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<title>How Can Authority Sites Help You Make Money?</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2007 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ If you bookmark a site because it holds a great deal of information on the niche or topic you are interested in that site is probably an authority site.  You know you don't have to go back to the search engines to look for this information again.  The site has fresh and the latest material on the topic you are interested in.  It has great content and the search engines know this and seek the site out.  You will usually find these sites have high Page Ranks.<br><br>First you need to know what an authority site looks like.  For on the Internet they wield a lot of power.  Why, because of their content. Remember content is always King. The search engines know if they want to keep their customers they must provide the best information available for the keywords provide by their client.  It is not uncommon to find an authority site with hundreds even thousands of pages of content that is updated frequently.  They also usually have thousands, hundreds of thousands of incoming links.<br><br>So as a marketer how are the authority sites going to help you? If you have done even a small bit of research on SEO you know that in-bound links that are keyword optimized is one of the best ways to increase you page ranking. The search engines such as Google will give you more credit for a link that is pointed to your site by an authority site than total work you perform optimizing you web pages.<br><br>So how do you get authority sites to link to you to increase your Page Ranking?  Again we need to stress the word content.  This content can be your articles, your site content, and your news releases.  If an authority site is pointed to your site through your different types of content this will provide links and what is more important to you as a marketer, targeted visitors, future sales. <br><br>Don't just throw out an article and hope it sticks to an authority site.  If the article has no substance, or information stolen from someone else or it just a piece of advertisement with no meat, it will be just a waist of your time, because authority sites will not take it or pull it from an article directory if its not quality information.  They spend a great deal of time and money to make their site placed in the position its in, they do not want any junk on their site.<br><br>Most copywriters use the AIDA Formula and I strongly suggest you use it too.  This is a guide to create solidly constructed articles.<br><br>Attention – Always state you biggest benefit in your headline <br><br>Interest - The first paragraph must peak their interest, let them know what's coming up or what they will gain if they read on. <br><br>Desire – It is important to increase their desire by adding more and more benefits. <br><br>Action! – Use the Resource Box to tell them what service you provide. Don't try to sell them here, make a link to you web site and sell your product or service there. <br><br>So by submit high quality articles with solid and helpful information to authority sites and article directories and you will be on your way to a high Page Ranking site with a high volume of visitors to sell you products and services. This will require some effort on your part but the rewards will be amazing and worthwhile.<br><br><br /><br />--<br /><aIf you would like to learn more about authority sites and how to build them, you find information at href=http://www.dobetterbusiness.com/asc.htmDave Fitzgerald is a freelance publisher living in Glendale, Arizona.  He publishes articles and reports in areas that have marketing potential.</a><br><br>Source: <a href="http://www.articletrader.com/">http://www.articletrader.com</a> ]]></description>
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<title>Starting A Small Home Business</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ If you are totally satisfied with your work and financial situation, chances are you own your own Home Based Business.  If you're not experiencing the freedom and financial security maybe you should be starting a small home business.<br><br>It's a fact that only 3% of the population is able to obtain real success.  The sad part of this statistic is the fact that 97% of the population will not.  But what is even worse is the fact that with some effort, not a huge effort, you can be part of that successful 3%.<br><br>One of the easiest and best ways in starting a small home business is to develop it on the Internet.  It is the world's number one source of selling and you should take full advantage of this phenomenon. With this new technology you can have a very successful business working from your home.<br><br>Affiliate marketing is an excellent way to earn money while at home. There are virtually no production costs. The product is already developed and proven by the merchant, and all you have to do to find, as many prospects as you can that will bring in the profit for both the merchant and the affiliate.<br><br>A business using affiliate marketing is not that hard now with the Internet at your disposable. Starting a small home business is much easier now compared to the days when people have to make use of the telephones and other mediums of information just to get the latest updates on the way their program is coming along.