Archive for January, 2011

BREAST CANCER PREVENTION: EATING PHYTO-OESTROGENS AND FIBRE INTAKE

Sunday, January 30th, 2011

Eat phyto-oestrogens Phyto-oestrogens are a group of foods which contain substances that have a hormone-like action. Soya beans, for instance, contain phyto-chemicals known as isoflavones which make up about 75 per cent of the soya protein. In the human gut, bacteria convert isoflavones into compounds that can have an oestrogenic action, although they are not [...]

QUESTIONS ABOUT PROGNOSIS OF RA (RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS)

Friday, January 21st, 2011

Can Arthritis Be Cured? RA is generally a chronic condition in which true cures or permanent remissions are unusual with the medications presently available. This does not mean that most cases of arthritis cannot be controlled effectively, however. The majority of people with RA achieve good to excellent control with a treatment program consisting of [...]

DIAGNOSING OCD: WHAT IS AN OBSESSION?

Friday, January 14th, 2011

one major source of confusion must be cleared up right away: The term “obsession” has a totally different meaning for mental health professionals than it does for the general public. In magazines and on television, “obsession” has come to mean just about anything people want it to—as long as it has to do with thinking [...]

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