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NUTRITIONAL NEEDS OF PREADOLESCENT AND ADOLESCENT YOUTH

The caloric needs of boys and girls are somewhat higher than those for men and women, with corresponding higher allowances for thiamin, riboflavin, and niacin. The protein allowances do not differ significantly from those for adults, but the calcium allowance is 1200 mg, which is 50 per cent greater than that for adults. Boys should have an intake of 18 mg iron through 18 years of age, while girls should continue this level of intake throughout the childbearing years. Iodized salt will meet the increased requirement for iodine.
An allowance of 1000 R.E. (5000 I.U.) vitamin A is recommended for boys and of 800 R.E. (4000 I.U.) for girls. Up to 19 years, 10 mcg (400 I.U.) vitamin D should be included daily. The recommended allowance for ascorbic acid is 50 mg at 11-14 years and 60 mg at 15 years and thereafter.
The teenage girl frequently becomes pregnant at a time when her own body is still maturing. The mother-to-be needs to increase her already high nutritive allowances by the amounts of nutrients needed for successful pregnancy.
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GENERAL HEALTH

BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE AIROLA DIET: ONLY NATURAL AND POISON-FREE FOODS

Eat only natural foods
Your foods should be whole, unprocessed and unrefined, and be organically grown in fertile soil. They should be preferably grown in your own environment, and eaten in their season.
That your health and longevity are in a direct relationship to the naturalness of the foods you eat is a well-established scientific fact. Where natives eat a diet of natural, whole, unprocessed and unrefined foods, they enjoy perfect health, absence of disease and long life. When denatured, refined, processed, man-made foods, such as white sugar and white flour, and canned and processed foods enter into their lives, disease becomes rampant among them.
Natural foods are foods that are grown in fertile soils without chemical fertilizers and sprays and are consumed in their natural state, with all the nutrients nature put in them intact, nothing removed and nothing added. White bread is, for example, a denatured food, from which most vital nutrients have been removed; the so-called “enrichment” is a hoax — only 4 nutrients are returned, while over 20 vital nutrients are removed in refining the flour. Breakfast cereals are all denatured foods with some “added features” — toxic preservatives and health-destroying white sugar. Supermarket quality eggs are not natural food; they are produced by cooped-up chickens, without a rooster (thus infertile), which are fed chemicalized commercial mash. Such eggs have a lower nutritional value, less vitamins and more cholesterol than natural eggs.
Organically grown fruits and vegetables contain more vitamins and minerals, as has been shown in many tests. They also contain more enzymes than the produce grown on depleted, chemically fertilized soils. Such foods have greater a health-building and disease-preventive potential. Researches reported recently that “Anti-malignancy factors are apparently present in organically grown foods”.
These are only a few examples to show that only natural foods can produce optimum health and prevent disease. Synthetic, denatured and devitalized foods will not sustain health, but will inevitably bring about a gradual degeneration of normal body functions and, ultimately, disease.
It is of specific importance to see that all foods are natural when planning a therapeutic diet for treatment of disease. Only natural, whole, unprocessed and organically grown foods possess therapeutic value.

Eat only poison-free foods
Your food should be grown without the aid of chemical fertilizers and should contain no residues of toxic insecticides, chemical additives or preservatives.
Almost all food sold at supermarkets today contains some chemicals, either used in food producing or added during food processing or packing. Many of the poisons in fruits or vegetables are systemic, that is, they cannot be washed out or peeled out, as they penetrate the whole fruit. The only solution seems to be to grow your own food, or buy the certified organically grown food. And, of course, to avoid eating all processed and packaged foods, which contain the most chemicals.

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GENERAL HEALTH

CHILD’S HEALTH CARE/SKIN DISORDERS: DEVELOPMENT OF THE SKIN AND DIAGNOSING SKIN PROBLEMS

DEVELOPMENT OF THE SKIN

The epidermis starts to develop in the third week of foetal life. The sweat glands become active in the fourth to fifth month of foetal life, and produce the greasy coating found on the newborn’s skin (vernix). This layer is thought to help protect against infection for a short period after birth. Full-term babies are able to sweat within 2-5 days after birth.

DIAGNOSING SKIN PROBLEMS

Although it may seem easy to recognise obvious skin problems, it is always important to confirm your suspicions with your doctor or nurse. Skin problems may be a

Signpost to more serious underlying illnesses. Your doctor usually seek aditional information about the general health of your child, as well as the rest of the family. An examination of the mouth, lips, hair and nails is also important, as well as a general check-up. Your doctor should advise you if any further investigations are necessary, and explain what is involved.

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LEAVING YOUR CHILDREN SOMETHING TO LOVE BY: WHAT DOES YOU CHILD WANT TO KNOW ABOUT SEX?

“Can you suck on somebody’s thing?”

