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Here are a few things to try (you may like them too!):
Try flavoring milk with a little bit of vanilla extract (or whatever other flavor your child likes), or, if you can’t get away without the sugar, use a bit of flavored syrup. Even better, at the health food store, look for the herb stevia in a powdered form. Stevia is many times sweeter than sugar, but is extremely low in calories. Sprinkle some of the powder in milk or yogurt instead of sugar, honey, or syrup.
Yogurts marketed for kids, especially, are nothing more than desserts, with sprinkles and candies and all kinds of “mix-ins.” That may be fun for a treat, but it isn’t particularly healthy if they are eating one every day. Try to keep it simple. Some kids will eat plain yogurt spruced up with a drop or two of food coloring, or some fruit—avoiding the huge dose of sugar that comes with the packaged kinds. Or let them mix their own with jelly or jam (try the all-fruit varieties)—they’ll still get less sugar than what’s in the prepared containers.
Have grated Parmesan cheese as a regular condiment on your table. It is relatively low in fat—for cheese—and adds a nice bit of flavor to a lot more than a plate of spaghetti (though of course it is good there, too). It’s a much better choice than butter on steamed vegetables, for example, or on a baked potato or rice. And you’ll be sprinkling on a bit of calcium each time you use it.
Let your children cook with you. If they are ever going to eat kale, the odds are greater they’ll try it if they worked to make it.
Even kids who don’t like vegetables might eat “cream of. . .” soups. Make them yourself with low-fat dairy products paired with a high-calcium vegetable. You can’t do much better nutritionally than homemade cream of broccoli soup. Pack shelf-stable milk-in-a-box instead of juice boxes for lunch. Half the fun is in poking the little straw through the hole anyway, so what is inside may matter less than you think even to a finicky child.
Explore the limits of macaroni and cheese. I’ve yet to meet a kid who didn’t like the dish, and he or she might be willing to expand beyond the bright yellow boxed variety. Try mixing part-skim ricotta and grated Parmesan with a little of the pasta cooking water to make a sauce, and toss with the drained noodles. Or make your own baked mac and cheese—old-fashioned comfort food that is also rich in calcium (you’ll have to watch the fat content). Pizza! With vegetable toppings, this reliable favorite is a reasonable choice because of the calcium in the mozzarella. Try making your own, and you can go the Olde Pizza Shoppe one better by using nonfat or low-fat cheese. When you’re in a hurry, the English muffin pizza will be a hit. Bean burritos—assemble your own—are as healthy as they are popular, since both beans and cheese will give you calcium. Use low-fat or nonfat cheese and retried beans to keep the calorie and fat counts down. Try a calcium triple play by including some steamed greens in your tortilla.
Use less water when reconstituting powdered milk, or stir some of the powder into regular nonfat milk, to increase the amount of protein and calcium you get in a glass. Or try adding dried milk to smoothies, milk shakes, baked goods, pancake and waffle batter, or milk-based soups and sauces.
Try serving cottage cheese, yogurt, or salmon salad (from canned salmon, bones in) in an ice cream cone for a fun— and calcium-rich—lunch.
Provide a small cookie cutter along with a slice of cheese, and let your child create fun shapes to eat.
Experiment with different combinations of milk, calcium-fortified soy milk, yogurt, ice, and fruit to perfect the smoothie. For a double shot of calcium, you can mimic an Orange Julius by mixing frozen calcium-fortified orange juice concentrate, milk or calcium-fortified soymilk—plain or vanilla—ice cubes, and (the secret ingredient) a splash of vanilla extract in the blender.
Try freezing regular flavored yogurt to serve instead of commercial frozen yogurt. As I’ve said, packaged yogurt is often more like a dessert anyway, but it is still more nutritious than what they do sell as dessert. If it is too hard for your taste once frozen (though it can be fun to shave it down bit by bit with your spoon), try freezing it in an ice cube tray, then crushing the cubes in a blender or food processor to get a consistency more like that of soft ice cream.
Above all, eat right yourself. Try new things. Your kids are watching.
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ASTIGMATISM

Astigmatism usually causes either long- or short-sightedness. It is caused by a misshapen cornea, which is the transparent membrane covering the pupil of the eye, and which bends light onto the back of the eye. Glasses with special lenses can usually correct this problem.

BLINDNESS

Blindness can be either partial or full; the term ‘visually impaired’ is preferred nowadays. Approximately 1 in 2000 children are visually impaired in Australia.

Cause

These are numerous, but include congenital abnormalities (present at birth), cataracts, and trauma to either the eye, or the area of the brain that processes visual images.

Clinical features

A visually impaired baby will have difficulty focusing on your face or on objects at 4-5 weeks of age. His eyes may move rapidly from side to side (nystagmus) while trying to focus on something. If he does not react to a bright light being turned on in the room, this may indicate serious visual impairment.

