouldn&#8217;t surpass more than two grams a day. These are only some of the cures you can simply follow. Rather than spending so much cash on expensive treatments, it&#8217;s way better to avoid having kidney stone issues by watching these kidney stone home cures.</P><br />
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		<title>The way to Monitor and Deal Blood Pressure.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:08:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Dave Johnston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; This has occurred due to the illegal way of living of these days. These appear in number in the ladies than in the men. The kidney seed is the illness in which shingle occur in the kidneys. These shingle was the aggregates of the, some not related particles and some barren materials from the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&nbsp; This has occurred due to the illegal way of living of these days. These appear in number in the ladies than in the men. The kidney seed is the illness in which shingle occur in the kidneys. These shingle was the aggregates of the, some not related particles and some barren materials from the body and over cells. It&#8217;s vital the kidney pebbles be sensed during the opening stages only. The girls are far more aware to them than then men are. The frequent indication of the kidney sand contains the grief the worse stomach in the menstruation.<br />
<P>But this bind is terribly mild and then the majority of the period it rest unnoticed. The majority with an aneroid monitor to determine their blood pressure. It has got a dial gauge and your blood pressure is read by a pointer. You inflate the cuff by hand employing a rubber bulb. </P><br />
<P>With a digital monitor you can select a manual cuff or an automated one. You need to pick the one you are way more snug using. Digital monitors are the more popular blood pressure monitoring devices because they&#8217;re automated. Unlike the pointer on an aneroid gizmo the digital device shows your numbers on a screen. This would make it simpler to make a record of your blood pressure readings. The less confusing it is by using, the more advantageous it is going to be. </P><br />
<P>It&#8217;s going to be easier by monitoring from home in addition to having regular check-ups at your physician visits. Infrequently these medicines are required together with a regular healthy exercise and diet to be better. You are never alone when it comes down to coping with your blood pressure and other health worries. But if simultaneously they experience some urinary harms as ache during pissing, change in incline of piss, blood in piss, or disorders and other symptoms as darkness, fever queasiness or illness and if no other reason is located for these then this might be the logic. Besides this melting, the stones with radiations is also used as another sense for the kidney stone removal.</P><!-- start Vibrant Media IntelliTXT script section --><br />
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		<title>Homemade remedies For Kidney Stones &#8211; Kidney Stones Treatment.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:36:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Dave Johnston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;Do you see blood in your urine? Do you are feeling extremely serious discomfort in your stomach, groin or sides? If your answer&#8217;s yes, then see your physician because you could have kidney stones. Research has demonstrated that one in each twenty individuals develop kidney stone ( s ) at some point in their lives. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&nbsp;Do you see blood in your urine? Do you are feeling extremely serious discomfort in your stomach, groin or sides? If your answer&#8217;s yes, then see your physician because you could have kidney stones.<br />
<P>Research has demonstrated that one in each twenty individuals develop kidney stone ( s ) at some point in their lives. The surgeon takes away the stone ( s ) by cutting the side or belly of the patient so as to reach the kidneys. The surgeon places a narrow telescope into the patients kidney thru an incision in the back of the patient. </P><br />
<P>The surgeon then takes away the stone ( lithotomy ) or breaks it up and then takes away the split up stones ( lithotripsy ). You will feel fine and show no outward symptoms, but damage is slowly amassing within your body. Reducing blood pressure levels straight away and maintaining healthy numbers is the key to being able to avoid them. Kidney Failure &#8211; Because they filter and clean the blood and are stuffed with small arteries, the kidneys are very exposed to hypertension. Kidney failure is a leading reason for untimely death among raised blood pressure sufferers and diabetes patients. </P><br />
<P>Coronary coronary disease &#8211; When buildup forms on the veins leading into the heart and blood flow is reduced, it is commonly known as coronary coronary disease. When these blockages build to a point where blood flow is seriously impeded, it ends up in a cardiac arrest. * homemade treatments for kidney stones Most renal calculi that are about 5mm to 10mm customarily pass all alone because research has proven that 1 or 2 out of each 10 kidney stones need medical aid. It takes almost one to 3 weeks for renal calculi to pass after using home cures. </P><br />
