In the car

On a long car journey with your children, make sure that you stop frequently to let them stretch and run a little, or to have a drink or a snack. Children hate being cooped up for long periods of time.

Choose your roadside stops carefully, and keep an eye on your children, particularly if [...]

Would you risk it? I’m not going to die having sex. I’d sooner live without sex than die trying to have it.

HUSBAND

Fewer than one person in four returns to “pre-heart attack” sexuality. Almost none of these persons have any physical or medical reason not to return to sexual activity, but fear, lack of knowledge, diminished [...]

Ellis was one of the early writers to describe the “buildup and discharge” model of sexual response, and it became the model for future researchers. He wrote, “Tumescence is the piling on of the fuel; detumescence is the leaping out of the devouring flame.” This energy buildup and energy discharge model was related [...]

Once infected, there is no way of eliminating the virus from the body. It usually lies dormant for weeks, months or even years and then flares again. Like cold sores on the lip, the infection may be triggered by a rise in body temperature from a cold or other infection.

Heat, friction or emotional upsets may [...]

Many people wear glasses and go regularly to an optometrist or an eye doctor.

Yet most are rather hazy about how their eyes function and why they need glasses.

Light enters through the cornea, or clear window, of the eye.

It passes through the watery fluid of the anterior chamber and enters the back section of the eye [...]

Some methods of cancer treatment such as meditation and prayer utilise processes about which very little is known. An exceptional person may be able to rid their garden of weeds by meditating or praying over it. Equally rarely, someone may succeed in ridding their body of cancer by these methods. I don’t doubt that the [...]

You will remember from the last chapter that the crucial step in diagnosis of cancer, is to get a sample of the suspicious area for examination under the microscope. This is also true for people with probable secondary deposits and unknown primary. Examination of such a sample is usually necessary to confirm the diagnosis of [...]

Breast is best! A number of years ago this simple dictum was considered old fashioned, a burden for women and perhaps not the best for the baby. But we have since learned that nature was right and that breast milk is the ideal food for the young infant.

Breast milk is a complete food in the [...]

The variability of people and the complexity of factors that cause a person to seek help with fatness means that there can be no standard set of rules. You have to make a fresh ethical decision with each new request for help, often even within the handling of one client. Frequently, these decisions need to [...]

Typical big eaters are:

• teenagers and young adults,

• people working as labourers,

• people doing regular strenuous exercise.

Big eaters need to eat:

• at least 8 slices of bread or the equivalent (crackers, rolls, muffins)

PLUS

• 3 pieces of fruit or the equivalent (juice, dried fruit) PLUS

• at least 2 cups of high carbohydrate vegetables (corn, legumes, potato, [...]