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Larger amounts of Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) than the Recommended Daily Allowance are often required to maintain health and to combat infections such as the com­mon cold and influenza — in fact, any acute infection. It can be taken in different ways. Doses recommended by Linus Pauling are:—

1. Infants: 100 mg to 250 mg Daily

Freshly prepared orange juice has been the usual method of giving Vitamin C to babies, and is excellent. However, oranges differ so greatly with the time of year and the length of time since they were gathered, that they cannot be relied upon alone to supply sufficient Vitamin C for a child, especially if he has a cold or some other infection. Depending on the type of orange and time of year one fruit contains 40 mg to 55 mg Vitamin C.

The prepared orange juices, e.g., Nyal or Allenbury’s Orange Juice Compound give a standardized amount of Vitamin C per given dosage. However, some chil­dren are allergic to orange juice whilst others object to its taste.

Rose Hip or Blackcurrant Syrup is a most useful alternative to giving standardized Vitamin C. It usually contains about 15 mg per 5 ml. The natural syrup is also rich in other vitamins and minerals, and a sugarless formula is preferable.

2. Children: 500 mg Daily

This dosage is preferable taken as two flavored tablets — 250 mg strength — one morning and one evening.

Most flavored tablets are buffered, that is, part of the ascorbic acid of the tablet has been replaced by sodium ascorbate thus making the tablet less acid. This means that there is less gastric irritation and less of the associated side effects, e.g., diarrhoea or bladder irrita­tion manifested by frequency or burning urine.

Any of these side effects can be prevented by build­ing up the dose gradually and by taking smaller, more frequent doses before, during or after meals. 3.  Adults: 1000 mg Daily

The most common, convenient and also the cheapest way is to take a tablet, preferable flavored. These should be chewed or sucked before, during or after meals. Two 500 mg orange flavored tablets (one morning and one evening) will give excellent protec­tion under normal circumstances.

In the case of infection at least 8 tablets (4000 mg) daily should be taken in divided doses.

There are now some protein coated 500 mg tablets available, which are easy to swallow and do not cause gastric irritation as it is slowly released in the stomach. These new tablets are particularly suitable for patients with peptic ulcer — who need extra Vitamin C as a healing factor in their diet.

Vitamin C is also available in the form of effervescent tablets, either alone or with Vitamin B and calcium. One tablet is usually equivalent to 1000 mg.

Several brands of flavored, buffered Vitamin C granules are available, which, when mixed with water, make a pleasant drink favored by both children and adults. (One level teaspoonful is normally equivalent to 1000 mg.) When higher doses of Vitamin C are re­quired it simply means increasing the number of drinks taken during the day.

When a patient is too sick or a child too young to suck or swallow tablets, and needs large or very frequent doses of Vitamin C, Adelle Davis advises that 50 ordinary 500 mg tablets be crushed and dissolved in a breakfast cup of hot (not boiling) water (or blended in a ‘Vitamiser’).

This solution is sweetened with honey and kept refrig­erated in a glass screw top jar. It keeps well for several days without losing its potency. One teaspoon would approxi­mate to 500 mg of ascorbic acid.

The very large amounts of ascorbic acid introduced by

Dr Fred Klenner to combat virus and bacterial infections and to neutralize poisons, and recently used by Drs Ewan Cameron and Linus Pauling in the treatment of cancer, are best given as the non-acid salt of ascorbic acid — sodium ascorbate.

This is practically tasteless, is easily soluble in water and is now being used frequently whenever large doses — in grams rather than milligrams — are needed, or when in­travenous or intramuscular treatments are advisable — for example, in drug addiction and overdose, alcoholism and in virus infections or cancer.

The ascorbate powder is very effective in overcoming hay fever and allergies when the flavoring and color in the commercial tablets could in themselves cause an allergic reaction. It is very suitable for hyperactive children who can get very little Vitamin C in their restricted diet, and do not always like the acid taste of pure ascorbic acid.

Ascorbate can be dissolved in fruit juice or milk or other beverage. A small level teaspoon contains about 2 grams (2000 mg); one rounded ordinary teaspoon contains about 3 grams; one heaped teaspoon about 4 grams.

These are approximate measures only as teaspoons differ in size — but they are convenient measures for the householder. Exact amounts and solutions are, of course, used in intravenous injections and intramuscular injections.

For a small patient in whom it is difficult to give in­travenous injections or when a doctor is not available — two to four grams can be given intramuscularly — in divided doses in different areas, the buttocks being the most con­venient.

Any pain of the I.M. injection can be prevented by applying ice to the area for several minutes before and again after the injection.

