Hemp’s Legal Implications
Even though the U.S. government encouraged American farmers to grow hemp for WWII and had even accepted it as payment of taxes in Colonial America, it is now prohibited to grow hemp in the United States.
Weight loss and long life – Choice is YOURS
Over weight – it is not a problem of the adult anymore. Teens and even children in many countries are facing this problem. Recently , I saw in the television , various exercise programs to reduce the weight of the children in China. Whether the life style, eating habits, junk food is the culprit, for this phenomenon, the fact is over weight causes problems.
A new study, from the Harvard school of Public Health , reports that being overweight at the age of 18 is associated with an increased risk of premature death in younger and middle-aged women. Past studies have also shown that overweight children and adolescents have higher risks of cardiovascular problems and chronic diseases.
Health care professionals and Governments world over are concerned about the overweight problem , especially that of the children and teens. You and I have to take some action to make our lives and that of our dear ones, more enjoyable and meaningful.
Regular exercise , good eating habits and weight loss supplements if needed are few precautionary measures , you can take to keep the weight under control.
Hemp Paper and Wood
Hemp is a highly evolved plant species and is not genetically engineered. Hemp is heat, mildew, pest, light, and rot resistant. Hemp’s long, smooth, hollow fibers make hemp very strong, durable and mold and mildew resistant.
Had a date with Dentist ?
I don’t enjoy visiting the dentist, ever since removing my tooth . But it happened again. This time , I narrowly escaped from losing a couple of my teeth. The dentist advised to have a ‘ root canal treatment’. That sounded good , till I opened my mouth. After the usual local anesthesia , I was lying on the dentist chair, while the dentist attended other patient. The dentist came, after some time, sat by my head with the array of tools Then started the treatment. I felt as if he was drilling in to my tooth. The next fifteen to twenty minutes saw him with all sorts of tools rubbing and cleaning. I thought it was all over. But not yet, declared the dentist. I had to go three more times for more of cleaning and dressing.
Perhaps I could have avoided this . As with many, I had my own reasons for not brushing regularly twice a day and flossing. I was surprised to read recently , that I was not alone.
Researchers found that tongue and tooth brushing in combination with dental flossing significantly decreased gingival bleeding by 38 percent after a two-week oral hygiene program. According to a new study published in the Journal of Periodontology, these are two tasks that should not be omitted from the daily hygiene routine.
So why take a risk !
Hemp Uses
There are more than 25,000 known uses for hemp. Almost any product that can be made from wood, cotton, or petroleum (including plastics) can be made from hemp. Hemp is the world’s most versatile fiber.
Overweight can complicate pregnancy
Overweight and obesity have long been known to complicate pregnancy. Both overweight and obesity increase the chances for such serious and potentially life-threatening complications of pregnancy. According to a study at the University of North Carolina and the national Institute of child health, pregnant women who are overweight or obese progress through labor more slowly than do normal weight women.
The researchers found that, for both overweight and obese women, the active duration of labor took longer than it did for normal weight women. In the current study, researchers analyzed pregnancy and birth records from 612 North Carolina women who gave birth to their first child. The researchers undertook the study to determine why obese and overweight women are more likely to have a caesarean section.
The Researcher cautioned women about beginning a weight loss program without medical advice. Many fad diets might result in some weight loss, but at the expense of good nutrition. So it is important to consult a physician, before beginning a weight loss program.
The Alexander Technique – Taking The Pressure Off Your Body
By Robert Rickover
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“Stand up straight!” “Pull your shoulders back!” As children, we were
told to have good posture. Yet we were seldom taught effective ways to
accomplish this. Indeed, we were often not even told just what “good
posture” is.
The consequences of this information gap can be seen all around us:
stiff necks, shoulders hunched forward or pulled tightly back,
restricted breathing, and tightness in the thighs, legs and ankles.
Backaches, headaches, and other painful symptoms are often the
unfortunate result.
By the time we’ve spent a year of two in school, sitting for hours on
chairs and at desks chosen primarily for their economy and for the
convenience of the custodial staff, we have learned tension patterns
that interfere with our natural easiness, balance, support, and freedom
of movement.. These tension patterns – slumping or stiff “good posture”
patterns – become so habitual that they start to feel normal despite the
fact that they seriously restrict our breathing and freedom of movement.
