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5 Secrets of Reading Food Labels Revealed
Whether you're concerned about cancer, cardiovascular disease,
diabetes, or simply losing weight, you want to eat a healthy diet
and focus on foods that are high in vitamins, minerals, and
phytonutrients, and balanced in fats, carbs,...
Can Eating Salmon Really Give You A Flawless Face?
One of the most prominent spokespeople for this cause is Dr. Nicholas Perricone, whose "Wrinkle Cure" system touts salmon as a skin-saving miracle food. What started as a fringe trend--eating fish to get a smoother face--has now blossomed into a...
Diabetes - Living in health
Many people are already starting to catch up with the knowledge
that your energy is directly proportional to what you put into
your body (A.K.A. food).
Studies have shown that if you eat a high "raw" vegetable diet,
your energy will increase...
Fats and carbohydrates - their place in your healthy diet
Lately it would seem that fats and carbohydrates have both gotten a bad rap. First it was fat that was the culprit in all dietary ills, and low fat diets were all the rage. Then the two switched places, with carbohydrates being the bad guys and fat...
Tips to Healthier Living
Working to live a longer life shouldn't be work or stressful but just to the contrary. You should enjoy life and the pursuit to living better and longer. Here are a few tips that will help you in that pursuit. They are all simple and, frankly, it...
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Health Warnings on Your Fingernails?
I have recently had the moons on my index fingernails begin to peep back into existence. They had disappeared long ago, and as far as I could tell, had disappeared with the same speed that ridges on my fingernails had developed.
I remember looking at my fingernails one night several years ago and wondering, “When did my nails stop being smooth?”
Because I had been worried about ongoing problems, I hadn’t been paying attention to myself and as stress mounted, manicures were the last thing on my mind.
Perhaps because it seemed appropriate that hurdle-high ridges had appeared on my fingernails, matching the mounting hurdles in my life, I wondered if the ridges could be related to health.
It would take nearly two years for me to learn that the ridges were a result of low vitamin B12; not a “B12 deficiency” exactly, because at 241, my serum blood level was in the low normal range and nothing to worry about, according to my doctor.
But after my feet and hands were frequently tingling and numb, my memory was a thing of the past, my balance was dependant on light, and I was depressed - which seemed reasonable under the circumstances – I went to a new doctor and in the course of answering his questions, mentioned that my mother had B12 problems.
That was it, he said, adding that I would need B12 shots for the rest of my life and he’d have his nurse show me how to inject myself.
The neurologist I saw, to follow up, said he believed my problems all resulted from low B12, but he wanted to be sure, “I want you to keep a Time Line,” he said, “Write down your symptoms, each
shot you have, and your B12 test levels.”
The neurologist explained that in the old days pernicious anemia was diagnosed by giving the patient a course of B12 shots, and if health returned, then the diagnosis was pernicious anemia.
So it was, that in keeping the Time Line I observed not only my memory improving, my tingling, numbness and depression going away, but also the ridges on my fingernails smoothing out.
Today, research shows that pernicious anemia with its characteristic lack of intrinsic factor is rare, while B12 malabsorption illness is on the increase because of the abundant use of antacids. In fact, there are estimates that 47% of the general population has hypochlorhydria, the condition where there is not enough gastric acid to free vitamin B12 from protein.
It is not because low B12 from all causes is so prevalent, that I have taken up vitamin B12 education as my mission, but rather because the nerve damage that results from extended, untreated low B12 can be permanent.
Nerve damage can be the type of peripheral neuropathy associated with diabetes; it can be impaired memory and cognitive dysfunction.
I have lost about half of my working memory and processing speed from the years my low B12 went untreated. So, my web site is not the most brilliant thing ever, but it does give clear information on vitamin B12 and how to recognize warning signs of low B12 from your fingernails: www.health-boundaries-bite.com/Fingernails.html
About the Author
Karen Kline
Sharing what I've learned from hard experience.
www.health-boundaries-bite.com
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