Health

Heart attacks are frightening. If you’ve ever had one or witnessed one, it’s not something you want to experience ever again. One reason heart attacks are so scary is that they make us feel fragile, as if we have no control, no ability to stop them.

Ask any parent who has a child who is allegeric to peanuts how difficult their live has become.  Food shopping can take hours because every food label must be read it and studied to make sure it contains no traces of peanuts.

You found out you are pregnant.  Never has it been more crucial to eat well.  Not eating well during your pregnancy can increase your risk of complications.  Eating well has never been easier during pregnancy than it is now.   

Do you find yourself suddenly feeling queasy at the thought of the left over pasta that you could not get enough of the other night?  Food aversions are a normal part of pregnancy and the flip side to food cravings. 

Chinese restaurant syndrome is a medically recognized syndrome typified by tin­gling and weakness around the face, temple, upper back, neck, and arms, accompa­nied by flushing of the skin and warmth. In some people, sensations of heart palpitations, intense thirst, anxiety, nausea, and vomiting may occur.

It is Murphy’s law that just when you are able to get food into your body without having it come back up, that you suddenly find you can not get the food out of your body.  Nearly half of all the women who are pregnant suffer from constipation during pregnancy.

Vitamin C performs many functions that may offer protection against cancer, includ­ing acting as an antioxidant and protecting cellular structures (including DNA) from damage.

Population-based epidemiological studies clearly demonstrate a strong inverse cor­relation between dietary carotene intake and a variety of cancers involving epithelial tissues (lung, skin, uterus, cervix, gastrointestinal tract, etcetera).