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It is very easy to put short term memory loss down to old age. And say that it is but natural to start forgetting things as you age. However, while this may be true, there are several other causes of short term memory loss that should not be ignored as they could be signalling to more complex problems.

Let’s have a look at some of these more complex matters, for example:

Alzheimer’s disease

Anyone who has lost a loved one to Alzheimer’s understands that this cause of short term memory loss is something not to be taken lightly. Now that our overall population is aging the occurrence of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia become more and more prevalent. These two diseases are the subject of a lot of research and although no real cure has been found for it, we now have the ability to nip it in the bud or at least diagnosing it correctly in the preliminary stages which is crucial for effective management.

Blood Sugar

Today’s pace of life tends to force many of us to skip meals during the day and making up by eating a large meal at night. This causes other unforeseen problems; people that follow this course often have very instable blood sugar levels. Low blood sugar can lead the brain to becoming less attentive and slightly groggy. This has become one of the causes of short term memory loss. Obviously this is why doctors often recommend that patients who want to improve their memory have six small meals in a day as opposed to three large ones so as to keep blood sugar levels steady.

Hormonal Havoc

Another sure sign of the aging process is hormonal imbalance which is often a cause of short term memory loss. As Menopause sets in and estrogen levels start to dwindle the changes are severe. Even though hormone replacement therapies and other treatments have become common practice today, This imbalance is certainly a factor worth looking into when figuring out causes of memory loss.

States Of Depression and Consuming Alcohol

As we all know the pressures of living today is a major cause of depression and short term memory loss. People who are depressed and are consequently taking medication often cannot remember things clearly because of the side effects of the drugs. Another area of change is apart from medical drugs, recreational drug abuse of excessive alcohol consumption is known to be amongst the causes of short term memory loss.

Natural Treatments

It is important for your doctor to diagnose your condition and isolate the causes of your short term memory loss. He may recommend drugs, mental exercises, a more healthy lifestyle or some natural, herbal supplements.

Although the results have not been very conclusive, some studies have shown that ginkgo biloba and anti-oxidants to help prevent brain cell damage and to restore mental memory function has been successful. Some like to try out the herbal supplements, some prefer a more pharmaceutical approach whereas some just like the old fashioned route of healthy eating and exercise. Ask your doctor which is best for your case.

Like with everything in life without regular use you are likely to lose it. This most definitely applies to activity for the brain. It is therefore very important to keep your mind and body active ensuring good blood circulation. Don’t succumb to the trappings of the modern sedentary lifestyle be active in both body and mind.

By Tom Mangold BBC Two’s Correspondent

Imagine this: an organic pill that kills the appetite and attacks obesity. It has no known side-effects, and contains a molecule that fools your brain into believing you are full.

Deep inside the African Kalahari desert, grows an ugly cactus called the Hoodia. It thrives in extremely high temperatures, and takes years to mature.

The San Bushmen of the Kalahari, one of the world’s oldest and most primitive tribes, had been eating the Hoodia for thousands of years, to stave off hunger during long hunting trips.

When South African scientists were routinely testing it, they discovered the plant contained a previously unknown molecule, which has since been christened P 57.

The license was sold to a Cambridgeshire bio-pharmaceutical company, Phytopharm, who in turn sold the development and marketing rights to the giant Pfizer Corporation.

Fortune cactus

A molecule in the cactus makes you feel full

When I traveled to the Kalahari, I met families of the San bushmen.

It is a sad, impoverished and displaced tribe, still unaware they are sitting on top of a goldmine.

But if the Hoodia works, the 100,000 San strung along the edge of the Kalahari will become overnight millionaires on royalties negotiated by their South African lawyer Roger Chennells.

And they will need all the help they can to secure the money.

Currently, many bushmen smoke large quantities of marijuana, suffer from alcoholism, and have neither possessions nor any sense of the value of money.

The truth is no-one has fully grasped what the magic molecule means for their counterparts in the developed world.

