http://www.guide4living.com/notes Guide4Living - Breast Cancer - HIV - MS - Parkinsons - Drug Abuse Tue, 03 Oct 2006 22:22:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Calcium, iron, zinc, B group vitamins, Magnesium, potassium, vitamin E, vitamin A, copper, manganese, selenium…. Now that may sound like a list of minerals and vitamins in a bottle but its not.  That is just a range of vitamins and minerals you can get from snacking on nuts. If you or ... http://www.guide4living.com/notes/2006/10/03/nuts-about-nuts/ Hypertension or High Blood Pressure, is the main cause of heart disease and stroke throughout the world.  For this reason, it is important to try and recognise the symptoms and get treatment straight away. Usually a consistent blood pressure reading of 140/90 mmHg (or higher) will mean that you have hypertension or high ... http://www.guide4living.com/notes/2006/09/24/high-blood-pressure-signs/ It has been dubbed ‘The Worlds Biggest Medical Experiment’.  Biobank, which is a UK based company, funded by the government, plans to carry out an experiment using 500,000 people as its sample. The reason for the experiment: They aim to try and understand how our genes and the environment affect our ... http://www.guide4living.com/notes/2006/08/22/research-news/ With the start of the 16th International HIV/AIDS Conference, there is bound to be some explosive conversations taking place around the table but the most prolific thing for me is the fact that HIV/AIDS has only been around for 20 years (that we know of and have recorded) and it ... http://www.guide4living.com/notes/2006/08/15/hivaids-news/ Alcohol abuse is becoming a major problem in most countries today.  The National Health Service in Wales has recently stated that they expect to loose about 260 people this year as a result of alcohol related conditions (reported by BBC news). Across England and Scotland the same message is being ‘whispered’ ... http://www.guide4living.com/notes/2006/07/27/alcohol-not-so-innocent/ There is a little bit of good news about lung cancer, according to Reuters and China View. They have both recently run articles about a new blood test that can diagnose the most common lung cancer, non-small-cell lung cancer, long before an X-ray or CT scan.  In fact, apparently blood ... http://www.guide4living.com/notes/2006/07/17/new-early-diagnosis-for-lung-cancer/ I have just been reading about some breast cancer myths and thought I might share them with you.  This info comes from the Family Health diary: Myth: No one in my family has had breast cancer, so I wont get it Truth: 90 - 95% of people diagnosed with breast cancer don't ... http://www.guide4living.com/notes/2006/06/29/breast-cancer-myths/ One of the great things I have seen over the last forty years is the huge improvement in the survival rate from breast cancer. I well remeber the “rule of thumb” statistic among doctors that ninety per cent of cases after radical mastectomy had,at best, fifteen more years of life. ... http://www.guide4living.com/notes/2006/06/28/breast-cancer/ Ten quick tests that strongly suggest an onset of Alzheimers:– Memory loss that affects job skills Difficulty performing familiar tasks Problems with language Disorientation to time and place Poor or decreased judgment Problems with abstract thinking Misplacing things Changes in mood or behavior Changes in personality Loss of initiative Neil http://www.guide4living.com/notes/2006/06/28/to-be-updated-9/ This seems a good place to tell you that I live in New Zealand and as I write this morning -June 06 - it’s cloudy after some light drizzle, about 18 Celsius as we move into our winter. But, only one month ago our sun was fierce and you may not ... http://www.guide4living.com/notes/2006/06/28/to-be-updated-8/