Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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 So if you have a ribald sense of humor, try to button it down on your first visit, even if you are someone who copes with adversity by using humor. However, I should add that in general I encourage humor in my interactions with patients so as to ease tension and facilitate the human dimensions of the interaction.
A sense of humor is probably the most important thing you can have when you have Alzheimer's.1
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Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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 There's lots of evidence that a good laugh can help improve your immune system, and humor can also have a valuable effect on your memory. humor requires what the laugh doctors call conceptual blending-that is, the ability to relate the expected to the unexpected; we laugh when something surprising happens. Having a sense of humor is a sign of intelligence. Telling a joke, like being a teacher, is another way to challenge your brain. |
Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe
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 Each humor was seated in an organ of the body, and that organ's function was to produce its humor. For example, before Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the blood, it was thought that blood was generated in the liver, and taken by the arteries to all parts of the body. We might well laugh at this Galenic notion, but we still talk of love being seated in the heart.
In the European Baroque Age, the humoral theory was extended to include all sorts of phenomena and conditions, such as the divisions of the day, the four seasons, and even the cardinal points. |
Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan
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 Some of our body wastes (or humors, as some were called) have been the subject of study, and humor, for thousands of years. Hippocrates, often known as the Father of Medicine, taught that there were four humors, which affected both physical and mental health: yellow bile, black bile, blood, and phlegm. All diseases were thought to stem from an imbalance of these "essential fluids" and the body's consequent inability to rid itself of its waste products. The cures: sweating, purging, bloodletting, and vomiting. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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| There's lots of evidence that a good laugh can help improve your immune system, and humor can also have a valuable effect on your memory. humor requires what the laugh doctors call conceptual blending-that is, the ability to relate the expected to the unexpected; we laugh when something surprising happens. Having a sense of humor is a sign of intelligence. Telling a joke, like being a teacher, is another way to challenge your brain. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 The well-known writer Norman Cousins was sick with a severe rheumatological illness and used humor as a wellness tool. He discovered that maintaining a positive attitude, partly by using a massive helping of humor, made him feel better both physically and emotionally. Reciting your wellness mantra as you walk will make it easier for you to pick up your walking pace, and this will make you better. It's another kind of cycle, just not a vicious one.
Continue this gradual incrementing process by adding 25 steps every week to 10 days. Remember to keep your walking time to 30 minutes. |
Rainer W. Bussmann and Douglas Sharon
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 For baths and rubbings: 2 tbsp in 1/21 of Aguardiente, 1/2 tbsp in 1/21 of water
Usos / Uses: Dolor de los Ojos, Mai humor, Mareo, Dolor de Ca-beza, Nausea, Vomito, Limpia - Sore eyes, Bad humor, Dizziness, Headache, Nausea, Vomiting, Cleansing / Limpia
Sauce
Salix humboldtiana Willd.
Familia / Family: SALICACEAE
Partes usadas / Plant part used: Hojas, frescas - Leaves, fresh Administracion / Administration: Oral
Preparation / Preparation: 1. Cocidas con Aguardiente - Boiled with Aguardiente, 2. Masticada - Chewed
Usos / Uses: 1. Fiebre - Fever, 2. |
Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan
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| The body signs related to our private parts and their often disagreeable by-products are major sources of humor to many kids and adults alike. But because they're also a major source of embarrassment, we may find these body waste signs difficult to discuss with our doctors. That can be a big mistake. Whether you're a fan of bathroom humor or not, you shouldn't ignore the body signs that your internal waste management system periodically spews out at you. Embarrassing or not, they can reveal countless clues about the state of our bodies. |
Dharma Singh Khalsa, M.D.
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 For example, in one study, 84 percent of personnel directors said that employees with good senses of humor tended to be creative, and adept at problem-solving.
Humor also helps people get along. A recent study at the University of Oregon showed that spouses who both had good senses of humor were significantly more likely to remain happily married than spouses with poor senses of humor.
