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15 Spectacular tricks to teach your
body...
1.) If you've got an itch
in your throat, scratch your ear. When the
nerves in
the ear get stimulated, they create a reflex in the
throat that
causes a muscle spasm, which cures the
itch.
2.) Having trouble hearing someone at a
party or on the phone? Use your right ear...it's better
at picking up rapid speech. But, the left is
better
at picking up music tones.
3.) If you need to
relieve yourself BADLY, but you're not anywhere near
a bathroom, fantasize about RELATIONS. That
preoccupies your brain and distracts it.
4.)
Next time the doctor's going to give you an injection,
COUGH as the
needle is going in. The cough raises
the level of pressure in your
spinal canal, which
limits the pain sensation as it tries to travel to your
brain.
5.) Clear a stuffed nose or relieve
sinus pressure by pushing your
tongue against the
roof of your mouth...then pressing a finger between your
eyebrows. Repeat that for 20 seconds...it causes the
vomer bone to rock, which loosens your congestion and
clears you up.
6.) If you ate a big meal and
you're feeling full as you go to sleep,
lay on your
left side. That'll keep you from suffering from acid
reflux...it
keeps your stomach lower than your
esophagus, which will help keep stomach acid from
sliding up your throat.
7.) You can stop a
toothache by rubbing ice on the back of your hand,
on the webbed area between your thumb and index
finger. The nerve pathways there stimulate a part of the
brain that blocks pain signals from your mouth.
8.) If you get all messed up on liquor, and the
room starts spinning,
put your hand on something
stable. The reason: Alcohol dilutes the blood in the
part of your ear called the cupula, which regulates
balance. Putting your hand on something stable gives
your brain another reference point, which will help make
the world stop spinning.
9.) Stop a nose bleed
by putting some cotton on your upper gums...right behind
the small dent below your nose...and press against it
hard. Most of the bleeding comes from the cartilage wall
that divides the nose, so pressing there helps get it to
stop.
10.) Nervous? Slow your heart rate down by
blowing on your thumb. The vagus nerve controls your
heart rate, and you can calm it down by breathing.
11.) Need to breathe underwater for a while???
Instead of taking a huge breath, HYPERVENTILATE before
you go under, by taking a bunch of short breaths.
That'll trick your brain into thinking it has more
oxygen, and buy you about 10 extra seconds.
12.)
You can prevent BRAIN FREEZE by pressing your tongue
flat against the roof of your mouth, covering as much
surface area as possible. Brain freeze happens because
the nerves in the roof of your mouth get extremely cold,
so your brain thinks your whole body is cold. It
compensates by overheating. ..which causes your head to
hurt. By warming up the roof of your mouth, you'll chill
your brain and feel better.
13.) If your hand
falls asleep, rock your head from side to side.
That'll wake your hand or arm up in less than a
minute. Your hand falls asleep because of the nerves in
your neck compressing. ..so loosening your neck is the
cure. If your foot falls asleep, that's governed by
nerves lower in the body, so you need to stand up and
walk around.
14.) Finally, this one's totally
USELESS, but a nice trick. Have
someone stick their
arm out to the side, straight, palm down. Press down on
his wrist with two fingers. He'll resist, and his arm
will stay horizontal. Then, have him put his foot on a
surface that's half an inch off the ground, like a stack
of magazines, and do the trick again. Because his spine
position is thrown off, his arm will fall right to his
side, no matter how much he tries to resist.
15.) Got the hiccups? Press thumb and second
finger over your eyebrows until the hiccups are over -
usually shortly.
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Reducing
Stress ~ Thanks to Mr. Jim
Knudsen
1. Pray
2. Go to
bed on time.
3.
Get up on time so you can start the day
unrushed.
4. Say
No to projects that won't fit into your time schedule,
or that will compromise your mental health.
5. Delegate tasks to
capable others.
6.
Simplify and unclutter your life.
7. Less is more. (Although one is
often not enough, two are often too
many).
