A Time of Magic » Medical

Do you breast-feed?

admin — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 20:13:10 +0000

Breast-feeding seems to come in cycles like many things.

After the major promotion of breast-milk a decade or so back with campaigns to make it more socially acceptable in public areas, the interest in it seems to have died down considerably in recent years. Ten years back and you’d have seen women making a point of feeding their baby in public but I can’t remember the last time I’ve seen it done in a public place.

Whether that reduction in the visibility equates to a reduction in the amount of breast feeding being done is quite another questions obviously. The benefits of it certainly haven’t changed and it makes a great start in life for your baby as it always has done. Is it just that it’s become less acceptable to do it in public these days?

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Do you buy when they add the super- or hyper- labels?

admin — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 20:08:09 +0000

Ordinary things never seem to be quite enough for us these days, do they?

Just about every product seems to come in super- or hyper- or some equivalent to that. If it isn’t that, there’s the temptation to imply that it contains some prohibited ingredient or other. Hence probably the current promotions of hydroxycut reviews in the diet pill industry.

There’s nothing explicitly “wrong” about this kind of promotion of course but it does seem to be nearing the end of its life at the moment as more and more people are becoming immunised against this type of marketing. What will come next though?

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Getting rid of those acne scars

admin — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 20:04:09 +0000

The problem with acne is that sometimes you need to consider acne scar removal after it’s gone from your life.

Covering up the spots when they are an integral part of your life is a pain when you have them but, of course, there’s always that temptation to pick away at them. Not a good idea for the long term but something that many of us obviously do so getting rid of those scars at a later date is also something that will need done in due course. Best to wait ’til you’re over the acne obviously.

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Getting a good clean-out

admin — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 19:33:10 +0000

Cleaning out your colon is one of those things that seems like a good idea.

After all, there’s all kinds of, how can one put it?, basically pre-toilet material up there. It’s your internal sewer, isn’t it?

Well, in some ways it certainly is. That’s where the stuff sits before it reaches the toilet after all. However, a lot of it isn’t just sitting there – it’s being processed with lots of useful things being taken out and absorbed into your body. So colon cleansers like colonetix need to be careful that they don’t clean everything out. Some of it consists of bacteria that are required to make things like vitamin K (an essential part of blood clotting) that your body needs and which aren’t supplied by way of your food.

Yes, there’s gunge, and, yes, it’s not a bad idea to clear it out now and again but be mindful of some side-effects and be sure to take supplements to make up for some of what was cleared out for a while afterwards.

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Sleeping easily

admin — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 22:40:46 +0000

The problem with sleeping problems is that it’s often very much a family problem with one non-sleeper keeping at least one other person awake because of it.

Which, of course, means that there’s even more of an interest in sleep aids than there would be normally. But do they work? Well, yes, but that’s not the problem. The issue is that when you can’t sleep there’s generally a reason behind it, most commonly some form of stress leading to your brain not closing down normally. It’s that problem that you need to look at as sleeping aids aren’t a long term solution.

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Helping reduce the spread of contact based disease

admin — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 22:20:56 +0000

One of the problems in drying your hands is that there are loads of contact diseases around these days and that’s where hand dryers really come into their own.

Whilst it might seem daft to install one of these in your own bathroom in fact it’s probably one of the easiest ways to reduce the spread of the flu around your family. No more spreading of germs via the towels.

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What is it with swine flu that’s killing people?

admin — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 11:22:03 +0000

Nothing really.

People die every year with flu. In big numbers too. Massive numbers compared to those that are dying with swine flu.

The difference is that when they die with swine flu it hits the headlines. Moreover, there’s endless digging into the causes of why they died which just doesn’t happen when someone dies with “the flu”.

So, for example, you have the endless questioning as to whether or not those dying had an underlying health problem. There’s the implication that if they did have an underlying problem of some kind that their death doesn’t matter which doesn’t seem right. Granted, people die, but it doesn’t seem right that they die with something so seemingly trivial as the flu.

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Do diet pills really work?

admin — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 11:15:09 +0000

Sometimes is the short answer.

In fact, whether they work for you will depend on what you need them to do. It’s no use just looking at “diet pills” as you need to first work out what you need them to do then choose the category of diet pill that will do that.

So, if you need something to absorb the fat that you eat, then it’s no use going for a pill that’s designed to burn the fat.

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Essential items when you’re pregnant

admin — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 11:10:53 +0000

It’s not quite eating for two when you’re pregnant but there are things in your body that will run a little low if you don’t do something about it.

So, for example, you can basically take it as read that you’ll not be taking enough vitamins if you keep eating the same way as you did before you were pregnant. Thus pregnancy vitamins are something that you almost certainly need to take.

The snag with vitamins is that you almost certainly won’t notice if you’re a bit short of one or other of them as the effects of a lack in vitamins are often peculiar.

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Why do people bother with eye wrinkle cream

admin — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 22:38:19 +0000

Amongst the earlier signs that you consider yourself getting old is that you start looking at eye wrinkle cream.

However, you very quickly find that these are essentially polyfilla for your skin rather than something that actually fixes the problem. So, they’re cosmetic rather than medical products. The problem with that is that advertising gets a lot of leeway in what they can get away with saying for cosmetics: none of the hassles of having to prove any medical benefits (nor even safety) for these products.

Since they don’t fix the problem you end up having to continually apply them to paper over the cracks which makes for a lot of spending on them over the years.

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