I feel like this column might be a little bit cruel because of the timing but rest assured, I am talking to myself as much as I am anyone who reads this.
I feel disgusting. I am still full from Thanksgiving. It’s actually kind of funny because when my spin instructor said to “enjoy eating good food” (as I shared in last week’s column), I don’t think he meant “enough food for four people by yourself.” Funny? Yes. True? Absolutely. I seriously think I ate enough food for a small family, and I am not proud of it.
But I have learned something that I think it is worth sharing. Since returning from my Thanksgiving gustatory orgy, I have been on a bit of cleansing campaign and it is pretty amazing how different I am starting to feel. The old adage “You are what you eat!” is ringing truer than ever for me right now.
First, I went to the vitamin store and bought “The Complete Body Cleanse.” Three bottles of herbal pills intended to cleanse one’s liver and digestive system. So, I am now popping herbal pills every morning and night for the next two weeks.
Second, I started exercising. Of course, I am back in my spin class, but I am also running and even throwing in a moderate weight workout.
Third, I went to the grocery store (a small miracle in and of itself) and bought healthy food to have in my refrigerator. I bought chicken, turkey, a ton of vegetables, raw almonds and cashews, soy milk, eggs, low-fat string cheese, and a couple other “clean” foods.
Lastly, I decided to only eat for one person, instead of four.
Now, I am not a doctor or a nutritionist, and I am certainly not making any claims; but I can tell you that in just one week, I feel like a new person. I have more energy; I feel better about myself; my clothes fit again; I feel more alert and clear-headed; and I know that I must be internally healthier than I was a week ago.
I guess in some ways, Thanksgiving allowed me to hit my wall. And, for some reason, I don’t think I am alone on this. I actually think that most of us start to feel this way around the holidays. The scary part is that most of the holiday parties haven’t even started yet.
So, I have decided that I will enjoy my holidays. I will go to the parties and family gatherings and enjoy the great food without a single ounce of guilt. But on the days in between, I am going to continue taking my herbal pills, exercising, eating healthy foods, and watching my portions. Is this medically sound? Not sure. But I fairly confident that if I stick to this program, I won’t end up 10 pounds heavier than I was at the end of last year (which is often times the case). Maybe you can try it with me.
Your health matters.
FACTS
Annual costs for chronic diseases in the U.S. is big money:
n $117 billion for obesity
n $73.4 billion for high blood pressure
n $448 billion for heart disease and strokes
n $50 billion for weight-loss aids, diet foods, supplements, and weight-loss medications — and obesity is still increasing
79 percent likelihood exists that an overweight child will become an overweight adult.
TAKE ACTION TODAY
n If you suffer from or have a family history of any of the aforementioned chronic conditions or diseases, consult your family physician for dietary counseling.
n Although every individual is unique in his or her dietary needs, here are some ideas to help all of us:
n Eat more dark green vegetables, legumes, fruits, whole grains, low-fat milk products, and lean meats.
n Eat fewer foods with refined grains and sugars; reduce your intake of fatty foods with empty calories; and eat smaller portions.
n Eat slowly so that you will feel full before you’ve overeaten.
n Don’t reward yourself or children with food.
n Limit snacking.
n Develop a routine and eat at similar times each day.
n Drink plenty of water.
n Eat to live; don’t live to eat.
n You deserve to be in good health. For most, diabetes, hypertension, and other obesity-related chronic diseases are preventable by simply eating healthily and exercising. You will feel better than ever both mentally and physically — the only way to really live.
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Monday, December 14, 2009
Billy Joel's daughter 'feeling better'
The daughter of Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley is reportedly "feeling much better" following her hospitalisation over the weekend.Alexa Ray Joel, 23, was taken to a medical facility in New York by paramedics on Saturday after allegedly overdosing on herbal pills.
In a statement to Extra, her representative said: "She is feeling much better. She is with her family and looking forward to getting back on track.".Alexa added: "I want to thank everyone for their outpouring of love and support."
She is thought to be recuperating at her father's Long Island, NY, home.
In a statement to Extra, her representative said: "She is feeling much better. She is with her family and looking forward to getting back on track.".Alexa added: "I want to thank everyone for their outpouring of love and support."
She is thought to be recuperating at her father's Long Island, NY, home.
Sunday, December 13, 2009
The Rise and Fall of the Penis By Mels van Driel - 2
What seems to have happened here is that a clever Dutch publisher persuaded Dr Van Driel that a basic guide to genital problems could be turned into a best-seller if it were padded out with an assortment of historical did-you-knows and biological fancy-thats. And of course the publisher was on to something. Who, for example, would stop reading halfway through the following: 'The iguana’s sex organ is so shaped that it appears to have two penises. A similar abnormal shape was once diagnosed in a 22-year-old Portuguese gipsy. According to the doctors both penises functioned properly and once he had climaxed with one he immediately continued with the other’?
Where the medical details are concerned, we can assume that Dr Van Driel knows what he is talking about. Various anatomical details are deftly explained, with the aid of helpful diagrams. (There are also illustrations of a kind that you would normally expect to see only in a medical textbook – black-and-white photos of penile malformations, which caused me, while reading this book on a crowded train, to perform some rather sudden page-turns.)
But one has to wonder how reliable he is on anything else. It’s not that I suspect him of making things up when he cites an eminent Dutch sexologist called Professor Slob. The problem, rather, is his tendency to cite other people who have made things up, or got things wrong. No serious medieval historian believes that the Albigensians 'sprinkled the bread used for Holy Communion with human sperm’ – a claim for which Van Driel cites, as his authority, the Victorian sexologist Havelock Ellis.
As for his statement that a female Pope was elected in 855, and that thereafter the papal election procedure involved putting the candidate on a chair with a hole in it and feeling his testicles, whereupon the assembled cardinals sang 'Habet ova noster papa’ ('our Pope has balls’); well, perhaps it goes down well in Groningen, where the local Calvinists might believe such things. But the legend of Pope Joan was actually demolished by a Calvinist scholar, David Blondel, more than 350 years ago.
On some of his topics there are major works of thought-provoking modern scholarship, which any serious researcher should have read: Leo Steinberg on The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art, for example, or Walter Stephens’s marvellous analysis of the Renaissance claims about having sex with the devil. But Van Driel has passed them by.
Sometimes the information Van Driel gives us would be of doubtful value, even if it were true: 'It is said that Rasputin’s sizeable testicles and penis are preserved in a specially made velvet box’, for instance.
Sometimes he seems to miss the point, as when he speculates that Asian men think of powdered-rhinoceros horn as an aphrodisiac because 'the act of mating in rhinoceroses takes almost an hour and involves multiple ejaculations’. (Chinese peasants have surely not seen David Attenborough films about rhinoceroses, but they can perform a simple association of ideas when they think of a large horn.)
Sometimes, on the other hand, the tidbits of information he has assembled are really rather wonderful. I enjoyed learning, for example, that 'the genitalia of the kamikaze drone of the honey bee are decorated with yellowish protuberances and all kinds of fringes and hairs; at orgasm they explode within the queen like a spring and form a natural chastity belt, which bars access to other suitors, even though the mating drone itself drops dead’. But what relevance that may have to Dr Van Driel’s advice on when or whether I should have a vasectomy is, mercifully, hard to imagine.
Where the medical details are concerned, we can assume that Dr Van Driel knows what he is talking about. Various anatomical details are deftly explained, with the aid of helpful diagrams. (There are also illustrations of a kind that you would normally expect to see only in a medical textbook – black-and-white photos of penile malformations, which caused me, while reading this book on a crowded train, to perform some rather sudden page-turns.)
But one has to wonder how reliable he is on anything else. It’s not that I suspect him of making things up when he cites an eminent Dutch sexologist called Professor Slob. The problem, rather, is his tendency to cite other people who have made things up, or got things wrong. No serious medieval historian believes that the Albigensians 'sprinkled the bread used for Holy Communion with human sperm’ – a claim for which Van Driel cites, as his authority, the Victorian sexologist Havelock Ellis.
As for his statement that a female Pope was elected in 855, and that thereafter the papal election procedure involved putting the candidate on a chair with a hole in it and feeling his testicles, whereupon the assembled cardinals sang 'Habet ova noster papa’ ('our Pope has balls’); well, perhaps it goes down well in Groningen, where the local Calvinists might believe such things. But the legend of Pope Joan was actually demolished by a Calvinist scholar, David Blondel, more than 350 years ago.
On some of his topics there are major works of thought-provoking modern scholarship, which any serious researcher should have read: Leo Steinberg on The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art, for example, or Walter Stephens’s marvellous analysis of the Renaissance claims about having sex with the devil. But Van Driel has passed them by.
Sometimes the information Van Driel gives us would be of doubtful value, even if it were true: 'It is said that Rasputin’s sizeable testicles and penis are preserved in a specially made velvet box’, for instance.
Sometimes he seems to miss the point, as when he speculates that Asian men think of powdered-rhinoceros horn as an aphrodisiac because 'the act of mating in rhinoceroses takes almost an hour and involves multiple ejaculations’. (Chinese peasants have surely not seen David Attenborough films about rhinoceroses, but they can perform a simple association of ideas when they think of a large horn.)
Sometimes, on the other hand, the tidbits of information he has assembled are really rather wonderful. I enjoyed learning, for example, that 'the genitalia of the kamikaze drone of the honey bee are decorated with yellowish protuberances and all kinds of fringes and hairs; at orgasm they explode within the queen like a spring and form a natural chastity belt, which bars access to other suitors, even though the mating drone itself drops dead’. But what relevance that may have to Dr Van Driel’s advice on when or whether I should have a vasectomy is, mercifully, hard to imagine.
The Rise and Fall of the Penis By Mels van Driel - 1
'In the last few decades,’ writes the Dutch urologist Mels van Driel on the first page of this book, 'tens of thousands of penises and testicles have been through my hands. Eventually one feels the urge to dig deeper.’ The wording is a little alarming, but what he means by digging more deeply, it turns out, is exploring the non-medical dimensions of the subject. How have our ideas about the male genitalia been influenced by culture, history, literature and religion?
Why is it, for example, that in China and south-east Asia there is a form of impotence so common that it has its own name, 'koro’, referring to the withdrawal of the head of a tortoise? This is a psychiatric syndrome in which the patient becomes convinced that his penis is shrinking and will gradually disappear into his abdomen, thereby causing his death; something in the culture must be causing this notion, which is an extreme rarity in Western societies.
Why is it that seeing men’s genitals in public was acceptable in ancient Greece (at least, at the gymnasium and the athletics field) and unacceptable in Christian societies, although in late medieval Europe the implausibly large codpiece became a popular fashion item? Why did so many people in Renaissance Europe believe that witches had sexual intercourse with the devil, whose penis – according to testimony accepted in court – was scaly or barbed, stone-hard, ice-cold and sometime double-pronged?
One would indeed have to dig into the deepest strata of cultural history and anthropology to frame answers to these questions. Van Driel, however, has done no such thing. Instead, he just mentions these topics in passing, picking out a memorable detail or two before moving on to another oddity of history, culture or biology.
Eventually, one begins to see that these details are merely decorative. The main body of this book is what you would expect a urologist to write: a straightforward account, for the general reader, of how the male genital organs function and how they can go wrong. There are chapters on testosterone and on the ailments of the scrotum; there are discussions of circumcision, castration and vasectomy. This may be the only book I shall ever read that can solemnly state, in the Introduction: 'Men and women contemplating sterilisation will find this book particularly useful.’
Why is it, for example, that in China and south-east Asia there is a form of impotence so common that it has its own name, 'koro’, referring to the withdrawal of the head of a tortoise? This is a psychiatric syndrome in which the patient becomes convinced that his penis is shrinking and will gradually disappear into his abdomen, thereby causing his death; something in the culture must be causing this notion, which is an extreme rarity in Western societies.
Why is it that seeing men’s genitals in public was acceptable in ancient Greece (at least, at the gymnasium and the athletics field) and unacceptable in Christian societies, although in late medieval Europe the implausibly large codpiece became a popular fashion item? Why did so many people in Renaissance Europe believe that witches had sexual intercourse with the devil, whose penis – according to testimony accepted in court – was scaly or barbed, stone-hard, ice-cold and sometime double-pronged?
One would indeed have to dig into the deepest strata of cultural history and anthropology to frame answers to these questions. Van Driel, however, has done no such thing. Instead, he just mentions these topics in passing, picking out a memorable detail or two before moving on to another oddity of history, culture or biology.
Eventually, one begins to see that these details are merely decorative. The main body of this book is what you would expect a urologist to write: a straightforward account, for the general reader, of how the male genital organs function and how they can go wrong. There are chapters on testosterone and on the ailments of the scrotum; there are discussions of circumcision, castration and vasectomy. This may be the only book I shall ever read that can solemnly state, in the Introduction: 'Men and women contemplating sterilisation will find this book particularly useful.’
Pills, capsules, herbal pieces right mixture for e-commerce trade - 2
Finally, when we get valid information, we need to transform awareness into action, and strive to achieve our expected goal.
Our energy is limited. The situation of all enterprises are not the same, if there are a lot of personnel in one company, they can deal with plenty of business. However, if the amount of staff is small in a company, the success rate and the high quality of customers’ accumulation will become their requirement. The success rate is not a source of quantity, but your grasp of the customer, as well as your own positioning. Our first order is neither derived from the first customer, nor attracted the customer solely by price. We studied the background and the needs of customer, simplified and focused the qualification of our company and product. The result is that we not only sold the goods, but our price is 7% higher than the market price and become the customer's exclusive supplier. At present, the mode of operation has formed, and the customer started his monthly procurement plans. The attitude depends on the consciousness. Your good intention will get more recognition, and will bring you more additional significance. We appreciate those who have reason from dissatisfaction to satisfaction. We walk in such a way designed for ourselves and do not seek everything that other people would really understand, but one day, when they understand, we will stand higher and see farther.
After we joined Alibaba, we increased a lot of confidence, just like standing on the shoulders of giants. We have self-confidence and a unique character that other people do not have. I believe we will make more great achievements in the future.
Our energy is limited. The situation of all enterprises are not the same, if there are a lot of personnel in one company, they can deal with plenty of business. However, if the amount of staff is small in a company, the success rate and the high quality of customers’ accumulation will become their requirement. The success rate is not a source of quantity, but your grasp of the customer, as well as your own positioning. Our first order is neither derived from the first customer, nor attracted the customer solely by price. We studied the background and the needs of customer, simplified and focused the qualification of our company and product. The result is that we not only sold the goods, but our price is 7% higher than the market price and become the customer's exclusive supplier. At present, the mode of operation has formed, and the customer started his monthly procurement plans. The attitude depends on the consciousness. Your good intention will get more recognition, and will bring you more additional significance. We appreciate those who have reason from dissatisfaction to satisfaction. We walk in such a way designed for ourselves and do not seek everything that other people would really understand, but one day, when they understand, we will stand higher and see farther.
After we joined Alibaba, we increased a lot of confidence, just like standing on the shoulders of giants. We have self-confidence and a unique character that other people do not have. I believe we will make more great achievements in the future.
Pills, capsules, herbal pieces right mixture for e-commerce trade - 1
As the saying goes “the falling of one leaf heralds the autumn”. A small sign can indicate a great trend. Today, the information is so diverse, transparent. What should we choose, how to convey the consciousness, how to create the value belonging to our own and play their greatest effect has been bothering us. Put simply, if we spent the money, how can we find and get maximum output? Hereby, I want to share my feeling with you. I got the feeling by using the Alibaba website in the first year of the financial crisis.
First of all, we need to build confidence, identify goals, discover what we want and find out reasons to meet our needs. If we want to get something, first of all, we need to perceive the targets precisely and find out the channels to reach the goal. Perceptual goal is what we usually refer to target customers and the expected outputs. The formulation of goals needs us to analyze the external environment, evaluate and affirm ourselves objectively and to understand our position in the external environment. Only we understand our own position, we will know what we need, so that we will not catch cold when the weather is changeable.
Secondly, discover what we want and find out reasons to meet our needs.
Two heads are better than one. It’s necessary for us to find a suitable and helpful tool, at the same time, we have the ability to control it and achieve our goals. The ability to find tool and control it will determine whether our potential can be tapped out and our consciousness can be expressed fully in the ever-changing market. Martial arts movie always say “the sword and the person are one in all”, it means that you have to have the ability to control and well know the tools which convey your sense.
We did not in-depth get in touch with e-commerce until we joined Alibaba. It provides us with a channel to establish the information and deliver the value. Alibaba has tremendous information resources and fascination. As we set up our hopes, we need to choose the valuable resources from the abundant information. We have also been deepening the product functionality and professional human description. When a thing is added into the human element and emotion, the customers no longer face a single product and boring data. Positive and negative is a kind of attitude, as well as spiritual level’s contacts. It is more important to instil your consciousness into your product marketing than list your single and boring data. Our job is to convey this concept and the uniqueness of services value to the customers. Maybe your products are not exclusively produced, but your unique methods will also bring you unexpected results. To maintain a high frequency of exposure, add new products, launch new sales information, adjust the products, etc. have brought us a lot of opportunities. Many people will care about the click rate and the transaction value, but we should not overlook the quality of the accumulation of customers. If we only attract customers by price, there will be crisis of the accumulation. This is the same as we are looking for mate to marry and live. Only handsome or beautiful is not enough, it also need reach a tacit agreement. Many of my friends have a lot of customers. Everyday, a lot of people will go there and then leave. We should change our own shop into a private club where you set forth the value to your customer. We should give products more human nature, make cultural atmosphere become a sword to attract customers and friends. Humanities desertification is eroding our precious creativity, which should arouse our attention.
First of all, we need to build confidence, identify goals, discover what we want and find out reasons to meet our needs. If we want to get something, first of all, we need to perceive the targets precisely and find out the channels to reach the goal. Perceptual goal is what we usually refer to target customers and the expected outputs. The formulation of goals needs us to analyze the external environment, evaluate and affirm ourselves objectively and to understand our position in the external environment. Only we understand our own position, we will know what we need, so that we will not catch cold when the weather is changeable.
