<![CDATA[ForumGarden - Health & Wellness]]> http://www.forumgarden.com/forums en Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:33:18 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.forumgarden.com/forums/images/misc/rss.jpg <![CDATA[ForumGarden - Health & Wellness]]> http://www.forumgarden.com/forums An Apology http://www.forumgarden.com/forums/health-wellness/48874-apology.html Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:48:37 GMT I asked Tombstone to post the following but he was reluctant to do so and said I could create an identity in order to do so...Thanks Tombstone. I took him up on the offer because I must do this..... Dear Tombstone, I would like to sk you to leave a message on your forum from me. I understand... I asked Tombstone to post the following but he was reluctant to do so and said I could create an identity in order to do so...Thanks Tombstone.

I took him up on the offer because I must do this.....

Dear Tombstone, I would like to sk you to leave a message on your forum from me. I understand if you choose not to. rjwood

Dear Members of ForumGarden,

I've asked Tombstone to be so kind as to post this message. I understand that if I want to move forward in my life I need to attempt to reconcile the past. I'm not sure how to do this, so please have patience.

First permit me to say that I've come to some recent revelations in myself that have left me feeling a bit surreal. Though not an excuse for my behavior while a member of this fine community, contributing factors nonetheless. This letter is my attempt to set the record straight. While I'm eternally grateful for Tombstones decision to delete my previous existence by leaving only the shell behind, I realize that you folks are so much more deserving of an apology and yet a thank you for being so kind to endure me for as long as you did.

You see, where I've been and who I am has given me the opportunity to review myself in order to come to my present understandings. I am however so sorry for the pain I've caused those of you whom had been the victims and targets of my outrageous carrying ons while a member here. I mean that!

You know me as rjwood which is my first two initials and surname. I didn't know where I could say that and still hold your attention. Before you leave in disgust at this point, please read on. Not because I'm seeking your sympathy, but because you deserve my best, which isn't much in the grand scheme of things, but its all I've got to offer you.

I would like to say that much of what I had expressed as a member in the way of general topic was me trying to engage others in area's of discussion that I believe have relevance in all our lives as a society. Some was meant as entertainment and the rest was purely selfish and unkind to certain people. However, in my own little world, I thought I was being shockingly truthful and honest. Which brings me to where I need to get to here.

I have in my time since being justifiably driven off from this forum been trying to understand why I do the things I do. You see, this has been not just a aberration, but an ongoing process of my entire life with a few exceptions with family members and one or two close friends. While I've had many friends in my life, I've not been able to maintain them for long periods of time. Not only that, but I've had many difficulties functioning as a cordial and constructive member of society. That combined with many other abnormalities that have been a part of me since my memory serves me. But until just weeks ago I could never put my finger on why.

I'm so lucky that I have dedicated children and a wonderful partner. I've often said during the course of my marriage that anyone else would have left me long ago. I'm so fortunate that I actually am surrounded by people that love me. Not even some of the kindest people that have ever existed can be so fortunate to say that, no less a person such as myself.

I've had to take a long hard look at me and with the help, understanding and assistance of my family I've had to be willing to consider the idea that I'm different than most of you. I've been researching a lot lately and have taken some unofficial tests and am convinced that I am among the scores of people with autistic qualities. I fit the profile of Asperger syndrome 100%.

I believe that all of us are most likely touched by autism to some degree, I more so than most. I also believe that we all are probably members to some degree of schizophrenia, again, me more so than most.

I need to tell you that while I'm coming to terms with all this, it is your kindness and tolerance of me and my behavior as well as of the way you've all dealt with me that has contributed to me finding myself, though not to my most favorable liking. I'm 53 years old and I certainly would have liked to have known this much much earlier so I could use this knowledge for some betterment. Who knows, I may have rejected it anyway at any given point in my life.

Spot, I truly am sorry for the manner of disrespect in which I treated you. You are a kind, understanding person who I have always admired and learned so much from...Thank you!

Jester, while I completely disagree with you in many area's, I apologize for the way I expressed it.

JAB and Koan, I'm sorry!

Theia, MrsK, Accountable, Nomad and Carolly, thank you for trying to understand and befriend me.

Coberst, thanks for the education and the great advice you offer.

Flopstock and Abby, thanks for the way you dealt with me in the end.

There are so many others I could mention by name that are deserving of my gratitude. and I hope you all know who you are. There is absolutely not one person who has been a member of this community that I've had the fortune to know that owes me anything, not one of you were ever unkind to me in any undeserving fashion whatsoever.

