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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 21:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The easy answer is to go on to the internet and buy one of the drugs (for example, levitra) from an online pharmacy. Except this leaves many other questions unanswered. Firstly, how many times have you failed to get or keep a hard erection. From time to time, almost every man has a less than [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The easy answer is to go on to the internet and buy one of the drugs (for example, <a href="http://www.levitraguidance.com/levitra-fda.html">levitra</a>) from an <a href="http://www.levitraguidance.com/">online pharmacy</a>. Except this leaves many other questions unanswered. Firstly, how many times have you failed to get or keep a hard erection. From time to time, almost every man has a less than perfect performance. There are many possible reasons for this from simple tiredness to an excess of alcohol or street drugs. So you have to decide when the quality of your erections falls and justifies some effort to get treatment. This decision has to be taken against a backdrop where erectile dysfunction medications have moved from a prescription only drug to a lifestyle choice. Many couples now take one or more of these drugs as an experiment or to enhance an already pleasurable experience. Instead of medicine, this is recreational.</p>
<p>The constant use of drugs may not be in your interests in this instance. Although the main drugs used to treat erectile dysfunction (viagra, cialis and levitra) are very safe and effective in all but the exceptional cases, the fact of erectile dysfunction, particularly in men over the age of 40 years, may be a first symptom of more serious medical problems. Even though you may not have any other symptoms, you will be safer if you have a full medical check-up. Why safer, you ask. The way your body produces an erection relies on the walls of the arteries leading into the penis dilating when you are sexually stimulated. This allows more blood to flow into the penis and inflates it into an erection. If something prevents the arteries from dilating, there is no erection. These arteries are about one-quarter the diameter of the primary arteries leading to the heart but, putting it simply, arteries are arteries.</p>
<p>If you have a problem with the narrow ones now, you may have a problem with the wider ones in about four or five years time. There are many reasons why the arteries may not dilate but the more worrying involve a hardening process when platelets are deposited from the blood. Left untreated, this leads to arteriosclerosis and potentially serious heart problems. All doctors were sent a medical advisory in 2006 which instructed them to deal with all men reporting erectile dysfunction as actual heart patients until the contrary is proved. This is a vital first warning symptom and a quick intervention with a change of lifestyle and treatment can restore health to the blood vessels and relieve the problem of erectile dysfunction. Leave it too long before you get treatment and there is no effective cure. The best you can hope for is treatment to prevent the situation from getting worse. This is not to say that drugs like cialis will not work. They will dilate the arteries during the early stages of arteriosclerosis. But there will come a point when the damage is too great and cialis will stop working. So the moral of this story is to get your doctor to check you out before you buy cialis online. Self-treatment in this instance is not a wise move.</p>
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		<title>Why you should stop smoking</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:26:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The US Court of Appeals in Washington unanimously found that the leading tobacco companies were guilty of fraud because of the way they&#8217;ve chosen to advertise their brands of cigarettes. For too long, consumers have been seeing the magic words, &#8220;low tar&#8221;, &#8220;mild&#8221; or &#8220;light&#8221; on the packaging and exterior ads. This suggests that these [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The US Court of Appeals in Washington unanimously found that the leading tobacco companies were guilty of fraud because of the way they&#8217;ve chosen to advertise their brands of cigarettes. For too long, consumers have been seeing the magic words, &#8220;low tar&#8221;, &#8220;mild&#8221; or &#8220;light&#8221; on the packaging and exterior ads. This suggests that these cigarettes are somehow safer than &#8220;ordinary&#8221; cigarettes. In reality, all versions are equally dangerous because the nicotine is not only addictive, but also causes cancers and other potentially terminal diseases. To make the fraud more serious, the manufacturers privately agreed among themselves not to compare the safety of the different brands. They even agreed to lie about the dangers of second-hand smoke even though passive smoking is recognized as equally dangerous in other countries. You may ask why this is relevant to an article on erectile dysfunction. The answer is that one of the less well known effects of nicotine is to constrict the arteries. No matter how fit and healthy the smoker, every cigarette raises the blood pressure because the heart must work harder to keep the blood circulating.</p>
