Category: Skin Care

By J P Jackson

Lyme disease is an infectious condition caused by a spirochete (a bacterium shaped like a corkscrew) called Borrelia burgdorferi, spread by ticks. Because of its unspecific symptoms, it is hard to diagnose and easy to mistake for other diseases, a reason why the specialists sometimes refer to it as “the great pretender”. It has been identified in both humans and animals, particularly those with fur, which usually carry ticks.

Lyme disease got its name from the place where it was first identified – Old Lyme, Connecticut, in 1977. It all started when two concerned mothers decided to track down the source of an unexplained increase in the number of cases of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, and ended up finding a new disease. Since then, the condition has proven more common than initially considered, and thousands of Lyme disease articles have been written and published.

Considering the time of year and the areas where the outbreaks occurred, the specialists soon linked the disease to a certain type of tick, commonly found among deer. As the investigation progressed, they also realized that the infection had both early and late phases involving rashes and other dermatological symptoms, and, without the proper treatment, it could affect the nervous system, eyes, heart, joints (hence the confusion made in earlier studies with arthritis), and, in the most severe cases, it has even been linked to meningitis.

Today, the infection can be detected quite easily. If you have the classic bull’s eye rash and you inform your physician that you’ve been exposed to contact with ticks (either by walking in woods or through pets, which may have carried the ticks inside the home), no further tests are necessary and any doctor will probably think of Lyme disease immediately. If you are not sure, a simple blood test is usually enough. The treatment includes two or three weeks of antibiotics. Despite what you may have read in Lyme disease articles available in libraries and on the Internet, the disease is fully curable and leaves no long-term side effects, if the right treatment is used early on. Except for antibiotics, there aren’t any other effective solutions, so you should see a physician at the very first symptoms and follow the treatment accordingly.

Lyme disease is quite common in the United States these days, with hundreds of thousands of cases diagnosed every year, and the number of diagnoses is also increasing in Europe (possibly because of atmospheric changes which allow ticks to thrive in many areas). Also, it has been registered more often among children than adults. As usual, it’s better to prevent the infection than to treat the disease, so specialists recommend caution when living, walking or camping in areas infested by ticks. Using insect repellent is a good idea, since the bacteria can enter your system only through tick bites, and it cannot spread from one infected human to another, or from sick animals to humans.

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By Naweko San-Joyz

Have you heard about it lately? Everywhere you look, women over 30 can find one hundred excuses for not being able to lose weight and keep it off.

Blame it on your thyroid, cortisol, menopause, your hectic lifestyle or even your genes. But, the real reason you find yourself battling those last 15 or 20 pounds all comes down to how you handle five major issues.

#5 Not Understanding How Diets Work

Atkins, South Beach, The Zone, Dr. PhilYou could spend a lifetime trying the over-one-thousand diets on the market. How do you simplify things? How do you know youve found the magic diet?

Even though this fact may burn the ears of many women, the truth remains that if you want to lose weight, eat less and exercise more. Ouch! I just heard some lady scream from the pain of realization. But thats how a diet works.

Just like you can find medical documents that praise and persecute popular diets, you will always find that most medical studies prove that this weight loss formula is just as effective as it was some 3.5 million years ago when Lucy used it – eat less, exercise more.

So dont put so much power into the name of your diet as to the nutritional content of the diet. In short, each and everyday you need to eat proteins, fats, and carbohydrates.

#4 Not Exercising Enough

Your personal trainer told you and now the FDA is barking down your throat, Exercise more! The only way to divorce cellulite from those thighs is to create a fat deficit. Thats the only way your body will utilize those excess fat globules.

My favorite way of knowing that I am vacating unwelcome cellulite, or encroaching cellulite, is feeling the tingle in my legs as I exercise for 40-50 minutes at a time. You dont need to run yourself dogged, just exercise smarter as researchers at the University of Pittsburgh suggest.

After monitoring 201 overweight women using various exercise methods from high-intensity and long, to low-intensity and short, this study featured in the

Canadian Journal of Health & Nutrition

found that women who exercised briskly for at least 50 minutes, five times a week while using a sensible diet, lost an average of 25 pounds in six months.

#3 Giving Up Too Quickly

Youll hear it in gyms and offices all across America. I didnt lose 20 pounds in two weeks so that diet obviously sucks.

As shocking as it sounds, too many women believe that weight loss should be fast. While Cosmo and Star will promise to divulge the starvation secrets of how models lose mounds of weight in days, dont buy it.

That stuff might work on Mars, but if you want to see real results, you need to give your body at least eight weeks, or ideally 12. This is because, when you diet, your body wholly resists this change and it is actually going to test your dedication to sticking with the diet.

While you can try to trick your body with get-skinny-quick-diets like ketosis induction or protein diets, you cant stay on such diets for life. Eventually your liver will exhaust from handling excessive amounts of protein. Plus your breath will stink. Yuck! Remember, patience, while repulsive to some, is a dieting virtue.

#2 No Focus

In a world of too much to do and too little time to fit it in after soccer practice, how are you going to stick with a diet? You have priorities. You wake up everyday, maybe go to work, eat somewhere and collect a paycheck somehow. You will only do the important things.

Moreover, you will only do what gives you visible pain or pleasure. If your diet is not actively moving you away from pain and etching you closer to pleasure, youll relegate you diet to the trash, because the diet proves psychologically useless to you.

Priorities, on the other hand, give you real benefits or punishments if theyre not respected. For example, wouldnt it suck this weekend if you couldnt buy those Nine West shoes because you ditched work on Wednesday and Thursday.

The same applies to your diet, wont it suck when you cant fit into that $250, two sizes too small dress you caught on sale at Neiman Marcus?

#1 Weak Self-Confidence

Theres a great line in Don Miguel Ruizs

Beyond Fear

, We only need to protect ourselves from ourselves. This is certainly the case when dieting.

Whether or not you maintain your self-confidence and self-trust while dieting will determine your dieting success. Dont base your self-confidence on outside events or those mean people that call you fat behind your back. Safely house your confidence within, and base it on who you are, not on what you succeed or fail at doing.

Ruiz, penned another cool line, The normal state of the mind is hell. I just heard an Amen! from the audience. Dieting will be hell if you let your self-confidence slip.

Ok, so go get your pen and jot down these five dieting keepsakes and place them in your purse as a reference.

1. I eat less, and exercise more.

2. I exercise moderately five times a week for 50 minutes at a time.

3. I am giving myself at least six weeks to see results from my diet.

4. My diet is a priority and I know the long-term payoffs of my successful weight loss.

5. I am confident and trust myself to lose weight.

Whats that now? Silence? I dont hear a single dieting excuse coming from anywhere. My work here is done.

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