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HOW TO SURVIVE YOUR DOCTOR: SUGAR, SULPHA DRUGS, SUN SCREENS
Sugar
Sugar is not the villain that some people make it out to be. Certainly it is rich in calories; but that is not the issue. Nearly all carbohydrate and much of the bodies protein is broken down into sugar by the liver. It doesn\'t matter what goes into the mouth. It all ends up as sugar. Avoiding locally produced sugar and buying imported sweeteners does nothing for the nation’s health. It just detracts adversely from the nation’s balance of trade.
Sulpha Drugs
Penicillin was discovered by Fleming in 1928, but it was May and Baker who brought the first true antibiotic onto the market in 1935. This antibiotic was a sulpha drug and many sulpha drugs are still in widespread use today. Two of these antibiotics are Bactrim and Septrim. Not long ago northern European studies implicated both Bactrim and Septrin in the production of Agranulocytosis. This condition involves the under production of a certain line of white blood cells and predisposes victims to bacterial infections. If this effect occurs at all; it occurs rarely. It is reported to have occurred in both children and the elderly. Now bacterial drug resistance to sulpha antibiotics is spreading and they do not kill the range of bacteria they used to any more.
Sun Screens
There are many sun screens on the market and all come with a prominent PF rating. The PF rating itself means that the sun screen protects the skin for the time it normally takes for the sun to damage the skin multiplied by the factor of the PF rating. If a product claims to have a PF rating of 15, this means the product will protect the skin for 15 times 15 minutes, which is four hours. 15 minutes is the time it normally takes before white skin in Australia has had an overexposure to sunlight.
Women should apply a good quality sun screen lotion as a moisturizing cream every morning. Men can apply a water resistant sun screen each morning after a shave.
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GENERAL HEALTH
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