<br><br>Another plus of on the affiliate program side is when you are starting a small home business is that you don't have to do any personal selling, carry inventory, ship the product, or handle customer service, which at times can be a real headache.  <br><br>The key to being a good affiliate is learning the skills of good advertising and promotion techniques. The system involved in affiliate marketing seems easy, but it also takes a lot of diligence and perseverance for one to be able to work the business thoroughly.  <br><br>Those who want to start a small home business should possess the necessary skills to be able work through the industry with confidence and self-assurance.  Still, other factors are needed by one to be able to really break in.  Knowledge about the business at hand is very important as it dictates the actions that are to be done by people who are into it.<br><br><br><br /><br />--<br /><aDave Fitzgerald writes on business start-ups, marketing, and the various ways to advertise affiliate programs.  For more information go to: http://www.dobetterbusiness.com/cmp02.htm</a><br><br>Source: <a href="http://www.articletrader.com/">http://www.articletrader.com</a> ]]></description>
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<title> What is the Value of Alcohol to Your Body? Part 4 of 4</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 17 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ This final part we will look at the theory that some medical advocates believe; that alcohol impedes metamorphosis of the tissue. Making the tissue last longer, not deteriorating as it would do through the normal life cycle of a cell. Not finding that alcohol possesses any direct alimentary value, the medical advocates of its use have been driven to the assumption that it is a kind of secondary food, in that it has the power to delay the metamorphosis of tissue. <br><br>Again we turn to Dr. Hunt, "By the metamorphosis of tissue is meant," says Dr. Hunt, "that change which is constantly going on in the system which involves a constant disintegration of material; a breaking up and avoiding of that which is no longer aliment, making room for that new supply which is to sustain life. "Another medical writer, in referring to this metamorphosis, says: "The importance of this process to the maintenance of life is readily shown by the injurious effects which follow upon its disturbance. <br><br>If the discharge of the excrementitiously substances be in any way impeded or suspended, these substances accumulate either in the blood or tissues, or both. In consequence of this retention and accumulation they become poisonous, and rapidly produce a derangement of the vital functions. Their influence is principally exerted upon the nervous system, through which they produce most frequent irritability, disturbance of the special senses, delirium, insensibility, coma, and finally, death." "This description," remarks Dr. Hunt, "seems almost intended for alcohol." He then says: "To claim alcohol as a food because it delays the metamorphosis of tissue, is to claim that it in some way suspends the normal conduct of the laws of assimilation and nutrition, of waste and repair. <br><br>A leading advocate of alcohol (Hammond) thus illustrates it: 'Alcohol retards the destruction of the tissues. By this destruction, force is generated, muscles contract, thoughts are developed, organs secrete and excrete.' In other words, alcohol interferes with all these. No wonder the author hazy how it does this, and we are not clear how such delayed metamorphosis will restore to good health or strength of the body. Alcohol is not known to have any of the usual power of foods, and use it on the double assumption that it delays metamorphosis of tissue, and that such delay is conservative of health, is to pass outside of the bounds of science into the land of remote possibilities, and confer the title of adjuster upon an agent whose agency is itself doubtful. <br><br>Having failed to identify alcohol as a nitrogenous or non-nitrogenous food, not having found it amenable to any of the evidences by which the food-force of aliments is generally measured, it will not do for us to talk of benefit by delay of regressive metamorphosis unless such process is accompanied with something evidential of the fact something scientifically descriptive of its mode of accomplishment in the case at hand, and unless it is shown to be practically desirable for the process of providing nourishment or sustenance. <br><br>There can be no doubt that alcohol does cause defects in the processes of elimination that are natural to the healthy body, and this is not a good thing. The research to get ammunition in my argument as to whether alcohol is part of the food group or not has involved a deeper research that I intended, but resulted in a clear picture as what alcohol can do to your body. I hope this information has been informative, and if you have any question that these article has brought to mind, please do hesitate to email me. I'm not a doctor, so if you need medical advice see your physician.<br><br><br><br /><br />--<br /><aDave Fitzgerald writes articles on health  and showing ways to live longer, happier and more successful in your everyday life. <br>You will find more articles at http://www.agingwellnesscenter.com/article_center.htm</a><br><br>Source: <a href="http://www.articletrader.com/">http://www.articletrader.com</a> ]]></description>
