© 2009 Nancy Appleton PhD and G.N. Jacobs www.nancyappleton.com http://nancyappletonbooks.wordpress.com How does a non-surgical treatment for cataracts grab you? As we age, cataract-related eye problems will only become more numerous. Estimates published in 2003 said that 42-percent of all blindness cases worldwide are due to cataracts and that 28,000 new cases were reported daily. These [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Clear Eyes Without Cuts
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Sugar and the Mind
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© 2009 Nancy Appleton PhD and G.N. Jacobs www.nancyappleton.com http://nancyappletonbooks.wordpress.com Does sugar impair memory? According to rat studies conducted at Georgia State University, apparently so. Adult rats were given diets of either 0-percent or 60-percent fructose and ran through a water maze to test performance. The short version: the fructose impaired the rats’ ability to [...]
Eat Less, Live Longer
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Calories, Diet, Diseease, Health, Low Calorie Diet, Sugar on July 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Nancy Appleton PhD and G.N. Jacobs © 2009 Nancy Appleton Books www.nancyappleton.com http://nancyappletonbooks.wordpress.com How many times did your mother tell you to eat up because kids living in a place you weren’t going to visit anyway were starving? How many times did you respond saying “why don’t you send this plate to Ethiopia?” Believe it [...]
It Hurts Down There: Vulvodynia
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged allergies, Low Oxalate Diet, reproduction, sex, Sugar, vagina, vulva, women on July 9, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Nancy Appleton PhD and G.N. Jacobs © 2009 Nancy Appleton Books www.nancyappleton.com http://nancyappletonbooks.wordpress.com Doctors just love giving medical conditions fancy names with Latin roots to make us tremble when they give the diagnosis. Vulvodynia is one such word. Derived from vulva (a key part of the female anatomy) and dynamo (an active, irrepressible machine or [...]