<P>* Vitamin additions : Taking vitamin An and B6 supplement will certainly stop the formation of renal calculi and treat kidney stones permanently, that is, if it is taken for a few months. * Pomegranates : Seeds of pomegranates ( both sweet and sour ) have proved useful in treating renal calculi.</P><!-- start Vibrant Media IntelliTXT script section --><br />
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		<title>Cancer &#8211; A Natural Methodology For Preventing and Curing Cancer.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:35:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Dave Johnston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;Taking and following some categorical measures will help you control the health condition efficiently. The steps are typically simple to effect helping looking for results in almost no time. Sea food like herring, whitebait, sardines, mackerels and crabs should additionally be kept off the menu. Just attempt to include short walks in your daily running [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&nbsp;Taking and following some categorical measures will help you control the health condition efficiently. The steps are typically simple to effect helping looking for results in almost no time.<br />
<P>Sea food like herring, whitebait, sardines, mackerels and crabs should additionally be kept off the menu. Just attempt to include short walks in your daily running order. Cancer is the second leading reason for death in the U. S. but survival rates are shaping up for many sorts of cancer due to enhancements in cancer screening and early cancer treatment. Being diagnosed as having cancer is among the most devastating words you could ever hear. </P><br />
<P>What was to be a routine Bone Density Scan turned out to bare something suspicious inside my body. I was referred to the Mayonnaise Hospital in Rochester, MN where I underwent a nephretomy. And now what are examples of the treatments for cancer? Lots of time it is surgery and then chemo or radiation. </P><br />
<P>Definitely some individuals have surgery and that&#8217;s the end of their cancer. Some have chemo and radiation therapy and they improve, but lots of them don&#8217;t. I had already stopped smoking ten years previous and I went from one cocktail a day to one each three or four months.</P><br />
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		<title>Hypertension Diet &#8211; Foods To Be Avoided if you&#8217;re on This Diet.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Dave Johnston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Raised blood pressure is a standard thing among a lot of folks. So to control your pressure level you want an elevated blood pressure diet. If you consume alcohol when you have particularly high blood pressures it is highly unhealthy and can even lead to a stroke. This in turn will raise the blood pressure [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Raised blood pressure is a standard thing among a lot of folks. So to control your pressure level you want an elevated blood pressure diet. </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">If you consume alcohol when you have particularly high blood pressures it is highly unhealthy and can even lead to a stroke. This in turn will raise the blood pressure lots more and therefore will emerge problems.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">It may not affect some individuals while it&#8217;d just have extremely dangerous effects on the others. Your kidneys play a very important part of your daily bodily function. Without it, you cant clean your blood and thus you are at the mercy of diabetes, heart sicknesses, cancer, gout, and other major metabolic sicknesses. That is, the Chinese say a great kidney is the key to a goof standard of living and health.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Through history they developed paths to clean the kidneys, because they believed the kidneys were extraordinarily dirty thanks to the buildup wastes when cleaning up blood.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">You can get these from your chinese doctor or herbal practitioner and are simply obtainable. You can buy them from your local Chinese food store or maybe good tea homes. This isn&#8217;t just tea healthy for your kidneys, this tea has an excellent taste to it.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Dandelion helps to reduce uric acid which increased uric acid is scientifically known to build stones and scarring in the kidneys. To do a kidney massage, you first have to find your kidneys. Your kidneys should be roughly 3 inches above your pelvis on your back.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">To massage it, you have got to cup your hand like you are holding water and clap it around your back. It should make a clapping noise like air trapping and this is going to help vibrate your kidneys. Do this for five mins a day and you can finish up with healthy kidneys.</p>