<p>If the arteries leading into the penis will not dilate properly, there will be no erection. Simple fact, isn&#8217;t it? Smokers are significantly more likely to experience erectile dysfunction than non-smokers. But there is a further issue. The arteries in the penis are only a fraction the size of the arteries that pass through the lungs to the heart. The damage to the blood vessels that first appears as erectile dysfunction can turn into angina and heart disease as time passes. Arteries are arteries no matter which part of the body they pass through. So if the muscle walls are hardening in one part, this will spread to other parts. Indeed, research shows that smokers are more likely to have heart diseases. All doctors were sent a medical advisory in 2006 which instructed them to deal with all men reporting erectile dysfunction as actual heart patients until the contrary is proved. This is a vital first warning symptom and a quick intervention with a change of lifestyle and treatment can restore health to the blood vessels and relieve the problem of erectile dysfunction. So the moral of this story is to get your doctor to check you out before you <a href="http://www.levitraguidance.com/where-to-buy.html">buy levitra</a> or something else. Self-treatment in this instance is not a wise move.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.levitraguidance.com/">Levitra</a> is not only approved as a treatment for erectile dysfunction. The FDA has also approved its use as a treatment for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension, i.e. to reduce the blood pressure in the arteries passing through the lungs by dilating the arterial walls. But here comes the problem. Once the arteries start to harden, they will continue to do so unless you quit smoking. The first symptom is loss of sexual function. Then come all the heart diseases you know. If you quit smoking early enough, start to eat a healthy diet and exercise, the arteries will return to normal, your sex life will be great and you will enjoy a healthy old age. But nicotine is an addictive substance. It&#8217;s hard to quit. This leaves the middle course. Those who cannot quit use levitra. This restores sexual function in most men for a reasonable number of years and delays the onset of heart disease. But this is only a delay and it forgets the other problem. If you are still smoking, the cancer may get you before the heart disease. So the best, all-round advice is to quit smoking &#8211; ignoring all misleading labelling and marketing that some cigarettes are safer than others. No matter what it takes, give it up and enjoy a good quality of life including sexual activity into retirement.</p>
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		<title>Smoking is bad for your sexual health</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to the pictures that have been added to cigarette packets in many parts of the world, it&#8217;s impossible for smokers to avoid understanding that smoking causes cancer. Yet the tobacco industry continues to sell high volumes of cigarettes and other products that allow people to smoke or consume nicotine. Once people are addicted to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks to the pictures that have been added to cigarette packets in many parts of the world, it&#8217;s impossible for smokers to avoid understanding that smoking causes cancer. Yet the tobacco industry continues to sell high volumes of cigarettes and other products that allow people to smoke or consume nicotine. Once people are addicted to the nicotine, they seem to care very little about what happens to their health. Everything is sacrificed for the pleasure of the drug once it hits the brain. Yet, cancer is only one of the dangers smoke brings to you. An equally important side effect of nicotine is that it&#8217;s a vasoconstrictor, i.e. it causes blood vessels to constrict, making the heart to pump harder and increasing the blood pressure. If people smoke more than 20 cigarettes a day, there is a serious risk this will develop into arteriosclerosis, a permanent hardening of the arteries, and ultimately lead to heart disease.</p>
<p>The main physical cause of erectile dysfunction is the arteries leading into the penis do not dilate or, having dilated, then constrict before sexual activity is over. Because nicotine constricts the arteries, smokers are significantly more likely to suffer from erectile dysfunction than men who have never smoked. There is, however, some moderately good news. If you are not a heavy smoker and you quit while reasonably young, the walls of your arteries will slowly begin to resume normal activity. But if you delay quitting until arteriosclerosis has set in, there is no remedy. The erectile dysfunction is likely to be permanent even if you quit. There is further news that, depending on your point of view, may be bad. The longer you smoke, the greater the chance the nicotine will reduce the level of sperm you produce. Thus, even if you do manage ejaculation, you may not become a father. As an aside, the risk of infertility is significantly greater if you smoke cannabis.</p>
