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You can prevent heartburn symptoms with an alkaline diet. In fact, although many conventional doctors may disagree, this is a common view shared by most naturapathic experts. With an alkaline diet, you can greatly influence the delicate acid alkaline balance of your body. Naturopathic experts say that you need to have the correct acid alkaline balance to enjoy good health and the proper functioning of the body. Heartburn symptoms come about when stomach acids back up your esophagus, creating a burning sensation in your chest area.

To know how an alkaline diet can help, you first need to understand the meanings of acidity and alkalinity. An acid is a substance that releases hydrogen into a solution and an alkali or base is one that removes hydrogen from a solution. The amount of free hydrogen is measured on a scale ranging from 1 to 14, called ph. Ph denotes the exact level of acidity or alkalinity. A ph value below 7 is said to be acidic and above 7 alkaline.

Many body functions take place at a certain acidity or alkaline level. Also, enzymes and chemical reactions in the body work best at a particular ph. A small change in ph can have a significant effect on body function. For instance, muscle contractibility reduces and hormones like adrenaline and aldosterone increased as the body becomes more acidic.

Additionally, many of your body functions take part in regulating the acid alkaline balance. These functions include respiration, excretion, digestion and cellular metabolism. Your lungs aid in regulating the acid alkaline balance by eliminating carbon dioxide from the blood. Your kidney also responds to the ph of the blood. If your blood is too acidic, the kidney excretes extra hydrogens into the urine and retains extra sodium. Phosphorus in the form of phosphate is needed for this exchange. The body obtains this phosphorus from your bones if it is not available elsewhere.

The acid alkaline balance is affected by the secretions of the stomach and the pancreas. The secretions are absorbed onto the blood stream and these have an effect on the rest of your body. To digest the foods, your stomach secretes hydrochloric acid. Your pancreas then secretes bicarbonate which neutralizes the stomach acid so that pancreatic enzymes can work properly. Anything that upsets the acid alkaline balance can have an impact on the digestive system.

The saying that you are what you eat holds true. You can prevent heartburn symptoms when you consider the nature and type of the foods that you are eating. Generally, your body becomes acidic in the process when you eat foods that acidic in nature. Examples of highly acidic foods include instant and highly processed foods such as hot dog, potato chips and cows milk, as well as red meats like beef and pork. More stomach acid needs to be produced in order to digest them. However, when this happens, acid reflux can occur because more stomach acids back up your esophagus.

If you consume more alkaline foods, then your stomach produces less acid. Highly alkaline foods tend to include more vegetables such as wheat grass, barley grass, alfalfa spouts, broccoli sprouts, kale and parsley, as well as certain nuts and oils.

To reduce heartburn symptoms, you must also give your esophagus a chance to heal. If you refrain from eating foods that are acidic, you would have lessened the impact of irritants to it. You should also avoid any trigger that relaxes the LES (lower esophageal sphincter). The LES is the muscular valve separating your esophagus and the stomach. It is when this valve relaxes, that stomach acid backs up to your esophagus, causing acid reflux symptoms.

You can also derive other benefits of eating more alkaline foods. When you have an acid overload, your body tends to get weakened and drained of energy. Unfortunately, you need this energy to help fight viruses and bacteria. An acidic body allows germs, yeast, bacteria, molds and fungi to breed and flourish. In an alkaline ecosystem, these foreign invaders do not have the slightest chance to thrive or multiply. By keeping your body alkaline, holistic experts say that that you not only can reduce heartburn symptoms but also other types of diseases and ailments.

For optimal health, naturopathic experts recommend that 7.5 ph is best for alkaline body level. You should select the right foods so that you can maintain this ideal acid alkaline balance. Additionally, to prevent heartburn symptoms, you should consume your foods in smaller portions and eat in a relaxed and stress free environment.

The game is one of the simplest ever invented. The rules are few and there’s no physical effort involved in playing it. You just sit, look at a few cards and make your bets. That’s probably why it’s become one of the most popular casino games of all time. Of course everyone knows the House has an edge. That’s how it pays all the expenses for running the casino. Remember it makes no difference whether this is a casino in the real world or online. You still need people and a base. So common sense tells you that no-one beats the House unless they invest some effort. Put another way: if everyone could beat the House without breaking sweat, the casino would go out of business in a day. This produces the headline: no pain, no gain. You have to put in some study time to master the basic strategy.

So what is this strategy? Over the years, some serious math types did all the work for you. They calculated the best way to play all the card combinations and wrote them down in simple charts. If you were going to play in a real casino, you would have to learn all these rules. That saves you having to pause before every decision to check the charts. Not only would the other players around the table be less than impressed, the casino would probably suggest you leave. But playing online changes all that. You can consult the charts as often as you like before deciding which card to play. It may be slow but, if you get the strategy right for every hand, you just shifted the odds in your favor.

