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Many individuals and couples are set in their sexual ways. As in other aspects of life, we may discover something that “works” sexually and then stick with it, perhaps not realizing we are excluding other potentially enjoyable activities. But after a spinal cord injury, certain sexual positions and actions may not be possible because of [...]
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Overprotection often causes more handicap for a disabled child than the underlying health condition itself. Protection of their young is the natural reaction of parents. Even in the absence of disability, parents raising children must tread the fine line between protection and over-protection. This line changes with the age of the child and is challenged [...]
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Open-heart surgery wasn’t part of our medical landscape until the mid-1970s. A brief history lesson reminds us that there are records of such surgery dating to Greece in 400 B.C. The first successful heart operation on a human being didn’t occur until 1896, when a doctor in Frankfurt sutured a heart wound for a young [...]
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“He almost died!” “He stopped breathing and turned blue.” “He swallowed his tongue!” “I almost had a heart attack, I was so upset.” “I just screamed!” “I called the ambulance, but it took them forever to get here.” “I didn’t know what to do!” Remember, more than two-thirds of children (and adults) who have one [...]
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Forty-six-year-old Tony Paolo thought at first that he had the flu. He had been leading an active life, but now he felt tired all the time. He found that he had to go to the bathroom much more often than usual, and he couldn’t seem to quench his thirst, no matter how much fluid he [...]
Like most other B-complex vitamins, pyridoxine is not stored in the human body to any great extent. But even so, a deficiency in this vitamin is extremely rare. It has the following uses: Pyridoxine has a marked effect on the immune system. Its deficiency inhibits the formation of antibodies, decreases the number of T cells, [...]
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Vasculitis (inflammation of blood vessels) is a rare complication of RA which generally affects individuals who have high levels of rheumatoid factor in their blood (the presence and level of rheumatoid factor can be detected by a blood test). Blood vessels may become inflamed when an excessive number of antibodies is being produced by the [...]
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When Cindy K. came to the Carbohydrate Addict’s Center, she told us she was ready to give up on dieting. She had tried to follow to the letter the various dietary instructions she had been given in the past, yet despite her attempts to do “everything right” (as she put it), she had been unable [...]
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What’s an antioxidant? If a free radical is a fire, an antioxidant is a bucket of water. Remember the cosmic problem? Oxygen gives both life anj death? Well, there is a cosmic solution—antioxidants. An antioxidant is any substance that retards or prevents damage as a result of oxygen reactions or oxidation. Oxygen reactions throw off [...]
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Once you have discovered what factors tend to sabotage your weight loss efforts, you will be well on your way to successful weight control. To succeed, however, you must plan for success. By setting goals that are too far in the future or unrealistic for your current lifestyle, you will doom yourself to failure. Do [...]
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