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LEAVING YOUR CHILDREN SOMETHING TO LOVE BY: SOME ANSWERS TO THESE MISASSUMPTIONS REGARDING SEXUALITY

Here are some answers to these misassumptions regarding sexuality. In each of the twelve areas, I have included a quote from sessions with the children of the thousand couples to illustrate their concerns. The parents in the couples program were present for family sexual counseling sessions as a part of their super marital | sex program. Such sessions were optional, but 63 percent of the couples elected to have them. Fifty-two percent of those couples I requested additional sexual counseling sessions with their children, j I have found that dealing with the entire family system, not just the marital couple, is most effective in clinical work. The couples I am now seeing are electing this approach at an almost 75 percent frequency.

If you get turned on, you know, you get homy-like, you really don’t know what you’re doing. You might do anything. You can’t control it, so you shouldn’t get a boy turned on. You could end up attacked and not even know what happened to you.

TWELVE-YEAR-OLD GIRL

Make sure you understand one thing about sex. You always are in control. It is just a story, a made-up thing, that you get out of control. Unless you do something dumb like take drugs or drink alcohol, you always know what you are doing, even when you are enjoying getting turned on in sex. Boys always know, too, even if they get really turned on. If you or the boy keeps saying that you just might not know what you are doing, then it can be an excuse for doing anything, for fooling yourself and each other. Your parents know that everything in life is a decision, and that applies to sex.

    Boys are always turned on. It’s all they ever think about. Just walk

down the hall at school, and they are ready to jump you. They say

things all the time. Boys are just all sexed up.

FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL

You’re right that it seems like boys are always all sexed up, because they seem to act that way when they are around each other. When you talk to them alone, face to face and seriously, you will find that they are not different from you. It’s just like with giris. There are certain ways you have to act to belong to the right group, to fit in. We all do that, even as adults. Some girls pretend they don’t ever think about sex, because that’s what other giris say, but everyone has strong sexual feelings sometimes. Remember, God didn’t give one set of feelings to boys and another to girls. Everybody got everything when it comes to feelings.

    Can’t you hurt yourself if you just fool around too much? I was told

that some guy had his testicles permanently enlarged by just playing

around and not going all the way. He said it was blue balls.

THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD BOY

More people have gotten hurt, that is to say, have gotten into problems, by going all the way than not going all the way. There is no such thing as blue balls, and boys and girls cannot be hurt by not having intercourse after getting very aroused. As a matter of fact, feeling blue is more related to intercourse before you are really ready for it, so fooling around is a great choice if you feel enough love and respect to trust each other and really share the experience. Remember, there are ways to relieve the buildup of sexual feelings other than intercourse. Discuss some of these options with your parents.

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I’ve heard it said that men can be multiply orgasmic, but I never met one. Some of them are not only not multiple, they don’t even seem to be fractional.

WIFE

Masters and Johnson state, “Men are not able to have multiple orgasm.” They report this because in their view orgasm is a physiological response accompanied by feelings associated to these responses. They see the body as directing the mind. It is a fact however, that the mind also directs the body, and while men cannot continue to ejaculate indefinitely, they can have multiple experiences of pelvic contractions. “It was something unique. I almost thought I was broken,” reported one husband. “I couldn’t ejaculate, but I kept on being able to contract, to have spasms down there, like when I was a kid.”

Before øåé find female partners, they are taught to “get off quick” to avoid being caught while masturbating. After they find female partners, they struggle to last longer for fear of being seen as inadequate. Masters and Johnson report that the’ ‘quickest” time between ejaculations was about eight minutes in one of their male subjects. No one thought to ask the subject how he felt about each ejaculation.

Almost all pornographic films exploit not only women but men as well. Each scene ends with the mandatory ejaculatory episode, the indisputable evidence of male enjoyment. One producer of such films includes a hidden pump that shoots cream high into the air in large amounts. His men really enjoy sex! Men clustered around a projector or videotape player are being conditioned clearly to the fluid orientation.

Once free of this myth, men are not only able to be multiply orgasmic (not multiply ejaculatory), but they can also be multiply psychasmic. The men in my study cared less about numbers than they did about the experience of intimacy and fulfillment with their partner.

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Skin. Skin is the largest organ in our body. We tend to underestimate its function in the metabolism process and in particular its excretion capacity. When we sweat, glands in our skin expel toxic waste, which usually does not smell nice. We should clean the skin from such waste, because it clogs the skin, reducing its capacity to excrete more toxins. However, we should be careful which cleaning agents (solvents !) we use, because the skin also has the ability to absorb substances into our body. Techniques to accelerate skin excretion (sweating) are for example the sauna and moderate exercise

Bowel. By weight, most of the solid waste leaves our body here. So any improvement in the rate of detoxification should definitely start here. Colonic or even a simple enema can relieve your body from many kilograms of toxic waste, you should not be attached to at all.