Lastly, this brings me to yaaarrrgg who I expect probably saw me for who I was long before I did, He has been the loyalist of friends that has stayed with me through thick and thin for about 3 or 4 years now (as you all know what a chore that is). Thank you, Kevin, I owe you sooooo much. Kevin and I had started a forum together since my banning from here and I could have emailed that thank you to him, but I want you all to know what a descent person he is. There was never any complicity on his part to cause disruption here, he was only being my friend.

If I'm fortunate enough again and Tombstone has decided to post this message, I close by saying Thank You again and if I ever have the golden opportunity to befriend any of you in another life or place that would be my distinct pleasure.
rj

p.s. I was One and Poster, and I'm sorry for that as well. ]]> Robert J http://www.forumgarden.com/forums/health-wellness/48874-apology.html BPA in your canned foods: Soup to avoid this cold and flu season http://www.forumgarden.com/forums/health-wellness/48823-bpa-your-canned-foods-soup-avoid-cold-flu-season.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:23:42 GMT A disturbing study by Consumer Reports revealed the presence of the chemical Bisphenol A (BPA) in nearly all of the name-brand canned foods recently tested in their labs, including some that were labeled "BPA-free" and others labeled "organic."

Link to full article: BPA in your canned foods: Soup to avoid this cold and flu season - Healthy Living on Shine ]]> Jazzy http://www.forumgarden.com/forums/health-wellness/48823-bpa-your-canned-foods-soup-avoid-cold-flu-season.html Acai Palm/Acai berry http://www.forumgarden.com/forums/health-wellness/48804-acai-palm-acai-berry.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:23:24 GMT Acai Palm and the Acai berry

I'd also like to talk about Mona Vie.

A friend of mine introduced me to the Mona Vie EMV energy drink and I loved it! Perhaps I love it because I've never had any other energy drink aside from when I'd failed to refrain from indulging meself on Jagerbombs!

It seems the Acai berry is taking the world by storm so I'm wondering if anyone out there in FG world is familiar with it.

Acai Palms Nutritional content from wiki
Quote:
A powdered preparation of freeze-dried açaí fruit pulp and skin (Opti-açaí, K2A, Inc.) was reported to contain (per 100 g of extract) 533.9 calories, 52.2 g carbohydrates, 8.1 g protein, and 32.5 g total fat. The carbohydrate portion included 44.2 g of fiber. The powder was also shown to contain (per 100 g): negligible vitamin C, 260 mg calcium, 4.4 mg iron, and 1002 U vitamin A, as well as aspartic acid and glutamic acid; the amino acid content was 7.59% of total dry weight.

The fat content of açaí consists of oleic acid (56.2% of total fats), palmitic acid (24.1%), and linoleic acid (12.5%). Açaí also contains beta-sitosterol (78–91% of total sterols). The oil compartments in açaí fruit contain polyphenols such as procyanidin oligomers and vanillic acid, syringic acid, p-hydroxybenzoic acid, protocatechuic acid, and ferulic acid, which were shown to degrade substantially during storage or exposure to heat.
AçaÃ* Palm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ]]> K.Snyder http://www.forumgarden.com/forums/health-wellness/48804-acai-palm-acai-berry.html H1n1 anybody?? http://www.forumgarden.com/forums/health-wellness/48682-h1n1-anybody.html Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:01:31 GMT Hiow many of you are going to or already have got the vaccine? What are your thought on the vaccine, pros?? cons??
Medical profession members here please don't hold back.

This vaccine was released here in this city at 4 clinics (yep 4 clinics per 1 million + people idiotically out of proportion I know) Line ups for the vaccine ranged from 2 to 8 hours long. The Provincial government created the hugest panic this province has ever seen. 2 days after the clinics opened they had to open up an assessment clinic (which quaranteened about24 possible H1N1 cases) Why did they open the clinic of assessment because many ill people were inline for he vaccine. Many ill people and non-high risk people were turned away from getting the vaccine and told to come back later in November after the high risk people were vaccinated. Yes this has caused quite the uproar as...... the government failed to advertise the rules properl.... they flogged this city in particular about getting the vaccine only to recant the fact they meant....high risk people take priority. Here you are deemed high risk if you are pregnant, or a child between the ages of 6 months and 5 years. Or have chronic health issues.... surprise they were turning away people with terminal cancer, MS, and HIV. Well just what were the rules to this exercise when after day 2 they admitted they vaccinated many hundreds of non high risk folks and now have run out of vaccie for the time being.

You bet folks are panicing. It was utterly stupid.

Myself I have not decided on the vaccine yet. Fortunately my gandchildren and their parents were vaccinated.