Blood sugar

According to the British Heart Foundation 17% of men and 21% of women are obese, while 46% of men and 32% of women are overweight.

So the drug’s marketing potential speaks for itself.

Phytopharm’s Dr Richard Dixey explained how P.57 actually works:

“There is a part of your brain, the hypothalamus. Within that mid-brain there are nerve cells that sense glucose sugar.

“When you eat, blood sugar goes up because of the food, these cells start firing and now you are full.

“What the Hoodia seems to contain is a molecule that is about 10,000 times as active as glucose.

“It goes to the mid-brain and actually makes those nerve cells fire as if you were full. But you have not eaten. Nor do you want to.”

Clinical trials

Dixey organized the first animal trials for Hoodia. Rats, a species that will eat literally anything, stopped eating completely.

When the first human clinical trial was conducted, a morbidly obese group of people were placed in a “phase 1 unit”, a place as close to prison as it gets.

All the volunteers could do all day was read papers, watch television, and eat.

Half were given Hoodia, half placebo. Fifteen days later, the Hoodia group had reduced their calorie intake by 1000 a day.

It was a stunning success.

The cactus test

In order to see for ourselves, we drove into the desert, four hours north of Capetown in search of the cactus.

Once there, we found an unattractive plant which sprouts about 10 tentacles, and is the size of a long cucumber.

Each tentacle is covered in spikes which need to be carefully peeled.

The San will finally throw off thousands of years of oppression, poverty, social isolation and discrimination

Roger Chennells, lawyer

Inside is a slightly unpleasant-tasting, fleshy plant.

At about 1800hrs I ate about half a banana size - and later so did my cameraman.

Soon after, we began the four hour drive back to Capetown.

The plant is said to have a feel-good almost aphrodisiac quality, and I have to say, we felt good.

But more significantly, we did not even think about food. Our brains really were telling us we were full. It was a magnificent deception.

Dinner time came and went. We reached our hotel at about midnight and went to bed without food. And the next day, neither of us wanted nor ate breakfast.

I ate lunch but without appetite and very little pleasure. Partial then full appetite returned slowly after 24 hours.

The future

Mr Chennells is ecstatic:

“The San will finally throw off thousands of years of oppression, poverty, social isolation and discrimination.

“We will create trust funds with their Hoodia royalties and the children will join South Africa’s middle classes in our lifetime.

“I envisage Hoodia cafes in London and New York, salads will be served and the Hoodia cut like cucumber on to the salad.

“It will need flavoring to counter its unpleasant taste, but if it has no side effects and no cumulative side-effects.”

Stretchmarks aren’t just a problem for pregnant women; they are a problem for men, women, and children alike. Are you one of the many people dealing with this problem? Then it’s time to formulate a plan of action.

To begin with, have a close look at the areas where you keep finding stretchmarks. You can tell they’re probably healed if they appear thin and silvery.

Some people may be lucky enough that they will go away eventually. Others will need to take some more time in order to banish the marks.

The red, deeply pitted stretch marks are probably the worst of all to deal with. You can see spot these nasties from a long way away.

When stretchmarks are red, that usually means they’re fresh. Your skin hasn’t healed up yet, which explains the redness.

Applying a stretch mark lotion is probably the best thing you can do right now to help your skin heal up. And remember, the sooner you start, the better: You’ll get more dramatic results this way.

It will take some diligence on your part so make sure that you’re following all application instructions. It can be easy to forget to apply the cream. Just keep in mind that your efforts will pay off in the end when stretch marks are a distant memory.

Also keep in mind that the color of your stretch marks isn’t that important. You’ll find that certain creams can do a lot for you regardless of how old the stretch marks are. Results vary from person to person, but if you want any improvement at all, you’ll love the results.

But it’s not going to be enough to just use creams every day. You know what it’s like to deal with stretch marks once you have them; the next step is prevent new stretch marks from showing up. The number one rule to follow here is to keep your skin hydrated by drinking plenty of water every day.