Secondly, discover what we want and find out reasons to meet our needs.
Two heads are better than one. It’s necessary for us to find a suitable and helpful tool, at the same time, we have the ability to control it and achieve our goals. The ability to find tool and control it will determine whether our potential can be tapped out and our consciousness can be expressed fully in the ever-changing market. Martial arts movie always say “the sword and the person are one in all”, it means that you have to have the ability to control and well know the tools which convey your sense.
We did not in-depth get in touch with e-commerce until we joined Alibaba. It provides us with a channel to establish the information and deliver the value. Alibaba has tremendous information resources and fascination. As we set up our hopes, we need to choose the valuable resources from the abundant information. We have also been deepening the product functionality and professional human description. When a thing is added into the human element and emotion, the customers no longer face a single product and boring data. Positive and negative is a kind of attitude, as well as spiritual level’s contacts. It is more important to instil your consciousness into your product marketing than list your single and boring data. Our job is to convey this concept and the uniqueness of services value to the customers. Maybe your products are not exclusively produced, but your unique methods will also bring you unexpected results. To maintain a high frequency of exposure, add new products, launch new sales information, adjust the products, etc. have brought us a lot of opportunities. Many people will care about the click rate and the transaction value, but we should not overlook the quality of the accumulation of customers. If we only attract customers by price, there will be crisis of the accumulation. This is the same as we are looking for mate to marry and live. Only handsome or beautiful is not enough, it also need reach a tacit agreement. Many of my friends have a lot of customers. Everyday, a lot of people will go there and then leave. We should change our own shop into a private club where you set forth the value to your customer. We should give products more human nature, make cultural atmosphere become a sword to attract customers and friends. Humanities desertification is eroding our precious creativity, which should arouse our attention.
How I helped nail the 'manhood' spammer - 3
In June, my police contact told me to put a date aside in my diary for late 2009 to fly to New Zealand as Shane was still intending to go to court. Luckily I didn't have to make the trip. Shane fell on his sword and agreed to pay a fine to settle his case. It cost him NZ$100,000 (approx £60,000). It was the same amount his brother Lance agreed to earlier in the year.
Not much when you consider one law enforcement official told me it was estimated the gang was making about £150,000 a month. The Federal Trade Commission in America was also on the case. They were targeting Lance and the man running the US end of the operation, Jody Smith. Earlier this week the FTC announced Smith would turn over nearly all his assets.
They also imposed a $15m fine on Lance Atkinson. It sounded impressive but Lance had already been given a $2.2m fine by the FTC in 2005. As he was living in Australia the US authorities couldn't force him to pay. Unless he is planning a trip to Disneyland the fine will remain a largely symbolic gesture.
The Elite Herbal website is no more. It has been replaced by another. Are Shane and Lance Atkinson still running spam e-mail operations? The authorities don't think so, as they are keeping an eye on them. Filters are getting better at blocking out spam but with 120 billion sent each day you only need a tiny percentage of buyers to make some serious money. And what of the Manster pills. I was tempted to try one, for research purposes obviously. My producer, Richard, wanted me to but he was over-ruled by a far greater power - my wife.
Not much when you consider one law enforcement official told me it was estimated the gang was making about £150,000 a month. The Federal Trade Commission in America was also on the case. They were targeting Lance and the man running the US end of the operation, Jody Smith. Earlier this week the FTC announced Smith would turn over nearly all his assets.
They also imposed a $15m fine on Lance Atkinson. It sounded impressive but Lance had already been given a $2.2m fine by the FTC in 2005. As he was living in Australia the US authorities couldn't force him to pay. Unless he is planning a trip to Disneyland the fine will remain a largely symbolic gesture.
The Elite Herbal website is no more. It has been replaced by another. Are Shane and Lance Atkinson still running spam e-mail operations? The authorities don't think so, as they are keeping an eye on them. Filters are getting better at blocking out spam but with 120 billion sent each day you only need a tiny percentage of buyers to make some serious money. And what of the Manster pills. I was tempted to try one, for research purposes obviously. My producer, Richard, wanted me to but he was over-ruled by a far greater power - my wife.
How I helped nail the 'manhood' spammer - 2
When I called him he denied sending any spam e-mails: "It wasn't me mate, we closed all that down years ago. I'm not controlling any computers, mate." Shane and his brother Lance were well known spammers who ran a global operation with another man, Jody Smith, in the US. For years they had exploited the lack of anti-spamming legislation in New Zealand but the country had recently brought in new laws and the authorities were determined to shut down Elite Herbal.
Planned raid
E-mails subsequently shown to me by law enforcement sources showed that shortly after my phone call Shane Atkinson had contacted his suppliers in India asking what was going on.
I had already been in touch with them and they also wanted to know why a BBC journalist was asking awkward questions.
New Zealand's Department of Internal Affairs had been planning to raid Atkinson's house in early 2008 but following my phone call they were forced to act. They raided Shane's house in December and took away his computers. It meant officers working over the holiday. As one later told me I wasn't their favourite journalist.
To make matters worse, the case led to headlines in New Zealand asking why a British reporter had got to Atkinson before the police.
One memorable interview with a radio station in Auckland began with the question "Why are the police here so crap?"
You don't get that kind of question from John Humphrys, so I fudged a reply and wrapped it up as quickly as I could. It wasn't long before New Zealand's Department of Internal Affairs got in touch. In early 2008 I received an e-mail asking if I could provide any material for the investigation into Shane Atkinson and the Elite Herbal spamming operation?
An affidavit followed asking for as much information as possible. Not surprisingly BBC producer Richard Vadon and I declined to hand over anything that would reveal any sources but after lengthy conversations with lawyers and the BBC's policy advisers, we did give them some material which had already been in the programme.
£150,000 a month
For several months everything went quiet. I assumed my spam adventure was over. Apart that is from the scores of spam e-mails I was still getting every day. Then in the autumn of 2008 two officers from New Zealand's anti-spam unit flew over to visit me. Atkinson was refusing to plead guilty and they wanted to know if I would testify should the case come to court. I agreed, in principle uneasy at the prospect of appearing in the witness box. All of this for a civil case, which at the most would mean Atkinson getting a fine.
Planned raid
E-mails subsequently shown to me by law enforcement sources showed that shortly after my phone call Shane Atkinson had contacted his suppliers in India asking what was going on.
I had already been in touch with them and they also wanted to know why a BBC journalist was asking awkward questions.
New Zealand's Department of Internal Affairs had been planning to raid Atkinson's house in early 2008 but following my phone call they were forced to act. They raided Shane's house in December and took away his computers. It meant officers working over the holiday. As one later told me I wasn't their favourite journalist.
To make matters worse, the case led to headlines in New Zealand asking why a British reporter had got to Atkinson before the police.
One memorable interview with a radio station in Auckland began with the question "Why are the police here so crap?"
You don't get that kind of question from John Humphrys, so I fudged a reply and wrapped it up as quickly as I could. It wasn't long before New Zealand's Department of Internal Affairs got in touch. In early 2008 I received an e-mail asking if I could provide any material for the investigation into Shane Atkinson and the Elite Herbal spamming operation?
An affidavit followed asking for as much information as possible. Not surprisingly BBC producer Richard Vadon and I declined to hand over anything that would reveal any sources but after lengthy conversations with lawyers and the BBC's policy advisers, we did give them some material which had already been in the programme.
£150,000 a month
For several months everything went quiet. I assumed my spam adventure was over. Apart that is from the scores of spam e-mails I was still getting every day. Then in the autumn of 2008 two officers from New Zealand's anti-spam unit flew over to visit me. Atkinson was refusing to plead guilty and they wanted to know if I would testify should the case come to court. I agreed, in principle uneasy at the prospect of appearing in the witness box. All of this for a civil case, which at the most would mean Atkinson getting a fine.
How I helped nail the 'manhood' spammer - 1
Two years ago Radio 4 reporter Simon Cox wrote in the Magazine about how he had traced the mastermind of an e-mail spamming scam. It signalled the start of a legal case which has just seen the spammer ordered to pay a huge fine. It all started with a bottle of pills. They were the colour of bluebottles and as big as beetles. In December 2007 I ordered the "Manster" pills from the Elite Herbal Website - advertised in an e-mail for their penis enlargement qualities.
I paid $70 for the promise of "new exciting horizons of sensual pleasure". I wanted to find the spammers who plague our inboxes with unwanted e-mails and Elite Herbal was the ideal place to start. As well as Manster the site sold everything from diet pills to herbal Viagra and was part of the world's biggest spamming operation. Finding the men who ran it wasn't going to be easy. I decided to follow the money trail. After various dead ends I managed to track a computer monitoring Elite Herbal orders to an IP address [a unique code ascribed to each computer on the internet] in Christchurch in New Zealand.
I paid $70 for the promise of "new exciting horizons of sensual pleasure". I wanted to find the spammers who plague our inboxes with unwanted e-mails and Elite Herbal was the ideal place to start. As well as Manster the site sold everything from diet pills to herbal Viagra and was part of the world's biggest spamming operation. Finding the men who ran it wasn't going to be easy. I decided to follow the money trail. After various dead ends I managed to track a computer monitoring Elite Herbal orders to an IP address [a unique code ascribed to each computer on the internet] in Christchurch in New Zealand.
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
20,000 herbal pills seized in Darwen destroyed
A HAUL of 20,000 ‘herbal ecstasy’ pills seized from a house in Darwen have been destroyed.
Forensic police tested the tablets found in a terrace house in Higher Church Street on October 7, and found they all contained the chemicals Benzylpiperazine and Trifl-uoromethylphenylpiperazine.
Despite their legality, the pills have been destroyed because nobody claimed ownership of them.
A 33-year-old woman initially arrested for the haul along with a quantity of cannabis plants has been released on police bail until January 6 pending further inquiries.
Forensic police tested the tablets found in a terrace house in Higher Church Street on October 7, and found they all contained the chemicals Benzylpiperazine and Trifl-uoromethylphenylpiperazine.
Despite their legality, the pills have been destroyed because nobody claimed ownership of them.
A 33-year-old woman initially arrested for the haul along with a quantity of cannabis plants has been released on police bail until January 6 pending further inquiries.
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Herbal supplements are very helpful in having a good diet and a healthy body. Herbal diet recently gained some exposure and popularity for its immense capabilities in maintaining good health. Few people claim that it keeps the excess weight at bay. And few researches also prove that consumption of herbal supplements and following a herbal diet would minimize the risk of failure to a great extent. There are many different herb diets as described in the website. It has information on which herbal diets will suit people the most, which diets can turn addictive and the role of herbal supplements in the routine diet plan of the day.
This website is a rich source of information for anyone and everyone who is looking for complete knowledge based information on the herbal products, advantages, supplement and herbal diet.
Article Source: http://www.hearbalreleaf.com
The categories include herbal care, herbal diet, drinks, herbal pills, plants, remedies, schools, supplements, tea and even herbal skins care methods and products. And all the categories have articles on how herbal supplements can help and explain the benefits of herbal rich products and herbal supplements.
Herbal supplements are very helpful in having a good diet and a healthy body. Herbal diet recently gained some exposure and popularity for its immense capabilities in maintaining good health. Few people claim that it keeps the excess weight at bay. And few researches also prove that consumption of herbal supplements and following a herbal diet would minimize the risk of failure to a great extent. There are many different herb diets as described in the website. It has information on which herbal diets will suit people the most, which diets can turn addictive and the role of herbal supplements in the routine diet plan of the day.
This website is a rich source of information for anyone and everyone who is looking for complete knowledge based information on the herbal products, advantages, supplement and herbal diet.
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Sunday, November 15, 2009
Natural Breast Enhancement - Just How Effective are Natural Breast Enhancement Products?
So, what are your options for natural breast enhancement if you are seeking ways to non-surgically alter (augment) the size of your breasts? Some may still say there is no way to increase your breast size other than breast augmentation surgery (breast
implants). This, quite simply, is not true.
There are, in fact, natural breast enhancement products, pills, systems and treatments that will not only increase the size of your breasts, but make them firmer, more toned and more
lifted. http://www.breastenhancepill.com
The natural breast enhancement market is currently flooding with a slew of cheap imitation supplements and other natural breast enhancement products that do nothing more than temporarily bloat you with water retention, making your breasts swell, only to then have them return to their normal size when the product use is discontinued.
A good rule of thumb here is that old cliche, "you get what you pay for". If you buy a $20.00 natural breast enhancement product, you can expect the same value in return for your results. On the other hand, there are some very effective phytoestrogen and non-phytoestrogen natural breast enhancement products that deliver very satisfactory results after a couple months of usage, and for a very affordable price compared to surgical breast augmentation.
It is highly recommended that in order to get the best results from your chosen natural breast enhancement product, you stay on the treatment for 6 months consecutively. This increases your chances for successful permanent breast growth and
maintenance, and also increases the maximum cup size you will achieve.
What are the results you can realistically expect from a quality natural breast enhancement product? To better understand what herbal and natural breast enhancement supplements do I'll tell you what "average" customers tell us.
Most women have this to say after anywhere from one to six months of being on herbal breast enhancement:
* Breasts felt tender and possibly even like pre-period breast pain withing about one month of use, but usually no growth at this point
* At 4-6 months many may experience roughly 1/2 cup size increase
As a customer of natural breast enhancement, I can testify to the fact that (some, not all!) of these natural breast enhancement products really can be a very effective
alternative to breast augmentation surgery to those who are not satisfied with their current breast size.
I personally experienced almost a full cup size increase in the course of about 5 months of natural breast enhancement treatment and still have maintained it almost two years later. There really is nothing to lose since most quality natural breast enhancement products offer a money back guarantee of some sort. So, before you give up on getting the breasts you've always desired, take a look at your options - you will find they are genuinely effective!
Visit Breast Enhancement Pills Product Info, Comparisons and Reviews for real success stories, product info and reviews and articles on natural breast enhancement. Danna Schneider is the founder of BreastEnhancePill.com and Natural-Breast-Guide.com.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Danna_Schneider
implants). This, quite simply, is not true.
There are, in fact, natural breast enhancement products, pills, systems and treatments that will not only increase the size of your breasts, but make them firmer, more toned and more
lifted. http://www.breastenhancepill.com
The natural breast enhancement market is currently flooding with a slew of cheap imitation supplements and other natural breast enhancement products that do nothing more than temporarily bloat you with water retention, making your breasts swell, only to then have them return to their normal size when the product use is discontinued.
A good rule of thumb here is that old cliche, "you get what you pay for". If you buy a $20.00 natural breast enhancement product, you can expect the same value in return for your results. On the other hand, there are some very effective phytoestrogen and non-phytoestrogen natural breast enhancement products that deliver very satisfactory results after a couple months of usage, and for a very affordable price compared to surgical breast augmentation.
It is highly recommended that in order to get the best results from your chosen natural breast enhancement product, you stay on the treatment for 6 months consecutively. This increases your chances for successful permanent breast growth and
maintenance, and also increases the maximum cup size you will achieve.
What are the results you can realistically expect from a quality natural breast enhancement product? To better understand what herbal and natural breast enhancement supplements do I'll tell you what "average" customers tell us.
Most women have this to say after anywhere from one to six months of being on herbal breast enhancement:
* Breasts felt tender and possibly even like pre-period breast pain withing about one month of use, but usually no growth at this point
* At 4-6 months many may experience roughly 1/2 cup size increase
As a customer of natural breast enhancement, I can testify to the fact that (some, not all!) of these natural breast enhancement products really can be a very effective
alternative to breast augmentation surgery to those who are not satisfied with their current breast size.
I personally experienced almost a full cup size increase in the course of about 5 months of natural breast enhancement treatment and still have maintained it almost two years later. There really is nothing to lose since most quality natural breast enhancement products offer a money back guarantee of some sort. So, before you give up on getting the breasts you've always desired, take a look at your options - you will find they are genuinely effective!
Visit Breast Enhancement Pills Product Info, Comparisons and Reviews for real success stories, product info and reviews and articles on natural breast enhancement. Danna Schneider is the founder of BreastEnhancePill.com and Natural-Breast-Guide.com.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Danna_Schneider
Fertility After Forty
The most fertile years of a woman's life are those between 18 and 28. Even into the mid-thirties, it is usually fairly easy to conceive and carry a pregnancy to term. During these years the hormones that control ovulation, enhance conception, and ensure a healthy pregnancy are usually made easily and in generous quantities. And detrimental life-style choices have not had decades of repetition to create chronic problems.
But more and more women are waiting until their late thirties, early forties, even late forties, to have children. Is this too late? Are these destined to have high-risk pregnancies? Will these children have more birth defects?
The answer to these questions - and others like them - is "no!" for wise women who enlist the help of green allies to increase fertility, ensure conception, prevent birth defects, and promote a healthy pregnancy and an easy delivery.
INCREASING FERTILITY; ENSURING CONCEPTION
Increase your chances of conception by meditating. Cultivating a calm attitude, not surprisingly, enhances fertility. Even taking a quiet five minutes alone just for you, free of all responsibilities, can bring big results if done frequently enough.
Use lunaception to time your ovulation so you have the best odds of conceiving. It's fine to have sex in the weeks before ovulation, especially if the sex is focused on the woman and her orgasm, but do save your best efforts for those three nights when your "moon" is full and bright and ready to frolic.
Orgasm on the part of the male is necessary for fertilization. The woman's orgasm does increase the possibility of conception. Women who experience orgasm after their partner (up to 40 minutes after his ejaculation) have the very best chance of becoming pregnant.
Red clover is the single best remedy for women over forty who want to conceive but can't - even if there are medical reasons for not conceiving such as blocked tubes, diabetes, ovarian cysts, internal scarring, or endometriosis. There are many heart-warming success stories I could share about red clover! But suffice to say, drinking 2-4 cups of the infusion of the dried blossoms (neither tincture nor tea nor pills will work for this application) seems to do wonders for fertility, no matter what your age.
