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Eating Disorders are not about food.

 

“We need to understand what a woman is saying when she uses her body to express difficult emotional issues. We need to understand why it is safer to say “I need to go on a diet” than “I feel hurt or upset or in conflict” Susie Orbach.

 

Bulimia was the first eating disorder to be characterised by recurrent binge eating. The Bulimic eats abnormally large amounts of food and then experiences a loss of control.. The person suffering from Bulimia engages in extreme weight-control behaviours to counteract the large intake of food. Some of these behaviours may include self-induced vomiting and/or laxative or diuretic use (purging) or severe dietary restriction and/or intense exercise.

 

A second syndrome of recurrent binge eating, namely” binge eating disorder” differs from Bulimia in that sufferers do not regularly engage in extreme weight control behaviours. Bulimia nervosa occurs in around 1% of young western women. Intensive psychological treatments have been developed for people with Bulimia.  A manualised form of CBT for bulimia nervosa (CBT-BN) has been developed by Fairburn and colleagues (1989) In this therapy, a range of cognitive behavioural procedures are used in a specific sequence of tasks and experiments. Treatment is out-patient based and involves 15-20 sessions over about five months. There has been positive evidence from controlled studies that CBTBN is an effective approach in the treatment of bulimia nervosa, although it has also been found that  for some people  it is too intensive, while for others it is not sufficient.

 

A graduated intervention approach to the treatment of those with bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder, has received empirical support from research by leading investigators in eating disorders. In this approach, the patients are offered psychoeducation or self-help therapies

and then re-evaluated for further treatment as appropriate. Self-help therapy is based around a manual that includes educative material and a version of the CBT-BN manual.

 

Other psychotherapies have been less frequently evaluated in the treatment of bulimia nervosa. However, there has been recent interest in interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) and dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) as alternatives to CBT.

 

Boil water,  pour in a cup 3/4, just add 1 lime ( squeze) and 1 spoon of natural honey.  drink hot right before you go to bed. and if you want to sleep all night long, just brew a cup of tea of Valerian Root.

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Health and fitness are usually made to seem too complex.

If you read a lot of fitness magazines and blogs (as I often do), you’re told a confusing variety of complex advice. It makes your head spin.

You’re told that eggs, butter and meat are bad for you. Then another crowd will tell you those same things are actually good. Then you’ll hear running is good for you, and the bodybuilding and primal crowds will scoff at longer-distance running. You’ll hear that lifting weights is the best way to get into shape, and others will laugh at that. You’ll hear a million variations of the best workouts, of when to time your nutrition, of how to periodize your workouts, of how to measure fitness, of what supplements you need to take … ad naseum.

It’s enough to make you want to give up.

Fortunately, fitness doesn’t have to be that complex.

In fact, you can boil it down to two simple rules:

1. Get your body moving on a regular basis; and
2. Eat a moderate amount of real, whole foods (with occasional indulgences).

I believe if you stuck to those two rules, and stuck with them for awhile, you’d get fit. Doing one but not the other will result in an improvement in health for many people (not all), but it would be an incomplete health. Do both most days of the week and you’re on your way to health and fitness.

But what about specific macronutrient ratios (fancy way of saying the breakdown of protein, carbs and fats)? What about meal frequency and timing? What about workout frequency, splits, timing, reps, and more? You could add all these types of rules and many more, but the truth is, all the complexities are usually a way of masking some simple truths: if you want to lose fat or weight, you have to have a calorie deficit, and if you want to build muscle, you’ve got to use exercise to get stronger. The other stuff is mostly guesswork, and while these complicated programs probably work, they usually work because they promote one or more of the principles in this post, not because of their complexities.

The two rules above are all you need … however, most of us need a little more detail, so here’s a more complete set of simple fitness rules. As always, remember that 1) I’m not an expert — this is just stuff that’s worked for me; 2) this is for healthy adults — people with health problems should seek the advice of professionals.

1. Get moving. Try to do some kind of physical activity most days of the week (4 or more days if possible). If you have an aversion to exercise, don’t think of it as exercise. Just think of it as a way to get your body moving in some fun way. It can be dance, yardwork, hiking, a nature walk, a swim, basketball, rugby, cycling, even housework if you do it vigorously enough. And it doesn’t have to be the same thing each day. I recommend, just for the sake of simplicity, that you do find a regular time slot you could do your daily activity, most days of the week. I prefer mornings but others enjoy lunchtime or after work.

