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Modern man keeps inventing all types of substances for gratifying the palate. Some alter his psychological disposition. The users of these products usually claim to "feel good", "forget their worries", "gain ecstasy" or experience some temporarily altered state of mind. Some of these poisons such as cocaine, heroine, opium and crack are illegal. Meanwhile, some of these illegal substances can lawfully be used, if backed by a prescription from a qualified medical practitioner. Other slow poisons that are legal include products that have caffeine in them (kola nuts, coffee and tea from the plant thea sinensis) , artificial sugars, alcohol, tobacco and addictive drugs prescribed by physicians for their patients and sometimes for themselves. No disease condition suddenly happens . While young our bodies can take a lot of sustained punishment. Eventually, especially as we get older, they occasionally go on strike, with the the frequency increasing after we ...

The following are some of the several advantages of fasting : 1. Reduced waste build-up - Obviously, if you are sending no solid food into your body, as happens when you engage in a fast, your body would also drastically reduce the production of related solid wastes. The energy you are saving will then be used to bring you to good health. Incidentally, whenever the body is under stress from illness or from psychological strain (such as anger, hate, fear, depression, envy, jealousy), the energy within you is misused in producing more wastes or poisons. 2. Strengthened immune defence system - It is your body that heals you and your doctor presents you a bill and takes the cash. What your doctor does is to make your wound or some aspect of your body cleaner and thereby assists your immune defence system (i.e., your internal physician) to take care of the healing process. You help in cleaning yourself through the fasting that illness induce. An additional factor is that a fast make...

Are you normally disturbed by perspiration? Some of us perspire more profusely than others. Depending on the environment and on the occasion, modern life frowns on perspiration. This modern dislike for perspiration is part of what has created a huge cosmetic industry that offers us a variety of chemical preparations to combat it. The objectives include making us smell better and drying us up or making us perspire less, especially under the arms. When we are engaged in sports, gardening, physical exercises and similar physical activities, we expect to perspire and nobody frowns on this. In fact, this should be welcomed as one of the most natural and excellent channels of getting waste products out of us. Indeed, nature has made our skins the best channels for getting rid of  certain specific types of waste materials than through other channels of our bodies, such as the urine and faeces. It must be a related reason that the programmes at health spas include perspiration as a rout...

Aging is a process that anything undergoes between its beginning and its end. For humans, it starts when we are somewhat liquid during the early stages of pregnancy. Gradually in the aging process, the body becomes more solid as a human being develops and, at some point along the line, a baby is born. Its body is highly flexible. Progressively as it ages, this body keeps firming up for this child to subsequently sit up without falling over and later to be able to crawl, stand up, walk and eventually to do many more physically demanding activities. At much younger ages, all parts of our bodies are relatively flexible. For example, the bones of little children tend to have "green-stick" fractures. For much older persons, the same bones can snap apart and as they further advance in age, the worse form of this problem is a disease called osteoporosis that occurs sooner in Europeans than in Africans. The process of aging involves all parts of our bodies and our attitudes progr...

Preventive medicine is by far the best approach for maintaining excellent health. You are in control and can easily achieve this through the right type of lifestyle related to the substances that you allow into your body, enough physical exercise and how you handle your mental and emotional challenges. This approach produces an environment that creates mutually beneficial interdependence or symbiosis between you and other organisms. In this way, useless organisms find your total  environment to be hostile to their welfare. Therefore, they stay away. In this context, the drinking of ample amounts of water plays a vital role. Whether we use water for cleaning our bodies from within or from outside, it does a lot of things. Each illness has its period of incubation. Much as some of us may wish to believe the opposite, nothing in life simply happens suddenly. Accidents do not just occur, especially when it is so clear that every aspect of life on earth and beyond is guided by its ow...

Your Body Is Self-Regulating Our universe is regulated by various laws, some of which are universal and others apply to specific situations. Cooperating with these laws make life easier, while disobeying them creates what we popularly call stress, problems and illness. Here too, our creator is so generous that problems and their solutions always occur together. It is impossible to have a problem which does not, at the same time, suggest its own unique solution. Another natural law is that the physical body of each creature on earth has been created to be self-regulating, in the direction of sustaining perfect health. That is why all solutions to every problem of your body are within it or within the environment around you. Among all earthly creatures, only modern man has conditioned his thinking into accepting sickness as a normal part of life - which it is not. Accordingly, he keeps pumping all types of chemicals into his body, permanently cutting off parts of his body and replacin...

Depression is a form of mental disorder characterized by periods of prolonged sadness, gloom and negative feelings. The patient feels insecure, helpless, uncertain, lonely and discouraged. We all feel depressed to varied degrees from time to time. That is natural enough. However, when it occurs regularly and frequently and lasts for prolonged periods, it becomes a disorder. The patient finds it difficult to sleep and experiences loss of appetite. Hobbies like reading, writing or exercising become uninteresting. The person feels intensely lonely, yet does not wish to be with others. Thoughts of illness, suicide and death preoccupy the mind. Causes of Depression: 1. Heredity - Some people are genetically prone to depression. 2. Emotional stress - Factors like financial difficulties, insecurity and violence can lead to emotional       stress.3. Drug abuse - Persistent use of certain drugs like fertility drugs, sedatives and slimming drugs can        ...

Water is a life giver. Apart from air, there is nothing as essential for life as water. Water is the oldest and commonest substance on earth. Water is the strongest natural force in the world, far more powerful than fire or wind. Everything on earth contains water. The human body is 70% water. 70% of the earth is water. Water is a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen. Of all natural substances on earth, only water exists in three forms: solid (ice); liquid (water); gas (vapour). To stay healthy, an individual needs to drink at least 2 and 1/2 litres of water daily. A normal adult drinks between 60,000 and 70,000 litres of water in his/her lifetime. Water is, therefore, said to be medicinal. Functions of water: 1. Water quenches thirst - Processed liquid, such as, soft drinks or beer only serve to suppress thirst          for some minutes. They can never give the same satisfaction which water gives. 2. Water aids the metabolism of food and cleanses the digestive...

Blood pressure measures the force exerted by blood , pushing outwards on your arterial walls. Damage occurs when the force of the blood flow is high over time. This stretches the tissue that make up the walls of arteries beyond a healthy limit. Globally, more than 1 billion people struggle with high blood pressure (hypertension), and prevalence has nearly doubled in the past four decades. Overall, men tend to have higher blood pressure than women, and while high-income nations have seen a significant decline in hypertension, prevalence in low and middle-income countries, such as those in  South Asia and Africa, is spiking. According to researchers, prevalence is "completely inverse" to national income. Worldwide, high blood pressure is thought to cause about 7.5 million deaths annually (American Heart Association). Blood pressure is typically recorded as two numbers and written as a ratio. The top number (systolic) measures the pressure in the arteries when the ventricle...

If you are a woman, your chance of getting a urinary tract infection, or UTI, is high; some experts rank your lifetime risk of getting one as high as 1 in 2 ...with many women having repeat infections, sometimes for years on end.  Causes of UTIs in Women UTIs are a key reason women are often told to wipe from front to back after using the bathroom. This is because the urethra - the tube that transports urine from the bladder to the outside of the body - is located close to the anus. Bacteria from the large intestine, such as E. coli, are in perfect position to escape the anus and invade the urethra. From there, they can travel up to the bladder, and if the infection isn't treated, continue on to infect the kidneys. Women may be especially prone to UTIs because they have shorter urethra, which allows bacteria quick access to the bladder. Also having sex can introduce bacteria into the urinary tract. Symptoms of UTIs 1. A burning sensation when you urinate. 2. Frequent or int...