Learning how to dress your particular body type puts you at a distinct advantage. You not only know yourself better but you also know how to make yourself look better in clothing. We have only 10 seconds to make a first impression on our future friends and relatives – and that impression is often made before we even open our mouths. But, we not only impact the way that others view and treat us by dressing well, we also impact our own body image, self-perception, confidence and power by the way that we feel in our clothing.

So what do you do when you have an apple shaped figure that is larger on the top than it is on the bottom. This translates into a body that has broad shoulders, a large bust line, narrow hips and slim legs. If you are a man this is the best figure to have (minus the bust line of course!). However, if you are a woman you come off looking top-heavy and short.

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When we see symptoms like cold hands and feet, low body temperature, sensitivity to cold, a feeling of always being chilled, headaches, sleeplessness, coarse skin, swollen eyes, loss of hair, fragile nails, joint aches, constipation, mental tedium, fatigue, repeated infections, croaky voice, ringing in the ears, dizziness, loss of libido, or uncontrollable weight gain, we hardly associate them with any thyroid dysfunction.

This, above all is the main reason behind thyroid diseases like hypothyroidism being amongst the most under diagnosed diseases. There are convincing indications that thyroid diseases are assuming alarming proportions in lot many countries without people being aware of it. The worst part is that the laboratory blood tests too lead to confusion, as even normal levels of hormone balance are not definite indications of absence of thyroid dysfunction.

There is usually a hidden fear that makes a majority of people avoid clinical investigation since they do not want to undergo hormonal thyroid medications. The irony is that the thyroid treatmentcan be as simple as a regulated change in diet. Although the matter needs more research, it is generally accepted that diet plays a significant role in thyroid health.

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Ingredients:

* 3 d. basil oil
* 3 d. rosemary oil
* 2 d. lemon oil
* 1 oz of water

Directions:

Blend ingredients in a small spray bottle. Use throughout the day by spritizing your work or home area. You can also spray some on a Kleenex or cotton pad and keep it in a plastic baggie. Open the baggie and inhale deeply 3-4 times through your nose as needed.

Originally posted 2006-01-16 16:39:30.

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Have you ever picked up a pair of pants at the store that you just knew was going to look great on your body. You get it home and try it on, only to find that it doesn’t look the same on you as it did on the mannequin. We are all created differently, we have different body types, different body shapes and different body sizes. Thankfully, manufacturers recognize this and although designers dress pencil thin models there are close on the rack that fit the rest of us regular people.

Each body size and body type has its own solution that will flatter your figure and not the figure of the mannequin in the store. Women who are bottom heavy have unique challenges. Being bottom heavy means that your top half is leaner and longer and you begin to widen at the waist, hips and bottom. This is also called pear-shape.

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Having more than one child is a challenge. Okay, having one child is a challenge, having two or more is a monumental challenge. When one of those children (or more than one) has ADHD, the challenge multiplies exponentially. Below are some tips for handling ADHD in the family.

1. Be fair to all of your children. This means treating the ADHD child as equally as possible, of course. It also means treating the non-ADHD children fairly. Sometimes I let my son get away with things I shouldn’t because I know he’s having a bad day. That’s okay, I think, as long as I’m willing to make the same allowances for my daughter, who doesn’t have ADHD. Alternately, sometimes I’m harder on my son and react more strongly, because his ADHD makes him harder to cope with some days. It’s a matter of finding balance and being fair.

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“I just finished reading this book and I have decided that I am ADD.”

My client announced this to me at the opening of a counseling session. He then proceeded to talk to me about what the book said and how it made so much sense when he looked back on his life. His wife was quick to agree that it also made sense to her, especially around the area of certain behaviors, some of which had brought them to my doorstep. In my role as a spiritual coach and counselor, they had come to me to help them with frustrations in their personal spiritual growth as well as with stagnation in their marriage.