What are some of your stories out there..... ]]> minks http://www.forumgarden.com/forums/health-wellness/48682-h1n1-anybody.html The stark truth... tomorrows the day.... http://www.forumgarden.com/forums/health-wellness/48675-stark-truth-tomorrows-day.html Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:36:10 GMT Thankyou again to all you kind peeps who have messaged me about my husbands lung cancer. It is secondry cancer but a few days ago he was told this stark truth. We can help you but If you do not stop smoking now... you won't live another 9 months.
This means I must stop with him.
We have spent two hours with the nurse. We have the patches, a plastic thing to suck that makes you look a Pillock in public, Nicotine chewing gum etc etc.
Tonight before we go to bed, all lighters, ashtrays etc will be smashed and binned.

Pete only smokes 15 a day but I smoke 60 a day. If anyone could give us any tips to distract ourselves, I would be very very grateful.

Thanks ]]> oscar http://www.forumgarden.com/forums/health-wellness/48675-stark-truth-tomorrows-day.html Im Dying http://www.forumgarden.com/forums/health-wellness/48659-im-dying.html Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:08:15 GMT I have a bunyon. I dont expect to survive. Ive reached the acceptance stage and Im ok with it. I love you all. No regrets. I have a bunyon. I dont expect to survive. Ive reached the acceptance stage and Im ok with it. I love you all. No regrets. ]]> Nomad http://www.forumgarden.com/forums/health-wellness/48659-im-dying.html fibromyalgia ..the cause ??? http://www.forumgarden.com/forums/health-wellness/48475-fibromyalgia-cause.html Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:37:05 GMT i was sent is email from some one on a forum about fm what do you guys think A Case of Chronic Denial By HILLARY JOHNSON Published: October 20, 2009 i was sent is email from some one on a forum about fm

what do you guys think

A Case of Chronic Denial


By HILLARY JOHNSON

Published: October 20, 2009

EARLIER this month, a study published in the journal Science answered a question that medical scientists had been asking since 2006, when they learned of a novel virus found in prostate tumors called xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus, or XMRV: Was it a human infection?





Health Guide: Chronic Fatigue

XMRV is a gammaretrovirus, one of a family of viruses long-studied in animals but not known to infect people. In animals, these retroviruses can cause horrendous neurological problems, immune deficiency, lymphoma and leukemia. The new study provided overwhelming evidence that XMRV is a human gammaretrovirus — the third human retrovirus (after H.I.V. and human lymphotropic viruses, which cause leukemia and lymphoma). Infection is permanent and, yes, it can spread from person to person (though it is not yet known how the virus is transmitted) .

That would have been news enough, but there was more. XMRV had been discovered in people suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome, a malady whose very existence has been a subject of debate for 25 years. For sufferers of this disease, the news has offered enormous hope. Being seriously ill for years, even decades, is nightmarish enough, but patients are also the targets of ridicule and hostility that stem from the perception that it is all in their heads. In the study, 67 percent of the 101 patients with the disease were found to have XMRV in their cells. If further study finds that XMRV actually causes their condition, it may open the door to useful treatments. At least, it will be time to jettison the stigmatizing name chronic fatigue syndrome.

The illness became famous after an outbreak in 1984 around Lake Tahoe, in Nevada. Several hundred patients developed flu-like symptoms like fever, sore throat and headaches that led to neurological problems, including severe memory loss and inability to understand conversation. Most of them were infected with several viruses at once, including cytomegalovirus, Epstein-Barr and human herpesvirus 6. Their doctors were stumped. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the nation’s presumed bulwark against emerging infectious diseases, dismissed the epidemic and said the Tahoe doctors “had worked themselves into a frenzy.” The sufferers, a C.D.C. investigator told me at the time, were “not normal Americans.”

When, by 1987, the supposed hysteria failed to evaporate and indeed continued erupting in other parts the country, the health agency orchestrated a jocular referendum by mail among a handful of academics to come up with a name for it. The group settled on “chronic fatigue syndrome” — the use of “syndrome” rather than “disease” suggested a psychiatric rather than physical origin and would thus discourage public panic and prevent insurers from having to make “chronic disbursements,” as one of the academics joked.

An 11th-hour plea by a nascent patient organization to call the disease by the scientific name used in Britain, myalgic encephalomyelitis, was rejected by the C.D.C. as “overly complicated and too confusing for many nonmedical persons.”

Had the agency done nothing in response to this epidemic, patients would now be better off. The name functioned as a kind of social punishment. Patients were branded malingerers by families, friends, journalists and insurance companies, and were denied medical care. (It’s no coincidence that suicide is among the three leading causes of death among sufferers.) Soon the malady came to be widely considered a personality disorder or something that sufferers brought upon themselves. A recent study financed by the C.D.C. suggested that childhood trauma or sexual abuse, combined with a genetic inability to handle stress, is a key risk factor for chronic fatigue syndrome.