8. Allow
extra time to do things and to get to places.
9. Pace yourself.
Spread out big changes and difficult projects over time;
don't lump the hard things all
together.
10.
Take one day at a time.
11. Separate worries from concerns . If a
situation is a concern, find out what God would have you
do and let go of the anxiety . If you can't do anything
about a situation, forget it.
12. Live within your budget; don't use
credit cards for ordinary purchases.
13. Have backups; an extra car key in
your wallet, an extra house key buried in the garden,
extra stamps, etc.
14. K.M.S. (Keep Mouth Shut). This single piece
of advice can prevent an enormous amount of
trouble.
15. Do
something for the Kid in You everyday.
16. Carry a book of poetry with you to
read while waiting in line.
17. Get enough
rest.
18. Eat
right.
19 Get
organized so everything has its place.
20. Listen to a tape while driving
that can help improve your quality of
life.
21. Write
down thoughts and inspirations.
22. Every day, find time to be
alone.
23.
Having problems? Talk to God on the spot. Try to nip
small problems in the bud. Don't wait until it's time to
go to bed to try and pray.
24. Make friends with Godly people.
25. Keep a folder of
favorite sayings on hand.
26. Remember that the shortest bridge
between despair and hope is often a good 'Thank you
God.'
27.
Laugh.
28. Laugh
some more!
29.
Take your work seriously, but not yourself at
all.
30. Develop
a forgiving attitude (most people are doing the best
they can).
31. Be
kind to unkind people (they probably need it the
most).
32. Sit
on your ego.
33
Talk less; listen more.
34. Slow down.
35. Remind yourself that you are
not the general manager of the
universe.
36. Every night
before bed, think of one thing you're grateful for that
you've never been grateful for before. GOD HAS A WAY OF
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How to lose
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by Teresa
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
I have been on many diets - calorie
counting, Atkins, South Beach and the Sonoma diet.
They all have failed except for counting calories.
As soon as you go off the fast weight loss programs, you
gain the weight back plus some immediately.
Counting calories works if you don't starve yourself to
death by eating too small of amount of
calories
The best way to lose weight is to
simply eat smaller amounts of food and eat healthy foods
(no fried foods, no heavy deserts, no nibling at the
candy bowl at work or eating the Friday donuts).
Simply eat a smaller amount of food and exercise
regularly whether it be walking for 30 minutes or bike
riding with a club for 3 hours. All you really
need is some physical exercise three times per
week. The weight will come off slowly, but it will
stay off.
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The Power of
Honey
When Jennifer Eddy first saw an ulcer on the left
foot of her patient, an elderly diabetic man, it was
pink and quarter-sized. Fourteen months later,
drug-resistant bacteria had made it an unrecognizable
black mess.
Doctors tried everything they knew -- and failed.
After five hospitalizations, four surgeries and regimens
of antibiotics, the man had lost two toes. Doctors
wanted to remove his entire foot.
"He preferred death to amputation, and everybody
agreed he was going to die if he didn't get an
amputation," said Eddy, a professor at the University of
Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
With standard techniques exhausted, Eddy turned
to a treatment used by ancient Sumerian physicians,
touted in the Talmud and praised by Hippocrates: honey.
Eddy dressed the wounds in honey-soaked gauze. In just
two weeks, her patient's ulcers started to heal. Pink
flesh replaced black. A year later, he could walk again.
"I've used honey in a dozen cases since then,"
said Eddy. "I've yet to have one that didn't improve."
Eddy is one of many doctors to recently
rediscover honey as medicine. Abandoned with the advent
of antibiotics in the 1940s and subsequently disregarded
as folk quackery, a growing set of clinical literature
and dozens of glowing anecdotes now recommend it.
Most tantalizingly, honey seems capable of
combating the growing scourge of
drug-resistant wound infections, especially
methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus
aureus, or
MRSA, the
infamous flesh-eating strain. These have become
alarmingly more common in recent years, with MRSA alone
responsible for half of all skin infections treated in
U.S. emergency rooms. So-called superbugs cause
thousands of deaths and disfigurements every year, and
public health officials are alarmed.