So what are these charts? The first gives you the rules on when to split a pair. The strategy changes depending on the value of the cards dealt to you and the value of the card you can see the Dealer holding. So it starts with the rule that you split a pair of aces no matter what the Dealer holds, and goes down to the choices when you hold a pair of 2s. The other two charts deal with hard hands and soft hands. A hard hand is when neither card is an ace and the strategy changes significantly depending on the card held by the Dealer and the table rules on when the Dealer must stand or draw. A soft hand contains an ace and is easier to play because you can always draw one more card without busting – this takes some of the pressure off the play. I started off by saying blackjack is an easy game but, like all games, you can play for fun or you can take it seriously and play to win. In this case, you are more likely to win if you learn the charts and can play the strategy without thinking. To really take on the House edge, you also have to become a card counter but that’s a whole new story because it does not work in a virtual casino. For now, focus on the basic strategy and start your winning blackjack career.

Spring is on its way and all our backyard birds are hungry.  With daffodils blooming and crocuses beginning to pop their heads out of the soil, we tend to forget that food sources of seeds from autumn plants have long been blown away by winter winds and new growth hasn’t yet begun.

There’s about 2 acres of wooded land adjacent to my property for the birds, raccoons, possums and the occasional coyote.  This area has been left in its natural state, free from lawn mowers, chain saws and weed eaters.  It’s pretty much as God designed it.

We only have three bird feeders in the woods and two next to the house, but that is enough to keep us on the verge of bankruptcy.  Trying to keep wild bird food in our five homemade bird feeders full is not an easy job.  It seems as if it is the goal of every bird to do its part to empty the entire feeding station of all of its contents.

I once thought birds really cared about the appearance of their cafeterias, but I’ve learned that it doesn’t make much difference whether it is made of plastic, wood, or aluminum.  If you want to feed finches though, you need a tubular Finch feeder because it is designed to hold and distribute those tiny thistle seeds.  Almost any other feeder can be made of wood.

When I first had the idea to get something to feed birds, I went to my local bird store to buy a couple of bird feeders.  I changed my mind when I saw the prices of the simplest they had to offer.  I decided to build my own.

I went to my computer and found pictures of birds happily pecking at bird seed on a very plain looking rectangular piece of wood, with a two inch wall around it to keep all the food from falling to the ground.

The drawback to the platform type of feeder of course, is that the feed is exposed to the weather.  Put a wall on each end and a roof over the container and you have a hopper type feeder.  Searching on the internet I found blueprints to build one of these, but after reading 5 pages of detailed drawings, I built my own wild bird feeder without even printing the directions.

This type of feeding station wasn’t a good idea because the seeds strewn by the birds and fell to the ground made the perfect set up for predators, like my cat Spike. He waited behind a bush and pounced on the ground feeding birds when they flew in to gobble up the treasure that had fallen from the sky. 

Now that he’s older, he just sits on a step from the deck and watches the birds, no doubt remembering the days of his youth back when they were afraid of him.  Now they just go about their business of eating the bounty on the ground without worrying about the threat of annihilation from an old yellow cat.

I went back to the computer and came up with a plan to build a bird feeder with a roof that wasn’t complicated.  There is never a shortage of building materials because someone in the neighborhood is always tossing something away.  I just drive around searching for old fencing left for the trash man.  For one feeder it doesn’t take a lot of wood or other materials.  As for design, there are many free blueprints and instructions on line.

It’s all worth it when I’m looking through my kitchen window at Cardinals, Chickadees, Titmice, Wrens and numerous other colorful and cheery friends I welcome on a daily basis.

 

Chronic pancreatitis is difficult to treat by conventional medicine. Most people with chronic pancreatitis can be helped with non drug treatment such as diet, herbs, acupuncture, nutrition supplements, etc. There is another European way for people which suffer from chronic pancreatitis. 

This article focuses on healing properties of European Karlovy Vary Healing Mineral Water made from the Genuine Karlovy Vary Thermal Spring Salt which are totally unknown by American public and most of medical professionals. Used for centuries by generations of Europeans, Karlovy Vary water made from the Genuine Karlovy Vary Thermal Spring Salt has been popular in Europe as a natural approach to Chronic Pancreatitis.

According to legend, one of the first patients, who understood the healing property of this spring water, was the Roman Emperor and Bohemian King Charles IV at the 14th century, whose name the town of Karlovy Vary (Charles Springs – Carlsbad) bears.

Physicians became interested in the springs and their research proved the healing effects of drinking of Karlovy Vary Healing Mineral Water.

Karlovy Vary water was found to be so beneficial that work was done in 1764 to produce the salt from the evaporated thermal spring water. Dissolving the Genuine Karlovy Vary Thermal Spring Salt in the water at home gave the possibility to distribute this healing mineral water throughout the world. Czech doctors determined that the water manufactured from the genuine Karlovy Vary thermal spring salt had identical healing properties as the spring.

