Parents' support is important
Support from parents is one of the three most important factors helping children become physically fit.
Researchers discovered this when they questioned 3000 children to find out what factors were common in children who were physically fit.
Of all the factors examined, only three stood out as being significant.
One was encouragement from parents to do physical activity.
They other two were enjoying gym classes in school and having afternoon activities.
(Health Psychology 1999;18:1-6)
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Avoid Christmas
weight gains
Daily contact from a weight-loss counsellor dramatically reduces weight gain during the Christmas holidays.
Researchers divided 57 obese people on diets into two groups.
One group continued normal therapy over the last two weeks of December. The other group had daily contact with a counsellor through telephone calls, voicemail, faxes, and email.
Those with daily contact lost an average of one kilogram during December and January. Those without the daily contact gained an average of half a kilo.
(Health Psychology 1999;18:1-5)
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Mother's attitude
affects birth weight
Women with high-self esteem are less likely to have underweight babies.
American researchers interviewed 230 pregnant women to find out what they thought of themselves.
They then found that the pessimists (those with low self esteem and high stress) were more likely to have premature or underweight babies.
Being born premature or underweight causes health problems for babies.
So the researchers say it is important to run programs to lift the optimism and self-esteem of pregnant women.
(Health Psychology 1999;18:1-13)
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Teenage girls
think they're fat
Being fat is in the mind — at least it is for many thousands of teenage girls.
In America 52% of normal-weight white girls aged 12-16 think they are overweight.
Their attitudes are influenced by the media and attitudes of their families — which suggest that being skinny is healthy.
These misconceptions about body weight can lead to eating disorders so severe they cause death.
(Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine 1999;153;741-747)
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"Unconcerned" kids
are concerned
About 90% of overweight teenage girls want to lose weight.
The image they have that they don't care about themselves is not correct, say American researchers.
The researchers say that families of overweight teenagers should do more to encourage them to loose weight.
While this may be time-consuming and frustrating, parents can be very effective in getting long-term results for their kids.
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Water reduces bladder infection
Water can be very effective in eliminating bladder infections. There was a report in one of the medical journals
[do not remember the name] more than 20 years ago in which laboratory animals with urinary tract infections were
given just twice the usual amount of water. I believe thay put some kind of flavoring in the water to induce the
animals to ingest the addidional fluid.
As I recal 70-80 per cent recovered with out any other treatment.
Shortly after reading this article and reporting on it to the class, I came down with a urinary tract infection and
saw a urologist who prescribe antibioticts for about 10 days of treatment. As soon as I started the antibiotics my
fever and discomfort let up in less than 24 hours but I continued the antibiotics as directed.
Since I was working in the Laboratory I checked my own urine for pus cells which decreased greatly but never
did completely return to normal.
Since I was feeling OK I continued my usual routine , went on vacation ect. Whil on vacation and away from my
attending Physician, the symptoms of Urinary infection returned. Because of my unusual circumstances I
decided to try the "Water treatment".
Essentially what I did was drink an eight oz of pure water every hour during the day and when ever I had to get
up during the night to void. The fever and pain subsided slowly but in 2-3 days I felt fine. When I returned to
work and examined my urine there were no puss cells and I have not had a reoccurence.
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May 15, 1999
Bladder infection
While the information supplied for bladder infections are good, a
personal experience: I had absolutely NO symptoms of bladder infection
but ran a high fever, chills and extreme body aches until finally had to
go to hospital. It took multiple tests: spinal tap, x-rays, ultra
sound, lab tests, and finally urine culture revealed a very bad case of
ureteronephritis (kidney infection) which necessitated a 3 day stay in
hospital on massive antibiotics. My recommendation: never allow a
bladder infection to go untreated. There are several antibiotics that
are specific for this and I never travel without them and it can lead to
very serious conditions, as mine did. My doctor's advice: Begin on
prescribed meds (he gave me) at the very first sign of a bladder
infection.
Elaine
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Elaine Nelson ageis@ix.netcom.com
March 31, 1999
Fruit and vegies together
Let you tell you what I learned about the mixing of fruit and vegetables. The whole idea as I
understand it is the fruit is digested quicker so if you eat fruit after vegetables, the fruit can ferment
before it is digested because the vegetables takes a longer time. In reality the fruit does not lay there
that long and in most cases will not ferment because of the time involved.
I am on raw vegetables or lightly steamed and fresh fruit. I stay away from sugar, no fried foods,
plenty of salads of course to get the raw veggies and I do mix fruits and veggies, brown rice, etc.
We get our grapefruit from Red Cooper in Alamo, Texas. He has crossed a type of orange with the
red grapefruit so it is quite sweet. Boy are they ever good. We cut up the grapefruit or I should say
eat the grapefruit like you would an orange. Boy, R they ever good.
Incidently a 30-day of raw veggies and fresh fruit is a good cleanser and you will loose weight. After
the 39 days you can add 20% cooked veggies and 80 raw.
Paul
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March 31, 1999
Sitting with knees together
It's surely more comfortable not to maintain an unnatural sitting
position with knees clamped together! You men understand that. If not,
try sitting "modestly" with a skirt on like millions of women must.
Elaine
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March 31, 1999
Better posture
Women in Western Cultures have been taught to sit with their knees close
together.
However, it gives better posture to sit with your legs wide apart.
Does anyone have any other ideas on better posture?