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<title>What is the Value of Alcohol to Your Body? Part 3 of 4</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 14 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Can alcohol make you stronger?  If alcohol does not contain tissue-building material, nor give heat to the body, it cannot possibly add to its strength. "Every kind of power an animal can generate," says Dr. G. Budd, F.R.S., "the mechanical power of the muscles, the chemical (or digestive) power of the stomach, the intellectual power of the brain accumulates through the nutrition of the organ on which it depends." <br><br>Dr. F.R. Lees, of Edinburgh, after discussing the question, and educing evidence, remarks: "From the very nature of things, it will now be seen how impossible it is that alcohol can be strengthening food of either kind. Since it cannot become a part of the body, it cannot consequently contribute to its cohesive, organic strength, or fixed power; and, since it comes out of the body just as it went in, it cannot, by its decomposition, generate heat force."<br><br>Baron Liebig, so far back as 1843, in his "Animal Chemistry," pointed out the fallacy of alcohol generating power. He says: "The circulation will appear accelerated at the expense of the force available for voluntary motion, but without the production of a greater amount of mechanical force." In his later "Letters," he again says: "Wine is quite superfluous to man, it is constantly followed by the expenditure of power" whereas, the real function of food is to give power. He adds: "These drinks promote the change of matter in the body, and are, consequently, attended by an inward loss of power, which ceases to be productive, because it is not employed in overcoming outward difficulties i.e., in working." In other words, this great chemist asserts that alcohol abstracts the power of the system from doing useful work in the field or workshop, in order to cleanse the house from the defilement of alcohol itself. <br><br>The late Dr. W. Brinton, Physician to St. Thomas', in his great work on Dietetics, says: "Careful observation leaves little doubt that a moderate dose of beer or wine would, in most cases, at once diminish the maximum weight which a healthy person could lift. Mental acuteness, accuracy of perception and delicacy of the senses are all so far opposed by alcohol, as that the maximum efforts of each are incompatible with the ingestion of any moderate quantity of fermented liquid. A single glass will often suffice to take the edge off both mind and body, and to reduce their capacity to something below their perfection of work." <br><br>Dr. F.R. Lees, F.S.A., writing on the subject of alcohol as a food, makes the following quotation from an essay on "Stimulating Drinks," published by Dr. H.R. Madden, as long ago as 1847: "Alcohol is not the natural stimulus to any of our organs, and hence, functions performed in consequence of its application, tend to debilitate the organ acted upon. <br><br>Alcohol is incapable of being assimilated or converted into any organic proximate principle, and hence, cannot be considered nutritious. Without being nutritious it can generate energy or power.<br><br>The strength experienced after the use of alcohol is not new strength added to the system, but is manifested by calling into exercise the nervous energy pre-existing. <br><br>The ultimate exhausting effects of alcohol, owing to its stimulant properties, produce an unnatural susceptibility to morbid action in all the organs, and this, with the extreme excess , becomes a fertile source of disease. <br><br>A person who habitually exerts himself to such an extent as to require the daily use of stimulants to ward off exhaustion, may be compared to a machine working under high pressure. He will become much more obnoxious to the causes of disease, and will certainly break down sooner than he would have done under more favorable circumstances. <br><br>The more frequently alcohol is had recourse to for the purpose of overcoming feelings of being weak and unhealthy, the more it will be required, and by constant repetition a period is at length reached when it cannot be foregone, unless reaction is simultaneously brought about by a temporary total change in the way person leads his or her life. <br><br>In the last part of this series we will look at how those who tried to support the theory that alcohol had some food value, change their direction by saying alcohol is a secondary food, in that it has the power to delay the metamorphosis of tissue.<br><br><br /><br />--<br /><br><aDave Fitzgerald writes articles on health  and showing ways to live longer, happier and more successful in your everyday life. <br>You will find more articles at http://www.agingwellnesscenter.com/article_center.htm</a><br><br>Source: <a href="http://www.articletrader.com/">http://www.articletrader.com</a> ]]></description>
