PRISM HEALTH CARE: Eating for Better Health

Eating for Better Health

Food choices are one of the most individual parts of your life-style. Even family members who eat most meals together choose different amounts and different combinations of food. There is an almost unlimited variety of foods that fit into a heart-healthy diet.
Medical experts have identified certain nutrient components of food-fat, cholesterol, sodium, and calories-thai rela

te to heart disease. Your doctor will probably discuss with you individual recommendations, in terms such as grams of fat, milligrams of cholesterol and sodium, etc. Sometimes it is difficult to take the next step of translating these recommendations into everyday food choices. Registered dietitians are available to help you take the next step. Your doctor can refer you to one for help. This section briefly reviews some common recommendations and then helps you pull these facts together into an overall plan for eating more healthfully.
Unfortunately, many people get discouraged by nutrition advice because they mistakenly think that they cannot eat their favorite foods. A more positive and encouraging approach is to consider that no food is forbidden. Good health comes from eating a variety of foods-meats, dairy products, and especially vegetables, fruits, and grains-in moderate amounts. You may have to change some of your routine grocery purchases, some of your cooking methods, and the amounts of some foods you are accustomed to eating, but you do not have to take the enjoyment out of eating. In fact, you will probably discover some new tastes, and your new eating habits can lead to improvement in the way you look and feel.
The following section reviews the most common recommendations about fat, cholesterol, sodium, and calories. The recommendations form the basis for practical changes in food selections you can try in your own meals.

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Kidney Stones and Find Relief Immediately Without Risky Surgery

By: Dr.Darakhshan Shaheen Rashid Jameel.
Homeopathy medicines are effective in many functional and pathological disorders.
Homeopathy is also best kidney stone solutions.
Prevent harm to your kidneys and ease the passage of the stone with safe & natural therapy.
About Kidney Stones
Do you or someone you know have kidney stones? Unlike what is commonly believed, kidney stones don't occur overnight. Stones tend to form when the kidneys suddenly develop a metabolic condition where it becomes unable to keep urinary wastes from clumping together. Once the blood carrying toxins is filtered by the kidneys, the dissolved wastes quickly move out of urine and begin forming solid blockages.
Unless this blockage is quickly reversed the stone can cause serious harm to the kidneys and can cause extreme pain when forced out. The answer to quick relief lies in new findings on how stones form in the body and how this process is easily reversed.
How Do You Know If You Really Have Stones?
The symptoms are usually classic such as pain in the lower back or groin area. It can be dull or extremely excruciating depending on its size and shape. Sometimes people see blood in their urine. You may even feel a sudden urge to urinate or have discomfort while passing urine.
The fact is that if you've felt any symptoms the stone is already large enough to either get lodged or cause severe irritation and damage on its way out.
Kidney stones are becoming one of the most common urinary disorders affecting people across the world. In the US alone according to National Institute of Health over 10 million people are diagnosed with kidney stones each year. Kidney stones are a recurrent problem that keep forming once you've had them. The only way to permanently treat the problem is to resume the kidney's ability to keep minerals dissolved in urine.
Why Do Kidney Stones Form?
New research on kidney stones has revealed startling facts about how they form. Unlike popular belief, kidney stones are not a direct result of your diet. Most kidney stone sufferers have a metabolic inclination to form stones; however the condition is triggered at a certain point when the kidneys become overburdened to maintain mineral balance in the urine.
Once the kidneys lose their ability to keep excess minerals found in the urine dissolved, they begin to form clumps and collect more minerals. Every time your blood empties toxins into the kidneys they begin to move out of liquid and join to the stone surface till its large enough to block urinary flow.
Kidney stones should not be taken lightly since they pose very real and immediate dangers to the kidneys. With effective treatment the stones can literally be disintegrated back into urine so normal urinary function can resume. This process is called natural dissolution therapy.
Is treatment necessary
Kidney stones are known to be one of the most painful of all urinary disorders. However, even small silent stones are capable causing major kidney damage or even kidney failure. Many kidney stone sufferers often wait to pass it out on its own with urine. This is not only extremely painful but as you are about to see can cause severe damage on its way out.
Waiting Longer Causes The Stone To Be More Painful
Many times a kidney stone will remain silent within the kidneys without causing any pain. However with every passing day the stone comes into contact with urine and collects more minerals on its outer surface.
A growing stone causes more stress on the sensitive urinary tracts on its way out. The irregular shape of the stone tends to scrape the urinary lining as fluid pressure upstream forces the solid blockage. Many people experience a burning sensation as the stone exists and blood in the urine is common from the damage a stone causes.
Experts now believe waiting for the stone to pass is not a sound option since it tends to make the condition worse and exposes the sufferer to undue levels of stress and trauma.
Stones Can Quickly Lead To Kidney Damage
Not all kidney stones pass out on their own. Almost 99% of tubules in the kidneys are less than 1mm wide. Even the smallest stones are wide enough to get lodged in the urinary tracts. The real danger from kidney stones lies in their unpredictability and potential for damage.
Stones can begin moving within a tubule just to get lodged again at a bend or narrow passage. Constant contact with free flowing urine allows it quick access to an abundant supply of crystallizing minerals that help it grow.
If a stone gets lodged in one of the main urinary tracts (ureters) it can completely block the flow of urine from that kidney. While this blockage may cause some pain initially the pain can quickly disappear as the kidney begins to shut down.
If the kidney becomes unable to empty its contents into the bladder it can swell up and even rupture. Even if the stone is partially blocking urinary flow bacteria can begin to collect upstream and cause kidney infections that can be life threatening.
One way to quickly eliminate the stone and find relief is by breaking it down naturally. Breakthroughs in urological research now make it possible to safely eliminate stones if treated in time.
Easy and safest Treatment: Try Homoeopathy with natural therapy.

