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Gastrointestinal Offending substances don’t always gain access to the body through the mouth; they can be inhaled or absorbed through the skin. Bearing this in mind perhaps it is time to consider what chemicals you are spraying on your head, under your arms, up your nose and on your skin. Use simple non-perfumed toilet preparations and don’t buy aerosol cans. You could try pure essential oils in the bath; many of them smell wonderful. They may not affect you the way synthetic perfumes do.
It is time also to throw out all the household cleaning agents and get back to simple soaps (non-biological washing powders) and old-fashioned wax furniture polish. The wood likes it better too. There is a whole range of ecological domestic cleaning products. The washing-up liquid has been particularly helpful for many people; a tight chest while washing up is very common in people with chemical allergies. A simple product called Chemico, a pink paste made from powdered rock which has been manufactured in Britain for about seventy years is gentle and safe and cleans everything, sinks, cookers, floors, even windows. It is very cheap here but is now being sold in America at $12 per tin!
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Diabetes Partial seizures have implications different from generalized seizures. Since they start in one particular area of the brain, they may require special evaluation; they may also require the use of particular medications or other therapy. To help the physician determine the proper course, it is important, as noted earlier, for you to focus carefully on the very onset of the seizure and its progression so you may be able to describe it precisely to him.
When seizures start focally in a particular area of the brain, and when they spread slowly enough, in seconds or minutes as in William’s seizure, so that their onset is experienced and witnessed or remembered, this onset is the “aura” or warning, the warning that bigger things are coming.
How do focal seizures spread to become generalized? Why don’t all focal seizures spread? What contains a focal seizure? If we knew the answers to these questions, we would understand far more about epilepsy and be better able to prevent or limit seizures than we are. But we have few answers at the present time. Generalized seizures that appear to start in all parts of the brain simultaneously have no identifiable focal onset. We do not understand their anatomy. It does not make sense for the whole brain spontaneously and suddenly to experience a disruption. Nevertheless, in generalized seizures this is what appears to occur, causing disruptions like staring, stiffening, or shaking.
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Diabetes The standard diet plans don’t work for carbohydrate addicts—and carbohydrate addicts blame themselves. We have now come to understand that they haw been trying to follow diets that are simply not suited to their physical needs.
When you’re shopping for shoes, yon don’t buy just any pair. If the salesman brings you a pair of shoes that don’t fit, you don’t blame yourself, do you? Maybe they’re too small, too large, or too narrow.
Say a friend or relative brings you a pair of shoes, and they don’t fit either. You won’t try to wear them anyway: you’ll find a pair that suits you. Right?
The same is true with eyeglasses, medical prescriptions, top hats, and false teeth. They are right for you or not. Period. You accept that.
But diets are different.
With diets, most of us forget common sense. We pick a diet at random, giving little thought to our needs, our preferences, our strengths, our weaknesses, or specific metabolic levels. We take what may (or may not) be appropriate for someone else, and assume that it should be correct for us. We don’t look at what we need.
Then we blame ourselves when, in the long run, it doesn’t work. The diet that fails us is interpreted as our own failure.
Maybe, just maybe, that’s because it wasn’t an appropriate plan in the first place.
And the Carbohydrate Addict’s Diet just might be.
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