Main > Health > The body > Teeth
Food trap: If you have an area between two teeth that gets food caught in it all the time, get it fixed immediately. It can be fixed by a good dentist, and lasts years thereafter. It may be expensive though as it usually involves rebuilding a worn filling.
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Main > Health > The body > Teeth
Teeth cleaning: It does whiten your teeth and is recommended every six months. Make sure the dentist uses an expensive head. It might not take long but if they use the cheaper heads on the cleaning apparatus, it won't clean as well. Teeth bleaching is far riskier as it involves chemicals.
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Main > Health > The body > Teeth
Teeth colour: Teeth are not naturally white, but their normal colour is a shade of yellow. If the majority of people have their teeth artificially whitened this will make normal people's teeth look discoloured. So your "gain" will be other people's loss. Dentists want you to feel unhappy with your natural teeth so that they can get even richer than they already are, at your expense.
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Main > Health > Diet & Nutrition
Tea: Very popular in the UK and Australia, but not so big in the USA. That's a shame, because I think tea is a great substitute for food. Even if I have food available, I often just take a few cups of tea with cane sugar (no milk). I find it gives me enough blood-sugar level to keep going without forcing me to eat when I don't really want to. The other good one is 2-minute noodles. Both of these are so cheap, you can afford them virtually constantly. Tea also has plenty of antioxidants, being from a leafy green plant.
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Main > Health > Diet & Nutrition
Food and exercise: The best way to get the most out of both is to exercise for at least 50 minutes just before you want to have lunch. It's easy to exercise on an empty stomach and you get more out of food that you eat straight after exercise than if you eat it at other times.
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Main > Health > Diet & Nutrition
Saving money on food: Ironically, in some instances, spending more on food will equate to less. When you eat a burger, fries and coke at a fast food place, you are strangely hungry very quickly afterwards. That's because the food didn't satisfy your brain, being so devoid of nutrition. But when you go to a seafood place on the ocean and eat some large and very fresh prawns, although the quantity is less, you don't get hungry for a long time afterwards. The nutritional needs of your brain were met. With food, you can and should spend more to spend less.
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Main > Health > Mental health
Share accommodation: It's often the shortest road to mental anguish and stress. I have found that rather than share, just rent a unit on your own and have no money. Then, try to get a partner to move in with you. When I switched to a lease in my own name from sharing, I felt that my rent money was actually going to pay for my mental health because I had control over where I lived (could not be kicked out if I paid the rent) and did not have to deal with other people and their foibles. It was worth every cent, despite leaving little for anything else. As long as you can eat and pay utilities, phone and petrol, you need your own lease more than anything on the planet!
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Main > Health > The body > Skin
Apply antiseptic to cuts and scratches made by rusty items, and renew tetanus vaccination every ten years. It is not rust that causes tetanus infection, but that rusty items are, like tetanus endospores, usually found outdoors. The endospores start to metabolise in anaerobic conditions such as a wound.
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Main > Health > Addictions > Heroin
Be wary of female ex-heroin addicts. They may try to substitute their previous addiction with being obsessed about being with you in a relationship. If you can stomach it, fine. But if you do try it, be aware that they are much more likely to carry diseases. You're best off steering clear.
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Main > Health > Addictions > Crack cocaine
If you are at a dodgy party, don't eat the snacks. If they are laced with crack cocaine, you could become instantly addicted, without even knowing it. It only takes one time.
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Main > Health > Women's health > Menstruation
Keep body-fat down to <22%, exercise daily, and cultivate a calm, light-spirited mental state. These three tips play a huge rule in cutting negative symptoms like: uterine cramps, fluid retention, diarrhoea, long periods, swollen breasts, and moodiness.
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Main > Health > Women's health > Menstruation
Pads: Use washable cloths, never disposable tampons or adhesive pads. It cuts waste and the risk of lethal bacteria metabolising in the body.
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Main > Health > Women's health > Menstruation
Cloth pads: Fold a face-washer size cloth in thirds. Place in underpants to absorb blood. This is fine for jogging, ok for cycling, not for swimming. Prevent chafing by losing weight, and wearing loose clothing.
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Main > Health > Women's health > Menstruation
Washing pads: Soak immediately after use in warm soapy water overnight. Then wash as normal, with a dirtier load of clothes. Don't be too concerned about stains.
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Main > Health > Women's health > Menstruation
Pre-menstrual 'tension': This is a myth often used by women to excuse the inexcusable. Control yourself - go have a little lie-down and get over it.
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Main > Health > Women's health > Menstruation
Uterine contractions: these are strongest on the first day of bleeding. They're more subtle when fit and calm; if not they can be painful. For temporary relief: do some tai-chi and relax the abdominal muscles, or go for a walk and stretch, or have a lie-down. Most important is to recapture a good, strong, clear-thinking, light-spirited mental state.
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Main > Health > Mental health > Anger > Chronic anger
General tips:
The stress on the body from anger is considerable. It raises blood pressure, breath rate and heart rate, compromises the immune system, and is connected to strokes, coronary heart disease, gastric and respiratory conditions, possibly diabetes and cancer. Anger is also physically painful, more so if it is chronic.