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		<dc:creator>Robert Dave Johnston</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">We&#8217;re a nation of insomniacs desperate for a decent night&#8217;s sleep. But what if sleeping pills are doing more than just knocking us out?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Last winter, Tiger Woods and his harem of honeys titillated the nation with so many sordid stories that the oddest of them all was nearly overlooked: Woods&#8217;s rumored recreational use of the prescription sleep medication Ambien.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">You could almost hear the collective &#8220;Huh?&#8221; as people tried to imagine how a widely prescribed (and seemingly benign) insomnia drug could produce an aphrodisiacal haze ideal for crazy sex romps.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Of course, Woods isn&#8217;t the only celebrity whose pill-popping has publicized Ambien in ways its designers never intended. In 2006, U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy blamed his disorientation on the drug after he smashed his Mustang into a security barrier near the Capitol building.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Lindsay Lohan cites Ambien as the trigger for her first stint in rehab&#8211;this after she took it, fell asleep on the floor next to a hotel bathtub, and woke only when the water overflowed.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Ambien (generic name zolpidem tartrate) was the first of a revolutionary class of sleeping pills that today includes Sonata (zaleplon), Lunesta (eszopiclone), and Ambien CR (an extended-release formulation). They&#8217;ve been nicknamed &#8220;Z drugs&#8221;&#8211;partly because of their ability to induce z&#8217;s, and partly because of the ubiquity of z&#8217;s in their generic names.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">To marketers and many sleep researchers, these drugs deserve the hype. Boosters maintain that they&#8217;re a quantum leap forward in the medical treatment of insomnia&#8211;potent, yet with fewer side effects even after people take them for a long time.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">But to a growing cadre of critics, the once-bright halo over Z drugs is quickly corroding. On March 6, 2006, <a href="http://blog.fitnessthroughfasting.com/tag/new-york/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with New York">New York</a> attorney Susan Chana Lask filed a class-action lawsuit against Ambien&#8217;s maker, the French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi-aventis.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The complaint alleged that more than 1,000 people suffered injury or damage as a direct result of their Ambien use, and included charges that the company failed to &#8220;adequately and sufficiently&#8221; warn doctors, patients, and the public about the drug&#8217;s side effects.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">It also detailed nightmare stories of people sleep-driving, gorging themselves on food, and even waking up in jail with no memory of what had happened. Lask coined a name for these people: Ambien zombies.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The lawsuit was withdrawn a little over a year later after the FDA requested new warnings about the potential for what it called &#8220;complex sleep-related behaviors.&#8221; The agency also called for a warning about another potentially lethal side effect: anaphylaxis, a severe allergic reaction that could swell the tongue and throat, obstructing the user&#8217;s airway.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">So far at least, I have managed to avoid asphyxiation. As for Ambien zombiehood, that&#8217;s a different story.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I took my first Ambien in 1995 as a remedy for months of nightly insomnia. I&#8217;d be lying if I said I didn&#8217;t love this drug from the get-go.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">But now, after 15 years of on-and-off use, I&#8217;d be lying if I said I don&#8217;t hate it, too.</p>
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		<title>Your Guns, Reloaded</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Dave Johnston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your arms are too small. Or at least you feel that they are. But chances are it&#8217;s not because you&#8217;re neglecting those muscles. In 15 years of training clients, I&#8217;ve yet to come across a would-be arms dealer who hasn&#8217;t tried every biceps curl and triceps extension in the book. So what&#8217;s the problem? Your [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">Your arms are too small. Or at least you feel that they are. But chances are it&#8217;s not because you&#8217;re neglecting those muscles. In 15 years of training clients, I&#8217;ve yet to come across a would-be arms dealer who hasn&#8217;t tried every biceps curl and triceps extension in the book.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">So what&#8217;s the problem? Your upper back. And your core. And your glutes. (Yes, butthead, your glutes.) When those muscles are weaker than they should be, they act like brakes on the size and strength of everything else. Especially your arms.