By Mike Herman
www.4healthconcerns.com
Alternative Treatments For Eating Disorders

Here are number of alternative treatments to help with eating disorders every thing from herbal medicines, to massages, psychotherapy, homeotherapy, and good nutrition. All can help and should be explored.

Helpful herbs include:

Cinnamon
Spirulina
Flaxseed oil
Blessed thistle
Roman chamomile
Fenugreek seed
Gentiana lutea or bitterroot
Licorice root
Skull cap

By Steven Paglierani
www.theemergencesite.com
Is Every Ache and Pain a Symptom?

Someone recently wrote and asked me, "Is every discomfort, ache, irritation, bruise, and distraction a symptom? For instance, I will often attend to a painful hip only to have my wife point out that I should explore the other one, as that is likely where the wound is. It seems, attending to symptoms is like have an itchy nose and licking your lips to stop the itch. This never quite gets it."

So is every discomfort, irritation, bruise, painful feeling, and distraction a symptom? Yes. However, in order to understand what this means, you need to know the fractal for symptoms. In other words, what is the "recognizable visual pattern of relationships" we call a "symptom?"

Symptoms are what happen to us when our visual access to a need gets blocked. In other words, "blocked needs cause symptoms." Why? Because you cannot chose to attend to what you cannot visually see. At least, not consciously. Thus, even when we manage to avoid our symptoms (such as when we medically reduce them to invisibility), we more miss the bullet by sheer luck than become bullet proof. In other words, the war has not ended. And we are still being shot at. We have simply survived another near miss and may take a bullet at any moment.

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Safe Weight Loss Programs

Almost any of the commercial weight-loss programs can work, but only if they motivate you sufficiently to decrease the amount of calories you eat or increase the amount of calories you burn each day (or both). What elements of a weight-loss program should a consumer look for in judging its potential for safe and successful weight loss? A responsible and safe weight-loss program should be able to document for you the five following features: The diet should be safe. It should include all of the Recommended Daily Allowances (RDAs) for vitamins, minerals, and protein. The weight-loss diet should be low in calories (energy) only, not in essential foodstuffs.

The weight-loss program should be directed toward a slow, steady weight loss unless your doctor feels your health condition would benefit from more rapid weight loss. Expect to lose only about a pound a week after the first week or two. With many calorie-restricted diets there is an initial rapid weight loss during the first 1 to 2 weeks, but this loss is largely fluid. The initial rapid loss of fluid also is regained rapidly when you return to a normal calorie diet. Thus, a reasonable weight loss goal must be expected.