PREVENTING BIRTH DEFECTS
Boosting your nutritional status makes birth defects less of a worry. Women who drink 2-4 cups of stinging nettle infusion daily and eat cooked leafy greens as well as lettuce salads are getting the abundant folic acid, calcium, magnesium, and other minerals needed to create a healthy baby. (Tinctures, pills, and teas contain little or none of these important nutrients.)
Vitamin E is an especially critical nutrient for fertility after forty and freedom from birth defects. Freshly-ground wheat flour, cold-pressed oils, and nut butters are all good sources of vitamin E, as are stinging nettle infusion and most cooked seaweed, such as kelp. The man's vitamin E level has as much, if not more, bearing on freedom from birth defects as does the woman's vitamin E level.
Avoid heat, both of you. Hot tubs, even prolonged soaking in a hot bath, can cause temporary (up to several months) sterility in some men. In women, it can endanger the early embryo and trigger a miscarriage or birth defects.
Avoid drugs, both of you, including alcohol, tobacco, coffee, as well as over-the-counter drugs and prescription drugs (except those you absolutely need). Your liver needs to be strong and so do your kidneys, so you can conceive and gestate a child. Instead of alcohol, which damages the liver, drink herbal infusions or alcohol-free wine or beer. Instead of tobacco, which may contribute to birth defects and low birth weight, try smoking a little dried peppermint, or, better yet, go for a walk. Instead of coffee, which challenges the kidneys, you may wish to drink green tea or black tea, or try coffee substitutes, especially the one made with dandelion roots. Instead of drugs to ease everyday aches and pains, use the gentle herbal remedies in this book instead.
EMOTIONAL ISSUES
Ambivalence about pregnancy and parenthood is normal and natural. But the older a woman gets, the more complicated her emotions about it may be. Add to her emotional soup pot strong opinions from family and friends, confusing information spread by the popular media, and fear-inducing pronouncements from "helpful" medical professionals, and that pot will be in danger of boiling over. Herewith then, some wise woman hints for keeping your cool in the midst of overt and covert confusion.
Contrary to current opinion, having children in your forties is ordinary and common worldwide. The Bible mentions several women having children in their fifties. What is unusual and unique to our time is having a first child in one's forties. Our mother's, mother's, mothers were having their fifth or eighth or tenth child when they were in their forties, not their first. If people tell you it just isn't done, close your eyes and call upon the spirit of your great-great-great-great grandmother, then smile and tell them it seems utterly ordinary to you.
Feeling tense and distressed about choosing or refusing motherhood?
Motherwort tincture is my favorite calmative. A dose of 10-20 drops helps clear your mind, eases your tension, and assists you in discerning the best path to follow.
Bach flower remedies excel as helpers when you are feeling emotionally overwhelmed. Try:
* Aspen when you feel anxious, apprehensive, or afraid of the unknown.
* Mimulus when you are dwelling on a specific fear.
* Elm when you feel overwhelmed or inadequate.
* Red Chestnut when you are afraid for or worried about your baby to be.
* Rock Rose when you are trembling, shaking, or weeping from anxiety or fear.
Regular gentle massage or Reiki treatments not only help you calm your distress, they also guide you in creating a strong center that's resistant to being pushed around by other people's opinions. Massage and/or Reiki also help prepare your mind/body for a healthy pregnancy and a safe birth.
SPECIAL ALLIES FOR PREGNANT WOMEN OVER FORTY
The single most important herb for pregnant women over forty is comfrey (Symphytum uplandica hybrids). The leaves of the mature plant contain an abundance of constituents beneficial to mother and babe, including generous amounts of minerals, alantoin, proteins, and many vitamins. The minerals in comfrey help ensure healthy nervous system growth; the fetus's developing brain uses the proteins. And the alantoin helps the mother's tissues become stretchy and elastic.
Aging can lead to increased stiffness and brittleness in bones and muscles, making pregnancy more arduous and painful, labor slower and more difficult, and injury more likely during birth. The hormones of pregnancy, which help soften and relax the pelvic tissues, may not be produced in adequate amounts. Comfrey comes to the rescue! Comfrey creates flexible and strong tissues throughout the body especially mucus surfaces (including intestines, uterus, bladder and vagina), the bones, the ligaments and tendons, and the skin.
Regular use of the leaf infusion, at least a quart a week, promotes a safe delivery by:
* strengthening uterine muscles and preparing them to work easily and well
* strengthening perineal tissues so they become resistant to tearing
* strengthening uterine ligaments so the uterus does not prolapse
* strengthening the bladder and increasing resistance to bacterial infection
* strengthening the vagina and helping to promote an environment hostile to infection
* providing easily assimilated minerals to prevent eclampsia and other complications
* helping the bones of the pelvis flex and open during birth
* increasing iron in the blood and thus forestalling post-partum hemorrhage.
I harvest the flowering stalks when they are fully formed; and I am careful to use the cultivated garden comfrey, which grows very tall and has purplish, pinkish, bluish flowers. I avoid wild comfrey, which stays rather small even when flowering, and has cream-colored, white, or yellowish flowers.
Some people feel that comfrey is not safe to use during pregnancy. Some people feel comfrey is not safe to use internally at all. I disagree. The roots of comfrey do contain compounds that are best avoided during pregnancy (as do all parts of the wild plant). In fact, I rarely use comfrey root because of the possibility of liver congestion, and I strongly caution those who have had hepatitis, chemotherapy, or alcohol problems to strictly avoid comfrey root. Yet even these people can benefit from use of comfrey leaf infusions.
Another important herbal ally for women over forty who desire a child is chaste tree (Vitex agnus-castii). It has been used in Africa and parts of Europe for several thousand years to discourage the male libido. In women, the effects seem to be the opposite! It may also be a fertility enhancer. Most importantly, chaste tree is a strengthening tonic for the pituitary gland, the master control gland for the endocrine system. Daily use of the tincture of the berries (1 dropperful/1 ml 2-3 times daily) had been shown to increase progesterone - the hormone of pregnancy - and luteinizing hormone - which promotes conception. Because it can lower prolactin levels, chaste tree is best discontinued during the last trimester of pregnancy.
Dong quai (Angelica sinensis) is not recommended for women over forty. In general, this herb promotes blood flow to the uterus and surrounding tissues. This can promote the growth of fibroids and increase the risk of post-partum hemorrhage. Ginger is a better warming tonic; motherwort is better at relieving pain; and raspberry is better at preparing the uterus for birth.
Legal Disclaimer: This content is not intended to replace conventional medical treatment. Any suggestions made and all herbs listed are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease, condition or symptom. Personal directions and use should be provided by a clinical herbalist or other qualified healthcare practitioner with a specific formula for you. All material contained herein is provided for general information purposes only and should not be considered medical advice or consultation. Contact a reputable healthcare practitioner if you are in need of medical care. Exercise self-empowerment by seeking a second opinion.
Susun Weed
PO Box 64
Woodstock, NY 12498
Fax: 1-845-246-8081
Learn how to prevent illness and heal yourself safely and easily the Wise Woman Way. Women's health forum, FREE womens forum, weblog, and email group. Topics include menopause, breast health, childbearing, fertility, disease prevention, nutritional advice, and cancer prevention. Visit the Wise Woman Web
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Susun_Weed
But more and more women are waiting until their late thirties, early forties, even late forties, to have children. Is this too late? Are these destined to have high-risk pregnancies? Will these children have more birth defects?
The answer to these questions - and others like them - is "no!" for wise women who enlist the help of green allies to increase fertility, ensure conception, prevent birth defects, and promote a healthy pregnancy and an easy delivery.
INCREASING FERTILITY; ENSURING CONCEPTION
Increase your chances of conception by meditating. Cultivating a calm attitude, not surprisingly, enhances fertility. Even taking a quiet five minutes alone just for you, free of all responsibilities, can bring big results if done frequently enough.
Use lunaception to time your ovulation so you have the best odds of conceiving. It's fine to have sex in the weeks before ovulation, especially if the sex is focused on the woman and her orgasm, but do save your best efforts for those three nights when your "moon" is full and bright and ready to frolic.
Orgasm on the part of the male is necessary for fertilization. The woman's orgasm does increase the possibility of conception. Women who experience orgasm after their partner (up to 40 minutes after his ejaculation) have the very best chance of becoming pregnant.
Red clover is the single best remedy for women over forty who want to conceive but can't - even if there are medical reasons for not conceiving such as blocked tubes, diabetes, ovarian cysts, internal scarring, or endometriosis. There are many heart-warming success stories I could share about red clover! But suffice to say, drinking 2-4 cups of the infusion of the dried blossoms (neither tincture nor tea nor pills will work for this application) seems to do wonders for fertility, no matter what your age.
PREVENTING BIRTH DEFECTS
Boosting your nutritional status makes birth defects less of a worry. Women who drink 2-4 cups of stinging nettle infusion daily and eat cooked leafy greens as well as lettuce salads are getting the abundant folic acid, calcium, magnesium, and other minerals needed to create a healthy baby. (Tinctures, pills, and teas contain little or none of these important nutrients.)
Vitamin E is an especially critical nutrient for fertility after forty and freedom from birth defects. Freshly-ground wheat flour, cold-pressed oils, and nut butters are all good sources of vitamin E, as are stinging nettle infusion and most cooked seaweed, such as kelp. The man's vitamin E level has as much, if not more, bearing on freedom from birth defects as does the woman's vitamin E level.
Avoid heat, both of you. Hot tubs, even prolonged soaking in a hot bath, can cause temporary (up to several months) sterility in some men. In women, it can endanger the early embryo and trigger a miscarriage or birth defects.
Avoid drugs, both of you, including alcohol, tobacco, coffee, as well as over-the-counter drugs and prescription drugs (except those you absolutely need). Your liver needs to be strong and so do your kidneys, so you can conceive and gestate a child. Instead of alcohol, which damages the liver, drink herbal infusions or alcohol-free wine or beer. Instead of tobacco, which may contribute to birth defects and low birth weight, try smoking a little dried peppermint, or, better yet, go for a walk. Instead of coffee, which challenges the kidneys, you may wish to drink green tea or black tea, or try coffee substitutes, especially the one made with dandelion roots. Instead of drugs to ease everyday aches and pains, use the gentle herbal remedies in this book instead.
EMOTIONAL ISSUES
Ambivalence about pregnancy and parenthood is normal and natural. But the older a woman gets, the more complicated her emotions about it may be. Add to her emotional soup pot strong opinions from family and friends, confusing information spread by the popular media, and fear-inducing pronouncements from "helpful" medical professionals, and that pot will be in danger of boiling over. Herewith then, some wise woman hints for keeping your cool in the midst of overt and covert confusion.
Contrary to current opinion, having children in your forties is ordinary and common worldwide. The Bible mentions several women having children in their fifties. What is unusual and unique to our time is having a first child in one's forties. Our mother's, mother's, mothers were having their fifth or eighth or tenth child when they were in their forties, not their first. If people tell you it just isn't done, close your eyes and call upon the spirit of your great-great-great-great grandmother, then smile and tell them it seems utterly ordinary to you.
Feeling tense and distressed about choosing or refusing motherhood?
Motherwort tincture is my favorite calmative. A dose of 10-20 drops helps clear your mind, eases your tension, and assists you in discerning the best path to follow.
Bach flower remedies excel as helpers when you are feeling emotionally overwhelmed. Try:
* Aspen when you feel anxious, apprehensive, or afraid of the unknown.
* Mimulus when you are dwelling on a specific fear.
* Elm when you feel overwhelmed or inadequate.
* Red Chestnut when you are afraid for or worried about your baby to be.
* Rock Rose when you are trembling, shaking, or weeping from anxiety or fear.
Regular gentle massage or Reiki treatments not only help you calm your distress, they also guide you in creating a strong center that's resistant to being pushed around by other people's opinions. Massage and/or Reiki also help prepare your mind/body for a healthy pregnancy and a safe birth.
SPECIAL ALLIES FOR PREGNANT WOMEN OVER FORTY
The single most important herb for pregnant women over forty is comfrey (Symphytum uplandica hybrids). The leaves of the mature plant contain an abundance of constituents beneficial to mother and babe, including generous amounts of minerals, alantoin, proteins, and many vitamins. The minerals in comfrey help ensure healthy nervous system growth; the fetus's developing brain uses the proteins. And the alantoin helps the mother's tissues become stretchy and elastic.
Aging can lead to increased stiffness and brittleness in bones and muscles, making pregnancy more arduous and painful, labor slower and more difficult, and injury more likely during birth. The hormones of pregnancy, which help soften and relax the pelvic tissues, may not be produced in adequate amounts. Comfrey comes to the rescue! Comfrey creates flexible and strong tissues throughout the body especially mucus surfaces (including intestines, uterus, bladder and vagina), the bones, the ligaments and tendons, and the skin.
Regular use of the leaf infusion, at least a quart a week, promotes a safe delivery by:
* strengthening uterine muscles and preparing them to work easily and well
* strengthening perineal tissues so they become resistant to tearing
* strengthening uterine ligaments so the uterus does not prolapse
* strengthening the bladder and increasing resistance to bacterial infection
* strengthening the vagina and helping to promote an environment hostile to infection
* providing easily assimilated minerals to prevent eclampsia and other complications
* helping the bones of the pelvis flex and open during birth
* increasing iron in the blood and thus forestalling post-partum hemorrhage.
I harvest the flowering stalks when they are fully formed; and I am careful to use the cultivated garden comfrey, which grows very tall and has purplish, pinkish, bluish flowers. I avoid wild comfrey, which stays rather small even when flowering, and has cream-colored, white, or yellowish flowers.
Some people feel that comfrey is not safe to use during pregnancy. Some people feel comfrey is not safe to use internally at all. I disagree. The roots of comfrey do contain compounds that are best avoided during pregnancy (as do all parts of the wild plant). In fact, I rarely use comfrey root because of the possibility of liver congestion, and I strongly caution those who have had hepatitis, chemotherapy, or alcohol problems to strictly avoid comfrey root. Yet even these people can benefit from use of comfrey leaf infusions.
Another important herbal ally for women over forty who desire a child is chaste tree (Vitex agnus-castii). It has been used in Africa and parts of Europe for several thousand years to discourage the male libido. In women, the effects seem to be the opposite! It may also be a fertility enhancer. Most importantly, chaste tree is a strengthening tonic for the pituitary gland, the master control gland for the endocrine system. Daily use of the tincture of the berries (1 dropperful/1 ml 2-3 times daily) had been shown to increase progesterone - the hormone of pregnancy - and luteinizing hormone - which promotes conception. Because it can lower prolactin levels, chaste tree is best discontinued during the last trimester of pregnancy.
Dong quai (Angelica sinensis) is not recommended for women over forty. In general, this herb promotes blood flow to the uterus and surrounding tissues. This can promote the growth of fibroids and increase the risk of post-partum hemorrhage. Ginger is a better warming tonic; motherwort is better at relieving pain; and raspberry is better at preparing the uterus for birth.
Legal Disclaimer: This content is not intended to replace conventional medical treatment. Any suggestions made and all herbs listed are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease, condition or symptom. Personal directions and use should be provided by a clinical herbalist or other qualified healthcare practitioner with a specific formula for you. All material contained herein is provided for general information purposes only and should not be considered medical advice or consultation. Contact a reputable healthcare practitioner if you are in need of medical care. Exercise self-empowerment by seeking a second opinion.
Susun Weed
PO Box 64
Woodstock, NY 12498
Fax: 1-845-246-8081
Learn how to prevent illness and heal yourself safely and easily the Wise Woman Way. Women's health forum, FREE womens forum, weblog, and email group. Topics include menopause, breast health, childbearing, fertility, disease prevention, nutritional advice, and cancer prevention. Visit the Wise Woman Web
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Susun_Weed
Ephedra Ban Lifted
April 14,2005 federal judge Tena Campbell of the federal district court in Salt Lake City Utah reversed the ban on ephedra.
Ephedra is a herb used over 5000 years ago to treat several disorders,such as asthma and bronchitis.Because ephedra has the ability to increase metabolism,and burn fat it became a popular ingredient used in diet pills.
About 12 to 17 million people consumed ephedra in 1999, reports the American Herbal Products Association. The Nutrition Business Journal estimated that sales of ephedra in 2002 were $1.25 billion.
Ephedra is so powerful its safety was questioned,the FDA removed ephedra also known by its chinese name Ma-huang from the market in April 2004, claiming that it was responsible for dozens of deaths.
The ban on ephedra didn't affect the sale of over-the-counter cold medications such as decongestants which often contain ephedrine in synthetic form.
Judge Campbell states that drug agencies had failed to prove that ephedra at low doses was dangerous,and that it lacked the authority to ban the substance without such proof.She called
for the FDA to lift the ban on ephedra.
The US ban on ephedra was lifted,among other things the court clarified that the FDA must follow the 1994 Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act(DSHEA),and can not treat dietary
supplements like drugs or medical devices.
According to the court low doses of ephedra do not pose significant or unreasonable risk by a preponderance of the evidence.Companies that sell ephedra based products are allowed to resume selling whole herb ephedra products with no more than 10mg of naturally occurring ephedrine alkaloids.
Sharon is a affiliate of Marqi Fitness Group get more information at http://www.ephedra10mg.com
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Sharon_Hardy
Ephedra is a herb used over 5000 years ago to treat several disorders,such as asthma and bronchitis.Because ephedra has the ability to increase metabolism,and burn fat it became a popular ingredient used in diet pills.
About 12 to 17 million people consumed ephedra in 1999, reports the American Herbal Products Association. The Nutrition Business Journal estimated that sales of ephedra in 2002 were $1.25 billion.
Ephedra is so powerful its safety was questioned,the FDA removed ephedra also known by its chinese name Ma-huang from the market in April 2004, claiming that it was responsible for dozens of deaths.
The ban on ephedra didn't affect the sale of over-the-counter cold medications such as decongestants which often contain ephedrine in synthetic form.
Judge Campbell states that drug agencies had failed to prove that ephedra at low doses was dangerous,and that it lacked the authority to ban the substance without such proof.She called
for the FDA to lift the ban on ephedra.