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<title>What is the Value of Alcohol to Your Body? Part 2 of 4</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ In Part 1 I talked about alcohol as being part of a food group, which we found not to be true.Now I would like to explore the idea that alcohol is a good producer of heat. <br><br>"The first usual test for a force-producing food," says Dr. Hunt, "and that to which other foods of that class respond, is the production of heat in the combination of oxygen therewith. This heat means vital force, and is, in no small degree, a measure of the comparative value of the so-called respiratory foods. <br><br>If we examine the fats, the starches and the sugars, we can trace and estimate the processes by which they evolve heat and are changed into vital force, and can weigh the capacities of different foods. We find that the consumption of carbon by union with oxygen is the law, that heat is the product, and that the legitimate result is force, while the result of the union of the hydrogen of the foods with oxygen is water. <br><br>If alcohol comes at all under this class of foods, we rightly expect to find some of the evidences which attach to the hydrocarbons." What, then, is the result of experiments in this direction? Men of the highest attainments in chemistry and physiology have conducted them through long periods and with the greatest care, and the result is given in these few words, by Dr. H.R. Wood, Jr., in his Materia Medica. "No one has been able to detect in the blood any of the ordinary results of its oxidation." <br><br>That is, no one has been able to find that alcohol has undergone combustion, like fat, or starch, or sugar, and so given heat to the body.Without combustion no heat can be derived.So alcohol can raise temperature, but it can lower it.It has been know for some time that alcohol reduces temperature instead of increasing it; and it has even been used in fevers as an anti-pyretic. <br><br>So uniform has been the testimony of physicians in Europe and America as to the cooling effects of alcohol, that Dr. Wood says, in his Materia Medica, "that it does not seem worth while to occupy space with a discussion of the subject." Liebermeister, one of the most learned contributors to Zeimssen's Cyclopaedia of the Practice of Medicine, 1875, says: "I long since convinced myself, by direct experiments, that alcohol, even in comparatively large doses, does not elevate the temperature of the body in either well or sick people." <br><br>So well had this become known to Arctic voyagers, that, even before physiologists had demonstrated the fact that alcohol reduced, instead of increasing, the temperature of the body, they had learned that spirits lessened their power to withstand extreme cold. "In the Northern regions," says Edward Smith, "it was proved that the entire exclusion of spirits was necessary, in order to retain heat under these unfavorable conditions." <br><br>So through hundreds of experiments and tests, it has been proven that alcohol does not raise the body temperature.In fact it does the reverse by lower the body temperature.So it is important that alcohol is not consumed when extreme cold situations are encountered. In the next part of this series I well discuss the area of strength.Does alcohol make you stronger?As I continue this discussion how alcohol affects your body in Part 3 of this 4 Part series.<br><br><br /><br />--<br /><a Dave Fitzgerald writes articles on health  and showing ways to live longer, happier and more successful in your everyday life. <br>You will find more articles at http://www.agingwellnesscenter.com/article_center.htm</a><br><br>Source: <a href="http://www.articletrader.com/">http://www.articletrader.com</a> ]]></description>
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<title>What is the Value of Alcohol to Your Body? Part 1 of 4</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ One night while having a drink with friends, the subject of how much nourishment does alcohol have.  The discussion became an argument, and at the end no one had a clear and definite proof that it have or haven't.  So I thought is time to do some research of this topic.  I went a little deeper in the subject, and here is what I found. <br><br>Alcohol has no food value and is exceedingly limited in its action as a remedial agent. Dr. Henry Monroe says, "Every kind of substance employed by man as food consists of sugar, starch, oil and glutinous matter mingled together in various proportions. These are designed for the support of the animal frame. The glutinous principles of food fibrin, albumen and casein are employed to build up the structure while the oil, starch and sugar are chiefly used to generate heat in the body". <br><br>If you want to call alcohol a food or be a part of one of the food groups, it would have to contain one of the above substances.  There must be some part that contains nitrogen that is found in vegetables, eggs, seeds, and meat so that tissue can be built and waste repaired.  It could contain carbon elements that are found in sugar, starch and fat, which the body will burn.