Health, Man Health, Woman HealthNovember 12, 2005 7:40 am

Who among us haven’t bolted straight up in the night, awakened by a sudden and terrible burning sensation in the pit of your stomach? Whether you indulged in some overly spicy chili, or overdid it on those late-night leftovers, these quick heartburn remedies can soothe your fiery stomach and help you get back to a good night’s sleep!

1. The first thing you’ll want to do when you’re awakened by heartburn pain, is to stand up. This helps keep the acid at bay while you go and get a full glass of cool water.

2. Drink the whole glass of water, and follow it with a mixture of 1 tablespoon of baking soda, and half a glass of water. Be careful though, if you have high blood pressure or are pregnant, this can cause water retention or increase your blood pressure.

3. DON’T drink milk or suck on mints to relieve heartburn. Milk might feel nice and cool going down, but it actually contains fats and proteins that cause your stomach to secrete MORE acid, and make your heartburn even worse! Mints, while they may feel soothing, actually relaxes the small valve between your esophagus and stomach, whose purpose it is to actually KEEP acid at bay! When this valve is relaxed, more acid can seep up and aggravate heartburn symptoms!

4. This is going to sound strange, but downing a teaspoon of apple cider vinegar can help soothe heartburn immediately! Why give your stomach MORE acid when it already seems to have enough, you ask? Sometimes, heartburn is caused as a result of too little acid, and vinegar helps quell indigestion by giving your stomach a little extra “juice” (no pun intended!) to do its job!

5. Certain foods can cause nighttime heartburn, including: soda or beverages with caffeine (which you shouldn’t drink before bed anyway!), alcohol, garlic, chocolate (sorry), citrus fruits, tomatoes and tomato-based products. Avoiding these types of food can help ease your indigestion if you frequently find yourself awakened with that intolerable burning!

6. Eating a banana each day works as an antacid to soothe heartburn. If you’re already stricken with indigestion, eating pineapple or papaya (or drinking the juice) can help settle your stomach naturally. Some people also claim that eating a teaspoon of mustard (ick!) can work immediately.

7. Avoid eating at least two hours before you go to sleep. Those late night snacks can keep your stomach busy all night and prevent you from easing into a deep, restful sleep. You may also find that sleeping on your left side or sleeping at a somewhat upright angle can keep acid down where it belongs.

If you are awakened by heartburn on a regular basis, or the pain is severe, or if you have heartburn with vomiting, you should consult your doctor immediately, as it may be a sign of a more serious condition… such as an ulcer. Above all, avoid spicy, fatty and caffeine-containing foods before bed, and you should be able to drift off to sleep pretty easily.

Pleasant dreams!

Health, Man Health, Woman HealthSeptember 7, 2005 5:41 am

Varicose veins are generally the result of slow blood flow through the veins of the legs. The veins gradually stretch and become ugly. Fluid leaking through the capillaries results in swelling of the lower legs and ankles and further aggravates the problems with blood flow.

In time, additional veins develop, but these actually aggravate the problem of slow flow.

Lack of exercise and prolonged standing (without support hose or stockings) are the major culprits. Pregnancy is also a risk factor.After varicose veins have been present for awhile, walking and other exercises is not as helpful as it would have been earlier. However, walking and exercising can still be helpful in the prevention of additional veins, but early prevention is the best.

Smoking can contribute in an additional way to development of blood clots. Overweight and obesity are substancial contributing factors in most cases because the extra weight requires a larger blood flow and puts pressure on the soft-walled veins.

The larger blood flow and increased pressure prevent efficient return of the blood toward the heart.

For prevention, lose some weight, walk, exercise, and wear support hose or stockings.

Health, Man Health, Woman Health, Truth That Stirs You 5:33 am

Most of us know that goats will eat just about anything they can get into their mouths. No matter if it’s tin, wood, stone, plastic or bone. Goats have been known to eat just about anything.

Yet there is another population of goats which very few are aware of. The Government has confirmed their existence. Their daily diet is virtually a ritual whereas it starts out the same each day. Can you imagine each morning ingesting talcum powder, sugar, whey, 200 proof alcohol, wax, shellac, grease, and dehydrogenated animal fat?

