Acid Reflux Disease
What is acid reflux disease?Acid reflux disease can and often is mistaken for heartburn. But the heartburn symptoms of acid reflux disease usually occur 2 or more days a week for at least 3 months and can damage your esophagus. At the top of your stomach is a muscle called the lower esophageal sphincter (LES), which normally opens and closes allowing food to enter. It also prevents the acid in your stomach from backing up into your esophagus. The trouble begins when the LES opens at inappropriate times, allowing acid from the stomach to get into the esophagus, where it doesn't belong.
Acid reflux disease can also lead to more serious medical conditions that may require hospitalization. Acid reflux in the throat can cause sore throat. If acid reaches the mouth, it can dissolve the enamel of the teeth. Millions of people have the disease and suffer from its most common symptom - frequent and persistent heartburn. Acid reflux disease can be treated and controlled.How do you get Acid Reflux?Factors contributing to acid reflux include fatty foods, cigarettes, chocolate, caffeine, alcohol, obesity, pregnancy and delayed stomach emptying.
Obesity and pregnancy increase pressures within the abdomen (body trunk), pushing the stomach contents back into the esophagus.Some patients have stomachs that empty their contents into the intestines very slowly.How serious is Acid Reflux?The lining of the esophagus may become ulcerated and can result in narrowing, making swallowing of food and, sometimes, liquids, painful and difficult. In people with esophagitis, there may also be an increased risk of cancer of the esophagus.How long does Acid Reflux last?Acid reflux can last several months or longer if not treated.How is Acid Reflux treated?Antacids are medicines that are commonly used to treat acid-related symptoms, like heartburn or indigestion, and work by neutralizing acid in the stomach. However, they are not usually recommended to treat the frequent heartburn suffered by people with GERD..
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Thanksgiving is a time of family, food and fun. Here are some ideas of traditions you can start that will give you those "warm fuzzy feelings" for years to come!?Watch the parade on TV or make an effort to attend the parade. Don't forget a thermos of hot chocolate?Family Portrait Time--use this picture for Christmas cards?Decorate with: gourds, indian corn, corn stalks, pine cones, fall leaves, cornucopia, a large pine cone turkey with feathers?As family gathers, this is an excellent time for making a personal history video helping to connect the generations. Ask questions such as:?What was life like when you were our age??What were your parents like? ?What were your brothers, and sisters like??What was your happiest memory as a child? your saddest??How did you and your spouse meet?Ask the interviewee to bring along momentos or pictures for your children to look at.Here is a great webpage full of other interesting questions to ask. http://articles.scrapbooking.com/family_history.htm...
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Understanding Wine Grapes
You will find that one of the easiest ways to get to know your way around wine flavors is through grape varieties. Each grape variety has specific characteristics. In some regions, one grape variety is used to make a wine; in others, winemakers blend several varieties in a single wine. To help you identify grape varieties, below is an overview of each of the major red grapes and their characteristics.Cabernet SauvignonCabernet Sauvignon is the big daddy of the red wine world. It is like the Chardonnay, as it is widely planted and distributed.
The result of this is that there are so many versions of this grape. Many people think of Cabernet Sauvignon as being a wine that needs to age, but that is only because the best red Bordeaux need age. Most non-premium varieties are ready to go right away.Under ideal conditions, it produces an aromatic, tannic...
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Chocolate Hearses And Caskets For The Funeral Collector At PushinDaisies.com!
Pushin Daisies, a mortuary novelty shop, always continues to please with their slightly off kilter line of funeral novelty gifts. They cater to funeral directors, morticians, hearse and death enthusiasts, and those with a slightly darker side. Now they introduce their mini chocolate caskets and hearses. These are replicas of real caskets with details including the casket hardware and side rails. The chocolate hearses are no less impressive! These chocolate beauties have details down to the side landau bars.
Each is made from a delicious chocolate and they are allot more affordable that the real thing!They already have a line of morbid chocolates, which include anatomically correct human brains, hearts and a tooth. They also carry the original chocolate casket which is made by a real casket company and also carry a chocolate coffin with a removable lid that when opened, reveals a skeleton inside.For those in the death care industry looking for unique gifts, postmortem collectibles,...