<br><br>"The distinctness of these groups of foods," says Dr. Hunt, "and their relations to the tissue-producing and heat-evolving capacities of man, are so definite and so confirmed by experiments on animals and by manifold tests of scientific, physiological and clinical experience, that no attempt to discard the classification has prevailed. To draw so straight a line of demarcation as to limit the one entirely to tissue or cell production and the other to heat and force production through ordinary combustion and to deny any power of interchangeability under special demands or amid defective supply of one variety is, indeed, untenable. This does not in the least invalidate the fact that we are able to use these as ascertained landmarks". <br><br>How these substances when taken into the body, are assimilated and how they generate force, are well known to the chemist and physiologist, who is able, in the light of well-ascertained laws, to determine whether alcohol does or does not possess a food value. For years, the ablest men in the medical profession have given this subject the most careful study, and have subjected alcohol to every known test and experiment, and the result is that it has been, by common consent, excluded from the class of tissue-building foods. "We have never," says Dr. Hunt, "seen but a single suggestion that it could so act, and this a promiscuous guess. One writer (Hammond) thinks it possible that it may 'somehow' enter into combination with the products of decay in tissues, and 'under certain circumstances might yield their nitrogen to the construction of new tissues.' No parallel in organic chemistry, nor any evidence in animal chemistry, can be found to surround this guess with the areola of a possible hypothesis". <br><br>Dr. Richardson says: "Alcohol contains no nitrogen; it has none of the qualities of structure-building foods; it is incapable of being transformed into any of them; it is, therefore, not a food in any sense of its being a constructive agent in building up the body." Dr. W.B. Carpenter says: "Alcohol cannot supply anything which is essential to the true nutrition of the tissues." Dr. Liebig says: "Beer, wine, spirits, etc., furnish no element capable of entering into the composition of the blood, muscular fibre, or any part which is the seat of the principle of life." Dr. Hammond, in his Tribune Lectures, in which he advocates the use of alcohol in certain cases, says: "It is not demonstrable that alcohol undergoes conversion into tissue." Cameron, in his Manuel of Hygiene, says: "There is nothing in alcohol with which any part of the body can be nourished." Dr. E. Smith, F.R.S., says: "Alcohol is not a true food. It interferes with alimentation." Dr. T.K. Chambers says: "It is clear that we must cease to regard alcohol, as in any sense, a food". <br><br>"Not detecting in this substance," says Dr. Hunt, "any tissue-making ingredients, nor in its breaking up any combinations, such as we are able to trace in the cell foods, nor any evidence either in the experience of physiologists or the trials of alimentarians, it is not wonderful that in it we should find neither the expectancy nor the realization of constructive power." <br><br>Not finding in alcohol anything out of which the body can be built up or its waste supplied, it is next to be examined as to its heat-producing quality.<br><br><br /><br />--<br /><aDave Fitzgerald writes articles on health  and showing ways to live longer, happier and more successful in your everyday life. <br>You will find more articles at http://www.agingwellnesscenter.com/article_center.htm</a><br><br><br>Source: <a href="http://www.articletrader.com/">http://www.articletrader.com</a> ]]></description>
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<title>Do You Have An Appetite For Drinking?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ It is not as important to know your appetite for drinking, but how it can affect you.  Does it in fact control you or do you believe you control it.  This article is written to show how the urge to drink can be a downfall for a happy and long-lived life.<br><br>One fact resultant on chronic drinking stands out so noticeably that none can call it in question. It is that of the unwavering growth of appetite. There are exceptions, as in the spirit of almost every rule; but the all but invariable result of the habit we have mentioned, is, as we have said, an unwavering growth of appetite for to take in the stimulant. Any one who has made him/herself acquainted with the various functional and organic derangements that invariably follow the continued intake of this substance into the body will, hardly question that the alcohol itself in consequence of certain unhealthy changes in the physical state produces this. <br><br>But it is to the fact itself, not the cause that we now wish to direct your attention. The man or women, who is gratified at first with a single glass of wine at dinner, finds, after awhile, that desire might want a little more; and, in time, a second glass is conceded. At this point an increase of desire may be very slow, but it can go on surely until, it might in the end, a whole bottle will hardly suffice.   It doesn't matter what form of alcoholic beverage, this still can happen.  <br><br>Now, there are men and women so constituted that they are able, for a long string of years, or even for a entire lifetime, to hold this appetite within a determined limit of intake. To say "So far, and no farther." These men and women with this type of drinking habits, still have a long time contact with alcoholic poison.  