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The problem is simple to correct, as long as you&#8217;re willing to invest time doing the Big Arms Workout featured on this month&#8217;s poster. In 4 weeks, you can build new muscle from head to toe, and put yourself back in the arms race.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Step 1: Call in the reinforcements</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Physiology 101: Your biceps bend your arms, and you work them with curls. You probably figured this out as a kid when Dad told you to &#8220;make a muscle&#8221; for one of those photos parents use as blackmail for when their sons start dating. Chances are you did a curl the first time you ever picked up a dumbbell, and you&#8217;ve been doing them ever since. Now ask yourself: When&#8217;s the last time I increased the weight I use on my arm exercises?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Physiology 201: If you want your arms to grow, you need to create overload and challenge them with progressively heavier weights. They&#8217;ll adapt by growing bigger and stronger. Since they aren&#8217;t receiving that overload from curls, you need to recruit bigger muscles to help them grow in tandem.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Start with the chinup. This move forces you to lift your entire body &#8212; several times the amount of weight you could curl &#8212; on each repetition. Your lats, which are the fan-shaped middle-back muscles that run from your armpits to your spine, do a good deal of the work. But your biceps are more than just bystanders. They&#8217;re working as hard as they can. Without their help, you couldn&#8217;t do a single rep.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Target your triceps the same way. Do bodyweight dips or close-grip bench presses with a loaded barbell. You&#8217;ll be able to lift multiples of the weight you use for extensions.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Make these heavy, multimuscle exercises the focus of your upper-body training. After you&#8217;ve performed them, add curls and extensions to give your arms some extra oomph.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Step 2: Restore your core</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Next time you hit the gym, try this test: Go to the triceps pushdown station, select the heaviest weight you can use for 10 reps, and do a set. Rest a few minutes, and then repeat the set . . .standing on one leg. You won&#8217;t be able to knock off 10 reps, and the reason is obvious. Your triceps didn&#8217;t become weaker; they simply lost some of their support base. A weak or unstable core limits how efficiently your central nervous system controls your muscles; this can raise your injury risk.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">So even though your triceps aren&#8217;t part of your core, their performance is affected by it. A weaker or less balanced base of support limits the strength and power your arm muscles can generate, while a stronger core enables all your muscles to work harder, longer, and more productively. That&#8217;s why the exercises in the poster workout challenge and strengthen your core as well. It&#8217;s a two-for-one bargain: You develop better abs while creating the base that allows you to build bigger arms.</p>
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		<title>Why Jeremy Renner Swam with Sharks</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:51:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Dave Johnston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was Jeremy Renner&#8217;s idea to come here, to a piano bar called Piano Bar, the kind of joint where he can swill a Ketel One and croon some Billy Joel and, if it so happens, go a little overboard without landing on TMZ. Hollywood is lurking just outside&#8211;both the newly dolled-up Hollywood and the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 170px"><img style="border: 3px solid black; margin: 2px;" src="http://cdn.menshealth.com/media/MensHealth/call-the-shots.jpg" alt="" width="160" height="150" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Jeremy Renner has spent the past decade playing complex and unpredictable characters--a serial killer, a neo- Nazi--the most celebrated of them being the hope-to-die bomb disposal specialist of The Hurt Locker.</p></div>
<p style="text-align: justify;">It was Jeremy Renner&#8217;s idea to come here, to a piano bar called Piano Bar, the kind of joint where he can swill a Ketel One and croon some Billy Joel and, if it so happens, go a little overboard without landing on TMZ.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Hollywood is lurking just outside&#8211;both the newly dolled-up Hollywood and the perpetually seedy version&#8211;but no eyes are on him at Piano Bar. It has the feel of a neighborhood saloon, dark, bluesy, cheap, perfect for a man unwilling to be anything but himself. &#8220;It&#8217;s very anti-Hollywood here,&#8221; says Renner, steering me to the nearly deserted patio.&#8221;If we were somewhere where there&#8217;s, like, paparazzi, you&#8217;d be in the paper&#8221;&#8211; and here he predicts how a photo of us would be spun&#8211;&#8221;We&#8217;re f&#8211;king!