15 gm of sodium ascorbate sterilized with 0.5 ml of ethanol are now available from Oakleigh Laboratories, Regan Street, Mentone, Melbourne, for intravenous injec­tion. The usual dilution is 15 mg in 100 ml of distilled water, normal saline, Hartmen or Ringers Solution.
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There is, however, a totally new concept growing up as to the optimum daily amount of ascorbic acid or its salt, sodium ascorbate, necessary to keep the body saturated with the vitamin and able to withstand all the infections, pollution and degenerative diseases that seem to be the common lot of humans today. It is based on the amount of ascorbic acid naturally made by other animals who have the power to manufacture enough ascorbic acid for their own needs.

A growing group of medical men, bio-chemists and nutritionists advocate a gram a day for each year of age up to 10 years – and 10 grams daily thereafter into adult life. During any great stress even this dose is raised to 15 to 20 grams and, what is more, no serious side effects are reported.

This dosage is based on the amount of ascorbic acid manufactured naturally by other animals — mammals — per kilo body weight under normal conditions and during periods of stress. For example, a healthy goat weighing 70 kg — the size of an average man — is estimated to produce 13 grams of ascorbic acid a day in his liver.

The recommended dosage of Vitamin C is, of course, only average.

It must be remembered that each individual has his own special needs as regards each vitamin — Vitamin C included; and it is estimated that 10 to 15 percent of people differ from the average as to an optimum intake.

The availability of the non-acid salt of ascorbic acid, sodium ascorbate (or calcium ascorbate) crakes it easier to take high doses of Vitamin C without irritating the mouth, stomach or intestines or bladder as the straight ascorbic acid is inclined to do in some individuals.

A level small teaspoon of sodium ascorbate powder is estimated to equal 2 grams of Vitamin C, a rounded tea­spoon ’3 grams and a heaped teaspoon averages approx­imately 4 grams. It has little taste and can be conveniently dissolved in water, fruit juice, milk or any beverage.
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These are distinctive blue marks which usually appear on the baby’s lower back or buttocks. They are commoner in darker skinned people, but also occur in Caucasians. They vary from small spots to quite extensive ones, but all are harmless. Most will fade significantly within 2 years after the baby’s birth.

Port wine stains

These are large pink or red birthmarks which are caused by dilated capillaries. In contrast to most other birthmarks, they do not fade with time. They can occur anywhere on the body, most commonly on one side of the face, on the back, or on the limbs.,

Until recently there was no satisfactory treatment for these stains but some can now be made to undergo significant fading through use of laser technology. This treatment is now available in Australia for both children and adults. The laser welds shut dilated blood vessels (photocoagulation) without causing permanent scarring to the skin. The process cannot completely remove port wine stains but they can usually be dramatically lightened. A patch of around 1 cm square is always tested before a full course of treatment is embarked on, as treatment can be painstakingly long if large marks are involved. The sensation of the laser on the skin is similar to a pin-prick, and most children tolerate it well. Local anaesthetic may be used if an extensive or particularly sensitive area is to be treated. Redness, blistering and scabbing will occur in the few days immediately after treatment but this soon heals. Treatments are usually spaced 4 weeks apart, and a new area is worked on each time. It is a slow and delicate procedure.

You should discuss fully with your child how he feels about having his birthmark lightened, before subjecting him to this treatment. If he carries a lot of emotional baggage associated with the mark, is constantly teased about it and is highly conscious of it, it may well be worthwhile discussing the possibility of laser treatment with your doctor, who can refer you to an appropriate specialist centre.

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“Do you really think any of us are sexually attractive? Who

would want to do anything with us?”

First let me say that, yes all of you are sexually attractive. Look around you now. Look at the eyes, the hands, the wrinkles that symbolize living and loving and hurting, the love lines. Feel the warmth of the person next to you. See how you feel if you smile at each other. Don’t fall for the same discrimination that others cast upon you. If you don’t teach us the beauty of aging, who will? Maybe that’s one of the benefits of aging as it relates to sexuality. You can be free of popular notions of what makes a person attractive, and you can relate to people for what they are, how they are, and how they have been, not just how they look. And don’t tell me that some of you haven’t taken a good look around and seen some people here you wouldn’t mind laying a big hug on.

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Our house isn’t made for us; it’s an institution for kids, pets, relatives, neighbors, and repairmen. Even if we could have sex, there isn’t anyplace to do it.

WIFE

The reported success of the Masters and Johnson treatment program had as much to do with the fact that the couples had a private place to have sex anytime they wanted to as anything else expert, enced during the program. Couples stayed at local motels during their therapy, always returning at night to be alone together to carry out sexual assignments. No matter what else you learn about super marital sex, real progress depends on having a place to be intimate.

The American marriage must reclaim its rightful territory. Your home belongs to you, is for you, and should reflect you.