The US ban on ephedra was lifted,among other things the court clarified that the FDA must follow the 1994 Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act(DSHEA),and can not treat dietary
supplements like drugs or medical devices.
According to the court low doses of ephedra do not pose significant or unreasonable risk by a preponderance of the evidence.Companies that sell ephedra based products are allowed to resume selling whole herb ephedra products with no more than 10mg of naturally occurring ephedrine alkaloids.
Sharon is a affiliate of Marqi Fitness Group get more information at http://www.ephedra10mg.com
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Sharon_Hardy
The 4 Deadly Mistakes of Wife Seduction
When a guy gets turned down over and over again (during the seduction process) in his relationship with his wife (or girlfriend) he often attempts to make adjustments. You are about to learn the 4 deadly mistakes guys make when attempting to correct the problem with their “not in the mood” female partner.
Deadly Wife Seduction Mistake # 1
Trying to learn how to be an awesome lover. I’m referring to becoming better in bed. This may shock the hell out of you, but I’ll explain. Here is what the guy thinks:
The wrong approach: He thinks that if he becomes so good in bed, his wife will want to keep coming back for more.
Here is why the thinking is flawed. The guy thinks if he puts on a world class performance she will want it all the time. It doesn't matter how good you are in bed if you are a lousy sexual salesmen she will not buy into your offer. There is a such thing as poor salesmanship. A poor salesman couldn't sell hundred dollar bills for 50 cents.
Trust me, I've seen poor salesman in action. And many cases they will talk themselves out of the sale. They end up convincing the person not to buy. Keep this in mind: SEX is the product and SEDUCTION (or the word I like to use is SEXUALLY INSPIRE) is the process of selling the product. I'll give you another example.
I could be thinking about eating a bacon cheeseburger from a certain fast food restaurant. I know it tastes great because I had it before, but I'm not inspired to eat it.
But when I see the commercial (which seduces me), I suddenly have a strong urge to have it - and as a result I will hop in my car and drive out there to get it.
So it wouldn't matter too much if they kept trying to make the burger better and better and better. So that is the mistake that guys make. They try to improve the product (i.e sex or the burger), but NOT the more important selling process.
If you have little sexual value it will be hard enough to get her to agree to have sex.
But what you do technically will not matter as much.
If a woman can cum from thought a lone, then that must mean the mental side of things is very important.
Have you ever been caressing a woman and suddenly she begins to orgasm? I remember one time being alone with a female and things were getting hot and steamy. We still had our clothes on. I began rubbing her all over while kissing her. I stopped kissing her and just focused on rubbing her – in a matter of seconds she begins to orgasm.
If you get a woman really turned on, this can happen. It depends on the woman and how your sexual value. My point is it wasn’t the fact that she was being rubbed that resulted in her cumming. It was the fact that she was being rubbed by someone with sexual value.
So when guys try to learn how to be better in bed, they are not considering the most important part – and that is increasing their sexual value.
The right approach:
1 You must increase your sexual value
2 You must focus on selling (seduction) instead of improving the product (getting better at sex)
Deadly Wife Seduction Mistake # 2
The wrong approach: Focusing on how you should approach her. Here is why the thinking is flawed.
The guy thinks that he has to approach her a certain way and then she will accept him. He is partially right. But the fact that he focuses all of his mental energy on figuring out what the right approach is instead of working on increasing his sexual value makes him completely wrong.
If you have little sexual value it doesn't matter how you approach her. That's like saying:
What would a 900lb woman have to do to get you in the mood?
If she has no sexual to you, then the answer is nothing. Imagine if you saw her obsessing over how to approach you for sex. That is actually the perfect analogy because guys are more physically turned on and women are more psychologically turned on.
Wouldn't you agree that in order for her acceptance rate to increase her sexual value would have to increase. (i.e lose weight or something).
The right approach:
1 You must increase your sexual value.
Deadly Wife Seduction Mistake # 3
The wrong approach: Trying to give her pills/herbs to make her horny. Here is why the thinking is flawed.
You can read a similar analogy on superhappysex.com (scroll down to the first Yellow Box)
If you have no sexual value then it doesn't matter if the pills succeed in getting her horny. This actually could work against you in some cases. Here's the deal, if she gets horny and you have no sexual value, then she would rather masturbate than to have sex with you.
And the reason why it could work against you over the long run is because if she is always in a horny state then the guys that have sexual value in her eyes are the ones that are going to be more appealing - over time.
Does that make sense?
Let's say we lived in a world where a pig could talk and interact with you, but they still had the sexual value of a regular pig.
By the way: This analogy was nominated for the Bizarre Analogy Award. (that’s a joke)
Let's say this pig gave you (secretly or non-secretly) 2 pills of HERBAL-X ROCK HARD. These pills had 90000 mg of Yohimbe and 90000 mg of Ginseng, and any herb you can think of it had 90000 mgs of it (and miraculously your heart didn’t explode!)..in seconds your member was up in the air! (approx 5 degrees away from your belly).
Would you screw the pig if you became super aroused? The answer is no. (right?)
The pig has no sexual value. So in order for you to screw the pig, it would have to increase his sexual value. It would have to maybe put on some fishnet stockings (or shed that nasty gut).
The right approach:
1 You must increase your sexual value.
Deadly Wife Seduction Mistake # 4
The wrong approach: Asking her to explain why she is not in the mood? Here is why the thinking is flawed.
The guy thinks his wife will tell him why she isn’t sexually attracted to him (anymore). And then all he has to is make the changes, and then presto!
The problem is she doesn't know. She knows what she is consciously attracted to (i.e the nice guy that does nice things – i.e her husband or the man she loves) but she doesn't know what she is unconsciously attracted to.
[By the way – Any guy that has read superlustbuttons.com knows what I mean. When you read that, you are going to beg me to take the site down so that other guys don’t use that secret system]
The mechanisms that inspire horniness is foreign to her.
She doesn't know what moves her on a deep down level. Here's an example. If you asked a person that just gave up on diet why he is no longer on the diet, he is not going to give you the real (deep down) answer.
However, he will give you the false (surface – or what he thinks) answer and he may believe this is the truth but it's not the truth.
It's false.
His surface answer will be that the diet failed, or that it was a dumb diet - something like that. But the real (deep down) reason is because he may have never believed he could succeed in the first place.
He may have had no hope. He may have to increase his will-power. He may not have been serious about solving his problem.
The right approach:
You must increase your sexual value. She responds unconsciously to things that she is not aware of.
Warmly,
CR James
Author of Super Sex Power: Magnetism
SuperHappySex.com
1. Increase your sexual value
2. Become Irresistibly Magnetic to women
3. Seduce Wife Like Crazy
CR James is the author of the new seduction book Super Sex Power. The first seduction book designed to increase your sexual value fast, because it features perception-driven seduction techniques. You can get a FREE seduction report for a limited time by clicking this link: http://superhappysex.com/limited-time
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Deadly Wife Seduction Mistake # 1
Trying to learn how to be an awesome lover. I’m referring to becoming better in bed. This may shock the hell out of you, but I’ll explain. Here is what the guy thinks:
The wrong approach: He thinks that if he becomes so good in bed, his wife will want to keep coming back for more.
Here is why the thinking is flawed. The guy thinks if he puts on a world class performance she will want it all the time. It doesn't matter how good you are in bed if you are a lousy sexual salesmen she will not buy into your offer. There is a such thing as poor salesmanship. A poor salesman couldn't sell hundred dollar bills for 50 cents.
Trust me, I've seen poor salesman in action. And many cases they will talk themselves out of the sale. They end up convincing the person not to buy. Keep this in mind: SEX is the product and SEDUCTION (or the word I like to use is SEXUALLY INSPIRE) is the process of selling the product. I'll give you another example.
I could be thinking about eating a bacon cheeseburger from a certain fast food restaurant. I know it tastes great because I had it before, but I'm not inspired to eat it.
But when I see the commercial (which seduces me), I suddenly have a strong urge to have it - and as a result I will hop in my car and drive out there to get it.
So it wouldn't matter too much if they kept trying to make the burger better and better and better. So that is the mistake that guys make. They try to improve the product (i.e sex or the burger), but NOT the more important selling process.
If you have little sexual value it will be hard enough to get her to agree to have sex.
But what you do technically will not matter as much.
If a woman can cum from thought a lone, then that must mean the mental side of things is very important.
Have you ever been caressing a woman and suddenly she begins to orgasm? I remember one time being alone with a female and things were getting hot and steamy. We still had our clothes on. I began rubbing her all over while kissing her. I stopped kissing her and just focused on rubbing her – in a matter of seconds she begins to orgasm.
If you get a woman really turned on, this can happen. It depends on the woman and how your sexual value. My point is it wasn’t the fact that she was being rubbed that resulted in her cumming. It was the fact that she was being rubbed by someone with sexual value.
So when guys try to learn how to be better in bed, they are not considering the most important part – and that is increasing their sexual value.
The right approach:
1 You must increase your sexual value
2 You must focus on selling (seduction) instead of improving the product (getting better at sex)
Deadly Wife Seduction Mistake # 2
The wrong approach: Focusing on how you should approach her. Here is why the thinking is flawed.
The guy thinks that he has to approach her a certain way and then she will accept him. He is partially right. But the fact that he focuses all of his mental energy on figuring out what the right approach is instead of working on increasing his sexual value makes him completely wrong.
If you have little sexual value it doesn't matter how you approach her. That's like saying:
What would a 900lb woman have to do to get you in the mood?
If she has no sexual to you, then the answer is nothing. Imagine if you saw her obsessing over how to approach you for sex. That is actually the perfect analogy because guys are more physically turned on and women are more psychologically turned on.
Wouldn't you agree that in order for her acceptance rate to increase her sexual value would have to increase. (i.e lose weight or something).
The right approach:
1 You must increase your sexual value.
Deadly Wife Seduction Mistake # 3
The wrong approach: Trying to give her pills/herbs to make her horny. Here is why the thinking is flawed.
You can read a similar analogy on superhappysex.com (scroll down to the first Yellow Box)
If you have no sexual value then it doesn't matter if the pills succeed in getting her horny. This actually could work against you in some cases. Here's the deal, if she gets horny and you have no sexual value, then she would rather masturbate than to have sex with you.
And the reason why it could work against you over the long run is because if she is always in a horny state then the guys that have sexual value in her eyes are the ones that are going to be more appealing - over time.
Does that make sense?
Let's say we lived in a world where a pig could talk and interact with you, but they still had the sexual value of a regular pig.
By the way: This analogy was nominated for the Bizarre Analogy Award. (that’s a joke)
Let's say this pig gave you (secretly or non-secretly) 2 pills of HERBAL-X ROCK HARD. These pills had 90000 mg of Yohimbe and 90000 mg of Ginseng, and any herb you can think of it had 90000 mgs of it (and miraculously your heart didn’t explode!)..in seconds your member was up in the air! (approx 5 degrees away from your belly).
Would you screw the pig if you became super aroused? The answer is no. (right?)
The pig has no sexual value. So in order for you to screw the pig, it would have to increase his sexual value. It would have to maybe put on some fishnet stockings (or shed that nasty gut).
The right approach:
1 You must increase your sexual value.
Deadly Wife Seduction Mistake # 4
The wrong approach: Asking her to explain why she is not in the mood? Here is why the thinking is flawed.
The guy thinks his wife will tell him why she isn’t sexually attracted to him (anymore). And then all he has to is make the changes, and then presto!
The problem is she doesn't know. She knows what she is consciously attracted to (i.e the nice guy that does nice things – i.e her husband or the man she loves) but she doesn't know what she is unconsciously attracted to.
[By the way – Any guy that has read superlustbuttons.com knows what I mean. When you read that, you are going to beg me to take the site down so that other guys don’t use that secret system]
The mechanisms that inspire horniness is foreign to her.
She doesn't know what moves her on a deep down level. Here's an example. If you asked a person that just gave up on diet why he is no longer on the diet, he is not going to give you the real (deep down) answer.
However, he will give you the false (surface – or what he thinks) answer and he may believe this is the truth but it's not the truth.
It's false.
His surface answer will be that the diet failed, or that it was a dumb diet - something like that. But the real (deep down) reason is because he may have never believed he could succeed in the first place.
He may have had no hope. He may have to increase his will-power. He may not have been serious about solving his problem.
The right approach:
You must increase your sexual value. She responds unconsciously to things that she is not aware of.
Warmly,
CR James
Author of Super Sex Power: Magnetism
SuperHappySex.com
1. Increase your sexual value
2. Become Irresistibly Magnetic to women
3. Seduce Wife Like Crazy
CR James is the author of the new seduction book Super Sex Power. The first seduction book designed to increase your sexual value fast, because it features perception-driven seduction techniques. You can get a FREE seduction report for a limited time by clicking this link: http://superhappysex.com/limited-time
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5 Steps To Better Sleep
If you've ever found yourself counting sheep into the wee hours, then you can take some small comfort from the fact that you’re not alone.
Insomnia is plaguing more and more people each year and with the stresses of our daily lives, it's no surprise. For more than 75% of Americans polled by the National Sleep Foundation, getting a good night's sleep feels more like a distant dream than a reality.
The good news is that enjoying a full and healthy night's sleep is easier than you might think. You can improve the quality and duration of your sleep without resorting to sleeping pills or other artificial sleep aids. All you need to start your journey towards better sleep are these five simple steps:
Establish a routine
Creating a consistent bedtime routine is one of the most important steps you can take towards getting a good night's sleep. Going to bed at the same time each night and getting up at the same time each morning is the first step towards establishing a consistent sleep pattern.
A successful sleep routine also involves reducing outside stimulants like television, computer work and exercise two to three hours before bed, and refraining from caffeine at least three hours before bedtime.
Create a peaceful sleeping environment
Achieving better sleep depends upon a relaxed, peaceful sleeping environment. For the best possible sleep, remove distractions such as televisions, stereos and computers from your bedroom. Keep your bedroom temperature cool. Gentle air circulation through an open window and fresh, clean bed linens also help to promote a good night's sleep.
Reduce stress
Thoughts of work, financial problems and family concerns can often prevent a good night's sleep. Try reducing stimulants, using aromatherapy, a warm bath or some deep breathing and relaxation exercises to induce sleep, reduce stress and decrease the anxiety that can cause insomnia.
Adjust your diet
Maintaining a balanced diet is also one of the keys to enjoying a regular and fulfilling night's sleep. A healthy diet assists the bodily functions necessary for sound sleep. If you aren’t following a healthy pattern of eating, you may find that altering the balance of your diet will dramatically improve the quality and duration of your sleep.
Use herbs or aromatherapy
Aromatherapy candles or oils and herbal teas are just two natural sleep aids that can significantly improve your nightly sleep. A variety of herbs enjoy a long history of use in addressing the problem of insomnia and in helping to induce better sleep.
Try burning a calming aromatherapy candle or adding soothing essential oils to a warm bath to help your body and mind wind down before bed. You might also try sipping chamomile tea (an age-old sleep remedy) an hour or so before bed to prepare your body for the good night's sleep you've been dreaming about.
The key to achieving better sleep
The five simple steps outlined here represent the basic framework for establishing a pattern of better sleep and provide an excellent starting point if you find yourself amongst the growing band of people suffering from insomnia. The key to achieving better sleep in the long-term doesn’t, as many people believe, lie in reaching for the sleeping pills, but lies in finding a natural solution that works for you.
Copyright © 2005 Donald Saunders
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Insomnia is plaguing more and more people each year and with the stresses of our daily lives, it's no surprise. For more than 75% of Americans polled by the National Sleep Foundation, getting a good night's sleep feels more like a distant dream than a reality.
The good news is that enjoying a full and healthy night's sleep is easier than you might think. You can improve the quality and duration of your sleep without resorting to sleeping pills or other artificial sleep aids. All you need to start your journey towards better sleep are these five simple steps:
Establish a routine
Creating a consistent bedtime routine is one of the most important steps you can take towards getting a good night's sleep. Going to bed at the same time each night and getting up at the same time each morning is the first step towards establishing a consistent sleep pattern.
A successful sleep routine also involves reducing outside stimulants like television, computer work and exercise two to three hours before bed, and refraining from caffeine at least three hours before bedtime.
Create a peaceful sleeping environment
Achieving better sleep depends upon a relaxed, peaceful sleeping environment. For the best possible sleep, remove distractions such as televisions, stereos and computers from your bedroom. Keep your bedroom temperature cool. Gentle air circulation through an open window and fresh, clean bed linens also help to promote a good night's sleep.
Reduce stress
Thoughts of work, financial problems and family concerns can often prevent a good night's sleep. Try reducing stimulants, using aromatherapy, a warm bath or some deep breathing and relaxation exercises to induce sleep, reduce stress and decrease the anxiety that can cause insomnia.
Adjust your diet
Maintaining a balanced diet is also one of the keys to enjoying a regular and fulfilling night's sleep. A healthy diet assists the bodily functions necessary for sound sleep. If you aren’t following a healthy pattern of eating, you may find that altering the balance of your diet will dramatically improve the quality and duration of your sleep.
Use herbs or aromatherapy
Aromatherapy candles or oils and herbal teas are just two natural sleep aids that can significantly improve your nightly sleep. A variety of herbs enjoy a long history of use in addressing the problem of insomnia and in helping to induce better sleep.
Try burning a calming aromatherapy candle or adding soothing essential oils to a warm bath to help your body and mind wind down before bed. You might also try sipping chamomile tea (an age-old sleep remedy) an hour or so before bed to prepare your body for the good night's sleep you've been dreaming about.
The key to achieving better sleep
The five simple steps outlined here represent the basic framework for establishing a pattern of better sleep and provide an excellent starting point if you find yourself amongst the growing band of people suffering from insomnia. The key to achieving better sleep in the long-term doesn’t, as many people believe, lie in reaching for the sleeping pills, but lies in finding a natural solution that works for you.