Even if they believe they have their drinking habit under control the physical ailments brought on by their habit will still be detrimental to the body and shorten their life span. They do not become deserted drunkards; just go to the grave earlier than they should.<br><br>But no man or women who begins the use of alcohol in any form can tell what, in the end, is going to be its consequence on his or her body or mind.  The topic of alcoholism, with the rational and moral causes leading thereto, has attracted a great deal of serious attention. Physicians, superintendents of inebriate and mental asylums, prison-keepers, legislators and philanthropists have been observing and studying its many sad and terrible phases, and descriptive results and opinions. <br><br>While differences are held on some points, as, for instance, whether alcoholism is a disease for which, after it has been set in, the person ceases to be answerable, and should be subject to constraint and treatment, as for lunacy or fever; a crime to be punished; or a sin to be repented of and healed by the Physician of souls, all agree that there is an inborn or obtained mental and nervous state with many, which renders any use of alcohol considerably dangerous. <br><br>Dr. D.G. Dodge, late Superintendent of the New York State Inebriate Asylum, speaking of the causes leading to recklessness, after stating his belief that it is a transmittable disease, like "scrofula, gout or consumption," says: <br><br>"There are men who have an organization, which may be termed an alcoholic aberration; with them the latent desire for stimulants, if indulged, soon leads to habits of recklessness, and ultimately to a unhealthy appetite, which has all the characteristics of a diseased condition of the system, which the patient, unassisted, is powerless to relieve since the weakness of the will that led to the disease obstructs its removal."<br><br>It is not hard to find in the class of men and women, those who have had healthy parents, well educated and have had healthy social influences, moral and social, but whose character and physical constitution are such, that, when they once indulge in the use of alcohol, which they find pleasing, they continue to typically indulge until they no longer are social drinkers but exorbitant drinkers. An unrestrained appetite is established, that leads them on slowly, but surely, to destruction.<br><br>It is important that one watches his or her appetite for drinking; in many cases it can be fatal.  With this information I hope you can see where you stand and take action to insure that you have a long and happy life on this earth.<br><br><br><br /><br />--<br /><br><a Dave Fitzgerald writes articles on health  and showing ways to live longer, happier and more successful in your everyday life. <br>You will find more artices at http://www.agingwellnesscenter.com/article_center.htm</a><br><br>Source: <a href="http://www.articletrader.com/">http://www.articletrader.com</a> ]]></description>
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<title>How Does Alcohol Effect Your Body?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ There is nothing wrong with going out and having a couple of beers with the boys or girls once in awhile or having a quite night at home, have a drink with your wife or husband and enjoy the monument together. It is the constant drinking or heavy drinking which your body is unable to handle. So what really does happen to the body?<br><br>The action of alcohol on the stomach is extremely dangerous that it becomes unable to produce the natural digestive fluid in sufficient quantity and also fails to absorb the food, which it may imperfectly digest. A condition marked by the sense of nausea emptiness, an alcoholic will always face prostration and distention. This results in a loathing for food and is teased with a craving for more drink. Thus there is engendered a permanent disorder which is called dyspepsia. The disastrous forms of confirmed indigestion originate by this practice. <br><br>The organic deteriorations caused by the continued use of alcohol are often of a fatal character. The organ that most frequently undergoes structural changes from alcohol is the liver. Normally, the liver has the capacity to hold active substances in its cellular parts. In instances of poisoning by various poisonous compounds, we analyze liver as if it were the central depot of the foreign matter. It is practically the same in respect to alcohol. The liver of an alcoholic is never free from the influence of alcohol and it is too often saturated with it. The minute membranous or capsular structure of the liver gets affected, preventing proper dialysis and free secretion. The liver becomes large due to the dilatation of its vessels, the surcharge of fluid matter and the thickening of tissue. This follows contraction of membrane and shrinking of the whole organ in its cellular parts. Then the lower part of the alcoholic becomes dropsically owing to the obstruction offered to the returning blood by the veins. The structure of the liver may be charged with fatty cells and undergo what is technically designated 'fatty liver'. <br><br>The Kidneys also suffer due to the excessive consumption of alcohol. The vessels of Kidneys lose elasticity and power of contraction. The minute