Herbal Remedies and Alternative Medicine Information

What is dietary fibre?

Dietary fibre could be defines as anything that moves through gastro-intestinal tract and is not digested as food.

Refined foods are responsible for many diseases prominent in urban and rich societies. Due to this there is growing awareness to put back fibres in one’s diet. The major sources are plant cell wall material which is not digested by human enzymes. The high energy and low fibre foods like sugar or flour causes diseases by:

• Altered intestinal functions
• Increased energy intake which leads to obesity, diabetes and other diseases.

Common Foods - How body absorbs carbohydrates?

1. Sugar/soft drinks: Shoot into the blood
2. Starches, Bread or potatoes - Stream into the blood.
3. Fruits: Flow into the blood
4. Milk items: Drip into the blood.
5. Vegetables: Seep into the blood.

Benefits of dietary fibre: Diseases that could be avoided by taking fibre rich diet:-

1. Constipation and hence hernia or varicose veins could be avoided
2. Carcinoma or bowel
3. Colon or cancer
4. Piles/Hemorrhoids
5. Diverticular diseases
6. Arteriosclerosis and hence heart attacks

Tags: arteriosclerosis, Food & Nutrition, gastro intestinal tract, increased energy

The new yellow pages came out in our area last week, so as usual, I took a spin through to check out the competition. To my surprise, some of the newer practitioners in the area had chosen not to advertise. Our area is pretty thick with chiropractors, and the number of naturopaths and TCM practitioners is on the rise, too, so I was curious why a new practice would overlook this choice. A yellow page ad is relatively inexpensive here.

I've always been a fan of the yellow pages. You can find a list of good reasons here, as well as a list of negative aspects here.

My favorite reason has always been that the yellow pages are how *I* find things. Even for a company I regularly patronize, I don't tend to use the white pages. And if you happen to be a holistic practitioner with a hard-to-spell name, the yellow pages are critical - it may be the only way your patients can find you.

What can be challenging, once you've decided to use the yellow pages, is how much to spend. The most useful piece of information for helping you with this choice (or any advertising choice) is your average annual revenue per patient. To find this, take your total revenue for a year, and divide it by the number of active patients in that same time period. I find this is a handy number to have in mind for many expenses. It seems so much easier to make decisions when you can say, for example, "Okay, all I need to do is get two new TCM patients this year from the yellow pages, and the ad is paid for." It puts things in concrete terms.

If you track your referral sources, you'll also be able to tell how many new patients came through the door in a given year as a result of your yellow pages listing. Using your revenue per patient number, you can then easily tell if your ad was worthwhile, and whether to go bigger or smaller the following year.

This liquid diet plan is designed to give nourishment orally in liquid state. Patients who could not take solid or semi solid foods could take this. The drawback for this diet is that it does not provide enough nutrients. Hence, it should not be continued for more then a month. Consult your doctor before taking on this diet plan: -

Liquid Diet Plan Items:

• Milk: 1000ml
• Fruit Juice: 1000 ml
• Eggs: 2
• Sugar: 50gm

This liquid diet provides:-

• Calories: 1400
• Proteins: 52 gms
• Calcium: 1760mg
• Iron: 11.1 mg
• Retinol: 1100 micro mg
• Thiamin: 1.4 mg
• Riboflavin: 1.8 mg

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It’s only August 26th and believe it or not.. I am almost ready to put my boat up on blocks. You believe it? I know Sept. and Oct. are the best months to boat in, but with the pace of my household.. I am afraid I have time for little else. Don’t get me wrong, I love love love this boat, but as soon as my wedding anniversary hits (yesterday) I feel like calling summer quits. I’m even looking at the fall crafts and halloween accesories at Michaels Crafts! Am I pushing it? I have my pumpkin candles already burning on our kitchen table. I usually do that until the end of Sept?! It was a long summer and I’m ready to settle into school, homework, karate, football, musical instruments and all that childhood has to torture me with. I’ll keep you posted~
Out to enjoy the east coast Indian Summer!

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