2. Enjoy yourself. Whatever activity you choose, it has to be fun. If you don’t like it, move on to something else. Focus on the fun part, not the hard part. Or learn, as I have, to enjoy the hard stuff! Again, make it fun, or you won’t keep it up for very long. To make sure it’s not too hard, start easy. Focus on just getting moving and enjoying the activity. Start small, and build up with baby steps.

3. Slowly add intensity. Once you’ve been doing an activity for a little while, and you’re in decent shape, it’s good to add some intensity. But slowly — if you add intensity too quickly you’ll risk injury or burnout. So let’s say you’ve been doing some walking for a couple months — you should be ready to add a little jogging or fast-paced walking, in small little intervals. If you’ve been running, try some faster-paced intervals (take it easy at first) or hill workouts. If you’ve been strength training, be sure to add weights (safely) or decrease rest time or add more reps or sets. If you’re playing a sport, really speed things up, or focus on explosive movements. Intensity is a great way to get yourself in shape and have an effective workout in only 20-30 minutes. Here’s a great way to do bodyweight exercises with intensity: do a circuit of bodyweight exercises (such as pushups, pullups, squats, burpees, Hindu pushups, lunges or others) and do as many circuits as you can in 10 or 15 minutes. Next workout, see if you can do more circuits. It’s great!

4. Minimal equipment. There are a million different exercise gadgets out there, from ab machines to elliptical trainers to a whole slew of weight machines at the gym. My rule is: keep it simple. You can do amazing things with bodyweight exercises — in fact, if you are a relative beginner, you should start with bodyweight exercises for at least 6 months before progressing to weights. You don’t need cardio machines — just go outside and walk, run, bike, do hills, climb stairs, sprint. Even if you do weights, a barbell or dumbbells are all you need — stay away from the machines that work your body at angles it’s not meant to use (although cable machines aren’t bad). Even better, get outside and do sprints, pushups, jump over things, pick up big rocks and throw them, do pullups from a tree, climb up rocks, swim, do a crabwalk or monkeywalk, take a sledgehammer or pick and slam it into the ground, flip tractor tires, and generally get a great workout with very little equipment.

5. Just a few exercises. Bodybuilding routines will have you doing 3-4 different exercises per body part. That’s too complicated for most people. Keep it simple in the weight room: squats, deadlifts, presses, chinups or pullups, rows. You can do a lot with just those lifts. Of course, you’ll want to mix it up eventually with some variations, but no need for 10 different ab exercises or things that focus on your rear deltoids or use swiss balls. If you’re doing bodyweight exercises, I love things like pushups, burpees, squats, lunges, pullups, dips, planks. Pick a few and do some circuits with little rest.

6. Eat real foods. One of the most important rules on this list, because if you don’t eat right (most of the time), it doesn’t matter how much exercise you do — you’ll get fat and unhealthy. Aim for real, whole foods that are as close to their natural state as possible. That means stay away from processed, refined, fatty, sugary foods. Veggies, fruits, lean meats, dairy, nuts, beans, whole grains, eggs, seeds. Prepare them yourself if possible — convenience foods often have added ingredients, as well as extra salt, fat, sugar and preservatives. If you follow this diet — with the plant foods making the bulk of the diet — it’s hard to go wrong.

7. Eat less. Most people eat too much, and eventually it shows up as fat. To lose that fat, we need to eat less — it’s really that simple. Of course, if you eat the real foods mentioned above, you’ll probably consume fewer calories, but even so, it’s smart to reduce how much you eat overall, at least until you reach a healthy level of body fat (and even then, you shouldn’t let it all go). One way to do that is by eating slowly and mindfully until you’re just satiated (not stuffed). Another way is to eat smaller meals and watch the portions. A third way, which I’ve been experimenting with lately, is intermittent fasting (see Brad Pilon’s Eat Stop Eat ebook for a great explanation of the science behind fasting). However you do it, be sure to consume the real food in moderate amounts, and reduce your calorie intake if you’re looking to lose fat.

8. Give it time. This is what gets many people — they expect to see results immediately, within the first month or so, because the magazines they read make it seem so instantaneous. But real fitness rarely happens this way — it’s a process and a lifestyle change. I started out in really bad shape, really overweight, and all I did in the beginning was to quit smoking and start running. A year later, I ran a marathon and was a vegetarian — but I was still kinda fat. A year after that, I was still exercising regularly, and had made a lot of progress, but I still had a ways to go. Now, 3.5 years later, I’m in great shape — slimmer and more muscular and much healthier — but I still have a little stubborn belly fat I’m working on. I’ll get there, but I have accepted the fact that it takes time. You didn’t gain the fat overnight, and you won’t lose it that way either. Learn to enjoy the process, enjoy the activities, enjoy the healthy, real food, and you’ll get healthy and fit almost as an afterthought to this new, amazing lifestyle.