<p>The drugs like <a href="http://www.36hour-strong.com/articles/smoking.html">cialis</a> used to treat erectile dysfunction are vasodilators, i.e. they encourage the walls of your arteries to dilate. If the walls have been damaged by smoking, the drugs will not work well or at all. This should all be news encouraging you never to smoke or, if you have the habit, to quit immediately. The risks to your health are not worth the short-term pleasure you get from the nicotine. This does not deny the difficulty many have. Nicotine is addictive and it can be hard to break the dependence. Indeed, many manage to give up for a few weeks and then lapse. There are products to help you quit and counseling can help support you through the worst of the withdrawal symptoms. If you find yourself craving, think of the potential loss of sex as the price you may pay for lighting the next cigarette. <a href="http://www.36hour-strong.com/">Cialis</a> is good and will keep you going for a while but, in the end, impotence will catch you out (assuming the cancer does not get you first).</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve heard that black tea has been fermented during processing, and green hasn&#8217;t. But what is &#8216;white tea&#8217;? White tea is the uncured and unoxidized tea leaf. Like green, oolong and black tea, it comes from the Camellia sinensis plant. You would think that with that light, sweet flavor, white tea caffeine level would be [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We&#8217;ve heard that black tea has been fermented during processing, and green hasn&#8217;t. But what is &#8216;white tea&#8217;?</p>
<p><a href="http://www.sweetgourmet.com/White-Tea-C18.aspx">White tea</a> is the uncured and unoxidized tea leaf. Like green, oolong and black tea, it comes from the Camellia sinensis plant.</p>
<p>You would think that with that light, sweet flavor, white tea caffeine level would be the lowest of all teas, but that is not quite true. Because of buds and young tea leaves, which have been found to contain higher levels of caffeine than older leaves, some white teas may have the caffeine level that is slightly higher than that of green teas.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.sweetgourmet.com/images/white-tea.jpg" alt="white teas" align="right" />White tea is a specialty of the Chinese province Fujian, but Japan, Sri Lanka and the Darjeeling region of India also produces some fine white teas.</p>
<p>According to the different standards of picking and selection, white teas can be classified into a number of grades. There are four main varieties of white tea: Silver Needle, White Peony, Long Life Eyebrow, and Tribute Eyebrow. The Silver Needle (Baihao Yinzhen) is the most famous kind.</p>
<p>White tea is a very healthy product. The potential anti-obesity effects of white tea have been shown in a series of experiments on human fat cells. Other studies have prooved that it contains more active cancer-fighting antioxidants, anti-viral and anti-bacterial qualities than <a href="http://www.sweetgourmet.com/Green-Tea-C19.aspx">green tea</a>. It is also richer in catechin due to its lack of processing. Theanine contained in white tea has relaxing and mood enhancing properties, and gallic acid (acts as a antioxidant) and theobromine (a blood vessel widener) both help prevent cancer.<br /> On the other hand, two cupfuls of green tea contain vitamin C equivalent to a large glass of orange juice.</p>
<p>While white tea vs. green tea debate continues, there is no need to choose one over another, when you can benefit from both.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The most common cause of hair loss is age. Whatever you do, whatever drugs or other treatment you may try, your hair will thin and slowly drop out. Using some drugs will slow this process but, sooner or later, age will win. That said, the most usual causes for loss not accompanied by any other [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The most common cause of hair loss is age. Whatever you do, whatever drugs or other treatment you may try, your hair will thin and slowly drop out. Using some drugs will slow this process but, sooner or later, age will win. That said, the most usual causes for loss not accompanied by any other medical symptoms are poor nutrition, stress, and some hair styles and treatments. If you are taking medication for some other condition, hair loss can be a side-effect. For these, you simply need to apply common sense, be patient and the problem will be resolved. Where drug interactions may be the problem, you need to take the advice of your doctor on whether to change the dosage or try different drugs.</p>