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Mother's Day Encouragement
As a young mother, author Louise Bergmann DuMont was disheartened every time she encountered the neighborhood Super-Mom. It was obvious that word ?perfect' in no way described her own life and mothering skills. In Faith-Dipped Chocolate: Rich Encouragement to Sweeten Your Day, Louise exposes the sweet bits of wit and wisdom that grew from her personal foibles and failures. Mothers of every age will laugh, cry and take to heart the victories and disappointments Louise shares."Motherhood is like a wonderful roller coaster ride. Even as you hear the clickety-clack of the chains that are taking you to the top of that first hill, you know you're going to scream all the way down the other side.
You aren't the first or the last to sit on that ride. There are others whose hearts race with the thrill and whose stomachs lurch with the discomfort that comes only with motherhood. Is it worth it?
Absolutely. That's why so many of us come back for more!" ~ Louise Bergmann DuMontFaith-Dipped...
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Make it a Gainless Holiday
Christmas gain is New Year's pain! Starting early is the secret to avoiding the typical 10-pound holiday season accumulation of fat. (Come now ? you didn't think it was muscle, did you?) Develop a few good habits before Thanksgiving and you're likely to start 2005 weighing no more than you did before, maybe even less. Here are 5 tips that will help you through the holidays.1. Set a mental limit now on the food items that are your biggest temptation. Cookies? Make 2 your limit at every holiday affair. Chocolate? Two pieces will probably satisfy your sweet tooth, especially if you eat them slowly, not in one bite.
If it will make you feel better, remember that dark chocolate has some beneficial nutrients such as antioxidants and magnesium. If eggnog or other alcoholic drink makes you put on pounds, always ask the host for the smallest glass, and nurse it slowly. It will be easier if you tell yourself that it's only until the holidays are over. (By then it might have become a good...
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SPEND MORE TIME WITH YOUR FAMILY THIS HOLIDAY SEASON
Too often we forgo entertaining because of the mere thought of all of the preparation that is involved. And more is not better. Often we try to out do each other with lavish parties and expensive gifts. Stop and remember for a second what was important from your own childhood. Was it an outing? Baking cookies with your grandmother? Building a snowman with your dad? We need to connect.
This doesn't require more time, just shifting the focus of the time we already have. Here, a casual party and a very simple activity were the catalyst that brought everyone together.To get the entire neighborhood into the Christmas spirit we planned a caroling party. The day before our guests arrived, my kids and I spent an afternoon making decorative candleholders to give to each caroler, to light the way for our caroling expedition. Dad, dressed as Santa, provided our very own photo opportunity. Little ones whispered their Christmas list in Santa's ear.
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Gardening - For the Love of Chocolate - New Specialty Nursery Grows "Chocolate" Plants
Imagine a garden filled with chocolate ? chocolate mint; chocolate columbine; chocolate morning glories; chocolate nasturtiums; chocolate daylilies; chocolate foxglove; chocolate sunflowers and much more.Imagination becomes reality this spring at Chocolate Flower Farm where owners Marie Lincoln and Bill Schlicht specialize in growing unusual, rich, dark plants that add a spot of drama and exotic beauty to the garden.
Not just chocolate colored plants but plants in shades of maroon, purple and black and even several plants that smell like chocolate such as Chocolate Cosmos (Cosmos atrosanguiness), Chocolate Flower (Berlandiera lyrata) and Chocolate Vine (Akebia quinata). What came first, the chocolate or the flowers?
"Our nursery is named after Bill's love of chocolate and my passion for gardening.
I already was partial to dark plants and had quite a collection of them in our gardens, thus we combined our two passions and named our farm Chocolate Flower Farm.
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Pigeons Beware, the English are Coming!
Miami, FL (ContentDesk) Aug. 31, 2005 ? Last week saw the launch of Deterapigeon.com website and their Defender 4 anti-roosting pigeon spikes in the United States, a new and exciting product from the leading and highly respected manufactures of bird spikes in the UK. The animal conscious pigeon spikes simply prevent pigeons from landing without causing harm.Deterapigeon has been established in England since 1996 and David Jones (Director of Deterapigeon) invented...
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ASCENTIS SOFTWARE AND MPI SOFTWARE FORM STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP
BELLEVUE, Wash. ? April 7, 2004 ? Ascentis Software and MPI Software announce seamless integration of their respective best-of-breed technologies-HROffice and Millennium. Ascentis and MPI customers now have access to a product suite of HR services including HR, benefits management, and payroll. Mike Hayes, vice president of sales and marketing at Ascentis explains, "The future HR marketplace is one of seamless connectivity. Ascentis and MPI have integrated two separate HR functions to not only...
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