Health Advice

As spring draws closer more and more of us start wearing sandals and slippers. Looking after your feet from a young age is essential to stop problems occurring later in life. Scholl do a lovely aromatherapy foot spa which is brilliant for relaxing tired feet. After a lovely soak you can add abit of colour to brighten them up – remember if you use dark polish a base coat needs to be used to stop your nails from staining. This acts as a barrier between the pigment in the colour and the nail so when you need to remove it all traces of the polish disappear. Bed socks are now back in too – moisturisers lined socks leave your feet nice and supple after only 20mins. On top of all this it’s essential that you wear shoes that fit correctly and support your arch!

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Hysteria once preoccupied medical science and scientist alike, pondering on effective remedies for patients symptoms, together with restless leg syndrome, social anxiety disorder, and celebrity worship syndrome, today it seems like new illnesses are appearing or being invented on a weekly basis, and the common pattern emerging seems to coincide with the creating of remedies for simple quirk and natural human behaviours.

Dr Tim Kendall Director of the National Collaboration Centre for Mental Health, suggests we are inherently in danger of increasingly classifying people to combat behavioural problems, US style lifting of advertising ban on TV can see behest drug companies promoting Viagra and referring to the “erectile hardness scale” creation of fear and anxiety within the general public. What we need to remember is that this is certainly not a new phenomenon, as if one was to look at the American Psychiatric Association ‘bible’, one would see almost every piece of human behaviour can be classified as being in some way aberrant.

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The symptoms of a slow digestive rhythm are generally felling sick and queasy or a heavy bloated stomach after eating or drinking. Instead of moving through your intestines food could be sitting in your stomach for too long causing this uncomfort. One of the solutions is to try and eat smaller or lighter meals more often rather than one big one. This then gives your body time to digest food properly and help your stomach’s digestive rhythm to keep up with you. One of the treatments for this is Motlium 10 which can help restore the stomachs digestive rhythm to effectively relieve the sick queasy and heavy bloated feeling.

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Experts from The British Medical Journal carried out a study and found a high correlation between Drinking steaming hot tea and an increased risk of oesophageal (food tube) cancer. The oesophagus is a muscular tube that carries food from the throat to the stomach, the risk of cancer can be increased if black tea at temperatures of 70C is consumed on a regularly basis, the theory behind it is based on the fact that regularly drinking very hot drinks damage the lining of the gullet, therefore assuming a regular habit of eating and drinking very hot foods and drinks could increase your risk of developing cancer of the oesophagus.

In conclusion: Being a nation of tea lovers in the UK, we don’t tend to drink black tea at such high temperatures and we usually add milk, which cools it down, where as in eastern Europe and Asia this is not the case, although there was no conclusive association between the amount of tea consumed and risk of cancer. However some points to consider are:

• Adding milk, and gently stirring to aid the process of cooling down before consuming.
• Leave for 5mins to allow natural cooling, occasional stirring to speed the cooling process.
• Ideally tea should be less then 60C in temperature, to minimize the risk of cancer.

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With a blistery rash, chicken pox is caused by a virus and spread either by direct contact or in coughs and sneezes. It can start off with red pimples spreading from his back and tummy to his head, arms legs and face. They then turn itchy and can be filled with fluid similar to blisters. On some occasions the child can also have a fever. Calamine lotion on the spots is generally the best to ease the itchiness as well as little bicarbonate of soda in his bath. If the child has fever then paracetamol will help ease the unconfort and antihistamine syrup may help reduce the itching.

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A loss of skin elasticity is a concern in your fifties and is caused in part by falling oestrogen and hyaluronic levels. This can cause your features to lose definition and cheeks to appear hollow. As well as using a good skin care range you need to ensure your diet is just as good. This will help provide the skin with the essential nutrients it needs from the inside and aid the creams in protecting the skin from wrinkles, the environment and free radicals. These days there a huge variety available on the market specialising in eye creams and day and night creams containing various ingredients to help the skin appear tighter and firmer

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By 12 months children can eat the same type of food as adults. The average amount of daily calories for both girls and boys vary - girls its 1165 per day and for boys it’s 1230 calories per day. It’s recommended that you go easy on fibre as their stomachs can’t process it as well, choose full fat food and cram in as much calcium. Full fat milk and other dairy products are important as they provide vitamins and minerals and are a good source of calories. These days there are a vast quantity of different yogurts especially for children fortified with vitamin D and calcium. As toddlers grow so fast they need a high energy diet, also their stomachs are very small normally the size of their tiny fists! hence they’ll need small amounts often. A healthy option to crisps and biscuits are halved grapes or slices of cheese.

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