The Alexander Technique is a time-tested method of teaching ways to
restore our natural balance, flexibility and ease of movement. It
teaches the use of the appropriate amount of effort for a particular
activity, releasing more energy for all our activities. It is not a
series of treatments or exercises, but rather a reeducation of the mind
and body that helps you discover a new balance in your body by releasing
unnecessary tension. It can be applied to all of your daily activities.
The Alexander Technique places a great deal of emphasis on the
relationship between your head and neck. The way we manage that
relationship has huge implications for the way the rest of our body is
organized. If, as is so often the case, we compress our heads down into
our spines, a whole series of compensatory tensions is created. If, on
the other hand, we can learn to allow our head to balance lightly on top
of our spine as nature intended, our built in “anti-gravity” reflex is
activated and our body is encouraged to release previously held
restrictions.
How the Alexander Technique is taught
The Alexander Technique is above all an educational method. Alexander
Teachers use a combination of verbal instruction and a light, guiding,
touch to convey information to their students. Alexander Technique
teaching is done in private lessons and in group classes. Private
lessons are usually between 1/2 and 1 hour in length.
Teacher training
Most certified Alexander Technique teachers have completed a three-year
full time training course recognized by one of several major
professional societies. Typically, the training courses have a student
teacher ratio of 5:1 or less, and provide a great deal of individual
attention for each trainee.
A few teachers have trained more informally on an apprenticeship basis
and some of them have become members of professional societies through a
rigorous review process. Not all Alexander Technique teachers are
certified and not all teachers eligible for certification are members of
a professional society.
Choosing a teacher
All of the major professional Alexander Technique societies publish a
teachers’ list as well as on-line listings. Recommendations from friends
and colleagues can be useful in choosing a teacher, but you will have to
judge for yourself if a particular teacher is right for you.
Ask about his or her training and be prepared to take a few lessons
before deciding whether to continue with a course of lessons. If you
live in a community with several teachers, have a lesson or two with
several before making a final decision.
The basic ideas of the Alexander Technique are not in any way complex or
mystical, but they do represent a new way of thinking about the
functioning of your body and may take a little getting used to at first.
Benefits
Excess tension in your body can cause a variety of unpleasant symptoms
and it can interfere with your ability to perform activities well.
Therefore it is not surprising that most people come to the Alexander
Technique because they are in pain (backaches, sore necks and shoulders,
carpal tunnel syndrome etc.) and/or because they are performers who want
to improve the quality of their singing, playing, acting or dancing.
People of all ages and occupations have benefited from Alexander
Technique lessons. The Technique also has its share of famous people
who have publicly endorsed it – including two Nobel Prize winners and a
great many celebrities like Paul Newman, John Cleese, William Hurt,
Sting, James Galway and Yehudi Menuhun.
Learn About The Rain Forest
One and one-half acres of rain forest are lost every second with tragic consequences for both developing and industrial countries. Rainforests are being destroyed because the value of rainforest land is perceived as only the value of its timber by short-sighted governments, multi-national logging companies, and land owners. Nearly half of the world’s species of plants, animals and microorganisms will be destroyed or severely threatened over the next quarter century due to rain forest deforestation.
There were an estimated ten million Indians living in the Amazonian Rain Forest. Today there are less than 200,000.
In Brazil alone, European colonists have destroyed more than 90 indigenous tribes since the 1900’s. With them have gone centuries of accumulated knowledge of the medicinal value of rainforest species. As their homelands continue to be destroyed by deforestation, rainforest peoples are also disappearing.
More on the Rain Forest
Ridding Your Life Of Negative People
Negativity is a cancer that appears in many forms. Ridicule, guilt, prejudice, condescension, intimidation, and self-doubt are only a few of the ways negativity manifests itself. While some kinds of negativity come from within and cannot be easily controlled, most are caused by other people. I believe that everyone is entitled to rid themselves of these negative people in order to enjoy happier lives.
As teenagers, we often accept negative people into our lives because we are insecure and afraid of becoming the object of their wrath. We feel safer if we have them on our team. Also, we are intimidated because negative people seem to wield power. Indeed, the ability to disturb another person’s day, week, or life is a form of power.