 

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The most common form of hair loss in men is  male baldness (the scientific name is androgenetic alopecia). If you have this condition, hair becomes thin (this may take several years) until it is completely lost. It is called "baldness" because hair is usually lost in a well-defined  "M" structure.

There are many causes that contribute to hair loss. But according to medical studies, men have the main reason of the high level of androgen hormone dihydrotestosterone (DHT.) DHT plays a role in the development of male secondary sexual characteristics, but the increased level of DHT leads to miniaturization of the follicles showed the width of the shaft, the hair is constantly falling, and the hair is thinning. It was once thought that baldness is hereditary, but there is no conclusive evidence that this is so.

Until recently, the dominant approach was to prevent  hair loss treatment, by means of chemical agents such as finasteride (marketed as Propecia) and minoxidil. Of course, these drugs are not always effective and have many side effects such as erectile dysfunction, gynecomastia, breast enlargement (men), acne, headaches and more. Although these synthetic chemicals help some patients at risk of losing the breast, growing over their hair!

Fortunately, when it comes to restoring lost hair and preventing hair loss, there is an alternative to synthetic drugs. There are herbal hair loss treatments that work as well or better and, above all, has no side effects. Some of them also could become a test (which is not the case of drugs.) Finally, the ingredients for a natural treatment hair loss used by humans for millennium. This proves their effectiveness better than medical research, right?

Cognitive Therapy was initially developed as a treatment for depression by Psychiatrist Aaron T Beck. It has now become popular for the treatment of a wide range of psychological disorders.
Its guiding principle is that while we cannot control what life throws at us we can choose how we react to the situation or event. Beck believed that   we can change how we feel by changing what we think. The CBT therapist will focus primarily on the here and now and not so much on past issues.
People with Eating Disorders tend to have distorted thinking in relation to food and body image.

Typical Bulimic thoughts might be:

“I ate a bag of chips today and I feel like I have gained 5 inches on my hips”
I shouldn’t have eaten that Chinese take away now I have to throw it up”
I will only eat breakfast today so I can lose the extra fat I put on yesterday.
I know I look huge in these jeans and no one can tell me any different, I have to get down to a size 6 and then I will feel happy”.
If I lost 10 more pounds he will love me”
These examples illustrate that a negative thought  is instantly translated into feeling fat.

The challenge for the person with Bulimia is to become more aware of your negative self beliefs.
 Identify how these negative thoughts are making you feel (i.e. shame, guilt, anger, sadness) and how these feelings can lead you to a binge.  

This is the Thought/ Feeling /Behavior cycle.  

People with Eating Disorders tend to have other related difficulties in their life such as anxiety, depression, communication problems (social phobia), high stress levels and unexpressed anger. CBT can help to resolve these problems effectively.

CBT is not a magical cure and does involve the person with the problems becoming actively involved in the therapy. People coming for therapy for the first time tend to think that the model of therapy or the therapist is going to do all the work.
 
One of the major benefits of CBT is increased Self esteem:
Working with Self Esteem in CBT will involve focusing on the following:

Self awareness- becoming more aware of thoughts, feelings and behaviour.
Self acceptance- positive as well as negative aspects of the self.
Self care- recognising and meeting own needs.
Self protection- avoiding dangerous situations.
Self reliance/trust- making own decisions.
Self Assertion.
Self responsibility- taking responsibility for own actions.
 

I have had shingles for about 12 days now and finally found that Aloe Vera really helped.

 

I got a live plant and put the gel directly on the rash.  It took the burning away almost completely.

 

 

According to Indian mythology, the Haritaki had originated from the Holy Nectar.  When Lord Indra was drinking the Nectar in heaven, a drop fell on the Earth and became a Haritaki plant. So, it is believed that the plant possesses all the medicinal properties of Nectar. Along with Amla and Vibhitaki, Haritaki forms the herbal formula called ‘Triphala’. Triphala is a popular traditional Ayurvedic remedy for a number of chronic disorders including diabetes.

Botanical name: Terminalia chebula
Family: Combretaceae
English name: Black Myrobalan, Chebulic Myrobalan , Indian gall nut , Yellow myrobalan
Hindi name : Harda , Haritaki , Peele Hara

Haritaki is an ever green medium sized to big sized tree.
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