1. The Dip Stick is perhaps the simplest. Ames C-Stix are available from any chemist shop. The slip of medicated paper is dipped into a specimen of urine and after 30 seconds the color compared with a chart that shows the comparative concentration in the urine. To obtain a true estimation it is important that the specimen be tested as early as possible, as Vitamin C in urine is quickly oxidized and destroyed on exposure to air. Dr Glen Dettman of Oakleigh Laboratories, Mentone, Victoria, who has tested routinely over 6000 urine specimens in the last 3 years has found that if a random urine speci­men does not exceed the top color marker (40 mg%) there is either insufficient ascorbic acid in the body or the kidneys are not working well. Ames C-Stix can also be used to detect Vitamin C in foods and other fluids.

2. Mercks Pharmaceutical firm also make a similar dip stick, but this is not suitable for screening urine (so says their brochure), but rather for estimating C in food products, such as orange cordial and mixed dishes.

3. Lingual or tongue tests are used by Professors Cheraskin and Ringsdorf in their laboratories at the University of Alabama, and by Dr Archie Kalokorinos at the Redfern Clinic in Sydney. The test is simple and quick.

The tongue is cleaned and wiped dry and a small piece of paper infiltrated with a special indicator (Tillmans) is pressed against the tongue. The time taken in seconds for the blue color of the reagent to disappear after it touches the tongue indicates the ascorbic acid level in the body.

Optimum values — less than 20 seconds show normal Vitamin C status. Longer than 20 seconds indicates poor tissue ascorbic acid level. Each dye vial is sufficient for 70 individual tests and lasts 4 days after the solution is made.

A complete ascorbic acid testing kit can be obtained by writing to —

Medical Diagnostic Services Inc., P.O. Box 144,

BRANDON, FLORIDA. U.S.A. 33511.

Hospital wards might therefore not only test the urine of their patients if desired, but also Vitamin C intake includ­ing fluids such as synthetic orange juice, tomato juice and carrot juice. Infants Vitamin C ‘supplement’ may be readily oxidized if left for any time in our drinking water.

The following is a list of average values of Vitamin C in various foods tested with Ames C-Stix quoted by Drs Glen Dettman and Archie Kalokerinos in their paper to a Wollongong Conference of AIMT and ACBS April,

Values of Food estimated with C-Stix. (All in mg%) Where necessary juice was expressed from food to obtain results.

1973.

Typical Average Values (After Sebell/Harris)

Apples (temperature controlled)

Apple (old season, stored)

Apple (new season)

Canteloupe

Carrot (stored)

Cucumber

Cabbage

Celery

Green Peppers Grapes (small variety)
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In pure form ascorbic acid consists of white crystals, very soluble in water, but not in fats or oils. It is stable when kept dry and cool or in an acid solution, but quickly de­stroyed in alkaline solutions such as when baking soda is added to the water when cooking green vegetables.

Ascorbic acid is destroyed by exposure to oxygen in the air for any length of time and heat hastens this process.

Plants — fruits, vegetables and salads are our chief source of Vitamin C, but much is lost by keeping, drying, by crushing and in cooking.

Plant cells themselves when broken by crushing or cutting with a blunt knife release an enzyme, oxidize, which destroys their vitamin content. Fresh vegetables and fruits should not be squashed and bruised in transport and should be cut up and prepared with a sharp knife just before use. Many are better not peeled at all.

Beans, lettuce and cabbage shredded and stored in the refrigerator the day before use or soaked in water may still look crisp, but have already lost much of their Vitamin G value.

It is best to grow your own vegetables and use them fresh from the garden. When this is not possible choose those that are fresh, use as soon as possible and store in air tight containers in the refrigerator until used.

, Salads should be freshly prepared. Fruits peeled and eaten at once at the table.

Vegetables should be cooked in boiling water—not too much — and boiled fast for as short a time as possible with the saucepan lid on, to exclude the oxygen-rich air. The vegetable water should be kept and used in soups and gravies as it contains some Vitamin C, but is also rich in potassium and trace minerals as well.

Food kept hot in the oven for the late-comer loses most of its Vitamin C, and leftovers used next day cannot be relied on to contain any of this vitamin. 25 per cent is lost after 15 minutes keeping — 75 per cent after IV2 hours.

This is why most restaurant foods, take-away foods and meals served in institutions have been found to contain practically no Vitamin C by the time it is actually eaten.

As many fruits and vegetables cannot be obtained fresh but must be transported and stored far long periods — various methods of preserving them have been used — drying, canning and freezing are the main methods.