Drinking water is one of the best things you can do, even if it’s often overlooked. A lot of health problems are a direct result of dehydration. In order for your skin to stay health and smooth, you need to stay hydrated.

The longer you wait to heal your stretchmarks the harder it is going to be. Choosing the right treatment for is crucial.

Also, make sure that you are staying extra hydrated so that your skin glows and has the elasticity that it needs.

Defibrillators are getting more and more available every year and consequently, sales of defibrillators are increasing. If someone is having a heart attack defibrillators are the first line of defense. If an AED is used during the first several minutes of a cardiac event, the survival rate increases dramatically. Information like this has made quite a few individuals businesses and schools purchase defibrillators.

According to estimates, anywhere from 200K to 350K people die every year from sudden cardiac arrest in the US. Worse than that, about 95% of people who have a heart attack will die from it. Many of these deaths could be avoided if a defibrillator was available. As I said earlier, the survival rate increases if the defibrillators used within the first five minutes.

It should come as no surprise that more people are beginning to consider purchasing defibrillators. Up until now, medical professionals were the only people able to get them. Today, you no longer need a prescription to get a defibrillator.

A defibrillator is not an inexpensive device, so they are not necessarily for everyone. but if your medical history shows you have a tendency toward heart attacks, they’re still recommended. today’s defibrillators are much simpler to use than the old models. These simplified devices are starting to pop up in a lot of public areas.

More than just easier, the defibrillators on the market now are often automated. When you connected them to the patient, they monitor the person’s heart rate and they’ll treat them with the appropriate stimulus only when necessary. They also often come with audio and visual instructions that can walk you through an emergency situation. Children as young as eight years old have been able to use these devices.

Defibrillator sales have also increased because of the availability of implanted devices. Internal defibrillators work similarly to external units but are implanted in the chest and constantly monitor the heart for any problems. Recent technology has made internal defibrillators less invasive to install and many also function as pacemakers.

You can expect defibrillator sales to continue to rise as long as our society faces cardiac arrest as a health problem. Increased availability and lower prices will also fuel this rise.

Whenever I hear someone say that some people are using Fibromyalgia as an excuse to be lazy, it gives the impression that lazy people now have a convenient excuse to be lazy by using this illness.

Well, I have news for you - it’s not an excuse.

Fibromyalgia is a very serious condition and can affect all sorts of people, from soldiers, working moms, to very busy individuals. As people get older, the more they are prone to the illness.

Some individuals who have experienced traumatic incidents, like car crashes, have developed Fibromyalgia. I’m sure they will not appreciate it if people think of them as simply “lazy”.

Fibromyalgia is valid - active people tend to do their activities at night, but the disease stops them from getting a good night’s sleep. Experts say that Fibromyalgia sufferers need at least eight to nine hours of sleep a night to help them combat the disease the following day. However, the symptoms make it hard for sufferers to get a good night’s sleep.

When these active people are suffering from the disease and can’t even do the simplest of activites, it’s very sad. And it get’s even more pitiful when other people, who have no idea what these sufferers are going through, easily claim them to be only lazy.

That is not right.

This is why I created my Fibromyalgia program, to offer sufferers freedom from the debilitating disease. This freedom is not the short-lived freedom that medication gives. This is freedom from the fibromyalgia pain and fatigue for the rest of your life.

And not to mention, show those critics that you’re actually more active than any of them ever will be.

Getting rid of the pain and fatigue does not involve any serious, life-altering practices. Not when you use my Fibromyalgia Program. You only need a few minutes of your time each day to do these exercises which will put more oxygen to the muscles. I’ve found out that lack of oxygen in the muscles is the culprit in the first place.

Try the program, and join the dozens and dozens of my satisfied clients who are now out proving the naysayers wrong.

Warm regards,

Christian Goodman

No one in this world is going to live forever; this is reality that every person has to face in his entire life. Now a day’s every human wants to protect himself and his loved ones for present and future. He can do this very without any difficulty buy purchasing a life insurance policy; according to the needs of the family he can select one depending on his requirements. When the person dies, he not only leaves sadness for his loved ones but also leaves accumulated bills, including medical bills, as well as funeral costs. A life insurance policy makes sure that when death takes place; the whole family is secure during the financial difficulties or strains which occur.

