Cold Sores - Is Your Diet Causing Your Cold Sore?

Posted By Denny Bodoh
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Do you wonder about foods that might prevent cold sores and oral herpes? Then read this quick article right now. You will discover why food is a very powerful cold sore treatment and how you can use it to your advantage.

This article will not give you a detailed diet because each person is different. You will learn which foods prevent cold sores and which foods cause them.

The great news is that - in a minute - you will learn exactly how to blend these two types of foods to heal and prevent cold sores and oral herpes.

YOUR TRUE CAUSE OF COLD SORES.

Cold sores are the result of the herpes simplex virus creating new virus particles.

This is how it works.

A herpes virus particle drills into a cell and forces that cell to become a virus factory. The virus then destroys the cell to release hoards of new particles. Many destroyed cells create the open cold sore wound.

THE ROLE OF ARGININE AND LYSINE IN COLD SORES.

Two important proteins that you may have heard about in relation to cold sores are lysine and arginine.

Arginine is the protein required to create new herpes virus. Without it the replication process cannot take place. Your cells store arginine in special receptors inside the cell walls.

Lysine is a protein your cells will store in the same area as arginine. The more lysine available to the cells, the more it will store and the less arginine will be available. Your cells cannot use lysine to create new herpes virus.

The herpes simplex virus will often give up and go back into hibernation when there is a shortage of arginine to create new copies.

Most foods that contain lysine also contain arginine. The higher the lysine content, the more they prevent cold sores. The higher the arginine content, the more those foods can CAUSE cold sores.

Any food that contains a 2 to 1 ratio of lysine over arginine (or close to it) is ideal for preventing cold sores and oral herpes.

The better you balance your diet, the more success you will have. Do not give up the foods you love. Just offset the high arginine foods with some additional high lysine foods at this or the next meal.

REDUCE COLD SORE ACTIVITY WITH THESE HIGH LYSINE FOODS.

High lysine foods that help prevent cold sores include most meat - especially fish, beef, turkey and chicken. Eggs, cheese, yogurt, and other dairy products are high in lysine and low in arginine.

Ricotta cheese is unusually high in lysine. Of the fish selections, flounder is one of the highest lysine foods known. 450 grams (approximately one pound) of flounder will give you an amazing 14,000 milligrams of lysine.

Wisconsin cheddar cheese is very delicious and healthy. It provides lysine to arginine in a ratio of 2.1 to 1. Try it - there is simply nothing else like it on earth.

ARGININE RICH FOOD CAN ACTUALLY CAUSE YOUR COLD SORES.

High arginine foods can help cause your painful and frequent cold sores. Here are the main ones to watch out for.

Each serving of these food products will raise your arginine levels. Tree nuts and field-grown nuts. Most common grains such as wheat and oats give you more arginine than lysine.

Vegetables and beans provide a lot of arginine and can help create cold sores. These include cabbage, potatoes, squash and dried beans. Seeds, such as flax and sunflower, are arginine providers. Chocolate is high arginine.

Perhaps you do not wish to change your diet as outlined above. You surely would miss out on the numerous beneficial nutrients provided by vegetables and beans. I do not believe this to be healthy for any length of time.

Rather than do without those high nutrition vegetables and beans, simply add some higher lysine choices to your meals. This may be the only change you need to quell your cold sores.

LYSINE CAPSULES TO THE RESCUE.

Also, 500-milligram lysine capsules are commonly available. Although not as well absorbed as food lysine, it often eliminates the need to change your diet at all.

Lysine capsules are the preferred choice as a cold sore treatment. It is common to take five to nine capsules per day during the cold sore. One or two daily is a good maintenance procedure between events.

Bathing your system with high levels of lysine is one of several powerful cold sore treatment tactics now in use. If it doesn′t stop your oral herpes cold sore, it will definitely slow it down and heal it fast.

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Holiday Parties Call For A Designer Clutch Evening Bag

Posted By Grace Jennings
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Everyone needs fashion accessories and many people think of handbags as accessories, but they are much more than that. To any woman, a handbag is almost an extension of themselves. Women keep handbags for different times of day and year. Each one has a unique look and unique features.

Of course, some handbags, such as designer clutch handbags, make a very unique statement, indeed. They are usually fairly expensive and marked with the designers logo or name. Such handbags are usually made out of high-quality materials that are well worth the expense involved in buying them.

When choosing a designer handbag, you might pick any of a number of types. Each one brings something unique to any outfit. Designer clutch handbags seem to have an extra added bit of style, though. They can add a lot of style to your outfits.

Designer clutch handbags are conveniently small. They often feature expensive fabric linings and handy kiss locks, which protect your items from falling out of an open handbag.

Many clutch handbags also feature a small, handy chain. After all, many people like to wear a handbag over their shoulder. If you don’t want to, the chain can be tucked inside the handbag. It’s always nice to be able to convert it to a shoulder bag, if you want to, though.