Copyright © 2005 Donald Saunders
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Narcolepsy - The Management of a Common Sleep Disorder
Narcolepsy, a chronic and commonly diagnosed sleep disorder, affects over a quarter of a million Americans each year (approximately one person in every two thousand). Characterized by the body's inability to properly regulate sleep, narcolepsy's most obvious symptoms can include cataplexy (involuntary loss of muscle control), "automatic" behaviors (performing regular, mundane tasks by rote), hallucinations and paralysis during sleep.
However, narcolepsy is most commonly associated with the onset of "mini sleeps" or "sleep attacks" during the day. These narcoleptic episodes (often referred to as EDS or excessive daytime sleepiness) occur when the individual is suddenly overcome by the urge to sleep. The resulting state of narcolepsis can pass within a few seconds or it can last for more than half an hour.
Relatively recent medical research identifies narcolepsy as a genetically based sleep regulation disorder that usually emerges during the middle and late teenage years. However, strong evidence also suggests that some forms of the condition can be caused by head trauma or brain injury. Regardless of the cause, because the characteristics of narcolepsy can also be symptomatic of other, similar sleep disorders, a thorough medical evaluation (often including a variety of overnight sleep tests) is required for a correct diagnosis.
Although scientists continue to close in on the genes connected with the onset of narcolepsy, treatments for narcoleptics still vary widely. Common treatments include the use of approved prescription drugs, such as modafinil and selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors like fluoxitine and sertroline, to treat the excessive daytime sleepiness.
In large part however the management of narcolepsy depends upon what appears most effective for the individual, and because no cure exists at this time, the available treatments primarily address the sleep disorder's symptoms.
For most narcoleptics a combination of prescription medications, natural sleep remedies and behavioral strategies prove the best means of effectively managing their narcolepsy. This pro-active approach to dealing with the condition involves simple lifestyle adjustments to enhance the quality and duration of each night's sleep (including dietary changes and the use of regular exercise) as well as actively managed sleep cycles that incorporate short, scheduled naps. A variety of natural sleep remedies can also successfully help narcoleptics manage their condition.
Herbal teas and infusions can effectively help to induce and enhance the body's natural sleep cycle and offer a healthful alternative to sleeping pills. Supplementary melatonin (the hormone produced as part of the body's natural sleep cycle) may also help narcoleptics enjoy a better night's sleep. Guided meditation and relaxation, chromatherapy and aromatherapy can also prove valuable natural enhancements to the successful management of narcolepsy.
Copyright © 2005 Donald Saunders
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However, narcolepsy is most commonly associated with the onset of "mini sleeps" or "sleep attacks" during the day. These narcoleptic episodes (often referred to as EDS or excessive daytime sleepiness) occur when the individual is suddenly overcome by the urge to sleep. The resulting state of narcolepsis can pass within a few seconds or it can last for more than half an hour.
Relatively recent medical research identifies narcolepsy as a genetically based sleep regulation disorder that usually emerges during the middle and late teenage years. However, strong evidence also suggests that some forms of the condition can be caused by head trauma or brain injury. Regardless of the cause, because the characteristics of narcolepsy can also be symptomatic of other, similar sleep disorders, a thorough medical evaluation (often including a variety of overnight sleep tests) is required for a correct diagnosis.
Although scientists continue to close in on the genes connected with the onset of narcolepsy, treatments for narcoleptics still vary widely. Common treatments include the use of approved prescription drugs, such as modafinil and selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors like fluoxitine and sertroline, to treat the excessive daytime sleepiness.
In large part however the management of narcolepsy depends upon what appears most effective for the individual, and because no cure exists at this time, the available treatments primarily address the sleep disorder's symptoms.
For most narcoleptics a combination of prescription medications, natural sleep remedies and behavioral strategies prove the best means of effectively managing their narcolepsy. This pro-active approach to dealing with the condition involves simple lifestyle adjustments to enhance the quality and duration of each night's sleep (including dietary changes and the use of regular exercise) as well as actively managed sleep cycles that incorporate short, scheduled naps. A variety of natural sleep remedies can also successfully help narcoleptics manage their condition.
Herbal teas and infusions can effectively help to induce and enhance the body's natural sleep cycle and offer a healthful alternative to sleeping pills. Supplementary melatonin (the hormone produced as part of the body's natural sleep cycle) may also help narcoleptics enjoy a better night's sleep. Guided meditation and relaxation, chromatherapy and aromatherapy can also prove valuable natural enhancements to the successful management of narcolepsy.
Copyright © 2005 Donald Saunders
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Donald Saunders is the author of a number of health related publications including: "Help Me To Sleep - A Guide To Natural Sleep Remedies", "Jet Lag - An Alternative Approach", "Shift Work Insomnia" and "The Art of Meditation - A Guide To Meditation, Breathing and Relaxation Techniques".
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Sleep Apnea - An Extremely Common and Dangerous Sleep Disorder
Sleep apnea refers to a sleep disorder characterized by the interruption of breathing during sleep, such that respiration stops for ten or more seconds, cutting off valuable oxygen supplies to the brain. This interruption of the body's breathing cycle can recur hundreds of times each night, with potentially fatal results. Even more alarming, sleep apnea, the most dangerous of all sleep disorders, also represents one of the most commonly identified sleep disorders, affecting as many as eighteen million Americans each year.
This condition can be divided into two primary categories. "Central sleep apnea", caused by a neurological malfunction in which the brain somehow disrupts the normal signal to breathe and "Obstructive sleep apnea", characterized by the excessive relaxation or the collapse of muscles around the windpipe, which in turn causes windpipe obstruction. Both forms involve the frequent cessation of breathing and the temporary suspension of the oxygen supply to the brain, putting sleep apnea sufferers at a significantly greater risk of high blood pressure, heart attack and stroke.
Diagnosing sleep apnea can be difficult. Snoring, one of the most common symptoms associated with sleep apnea (resulting in many people referring to this as "the snoring disease"), often leads to an erroneous diagnosis of the condition. In fact, snoring can be associated with a variety of other sleep disorders and conditions unrelated to sleep apnea.
When the brain senses a lack of oxygen, as a result of an obstructed windpipe, it reacts by waking the suffer sufficiently to start breathing again, often causing snoring or sometimes coughing. As a result, sleep apnea suffers enjoy a very poor quality of sleep and wake up feeling even more tired than before they went to bed.
Feelings of exhaustion, fatigue and an overwhelming desire to sleep during the day, known as excessive daytime sleepiness, characterize sleep apnea; especially if seen in conjunction with other symptoms such as morning headaches, noticeable lethargy, loss of interest in sex, forgetfulness and difficulty concentrating.
The ongoing exhaustion and physical fatigue brought on by undiagnosed or untreated sleep apnea can also lead to the onset of serious psychological symptoms such as depression, irritability and changes in mood and behavior.
If you suspect that you are suffering from sleep apnea, you should seek immediate medical guidance and, if necessary, arrange the appropriate tests.
There are a variety of effective treatments available for both obstructive and central sleep apnea. Most patients benefit significantly from one or more of these treatments, which primarily involve simple behavioral adjustments like changing or modifying your sleeping position. Sufferers of mild obstructive sleep apnea as a result of persistent nasal congestion may simply require a course of decongestants, while more severe sleep apnea may need the use of an oxygen mask to stimulate consistent breathing while asleep. In severe cases of obstructive sleep apnea, certain surgical procedures can help to restore effective and consistent respiration during sleep, although sufferers should proceed down this particular route with caution, as surgery can often lead to added complications.
One important point to note is that, because of the risk of potentially fatal respiratory arrest, sleep apnea sufferers should refrain from taking sleeping pills or artificial sleep enhancers because of the associated respiratory dangers.
Natural sleep remedies provide an effective complement to medically prescribed treatments and can certainly help sufferers to enjoy a better night's sleep. Herbal remedies designed to improve the quality and duration of sleep can assist patients in managing and even reducing the excessive daytime sleepiness otherwise brought on by sleep apnea.
Similarly, the use of aromatherapy, chromatherapy and guided relaxation and meditation can help to reduce the anxiety and insomnia sleep apnea patients experience as they learn to manage their sleep disorder.
Donald Saunders is the author of a number of health related publications including: "Help Me To Sleep - A Guide To Natural Sleep Remedies", "Jet Lag - An Alternative Approach", "Shift Work Insomnia" and "The Art of Meditation - A Guide To Meditation, Breathing and Relaxation Techniques".
For further details please visit http://help-me-to-sleep.com
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This condition can be divided into two primary categories. "Central sleep apnea", caused by a neurological malfunction in which the brain somehow disrupts the normal signal to breathe and "Obstructive sleep apnea", characterized by the excessive relaxation or the collapse of muscles around the windpipe, which in turn causes windpipe obstruction. Both forms involve the frequent cessation of breathing and the temporary suspension of the oxygen supply to the brain, putting sleep apnea sufferers at a significantly greater risk of high blood pressure, heart attack and stroke.
Diagnosing sleep apnea can be difficult. Snoring, one of the most common symptoms associated with sleep apnea (resulting in many people referring to this as "the snoring disease"), often leads to an erroneous diagnosis of the condition. In fact, snoring can be associated with a variety of other sleep disorders and conditions unrelated to sleep apnea.
When the brain senses a lack of oxygen, as a result of an obstructed windpipe, it reacts by waking the suffer sufficiently to start breathing again, often causing snoring or sometimes coughing. As a result, sleep apnea suffers enjoy a very poor quality of sleep and wake up feeling even more tired than before they went to bed.
Feelings of exhaustion, fatigue and an overwhelming desire to sleep during the day, known as excessive daytime sleepiness, characterize sleep apnea; especially if seen in conjunction with other symptoms such as morning headaches, noticeable lethargy, loss of interest in sex, forgetfulness and difficulty concentrating.
The ongoing exhaustion and physical fatigue brought on by undiagnosed or untreated sleep apnea can also lead to the onset of serious psychological symptoms such as depression, irritability and changes in mood and behavior.
If you suspect that you are suffering from sleep apnea, you should seek immediate medical guidance and, if necessary, arrange the appropriate tests.
There are a variety of effective treatments available for both obstructive and central sleep apnea. Most patients benefit significantly from one or more of these treatments, which primarily involve simple behavioral adjustments like changing or modifying your sleeping position. Sufferers of mild obstructive sleep apnea as a result of persistent nasal congestion may simply require a course of decongestants, while more severe sleep apnea may need the use of an oxygen mask to stimulate consistent breathing while asleep. In severe cases of obstructive sleep apnea, certain surgical procedures can help to restore effective and consistent respiration during sleep, although sufferers should proceed down this particular route with caution, as surgery can often lead to added complications.
One important point to note is that, because of the risk of potentially fatal respiratory arrest, sleep apnea sufferers should refrain from taking sleeping pills or artificial sleep enhancers because of the associated respiratory dangers.
Natural sleep remedies provide an effective complement to medically prescribed treatments and can certainly help sufferers to enjoy a better night's sleep. Herbal remedies designed to improve the quality and duration of sleep can assist patients in managing and even reducing the excessive daytime sleepiness otherwise brought on by sleep apnea.
Similarly, the use of aromatherapy, chromatherapy and guided relaxation and meditation can help to reduce the anxiety and insomnia sleep apnea patients experience as they learn to manage their sleep disorder.
Donald Saunders is the author of a number of health related publications including: "Help Me To Sleep - A Guide To Natural Sleep Remedies", "Jet Lag - An Alternative Approach", "Shift Work Insomnia" and "The Art of Meditation - A Guide To Meditation, Breathing and Relaxation Techniques".
For further details please visit http://help-me-to-sleep.com
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Sleep Disorder - To Call The Doctor Or Not?
Experiencing difficulty in sleeping for any great length of time may well indicate that you suffer from a common sleep disorder.
Today more than 35 million Americans reportedly suffer from a chronic sleep disorder (sleeping difficulty that lasts for more than one month) and as many as 30 million more suffer from a shorter term or "transient" sleep disorder (sleeping difficulty that lasts for less than four weeks).
Commonly triggered by upcoming events (such as important meetings or interviews), jet lag, or a passing illness (like a cold or the flu), a mild sleep disorder presents relatively little difficulty in terms of its management and, if left to its own devices, will often pass quite quickly. This said, many simple steps can be taken to both reduce the effects of mild insomnia and to speed its passing.
A persistent sleep disorder however will rarely disappear of its own accord and may well require pro-active treatment. Prolonged sleep disorders include conditions such as chronic insomnia, restless legs syndrome, sleep apnea and narcolepsy.
Difficulty in getting to sleep, staying asleep, waking through the night (and being unable to get back to sleep), or waking too early in the morning, when experienced for any length of time (and certainly for more than four or five weeks), warrants a diagnosis. You should also begin exploring natural sleep remedies that can help you get a better night's sleep, not to mention assisting you in effectively managing your problem.
The most commonly diagnosed sleep disorder, insomnia, also represents one of the easiest problems to treat. Simple lifestyle adjustments, structured relaxation or meditation, or a variety of herbal and natural sleep remedies will often provide a cure.
Like insomnia, sleep apnea is another sleep disorder that affects millions of Americans each year. The most dangerous of all sleep disorders, sleep apnea occurs when air flow through the windpipe is temporarily obstructed during sleep, often due to the relaxation or collapse of surrounding muscles. Sleep apnea is most commonly associated with snoring, although snoring alone is not necessarily indicative of sleep apnea.
Narcolepsy, a sleep disorder marked by uncontrolled "mini sleeps" during the day (even when the sufferer otherwise appears completely alert), is sometimes confused with sleep apnea; however, these represent two very different conditions.
Restless legs syndrome (RLS), another sleep disorder that ranks as one of the most frequently diagnosed, affects more than
twelve million people in the US alone each year. Unlike other common sleep disorders, restless legs syndrome combines the physical symptoms of a sleep disorder like insomnia with neural symptoms such as periodically uncontrolled limb movement and a tingling sensation in the legs and feet.
While a serious sleep disorder such as obstructive sleep apnea, chronic narcolepsy or restless legs syndrome requires the intervention of a medical professional, there are still various ways in which you can actively manage your sleep disorder. In fact, numerous natural sleep remedies can help you get a better night's sleep and effectively deal with your sleep disorder, without resorting to sleeping pills or artificial sleep enhancers.
These sleep remedies are too numerous to discuss them in any detail in this short article, but they include melatonin and valerian root, two natural alternatives to sleeping pills, as well as aromatherapy, color or chromatherapy and guided relaxation and meditation. Chamomile or lavender teas and infusions are also an excellent natural remedy for managing various sleep disorders.
While some persistent sleep disorders do certainly merit investigation by your doctor, chronic insomnia can, more often than not, be cured without the need for medical intervention. Understanding the underlying causes of your insomnia and then making a number of simple changes to your lifestyle or routine can make a dramatic difference to the quality of your sleep. With the added help of one or two natural sleep remedies, you can then soon say farewell to this particular sleep disorder.
Donald Saunders is the author of a number of health related publications including:
"Help Me To Sleep - A Guide To Natural Sleep Remedies", "Jet Lag - An Alternative Approach", "Shift Work Insomnia" and "The Art of Meditation - A Guide To Meditation, Breathing and Relaxation Techniques"
For further details please visit http://help-me-to-sleep.com
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Today more than 35 million Americans reportedly suffer from a chronic sleep disorder (sleeping difficulty that lasts for more than one month) and as many as 30 million more suffer from a shorter term or "transient" sleep disorder (sleeping difficulty that lasts for less than four weeks).
Commonly triggered by upcoming events (such as important meetings or interviews), jet lag, or a passing illness (like a cold or the flu), a mild sleep disorder presents relatively little difficulty in terms of its management and, if left to its own devices, will often pass quite quickly. This said, many simple steps can be taken to both reduce the effects of mild insomnia and to speed its passing.
A persistent sleep disorder however will rarely disappear of its own accord and may well require pro-active treatment. Prolonged sleep disorders include conditions such as chronic insomnia, restless legs syndrome, sleep apnea and narcolepsy.
Difficulty in getting to sleep, staying asleep, waking through the night (and being unable to get back to sleep), or waking too early in the morning, when experienced for any length of time (and certainly for more than four or five weeks), warrants a diagnosis. You should also begin exploring natural sleep remedies that can help you get a better night's sleep, not to mention assisting you in effectively managing your problem.
The most commonly diagnosed sleep disorder, insomnia, also represents one of the easiest problems to treat. Simple lifestyle adjustments, structured relaxation or meditation, or a variety of herbal and natural sleep remedies will often provide a cure.
Like insomnia, sleep apnea is another sleep disorder that affects millions of Americans each year. The most dangerous of all sleep disorders, sleep apnea occurs when air flow through the windpipe is temporarily obstructed during sleep, often due to the relaxation or collapse of surrounding muscles. Sleep apnea is most commonly associated with snoring, although snoring alone is not necessarily indicative of sleep apnea.
Narcolepsy, a sleep disorder marked by uncontrolled "mini sleeps" during the day (even when the sufferer otherwise appears completely alert), is sometimes confused with sleep apnea; however, these represent two very different conditions.
Restless legs syndrome (RLS), another sleep disorder that ranks as one of the most frequently diagnosed, affects more than
twelve million people in the US alone each year. Unlike other common sleep disorders, restless legs syndrome combines the physical symptoms of a sleep disorder like insomnia with neural symptoms such as periodically uncontrolled limb movement and a tingling sensation in the legs and feet.
While a serious sleep disorder such as obstructive sleep apnea, chronic narcolepsy or restless legs syndrome requires the intervention of a medical professional, there are still various ways in which you can actively manage your sleep disorder. In fact, numerous natural sleep remedies can help you get a better night's sleep and effectively deal with your sleep disorder, without resorting to sleeping pills or artificial sleep enhancers.
These sleep remedies are too numerous to discuss them in any detail in this short article, but they include melatonin and valerian root, two natural alternatives to sleeping pills, as well as aromatherapy, color or chromatherapy and guided relaxation and meditation. Chamomile or lavender teas and infusions are also an excellent natural remedy for managing various sleep disorders.