Frequent anger attacks are linked to depression, which is anger turned inward that festers. It's also linked to anxiety, because anger is an attempt to ward off threats.
If you experience chronic anger, you need to deal with it immediately for health reasons, and for the safety of others.
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Main > Health > Mental health > Anger > Chronic anger
Getting control back from an anger attack:
Go for a walk: Walk off the pain. Feel the warm sun. Get some fresh air.
Distract yourself but don't do anything: Find a comfortable position and watch your goldfish, or the wind in the trees. Try not to watch tv.
Write in a journal: it can help if your head is too cloudy to think. Cast your mind back over what's happened lately, that may have caused the stress reaction.
See a psychologist: there may be some issues you need more information about.
Look at your lifestyle: anger might also be related to lack of sleep, too many calories, lack of dark while sleeping, too much noise.
Look at your stress-coping options: help yourself by not relying on drugs, alcohol, gambling, dysfunctional relationships, 'shopping therapy', or overwork. These all have serious negative effects that add to your total stress and worsen the problem.
Panoculus (40)
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Main > Health > Mental health > Anger > Chronic anger
Fix the problem: When you are feeling relatively normal, take a good hard look at your life. E.g.
- You are probably too busy.
- Stop carrying a bossy parental figure on your back.
- You probably don't delegate jobs. Your projects or timeframe for completion is probably unrealistic.
- Start taking regular breaks. Take afternoon naps. Make time by doing nothing. Take a day off, go fishing, play sports.
- You probably feel proud or vain about making life hard for yourself and being a tough bugger. Do you want scars from heart surgery too?
- Break with traditions and try something new.
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Main > Health > Mental health > Anger
Let your anger course through your veins as genuinely as you feel it. Let it go in, but flip it inside so it comes out as controlled desire to resolve the issue. Action is the answer, not emotion. Allow emotion, but only within. In the world without, use control, action and determination/deliberation. Anger directed outside creates karma. Anger felt within but directed outside as extra-determined energy to create an answer, creates control and resolution.
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Main > Health > Mental health > Anger > Chronic anger
The most important thing is to never suppress your anger. Never deny your emotions. But never let them rule. Self-denial or emotive outburst is the path of least resistance to destruction and bad karma.
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Main > Health > Environment > Dire situations
A cataclysmic situation is at root always your own fault. There are things you could have done to resolve them. Do not look at this as self-reproach. Look at this knowledge as a guide to doing things when you have time that improve your chances of avoiding dire situations. Consider aspects of your car that may cause safety issues. Consider security in your home. Spare keys, smoke and carbon monoxide alarms, adequately riveted security screens, bike and steering wheel locks, a plan for evacuating from a fire.
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Main > Health > Environment > Dire situations
In case of fire, grab a chair and thrown it through the glass panel of your windows. Not the security screen half. You will have ample room to get out then.
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Main > Health > Addictions
At bottom, all addictions are the same thing. People begin being unhappy. They see a certain drug or behaviour or activity as solving their unhappiness. But soon enough, doing that very activity itself creates unhappiness again. The problem is, the remedy appears to be, you guessed it, doing the same drug or activity.
But if doing the activity caused the unhappiness, how can it be the remedy? That's the power of addiction, to appear to be the answer to the same unhappiness it created. Addiction is in some ways a happy state because people can be confused about what is driving them to do this behaviour: that is, if it solved their unhappiness before, and it causes unhappiness which is resoved by doing the same activity, it drives people crazy trying to work out whether this behaviour is a good thing or not. Some people like living in that uncertainty. Playing dice with the devil. Often it is risk-taking people who want to subvert that instinct into a known scam rather than try their hand on a real-life risk that can succeed. They may fear success.
If addicted people did not see doing the same activity that caused the unhappiness as the answer to that same unhappiness, they would not do it, and they would not be addicted.
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Main > Health > Addictions > Internet surfing
Before opening the internet browser, have a clear purpose for your activity. Write a list. Then start. After completing the list, stop. Close the browser. Give yourself a pat on the back, for doing well. Now find something else to do, maybe turn off the computer.
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Main > Health > Mental health > Depression
Nietzsche said "Woman is ego personified". An excellent proof that woman is ego is that they get depressed far more often than men. A lot of politicians often get depressed as well, because they are the tribune (hooker) of the people, and thus ego personified also. Depression is ego-driven.
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Main > Health > The body > Brain > Stroke
Minor strokes are the warning signs for major ones, and include symptoms like:
* A numb or weak feeling in the face, arm or leg;
* Trouble speaking or understanding;
* Unexplained dizziness;
* Blurred or poor vision in one or both eyes;
* Loss of balance or an unexplained fall;
* Difficulty swallowing.
* Headache (usually severe or of abrupt onset) or unexplained change in the pattern of headaches.
* Confusion.
* Unconsciousness.