Though the practice is uncommon in the United
States, honey is successfully used elsewhere on wounds
and burns that are unresponsive to other treatments.
Some of the most promising results come from Germany's
Bonn University Children's Hospital, where doctors have
used honey to treat wounds in 50 children whose normal
healing processes were weakened by chemotherapy.
The children, said pediatric oncologist Arne
Simon, fared consistently better than those with the
usual applications of iodine, antibiotics and
silver-coated dressings. The only adverse effects were
pain in 2 percent of the children and one incidence of
eczema. These risks, he said, compare favorably to
iodine's possible thyroid effects and the unknowns of
silver -- and honey is also cheaper.
"We're dealing with chronic wounds, and every
intervention which heals a chronic wound is cost
effective, because most of those patients have medical
histories of months or years," he said.
While Eddy bought honey at a supermarket, Simon
used Medihoney, one
of several varieties made from species of Leptospermum
flowers found in New Zealand and Australia.
Honey, formed when bees swallow, digest and
regurgitate nectar, contains approximately 600
compounds, depending on the type of flower and bee.
Leptospermum honeys are renowned for their efficacy and
dominate the commercial market, though scientists aren't
totally sure why they work.
"All honey is antibacterial, because the bees add
an enzyme that makes hydrogen peroxide," said Peter
Molan, director of the Honey Research Unit at the
University of Waikato in New Zealand. "But we still
haven't managed to identify the active components. All
we know is (the honey) works on an extremely broad
spectrum."
Attempts in the lab to induce a bacterial
resistance to honey have failed, Molan and Simon said.
Honey's complex attack, they said, might make adaptation
impossible.
Two dozen German hospitals are experimenting with
medical honeys, which are also used in the United
Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. In the United
States, however, honey as an antibiotic is nearly
unknown. American doctors remain skeptical because
studies on honey come from abroad and some are
imperfectly designed, Molan said.
In a review
published this year, Molan collected positive results
from more than 20 studies involving 2,000 people.
Supported by extensive animal research, he said, the
evidence should sway the medical community -- especially
when faced by drug-resistant bacteria.
"In some, antibiotics won't work at all," he
said. "People are dying from these infections."
Commercial medical honeys are available online in
the United States, and one company has applied for
Food and Drug Administration approval. In the meantime,
more complete clinical research is imminent. The German
hospitals are documenting their cases in a database
built by Simon's team in Bonn, while Eddy is conducting
the first double-blind study.
"The more we keep giving antibiotics, the more we
breed these superbugs. Wounds end up being repositories
for them," Eddy said. "By eradicating them, honey could
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10 Tips For Overturning Denied
Health
Insurance Claims
Posted by Deborah
Gray on 23rd January 2007
As I
said earlier, knowing how to
handle your health insurer is one way to be a smart
patient. Knowing how to handle denials is obviously a
big part of that, since it’s the one time most of us
have a problem with our health insurance.
You probably will see denials
more often for courses of talk therapy than anything
else. Therapy is the most expensive form of treatment.
But your insurer may also deny your doctor’s request for
brand name as opposed to generic medication.
Don’t be discouraged if you
receive a denial for a type of treatment, and don’t
assume the decision is set in stone. Sometimes all your
insurer needs to approve the request is a little more
information. Sometimes you and your doctor need to
explain why your situation is an exception to their
policy.
Here are some ways to improve
your chances of overturning a denial:
1. Read your
benefit plan from cover to cover.
This is
something that most of us don’t do. I know that I do it
reluctantly, since more often than not it contains
unpleasant surprises. But you need to know where you
stand in terms of what treatment is available to you
(and what is supposedly not).
2. Know what is
expected of you.
In general, your part of
the bargain usually involves getting pre-certification
for procedures and filing paperwork on time. But it’s
very important to know exactly what you need to do to
hold up your end of the process.
