If you have to leave wheat out of your diet (and are not sensitive to other grains or gluten), oats, rice, millet, corn, barley and rye are cheap and easy substitutes. In place of wheat breakfast cereals, you can eat porridge oats, cornflakes or rice cereals. In place of wheat bread, you can make bread [...]
The indicators of chemical sensitivity include the following factors, which are not really specific symptoms, but general characteristics often displayed by chemically sensitive people. Rapid onset of symptoms on exposure is a common characteristic of sensitivity. Chemically sensitive people often have an abnormal sense of smell -either almost totally absent or unusually heightened, and it [...]
Among hair products, permanent hair dyes are the commonest cause of allergy. They often contain a highly allergenic chemical, PPDA. You should always follow the advice on the packet of these dyes to patch-test behind the ear or on the forearm 24-48 hours before using. If a hairdresser is to apply the dye for you, [...]
Injection damp-proof courses work by injecting chemicals into the fabric of the building above ground level to form a chemical barrier which deters the passage or rise of damp. Many building societies will not now grant a mortgage on a building without such a course. The main ingredient of the damp-proofing liquid is silicone, which [...]
Some metals are known specifically to cause allergy – nickel and chromates (salts of chromium). These are discussed below. Otherwise, metals are not generally known to cause allergy or sensitivity. Heavy metals (such as lead or cadmium), which can sometimes be absorbed from tapwater, can cause health problems. Aluminium, too, has been linked to some [...]
This can look awesomely large to some women and is shaped something like a section of a tennis ball. The correct size for the woman has to be selected by her GP or clinic and the woman has to be trained how to use it. A spermicidal substance is applied to both sides prior to [...]
Where the partners are in a happy, loving, communicating and understanding relationship, intercourse, m the widest sense of the term, is a continuous activity. After all, intercourse is more than just the penis being placed in the vagina. Loving and sexual talk, affectionate behaviour and erotic contacts such as kissing, breast fondling and brief genital [...]
From the sixteenth day after fertilisation of an egg a female embryo is detectably female as determined by the presence of Barr bodies (the repressed X chromosomes mentioned earlier). By the seventh week ovaries or testes are beginning to develop, and in the male testosterone, the main male hormone, is produced. Hormones are complex chemical [...]
These are rare creatures in the UK although some of the above groups offer some kind of sex therapy in a limited way. The vast majority of the ‘treatment’ of marital and sexual problems is done by talking and listening and by the partners discussing things they have learned when they go home. All professionals [...]
It is probably true to say that with a few exceptions any marriage has the potential to be good. How marriage actually works out for any one couple is probably not so much governed by circumstances (which is what most couples believe) but by lessons learned in childhood and applied later. For example, a fear [...]