A Middle-aged Man S First Steps To Alternate Health
Posted on June 26, 2009 by Kurt
The road taken was due to my wife s repeated operations for skin cancers that made me look outside to alternatives therapies. Vicki had radium treatment in her teens and has been having bits cut out of her for the last few decades. The last round about 6 months ago was particularly traumatic for her. It was the first time in my 47 years that I even thought about so called alternative medicine. I did quite a lot of due diligence on quite a few products and all of them seem use the network marketing model - once I got past the stigma of Amway, I was OK. Anyway, I had a chance meeting with a wonderful woman at a Law of Attraction meeting and another of my long time friends vouched for her long history of ill-health. Her story is a very long one which started as she grow up on a famr exposed to DDT and a host of other toxic substances. At that point, I was looking at a number of alternate products for my wife and they were all significantly...
Chicago Restaurants
Posted on May 22, 2009 by Armandina
Chicago is a city that has pioneered many firsts . These include the first planetarium in the Western World, first atomic reaction, first elevated train system and commercial airplane. These events and facts have played a role in shaping Chicago into a city where tradition and enterprise coexists with innovative ideas. Chicago and its suburbs are home to more than 10 million people. Also known as the Windy City, Chicago has a distinctive style of its own and is also a fast-paced city. Chicago can be described as a restaurant town in a factual sense of the term, as diners here have the opportunity to taste cuisine from all parts of the world. The city is home to a wide range of eating establishments that serve Mediterranean, Israeli, Italian and Japanese cuisines. Specialized seafood restaurants, steak houses, burger joints or theme restaurants, they are all available in Chicago. Chicago is famous for its corner restaurant chains such as...
Why Are Cigarettes So Addictive?
Posted on March 26, 2009 by Charlene
This drug stimulates dopamine release and elevates dopamine levels in the brain. Dopamine is known as the master addiction molecule and high levels in the brain reinforce drug abuse. Nicotine also stimulates the release of another substance called noradrenaline. Nicotine addicts become accustomed to high levels of these substances in the brain. They experience pleasure, elation and alertness as a consequence of drug use. Normally, nicotine is reabsorbed or quickly broken down by the enzyme monoamine oxidase MAO . However, a cigarette is engineered so that the action of the enzyme is blocked and nicotine is unleashed and unabated. It elevates dopamine levels, smokers have 25 per cent less MAO A and 40 per cent less MAO B than non-smokers. For the triple whammy, cigarettes are treated with ammonia that increases the absorption of nicotine 100 fold than tobacco in its natural state. Experts agree that it is similar to freebasing. Symptoms of...