Health news blog

  Onion Family – Garlic, Leeks, Chives and Onions Garlic is an amazing food, commonly known as nature’s antibiotic. Garlic may prevent several forms of cancer. Extensive research indicates kyolic garlic increases the infiltration of natural killer lymphocytes into cancerous sites, decreases the tumour mass and destroys cancer cells. The most effective form is injected [...]

Our body’s immune system regularly battles foreign invaders and cancerous cells everyday, isolating or destroying these toxins so that they can do no harm. However, the immune system can become weak or depressed due to a number of dietary, psychological, environmental and physical factors. This can ultimately set up the pathway for the growth of [...]

Sadness is an emotion that overcomes all of us, particularly women, when we discover we have cancer. Men are often taught to withhold their emotions and may not release this sadness until later. Any release of emotion is good, as it stops bad emotions from being pent-up inside. Sadness is a natural feeling running through [...]

Gastritis/Indigestion Diet • Eat a balanced, healthy diet rich in alkaline forming foods and low in acidic foods. • Include in the diet fresh pineapple (which contains bromelain) and fresh paw paw (which contains papain). These are great sources of digestive enzymes. • Add acidophilus yogurt to the diet. • Try using brown rice or [...]

Food Processing Methods Barbecuing, frying and overheating of dietary oils causes the production of carcinogenic benzopyrene and toxic polyhydrocarbons (PAH), which are strongly linked to cancer when ingested or inhaled in excessive amounts. Food irradiation also increases the risk of cancer, as does the smoking of foods. Hereditary Factors It is thought that approximately five [...]

During both the primary and secondary phases of syphilis, a person is very infectious to partners. As can be imagined, both phases of the infection are often missed, either because the initial lesion is not noticed or because the symptoms are thought to have another cause, since they are so vague. In addition, since both [...]

The efficacy of the oral medications valacyclovir and famciclovir in the treatment and suppression of cold sores has not yet been established. Acyclovir is the treatment of choice for infected newborns and also for those with herpes encephalitis. Acyclovir also suppresses asymptomatic or subclinical shedding of the virus in certain individuals. One study of women [...]

Freezing warts with liquid nitrogen is a common treatment for both external warts and warts on the cervix. Cervical warts are always evaluated first by colposcopy and biopsied to make sure they are not cancer before they are treated with cryotherapy. This treatment destroys the skin cells where the virus is located. It is not [...]

Douching has been promoted in the media by the makers of douches as a necessary part of feminine hygiene, but the truth is that vaginal douching has been linked to pelvic and vaginal infections in women. Rectal douching is also practiced by some men and women after anal intercourse, but this practice can lead to [...]

Big message from many studies is that PSA should not be used by itself, that no treatment decision should be made on a lone PSA reading. That PSA’s partner in diagnosis must be a digital rectal exam, with ultrasound and biopsy (see below) performed in patients with abnormal findings. Also, the PSA test may spot [...]