1.AVOID AN EXCESSIVE AMOUNT OF SWEET FOODS (E.G., DESERTS)

This tops the list. Americans generally eat way too much sweet foods. It isn’t realized that sweet foods literally damage the kidneys which in turn cause hair loss in men and bone deterioration in women. Sweet foods also become ACID in the body which will result in excessive stomach acid production. All sweet foods in America are made with white sugar, which is the culprit in many diseases. Try to consume foods which are made with natural sugars such as honey, cane sugar, and pure maple syrup.

2. AVOID COFFEE AND SOFT DRINKS. DRINK TEA INSTEAD

Coffee is very acid forming in the body. Soft drinks, which ALL contain a lot of sugar is just as acid forming. Don’t forget that coffee, soft drinks, and deserts are all usually eaten together. These all are extremely acid forming. Creating an acid environment in the body sets up the foundation for viruses, bacteria, and cancer cells to develop. Diseases do not develop overnight, they are developed from years of improper eating. What about diet soft drinks? These all contain Nutrasweet, which is very bad for the body. Space limits the discussion on this harmful chemical, I advise anyone interested to read more on the dangers of Nutrasweet. Green tea is an excellent drink. Tea unlike coffee is ALKALINE. A healthy body should be slightly more ALKALINE than acid. Tea will do that. Hot tea is like a soap for the body. It cleans out the arteries and lymphatic system and neutralizes acidity. Drink tea instead of coffee for better health.

3. AVOID ANY OILS WHICH ARE HYROGENATED!

The medical establishment I believe is very confused on the subject of fats and diet. They keep saying to eat a low fat diet to prevent heart disease. Let’s set the record straight on this subject.

To begin, humans have to have fats as part of the diet. Fats are necessary for many of the metabolic processes in the body. BUT the key is to know what are good fats and bad fats, not to avoid fats all together. To put it in most simplest terms, the good fats are the ones that occur naturally such as butter, corn, canola, sunflower, and olive oil. The oils present in fish are excellent for the body. (I believe fish and green tea are the secrets for Japanese longevity.) The problem is when oils are taken to the factories and so called HYDROGENATED. These oils are on every food label in the supermarket. The best examples of hydrogenated oils are MARGARINE, ‘I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter, and other similar products. Since these oils are not from nature, and the human body is, it is impossible for the body to process it. When this happens, the oils clog up the arteries and a host of diseases result. For some unknown reason, this is unknown to 99.9 percent of medical doctors.

2.     Stop all calcium supplements and cholesterol medications. Wean off all steroids, antidepressants and anxiety medications.

3.     Stop eating all dairy from cow milk, including cheese, yogurt, and ice cream. Dairy from soy or rice milk is fine.

4.     Stop consuming refined white sugar and artificial sweeteners (including Stevia, Nutrasweet, Equal, Sweet n Low) in drinks, foods, and snacks.

5.     Stop eating or drinking products with corn syrup or corn sweetener.

6.     If you like sweets, you can use natural organic cane sugar or honey. Natural organic cane sugar is not white. It has a slight tan color to it.

7.     Use iodized sea salt instead of refined non-iodized salt.

8.     Stop drinking coffee. You may drink green tea instead of coffee.

9.     Eat more natural foods. Avoid processed, refined foods with additives and coloring. Avoid foods with added vitamins and other supplements.

10.   Drink filtered water, green tea, and fresh squeezed fruit juice. Avoid alcohol, processed fruit juices with preservatives, and all sodas.

11.   Patients with weak kidneys and patients with edema and swelling must

eat a very low sodium diet and must avoid eating starfruit.

12.    Women must avoid all cold drinks and foods during the menses.

We have found that bile taken from bears on bear farms is contaminated with pus, bacteria, toxin, and possibly cancer causing agents as more than 95 percent of bears that have died at our two rescue centers died from liver cancer associated with the gall bladder.

The Gallbladder and What It Does

The gallbladder is that small pouch nestled behind the lobes of the liver. Pear-shaped, the gallbladder is responsible for storing bile that is being secreted by the liver. As you must know bile is what aids the body in digesting fats. If the gallbladder becomes unable to store fats, the ability of the body to digest fats is compromised.

Predisposing Factors to Gallbladder Problems

Unfortunately, the gallbladder can also be prone to ill health. Diabetes, pregnancy, liver disease, obesity, lack of exercise, a diet rich in fats, and anemia can predispose you to certain gallbladder problems.