Interestingly, I did something that I would not normally do in this kind of session. I was very drawn to do an energetic “scan” of my client, utilizing my experience and talent as a medical intuitive. I began to describe what I was seeing. He verified that some of this was referred to in the book, but I was also getting more information in greater depth. Before I was finished he knew I truly understood how he felt and what was going on within his brain. Between the book and the information I retrieved, we were able to create an understanding within his wife, which then began a renaissance within the marriage.

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Do you like what you see when you look in the mirror? Your body image is not dependent upon your size, your muscle development or how many rolls you have around your waist in fact, it is really not based on what you see in the mirror but rather on what you perceive in your mind’s eye.

Women who have a positive body image have a real perception of what their actual size and shape our, they are also very comfortable with it as well. Each of us are individuals. We cannot look like the most recent top model nor can we imitate the walk of the most popular actress. Much like our shoe size and shape is individual to our body so is our body shape unique to ourselves.

Psychologists recognize that men and women who have a negative self-image or body image often have a distorted view of their actual shape and size as it compares to others. Women, especially, will feel ashamed or anxious about their bodies that results in an altered social situations, such as not going to the pool, or altered eating habits, such as an eating disorder. Men and women who suffer from poor body image can also experience depression, low self-esteem, anxiety and extreme dieting.

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There are different kinds of eye diseases that are linked to hyperthyroidism, an over active thyroid. Thyroid problems can give rise to the following ophthalmic conditions:

* Thyroid eye disease.
* Thyroid-associated orbitopathy
* Graves eye disease.
* Graves orbitopathy

(€˜Orbit ‘ in this context refers to the bony cavity in the skull containing the eyeball).

Thyroid eye disease can be present without any outward evidence of thyroid dysfunction. It can also precede, succeed or occur simultaneously with hyperthyroidism. It is an autoimmune disorder caused by a reaction of antibodies, lymphocytes, proteins, connective tissue and fat around the eyeball.

The most prominent symptom of a hyperthyroid related eye disease is bulging eyes that give an appearance of a round eyed stare. The patient may feel pain while moving the eyeball in any direction. Other issues that can also surface are diplopia (double vision) and itchiness or irritation in the eye.

Treatment options for the condition are based on the specific symptoms that the patient demonstrates.

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Excessive vaginal discharge in addition to your regular menstrual cycle could be quite troublesome if proper care is not being taken by you. This bleeding occurs from the vagina during menstrual periods but is heavier than normal discharge.

Abnormal bleeding of the vagina is caused due to factors such as intake of contraceptive pills causing bleeding during normal periods, hormonal problems produced by thyroid, pituitary glands, and ovaries. Other sexually transmitted diseases are caused by infections of the vagina, uterus, cervix, ovaries and fallopian tubes. A miscarriage is caused by a heavy period after one missed period of a woman.

If you face heavy bleeding in between your normal periods that do not last for a long time then it is not necessarily that you have some critical disease. This might be caused due to scars, tumors or growth of abnormal tissue on the cervix but regular prolonged heavy vaginal bleeding needs attention. You should get proper check up because sometimes it might be due to growths in the uterine lining which may or may not be cancer.

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Psychologists are finding that eating disorders are becoming more and more prevalent in teenagers and older children. There are often several factors that contribute to the development of eating disorders that include psychological, sociological, familial and media images. In fact, many of today’s psychologists blame the increased number of younger children and teenagers who are experiencing symptoms of eating disorders on the media’s per trail of the “perfect” body. With the increasing technology available to media producers they are able to airbrush models who are already a size 0 into an even smaller size.

Of course, the causes of eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia and compulsive eating disorder, are much more complex than to be blamed on just what people see on the television or what is published in magazines. However, one of the factors which is important in the development of an eating disorder is the belief that an individual’s body type does not meet the perfect standard. With the advance of Twiggy (super thin model extraordinaire) more and more people, the media included, are perpetuating the myth that the only beautiful people are thin people.

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