While some persistent sleep disorders do certainly merit investigation by your doctor, chronic insomnia can, more often than not, be cured without the need for medical intervention. Understanding the underlying causes of your insomnia and then making a number of simple changes to your lifestyle or routine can make a dramatic difference to the quality of your sleep. With the added help of one or two natural sleep remedies, you can then soon say farewell to this particular sleep disorder.
Donald Saunders is the author of a number of health related publications including:
"Help Me To Sleep - A Guide To Natural Sleep Remedies", "Jet Lag - An Alternative Approach", "Shift Work Insomnia" and "The Art of Meditation - A Guide To Meditation, Breathing and Relaxation Techniques"
For further details please visit http://help-me-to-sleep.com
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Overcoming Jet Lag
Jet lag can be one of the worst, and certainly one of the most frustrating, aspects of long distance travel. Also called desynchronosis (meaning "out of time"), jet lag occurs when travellers pass through multiple time zones, arriving several hours ahead or behind their "home" time.
Travelling across several time zones upsets your body's internal clock, which relies on a variety of environmental cues such as daylight and temperature. The degree of jet lag suffered can be measured in terms of the time change you undergo - the greater the difference in time between your home and your new location, the more disoriented your body clock becomes and the more jet lag you are likely to experience.
One major feature of jet lag is seen in your body's struggle between emotional energy and physical lethargy. While your mind is able to process the change in time and location relatively quickly and can rationally appreciate environmental cues such as daylight (or the lack of it) and time of day, your body will be much slower to respond. Although the time to recover will vary from person to person, most people agree that overcoming jet lag, adjusting to a new time zone and resuming a regular sleep cycle can take two or three days or, in severe cases, an entire a week.
Although not necessarily serious, insomnia caused by jet lag can interfere with mental clarity and efficiency and may have some bearing on your emotional state. Jet lag can also make it difficult for business travellers and tourists alike to maximize the opportunities afforded by their stay. What's more, if insomnia caused by jet lag does not pass, or recurs frequently for more than a couple of weeks, it could be indicative of a more persistent sleep problem.
Natural sleep remedies and approaches can be used to effectively manage jet lag and, by taking a proactive approach, you can significantly decrease or limit the severity and number of symptoms - not to mention shortening the duration of your jet lag.
Establishing a regular and consistent sleep schedule before you even start to make travel plans is one important step towards limiting the effects of jet lag. Simple dietary changes like the reduction or elimination of caffeine and alcohol have also proven effective, and travellers who are accustomed to coping with jet lag often bring along natural sleep remedies like herbal teas and infusions to help induce the body's natural sleep cycles upon arrival at their destination.
You may have heard that sleeping pills and other sleep aids are also effective tools for managing jet lag.
Because sleeping pills suppress the body's immune system in order to generate artificial sleep, as opposed to naturally induced restorative sleep, sleeping pills are not always an effective remedy for jet lag. In fact, sleeping pills can potentially exacerbate the symptoms by delaying the adjustment of your internal body clock.
Donald Saunders is the author of a number of health related publications including: "Help Me To Sleep - A Guide To Natural Sleep Remedies", "Jet Lag - An Alternative Approach", "Shift Work Insomnia" and "The Art of Meditation - A Guide To Meditation, Breathing and Relaxation Techniques"
For further details please visit http://help-me-to-sleep.com
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Travelling across several time zones upsets your body's internal clock, which relies on a variety of environmental cues such as daylight and temperature. The degree of jet lag suffered can be measured in terms of the time change you undergo - the greater the difference in time between your home and your new location, the more disoriented your body clock becomes and the more jet lag you are likely to experience.
One major feature of jet lag is seen in your body's struggle between emotional energy and physical lethargy. While your mind is able to process the change in time and location relatively quickly and can rationally appreciate environmental cues such as daylight (or the lack of it) and time of day, your body will be much slower to respond. Although the time to recover will vary from person to person, most people agree that overcoming jet lag, adjusting to a new time zone and resuming a regular sleep cycle can take two or three days or, in severe cases, an entire a week.
Although not necessarily serious, insomnia caused by jet lag can interfere with mental clarity and efficiency and may have some bearing on your emotional state. Jet lag can also make it difficult for business travellers and tourists alike to maximize the opportunities afforded by their stay. What's more, if insomnia caused by jet lag does not pass, or recurs frequently for more than a couple of weeks, it could be indicative of a more persistent sleep problem.
Natural sleep remedies and approaches can be used to effectively manage jet lag and, by taking a proactive approach, you can significantly decrease or limit the severity and number of symptoms - not to mention shortening the duration of your jet lag.
Establishing a regular and consistent sleep schedule before you even start to make travel plans is one important step towards limiting the effects of jet lag. Simple dietary changes like the reduction or elimination of caffeine and alcohol have also proven effective, and travellers who are accustomed to coping with jet lag often bring along natural sleep remedies like herbal teas and infusions to help induce the body's natural sleep cycles upon arrival at their destination.
You may have heard that sleeping pills and other sleep aids are also effective tools for managing jet lag.
Because sleeping pills suppress the body's immune system in order to generate artificial sleep, as opposed to naturally induced restorative sleep, sleeping pills are not always an effective remedy for jet lag. In fact, sleeping pills can potentially exacerbate the symptoms by delaying the adjustment of your internal body clock.
Donald Saunders is the author of a number of health related publications including: "Help Me To Sleep - A Guide To Natural Sleep Remedies", "Jet Lag - An Alternative Approach", "Shift Work Insomnia" and "The Art of Meditation - A Guide To Meditation, Breathing and Relaxation Techniques"
For further details please visit http://help-me-to-sleep.com
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Breast Enhancement Pill - The Great "Mystery" - Do Breast Enhancement Pills Work?
New breast enhancement pills and breast enlargement pills seem to be popping up one after another on the internet, in magazines and even on television. They are the subject of ongoing controversy and speculation. Do they work? Are they just a pipe dream sold to women wanting larger breasts but not wanting to have surgery, or not being able to afford surgery?
The fact is, there are several very "average" and below average breast enhancement pills being sold today, and I'm sure that many more will continue to pop up since this has become a fairly lucrative market. However, there are only a few pioneers in the breast enhancement pill market who have had staying power over the years, and have proven themselves with a track record of successfully enlarging women's breasts, reshaping and redefining them.
The breast enhancement pill usually consists of herbs and natural botanicals that work together to encourage the breast tissue to grow through the use of powdered phytoestrogens, or plant-derived estrogen compounds that actually help stimulate a woman's mammary glands and trigger further growth of the breast tissue, almost as if puberty were starting all over again and the body's hormones were just beginning to activate the glands responsible for breast growth.
Another type of breast enhancement pill ("non-herbal") uses bovine ovary technology, which is basically animal-derived powdered "estrogenic" compounds that actually go straight to the source of breast development - the pituitary gland, and through supplementation and a few other lifestyle modifications, is very successful in enlarging women's breasts. This breast enhancement pill is the more expensive option, but actually has produced lasting and dramatic breast growth of many of it's customers, and continues to do so after over ten years of successful business practice.
Not to discredit the plant based (phytoestrogen) breast enhancement pill. Many women have had success on the phytoestrogen based breast enhancement pill as well, but must be careful not to select a cheap knockoff that may cause unpleasant side effects such as acne and PMS-like symptoms. There are some excellent choices out their for the herbal breast enhancement pills as well, you just need to know where to get them, how to pick them out, and how to put them to effective use.
It is also important when choosing to go with a plant based breast enhancement pill to choose wisely since they need to have a precise combination of the specific breast enlarging herbs in order to achieve their ultimate purpose - breast enlargement, enhancement, firming and toning.
As long as you go into the buyer's market armed with the knowledge you need, you are on your way to finding the right breast enhancement pill for you, if that's what you so desire.
Danna Schneider is the founder of BREASTENHANCEpill.com BreastEnhancePill.com - Breast Enhancement Product Reviews and Comparisons - an informational, investigational and product review site for breast enlargement and breast enhancement pills. It was created for women who are serious about enlarging and enhancing their breasts non surgically. Also you can visit Natural Breast Enhancement
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The fact is, there are several very "average" and below average breast enhancement pills being sold today, and I'm sure that many more will continue to pop up since this has become a fairly lucrative market. However, there are only a few pioneers in the breast enhancement pill market who have had staying power over the years, and have proven themselves with a track record of successfully enlarging women's breasts, reshaping and redefining them.
The breast enhancement pill usually consists of herbs and natural botanicals that work together to encourage the breast tissue to grow through the use of powdered phytoestrogens, or plant-derived estrogen compounds that actually help stimulate a woman's mammary glands and trigger further growth of the breast tissue, almost as if puberty were starting all over again and the body's hormones were just beginning to activate the glands responsible for breast growth.
Another type of breast enhancement pill ("non-herbal") uses bovine ovary technology, which is basically animal-derived powdered "estrogenic" compounds that actually go straight to the source of breast development - the pituitary gland, and through supplementation and a few other lifestyle modifications, is very successful in enlarging women's breasts. This breast enhancement pill is the more expensive option, but actually has produced lasting and dramatic breast growth of many of it's customers, and continues to do so after over ten years of successful business practice.
Not to discredit the plant based (phytoestrogen) breast enhancement pill. Many women have had success on the phytoestrogen based breast enhancement pill as well, but must be careful not to select a cheap knockoff that may cause unpleasant side effects such as acne and PMS-like symptoms. There are some excellent choices out their for the herbal breast enhancement pills as well, you just need to know where to get them, how to pick them out, and how to put them to effective use.
It is also important when choosing to go with a plant based breast enhancement pill to choose wisely since they need to have a precise combination of the specific breast enlarging herbs in order to achieve their ultimate purpose - breast enlargement, enhancement, firming and toning.
As long as you go into the buyer's market armed with the knowledge you need, you are on your way to finding the right breast enhancement pill for you, if that's what you so desire.
Danna Schneider is the founder of BREASTENHANCEpill.com BreastEnhancePill.com - Breast Enhancement Product Reviews and Comparisons - an informational, investigational and product review site for breast enlargement and breast enhancement pills. It was created for women who are serious about enlarging and enhancing their breasts non surgically. Also you can visit Natural Breast Enhancement
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Vinegar and Weight Loss
The Sour Truth --------------------------
Question: I had a baby 6 months ago and would like to lose
some weight. I know that if you're nursing, you're not
supposed to diet. I have been eating healthy foods high in
nutrients, and I have lost a little weight. Would it be
harmful to the baby if I started taking apple cider vinegar
pills to help with weight loss?
Answer: A few vinegar pills probably won't hurt you or your
baby, but they won't do one bit of good in helping you lose
weight either. This old diet fad dates back to the 1970s,
when a combination of apple cider, kelp, vitamin B-6, and
lecithin was touted as the miracle cure for weight loss. The
rationale for this concoction was that it tricked your
body's metabolism.
According to the claims, lecithin emulsified body fat, B-6
metabolized the loosened fat, kelp supplied iodine to
stimulate the thyroid gland to manufacture more thyroxin to
speed metabolism, and vinegar supplied potassium. Like salad
dressings where oil and vinegar don't mix, this was supposed
to help rid the body of fat.
There Is No Proof --------------------------
There is no scientific basis, or even rational reason, for
any of these claims. For example, a teaspoon of vinegar
contains only five milligrams of potassium, a meager amount
compared to the 400 milligrams in a cup of grapefruit juice.
Swallowing more iodine will jump start a thyroid gland only
if you are deficient in this mineral (you'll know if you are
iodine-deprived because you will have developed a goiter, or
an enlargement of the thyroid gland). When people lost
weight on this regimen it was because they also followed the
accompanying low-calorie diet. Like all the other diet fads,
from starch blockers and collagen products to herbal diet
teas and hydroxycitric acid (HCA), the vinegar pills fit
most or all the criteria of a useless gimmick:
They promise to melt away fat.
They promise fast and effortless weight loss.
They promise weight loss greater than one to two pounds a
week.
They focus on one or a few foods and limit or exclude whole
food groups.
They are based on pills or "secret formulas."
Start Your Weight Loss Program After Breastfeeding --------------------------
Save your money and follow the advice of thousands of people
who have not just lost weight, but maintained the weight
loss. Consume daily a wide variety of nutrient-packed
vegetables, fruits, whole grains, extra-lean meats and
beans, and nonfat milk or yogurt. Watch your portions, and,
most importantly, exercise each day. You also are right
about not dieting while breastfeeding. It took nine months
to gain the weight during your pregnancy. Plan to begin your
weight-loss plan after you've stopped breastfeeding, and
give yourself at least nine months after that to regain your
figure.
Source: WebMD
You have permission to publish this article electronically or
in print, free of charge, as long as the bylines are included.
A courtesy copy of your publication would be appreciated.
About The Author
------------
Michael Lewis has been collecting articles and information on Weight Loss and HGH (Human Growth Hormone) and related health benefits. He has created and edits numerous web sites about this subject. Michael is a staff writer for http://www.ageforce.com and several other websites. If you would like to contact Michael you can e-mail him at Michael@AgeForce.com or if you would like to know more about Weight Loss, HGH (Human Growth Hormone) and related health topics please visit us at AgeForce.com.
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Question: I had a baby 6 months ago and would like to lose
some weight. I know that if you're nursing, you're not
supposed to diet. I have been eating healthy foods high in
nutrients, and I have lost a little weight. Would it be
harmful to the baby if I started taking apple cider vinegar
pills to help with weight loss?
Answer: A few vinegar pills probably won't hurt you or your
baby, but they won't do one bit of good in helping you lose
weight either. This old diet fad dates back to the 1970s,
when a combination of apple cider, kelp, vitamin B-6, and
lecithin was touted as the miracle cure for weight loss. The
rationale for this concoction was that it tricked your
body's metabolism.
According to the claims, lecithin emulsified body fat, B-6
metabolized the loosened fat, kelp supplied iodine to
stimulate the thyroid gland to manufacture more thyroxin to
speed metabolism, and vinegar supplied potassium. Like salad
dressings where oil and vinegar don't mix, this was supposed
to help rid the body of fat.
There Is No Proof --------------------------
There is no scientific basis, or even rational reason, for
any of these claims. For example, a teaspoon of vinegar
contains only five milligrams of potassium, a meager amount
compared to the 400 milligrams in a cup of grapefruit juice.
Swallowing more iodine will jump start a thyroid gland only
if you are deficient in this mineral (you'll know if you are
iodine-deprived because you will have developed a goiter, or
an enlargement of the thyroid gland). When people lost
weight on this regimen it was because they also followed the
accompanying low-calorie diet. Like all the other diet fads,
from starch blockers and collagen products to herbal diet
teas and hydroxycitric acid (HCA), the vinegar pills fit
most or all the criteria of a useless gimmick:
They promise to melt away fat.
They promise fast and effortless weight loss.
They promise weight loss greater than one to two pounds a
week.
They focus on one or a few foods and limit or exclude whole
food groups.
They are based on pills or "secret formulas."
Start Your Weight Loss Program After Breastfeeding --------------------------
Save your money and follow the advice of thousands of people
who have not just lost weight, but maintained the weight
loss. Consume daily a wide variety of nutrient-packed
vegetables, fruits, whole grains, extra-lean meats and
beans, and nonfat milk or yogurt. Watch your portions, and,
most importantly, exercise each day. You also are right
about not dieting while breastfeeding. It took nine months
to gain the weight during your pregnancy. Plan to begin your
weight-loss plan after you've stopped breastfeeding, and
give yourself at least nine months after that to regain your
figure.
Source: WebMD
You have permission to publish this article electronically or
in print, free of charge, as long as the bylines are included.
A courtesy copy of your publication would be appreciated.
About The Author
------------
Michael Lewis has been collecting articles and information on Weight Loss and HGH (Human Growth Hormone) and related health benefits. He has created and edits numerous web sites about this subject. Michael is a staff writer for http://www.ageforce.com and several other websites. If you would like to contact Michael you can e-mail him at Michael@AgeForce.com or if you would like to know more about Weight Loss, HGH (Human Growth Hormone) and related health topics please visit us at AgeForce.com.
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Human Milk Bank Donor Helps Premature and Sick Infants and Children
Lisa Fozo (38), a Fair Oaks resident, wanted to breastfeed so much that when her two sons didn't latch on, she pumped her own milk and bottle fed it to them. With her first child, Alex, (6) she had an excess of milk and had to discard it. But when she had her second child, Kyle, (2) Mercy Hospital of Folsom, CA, referred her to Karen Evon, International Board Certified Lactation Consultant. Evon is also part owner of Maternal Expressions in Folsom, a maternity and breastfeeding specialty store. Evon advised Lisa to donate her surplus milk to the Mother's Milk Bank in San Jose, California.
The Mother's Milk Bank is the only one of its kind on the West Coast. It ships milk within California, outside of the state, and even occasionally to foreign countries. In the U.S there are six other milk banks: Newark, Delaware; Columbus, Ohio; Denver, Colorado; Fort Worth, Texas; Austin, Texas; and Raleigh, North Carolina. The milk banks are overseen by The Human Milk Banking Association of North America. Milk banks provide human milk for premature and ill infants and children under a doctor's prescription.
Lisa donated 250 ounces to the Mother's Milk Bank after having Kyle. "I wish I had known with my first child so I could have helped more babies, "says Lisa. Evon says, "Mothers who have a surplus of milk may have a larger storage capacity which usually has nothing to do with breast size." Lisa produced 16 ounces of milk in three hours. And in the morning, she could pump 32 ounces in 15 minutes.
Lisa says that her husband Ed was the one who first encouraged her to nurse. He saw how healthy his sister-in-law's children were on human milk, so when Lisa became pregnant, he said "I hope you'll breastfeed."
That's easy to say, but Ed wasn't a passive observer. He bottle fed his infants the breast milk on weekends while Lisa pumped the milk. He also attended breastfeeding classes with her.
But before Lisa could donate the milk, she had to undergo a screening process: Prospective milk donors must meet certain criteria before donating milk. They must be lactating and submit to tests for Hepatitis B and C, Syphilis, HIV 1 and 2, human T cell lymphotropic virus (HTLV) 1 and 2, and Ruebella titer. All viral and bacterial studies must be negative, and a history of systemic diseases such as leprosy and cancer will disqualify prospective donors.