When you are able to take care of yourself and somebody else, you may start to be in love with someone. When you love someone and they love you, you may want to kiss them. Some people like to kiss the penis and vagina and some people don’t. It’s just like anything else. Everybody likes different things. We should never make anyone do something they don’t want to do, but if we are very clean and grown-up, we can learn to make our own choices about what we like and don’t like to do with other people.

    ”What do the boys look at in the dirty books they have? My

daddy has some, too. What’s in there?”

Books aren’t really dirty or bad. Sometimes people who write the books or take the pictures that go in the books or in the movies put in stuff that they think is interesting or will sell their books or movies. They might put in pictures of breasts, penises, vaginas, naked people, people pretending to make love. They are really very boring, because they don’t tell a story or help you learn about life or about yourself. Boys and men and some girls and women look at them to try to see some things they can’t see anywhere else or because they are curious. The whole trouble is, the books, movies, and pictures with such things in them are all made up and exaggerated so you can learn all the wrong things. If you are still curious, ask your mom and dad to show you one of the books you wonder about and talk about it with you. You will probably get real bored real quick.

    ”You should never play with yourself. Isn’t that right?”

Anything about how you live depends on what you think your parents think, and on what you decide together. Talk with your

parents about touching yourself and playing with your penis or vagina or clitoris, that little area on girls’ vaginas that feels good when you touch it. A lot of kids do it and a lot of adults do it, and it does not damage your body, but some people believe it is wrong to do it. Just because you can do something and a lot of people do something doesn’t make it right. Right depends on you, your parents, and what you think about life, not what most people do or don’t do.

‘ ‘Why do Mommy and Daddy make funny noises when they are in bed together?”

Well, kids make funny noises all the time, so we grown-ups should have a chance to make them, too. I don’t really know why your mommy and daddy are making their noises. They might be laughing, talking, dreaming, teasing, hugging, kissing, holding— who knows? Everybody enjoys being with someone they love, and they might make enjoyment noises just like you make fun noises when you play or watch television.

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YOUR MARITAL HEALTH/WIVES’ SEXUALITY: MS. MYTH – THE BORED-WOMAN MYTH

I never told anyone this, but I always wondered what it would be like with two men. I even wonder what it would be like to do it with the washer repairman. He bent over to fix the thing and I could see his butt. When he stood up, I could see his penis in his pants. I’ve developed what I call PCV, peripheral cock vision. I can look straight ahead but I can still check out the man next to me to see which side of his pants is holding his penis, to see if he is dressed left or right.

WIFE

Myth nine is an extension of myth eight and assumes not only that women are lovers who will trade love for sex but that women are not interested in variety, excitement, different partners, affairs, cheating, newness, and other “male” things. It may be that men find it easier or more acceptable to report their extramarital sex than women do. Our sexist society has allowed the male more freedom and anonymity than the female, in effect more time and opportunity for sex outside of marriage.

“When in the hell do you think I could do it? I don’t travel, my day is under constant child surveillance. I don’t have time. I am never anonymous, as my husband is. How many massage parlors do you think there are for women anyway? Even if I wanted to, and sometimes I think about it, I don’t know if I could or how I could.” This wife’s report is an example of the limits set on women, the assumption that they don’t because they don’t want to instead of that they may not be allowed to, at least overtly.

Data indicate that as women travel more and have more freedom, they, too, may seek out variety. Not all women will do this, for not all men do it. The scarlet letter “A” originally designated a woman, but gender does not predict proclivity for extramarital sex (Type I or II). Again, the love map determines such things, not genital insignia.

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THE DESEXUALIZATION OF THE AMERICAN MARRIAGE/WAY TO LEAVE YOUR LOVING: “IF THIS IS SATURDAY, WE’LL PROBABLY DO IT” – TAKE A GOOD “LOOK” AT YOUR MARRIAGE

 

Take a good “look” at your marriage. Can you sense your spouse beyond the light and sound waves you receive? Does any boredom or predictability you see signal you to look within instead of without? Do you remember why you married this person in the first place? What has happened to you together, and what might happen in the future? Can you find an excitement from within the marriage itself, the combination of the two of you?

New research is showing that a marital cyclicity exists beyond the cycles of each respective partner. Dr. Phillip Sarrell at Yale University saw thirty-nine men who reported erective failure. Rather than attempting to treat their problem, he instead employed estrogen-replacement therapy with their wives and did no intervention of any type with the husbands. Thirty-one of the thirty-nine men returned to complete erective function. They reacted directly and measurably to the changes in their menopausal wives because they were intertwined with them even on a psychophysiological level. Sarrell’s report is direct evidence of the system of sex within a lasting relationship, and allows speculation that psychophysiological changes in wives may equally affect their husbands.

Drs. Harold Lief and Harold Persky have done research indicating a marital hormonal cyclicity that may develop between husband and wife. We have long known that women living, together begin to approximate one another’s menstrual cycles, with one woman serving as the “driver,” the woman to whom the other women seem to adjust their own respective cycles. Perhaps marriages, too, develop their own cyclicity, their own “marital-station,” a cyclicity that can lead to becoming mutually in tune to a level not possible in less committed or shorter relationships.