Do you find that to be a strange diet ritual? Well the two legged goats we are referring to just happen to be human beings, more specifically…people who start their day with vitamin pills. You could very well be one of these creatures yourself.

Stay with us here and you’ll better understand what we’re talking about. First, we are going to introduce you to how a pill, tablet, or caplet is made. You see, makers of pills, tablets, or caplets have standard sized molds for the precise size of their pill. It does not matter what the active ingredients are because the manufacturer will add fillers, binders, waxes, and other excipients to take up the space. A filler does nothing more than take up volume and some of the more common fillers are talcum powder, sugar, whey, and yeast.

If a company claims it does not use any of these common fillers, then they surely use dehydrogenated animal fat. They have to have something to fill up the space within the mold. Also they must use wax or some kind of binders to make the components stick together when they squeeze everything to make the pill.

The molds must be sprayed with a releasing agent which is another type of wax or grease to allow the pills to drop out of the mold. Some tablets are coated with a shiny coating. This is normally shellac…the same as used on wood floors and boats! It is a mixture of shellac and 200 proof alcohol that makes time released capsules. There is a little bit of active ingredients and fillers coated with the shellac/alcohol mixture. The percentage of alcohol controls the time the pill takes to dissolve in the stomach.

Normal tablets must meet U.S. Pharmaceutical standards here or European standards in Europe. Pharmaceutical standards means tablets must dissolve within 15 to 30 minutes once in your stomach.

To test your tablets, place white vinegar in a dish or glass and drop in your pill. Check periodically. It should dissolve within 15 to 30 minutes to meet U.S.P. standards. If it doesn;t, then you are paying a lot of money for talcum powder! You can keep this test up for 45 to 60 minutes, but if the pill is not dissolved by then, it can’t possibly generate any benefit to your body.

WHAT ARE BY-PRODUCTS?

By-products are the second-hand substances derived from an original product. Brewers’s Yeast is a leftover in the making of beer… as yeast is used to ferment the hops. Many companies take these secondary products, put them in a white plastic bottle with some other ingredients like caffine and label it “chelated” or “complex B vitamins” or “brain foods” or “power foods” or something else –but what they really are is just waste products with a nutritional value.

Sure, they list the percentages of each component they can find, but guess what? Dirt is high in mineral content! Would you normally pay to consume dirt? It’s hard to understand why some people will pay a high price for second-hand products.

WHAT ARE AMINO ACIDS?

There are more than 27 amino acids which are all found in the body. The most important ones to dieters are: Ornithine; Arginine; Phenylalanine; Glycine; and Lysine. These are natural appetite suppressants. These tell your brain that you have eaten and do not need more food. It takes the human body 20 minutes from the first mouthful to the stomach to know it is full. So if you use amino acids 20 to 30 minutes before eating, you start the system ahead of time.

Also, when amino acids are mixed with chromium, their impact is increased two to three times. If you add flavor to them, the the set point in the brain senses something delicious, like chocolate, and your brain says you have had something to eat.

Speaking of minerals, the body needs minerals in trace form each day. But with cold, flu, and sore throats, the mineral zinc has been shown to kill the rhino virus (common cold) on contact.

WHAT ABOUT FOOD IRRADIATION?

You may not know it but some of the foods you eat are subjected to 300,000 rads of irradiation (X-rays) up to 60 minutes in continuing bombardment. They worry about exposing you to a few rads at the dentist and make you wear a lead vest, but you are exposed to much more when you eat poultry, beef, pork, eggs, vegetables, and fruits.

They irradiate (X-ray) foods so they won’t spoil in the stores since sulfates are no longer allowed. Food can sit in the salad bar for up to a week without turning brown because all the nutrients have been killed or greatly reduced.

Of the many theories on the reasons for obesity, one is that our foods are being so over processed that they have their nutrient value. Much of our food intake is through processed (frozen, canned, cooked, irradiated, and otherwise nutritionally depleted foods).