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Homeopathy, The Way Of Natural Treatment

Homepathy is quite a subtle type of natural treatment. If I had not seen this actually work myself, even after reading hoards of information, I may not have believed that it can be effective. Homepathy relies on the dilution, time and time again, of different substances, from plants compounds to animal sources to inanimate minerals - many items are used.
It is believed that the vital energy of these substances is what is needed for healing. I prefer to look at it from a scientist's point of view and call it just energy. I can believe in that since I know I can feel the difference between a room of happy people and a room or grumpy people and what the effect is on my physical and mental person. So, I know that energy can effect me - its the how that's so fascinating about homepathy. And how in so many different ways with different things.

HEART

The ECG may provide crucially important information about whether a heart attack has occurred. It can often distinguish between a heart attack that occurred in the past and one that is in progress at the time the ECG is taken. The patterns on the ECG can indicate which part of the heart (front, back, lower, or sides) has been damaged, roughly estimate the extent of the damage, and suggest whether the heart wall was damaged throughout the full thickness.
The ECG is able to do this because injured heart muscle and scar tissue in the heart do not conduct electrical impulses normally. Consequently, the shapes of the QRS complexes and the T waves are altered in characteristic ways that lead to the diagnosis. Gbviously, this early warning system is invaluable for getting appropriate, rapid treatment started for people with chest pain.
HEART RATE.
The simplest piece of information the ECG can provide is the rate of your heartbeat at the time the ECG was obtained. If 10 QRS complexes are recorded on the ECG paper or ECG monitor in 10 seconds, then your heart rate is 60 beats per minute. The ECG is seldom needed just for information about your heart rate. A check of your pulse will suffice. An ECG may be helpful, though, when the pulse is difficult to feel or is too fast or too irregular to count accurately.
Heart Rate and Rhythm
Doctors can quickly assess the heart rate and rhythm by feeling (palpating) the pulse at the wrist, the carotid arteries in the neck, or the femoral arteries in the groin. Doctors can also tell whether the pulse is regular, has skipped or extra beats, or is irregular, as in atrial fibrillation.
Health professionals usually count the pulse for 15 seconds and multiply that number by 4 (4 x 15 seconds = 1 minute) to calculate the heart rate in beats per minute. A thorough examination includes palpation of the pulses at both wrists, the pulses at the inner part of both elbows (brachial pulse), the carotid pulses in the neck, the aortic pulse in the abdomen, the femoral pulses in the groin, the popliteal pulse behind each knee, the dorsalis pedis pulse on the top of each foot, and the posterior tibialis pulse (on the inside of each leg, next to the ankle). An absent or reduced pulse at any of
these sites may indicate a blockage upstream from that site.
WHAT IS BLOOD PRESSURE?
The pumping action of the heart pushes blood into the arteries with enough pressure to keep it flowing forward. The amount of blood pumped out of the heart (cardiac output) and the tone of the arteries (peripheral resistance) determine the amount of tension pushing against the walls of the arteries.
The standard way to measure blood pressure is in millimeters of mercury (mm Hg). This unit of measurement refers to how high the pressure inside your arteries is able to raise a column of mercury. Each blood pressure measurement has two numbers. The top number is your systolic blood pressure, or the highest pressure within your arteries that occurs during systole, when your heart is contracting. The bottom number is your diastolic blood pressure, or the lowest pressure within your arteries that occurs during diastole, when your heart is relaxing and filling with blood.
Although a typical blood pressure is considered to be 120/70 mm Hg, your blood pressure is not constant. Normal blood pressure refers to your blood pressure when you are resting comfortably. But your blood pressure varies with exercise, strong emotion, or stress. Even a change in position from lying down to sitting to standing can change your blood pressure. Therefore, it is necessary to take more than one reading to determine whether you have high blood pressure. About 35 percent of people who have high blood pressure on a single reading will not have an elevated value when the blood pressure is measured again. If your blood pressure is elevated during three separate measurements, it requires medical evaluation and treatment.