Until recently drying of fruits and vegetables resulted in a great loss of Vitamin C. Now the quick exclusion of air in airtight packs prevents the formation of destructive oxidize, and the addition of sulphite to preserve color and flavor actually favors the retention of Vitamin C. It is now possible to produce dried vegetables which still have 60-80 per cent of their original vitamin before cooking.

Modern methods of canning, with selection of top quality products, quick blanching and or freezing prevent oxida­tion taking place and most of the Vitamin C is retained. The cans are filled to the top before sealing so that air is excluded, and they are heated in a vacuum.

It is claimed that there is less loss of Vitamin C in canned fruits and vegetables than when the housewife buys vegetables that have been transported to the shop, exposed for sale, then taken home, stored, prepared and cooked for the home meal.

As frozen fruits and vegetables are originally top quality and are quickly blanched and frozen no destructive oxidize is formed and most of their Vitamin C is retained. Quick freezing conserves Vitamin C better than any other method.

Frozen foods, should, of course, be stored at freezing point, used at once after defrosting or vegetables thrown directly into boiling water and not defrosted before cook­ing.

Some fruits and vegetables retain their Vitamin C bet­ter than others as their skin prevents contact with the air. Potatoes, pumpkin and onions, although not especially rich in Vitamin C, are valuable for those who cannot obtain fresh fruits and vegetables rich in C, such as in the dry outback of Australia and on long sea voyages, as they do retain their vitamin for long periods.

Lemons can be smeared with vaseline and stored in dry sand to preserve their Vitamin C content.

However, as ascorbic acid itself is now available and inexpensive, it is not so necessary as it used to be to rely on these storage methods to preserve the natural vitamins and prevent scurvy.
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Some types of ants (e.g. bull ants) are highly aggressive.

Clinical features

If your child has been stung by an ant, he may develop pain and swelling at the site of the sting. Ants can inject a type of venom via their sting, and they are able to sting several times.

Some children may be allergic to ant venom, and may develop a widespread rash, or difficulty in breathing. Some children have even been known to collapse.

Treatment

If your child only has mild pain and swelling, paracetamol may be given in recommended doses to ease the pain. If your child has a severe reaction to the sting, take him to your doctor immediately, or to the nearest children’s hospital. Make sure you remove the insect carefully first and if it is dead keep it for later identification by your doctor.

Bee stings

Bee stings have barbs on the end of them and they stay in the skin together with the venom gland (the bee dies after injecting the sting).

Clinical features

Your child will complain of severe pain at the site of the sting, and usually marked swelling develops rapidly. Children who are allergic to bee venom are at great risk of severe reaction to bee stings, and may develop a widespread rash, difficulty in breathing and may even collapse.

Treatment

Remove the insect carefully and if it is dead keep it for later identification by your doctor. Do not try to squeeze a bee sting out, as this will inject more venom into the wound. Scrape it off if possible. If your child has a severe reaction to the sting, see your doctor immediately, or go to the nearest children’s hospital.

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I don’t know why we fell into the habit of making love in the dark. We aren’t shy or anything. Maybe we’re too lazy to turn the lights on and

off.

Husband

You will not to be reading in bed in this new program, so candles or soft, full-spectrum lighting is recommended. James Ott, in his book HEALTH AND LIGHT, states, “we have finally learned that light it is a nutrient much like food, and, like food, the wrong kind can make us ill the right kind can help keep us well.” The reason for ” healthy lighting in your place for intimacy is not just so you can the beauty of your sexual interaction. Making love exclusively ^ the dark or with artificial incandescent lighting deprives us a natural sexual stimulant to the brain, to the pineal and pituitary “lands. Try to create natural, soft full-spectrum lighting for your room. Let your sexual life see the light.

Sexual Soundproofing

The only soundproofing that would work in our house would be a gag for each of us and lots of oil for the squeaky bed.

HUSBAND

Just as we suffer from lack of natural lighting, so we suffer from the constant pollution of noise. Listen now as you read this paragraph and you will detect constant humming, clicking, rattling house noises and outside noises of traffic and day-to-day living. Ask any parents and they will tell you that the one thing they want more than anything else in their house is quiet.

It is as important to keep noise out of your private place as it is to keep your intimate communication private. The only approach that seemed to meet both of these needs was to suggest to my couples a music system. Pick a system that is of sufficient quality to reproduce the full range of sounds from your favorite music. The couples reported that music free of a strong theme, vocals, and changes in beat or rhythm was the most pleasing. Your own tapes are much better than the radio, because they are free of commercials and tailored exactly to your tastes. Make your own set of super sex tapes together.