Clutch handbags can be taken anywhere and worn in a number of ways. You can do anything from carry them in your hand to tuck them under your arm to wear them over your shoulder with a strap. They’re very versatile.

The only problem with such a handbag is that they are designed to be small, so they can’t hold as much as a normal handbag would. Designer clutch handbags are only designed to carry essentials. Make up, a mirror, some lipstick and whatever else you might need for an evening will fit in one, though.

Designer clutch handbags can say a lot of things about a person. Depending on what message you want to send, they may or may not be right for you. They can show off your beauty and femininity. They can show your willingness to spend money for quality items. They can even show your willingness to keep life as simple as possible and use only the essential items for a night out. So, think about what statement you want your designer clutch handbag to make.

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Natural Nutrients and Hair Loss

Posted By Andrew W John
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by Andrew W John

When you lose your hair, most often it happens because of overabundance of testosterone in your organism - this beneficient male hormone has an ugly tendency to become dihydrotestosterone once it reaches hair follicles. Once created, DHT starts to limit the blood flow in the scalp and tighten skin around the follicles, effectively destroying hair. The good thing is that proper nutrition can stop this process before it really begins, or even turn back all the negative changes.

This was the bad news. The good news is that you are not doomed. The scientists know much more about mechanisms of hair loss and they have devised a set of nutritional supplements which can stop or even reverse the process.

Things That Prevent Hair Loss

First, there comes zinc. While it does not react directly with DHT, it helps prevent hair loss by indirectly countering the DHT effects. Zinc is a great stress reducer, relaxing muscles and effectively preventing DHT from tightening them. People with zinc deficiencies are among the first victims of baldness. It can be found in a variety of products, including whole grains, mushrooms and red meat. However, we should pay a lot of attention to dozing it - a zinc overdose can hamper your iron absorption rate and trigger anemia.

Next, there is Vitamin H, a component of the B complex vitamin group. It helps hair growth and is directly responsible for their strength, as it is responsible for the fatty acid metabolism and fueling the growth speed of hair as well as the rate the damages are being repaired. The only problem is that most natural sources of Vitamin H (or biotin, as it is sometimes called) are also incredibly rich in fat.

Proteins are also necessary nutrients when it comes to counter negative effects of DHT. While they don’t have any direct anti-DHT effect, they are the main construction material of hair. Without them, it would be impossible for hair to repair itself and increase its thickness. While the proteins hardly help in regrowing hair, they are crucial in preventing further hair loss. Properly nourished strands, either with some protein-rich diet or with right shampoo, it thickens hair strands, making them much more difficult to kill. However, the nutritional problems concerning it are also severe. If taken in excessive amounts, proteins can cause dehydration and increased fat intake. This can both dry hair and increase oil production in the scalp.

Carotene, carotenoid and retinol - all those names really mean the same chemical compound: Vitamin A. While most people associate carotene to improving our vision, this vitamin is also a great way to reduce the amount of DHT. Carotene takes control over sebum production, keeping it on the optimum level - enough to moisturize the strands, but not enough to block the skin pores. With the normalized sebum production, DHT has much less chances to cause any lasting damages. The vitamin can be supplied through a well-planned diet, if only it’s abundant with yellow and orange vegetables and fish oil. Just make sure that you don’t stray too far from the recommended daily intake (2500 IU), carotene may get toxic if it’s overabundant in the body.

The next important nutritional element is a well-known anti-aging amino-acid, Vitamin E. It promotes the blood circulation, and makes sure that all hair will be well-nourished. As a side effect, Vitamin E is also responsible for reducing the amount of gray hair - another effect of DHT. Vegetable oils are probably the best source of Vitamin E, as long as they have been cold-processed, so devising the right diet shouldn’t be a problem. On the downside, you can easily overdo it - in large quantities Vitamin E is responsible for increased blood pressure and abusing it may lead to hypertension.

The major problem is, of course, keeping the dosage. As many of those nutrients may prove to be dangerous is taken excessively, devising a healthy diet which would include every nutrient in the right amount is very difficult - especially that there are many other things you should take into consideration while preparing it. That’s why it is usually much better to opt for a complete hair nutritional supplement, such as ProFollica system supplement. ProFollica contains everything which is necessary to keep your scalp and hair nourished, as well as several other ingredients that keep DHT at bay. If you’re not sure about it, or if you want to learn more about it.

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Understanding your self to reduce stress

Posted By Dr Jeff Bailey
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by Dr Jeff Bailey

One of the consistent findings in organizational research is good leaders need to be self-aware. Getting to understand yourself can be a stressful experience. Many people think that psychologists constantly psychoanalyse those around them. This can be painful at parties when people become suspicious of you.