The Symptoms

You will know if you have gallbladder problems if you experience pain in your abdomen. The pain is usually acute or intermittent in nature. You are also likely to experience nausea, a feeling of fullness especially after meals, gas pains, and indigestion. There may be yellowing of the skin, too, and constipation. Skin breakouts, such as acne and other skin lesions, may likewise occur. There could also be intolerance to fats.

The Cure

Fortunately, there are several home treatments you can use, and you will be surprised to know that some of them involve basic garden and pantry items.

Beets are said to be effective in treating gallbladder problems. A body cleanser, the juice of fresh beets, if combined with the juice of fresh carrots and cucumber, and taken twice a day, can effectively improve gallbladder health. Pear juice, too, can be used to treat certain gallbladder problems, including gallstones. Pear juice can be taken as often as possible.

Chicory juice facilitates bile secretion, and thus helps much in maintaining good liver and gallbladder health.

Accordingly, taking 30 ml of olive oil followed by 120 ml of lemon or grapefruit juice early in the morning for as long as necessary works for some people.

Recent studies correlate regular drinking of coffee to gallstone prevention, although it has not been made clear yet what is the special ingredient in coffee that reduces incidence of gallstones.

Having a diet rich in fiber can also prevent the occurrence of gallstones. It is therefore recommended that you eat cereals or other fiber-rich foods for breakfast. Skipping this very important meal of the day is a definite no-no if you want to achieve a healthy gallbladder. There have been reports of people getting more prone to gallstones and other gallbladder diseases when they skip breakfast.

Having an abundance of lentils, beans, nuts, and oranges in the diet can also help ward off gallstones, so is eating red bell better, salmon, and vegetables.

As they say, prevention is always better than cure, so if you want to avoid getting sick of gallstones, avoid taking in too much fats and sugar, always include fiber, fruits, and vegetables in your diet, and exercise. Remember that a sedentary lifestyle puts you at greater risk for developing gallstones, so engage in activities that keep your blood pumping. Obesity is likewise a predisposing factor to gallbladder problems, and exercising regularly can help you deal achieve a trim and balanced figure as well.

You know when you are suffering from dehydration when you experience the following signs and symptoms: thirst, decreased urine output and concentrated urine. When the dehydration progresses, you may also experience dry mouth, lightheadedness, muscle cramps, confusion, weakness, and if the situation worsens, coma. As you can see, you simply cannot take dehydration for granted.

Replacement of fluids is essential in treating dehydration. Most likely, you will be advised to drink not just clear water, but other forms of clear fluids as well. Clear soup, Gatorade, Jell-o, Pedialyte, and the like, may also work well. You can also come up with your own electrolyte water. All you have to do is mix a quart of water with ½ teaspoon each of baking soda and salt, and 3 tablespoons of sugar. Alternatively, you can mix a cup of water with a teaspoon of salt, three teaspoons of sugar, and two teaspoons of lime juice.

It is also a good thing to nibble on some bananas, because bananas have rich potassium content, and as you must know, great amount of potassium is lost with dehydration. Another fruit that is rich in potassium is raisin. Eating raisins during bouts of dehydration helps to restore the potassium you have lost. You should also eat plenty of watery fruits and vegetables, like cantaloupe, water melon, strawberries, and cucumber. Drinking decaffeinated tea also works well if you have dehydration. It’s important to emphasize, though, to use decaffeinated and not the caffeinated kind because caffeine has a mild diuretic effect, thus it increases you water loss.

Quite possibly, you will experience stomach cramps. It is a normal occurrence with dehydration. In the event that you suffer from an episode of stomach cramps, eat foods that are easily digested. Gelatins and soda crackers are stomach-friendly.

It is normal, too, to experience muscle aches and pains. To relieve yourself of this, mix eight ounces of apple cider vinegar to your warm bath, and soak yourself in it for at least 15 minutes.

A great and easy way to restore fluids to dehydrated children is to have them suck on popsicles.

For mild dehydration, you can mix a teaspoon of lime juice, pinch of salt, and a teaspoon of sugar into one pint of water, then drink this throughout the day. Drinking fruit juices can also help. Fruit juices, after all, are rich in vitamins and minerals, so you not only restore the fluids lost from your body, you are also, in turn, boosting your energy levels.

Seborrheic dermatitis is a skin disorder that causes some flaking on the scalp. Some call it dandruff, but it could actually be more than that.

The Causes of Seborrheic Dermatitis

The main cause of seborrheic dermatitis is not known, although several factors have been linked to the development of this skin disorder. Abnormal production of oil glands, stress, and fatigue, and illness, are said to be related to the incidence of this disease.