SDAhealth email
from Phil Ward, philward@beachaccess.com.au,
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Back spasms
The Chiropractor said one of the main reasons for my back
spasams is a deficiency in Calcium and magnesium and I've noticed that
the supplementary magnesium *DOES* make a definate difference in the
pain level.
SDAhealth email
from Jo Kuhlmeyer, Billnjok@Olypen.com.
Entered on Dec 14, 1998
Water for bladder infection
When I had a bladder infection, one of the doctors at Wildwood told me
the number one cause of bladder infections is insufficient water
drinking. Whenever a person has a bladder infection, increasing the
drinking of pure water is a good idea, to flush the bladder. Drinking
other fluidsis not the same as drinking water. (coffee, tea except herb
teas, soft drinks, fruit juices--just do not replace the value of good
water).
The herbs I was told were helpful---Uva ursi, & cornsilk, ---drink
several times a day.
Hot and cold sitzbaths twice a day are also helpful. (Remember to
finish with cold, and never hot, to close the pores against chilling. )
Drinking Cranberry juice loaded with sugar can be
counter-productive. And if it replaces water drinking, is less
effective. However, the cranberry does establish an acid climate in the
bladder that can discourage infections. Cranberry tablets also are
available.
Remember that there are different kinds of infections. If it isn't
getting better in a week or two, you may need to see the doctor.
SDAhealth email from
Shirley Heisey, shearle1@ppp.kornet21.net,
Entered on Dec 14, 1998
More on bladder infection
Couple of things to note here:
Many physicians are astute at diagnosing the fact of chronic bladder infections but are not skilled at
considering the etiology particularly in women.
Dr. Tamara Bavendam, the head of the Women's Urology Dept at the Univ of Washington
Medical School has made the following observations: (A) Historically, urologists have focused more
on the etiology and treatment of men's urological problems but few studies have been made on
women even though women's urological problems represent +85% of the cases seen by the
urologists. (B) A disporportunate number of bladder infections have shown up after each
introduction of the following: colored toilet paper, scented toilet paper, non-natural product ie;
nylon, rayon) panties including panty hose.
Dr. Bavendam recommends the following to all women who have had more than 1 bladder
infection in 5 years: (1) Use only Scott (1000 sheet to a roll) unscented, uncolored toilet paper. (2)
Switch to only white cotton underpanties. (3) Fill a 1L jug with water every morning and determine
that no matter how much (or how little) you have drunk away from home today, you will finish this
jug before you go to bed. (This will have the effect of getting a minimum of 1L of water into
notorious non-water drinkers.) Dr. Bavendam allows her patients to "flavor" the water with any
variety of Tang or Kool-Aid they want but NO coffee or tea.
BASIC ANATOMY LESSON:
The job of the kidneys is to "flush" the body of life-threatening toxins. If you do not give the body
what it needs to work with in the way of necessary fluid, the body, in order to try and forestal
dehydration in the brain, the body will take the fluids that would ordinarily be excreted by the
kidneys altering the acid/base balance of the bladder.
BOTTOM LINE: If you don't like bladder infections, drink a
measured +1liter/day of water and change those hibits you were
"suched" into by the advertisers; ie, colored/scented toilet paper and non-natural
"panties" which cause the groin area to be overheated.
SDAhealth email from
Billnjok@concentric.net.
Entered on Dec 14, 1998
Cranberry juice
They say timing is everything, and if it's after the fact, then the prophylactic nature of keeping yourself juiced up
may indeed be severely compromised. Nevertheless, I'd just point out that in the US November edition of the
Readers Digest, of all places, there's a short blurb on the clear effectiveness of chugalugging gobs of cranberry
juice, primarily as a preventative measure, but also was suggested that it may ALSO act as a healing enhancer in
so much as the physiological action seems to be that the juice somehow prevent bacteria from adhering to the
bladder wall, and also the ureter surfaces. Beyond that, I don't know what to add. Oh...except one more thing. If
there's an active infection, then perhaps one might want to consider swilling down artificially sweetened or totally
unsweetened cranberry juice. Sweetening, either via corn syrup or good ol' sugar, as I understand it, really cuts
down the effectiveness of antibiotics, and likewise diminishes the effectiveness of the bennies from drinking the
stuff as an infection cure in the absence of antibiotics. Anyway...... hope things work out ok.
SDAhealth email from
Ken Goodridge, kennyg@efn.org.
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Daily water
You should be drinking one ounce of water daily for every 2
pounds of body weight.
SDAhealth email from
From: alonzo15@juno.com (Alonzo F Cobb)
Entered on Dec 14, 1998
Baptist with good health info
I am an SDA missionary currently working at the SDA English Language
Institutes in South Korea. The best information that I have found about
health doesn't come from SDA I'm sad to say. It comes from a Baptist
Pastor by the name of George Malkmus and his Bible based health program
called the "Hallelujah Diet". As I know he has appeared twice on our
3ABN Satelite broadcast and has been quite well received. Please check
out his story on his website http://www.hacres.com , as well as the many
marvelous and seemingly miraculous testimonies of self-healing that you
will find anywhere in the world. You may contact me by E-mail at
jdhuffman@hotmail.com
Please check it out and tell me what you think.
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Get back to drinking water
We're coming into Summer where I am in Australia. And that's a good time to
rebuild the habit of drinking water. Force yourself to drink only water each
day for two weeks. Drink it whenever you think of it, the more the better.
The hotter weather will make it easier for you to have
more. Then you can break the bad habits of drinking soft-drink, tea, or coffee --
which supply your water in a contaminated form.
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