To have super marital sex, you have to have one place in your home where nobody else can go but you and your spouse. This rule can never be violated. You will learn in the last chapter that the best form of sex education is to let your children know, let anybody know, that you make love. How, when, and what kind are private, but the act itself cannot be a secret, and the public setting aside of a place for the two of you to make love is one of the healthiest of family sex-education lessons.

Put a lock on the bedroom door. Paint a sign if you have to that reads PARENTS ONLY! or QUIET! PARENT LOVING GOING ON IN HERE. The bedroom will probably be the room that becomes your “clinic” because it is most often the most easily separated from the activities of the day, not because that is where the bed is or because sex must occur before sleep.

Once declaring the place, you must outfit it. The bedrooms of the couples I treated contained televisions, books, medicine for colds and flu, sewing machines, desks, computers, and assorted other items that had little to do with intimacy. One couple reported that “we keep the dog cage in there because he yelps at night and we can hit the cage from the bed with a slipper.” For super marital sex, some drastic and difficult changes are necessary. Here is the construction blueprint for your super marital sex clinic.

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Super Marital Sex Rule: The super sex marriage is based rn0 on now than later, more on doing than intending. One of the greatest challenges of super marital sex is to attempt to live response while living creatively, acting on our dreams.

Happiness is when the dog dies and the last kid leaves.

HUSBAND AND WIFE

We seem to be waiting for the major chord that ends the symphony the finale, the conclusion, that time when the ceiling is painted, the toilet doesn’t leak anymore, the kids are well behaved, and ft checking account balances. Someday, somehow everything will “ready.” The problem is, that time will never come. Life is truly a way of traveling and not a station at which we arrive. We are forgetting the trip.

We promise that when the kids are in college, we will travel together, but there doesn’t seem to be enough money to do it then. We promise that when we have financial security, we will buy that cottage, but inflation deflates us. We promise that when we have a little more time, we will make love, and we fail to make time] love.

Psychologist Richard Lazarus has researched “life’s little hassles,” and shows that they are actually life itself. We either live with them and enjoy our life, or we mistakenly assume that we can “wait them out” or “plan them away.”

American marriage is in a perpetual state of foreplay, getting ready for later. Anthropologist Dr. Anthony Tofoya writes about our limited cultural orientation, bound by threes (we think that crises happen m threes, talk of the Holy Trinity, knock three time] etc.). I notice that my couples state this phenomenon in “threes, that is, we will make love when 1) the kids are asleep, 2) we are ready for bed, and 3) there is nothing left to do. Never! It is] promise that will not be kept! The triangle will never be complete.

We promise that we will love each other forever, that we m develop together and die together on the same day at the same time knowing full well mat all relationships end and it is only a mattJ of when and how. We must move toward super marital sex not by promises, but by action. We will come to feel as we behave, as ÷ act. Motivation is not something we get; it follows what we do.

The “forever fallacy” causes us to miss the chance to love. Wj will not be together, at least in this world, forever. Life will never that pearl, the pearl of wisdom, perfect on all sides. It is more complex crystal, turning from side to side, showing truth and value in segments. We do not have to live as though there is no tomorrow, but we had better love as though there is only now.

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These disorders are due to a lack of Vitamin D. They are rarely seen in Australia due to the abundance of sunshine and the lack of real poverty with inadequate diets. Vitamin D occurs in dairy products and fish oils but is also made in the skin from the action of ultra-violet light on substances normally found there.

One way of determining the extent of the thinning and also of measuring the response to treatment, is to X-ray the head of the femur and to note the crossing lines of bone known as trabeculae. These decrease in number as the bone thins.

The degree of osteoporosis can be measured by taking X-rays of the bones.

Osteomalacia is a similar disorder of bone, where the protein matrix is laid down as normal but there is a reduction in the deposition of calcium salts..

Hormone replacement therapy using oestrogens combined with progesterone and given in a cyclical fashion can not only treat the symptoms of the menopause but can prevent osteoporosis. There is a good case for suggesting this as a routine for all women from the time of menopause.

This treatment is safe and effective and can prevent a disorder which has a high morbidity and some mortality.

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Vitamin Ñ or ascorbic acid frequently is recommended to prevent or treat colds. What medical reports I have read indicate that the vitamin doesn’t appear to prevent colds but can reduce the symptoms and shorten the course of the illness.

Antibiotics are not indicated but are sometimes prescribed, mainly to prevent or treat secondary infection.

Cold weather alone does not cause colds. However, the sudden changes of temperature from hot or cold experienced by going from the warm inside to the cold outside, and vice-versa in air-conditioning in the summer, might make the nose more susceptible to the action of the viruses.

Vaccines are not fully effective although some containing a few coryza viruses and some made with the common bacterial secondary invaders might be of limited use.

The large number of different viruses makes an effective vaccine difficult to produce.

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