Some couples added extra sound insulation for the bedroom and others tried “white noise,” a system that creates a background that masks noise. A little creativity and effort can help you to keep your own natural sex sounds in and distracting noises out. Super sex requires sound nutrition to match your natural lighting nutrition.

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Just when I got established in my career, he wants to change his. When he first talked about women’s liberation, I knew he was getting ready to quit his job. Now he wants to work, I want to work, neither of us wants to parent. When I want to do something, he does. We just don’t match up right.

WIFE

We assume that life’s passages will be encountered by each of us in our marriages at the same time with the same ease. It just does not work out that way. There is really no such thing as a mid-life crisis, only a lifelong set of crises we are just now paying attention to. So it is with marriage. We assume that things will just “develop,” but they will not. We will enter phases of life differently, putting stresses on our marriages through our lack of understanding and tolerance of individuality.

Marriage vows sometimes say “until death do us part.” They should day something like “as we struggle together to renegotiate through the hundreds of changes we will each encounter together and separately.” Our vows of intimacy should reflect the assumption of constant change, learning a marital dance in which leader and follower are forever changing.

I tell my couples “never divorce someone you don’t know.” Many couples will not listen. They see divorce as an adjustment rather than an end. Sometimes therapists teach them that. They are wrong. Divorce often relates to marital inability to work through differences in developmental challenges, changes in readiness to parent, to work, to play, to rest, to love. Until American marriage sees that it is as cyclical as individual development, reflection, directing, and responding to our changes as people, it will tend to end “too soon” too often.

All marriages struggle with the individual differences of their partners as they go through their individual lives. You will learn that sex can be one of the best aids to carry us through differences in development. In fact, super marital sex can save marriage by teaching its partners to flourish in the changes and growth of both spouses.

We must learn to remarry a different and changing person several times during our marriage. We can choose to divorce and seek out dozens of transitional partners to match our changes, or use change to sculpt the marriage as an ever-changing artwork. Good marriages depend much more on being the right person than finding the right person. Experiencing developmental changes with someone else can be as exciting as it is difficult.

In a pre-fab, pre-developed, ready-made culture, we learn to look for pre-developed partners, already formed to match our own developmental stage at a given time. If our house is too small, we move. When we get too much stuff, we look for bigger and better places to keep it. We must also learn ways to get rid of some stuff, particularly psychological stuff, yet stay in the same house.

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Sir James Paget, a London surgeon, first described the condition which bears his name in 1877. Its cause is unknown.

It is rare before the age of 40 but then increases in frequency with age. By the age of 90 at least 10 per cent who have reached this age will have developed this condition in their bones.

Any bone of the body may be affected but it is more common in the skull, in the spine, in the pelvis and the leg bones.

The bones are thickened and yet are softer than normal. And when they bear weight the leg bones may bow outwards. Bone is not a stable tissue.

New bone is continually being laid down and old bone is being continually absorbed or removed by other cells.

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Yet there are large numbers of people who do not comply with their doctor’s instructions.

Surveys have shown that more than half of patients with high blood pressure and tuberculosis no longer attend their doctors a year after starting treatment. Of those who continue, less than a third take proper dosages as ordered.

Most patients who drop out are not convinced of the value of continuing. This may be partly the fault of doctors who do not explain fully the nature of an illness or the need for continued treatment. Sometimes it’s because the price the patient has to pay may be too high: not in money terms but in comfort.

Usually, high blood pressure produces no symptoms. But most drugs to control blood pressure have side-effects. It takes a convincing doctor to persuade a patient without symptoms to take a drug which may make him feel uncomfortable.

But this doesn’t fully explain why large numbers opt out and it is irrational for patients to complain that a drug failed to help them when they either didn’t take it or took it in an inadequate dose.

Many of these patients then turn to alternative therapies; they probably are just as lax in following instructions and become just as critical as they are of orthodox medicine.

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The rash starts on thw trunk but soon spreads to the face, the scalp and the upper parts of the limbs.

It may also involve mucous membranes and pock marks may develop in the mouth, the eyes and in the vagina.

The individual pock mark starts as a red spot which becomes raised, then a blister forms containing clear fluid. This breaks leaving a scab.

Sometimes the blister may be filled with pus.

Successive crops of pocks develop over several days or a week or two.

Chickenpox is infectious for one to two days before the onset of the rash and continues to be highly contagious until no new pock marks develop.

Sometimes the lesions develop secondary infection with bacteria and may then require treatment with antibiotics.

Occasionally, pneumonia may develop.

Another complication is encephalitis or inflammation of the brain. This may also occur with the virus infection of measles.

Shingles or herpes zoster appears to be due to reactivation of the virus lying in the tissues. It affects the sensory nerve cells in the spinal cord.

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