<p>However, because all the required chemical reactions to stimulate growth are dependent on the free flow of blood to the capillaries supplying each follicle, anything that interferes with the flow or changes the composition of the blood can cause hair loss. Taking physical interference first, arteriosclerosis is the slow loss of volume through the blood vessels. One of the more common causes is high levels of cholesterol in a poor diet as excess platelets build up as deposits on vessel walls. Heavy smoking has the same effect. This will be accompanied by high blood pressure and possible symptoms suggesting heart problems such as angina. As to the chemical composition of the blood, many conditions can affect the hormone balance. An overactive or underactive thyroid gland may cause hair to fall out. The standard treatments for thyroid disease usually restore hair growth. In women, excess levels estrogens may need to be corrected to stop the hair loss. If oral contraceptives are being used, different dosages or a different method of birth control will often restore growth.</p>
<p>In more serious cases, people may be looking at hair loss as a first symptom of cancer. This may be a malignant tumour or cancer of the blood including lymphoma, leukemia and multiple myeloma. Ironically, the treatments using chemo- and radiotherapy remove the rest of the body hair. In slightly less serious cases, the problems may be liver or kidney disease, skin diseases such as lupus and major infections like syphilis. In all these cases, you must either bear with the hair loss or, in combination with any other medication prescribed by your doctor, take <a href="http://www.helpyourhair.net/">propecia</a>. This will help to maintain the status quo except for the more radical treatments which cause stress and hair loss. Whether you do decide to take this drug depends on how important your physical appearance is while you are sick. In many cases, you may be too sick to care. However, there may be situations in which you feel the need to keep up appearances. In those cases, <a href="http://www.helpyourhair.net/what-else-causes-hair-loss.html">propecia</a> is for you. It is quite slow acting but its effects are reasonably reliable.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Diabetes mellitus is blood sugar is high chaotic is unusual because lorganismo not make enough insulin l. Normally, blood glucose levels are tightly controlled by insulin, a hormone produced by the pancreas. Linsulina lowers the level of glucose in the blood. When a student of glucose in the blood, linsulina is secreted by the pancreas [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Diabetes mellitus is blood sugar is high chaotic is unusual because lorganismo not make enough insulin l. Normally, blood glucose levels are tightly controlled by insulin, a hormone produced by the pancreas. Linsulina lowers the level of glucose in the blood. When a student of glucose in the blood, linsulina is secreted by the pancreas to normalize blood sugar levels. In patients with diabetes, linsufficiente production or lack of insulin causes high blood sugar. Diabetes is the leading cause of blindness in adults non-elderly, the main cause of non-traumatic amputation in adults, and diabetic kidney disease is the main illness requiring renal dialysis in the United States. Therefore deficiency of insulin or insensitivity of its receptors play a central role in all forms of diabetes mellitus. </p>
<p>Severe or recurrent pancreatitis and other diseases that directly damage the pancreas can lead to diabetes. As indicated above, in patients with diabetes, insulin is absent or relatively insufficient for the needs of the body, or incorrectly used by the body. All these factors cause high levels of glucose in the blood. People with diabetes may experience many serious long-term complications. Some of these complications begin in the months following linsorgenza diabetes, although most tend to develop after a couple of years. Most of the complications are progressive. High levels of sugar in the blood spillage of glucose in urine. People with diabetes often develop bacterial and fungal infections, usually skin. When blood sugar levels are high, the white blood cells can not effectively combat the infection. </p>
<p>Diabetes can cause many complications. The strong position to prevent complications if the disease is not adequately controlled. Diabetes mellitus is characterized by disordered metabolism and too high blood sugar is caused by low levels of hormone insulin or abnormal insulin resistance effects associated with insufficient insulin secretion to compensate. Diabetes is also an important factor in accelerating the hardening and narrowing of the arteries, which leads to stroke, heart disease and other serious diseases of the blood vessels. This is known as macro vascular disease. The characteristic symptoms are excessive urine production, excessive thirst and increased fluid and blurred vision. These symptoms may be absent if blood sugar is slightly high. Poor healing of wounds, especially the feet, can lead to gangrene, requiring amputation May. </p>