The Symptoms

Seborrheic dermatitis is not contagious nor is it harmful. However, it can get pretty uncomfortable and unsightly because it sometimes affects the face and other oily parts of the body, causing red greasy skin with white or yellow scales. There is also some degree of itchiness and pain.

The Cure

Unfortunately, there is no known cure for seborrheic dermatitis, but doctors usually recommend the use of shampoo containing ketoconazole, tar, salicylic acid, and selenium sulfide, to relieve the symptoms. If you have a non-scalp seborrheic dermatitis, such as one that appears on your face or upper chest, you are most likely to be advised to use anti-itch creams or anti-fungal solutions on the affected areas.

Then again, you can also resort to natural remedies to ease the problem.

Sometimes, the natural way to dealing with seborrheic dermatitis lies in the diet. A diet that is rich in saturated fats, or one involving processed sugar, can trigger an attack, so avoid eating these. Instead, include a lot of fiber in the diet because fiber helps to eliminate the growth of candida which can increase histamine activity resulting to seborrheic dermatitis flare-ups. Green vegetables, like broccoli and spinach are great to munch on as these are rich in minerals and fiber.

It is also advisable that you eat foods rich in Vitamin B because Vitamin B is good for the skin and hair. Bananas, grains, egg yolks, avocados, and nuts, contain a good amount of Vitamin B.

Since the abnormal production of oil glands is a contributing factor to seborrheic dermatitis, another useful home remedy should involve zinc, a substance that helps in the regulation of the production of oil glands. Zinc can be found in abundance in sardines, sunflower seeds, and grains.

Rubbing the scalp with a piece of onion also helps to reduce dandruff, so are rinsing the hair with vinegar or tea tree oil. Alternatively, you can also apply on the scalp a mixture of 20 drops of tea tree oil and 10 ounces of aloe vera gel on the scalp daily for around 15 minutes.

The maintenance of good hygiene is essential in dealing with the symptoms of seborrheic dermatitis. Shampoo daily and cleanse your scalp on a regular basis. Harsh soaps and detergents are a definite no-no, so use mild-scented soaps at all times, then wear cotton clothing as much as possible.

It was recorded that the said condition was once connected with misconception that the person suffering from Hansen’s Disease must be isolated from healthy people because of the paranoia that it is easily transmitted into healthy person. The WHO considers the said action as unethical and not necessary. Up to these days, there are still lepers colonies remain in operation anywhere in the world, Vietnam and India to name a few.

Symptoms of Hansen’s Disease

• Skin lesions that are lighter than your normal skin color
• Lesions have decreased sensation to touch, heat, or pain
• Lesions do not heal after several weeks to months
• Numbness or absent sensation in the hands, arms, feet, and legs
• Muscle weakness

Skin lesions are the primary external symptom of this condition. If this condition is left not treated, it can be progressive which causes permanent damage to the skin, nerves, limbs, and eyes.

Tubercoloid Leprosy – mainly affects skin nerves and mucous membranes

Paucibacillary Hansen’s disease is characterized by one or more hypopigmented skin macules and anaesthetic patches, i.e., damaged peripheral nerves that have been attacked by the human host’s immune cells.

Multibacillary Hansen’s disease or borderline Leprosy– chronic infectious

It is of intermediate severity, the most common form. It is associated with symmetric skin lesions, nodules, plaques, thickened outer skin, and frequent involvement of the nasal mucosa resulting in nasal congestion and nose bleeds but typically detectable nerve damage is late. Skin lesions looks like tuberculoid leprosy but are more prevalent and irregular; large patches can affect the limbs, and peripheral nerve involvement with weakness and loss of sensation.. This type is unstable and may become more like lepromatous leprosy or may undergo a reversal reaction, becoming more like the tuberculoid form.

Causes of Hansen’s Disease

Mycobacterium leprae is the causative agent of leprosy. It is an intracellular, acid-fast bacterium, Mycobacterium. leprae is aerobic, gram-positive, and rod-shaped, and is surrounded by the waxy cell membrane coating characteristic of Mycobacterium species.

Due to extensive loss of genes necessary for independent growth outside the host, this mycobacterium is unculturable in the laboratory, a major factor why it is difficult to positively identifying the organisms. Molecular genetics is now used and allowed to understand more and established the cause of such condition.

Prolonged close contact and transmission by nasal droplet have both been proposed as how the Mycobacterium infects people. Although prolonged close contact best fits the pattern of disease, both are still unproven.