Donors may not smoke, consume alcohol, or take medications or herbal supplements at the time of donation, with the exception of drugs, such as insulin, Syn-Thyroid, and progestin-only birth control pills or injections. After donors pass the health evaluation, they will learn how to express milk with a pump, label glass bottles, freeze the milk and store it in the freezer.
Diana Clarke is a teacher and health educator. Her articles have appeared in newspapers and magazines, such as the San Jose Mercury News, Listen Magazine and the World of English. Visit her website at http://yourskinandsun.com
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The Mother's Milk Bank is the only one of its kind on the West Coast. It ships milk within California, outside of the state, and even occasionally to foreign countries. In the U.S there are six other milk banks: Newark, Delaware; Columbus, Ohio; Denver, Colorado; Fort Worth, Texas; Austin, Texas; and Raleigh, North Carolina. The milk banks are overseen by The Human Milk Banking Association of North America. Milk banks provide human milk for premature and ill infants and children under a doctor's prescription.
Lisa donated 250 ounces to the Mother's Milk Bank after having Kyle. "I wish I had known with my first child so I could have helped more babies, "says Lisa. Evon says, "Mothers who have a surplus of milk may have a larger storage capacity which usually has nothing to do with breast size." Lisa produced 16 ounces of milk in three hours. And in the morning, she could pump 32 ounces in 15 minutes.
Lisa says that her husband Ed was the one who first encouraged her to nurse. He saw how healthy his sister-in-law's children were on human milk, so when Lisa became pregnant, he said "I hope you'll breastfeed."
That's easy to say, but Ed wasn't a passive observer. He bottle fed his infants the breast milk on weekends while Lisa pumped the milk. He also attended breastfeeding classes with her.
But before Lisa could donate the milk, she had to undergo a screening process: Prospective milk donors must meet certain criteria before donating milk. They must be lactating and submit to tests for Hepatitis B and C, Syphilis, HIV 1 and 2, human T cell lymphotropic virus (HTLV) 1 and 2, and Ruebella titer. All viral and bacterial studies must be negative, and a history of systemic diseases such as leprosy and cancer will disqualify prospective donors.
Donors may not smoke, consume alcohol, or take medications or herbal supplements at the time of donation, with the exception of drugs, such as insulin, Syn-Thyroid, and progestin-only birth control pills or injections. After donors pass the health evaluation, they will learn how to express milk with a pump, label glass bottles, freeze the milk and store it in the freezer.
Diana Clarke is a teacher and health educator. Her articles have appeared in newspapers and magazines, such as the San Jose Mercury News, Listen Magazine and the World of English. Visit her website at http://yourskinandsun.com
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Use Fresh Herbs In Your Cooking
Many common herbs that you might use in cooking are well known for there healing properties. Using them in cooking is a great way to incorporate the healing attributes of natural herbs with your meals. Chances are you probably already use some herbs in your cooking like basil and thyme but experimenting with even more herbs can add taste to your dishes while improving health.
Cooking with fresh herbs is just as easy as using dried herbs. Just chop up a bit of the herb and season to taste. You will need to use about twice as much of the fresh herb than the dried. You may want to wait until the last 20 minutes of cooking to add the herb so the taste stays crisp. Herbs can be used to flavor any foods. Commonly used in pasta sauces, herbs can also be added to soups, oils, eggs and even desserts and drinks.
You can grow your own herbs in the garden on window sill and have fresh herbs all the time. Some grocery stores have fresh herbs right in the produce section and, of course, you can always find dried herbs in the baking section. If you grow your own herbs, you can freeze them or dry them yourself in a dehydrator to have for future use.
Here's some food and herb combinations that I like to use when cooking with fresh herbs:
• Eggs with dill
• Pesto with basil
• Mint in any tea or punch
• Parsley with salad
• Rosemary and Thyme on oven roasted potatoes
• Basil and sage added to flavor butter
If you have a special condition or illness that might be treated with herbs, then feel free to incorporate the herbs into your usual cooking. Start by adding a small amount of the herb(s) and taste - add more to suit. This is a great way to realize the healthy benefit of herbs without having to remember to take pills.
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Cooking with fresh herbs is just as easy as using dried herbs. Just chop up a bit of the herb and season to taste. You will need to use about twice as much of the fresh herb than the dried. You may want to wait until the last 20 minutes of cooking to add the herb so the taste stays crisp. Herbs can be used to flavor any foods. Commonly used in pasta sauces, herbs can also be added to soups, oils, eggs and even desserts and drinks.
You can grow your own herbs in the garden on window sill and have fresh herbs all the time. Some grocery stores have fresh herbs right in the produce section and, of course, you can always find dried herbs in the baking section. If you grow your own herbs, you can freeze them or dry them yourself in a dehydrator to have for future use.
Here's some food and herb combinations that I like to use when cooking with fresh herbs:
• Eggs with dill
• Pesto with basil
• Mint in any tea or punch
• Parsley with salad
• Rosemary and Thyme on oven roasted potatoes
• Basil and sage added to flavor butter
If you have a special condition or illness that might be treated with herbs, then feel free to incorporate the herbs into your usual cooking. Start by adding a small amount of the herb(s) and taste - add more to suit. This is a great way to realize the healthy benefit of herbs without having to remember to take pills.
Visit http://www.herbs-home-remedies.com for more on natural home remedies and herbs. Don’t forget to check their extensive article database.
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Obesity is Big Business
Obesity and overweight, weight reduction and weight management therapies, miracle weight loss pills are everywhere. Open the newspaper, switch on the T.V., pick up a magazine and you are sure to find ads and articles on the subject of weight loss and obesity.
Weight loss and obesity are big business. Here are some factors that can make you rich if you happen to start a business related to weight management.
Two thirds of America is overweight. Out of that, 50 % are obese.
300.000 premature deaths are caused by obesity.
Obesity is the fastest growing epidemic in the world.
The world is hurling towards obesity at galactic speeds. Only 50 years back obesity was hardly hear of. Nearly 45 % of the world population is obese or overweight in 2004.
Weight loss related business that you can start and become rich.
Opening a weight loss counseling Centre
Become a nutritionist
Sell some good weight loss MLM products from herbal pills to weighing machines
Start researching and writing about weight management.
Start a campaign to fight obesity and become well known in your community or even in your city or country as a lose weight advocate. This will help you in any business you are planning.
Start a weight loss Super store with every conceivable weight management related products and books.
Not to leave the healthier people you can start an obesity prevention centre
Start specialized Child Obesity Counseling centre
This is only an illustrative list of the opportunity provided by an obese and overweight world to make millions. Just look around and you will find an opportunity to encash weight management as a business.
However, remember you yourself must look slim and be healthy to be a success in the weight loss business.
This article is copyright © of R.G. Srinivasan a Certified Trainer, Small Business Consultant, Writer and Author. He is passionate about alternative therapies and holistic health. Check out his herbal health blog at http://globalhealthnetwork.tripod.com/herbalhealth for more on the subject of health and fitness.
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Weight loss and obesity are big business. Here are some factors that can make you rich if you happen to start a business related to weight management.
Two thirds of America is overweight. Out of that, 50 % are obese.
300.000 premature deaths are caused by obesity.
Obesity is the fastest growing epidemic in the world.
The world is hurling towards obesity at galactic speeds. Only 50 years back obesity was hardly hear of. Nearly 45 % of the world population is obese or overweight in 2004.
Weight loss related business that you can start and become rich.
Opening a weight loss counseling Centre
Become a nutritionist
Sell some good weight loss MLM products from herbal pills to weighing machines
Start researching and writing about weight management.
Start a campaign to fight obesity and become well known in your community or even in your city or country as a lose weight advocate. This will help you in any business you are planning.
Start a weight loss Super store with every conceivable weight management related products and books.
Not to leave the healthier people you can start an obesity prevention centre
Start specialized Child Obesity Counseling centre
This is only an illustrative list of the opportunity provided by an obese and overweight world to make millions. Just look around and you will find an opportunity to encash weight management as a business.
However, remember you yourself must look slim and be healthy to be a success in the weight loss business.
This article is copyright © of R.G. Srinivasan a Certified Trainer, Small Business Consultant, Writer and Author. He is passionate about alternative therapies and holistic health. Check out his herbal health blog at http://globalhealthnetwork.tripod.com/herbalhealth for more on the subject of health and fitness.
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Weight Loss Methods
On the market at any given time, there are hundreds of weight loss methods. You will no doubt see hundreds of commercials in your time for a weight loss drug, a weight loss plan, or an exercise machine. They all tell you that they are the best. They will provide for you the best solution for losing weight. Some may say that they will guarantee the weight loss if you follow their so called simple steps. The truth of the matter is that you need to actively work for the weight loss to be effective. Here, we will talk about different methods of weight loss that you can use to help you gain control of your life.
Realize that anyone that needs to lose weight has to fight for it. Sure, it might be easier for some to lose than others, but the bottom line is that there is no easy weight loss solution out there. No magic pill exists to magically melt away the pounds. It all comes from hard work, eating right, and determination. But, let us explore the different methods of getting the weight off! From the simplest to the most difficult, there are really hundreds of ways you can effectively lose weight. Just remember determination is the key to success!
First of all, it just makes sense to talk about the most effective and longest lasting diet ever. You will never believe this but this is such a powerful diet that when most people follow it, they lose weight! Unfortunately, it is the most difficult to do as well. Eating a balanced diet and getting regular, vigorous exercise is the diet in question here. Yes, we all know that you don't want to give up your favorite foods or want to exercise hard and heavy. But, again, this really is the most beneficial diet out there for weight loss. You need to maintain a healthy diet full of vegetables, fruits and the right portions of meats, grains, and dairy. You will need to exercise daily, developing strong muscles and work off that unwanted fat.
So, like many people you didn't stop reading there. You do not want to do that diet because you may have tried and found it too hard. You may have found that you just didn't have time. Whatever you excuse it, you are here and reading on to search for an easier solution.
Many people have tried the limitation diets like South Beach, Atkins, no fat, or no protein. There are hundreds of fad diets out there. Do they work? Maybe, but you need to realize that by giving up an entire food group can do damage to your body later on in life as well. High fat diets can contribute to heart disease and high blood pressure. Low fat diets can cause their own set of problems because your body needs a healthy amount of fat. In order for these diets to work, you will have to give up the "bad" food for the course of your life. This is difficult, but like we said, all weight loss is!
Exercise can be an excellent way to loose weight. You can exercise away the pounds if you like. Things like jogging, swimming, aerobics, Pilates, and all sorts of other exercise routines can in fact help you to lose weight. In many of these situations, you will have to work long and hard at it. Determination, remember? But, what you are doing is building up the muscle mass in your body. Muscles will burn fat twice as fast as weaker muscles. That means that you will burn fat faster when your body is in shape through exercising. It is important to stress that you will need to insure that you are seen by a doctor prior to starting a hard core exercise plan. Also, remember that you can be thin through exercise, but if you are eating the wrong foods, you are likely to have high cholesterol, high blood pressure or many other things.
Herbal remedies are another way to lose weight effectively. Herbal remedies are available in all sorts of combinations. Most of them are healthy and definitely non toxic. They work because they are all natural products like the foods we eat, that our bodies already know how to digest and use. That means they can be twice as effective, in some cases, as medications. But, just like eating a meal that gives you indigestion, while you may be affected, the friend may not. Herbal remedies can be quite similar meaning they are not a for sure thing.
There are, of course, diet pills that do work. Like herbal remedies, they can help speed up metabolism or help to tell you to stop eating. They can trick the mind into thinking you are full. Many of these diet pills are herbal remedies and do work on and off for many people. While there is no proof that they will work in your situation, they may just be what you need in the end.
And, we are back to the good old eating right and getting the exercise you need diet. Weight loss is a lifelong battle for many people, contributing to their death, in some cases. But, by simply eating right and getting the daily dose of exercise that many of us do not get, we can greatly reduce the amount of bad the weight does to us. Heart disease, organ failure, and many more things can be caused in part or fully from being overweight. Whatever method you decide to use as your method to lose weight do so and, remember that it will take a lot of determination and a whole lot of patience to get where you are going. You will lose the weight. You will be proud to look in the mirror, not because you look good, but because you accomplish a huge goal, a difficult goal, and a lifetime goal of losing weight! Remember to talk to your doctor about you weight loss method as well.
Hilda Maria is a freelance writer with 5 children who knows the importance of a balanced diet for them. She enjoys providing useful knowledge about weight loss and exercise to her readers as well as to her children.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Hilda_Maria
Realize that anyone that needs to lose weight has to fight for it. Sure, it might be easier for some to lose than others, but the bottom line is that there is no easy weight loss solution out there. No magic pill exists to magically melt away the pounds. It all comes from hard work, eating right, and determination. But, let us explore the different methods of getting the weight off! From the simplest to the most difficult, there are really hundreds of ways you can effectively lose weight. Just remember determination is the key to success!
First of all, it just makes sense to talk about the most effective and longest lasting diet ever. You will never believe this but this is such a powerful diet that when most people follow it, they lose weight! Unfortunately, it is the most difficult to do as well. Eating a balanced diet and getting regular, vigorous exercise is the diet in question here. Yes, we all know that you don't want to give up your favorite foods or want to exercise hard and heavy. But, again, this really is the most beneficial diet out there for weight loss. You need to maintain a healthy diet full of vegetables, fruits and the right portions of meats, grains, and dairy. You will need to exercise daily, developing strong muscles and work off that unwanted fat.
So, like many people you didn't stop reading there. You do not want to do that diet because you may have tried and found it too hard. You may have found that you just didn't have time. Whatever you excuse it, you are here and reading on to search for an easier solution.
Many people have tried the limitation diets like South Beach, Atkins, no fat, or no protein. There are hundreds of fad diets out there. Do they work? Maybe, but you need to realize that by giving up an entire food group can do damage to your body later on in life as well. High fat diets can contribute to heart disease and high blood pressure. Low fat diets can cause their own set of problems because your body needs a healthy amount of fat. In order for these diets to work, you will have to give up the "bad" food for the course of your life. This is difficult, but like we said, all weight loss is!
Exercise can be an excellent way to loose weight. You can exercise away the pounds if you like. Things like jogging, swimming, aerobics, Pilates, and all sorts of other exercise routines can in fact help you to lose weight. In many of these situations, you will have to work long and hard at it. Determination, remember? But, what you are doing is building up the muscle mass in your body. Muscles will burn fat twice as fast as weaker muscles. That means that you will burn fat faster when your body is in shape through exercising. It is important to stress that you will need to insure that you are seen by a doctor prior to starting a hard core exercise plan. Also, remember that you can be thin through exercise, but if you are eating the wrong foods, you are likely to have high cholesterol, high blood pressure or many other things.
Herbal remedies are another way to lose weight effectively. Herbal remedies are available in all sorts of combinations. Most of them are healthy and definitely non toxic. They work because they are all natural products like the foods we eat, that our bodies already know how to digest and use. That means they can be twice as effective, in some cases, as medications. But, just like eating a meal that gives you indigestion, while you may be affected, the friend may not. Herbal remedies can be quite similar meaning they are not a for sure thing.
There are, of course, diet pills that do work. Like herbal remedies, they can help speed up metabolism or help to tell you to stop eating. They can trick the mind into thinking you are full. Many of these diet pills are herbal remedies and do work on and off for many people. While there is no proof that they will work in your situation, they may just be what you need in the end.
And, we are back to the good old eating right and getting the exercise you need diet. Weight loss is a lifelong battle for many people, contributing to their death, in some cases. But, by simply eating right and getting the daily dose of exercise that many of us do not get, we can greatly reduce the amount of bad the weight does to us. Heart disease, organ failure, and many more things can be caused in part or fully from being overweight. Whatever method you decide to use as your method to lose weight do so and, remember that it will take a lot of determination and a whole lot of patience to get where you are going. You will lose the weight. You will be proud to look in the mirror, not because you look good, but because you accomplish a huge goal, a difficult goal, and a lifetime goal of losing weight! Remember to talk to your doctor about you weight loss method as well.
Hilda Maria is a freelance writer with 5 children who knows the importance of a balanced diet for them. She enjoys providing useful knowledge about weight loss and exercise to her readers as well as to her children.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Hilda_Maria
Natural Breast Enhancement
Having nicely shaped, rounded breasts can make a woman feel sexier and confident, there is no doubt about that. However, with surgical breast enlargement procedures (such as breast augmentation and breast lifts) having a number of alarming side effects, more and more women are turning towards natural breast enhancement.
Post-operative effects of surgical breast augmentation can include a hardening of the breasts; infection; and (sometimes permanent) loss of sensation in the nipples. Implants may also leak or break, causing a change in the shape and feel of the breasts and a great deal of discomfort.
And while the majority of the typical breast augmentation related problems can be treated, it often involves removing the implant (after waiting for any infection to clear) and replacing it with another meaning yet more invasive surgery.
There are many non surgical products and methods that claim to enlarge, enhance and lift your breasts such as creams; special bras; using weights and even, hypnosis.
However, more and more women are now turning to breast enlargement pills as a way of enlarging and enhancing their breasts. Breast enlargement pills can help women to enhance their breasts and gain breast size without resorting to synthetic hormones and risky, invasive surgery.
Most of these pills are herbal and made of natural products. These natural products can also have other benefits. Some claim that they can actually help with other health issues, such as protecting against breast cancer or stopping hot flushes, which is a real bonus!
However, when looking for natural breast enhancement, you should still research all the options thoroughly. For example, the internet has hundreds upon hundreds of websites claiming to sell breast enhancement programmes. Many of them are a waste of money and sell products which will never work, so research the different products, look at what the pills contain and the type of development work that has gone in to the products by the manufacturer, then make a decision from there.
Natural breast enhancement is a way to enhance your breasts with none of the risks involved with surgical procedures, but as with all products, needs careful research first.