When a person purchases a whole life insurance, he has an advantage which takes into consideration three essential things into consideration they are: costs, coverage duration, and cash value. How fast you decide to buy this policy, you will be able to enjoy so many benefits. One among them is permanent level premium; this will help the person in coming future as it does not increase its rates with the passing time. Not like term life insurance policies, whole life insurance policy covers you for the entire life. Most of the people who want coverage for a limited period of time prefer going for term life insurance. Whereas in case of whole life insurance policy the person need not worry about the coverage coming to an end.

Also unlike term life insurance policies, whole life insurance policies accumulate cash value. You can receive these cash values if you ever decide to surrender your policy. You may also take a policy loan against these cash values at your insurance’s current policy loan rate. It is important to remember that if you surrender your policy or die while a loan is taken out, your cash value or death benefits will be decreased. The cash value accumulation component of whole life insurance policies might be the most popular feature as it acts as an investment component and can even provide you with financial security when you encounter an emergency. This cash value is very essential in growing tax deferred savings feature that you can withdraw or borrow against.

If a person purchases earlier than expected time or funded a lot in the beginning, this can give a good retirement source which can be drawn at the time of retirement as little can be got from social security. For the persons who are above 50, this is very important feature as it provides extra sources of retirement income which can be used for daily living expenses. This can also fulfill a need for accidental long term care which is not exactly enclosed by Medicare. Whole life insurance policy is mostly considered by many people because it is designed in a simple, fast, and affordable way to protect life insurance for elders. And for the people who have fixed budget and are married small amounts of whole life are required in providing final expense coverage and caring the remaining loved one for their left over life.

If you are considering seeking employment in a massage studio, you have quite a bit to think about. There are dozens of types of massage, from Neo-natal to Rolfing to Thai massage. There are massage practices devoted to therapy and rehabilitation. Some are devoted to stress and tension relief.

In many places throughout the world, national, state or city governments require a license to practice massage. If you are considering seeking employment as a masseur or masseuse, you should make yourself aware of these requirements. If you operate against the law, you could find yourself having your business shut down or worse. You could be fined or even put in jail.

However, there are places in the world that have no licensing requirements. In these cases, you would not need a license to practice massage, and you could be employed in a massage studio regardless of your certification.

In places where you do need certification, a massage professional is usually required to have completed a minimum amount of hours of training and supervised practice. For example, in most places in the United States, massage professionals are required to have at least 500 hours of practice and learning. Some states require as many as 800 hours. Also, states will only accept these hours if they are completed with an accredited massage school.

Testing is also a major part of massage certification. Most places in America require massage providers to pass the NCETM, a very demanding national exam. There are also many boards and national and international certification organizations, that will accredit a particular massage professional with a membership if they meet requirements and pay dues. Though most of these certifications have little or no legal bearing, they provide a means for a massage professional to prove their qualifications to potential employers and clients.

One of the difficulties of working as a masseuse or masseur in a jurisdiction that requires licensing is that along with those requirements there are zoning laws to contend with, which might make doing business more difficult. In some places, massage is treated as an “adult business,” and zoning laws force massage studios to operate in areas dominated by sex shops, strip clubs, adult video stores and other unsavory elements. This is due to the unfortunate association between adult massage studios and the sex industry. While many massage studios are in fact facades for illicit and illegal activity, there is no reason a licensed massage practice should be barred from respectable neighborhoods. One of the reasons why the requirements to earn a massage license are demanding is because it inhibits sex workers from earning them falsely.