Nowadays, we feel that we are mature enough to avoid such malignant influences in our lives. However, not all negative people are as overtly mean as they were in middle school. More common are people that merely reflect negativity, like the girl who insists on informing you anytime someone speaks badly about you, or the guy who only acts nice to you when you’re alone with him. These people, while not affirmatively attacking you, are quietly chipping away at your mood and self-esteem; thus, they should be removed from your life.
How do you decide who to expel? What if a long-term friend, or even a parent, is the source of negativity that is causing you to be anxious or unhappy? How can we really avoid those who have permanent places in our lives?
To help answer this question, try to detach yourself from the world of the everyday and look at things in a larger sense. As human beings, we are given the freedom to hand-pick people that contribute to our well being and enrich our lives. We are not physically bound to anyone, and many of the people we interact with every day were not even our choices, but rather the product of our environments. We have no obligation to remain loyal to those who affect us adversely unless we place little value on our happiness.
Certainly, there are situations where it is difficult to implement this philosophy of purifying your social circle. Obligations must be filled. But I urge you to examine those obligations very carefully; compare the benefit you receive from them to the amount of negativity they bring into your life each day. Remember that you deserve to be happy, and you only get one chance to do so. The older you get, the harder it is to recognize and rid yourself of the sentiments that have set into your mind. Don’t let negative people interfere with your most precious natural gift: the capacity to love life.
The Healing Effects of Light on Herpes and Other Skin Ailments
The Healing Effects of Light
The use of light for healing has a long history. It is today known as Phototherapy. But the early Aryans used to worship the Sun not only as a source of life and light, but also for its therapeutic effects. The Romans used sunlight for its curative effects on wound suffered in battles. In ancient India, people believed in bathing the physically handicapped with water, that had been heated by sunlight. With the advent of Laser (highly condensed light) major ailments are cured with the help of this wonder light. In complicated surgeries, a broken or ruptured artery can be instantaneously repaired with Laser thus stopping fatal blood loss. Laser is also increasingly applied in medical cases where no ethical treatment is available.
Genital Herpes Remedy and Light Therapy
A Genital Herpes Remedy is possible, but a permanent cure is not, as the virus remains in the body forever. The HSV virus can however be controlled with an antiviral medication that can significantly reduce the pain and decrease the length of time until the sores heal. Advanced medical processes now advocate the use of Laser beams for coterising the lesions. This again is a controversial issue since the main problem is the removal of the virus from the system which even the Laser is unable to accomplish.
Various LEDs (Light emitting Diodes) were first introduced to treat the lesions but they too were reported to be having marginal utility.
There was a time when medical practitioners also believed that the prolonged use of sunlight was useful to treat skin conditions such as Genital Herpes and Psoriasis. The use of Lasers has come from that belief. The use of sunlight is however not promoted these days.
How Laser light is used for Skin Ailments
Since low-level laser light consists of intensely compressed light from an extremely constricted spectrum of electromagnetic radiation, it differs thoroughly from natural light. It is monochromatic (one color) and is polarized (beams of light can be concentrated in a defined location in the body). It can thus penetrate the surface of the skin with no heating effect at all. Also, it can be directed as bio-stimulating light energy to the body cells. This light energy is again converted into chemical energy to promote natural healing and relief from pain and associated problems.
Low-level Light Therapy
Low-level Light Therapy (LLLT) transmits cold laser light energy to the cells without injuring or damaging them. In doing this, they provide energy to the body in the form of non-thermal photons of light that heals the injury. Light therapy increases the production of collagen, an essential protein in the repair of damaged tissue. It also increases Adenosine Tri-Phosphate levels and activates enzymatic pathways in the targeted body cells. LLLT further strengthens the immune system response by hiking levels of lymphocyte activity.
Other reported effects of the treatment include stimulating the production of endorphins, the body’s natural painkillers, and increasing the body’s ability to replace damaged cells.
Conclusion
Right from the ancient Egyptians to the Aryans to Indians, all of them had believed in the healing qualities of light. And for good reasons. Modern medicine is just beginning to discover the benefits including its positive effect on genital herpes remedy. Not for nothing has NASA embarked on an extensive research into the healing effects of light therapy.