Natural Breast Enhancement Online is a Independent resource aimed at Women who are looking to increase the size of their breasts without surgery. Sign up to our FREE 5 Day Course explaining all you need to know about Natural Breast Enhancement. From "Is it safe?", "Will it work for me?", to "How does it work?", and "Where do I buy it". Part 1 is delivered instantly!
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Post-operative effects of surgical breast augmentation can include a hardening of the breasts; infection; and (sometimes permanent) loss of sensation in the nipples. Implants may also leak or break, causing a change in the shape and feel of the breasts and a great deal of discomfort.
And while the majority of the typical breast augmentation related problems can be treated, it often involves removing the implant (after waiting for any infection to clear) and replacing it with another meaning yet more invasive surgery.
There are many non surgical products and methods that claim to enlarge, enhance and lift your breasts such as creams; special bras; using weights and even, hypnosis.
However, more and more women are now turning to breast enlargement pills as a way of enlarging and enhancing their breasts. Breast enlargement pills can help women to enhance their breasts and gain breast size without resorting to synthetic hormones and risky, invasive surgery.
Most of these pills are herbal and made of natural products. These natural products can also have other benefits. Some claim that they can actually help with other health issues, such as protecting against breast cancer or stopping hot flushes, which is a real bonus!
However, when looking for natural breast enhancement, you should still research all the options thoroughly. For example, the internet has hundreds upon hundreds of websites claiming to sell breast enhancement programmes. Many of them are a waste of money and sell products which will never work, so research the different products, look at what the pills contain and the type of development work that has gone in to the products by the manufacturer, then make a decision from there.
Natural breast enhancement is a way to enhance your breasts with none of the risks involved with surgical procedures, but as with all products, needs careful research first.
Natural Breast Enhancement Online is a Independent resource aimed at Women who are looking to increase the size of their breasts without surgery. Sign up to our FREE 5 Day Course explaining all you need to know about Natural Breast Enhancement. From "Is it safe?", "Will it work for me?", to "How does it work?", and "Where do I buy it". Part 1 is delivered instantly!
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Breast Augmentation Cost - What are the Comparison Costs Between Surgery and No Surgery?
If you feel that having bigger breasts will make you feel more confident and sexy, then no doubt you would have considered breast augmentation. However, while this is a popular surgical procedure, how much exactly will breast augmentation cost?
In the UK, at the time of writing (Mar 2005) prices for the cost of cosmetic surgery to the breasts ranges from £3,000 upwards. When you are making enquiries as to see what breast augmentation costs will be at the various breast augmentation clinics, check to see what the costs actually cover. For example, do they include accommodation, food, dressings, follow up visits? etc.
And, as while the majority of the typical breast augmentation procedures do go smoothly, there could be problems which, although they can be treated, may involve removing the implant.
Therefore, don’t forget to see if any of the typical post-operative problems (which include hardening of the breasts; loss of sensation in the nipples; and infection which could mean a replacement implant in some cases) will be treated free of charge. If not, what will the costs be?
If you are concerned about undergoing a surgical procedure, then there are many non surgical alternatives. These include creams, wearing special bras; using weights and even hypnosis.
Natural breast enlargement and enhancement methods are now used by many women as a way of enlarging and enhancing their breasts, without surgical intervention.
Non surgical prices for these natural methods vary, from £20 for a bust firming cream to around £50 for natural and herbal tablets and pills. These herbal and/or natural breast enlargement pills claim to help women to gain breast size and enhance their breasts - without needing to resort to synthetic hormones and risky surgical procedures.
As with all products and procedures, when looking for natural breast enhancement pills and lotions (non surgical prices for breast enhancement) etc or breast augmentation costs, then research all your options thoroughly.
That way you can make an educated decision when you choose either go down the surgical or non surgical route to enhance and/or enlarge your breasts – and at the best price.
Breast Augmentation Cost - Breast Enhancement Online is a Independent resource aimed at Women who are looking to increase the size of their breasts without surgery. Sign up to our FREE 5 Day Course explaining all you need to know about Natural Breast Enhancement. From "Is it safe?", "Will it work for me?", to "How does it work?", and "Where do I buy it". Part 1 is delivered instantly!
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In the UK, at the time of writing (Mar 2005) prices for the cost of cosmetic surgery to the breasts ranges from £3,000 upwards. When you are making enquiries as to see what breast augmentation costs will be at the various breast augmentation clinics, check to see what the costs actually cover. For example, do they include accommodation, food, dressings, follow up visits? etc.
And, as while the majority of the typical breast augmentation procedures do go smoothly, there could be problems which, although they can be treated, may involve removing the implant.
Therefore, don’t forget to see if any of the typical post-operative problems (which include hardening of the breasts; loss of sensation in the nipples; and infection which could mean a replacement implant in some cases) will be treated free of charge. If not, what will the costs be?
If you are concerned about undergoing a surgical procedure, then there are many non surgical alternatives. These include creams, wearing special bras; using weights and even hypnosis.
Natural breast enlargement and enhancement methods are now used by many women as a way of enlarging and enhancing their breasts, without surgical intervention.
Non surgical prices for these natural methods vary, from £20 for a bust firming cream to around £50 for natural and herbal tablets and pills. These herbal and/or natural breast enlargement pills claim to help women to gain breast size and enhance their breasts - without needing to resort to synthetic hormones and risky surgical procedures.
As with all products and procedures, when looking for natural breast enhancement pills and lotions (non surgical prices for breast enhancement) etc or breast augmentation costs, then research all your options thoroughly.
That way you can make an educated decision when you choose either go down the surgical or non surgical route to enhance and/or enlarge your breasts – and at the best price.
Breast Augmentation Cost - Breast Enhancement Online is a Independent resource aimed at Women who are looking to increase the size of their breasts without surgery. Sign up to our FREE 5 Day Course explaining all you need to know about Natural Breast Enhancement. From "Is it safe?", "Will it work for me?", to "How does it work?", and "Where do I buy it". Part 1 is delivered instantly!
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FTC Names Dirty Dozen Email Scams
The Federal Trade Commission is responsible for issuing and enforcing rules for consumer issues on the Internet. As part of this process, the FTC has published a list of the 12 scams you are most likely to receive as email.
The Dirty Dozen Scams
The "dirty dozen" are:
1. Business opportunities
These business opportunities make it sound easy to start a business that will bring lots of income without much work or cash outlay. The solicitations trumpet unbelievable earnings claims $1,000 a day or more without doing any work. Many business opportunity solicitations claim to offer a way to make money in an Internet-related business. Short on details but long on promises, these messages usually offer a telephone number to call for more information. In many cases, you'll be told to leave your name and telephone number so that a salesperson can call you back with the sales pitch.
The scam: Many of these are illegal pyramid schemes masquerading as legitimate opportunities to earn money.
2. Bulk email
Bulk email solicitations offer to sell you lists of email addresses, by the millions, to which you can send your own bulk solicitations. Some offer software that automates the sending of email messages to thousands or millions of recipients. Others offer the service of sending bulk email solicitations on your behalf. Some of these offers say, or imply, that you can make a lot of money using this marketing method.
The problem: Sending bulk email violates the terms of service of most Internet service providers. If you use one of the automated email programs, your ISP may shut you down. In addition, inserting a false return address into your solicitations, as some of the automated programs allow you to do, may land you in legal hot water with the owner of the address's domain name. There are also very strict rules, known as the CAN-SPAM Act, regulating bulk email marketing.
3. Chain letters
You're asked to send a small amount of money ($5 to $20) to each of four or five names on a list, replace one of the names on the list with your own, and then forward the revised message via bulk email. The letter may claim that the scheme is legal, that it's been reviewed or approved by the government; or it may refer to sections of U.S. law that legitimize the scheme.
The scam: Chain letters are almost always illegal and nearly all of the people who participate lose their money. The fact that a "product" such as a report on how to make money fast may be changing hands in the transaction does not change the legality of these schemes.
4. Work-at-home schemes
Envelope-stuffing solicitations promise steady income for minimal labor-for example, you'll earn $2 each time you fold a brochure and seal it in an envelope. Craft assembly work schemes often require an investment of hundreds of dollars in equipment or supplies, and many hours of your time producing goods for a company that has promised to buy them.
The scam: You'll pay a small fee to get started in the envelope-stuffing business. Then, you'll learn that the email sender never had real employment to offer. Instead, you'll get instructions on how to send the same envelope-stuffing ad on your own. If you earn any money, it will be from others who fall for the scheme you're perpetuating.
5. Health and diet scams
Pills that let you lose weight without exercising or changing your diet, herbal formulas that liquefy your fat cells so that they are absorbed by your body, and cures for impotence and hair loss are among the scams flooding email boxes.
The scam: These gimmicks don't work. The fact is that successful weight loss requires a reduction in calories and an increase in physical activity. Beware of case histories from "cured" consumers claiming amazing results and testimonials from "famous" medical experts you've never heard of.
6. Effortless income
The trendiest get-rich-quick schemes offer unlimited profits exchanging money on world currency markets; newsletters describing a variety of easy-money opportunities; the perfect sales letter; and the secret to making $4,000 in one day.
The scam: If these systems worked, wouldn't everyone be using them? The thought of easy money may be appealing, but success generally requires hard work.
7. Free goods
Some email messages offer valuable goods-for example, computers, other electronic items, and long-distance phone cards-for free. You're asked to pay a fee to join a club, then told that to earn the offered goods, you have to bring in a certain number of participants. You're paying for the right to earn income by recruiting other participants, but your payoff is in goods, not money.
The scam: Most of these messages are covering up pyramid schemes, operations that inevitably collapse. The payoff goes to the promoters and little or none to you.
8. Investment opportunities
Investment schemes promise outrageously high rates of return with no risk. Many are Ponzi schemes, in which early investors are paid off with money contributed by later investors. This makes the early investors believe that the system actually works, and encourages them to invest even more.
The scam: Ponzi schemes eventually collapse because there isn't enough money coming in to continue simulating earnings. Other schemes are a good investment for the promoters, but no for participants.
9. Cable descrambler kits
For a small sum of money, you can buy a kit to assemble a cable descrambler that supposedly allows you to receive cable television transmissions without paying any subscription fee.
The scam: The device that you build probably won't work. Most of the cable TV systems in the U.S. use technology that these devices can't crack. What's more, even if it worked, stealing service from a cable television company is illegal.
10. Guaranteed loans or credit, on easy terms
Some email messages offer home-equity loans that don't require equity in your home. Usually, these are said to be offered by offshore banks. Sometimes they are combined with pyramid schemes, which offer you an opportunity to make money by attracting new participants to the scheme.
The scams: The home equity loans turn out to be useless lists of lenders who will turn you down. The promised credit cards never come through, and the pyramid schemes always collapse.
11. Credit repair
Credit repair scams offer to erase accurate negative information from your credit file so you can qualify for a credit card, auto loan, home mortgage, or a job.
The scam: The scam artists who promote these services can't deliver. Only time, a deliberate effort, and a personal debt repayment plan will improve your credit. The companies that advertise credit repair services appeal to consumers with poor credit histories. Not only can't they provide you with a clean credit record, but they also may be encouraging you to violate federal law. If you follow their advice by lying on a loan or credit application, misrepresenting your Social Security number, or getting an Employer Identification Number under false pretenses, you will be committing fraud.
12. Vacation prize promotions
Electronic certificates congratulating you on "winning" a fabulous vacation for a very attractive price are among the scams arriving in your email. Some say you have been "specially selected" for this opportunity.
The scam: Most unsolicited commercial email goes to thousands or millions of recipients at a time. Often, the cruise ship you're booked on may look more like a tug boat. The hotel accommodations likely are shabby, and you may be required to pay more for an upgrade. Scheduling the vacation at the time you want it also may require an additional fee.
In Closing
Don’t check your common sense at the door simply because you are surfing the web. If it seems to good to be true, it is. Don’t fall victim to these scams.
Richard Chapo is the lead attorney for the law firm http://www.SanDiegoBusinessLawFirm.com - a firm providing legal advice to California businesses. This article is for general education purposes and does not address every facet of the subject matter. Nothing in this article creates an attorney-client relationship.
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The Dirty Dozen Scams
The "dirty dozen" are:
1. Business opportunities
These business opportunities make it sound easy to start a business that will bring lots of income without much work or cash outlay. The solicitations trumpet unbelievable earnings claims $1,000 a day or more without doing any work. Many business opportunity solicitations claim to offer a way to make money in an Internet-related business. Short on details but long on promises, these messages usually offer a telephone number to call for more information. In many cases, you'll be told to leave your name and telephone number so that a salesperson can call you back with the sales pitch.
The scam: Many of these are illegal pyramid schemes masquerading as legitimate opportunities to earn money.
2. Bulk email
Bulk email solicitations offer to sell you lists of email addresses, by the millions, to which you can send your own bulk solicitations. Some offer software that automates the sending of email messages to thousands or millions of recipients. Others offer the service of sending bulk email solicitations on your behalf. Some of these offers say, or imply, that you can make a lot of money using this marketing method.
The problem: Sending bulk email violates the terms of service of most Internet service providers. If you use one of the automated email programs, your ISP may shut you down. In addition, inserting a false return address into your solicitations, as some of the automated programs allow you to do, may land you in legal hot water with the owner of the address's domain name. There are also very strict rules, known as the CAN-SPAM Act, regulating bulk email marketing.
3. Chain letters
You're asked to send a small amount of money ($5 to $20) to each of four or five names on a list, replace one of the names on the list with your own, and then forward the revised message via bulk email. The letter may claim that the scheme is legal, that it's been reviewed or approved by the government; or it may refer to sections of U.S. law that legitimize the scheme.
The scam: Chain letters are almost always illegal and nearly all of the people who participate lose their money. The fact that a "product" such as a report on how to make money fast may be changing hands in the transaction does not change the legality of these schemes.
4. Work-at-home schemes
Envelope-stuffing solicitations promise steady income for minimal labor-for example, you'll earn $2 each time you fold a brochure and seal it in an envelope. Craft assembly work schemes often require an investment of hundreds of dollars in equipment or supplies, and many hours of your time producing goods for a company that has promised to buy them.
The scam: You'll pay a small fee to get started in the envelope-stuffing business. Then, you'll learn that the email sender never had real employment to offer. Instead, you'll get instructions on how to send the same envelope-stuffing ad on your own. If you earn any money, it will be from others who fall for the scheme you're perpetuating.
5. Health and diet scams
Pills that let you lose weight without exercising or changing your diet, herbal formulas that liquefy your fat cells so that they are absorbed by your body, and cures for impotence and hair loss are among the scams flooding email boxes.
The scam: These gimmicks don't work. The fact is that successful weight loss requires a reduction in calories and an increase in physical activity. Beware of case histories from "cured" consumers claiming amazing results and testimonials from "famous" medical experts you've never heard of.
6. Effortless income
The trendiest get-rich-quick schemes offer unlimited profits exchanging money on world currency markets; newsletters describing a variety of easy-money opportunities; the perfect sales letter; and the secret to making $4,000 in one day.
The scam: If these systems worked, wouldn't everyone be using them? The thought of easy money may be appealing, but success generally requires hard work.
7. Free goods
Some email messages offer valuable goods-for example, computers, other electronic items, and long-distance phone cards-for free. You're asked to pay a fee to join a club, then told that to earn the offered goods, you have to bring in a certain number of participants. You're paying for the right to earn income by recruiting other participants, but your payoff is in goods, not money.
The scam: Most of these messages are covering up pyramid schemes, operations that inevitably collapse. The payoff goes to the promoters and little or none to you.
8. Investment opportunities
Investment schemes promise outrageously high rates of return with no risk. Many are Ponzi schemes, in which early investors are paid off with money contributed by later investors. This makes the early investors believe that the system actually works, and encourages them to invest even more.
The scam: Ponzi schemes eventually collapse because there isn't enough money coming in to continue simulating earnings. Other schemes are a good investment for the promoters, but no for participants.
9. Cable descrambler kits
For a small sum of money, you can buy a kit to assemble a cable descrambler that supposedly allows you to receive cable television transmissions without paying any subscription fee.
The scam: The device that you build probably won't work. Most of the cable TV systems in the U.S. use technology that these devices can't crack. What's more, even if it worked, stealing service from a cable television company is illegal.
10. Guaranteed loans or credit, on easy terms
Some email messages offer home-equity loans that don't require equity in your home. Usually, these are said to be offered by offshore banks. Sometimes they are combined with pyramid schemes, which offer you an opportunity to make money by attracting new participants to the scheme.
The scams: The home equity loans turn out to be useless lists of lenders who will turn you down. The promised credit cards never come through, and the pyramid schemes always collapse.
11. Credit repair
Credit repair scams offer to erase accurate negative information from your credit file so you can qualify for a credit card, auto loan, home mortgage, or a job.
The scam: The scam artists who promote these services can't deliver. Only time, a deliberate effort, and a personal debt repayment plan will improve your credit. The companies that advertise credit repair services appeal to consumers with poor credit histories. Not only can't they provide you with a clean credit record, but they also may be encouraging you to violate federal law. If you follow their advice by lying on a loan or credit application, misrepresenting your Social Security number, or getting an Employer Identification Number under false pretenses, you will be committing fraud.
12. Vacation prize promotions
Electronic certificates congratulating you on "winning" a fabulous vacation for a very attractive price are among the scams arriving in your email. Some say you have been "specially selected" for this opportunity.
The scam: Most unsolicited commercial email goes to thousands or millions of recipients at a time. Often, the cruise ship you're booked on may look more like a tug boat. The hotel accommodations likely are shabby, and you may be required to pay more for an upgrade. Scheduling the vacation at the time you want it also may require an additional fee.
In Closing
Don’t check your common sense at the door simply because you are surfing the web. If it seems to good to be true, it is. Don’t fall victim to these scams.
Richard Chapo is the lead attorney for the law firm http://www.SanDiegoBusinessLawFirm.com - a firm providing legal advice to California businesses. This article is for general education purposes and does not address every facet of the subject matter. Nothing in this article creates an attorney-client relationship.
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