The only other animals besides humans’ known to contract leprosy are the armadillo, chimpanzees, sooty mangabeys, and cynomolgus macaques.

The exact time taken for the cell to multiply is not known. It is generally agreed that the average incubation period of Mycobacterium laprae to develop leprosy is between 3 to 5 years.

Treatment for Hansen’s Disease

Chalmoogra Oil:
In liniment form, mixed with lime Juice, helps in elimination of various inflammations and ulcers of the skin throughout the body.

Gota Kola:
In extract form, add a few drops when drinking tea. It is used for the treatment of leprous wounds and inflammations. Can be eaten raw or with rice.

Not until the discovery and development of dapsone, rifampin, and clofazimine in the 1940s, there was no effective cure for leprosy.

To date the best medicine that treat Hansen’s Disease is Multi-Drug Therapy or MDT

Best practice in combating Hansen’s Disease:

• early detection of patients
• appropriate treatment;
• adequate care for the prevention of disabilities and rehabilitation

Since Hansen’s Disease is an infectious disease, antibiotic therapy plays a major role in the management of newly diagnosed patients.
Early recognition is important. Early treatment limits damage by the disease, renders the person noninfectious, and allows for a normal lifestyle.

Prevention for Hansen’s Disease

Vaccination against the leprosy bacillus may be considered. BCG vaccination is reported to be partially effective for protection against leprosy.

Young people around 20 years of age having multiple sexual partners while practicing unsafe sexual intercourse are highly susceptible to this infection.

Symptoms of Venereal Warts

It usually takes 3 months for the symptoms to appear. It may take years for some people to show signs of this infection.

An infected person having Venereal Warts often experiences bleeding, itching, moistness, or a burning sensation along with an appearance of small red, gray or pink bumps around the genital area. It also causes discomfort during a sexual intercourse.

For women, there is abnormal vaginal bleeding or discharges. Bump, lesions or swelling may not appear visible for some cases.

Intensive skin medical examination of the genital area is the most effective method of identifying the warts.

Causes of Venereal Warts

Venereal Warts are a form of STD. Sharing personal items such as toothbrush or shower towels, and sexual or genital contact with an infected person leads to the transmission of this disease.

In extremely rare cases, newborn babies may suffer from this infection during childbirth.

Home Remedies / Treatment for Venereal Warts
Vitamin E: Apply vitamin E in oil form on the skin. Place some crushed garlic over and cover it with an adhesive tape. The warts will gradually drop on within a week.

Onion: Prepare some onion juice. Add with salt and leave it overnight. Apply the mixture on the affected area until all warts disappear.

Fig: Apply fig juice extracted from fig stems for 2-3 times a day.

Apple cider vinegar: Use a cotton ball when applying apple cider vinegar to the affected area.

Diet Suggestions for Venereal Warts

Foods that are rich in folic acid and beta-carotene are good in preventing Venereal Warts.

Fruits and vegetables that are yellow, orange and red in color such as like mango, radish, squash and tomato are good for health.

It is also highly recommended to consume dark green and leafy vegetables such spinach and cabbage for treatment of Venereal Warts.

Other suggestions for Venereal Warts

Quit smoking tobacco or any cigarettes.

Use contraceptives for prevention of this condition. However, it is advisable to stay away from using oral contraceptives.

Undergo a pap smear test on regular basis to check your body’s condition against HPV.

Although “Pins and Needles”is not desirable to feel, it is not a serious condition, usually the normal feeling of the affected part will return within a couple of minutes. When the feeling of numbness and tingling continue, chances are you might have a pinched nerve.

Symptoms of “Pins and Needles”

• Numbness
• Weakness
• Pricking
• Burning
• Itching
• Tingling sensation
• Slight pain in the muscle or nerve

Causes of “Pins and Needles”

• Inactivity
• Sitting in bad position
• Traumatic nerve damage
• Nerve entrapment
• Nerve compression
• Stroke
• Migraine
• Alcoholism
• Multiple sclerosis
• Dehydration
• Reduced blood supply to the affected areas

Home Remedies / Natural Treatment for “Pins and Needles”

Simple repositioning of the affected limbs or part of the body will lead to normal feeling of the “Pins and Needles” affected part.

Avoiding being inactive for a longer period time
Avoid repetitive action of the certain body part for a longer period of time

Other Suggestion for “Pins and Needles”

When this feeling occurs in alarming rate, it is advisable to see a doctor for general health concern.