&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I laugh at the absurdity of the leap, but we both know the Web is swirling with sightings and speculation about his private life, all juvenile stuff. The dude is 39, not some flavor-of-the-month pretty boy. He has spent the past decade playing complex and unpredictable characters&#8211;a serial killer, a neo- Nazi&#8211;the most celebrated of them being the hope-to-die bomb disposal specialist of The Hurt Locker.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This month he toys with expectations again in The Town, a film directed by Ben Affleck in which Renner plays a manic yet sensitive bank robber in Boston&#8217;s working-class Irish quarter. &#8220;I&#8217;ve worked so hard to be respected,&#8221; says the Oscar nominee, who has the slightly elastic face and roguish eyes of Malcolm McDowell in A Clockwork Orange. &#8220;I don&#8217;t need some tabloid running off with something just because I got drunk some night and showed my ass to the bartender.&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">&#8220;Renner is the one to laugh now. Fame is new, a mystery still. Image is not a worry he has ever lost sleep over. &#8220;I&#8217;m just getting to learn it, brother,&#8221; he says. &#8220;I&#8217;m learning as I go.&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The kid is 16, a product of Modesto&#8211;the safe, suffocating San Joaquin Valley town that inspired the setting for American Graffiti&#8211;and his mother, on her second of three husbands, enlists him as her Lamaze coach.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">He has to come straight from soccer practice, grass stains on his knees, and sit with her at the Y, learning to breathe in unison. &#8220;At the time, it was like, &#8216;Oh my God, this sucks,&#8217; &#8221; says Renner, the oldest of five. &#8220;&#8216;Why am I watching videos of these vaginas squirting out all this fluid?&#8217; It was terrifying.&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Years would pass before the traumatized adolescent could see the beauty in birth. Given the choice, he would have opted to remain in the dark about episiotomies a bit longer. But the experience of learning the hard way&#8211;enduring, finding value in sacrifice&#8211;offered lessons that he would apply many times over. &#8220;What a gift I was given,&#8221; he says.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Renner carried those lessons to Modesto Junior College, where he took his first theater class. &#8220;Nineteen years of emotional repression,&#8221; as he is fond of saying, came pouring out on the stage, a catharsis he knew was worth repeating.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">He was nudged by his father, a Cal State administrator with a background in theosophy, and then by esteemed acting coach Julie Ariola. They both taught him that self-awareness is more important to success than any single skill.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">&#8220;If you don&#8217;t know who you are, how the hell are you going to be able to&#8230;?&#8221; Renner leaves the thought unfinished, but it would be easy to fill in the blank with a million possibilities, most of them more profound than becoming a movie star. &#8220;So I made a very conscious decision to be fearless, to live a life of fear-freeness. I decided to do something every day I was afraid of.&#8221; Like?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">&#8220;I swam with sharks,&#8221; he says, recounting a scuba trip off California&#8217;s southern coast. &#8220;I was terrified of sharks and I&#8217;m still terrified of sharks, but at least I was taking action&#8211;and not being squelched by something I don&#8217;t know about.&#8221;</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:15:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Look at how you&#8217;re shedding to figure out why—and what to do about it 1. Sudden Hair Loss The trigger is emotional or physical trauma. The shock can cause telogen effluvium, a condition that makes hair stop growing and fall out. &#8220;Imagine going bald overnight,&#8221; says Jessie Cheung, M.D., an assistant professor of dermatology at [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">Look at how you&#8217;re shedding to figure out why—and what to do about it <strong><br />
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>1. Sudden Hair Loss</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The trigger is emotional or physical trauma. The shock can cause telogen effluvium, a condition that makes hair stop growing and fall out. &#8220;Imagine going bald overnight,&#8221; says Jessie Cheung, M.D., an assistant professor of dermatology at New York University school of medicine. As your mind and body recover, so too will your hairline.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>2. Steady Hair Loss</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Hair follicles demand a steady infusion of nutrients to sustain rapid growth. If you&#8217;re shedding more than usual for 2 or 3 months straight, look at your diet: Too little iron, biotin, or zinc can send hair into starvation mode. To restore those nutrients, eat more broccoli, spinach, and eggs. Also, pop a daily multivitamin, such as Centrum.