3. Get to know
your insurer’s appeals process.
Among other
things, you need to know how long you have to appeal.
There usually is a deadline of between 30 and 45 days to
file your appeal. Find out if there is a form to fill
out, or if you simply send a
letter.
4. Enlist your
doctor’s help.
Talk to your doctor about any
denials and ask for help in fighting them. He or she
will also have someone in their practice who’s
responsible for dealing with health insurers. He or she
should have a lot of hints and tricks to pass
on.
5. Work your
way up the chain of command.
The customer
service rep you get on your first phone call doesn’t
have the power to make an exception in your case if it
goes against standard policy. Politely acknowledge this
and ask to be referred to their supervisor or someone
else who might be able to.
6. Be
persistent.
This is a major component in
succeeding to overturn a denial. Don’t get frustrated or
discouraged. Recognize that chances are good that you
won’t succeed right off the bat. Just keep
trying.
7. Be
polite.
The old saying about getting more
flies with honey than vinegar is definitely true in this
case. The nicer you are, the more the customer service
people will want to help you. If you take your
frustrations out on them, they will tune you
out.
8. Document all
communications.
For all phone calls, you
should document the date, time, name and title of the
person you spoke to and summarize the conversation. If
the representative is supposed to get back to you with
an answer, make sure you get the person’s direct
extension, if possible.
9. Follow
up.
Set yourself a schedule after each call
for following up, like three business days.
10. Be
organized.
Keep all your notes and papers in
one folder so that you have it all at your fingertips.
While there is no guarantee
that you’ll succeed in overturning an appeal, utilizing
these tips improves your chances greatly. Good
luck!
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RECOGNIZING A
STROKE
Contributed by Ms.
Linda Jo Lawson
Bruton 
Thank God
for the sense to remember the "3" steps. Read and
Learn!
Sometimes symptoms of a stroke are
difficult to identify. Unfortunately, the lack of
awareness spells disaster. The stroke victim may suffer
brain damage when people nearby fail to recognize the
symptoms of a
stroke.
Now doctors say a bystander
can recognize a stroke by asking three simple
questions:
1. *Ask the individual to
SMILE.
2. *Ask him or her to RAISE BOTH
ARMS.
3. *Ask the person to SPEAK A SIMPLE
SENTENCE ! (Coherently) (i.e. . . It is sunny out
today.)
If he or she has trouble with
any of these tasks,
call
9-1-1 immediately and describe the
symptoms to the dispatcher.
After discovering that a group of non-medical
volunteers could identify facial weakness, arm weakness
and speech problems, researchers urged the general
public to learn the three questions. They presented
their conclusions at the American Stroke Association's
annual meeting last
February. Widespread use of this test could result in
prompt diagnosis and treatment of the stroke and prevent
brain damage.
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Thirst perception
not an accurate indicator of the need to consume water,
says prominent doctor
Mike: I'd like to you talk
about how people can know when they need to drink water,
because you talk about in the book how some of the signs
of dehydration, the classic
signs are not necessarily the only signs, and also how
much should an average person be drinking?
Dr. B: First and foremost,
don't wait until you get thirsty, because that's an
error. Unfortunately, the National Academy of Sciences
and some other people recently have been telling people
to wait until they get thirsty before they drink, which
is the main error that we inherited 100 years ago from a
man called Walter Bradford Cannon. And that's why, at
the time, there was a Frenchman saying that dehydration
or thirst is a general sensation and we should study it,
and Walter Bradford Cannon said, no, thirst is only a
matter of dry mouth.
When the mouth is dry we are
thirsty, which is an arrogant statement, and
unfortunately western medicine
bought into that understanding, and that's why we
have a sick-care system, because from the age of 20
onwards, we gradually, imperceptibly become dehydrated
without knowing it. We lose our perception of thirst. By
the age of 70 we may be totally thirsty and obviously
thirsty and yet not recognize the need to drink water,
even when water is put next to us.