WHAT CAUSES HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE?
Although increased output from the heart, such as occurs normally with exercise, may elevate blood pressure, the usual cause of abnormally high blood pressure is a persistent increase in resistance to blood flow through the small arterioles (the smaller branches of the arteries). The arterioles can be compared to a hose. It takes less pressure to push water through a hose with a large diameter than through a narrower hose.
The cause of the abnormal increase in resistance in the arterioles remains unknown in 95 percent of people, and they are said to have primary, or essential, hypertension. Hypertension runs in some families, although the problem may never develop in many relatives. Men and women are equally affected. For women who take birth control pills and smoke cigarettes, the risk of developing high blood pressure increases. High blood pressure is more common in blacks than in whites. Everyone's risk increases with age. Additional factors that promote the development of high blood pressure include lack of exercise, excess weight, and alcohol use. A high intake of sodium in the diet increases blood pressure in some people.
About 5 percent of people have high blood pressure caused by some other problem in the body (secondary hypertension). Blockage of the arteries leading to the kidneys or excess production of hormones normally involved in blood pressure control are uncommon causes of high blood pressure. Your doctor may want to determine whether one of these unusual disorders is the cause of your high blood pressure so that it can be corrected.
Special Tests To Visualize The Heart
Although sophisticated diagnostic tests are available to study the structure and function of the heart, some newer procedures may provide even more information. Three recently developed diagnostic procedures are computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and positron emission tomography (PET).
Blood pressure classifications and recommendations Systole (top number)• Less than 130 mm Hg: normal blood pressure; recheck within 2 years
• 130 to 139 mm Hg: high normal; recheck within 1 year
• 140 to 159 mm Hg: mild hypertension*; confirm within 2 months
• 160 to 179 mm Hg: moderate hypertension*; see doctor within 1 month
• 180 to 209 mm Hg: severe hypertension; see doctor within 1 week
• 210 mm Hg or higher: very severe hypertension; see doctor immediately
Diastolic (bottom number)
• Less than 85 mm Hg: normal blood pressure; recheck within 2 years
• 85 to 89 mm Hg: high-normal blood pressure; recheck within 1 year
• 90 to 99 mm Hg: mild hypertension; confirm within 2 months
• 100 to 109 mm Hg: moderate hypertension; see doctor within 1 month
• 110 to 119 mm Hg: severe hypertension; see doctor within 1 week
• 120 mm Hg or higher: very severe hypertension; see doctor immediately
* Isolated systolic hypertension is defined as a normal diastolic blood pressure of less than 90 mm Hg but an elevated systolic blood pressure of 140 mm Hg or more. It often occurs in elderly people.

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Kidney Affections and Homeopathic Remedies

Digitalis. This remedy has an irritant action on the kidneys. It is homoeopathic to granular degeneration. Heart symptoms, feeble pulse, scanty ,
dark, turbid urine, faintness at the stomach,rheumatic pains will indicate it. It is especially useful when the circulation is weak. Rheumatic pains, pulmonary catarrh with profuse expectoration are marked symptoms.
Glonoine has albuminous urine and will sometimes
be found useful in acute and haemorrhagic nephritis.
Terebinth. One of our reliable and most frequently indicated remedies in the early stages of renal diseases when congestion is prominent, when there is much pain in the back of a dull character extending along the ureters. The great characteristic of dark smoky urine will be present.
There is anasarca,and , of course, the urine is bloody and
albuminous. It is recommended in post scarlatinal renal affections. The prostration is not accompanied by the restlessness of Arsenicum.
Cantharis. This remedy pictures nephritis with cutting pains in the lumbar region; the urine is passed in drops and is mixed with blood, with much urging.

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