Many years ago, 50,000 rads of irradiation was used on pork. Today, up to 300,000 rads are being used on chicken, fish, red meat, eggs, fruits, and vegetables. Tests show that when navel oranges received 50,000 rads, their Vitamin C content was reduced by 25%. To the best of our knowledge, the extent of the 300,000 rads depletion of nutrients on vegetables and fruits has not been discovered, nor tested. Therefore, the depleted nutrients food theory is: Our bodies demand nutrients, not just bulk.

We are getting fewer nutrients from our food so that our bodies, in search of nutrients, demand more food. Diminished nutrients, coupled with poorly balanced diets, leave us tired, run down, stressed out, and find us overeating just to compensate.

So what do you do? Luckily, there is now a revolutionary way to take your vitamins, minerals and other nutritional supplements - through oral spray. Orals sprays are the fastest, most effective and convenient way to get daily dose of vitamins, minerals and other nutritional supplements.

And, for the people that do not take vitamins simply because they can not or do not like to swallow pills…that loss could have a negative effect on one’s health.

Oral Sprays have a non-toxic aerosol (spray) pump which delivers the purest form of vitamins, minerals, herbs and other nutritional supplements directly into the body. When sprayed into the mouth, micro-sized beads or droplets are sprayed onto the tissue surface of the lining in the mouth and swallowed. This process allows the nutrients to work within seconds without causing any extra stress to the organs.

The sprays do not contain fillers or binders, contrary to the make-up of pills. As you already know, when you take pills, you are ingesting unwanted and unhealthy materials. Having a spray that does not contain binders and fillers means you are getting the purest form of vitamins, minerals, and other nutritional supplements available. The sprays bypass the solubility and asorption problems accompanied by traditional nutritional supplements.

Oral spray is the most effective, allowing your body to utilize all the necessary nutrients. Pills, which have a very low digestion rate, use binding agents to hold the ingredients together.

Through oral spray, nutrients go into the bloodstream and then into the cells within a matter of minutes. In fact, tests from Massachusetts General Hospital have shown higher blood concentrations of insulin when taken by oral application. Even by injection, insulin takes 30 minutes longer to reach the same blood levels.

Not only is oral spray more convenient, it also allows those with irritable bowel syndrome, hiatal hernias and diverticulitis to take nutrients that have irritated them in pill, tablet or capsule form.

AN AMAZING BREAKTHROUGH!

Age is a major factor in asorption, because as we age, it becomes impossible for the body to have adequate uptake. Although asorption problems exist in younger people, persons over 30 are more likely to have asorption problems. The unfortunate thing is that as we get older, digestive problems tend to increase, while at the same time, proper asorption becomes even more important.

Age presents a problem that dramatically increases the “odds” against us in the gamble for optimum nutrition. There is now an easy and convenient way to supplement your nutritional needs. Spray vitamins , using the patent protected, oral spray delivery method, now makes it easy for you to get what your body needs, when it needs it.

This unique delivery system is supported by the prestigious Physicians’ Desk Reference for Non-Prescription Drugs & Dietary Supplements, as the best way to achieve the nutritional supplement levels your body demands.

ADVANTAGES:

Besides the obvious health advantages, there are several other advantages to oral sprays. When travelling or throughout a busy day, you don’t have to worry about carrying around a variety of pills. Oral sprays come in small containers, which make them easy to keep in your pocket, purse, or briefcase. You can quickly and conveniently spray while driving, waiting in line, talking on the phone, or about any other time you have just one free hand.

Oral Spray offers a clear alternative to taking vitamins and supplements in pill form. The body absorbs nutrients faster, and more effectively, giving your body what it needs, when it needs it.

According to the Physician’s Desk Reference…When taking Pills…less than 25% of the healthy ingredients reach your bloodstream; Gel/Capsule…less than 40%; Transdermal Patch…less than 60%; Sublingual Liquid…less than 70%; Intra-muscular Injection…less than 90%; Intra-Oral Spray… An amazing 95% to 98% of the healthy ingredients reach your bloodstream and cells.

Lets face it, anytime you aren’t using oral sprays…you’re literally flushing money down the toilet. If you’re tired of throwing away money and paying for waste that doesn’t do you any good, then Click Here for a great source of Oral Spay products and more valuable information.