Current research in the new field of psychoneuroimmunology, the study of the relationship between the brain and the immune system and our feelings, reveals that disruption of the marital bond has direct and clinically detectable impact on the immunoefficiency of each partner. It seems that immunity, like sex, is a system of interaction between people as well as cells and hormonal juices. We are well advised to look to our marriages when we look for our health.

We must not label as boredom the mutual development of sameness, the infinite ebb and flow of feelings and sexuality that takes place in marriage. Perhaps if it’s Saturday and you’ll probably “do it,” it may be one of your mutual marital cycle days for sexuality and not a symptom of boredom at all.

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OSTEOARTHROSIS – CONCLUSION

If the pain is severe and there is an associated inflammation the anti-inflammatory drugs can be of benefit. Cortisone by mouth offers no benefits in this condition but injection of a cortisone derivative directly into a joint may bring temporary relief.

Repeated injections in osteoarthrosis are not recommended as they may cause long term damage.

Surgery now has a lot to offer, especially recently developed replacement arthroplasty. Hips, knees and other joints can be replaced with metal and plastic prostheses which function well and enable the sufferer to become mobile, pain free and often to continue working.

Osteotomy is the removal of a portion of the bone and realignment of the joint so as to enable a proper weight bearing surface without strain. While cure is not possible there is no excuse for either the patient or the doctor to accept that nothing can be done about osteoarthrosis.

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COLLAGEN DISEASES – GENERAL INFORMATION

SLE is also called a collagen disease because it affects the collagen fibres in connective tissues which holds together all the organs of the body. In this disorder there is inflammation of the walls of blood vessels, a vasculitis, and this is thought by some to be the prime lesion.

The condition of Discoid Lupus Erythematosus is a skin disease which produces a “butterfly” type rash on the cheeks, forehead, chin and ears.

Although this facial rash is one of the classic signs of the generalised condition, it is rare. The cause is unknown, but several drugs used for other conditions are capable of provoking a reaction which appears indentical with SLE. Withdrawal of the drug is usually followed by improvement but many people have persistent symptoms.

The lesions may affect any part of the body, so there are a variety of symptoms and the disease may not be initially recognised. Most sufferers develop inflammation of the joints and may be thought to have rheumatoid or some other form of arthritis.

Muscle pain is also common. The skin is commonly involved and this may cause a variety of rashes, none of which is diagnostic of the condition.

The lungs may be involved and lead to shortness of breath or the covering of the lungs becomes inflamed, leading to pleurisy.

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BED-WETTING – CAUSES

The cause is unknown, although there have been many theories. It is now regarded as due to delayed development.

A few cases are shown to result from disease in the urinary system or an organic nervous disorder, but most occur in otherwise normal children. Some emotionally disturbed children may have bed-wetting as one of their symptoms, but, in most, any emotional upset usually results from the bed-wetting rather than being the cause of it.

Children who wet the bed often have poor self-esteem and feel lonely and isolated. It is helpful for the doctor to let them know that they have a common problem.

The knowledge that usually one or two children in their class suffer from the same trouble can reassure them that they are not alone. It is a condition that runs in families and close questioning often reveals that one or both parents had the same problem.

Parents are usually at the end of their tether before they seek help from the doctor. They have tried all the well-known methods and have scolded or rewarded the child — perhaps even have made the poor little one wash his own sheets — all to no avail.

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CHILDREN’S NOSEBLEEDS: SYMPTOMS, PRECAUTIONS AND TREATMENT

Symptoms: bleeding from one or both nostrils or from the mouth; vomiting blood

Home care

To stop a nosebleed, compress the entire soft portion of the nose, not just the nostrils, between the thumb and fingers for ten minutes.

Teach your child at an early age how to stop a nosebleed him- or herself.

To prevent nosebleeds apply petroleum jelly to the insides of the nostrils morning and evening for up to 14 days.

Use a vaporizer or humidifier in the child’s room.

Precautions

-    A child with a nosebleed should not lie down.

-    Stay calm and don’t let the child panic.

-    Do not use cold compresses, nose drops, or other household remedies; they are not necessary.

-    Do not pack the child’s nose with cotton or gauze.

Nosebleeds are as inevitable a part of childhood as scraped knees and bruised shins. Ninety-nine percent of nosebleeds are caused by the rupture of tiny blood vessels in the septum, the midline partition of the nose located about half a centimeter in from the nostrils. These small blood vessels are easily broken by a minor blow to the nose, and the scab that forms during healing is easily disturbed by rubbing or picking, which starts the bleeding again. This sequence of events may be further aggravated by: an allergic reaction or a head cold that causes the blood vessels in the nose to dilate; heated air that dries out the nasal membranes; sneezing, coughing, and blowing the nose; and rubbing and scratching the nose, especially during sleep (most nosebleeds start at night).

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