In therapeutic setting, helping patients become self-aware can create stress for them. How many of us really understand our own values, motivations, and drives? When I coach chief executive officers, one of the first things I do to increase their effectiveness in the organization is to help them become self-aware. I work on the assumption that self-awareness increases the capacity to confront, manage and relieve stress. This is particularly important in relationships where one or both parties have limited self-awareness and are unable to negotiate a meaningful communication space.

The concept is referred to in the literature is emotional intelligence and credit goes largely to Daniel Goleman for his work in this area. I believe that your work life and your personal relationships are made more effective through a high degree of emotional intelligence. Leaders with high self intelligence earn more money, have high producing and profitable departments and organizations, and are more successful overall. So my simple argument is become more self-aware and you increase your effectiveness and, probably, your capacity to manage and relieve stress.

A simple definition of emotional intelligence is one’s capacity to understand oneself and others and to be able to adapt to the emotional demands and interactions of the day.

Oddly enough, the feelings of the people around you affect your own emotional state. The brain’s limbic system is the area where we can examine moods and emotions. People react to each other’s emotions and in meetings, for example, it takes two hours for everyone to share the common mood of the meeting. There is constant interchange of emotionality in the workplace.

A fascinating piece of research suggests the following. Put two people together in a room and monitor their heart rate and blood pressure and you will find within 5 to 10 minutes they are almost identical. And they don’t even need to talk to each other. Just sitting together creates a shared physiological reaction.

If we do share common emotionality, it is obvious that we are constantly affecting the ones around us. If we are stressed, our partners at work colleagues are stressed as well. You need to know how you are feeling and how this impacts others. How others feel, especially if they are angry or discontented, affects us too. None of these bad feelings are healthy or productive. They add to the tension and stress we feel in the workplace.

What is the alternative? If you are happy, self-aware, stress free, and have a positive self-esteem you are likely to be happy in your relationships and happy in the workplace. You will probably be very effective in developing and enjoying healthy relationships. You’ll know how to manage and relieve stress and your life will be blessed.

I hope this brief introduction to emotional intelligence gives you some understanding of how important the concept is in your daily life. There are five parts of emotional intelligence and we measure: understanding ourselves, understanding others, being adaptable, general mood, and stress management. There are often great variations in an individual’s profile on these five dimensions. Some people can be high on interpersonal understanding and have very limited self-awareness. Of course it makes life much more interesting for the purpose of this article, the most important issue is how well people manage stress through self-awareness.

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Desperate Women Discovers Depression Medication And Smiles

Posted By Lorna Hillier
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by Lorna Hillier

If you think that you may have depression the following article is going to supply you with worthful content on depression medication so do continue reading.

A couple of days of feeling sad or depressed does not mean you have depression. Depression is a very serious disease that can last for years. Studies have show that around 15 million Americans are affected by this illness each and every year.

The sad fact is that only a third of those Americans will ever seek help for their affliction. All too often people avoid recognizing or admitting that they suffer from depression because of the negative archetypes associated with mental illnesses.

Without treatment depression gets progressively worse and should not be ignored. It could take over your life and in rare cases may lead to serious self harming behaviors.

A variety of factors, and even combinations of these factors can lead to depression. It can by biological, genetic, physical and emotional.

The day to day lives of the patient have been known to contribute, particularly if they live in a stressful environment. Depression is a very complicated disease requiring a highly trained expert to tackle the problem.

We also recognize the intricacy of man’s mind. The medical profession is working steadily in an attempt to study the mind and how it works. A chemical imbalance in the brain causes depression, that’s known.

We are learning more every day about how the whole mental process works and with knowledge come the power to discover better treatments.

Better and better depression medications are being tested daily and now there is a large variety of drugs available to treat depression. Also the market is riddled with magic potions but mostly you will only lose your money not your depression. Clinical tests to prove something really works in treating depression are required.

Not too long ago people who were considered mentally ill were thrown into asylums, never again to be seen or heard. It’s good to know that’s no longer the case.

The anti-depressant Prozac first came into use in the USA in 1988 and became the rage. It was proven to work, and thus is still prescribed today even though it can have serious side effects.

From then on more use has been made of a new class of anti-depressants, SSRI’s. Currently depression is being treated with SSRI or (Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors) such as Paxil, Zoloft, Lexapro, Celexa, and Luvox. All have been proven effective and still come with some side effects but usually less.

The market is also ripe with herbal medications and treatments. The majority of these that have been proven to work as well as the anti-depressants contain the St. John Wort extract ingredient called ‘hyperforin’. When this is present in the proper quantity it’s a winner.

When seeking depression medications that work, ask questions, do your research, and know the facts.

Hopefully this article has stirred your interest in depression medications and you’ll make good use of the information. Please seek medical advice if you think you are suffering from depression.

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