Many massage professionals debate the effectiveness of tests and certifications. Some of them argue that these requirements safeguard the public from hucksters and frauds posing as legitimate professionals, and ensure that a masseuse or masseur is adequately trained in methods, ethics and laws related to massage. Other people argue that these certifications are a result of the manipulative influence of people who want to control the adult massage Toronto industry for their own personal gain. They lament that these tests and laws drive therapists out of business, drive up costs, and force people to attend expensive training programs -even if they’ve been practicing for years. Also, many people contend that these tests ignore many crucial elements of a massage practice, such as interpersonal skills, ethics and palpitation skills.

During infancy. —————

For three or four weeks after birth the infant sleeps more or less, day and night, only waking to satisfy the demands of hunger; at the expiration of this time, however, each interval of wakefulness grows longer, so that it sleeps less frequently, but for longer periods at a time.

This disposition to repose in the early weeks of the infant’s life must not be interfered with; but this period having expired, great care is necessary to induce regularity in its hours of sleep, otherwise too much will be taken in the day-time, and restless and disturbed nights will follow. The child should be brought into the habit of sleeping in the middle of the day, before its dinner, and for about two hours, more or less. If put to rest at a later period of the day, it will invariably cause a bad night.

At first the infant should sleep with its parent. The low temperature of its body, and its small power of generating heat, render this necessary. If it should happen, however, that the child has disturbed and restless nights, it must immediately be removed to the bed and care of another female, to be brought to its mother at an early hour in the morning, for the purpose of being nursed. This is necessary for the preservation of the mother’s health, which through sleepless nights would of course be soon deranged, and the infant would also suffer from the influence which such deranged health would have upon the milk.

When a month or six weeks has elapsed, the child, if healthy, may sleep alone in a cradle or cot, care being taken that it has a sufficiency of clothing, that the room in which it is placed is sufficiently warm, viz. 60 degrees, and the position of the cot itself is not such as to be exposed to currents of cold air. It is essentially necessary to attend to these points, since the faculty of producing heat, and consequently the power of maintaining the temperature, is less during sleep than at any other time, and therefore exposure to cold is especially injurious. It is but too frequently the case that inflammation of some internal organ will occur under such circumstances, without the true source of the disease ever being suspected. Here, however, a frequent error must be guarded against, that of covering up the infant in its cot with too much clothing throwing over its face the muslin handkerchief and, last of all, drawing the drapery of the bed closely together. The object is to keep the infant sufficiently warm with pure air; it therefore ought to have free access to its mouth, and the atmosphere of the whole room should be kept sufficiently warm to allow the child to breathe it freely: in winter, therefore, there must always be a fire in the nursery.

The child up to two years old, at least, should sleep upon a feather bed, for the reasons referred to above. The pillow, however, after the sixth month, should be made of horsehair; for at this time teething commences, and it is highly important that the head should be kept cool.

During childhood. —————-

Up to the third or fourth year the child should be permitted to sleep for an hour or so before its dinner. After this time it may gradually be discontinued; but it must be recollected, that during the whole period of childhood more sleep is required than in adult age. The child, therefore, should be put to rest every evening between seven and eight; and if it be in health it will sleep soundly until the following morning. No definite rule, however, can be laid down in reference to the number of hours of sleep to be allowed; for one will require more or less than another.Regularity as to the time of going to rest is the chief point to attend to; permit nothing to interfere with it, and then only let the child sleep without disturbance, until it awakes of its own accord on the following morning, and it will have had sufficient rest.

The amount of sleep necessary to preserve health varies according to the state of the body, and the habits of the individual. Infants pass much the greater portion of their time in sleep. Children sleep twelve or fourteen hours. The schoolboy generally ten. In youth, a third part of the twenty-four hours is spent in sleep. Whilst, in advanced age, many do not spend more than four, five, or six hours in sleep.

It is a cruel thing for a mother to sacrifice her child’s health that she may indulge her own vanity, and yet how often is this done in reference to sleep. An evening party is to assemble, and the little child is kept up for hours beyond its stated time for retiring to rest, that it may be exhibited, fondled, and admired. Its usual portion of sleep is thus abridged, and, from the previous excitement, what little he does obtain, is broken and unrefreshing, and he rises on the morrow wearied and exhausted.