structures in them go through fatty modification. Albumin from the blood easily passes through their membranes. This results in the body losing its power as if it were being run out of blood gradually. <br><br>Alcohol relaxes the vessels of the lungs easily as they are most exposed to the fluctuations of heat and cold. When subjected to the effects of a rapid variation in atmospheric temperature, they get readily congested. During severe winter seasons, the suddenly fatal congestions of lungs easily affects an alcoholic. <br><br>Consumption of alcohol greatly affects the heart. The qualities of the membranous structures, which cover and line the heart changes and are thickened, become cartilaginous or calcareous. Then the valves lose their suppleness and what is termed valvular disorder becomes permanent. The structure of the coats of the great blood vessel leading from the heart share in the same changes of structure so that the vessel loses its elasticity and its power to feed the heart by the recoil from its distention, after the heart, by its stroke, has filled it with blood. <br><br>Again, the muscular structure of the heart fails owing to degenerative changes in its tissue. Fatty cells replace the elements of the muscular fibre or, if not so replaced, are themselves transferred into a modified muscular texture in which the power of contraction is greatly reduced. <br><br>Those who suffer from these organic deteriorations of the central and governing organ of the circulation of the blood learn the fact so insidiously; it hardly breaks upon them until the mischief is far advanced. They are conscious of a central failure of power from slight causes such as overexertion, trouble, broken rest or too long abstinence from food. They feel what they call a 'sinking' but they know that wine or some other stimulant will at once relieve the sensation. Thus they seek to relieve it until at last they discover that the remedy fails. The jaded, overworked, faithful heart will bear no more. It has run its course and the governor of the blood streams broken. The current either overflows into the tissues gradually damming up the courses or under some slight shock or excess of motion ceases wholly at the center.<br><br>As you can see the fatal affects that are caused by excess drinking. The abuse of the body will only lead to a much shorter life on earth.<br><br><br /><br />--<br /><a Dave Fitzgerald writes articles on health  and showing ways to live longer, happier and more successful in your everyday life. <br>You will find more articles at http://www.agingwellnesscenter.com/article_center.htm</a><br><br>Source: <a href="http://www.articletrader.com/">http://www.articletrader.com</a> ]]></description>
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<title>Considering Protective in Getting Rid of Anxiety and Panic</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 03 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ One the basic defense mechanism we have within our selves is call Protective.  Protective is more than just a defense mechanism for it has a caring nature.  Like, you might say, a knight it shields and protects you.  This is why it is such an aid in help eliminating anxiety and panic. By learning to protect self, your being you will find fewer problems in life.  For example, smoking can cause anxiety and panic because it will affect your health.  You are not protecting your health.  Drinking excessively can be harmful to your health, but if you reduce your intake you are basically protecting self from harm.<br><br>Most times people deal with dread, fear, worry, anxiety, stress, and the like failing to see the reality and imagined triggers that stimulate the emotions. Most times the person will run to escape the feelings, rather than learning to deal with them as they come along. <br><br>Panic is real when you come face to face with a serial killer, however panic is not real when a bill comes along and you have less than a week to pay the darn thing. Most times, if you dig up resources, ask questions and the like you will find a solution to your problem. Likewise, fear is real when you come face to face with a rapist or murderer; however, fear is not real when you have a bill. Bills are a part of life, and most times when we do not have the money now we can make arrangements. Thus, think before you allow panic and anxiety to control your life. <br><br>Therefore, we are going to take a test. <br><br>Test: <br><br>I have the choice to decide what is right for me and what affects my life. True or False <br><br>False, did you know your choices in life often are trampled down by influences? You do have limited choices, but most of all your choices are controlled. <br><br>Did you know that most people could care less about what happens to the next person? Yes or NO <br><br>Yes, it is a fact that most people will not go out of their way to care for you as a person. History shows this logic plain and clear. <br><br>We are all related in some way or another through hereditary. True or False <br><br>True, we are all related, since the first creation of man's roots or genes come forward to us all. <br><br>Do the dead go to hell or heaven? Yes or No <br><br>No, the dead are buried and conscious of nothing, which you can check the facts. <br><br>Notice the last question is in the form of religion. Why? Because most problems come from misbelieves in religion form. Thus, it pays to study, learn, and weigh out the truths, since false religion is one of the primary sources that lead to many problems. <br><br>Still, we have other issues that we want to consider. The mind is full with influences, false beliefs and the like. Thus, you have to establish truth within you and remove the lies to help ease the mind. Lies is evil, thus removing them will help you eliminate anxiety and panic. <br><br>Overall, you have to protect self and your mind and body from harmful elements of life to avoid panic and anxiety. Still, at some point or another you will experience chaos, yet it is up to you to deal with it, or let it deal with you.