<p>Diabetes mellitus is an old type of illness, did not address, and the medical service must be essential to laccento is to avoid possible short and long term problems associated with diabetes. Diabetes screening is recommended for many people in various stages of life, and for those with one or more risk factors. The test varies depending on circumstances and local policies, in May and is a champion of glucose in the blood, a blood sugar fasting test or a more formal test of glucose tolerance. Adequate treatment of diabetes, and with a greater emphasis on monitoring of blood pressure and lifestyle, can improve the risk profile of the complications mentioned above. Another treatment option is the use of insulin pump with some of the most popular brands of pump: Cozmo, Animas, Medtronic Minimed and omnipod.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Diabetes is a serious disease caused by a genetic people: the probability of developing a disease of the pancreas. If your family is exposed to the disease, read this article to identify the symptoms of diabetes in the shortest possible time. Diabetes Type I Type I is known as insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM). And less [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Diabetes is a serious disease caused by a genetic people: the probability of developing a disease of the pancreas. If your family is exposed to the disease, read this article to identify the symptoms of diabetes in the shortest possible time. </p>
<p>Diabetes Type I </p>
<p>Type I is known as insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM). And less common for the United States, but is the most serious and usually develops within a few days or weeks. In DID, the lack of insulin resulting from the destruction of beta cells. Symptoms associated with DID are so distinct that rarely leave any doubt of diagnosis. They are as follows: </p>
<p>Polyurie: urinate frequently and in large quantities is a classic symptom of diabetes, such as body fluid rushes through the kidneys to dilute the high sugar levels in urine. </p>
<p>Polydipsie: An unusual thirst is the natural result of too frequent urination, the body, which shows the loss of fluids to be replaced. Dehydration possibly occurs if the condition is not taken before. </p>
<p>Polifagia: That feeling of extreme hunger resulting from the conviction that the body will die of hunger because the glucose can not reach your cells to provide a desperately needed energy. </p>
<p>Rapid weight loss: the majority of patients of type I are at or below their ideal weight. When DID, May suddenly lose more weight up to 15 pounds in a week, although they may more than enough to eat and have a good appetite. The lack of insulin means that the calories in the form of glucose, are sent through Lurin and the body begins to burn fat reserves. </p>
<p>Weakness: Because muscle cells are not usually receiving their fuel, Energy flags. Of course, fatigue can have many causes, which is why diabetes can not go on so long. Concerned if a child seems active tired, sleepy, listless and without apparent reason. Some children complain even May of the stomach, leg or chest pain, or having difficulty breathing. </p>
<p>Irritability: In youth, crankiness, confusion or excessive crying in May warning of impending disease. A child may seem inattentive or can not do well at school as before. </p>
<p>Nausea and / or vomiting: These symptoms preceding May ketoacidosis, ketones accumulate toxic acids in the blood when lorganismo has to resort to burning fat for energy storage. </p>
<p>Blurred vision: excess glucose in May colando be in their eyes, change the shape of the lens. Difficulty concentrating or changes for one day to the next from myopia to normal vision are other visual cues for diabetes possible. </p>
<p>TYPE II </p>
<p>Type II or non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM), accounts for the majority of cases of diabetes, estimates that almost 13 million people in the United States. Unlike Type I, Type II is progressing more slowly. It may drag along for years unnoticed. Symptoms appear gradually in May, more intense and more frequent or leta. Consult your doctor as soon as you observe the following: </p>
<p>At least one of the symptoms of type I </p>
<p>Picotements or numbness of the legs, feet or fingers, or May you have a burning sensation or increased sensitivity to this effect or other spots on the skin. Symptoms such as leg cramps may worsen or appear only at night. Again, these may be signs that the spread is low or nerve damage that is already in progress. </p>
<p>Frequent infections diabetes weakens the body&#8217;s defenses against bacterial invasion. Gum infections of the urinary tract, or skin that keep recurring or a long period of time to demonstrate that dispel the disease in May has begun to interfere with the immune system. </p>
<p>Itching of the skin or genitals: This may be the result of an underlying infection or dehydration, a byproduct of diabetes. </p>
<p>Slow healing cuts and bruises: Because diabetes affects how cells use nutrients derived from food, lAgenzia may find it difficult to repair the damaged tissue. Diabetes also thickens the blood vessels, slowing traffic and prevention of injuries received by the blood, these necessary nutrients and oxygen. </p>
<p>Unfortunately, too many of these symptoms may be overlooked or attributed to other conditions. Make sure your blood sugar checked every year, at least, and more often if there are manifestations of any of the symptoms.</p>
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