Karlovy Vary Healing Mineral Water is the oldest researched mineral supplement in the world.  The first mention about this water was published in scientific medical book in 1522. Since then, hundreds of clinical texts and articles have been published describing the positive effects of the water on both animals and humans. Unfortunately, most of them were published in Czech, German, Russian thus there are unknown by American medical establishment.

According to research of many European scientists and physicians who practice also alternative medicine, the most important action of the water in chronic pancreatitis is to enhance production and flow of bile and pancreatic juice, open the Sphincter of Oddi and decrease pressure inside the pancreas. Additionally, the Karlovy Vary Healing Mineral Water supplies the pancreas with minerals and bicarbonates, the main ingredients of the pancreatic juice.

The water promotes also the manufacture and release of digestive hormones in the duodenum and they naturally regulate the digestive process in the whole gastrointestinal tract, pancreas and liver. The digestive hormones signal to the pancreas the amount of enzymes and bicarbonate that will be needed to digest protein, sugars, starches, and lipids arriving from the stomach into the duodenum.

Water simultaneously relieves digestive disorders, strengthens the digestive system, normalizes the acid-alkaline balance and improves the metabolism of proteins, fats, and carbohydrates.

The most important other actions of the healing mineral water manufactured from the genuine Karlovy Vary thermal spring salt for chronic pancreatitis are:

Enhancing liver function by increasing the production and flow of bile, Promoting pancreas function by manufacturing and releasing of pancreatic enzymes, thus it decreases pancreatic insufficiency, Decreasing inflammation and congestion of pancreas, thus pain and abdominal spasms, Restoring the friendly intestinal flora, Preventing of stagnation of food in the digestive tract, Normalizing body acid alkaline balance, etc.

These effects are caused by unique beneficial complex composition of potassium, sodium, magnesium, calcium, sulfates, bicarbonates, chlorides, and a lot of trace minerals such as zinc, cobalt, selenium, lithium, copper and more in ionic form. 

Mineral content of Karlovy Vary Healing Mineral Water manufactured from the genuine Karlovy Vary thermal spring salt is closed to mineral content of human plasma. What is most important, that this water doesn’t have toxic heavy metals.

Karlovy Vary Healing Mineral Water manufactured from the genuine Karlovy Vary thermal spring salt is not just something to drink when thirsty or something to drink either as a snack or with meals. This is unique mineral supplement with well scientifically researched healing properties.

To get the positive result in chronic pancreatitis one needs to follow particular regime including temperature, and amount of drinking water, frequency of taking, time of drinking before eating and more.

This healing mineral water can be useful to many different professionals: medical doctors, naturopathic physicians, herbalists, acupuncturists, nutritionists, chiropractors, and colon hydro therapists and for hundred thousands people with the pancreas diseases.

 

 

The information on this article is presented for educational, informational purposes only.  It is not intended as a substitute for the diagnosis, treatment and advice of a qualified licensed professional.

There’s a sad fact about playing in a casino, whether real or virtual. The operators have worked out how to play the games on offer and set the odds to favor themselves. After all, if the majority did not lose, there would be no money to pay out all the money you win. Needless to say, the casinos have invested time and money into working out every possible variation on the rules and the ways to play under them. So, if you are going to take on the House edge, you have to become as big an expert on the rules as the operators. So let’s start with one of the more interesting rules which decides when you are allowed to double down. This applies when you have received your two cards. If you decide you are going to draw only one more card, the casino rules can allow you to double your initial bet. The different possibilities are to double:

• on any card combination;
• only when the two cards total 9, 10 or 11; or
• after splitting.

Why should you double your bet? The answer is deceptively simple. You double the bet when you think you are going to beat the Dealer. That really does make sense. But because you are suddenly investing more money in playing the game and have more to lose, you need to get on board with the math. You need to know the frequency with which the Dealer is likely to go bust based on the card you can see. If the Dealer’s card suggests a bust is probable, i.e. the Dealer’s hand is weak, you double the bet when you have a strong hand. You are maximizing the chance of making a good profit on the hand. If you build the doubling rule into your basic strategy, you reduce the House edge. If you refuse to play the doubling rule, the House edge actually increases. This is not to claim you will win every hand when you double down. If you are on a losing streak, you could lose every doubled bet for the session. But, in the long term, you will win more than you lose if you double. If you hesitate to double the bet, it suggests you are outside your comfort zone and already playing for higher stakes than you can afford.

At the blackjack table, the Dealer is weakest when showing a card in the range 2 through 6. With a 2, the bust percentage is 35%. It rises to a 42% chance of busting with a 5 or 6. Your hand is strongest if the two card total is less than 11. Do not be thrown off the basic strategy by the casinos that allow you to add less than the original bet. Blackjack is a game for winners. Never give up the chance to double and take the maximum win against the Dealer. Adding a few dollars to the original bet but not doubling is half-hearted and cowardly.