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Main > Health > The body > Brain > Multiple sclerosis
Early symptoms of MS:
muscle weakness, difficulty walking
muscle tightness, spasticity
loss of balance
numbness, 'pins and needles'
double or blurry vision, visual tremors
memory loss, cognitive problems (e.g. can't add numbers), depression, emotional incontinence
The latter are possibly psychological reactions to the illness.
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Main > Health > Weight management
Body Mass Index charts are inaccurate if they are unisex. Generally speaking, men have a higher proportion of muscle mass than women, and women a higher proportion of fat mass than men. Men's body mass is significantly less fatty than women's. Athletes and body-builders are closer to the male chart than female.
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Main > Health > Mental health > Compulsion & Addiction
A compulsion is a ritual. Break or hoax the ritual, and the compulsion lessens.
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Main > Health > Mental health > Compulsion & Addiction
Addictions can't be let go, they are outgrown.
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Main > Health > Mental health > Compulsion & Addiction
If it is too hard to imagine an addiction-free life, try it just for one evening. Do it one day at a time.
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Main > Health > Environment
Getting enough Vitamin D: If you live in a high-latitude area with reduced sunlight-hours, take up sun-bathing on sunny days. Strip down to t-shirt and shorts, or a bathing suit, and lie out in the sun.
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Main > Health > The body > Skin
Tips for those who get chilblains:
- Avoid long periods of exposure to cold or damp weather.
- Dry skin well after wetting.
- Improve peripheral circulation to fingers and toes with daily exercise, especially in cold evenings.
- Keep whole body warm, with layers instead of one bulky layer. Wear woollen socks and gloves, that are comfortable and don't compress the skin.
- Don't apply heat or cold directly to skin.
- Don't scratch or rub sores, as this slows healing. Use witch hazel or calamine lotion to soothe itching. Try lanoline rubbed into skin to help retain body heat.
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Main > Health > Exercise & fitness > Walking > Bushwalking
Get to know bushwalking buddies before multiday hikes. Spend time in person with them.
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Main > Health > Exercise & fitness > Walking > Bushwalking
Look at weather forecasts if going to remote wilderness or high altitude areas. Plan accordingly.
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Main > Health > Exercise & fitness > Walking > Bushwalking
Don't assume your hiking partners are experienced. Ask them about their gear, experience, preferences, and plans. If they are vague, boastful, or offended by these questions, they are probably inexperienced and you will need to make allowances.
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Main > Health > Exercise & fitness > Walking > Bushwalking
Check an experienced guidebook for advice before attempting a walk into remote wilderness areas. Don't assume their advice doesn't apply to you.
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Main > Health > Exercise & fitness > Walking > Bushwalking
Water from wilderness highland lakes and tarns is generally safe to drink. Higher-altitude and faster-moving waters are safest. Smell it.
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Main > Health > Exercise & fitness > Walking > Bushwalking
Every member of a walking party needs to be as observant as if they are leading. Otherwise, if the leader makes a mistake and gets lost, everyone is lost.
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Main > Health > Exercise & fitness > Walking > Bushwalking
Use your "landscape eyes" to see your overall route in the land, rather than following the foot pads made by others. Even if you never leave their track and practice low-impact bushwalking, imagine your route. It is much more interesting to be immersed this way.
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Main > Health > Weight management
Be reminded of how much you've eaten. If eating at a buffet, social meal, barbecue, or "all you can eat" restaurant, deliberately choose foods that mark how much you've eaten or drunk, like meat with bones, fruit with rinds and seeds, a small bottle for your own use. Don't let your plate, scraps and bottle be removed until the end of the meal.
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Main > Health > Weight management
Focus on eating when you're eating. Use cutlery. If you're watching a movie, and are hungry, stop the movie and prepare a proper, balanced meal that takes at least fifteen minutes to prepare. This will help prevent mindless snacking.
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Main > Health > Weight management
What is a treat? Is it really a treat if it helps create arteriosclerosis?
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Main > Health > Medicine > Drugs > Paracetamol
Paracetamol can be taken on an empty stomach (take with a good amount of water or milk), but this is not the case with Ibuprofen and other anti-inflammatories, which must be taken with food, or they can damage the stomach lining.
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Main > Health > Medicine > Drugs
Pills can be broken in two, to make them easier to swallow, or to reduce the dosage, so long as they are scored (see image). If the pill is not scored then it is not meant to be broken, and breaking such pills can damage their surface coating, which can in turn do harm to your throat or stomach, and interfere with the controlled release of the drug.
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Main > Health > Medicine > Drugs > Ibuprofen
Only to be taken with or after food, as this anti-inflammatory can damage the lining of the stomach.
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Main > Health > Mental health > Stress reduction
Share the tips on this page with others.
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Main > Health > Diseases > Hypothyroidism
A large intake of cruciferous vegetables, which are usually dark-green leafy types, is "goitrogenic" and interferes with thyroid hormones. If hypothyroid, reduce intake of: cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, kale, turnips, swedes and bok choy.
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Main > Health > Diseases > Hypothyroidism
Avoid gluten, which is found in wheat, rye, barley, triticale and oats, as well as in barley malt and malt vinegar. Gluten-free cereals include rice, amaranth, millet, and buckwheat.
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