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>3. A Round, Smooth Patch</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">A silver-dollar-size bare spot signals alopecia areata. The catalyst is still unknown, but stress and genetics are likely culprits, says Kevin McElwee, Ph.D., an assistant professor of dermatology at the University of British Columbia. See a dermatologist for corticosteroid injections to ease the inflammation causing your hair to hibernate.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>4. A Round, Scaly Patch</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">You probably have tinea capitis, a fungal infection. (Think athlete&#8217;s foot of the head.) Your body battles back with a wave of white blood cells that harm hair follicles. Try an over-the-counter antifungal shampoo, such as Nizoral. If that doesn&#8217;t work, ask for a prescription antifungal medication, such as Lamisil.</p>
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		<title>Avoid the Afternoon Crash</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> <IMG src="http://blog.fitnessthroughfasting.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/wpid-spacer1.gif" width=1 height=55> You&#8217;re so predictable. Every day, you run out of steam, lose juice, or otherwise hit the wall at nearly the exact same times.</P>How do we know? Because it happens to everyone. Okay, maybe not to Kelly Ripa, but to everyone else. In fact, it&#8217;s like clockwork, which actually makes sense, because your body clock is part of the problem &#8212; when your internal chronometer is out of whack, you feel wiped out. There are other reasons, too. We detail all of them on these pages, and provide a quick fix &#8212; or at least a work-around &#8212; for each power suck. Consider your energy crisis solved.</P>You would think that if there were one time you&#8217;d feel naturally alert and energized, it would be after 8 hours of resting and recharging. Instead, your mind is mush. Why? Blame a phenomenon called &#8220;sleep inertia.&#8221; When you first awaken, the parts of your brain associated with consciousness &#8212; the thalamus and brain stem &#8212; begin firing right away. But the prefrontal cortex, which handles problem solving and complex thought, is like a cold engine &#8212; it needs time to warm up.</P>&#8220;Sleep inertia can last for up to 2 hours, although it&#8217;s most severe within the first 10 minutes of waking,&#8221; says Kenneth Wright, Ph.D., an assistant professor of integrative physiology at the University of Colorado. Wright and his colleagues discovered just how severe in a new study, which shows that the mental impairment caused by sleep inertia is akin to being intoxicated. Adding to your addled state is the fact that you also have a nearly empty fuel tank. &#8220;Your brain needs a continuous supply of glucose to function optimally,&#8221; says Caroline Mahoney, Ph.D., a research psychologist at the U.S. Army Soldier Center.</P><STRONG>Fill it up.</STRONG> Make your morning meal a bowl of instant oatmeal prepared with skim milk. Tufts University researchers recently found that people who ate one packet of instant oatmeal spiked with 1/2 cup of skim milk received a steady glucose infusion, which increased their alertness all morning and improved their ability to process information. And if you aren&#8217;t already jolting yourself with java, start; a University of Pennsylvania study shows that a dose of caffeine can combat sleep inertia.</P>Just don&#8217;t let a latte replace a real meal. &#8220;It will mask your low blood sugar by temporarily stimulating your brain,&#8221; says Dan Benardot, Ph.D., R.D., an associate professor of nutrition at Georgia State University. &#8220;But you won&#8217;t have done anything to satisfy the need for energy.&#8221;</P>1 p.m. &#8212; The Lunchtime LetdownIf your typical lunch consists of carbs à la starch, then you&#8217;ve experienced this early-afternoon brain drain. That&#8217;s because a high-carbohydrate meal is the surest way to cause your insulin levels to spike &#8212; and your concentration to crash.</P>&#8220;A high insulin response will rapidly take too much sugar out of your blood,&#8221; says Benardot. &#8220;Then your brain doesn&#8217;t have enough of its primary fuel, so you become mentally fatigued.&#8221;</P><STRONG>Order a combo meal.</STRONG> If you can&#8217;t (or won&#8217;t) limit your lunchtime carbohydrate consumption, work in extra fiber to slow your digestion and the release of insulin, says Susan Kleiner, Ph.D., R.D., owner of the consulting firm High Performance Nutrition. For example, if your noon nosh includes a baked potato, make sure you eat the skin, which is dense with a type of fiber called pectin. &#8220;Pectin slows everything down in the gastrointestinal tract,&#8221; says Kleiner.</P>&#8220;When food passes more slowly through the intestines, absorption into the bloodstream proceeds in a more timed-release fashion.&#8221; (More ways to fortify your lunch with fiber.) In those instances when you give in to a binge, snack on grapes or an apple afterward; either fruit will help stabilize your blood sugar, says Benardot.</P><P><STRONG>Go to the next page to learn how to beat the afternoon slump&#8230;</STRONG></P></p>
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