Urinary system. Most of the liquid or water soluble waste leaves our body through the urinary system. How can we improve here ? Drinking a lot (2-5 litres) of pure water a day will make a great impact on the fluid exchange processes in our body, enabling improved flushing of unwanted waste. After all, our body is 75% water and our brain is 90% water. Pure water (in contrast to water polluted with chlorine, fluoride pesticides and other nasties) is necessary to the process of proper fluid exchange.

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Widespread spraying with insecticides and draining of swamps did bring the mosquito population under control but resistance to the insecticides has developed and, in many countries, economic and political factors have led to abandonment of eradication campaigns.

We can consider that all Africa, much of Asia and parts of the Pacific and Latin America are affected.

In Australia, more than 600 cases a year are now reported and most of these have been acquired in the Pacific area.

On a global scene, you can understand the enormity of this problem when there are over 300 million people throughout the world suffering from malaria and it kills over a million children each year in Africa alone.

Where malaria is endemic (occurring widely throughout the community) it leads to great loss of life and chronic infection saps the strength of the population.

Australians who now travel widely in Papua New Guinea and South-East Asia may acquire the infection abroad and only show symptoms on their return.

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This produces what is known as a “hammer toe.”

A corn is also prone to develop on the top of the toe from pressure of the shoe.

In the early stages of hallux valgus, where the bunion is present but not painful, relief may be obtained by wearing comfortable, wide-toed shoes, and sometimes by inserting a rubber wedge between the first and second toe to help preserve the normal alignment.

Operations should not be performed for purely cosmetic reasons as most people are not happy with the result.

But when the pain is severe the results of operation are excellent, and most accept the slight deformity which results and it still looks much better than the ugly deformity of the hallux valgus, bunion, hammer toe complex.

In operation the bunion or bursa is removed and any overgrowth of the bone or joint is shaved off.

The base of the first bone of the big toe is removed so that the toe is shortened and a false joint made.

This normally results in loss of control of movement of the toe, but no loss of stability.

If there is a hammer toe deformity as well, this is usually corrected by “filleting” or removing one of the small bones of the toe, or by shortening one bone and shaving its end to make it a spike and driving it into the head of the other phalanx, thus rendering the whole toe shorter and straighter, and the joint is removed.

These procedures usually involve less than a week in hospital but it may take two or three months for the person to walk comfortably, although return to work is usually possible in three weeks.

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Symptom

Yellow tinge to the skin and the whites of the eyes

Home care

Watch your newborn baby closely for signs of jaundice in the first week after the baby goes home from the hospital.

Inform the doctor if you suspect jaundice.

Precautions

-    Many newborns develop a normal jaundice in the first week of life; however, jaundice that develops in the first 24 hours after birth is not normal.

-    If the baby develops jaundice – or jaundice worsens – after the baby comes home, consult your doctor.

-    Consult the doctor immediately if your jaundiced baby is nursing poorly, seems excessively drowsy, or is fevered or irritable.

-    If your baby develops jaundice, follow your doctor’s instructions exactly.

The liver transforms a substance known as bilirubin, released when old blood cells are replaced by new cells, into bile. The bile is then passed into the intestine. When damage to the liver prevents or slows down this process, bilirubin accumulates in the body and jaundice results.

Sixty percent of full-term infants and 80 percent of premature babies develop a normal jaundice during the first week of life. This occurs because of the rapid destruction of the excess number of red blood cells with which all healthy babies are born. The jaundice usually begins in the second or third day of life and disappears between the fifth and tenth day. With rare exceptions, this jaundice is harmless. Its major importance is the difficulty distinguishing it from abnormal jaundice.

The two most frequent causes of abnormal jaundice in the newborn are blood poisoning and erythroblastosis fetalis. Blood poisoning, a generalized infection caused by bacteria or viruses, causes jaundice in the newborn by destroying red blood cells and injuring the liver. Erythroblastosis fetalis is due to an incompatibility between the child’s blood and that of the mother. The mismatch may be in the Rh factor (for example, when the mother is Rh-negative but the infant is Rh-positive), in the ABO factors (when the mother’s blood is type Î but the baby’s is type A or B), or in rarer blood factors. Because of the incompatibility, the mother’s blood forms antibodies (protective substances that form to fight off disease or anything the body interprets as an attacking organism). These antibodies rapidly destroy the infant’s red blood cells.

Breast-fed newborns may also develop jaundice because a substance in the mother’s milk interferes with the proper function of the baby’s liver. This form of jaundice by itself usually is harmless. There are many other causes of jaundice in the newborn, including certain forms of anaeimia, hepatitis, and German measles, but jaundice due to these causes is rare.

Because either erythroblastosis fetalis or blood poisoning can be fatal to newborn babies if not treated immediately, a doctor’s diagnosis must be made promptly. Other forms of jaundice can also be serious if the bilirubin in the blood exceeds a safe level. If jaundice is suspected, a doctor must monitor the bilirubin level closely.

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