Many people don’t realize how severe this illness can be. It is marked by memory and cognition problems, and physical collapse after any mental or physical exertion. The various co-infections that occur only make matters worse. Many patients are bedridden. And recovery is rare. A significant number of patients have been ill for more than two decades.



Dr. Nancy Klimas, an immunologist at the University of Miami School of Medicine who treats AIDS and chronic fatigue syndrome, remarked in The Times last week that if given the choice she would prefer to have AIDS: “My H.I.V. patients for the most part are hale and hearty,” she said, noting that billions of dollars have been spent on AIDS research. “Many of my C.F.S. patients, on the other hand, are terribly ill and unable to work or participate in the care of their families.”

Health Guide: Chronic Fatigue

Congress has appropriated money for research on chronic fatigue syndrome, too, though in far smaller amounts, but the C.D.C. has seemed unwilling to spend it productively. A decade ago, investigations by the inspector general for the Department of Health and Human Services and what was then called the General Accounting Office revealed that for years government scientists had been funneling millions meant for research on this disease into other pet projects.

As public health officials focused on psychiatric explanations, the virus apparently spread widely. In the new study, active XMRV infections were found in 3.7 percent of the healthy controls tested. Roughly the same degree of infection in healthy people has been found in the prostate research. If this is representative of the United States as a whole, then as many as 10 million Americans may carry the retrovirus.

It is estimated that more than a million Americans are seriously ill with the disease. (Not everyone infected with XMRV will necessarily get chronic fatigue syndrome — in the same way that not all of the 1.1 million Americans infected with H.I.V. will get AIDS.)

Hints that a retroviral infection might play a role in chronic fatigue syndrome have been present from the beginning. In 1991, Dr. Elaine DeFreitas, a virologist at the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia, found retroviral DNA in 80 percent of 30 chronic fatigue patients. The C.D.C. went so far as to try to replicate her effort, but refused to follow her exacting methods for finding the virus. In addition, the centers’ blood samples became contaminated, and some people at the agency said that administrators ended the research prematurely. Rather than admit any such failure, the C.D.C. publicly criticized Dr. DeFreitas’s findings.

That episode had a chilling effect on other researchers in the field, and the search for the cause was largely abandoned for 20 years.

Now, Judy Mikovits, the retrovirus expert at the Whittemore Peterson Institute, in Reno, Nev., who led the recent study, has revisited the cold case. Not surprisingly, the institute is private, created by the parents of a woman who suffers from chronic fatigue syndrome. But Dr. Mikovits collaborated with scientists at the National Cancer Institute and the Cleveland Clinic.

When she began her work on this disease in 2006, Dr. Mikovits, a 22-year veteran of the National Cancer Institute, knew little about chronic fatigue syndrome. But she was intrigued that an unusually high number of patients being followed by a Nevada doctor were suffering rare lymphomas and leukemias; at least one had died. And she was also impressed that the doctor, Dan Peterson, had built an extraordinary repository of more than 8,000 chronic fatigue syndrome tissue samples going back as far as 1984.

“My hypothesis was, ‘This is a retrovirus,’ and I was going to use that repository to find it,” Dr. Mikovits told me.

What she found was live, or replicating, XMRV in both frozen and fresh blood and plasma, as well as saliva. She has found the virus in samples going back to 1984 and in nearly all the patients who developed cancer. She expects the positivity rate will be close to 100 percent in the disease.

“It’s amazing to me that anyone could look at these patients and not see that this is an infectious disease that has ruined lives,” Dr. Mikovits said. She has also given the disease a properly scientific new name: X-associated neuroimmune disease.

For patients who have been abandoned to quackish theories and harsh ideologies about their illness for 25 years, the dismantling of “chronic fatigue syndrome” can’t come soon enough. ]]> farmer giles http://www.forumgarden.com/forums/health-wellness/48475-fibromyalgia-cause.html I need Sleep http://www.forumgarden.com/forums/health-wellness/48462-i-need-sleep.html Thu, 22 Oct 2009 06:20:57 GMT Any suggestions??

I don't have caffeine at night.
No heavy meals.
I have a warm shower before retiring.

No tv except Tuesday night, read a little & yes I fall asleep no problem at all.
BUT.................. I wake up about 2:30am thinking,thinking,thinking:-5
Then I want to sleep after the alarm goes of.
Part of getting older I guess.:p (no comments thanks)
How can I get a full nights sleep ???

No pills for me though,don't want to take pills.
I am making an appointment at a naturopath & see if that helps.
Any ideas would be great. ]]> mrsK http://www.forumgarden.com/forums/health-wellness/48462-i-need-sleep.html