Once awake, it should not be permitted to lie longer in bed, but should be encouraged to arise immediately. This is the way to bring about the habit of early rising, which prevents many serious evils to which parents are not sufficiently alive, promotes both mental and corporeal health, and of all habits is said to be the most conducive to longevity.

A child should never be suddenly aroused from sleep; it excites the brain, quickens the action of the heart, and, if often repeated, serious consequences would result. The change of sleeping to waking should always be gradual.

The bed on which the child now sleeps should be a mattress: at this age a feather bed is always injurious to children; for the body, sinking deep into the bed, is completely buried in feathers, and the unnatural degree of warmth thus produced relaxes and weakens the system, particularly the skin, and renders the child unusually susceptible to the impressions of cold. Then, instead of the bed being made up in the morning as soon as vacated, and while still saturated with the nocturnal exhalations from the body, the bed-clothes should be thrown over the backs of chairs, the mattress shaken well up, and the window thrown open for several hours, so that the apartment shall be thoroughly ventilated. It is also indispensably requisite not to allow the child to sleep with persons in bad health, or who are far advanced in life; if possible, it should sleep alone.

Of the three types of skin cancer, melanoma is the most serious. It is more common for melanoma to spread to other parts of the body. When this occurs it gets hard to treat the body and rid it of the cancer. This is why prevention and early detection are key to surviving melanoma. A way to establish the full extent of a suspicious looking mole or mark on the skin is to have a melanoma biopsy. This is often done after a first consultation with a skin cancer professional and confirms the initial diagnosis. It can also provide information on the spread of the cancer and possible treatment.

There are two types of melanoma biopsy. These are known as excisional and incisional biopsies. In short, an excisional biopsy removes the mark or mole entirely. An incisional biopsy takes a sample of the mole.

The preferred method is to excise all the suspicious tissue as it removes all the potentially cancerous cells. It will also take a bit of skin around the perimeter of the growth. Taking a sample or incisional biopsy is normally reserved for large growths or parts of the body, like the face, where a scar or wound could cause psychological distress.

Both of these processes can be done at your doctors surgery or at the skin cancer center. It will normally take around thirty minutes depending on the size and position of the suspicious growth. A local anesthetic is applied to the part of the skin where the biopsy will be performed..

The potentially cancerous cells that have been removed are sent to a pathologist. The pathologist will test the cells and determine whether they are cancerous. He/she will relay this information to your doctor, along with the extent or depth of the cancerous tissues. This will help the doctor to formulate possible treatments for the melanoma.

Melanoma biopsy is the best and only way to establish the true nature of an unusual mark on your skin. It is only performed when a skin cancer professional already suspects that the mark is cancerous. The information that is returned after the biopsy can inform the doctor about how to treat the mark so that the cancer can be eliminated and never return.

Early and conclusive detection of melanoma growths are vital to treating the disease effectively. If found early, the tissues can be cut out. If it has spread then aggressive cancer treatments may be required.

1. Induction - In this phase, which includes first 14 days of the diet, it is said that you will lose up to 15 pounds of your body weight. During this time, the amount of carbohydrates consumed per day will be less than 20 grams. The only carbohydrates included in your Atkins diet recipes will be low carbohydrate-content vegetables like tomato.

2. Ongoing Weight Loss - During this second stage, the consumption of carbohydrates is raised up to 5 grams per day.

3. Pre-maintenance - During this stage of Atkins diet meal plans, the rate of fall of body weight will be slower. Also, you can experiment various other foods to see whether they add your body weight or not. If found safe, you could add it to your Atkins diet food products.

4. Maintenance - You enter this phase when you find that you have reduced the body weight to the desired level. Also you could add some more carbohydrates to your diet which do not raise your body weight, like full wheat bread.

Tail Piece: The ultimate result of Atkins diet program (other diet programs as well) depends solely on how well the person follows the recommendations. Hence make sure that you follow it religiously.