Unfortunately, though, we tend to lose our sense of humor as we age. Children, on average, laugh about three hundred times per day, but adults generally laugh only fifteen times per day. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The fact that silly humor and examples of idiotic behavior are so easy to find in conventional medicine today is indicative of the failure of medicine to be effective. Satire "attack" humor carries a sub-text message that says, "We can do better." We don't have to suffer under an idiotic system of medicine. We can create a better future based on genuine health freedom, the promotion of disease prevention programs, and the embracing of plant-based medicines that are safe, affordable and highly effective. |
Joseph E. Mario
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 Lost humor SENSE A good sense of humor is an important ingredient for health and longevity. Always think positively, and avoid toxins in the body. Take500-1000 mg. VitaminB3 Niacinamide, along with anatural multi-Vita-Min-Protein supplement.
•HUMORS An Oriental designation for the body's circulating fluids ofblood, bile, lymph, and mucous/phlegm; "Mattercannotreactwithoutfluids." 50% of body fluids are inside the body cells; 15 % of body weight is fluids between the body's cells and the blood vessels; and the blood is about 5% of body weight. |
Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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| However, I should add that in general I encourage humor in my interactions with patients so as to ease tension and facilitate the human dimensions of the interaction.
A sense of humor is probably the most important thing you can have when you have Alzheimer's.1
?Person labeled with Alzheimer's disease, to my colleague Anne Basting
I must emphasize again that there are as many ways to do the physical exam as there are doctors, and that your experience may diverge somewhat from what I've laid out. But it is important to at least know the basis by which you'll be assessed. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Right-brain functions cover spatial tasks such as reading maps, artistic and musical activities, emotional perception and a sense of humor. Functions reverse in the majority of people who are left-handed.
Choose activities that you enjoy because these are the ones that you'll stick with. Then exercise each side of your brain in a more or less alternating fashion. Examples...
Left-brain activities: Word games, crossword puzzles and reading.
Right-brain activities: Playing a musical instrument, jigsaw puzzles, three-dimensional spatial puzzles and games. |
Jack Challem
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 Racist and sexist humor is offensive and says a lot about the person making the wisecracks—and about the people laughing at those jokes. Conversely, wit or puns reflect a sharp perceptiveness about the common absurdities of life.
Quick Tip
Touching Other People's Lives
Alternative and complementary practitioners know the benefits of therapeutic massage, but a little-known nonmassage touching technique can also do wonders for both body and mind. It's called Bio-Touch and it's easy to learn.
Bio-Touch uses a very light two-finger touch, called a butterfly touch because it's that light. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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 It helps one find true inner peace and real humor.
Edible Uses
Agrimony makes an apricot-scented tea. It is sometimes used in the making of beer and mead. The seeds can be ground and used as meal.
Other Uses
In Europe the leaves and stems of agrimony were once used to create a yellow dye. |
| With good humor at the ready and good study under your belt, finding the herbs you need, and storing them so that they last, can be an aromatic, textural, and visual treat!
SHOPPING FOR HERBS
Herb shops are fun places. If you don't have one near you, many offer their wares online (see the resources at the end of this book). The staff are usually quite friendly, enjoying the company of both people and plants. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 My Sugar Education and the Hypoglycemia Connection
Restored to good health and humor, I became driven to dig up more information about reactive hypoglycemia and what part sugar plays in it. After devouring the few books I could find and talking to fellow sufferers, I learned that hypoglycemia is a baffling, misunderstood, much-maligned medical condition that can produce more than 100 debilitating ailments, including manic depression, migraines, crying sprees, and even suicidal impulses. |
Andreas Moritz
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 The Dynamic Force of Pitta
The small intestine is mainly controlled by the energy of Pitta—the second bodily humor (dosha). Pitta, which in Sanskrit means "bile," controls AGNI and, therefore, digestion and metabolism. Pitta ensures that food is properly digested, absorbed and converted into the basic building compounds needed for the growth of new cells and tissues. Once Pitta-dosha becomes disturbed at its main seat where the gallbladder and pancreas are joined with the duodenum, all metabolic processes in the body are subsequently disrupted. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 As an editorial in the prestigious British medical journal, Lancet, concludes—with typically English humor: "Stents clearly have a great future—they give excellent predictive results in angiography, are clinically safe, and most of all, calm the interventional cardiologist."21
"Finally, something I can agree with," proclaimed Fran. "Were I the patient, I would most assuredly want a calm cardiologist!"
