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The sleeping pattern begins to change in the first 6 months. This is a time of considerable irregularity, as babies’ neurological systems mature at different rates, but in early infancy sleeping patterns tend to coincide with feeding times — that is, babies wake to feed. By 6 weeks of age, babies are awake for longer [...]

Nausea is feeling sick in the stomach and we all know what vomiting is! As with all symptoms, the first thing to do if you develop nausea is to find out the reason for it. Here are some of the many possibilities. Nausea can be directly due to your cancer itself — such as when [...]

Is easily broken. This is a common injury following a fall, for instance from a horse. It is recognised by a swelling and a deformity over the collarbone. Often a grating may be felt or a grating sound may be heard when the arm is moved. Falls on the extended hands of young adults often [...]

The drugs need to be taken for as long as a year and the stones may re-form when they are stopped. The main use, then, of CDC, is in those with cholesterol stones for whom surgery is a considerable risk or who have stones in inaccessible areas such as deep inside the liver. While the [...]

Not all lumps in the breast are due to cancer. A frequent finding, particularly in young women, is that the lump is due to a fibroadenoma. These are benign, that is, non-cancerous tumors which consist of both fibrous and glandular tissue. They are smooth, hard and freely moveable in the surrounding breast tissue and rarely [...]

Symptoms are what you feel— things such as pain, nausea, lack of energy and breathlessness. In this chapter we will talk about how to tackle symptoms that worry you for any reason. Of course, now that you have cancer, I know that every symptom you get will worry you to start with. You probably feel [...]

It was widely (and wrongly) believed for many years that sugar and starchy foods like potato, rice and pasta were the cause of obesity. Twenty years ago, every diet for weight loss advocated restriction of these carbohydrate-rich foods. One of the reasons for this carbohydrate restriction stemmed from the ‘instant results’ of low carbohydrate diets. [...]

1. Maintenance requirements in a fat loss program may be more demanding and may differ significantly from actions leading to initial fat loss. 2. Energy restricting diets alone should not be used for fat loss over an extended period as these lead to physiological adaptations which can counteract the fat loss. 3. Energy restriction below [...]

The process of conversion of fatty acids in the blood stream to triglycerides in the fat cell and back again to fatty acids in the bloodstream is a constant one. The biochemical term for the rebuilding of FFAs into TG in the fat cell is esterification. There is an active cycle of free, or unesterifted, [...]

Have you ever wondered how your tummy system works? When you poke something into your mouth it vanishes. We all know that. But vanish where, and what happens to it? As you probably know, the bowel, or intestinal, system really begins at the mouth. From the mouth is a continuous canal to the far end, [...]