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While awareness is growing about the many toxic chemicals that exist outside the home, an equally dangerous menace exists within the home. Many products that we invite into our homes and use on a daily basis have hidden ingredients that pose another dangerous threat to our children’s health as well as our own. The very commercial products that we spray, splash, wash with, rub on, and get pretty with harbor a more sinister side. Men in white lab coats whip up chemical concoctions that are designed to be used either in the home or on our body. While we naively accept advertising enticements, most people are unaware that personal care products are part of an unregulated industry, which incorporates known carcinogenic and hormone-disrupting chemicals.

Journalist Joel Beliefs of the Chicago Tribune wrote the following expose called “Take a Powder” providing an inside peek in the hidden world of personal care products.

Do you use toothpaste, shampoo, sunscreen, body lotion, body talc, makeup, or hair dye? These are among the personal care products the American consumer has been led to believe are safe but that are often contaminated with carcinogenic byproducts, or that contain substances that regularly react to form potent carcinogens during storage and use.

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WHEN William James wrote his classic Principles of Psychology in 1890, he devoted only two pages to “love.” While noting the connection- between love and “sexual impulses,” James observed, “These details are a little unpleasant to discuss.” D. H. Lawrence, the English novelist, was much less timid in dealing with this topic. In Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1926), he suggested that love depends on being uninhibited in all respects, as illustrated in this bit of dialogue between Lady Chatterley and Mellors, her lover:

“But what do you believe in,” she insisted. “I don’t know.”

“Nothing, like all the men I’ve ever known,” she said.

They were both silent. Then he roused himself and said: “Yes, I do believe in something. I believe in being warm-hearted. I believe especially in being warm-hearted in love, in fucking with a warm heart. I believe if men could fuck with warm hearts, and the women take it warmheartedly everything would come out all right. It’s all this cold-hearted fucking that is death and idiocy.”

Until very recently, the topic of love was more in the province of writers, poets, and philosophers than in the minds of psychologists and scientists. Even though it has been said that “love makes the world go round,” few sexologists (including ourselves) have addressed this subject in any detail. Nevertheless, we have all felt love in one way or another. Many of us have dreamed of it, struggled with it, or basked in its radiant pleasures. It is also safe to say that most of us have been confused by it too.

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What is a normal blood glucose level?

Normal blood glucose levels after an overnight fast in a person over the age of 1 year are 70 to 100 mg/dl (milligrams per deciliter). A deciliter is one-tenth of a liter, or about one-half cup

Levels higher than 140 mg/dl measured on two separate occasions are considered indicative of diabetes

Signs and symptoms of diabetes mellitus

The American Diabetes Association estimates that 5 to 7 million Americans have diabetes but do not know it. Mild

diabetes may produce no symptoms for years. People who are older than 40, are overweight or obese, and have a family history of diabetes have the greatest chance for development of type II diabetes.

Signs and symptoms of type I diabetes usually appear relatively suddenly:

Increased thirst

Increased volume and frequency of urination

Weight loss despite increased appetite

Fatigue

Signs and symptoms of type II diabetes usually develop more gradually and may be subtle. They include any of the above signs and symptoms (except weight loss) and the following:

Frequent or slow-to-heal infections, particularly vaginitis, skin or gum infections, or bladder infections

Blurred vision

Tingling or numbness in the hands or feet

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