Alas, where in these procedures is the fierce warrior? A small incision in the groin is hardly heroic surgery! |
Kevin Trudeau
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 The humor Project www.humorproject.com (518) 587-8770
22. Stay away from psychiatrists or psychologists.
Hakomi Institute www.hakomiinstitute.com (888) 421-6699
Dianetics Technology www.dianetics.com (800) 367-8788
Total Integration Institute www.totalintegrationinstitute.com (520) 615-9811
Citizens Commission on Human Rights www.cchr.org
Nancy Cartwright www.nancycartwright.com
23. Do not use an alarm clock.
Sunrise Clock www.biobrite.com (301) 961-5940
Zen Alarm Clock www.now-zen.com (800) 779-6383
24. Use aromatherapy.
Aromatherapy.com www.aromatherapy. |
Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan
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| And let's not forget sweat, the most neglected of our body wastes—at least when it comes to bathroom humor and slang terms. But sweat takes
SPEAKING OF SIGNS
The sex organ of a man is simple and neat as a ringer, but the female sex organ is mysterious even to the woman herself, concealed, mucous, and humid. —Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1949
SIGNIFICANT FACT
Some scientists believe that the strong body odors that accompany some diseases may have evolved as a way of warning people away from potentially diseased mates. first prize for sticking around. |
Bottom Line Health
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| There's always room for humor and joy.
DON'T HARP ON POSITIVE THINKING
It's normal to be angry, depressed or sad when you have cancer. No one feels positive all the time. Nevertheless, friends and family members often nag cancer patients about the importance of positive thinking and tune them out when they express worries, pessimism or fear.
The implication is that the cancer is somehow the patient's fault or that he can somehow control the outcome.
There is a myth that some people have a "cancer personality. |
Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan
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| Rather, they're tiny clumps of vitreous humor (also spelled "humour"), a jelly-like fluid inside the eyeball. You're most likely to notice floaters when you look directly at a solid light-colored background, such as a white wall or clear blue sky. They usually last for only a few seconds or possibly minutes, and they come and go with changes in head position. Although usually permanent, many people stop noticing them after a while.
If floaters bug you, you're not alone; virtually everyone sees them from time to time. |
Ray D. Strand
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 Vitamin C is highly concentrated in the fluid within the eye (aqueous humor) and is a very important antioxidant for the retina. Studies indicate that supplementation with vitamin C can slow down the progression of ARMD. Vitamin C also has the ability to regenerate both vitamin E and the potent intracellular antioxidant glutathione.15
Vitamin E
ARMD patients have low levels of vitamin E in the area of macula, where high-energy light produces excessive free radicals that damage the photoreceptors. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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| Glaucoma occurs when the aqueous humor can't drain out of your eye through the meshlike covering where it normally drains, thus building up pressure in the eyeball and cutting off some blood supply to the optic nerve. This clogging of the drain for aqueous fluid can be caused by increased blood pressure in surrounding veins (caused by various diseases and chronic ailments). Glaucoma causes loss of peripheral vision and, if untreated, can lead to blindness. |
| Having a sense of humor is a sign of intelligence. Telling a joke, like being a teacher, is another way to challenge your brain. You have to be able to play mental hopscotch from one word to another to make sure that the story, joke, riddle, or pun combines a set of expected circumstances and unexpected ones (in other words, what happens once the guy walks into the bar?). And ultimately, if you tell it right, you have to have a fair amount of social intelligence as well-the ability to maximize the tension and mystery of the joke until the very last second.
YOU Tip: Map Your Mind. |
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