This was done as an experiment. A
scientist asked a group of elderly people to withhold
from drinking water for 24 hours, and similarly with
young people. After 24 hours when water was made
available, the elderly did not recognize that they were
thirsty.
Mike: Even after 24 hours
with no water?
Dr. B: Correct. Even when
water was left next to them, some of them wouldn't reach
for it. But the young people drank water, and corrected
this dehydration. Now, this is a major problem, and
that's why we have so many people in the elderly sector
of our society who are sick, because they are totally
dehydrated and they do not recognize it.
So, waiting to get thirsty is to die
prematurely and very painfully. In fact, this is the
title of an article that is posted on my
website and also on NAFHIM, National Association
For Honesty In Medicine. We
should not wait to get thirsty, because water is the
main source of energy. By the time you get thirsty, you
will have lost energy from the water that you should
have drunk and made available before you get thirsty.
So, if you don't allow the gas tank of your car to come
dry before you stop and take some gas, then why should
you let your body become thirsty so that it stalls on
the roadside before you drink water?
So, first thing, people should never
allow themselves to get thirsty -- they should drink
throughout the day. An average person needs two quarts
of water a day. Average person really needs four quarts
of water a day. But two quarts we have to supply. Two
quarts we get from food metabolism and water content in
foods. We need this amount of water to manufacture at
least two quarts of urine. You know, not to put pressure
on the kidneys. When we drink enough water so that the
urine is colorless, that is a good sign. When the urine
becomes yellow, it means that the body is beginning to
become dehydrated and when it becomes orange, then the
body is truly dehydrated and some part of the body is
suffering from that dehydration.
Mike: So this is a very easy
sign that people can pay attention to.
Dr. B: Absolutely.
Mike: They don't need a
medical degree to see the color of their urine.
Dr. B: Well, that's why we
should become observant to our urine production. And
breathing -- when we are short of breath, it means we
are dehydrated.
Mike: Are there other
similar, simple symptoms that people can pay attention
to?
Dr. B: The skin -- if the
skin is nice and loose and smooth, then we are hydrated.
If it becomes creasy and shriveled, it means
dehydration. The crow's feet on the face of elderly
people, that's a sign of dehydration. The turkey neck
under the chin is a sign of dehydration. These are
mentioned in my books, Your Body's Many Cries for Water,
and also in my Water For Health, For Healing, For Life.
I recommend everyone to read Water Cures, Drugs Kill,
because in this book I've identified over 90 health
problems that we in medicine have called disease, and
yet water cures them.
Good info - Good health
How to quit the soft drink
habit.
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Diabetes help
Contributed by Ms. Linda Jo Lawson
Bruton
Reversing
diabetes
You've been reading from an
exclusive interview with Dr. Batmanghelidj, author of
Water For Health, For Healing, For Life. Dr. B. is also
the founder of the National Association for
Honesty in Medicine
and author or, "Your Body's Many
Cries For Water." Look for his new, upcoming
book, "Obesity, Cancer and Depression: Their Common
Cause and Actual Cure." Learn more about Dr. B.
at www.WaterCure.com. (His books are featured in the Amazon.com
sidebar).
About the author:
Author
Mike Adams is a holistic nutritionist with over 4,000
hours of study on nutrition, wellness, food toxicology
and the true causes of disease and health. He is well
versed on nutritional and lifestyle therapies for weight
loss and disease prevention / reversal. View Adams'
health statistics showing LDL cholesterol of 67 and
outstanding blood chemistry. Adams uses no prescription
drugs whatsoever and relies exclusively on natural
health, nutrition and exercise to achieve optimum
health. He serves as the executive director of the
Consumer
Wellness Research Center and is author of several books about
health and nutrition, including The Five
Soft Drink Monsters and
Superfoods
For Optimum Health.
~ Thank you Linda Jo Lawson Bruton
for referring this article to us. Linda inspired us to
create this section. Thank you again.
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