<br><br><br /><br />--<br /><a Dave Fitzgerald writes articles on Health to help improve as well as  inform people, hoping that the information will bring them a healthier and happier life.For more information on health go to: href=http://www.delvebookstore.com/health.htm</a><br><br>Source: <a href="http://www.articletrader.com/">http://www.articletrader.com</a> ]]></description>
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<title>Don't Dodge Your Emotions</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Do you dodge things that strike your emotions?  I'm sure occasionally you do, it only being human.  <br>However this could lead to problems.  You have heard it once if not a thousand times, it is better to face a <br>problem than to dismiss it.  For in real life eliminating panic and anxiety, are address issues at hand.  <br><br>Facing your problems in reality you are facing your fears.Dodging is the approach of evading what you fear. When you start dodging bullets the bullets in time will aim, hit, and fire. Once the bullets start going off they usually shoots in numbers, thus building up fire to hit the objective. What you have to do is reverse those bullets and aim them in different direction. In other words, probe the mind for new ideas that will aid you to a better self. If you work to a better self, you will before long see anxiety and panic redirecting its bullets to another individual searching to get rid of anxiety and panic. <br><br>Bullets when they hit the fan will cause tremendous pain, thus avoidance is bullets that hit, hit, and at last <br>burn out your emotions. The feelings are powerful and if you get control of your feelings, you will sense an enormous power within. Emotions portray feelings, sentiment, sensations, and passion. Sentiments bring responses, reactions, attitudes, opinions, and outlooks. Sensations are our feeling that helps us to sense while voicing impressions, delivering awareness, conscious and so forth. <br><br>One of the larger problems in life is people fail to learn to understand self. Often the reason is understood; such as they do not want the big answerability that comes along with knowing self. Answerability includes liability, blame, and accountability, which is a deep peril to the emotions. The answer is learning to accept, understand, and go with it. If you face responsibility, you will before long face consciousness, reliability, and trustworthiness. So, what are you afraid of, taking responsibility? <br><br>We advance from a existence that breaks us down mentally, and tears us apart like shreds. Each day we <br>survive another bullet goes in our soul (body) making us turn another way and try to avoid the reality <br>collision. Impacts often hit the emotions leading to reactions, which move to consequences. Thus, if you <br>educate the mind to learn that reactions move to consequences and consequences move to responsibility you have a chance. <br><br>What an astonishing finding if you just abandon dodging, wake up, and create a new you. If you are fearful to discover who you are, be prepared, for the rest of your life you will possess major problems. Now if you believe responsibility is bad, try unending problems, and see what you come up with. You can measure the value and come up with a formidable product. It takes you to refrain the bullets from firing in your direction. <br><br>If you believe you are at war now, keep turning your back on problems and one day you will wake up in a <br>bona fide war. Life is a holiday, or else a dark Monday. If you look at life as a holiday, often you will find your mind sense less stress, which eliminates panic and anxiety. Anxiety is to be anxious. Now and then we fuss or worry over things we have no control over more than often we worry over things we do have control. <br><br>It takes you to secure your control and live your life by taking responsibilities while stopping the avoidance to influence your life. If you sit down and think of how you react to your emotions you will soon see that most of the times your feelings control you, take control now and stop avoiding.<br><br /><br />--<br /><a Dave Fitzgerald writes articles on Health to help improve as well as  inform people, hoping that the information will bring them a healthier and happier life.<br>For more information on health go to: href=http://www.delvebookstore.com/health.htm</a><br><br>Source: <a href="http://www.articletrader.com/">http://www.articletrader.com</a> ]]></description>
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