SOFT TISSUES INJURIES

SOFT TISSUES INJURIES

Sternocleidomastoid Muscle Injury: Manifested by a lump, this is a result of birth trauma or abnormal intrauterine position. After enlarging initially, the hematoma subsides gradually. Passive physiotherapy is recommended. Surgery is considered if torticollis develops.

Nutritional Sources

Nutritional Sources

Legumes, especially soybeans, pack an extra nutritional punch because they are rich sources two groups of phytochemicals called phytoestrogens and phytosterols that lower the risk of developing breast cancer and heart disease. (The phytoestrogens in soy products also might help curb hot flashes associated with menopause.) Preliminary evidence suggests that as little as 15 ounces of soy milk or 2 ounces tofu daily is enough to reap the health benefits of these phytochemicals.

Another important dietary strategy is to avoid foods that generate free radicals, such as fried foods, processed foods made with oils, and fatty foods in general.

Antioxidants

Antioxidants

Luckily, the body has an antioxidant system, comprised of vitamins, minerals, enzymes, and other compounds, that sweeps up and deactivates free radicals. The most potent of the dietary antioxidants are vitamin C, vitamin E, beta-carotene, selenium, and a group of health-enhancing compounds called phytochemicals found in fruits and vegetables, beans, garlic, and green tea. Stockpiling a strong antioxidant defense by consuming foods rich in the antioxidants helps slow or even half free-radical damage to the tissues.

Sodium Sources

Sodium Sources

Try to keep your sodium intake to less than about 2,400 milligrams a day with this in mind. Table salt, soy sauce, pickled foods, most canned soups, luncheon meats, snack chips, and processed cheese are the most prolific sodium sources.

Kidney Stones

kidney stones

Walk away from stones. Last but not least, exercise may help us flex our muscles against kidney stones. Exercise increases the uptake of calcium by the bones. That helps decrease the amount of calcium that ever makes it to the kidneys or the urine in the first place.

Lactose in Children

Lactose in Children

It is true that plenty of us lack the enzyme lactose, which handily breaks down lactose before it even reaches our small intestines. With rare exception, we're equipped with it as children.

But as we grow up, we begin to lose this enzyme. By age five or six, 70 percent of the world's population-including about 50 million Americans-don't have it.

Lactose intolerance

Lactose intolerance

Lactose intolerance means having gas or other symptoms specifically because of the inability to break down and digest lactose-the sugar found in milk and other dairy products. Researchers are finding, however, that some people who believe that they are lactose intolerant actually can digest lactose without experiencing any problems. Perhaps more surrprisingly, they're also finding that even people with diagnosed lactose intolerance have few or no symptoms after drinking a cup of milk or more.

Symptoms

Symptoms

Even if you lack the enzyme, however, that doesn't mean you will get symptoms after drinking milk. "The body has other mechanisms to avoid these symptoms, and most of the people we have tested can tolerate 2 cup of milk a day," Says Dr. Suarez. He has studied people who have trouble digesting lactose and found that besides the 2 cups of milk, they can eat 8 ounces of yogurt and 2 ounces of cheese daily with only minor symptoms.

Drank Milk

Drank Milk

And even those who were lactose maldigesters-unable to break down lactose-had the same symptoms whether they drank milk or another substance that looked and tasted like milk, even though it didn't have any lactose in it. Apparently, says Dr. Suarez, they were mistaking symptoms of something else for lactose intolerence. In another study, Dr. Suarez found that lactose maldigesters can tolerate 2 cups of milk a day. Other who thought they were lactose intolerant did have some flatulence, but it occurred whether or not they had a food or beverage containing lactose.

Ingesting Dairy Products

Ingesting Dairy Products

If you experience discomfort after ingesting dairy products, you probably avoid them like the plague. That's the wrong approach. Few of us give our intestines much thought, but the fact is they have bacteria whose job is to break down things such as lactose. And with some gentle encouragement-namely, a steady dose of lactose-these bacteria multiply to help handle the job. In a study at Kent State, when people who could not digest lactose received daily doses of lactose, after three days the number of bacteria that help break down lactose had tripled.

Lactose Produce

Lactose Produce

At first, the bacteria working on the lactose produce significant gas, but that abates, too. After 10 days of daily doses of lactose, symptoms of gas frequency and severity decreased by half.

African American Teenage Girls

African American Teenage Girls

This was also shown in a three-week study of 17 African American teenage girls at Purdue University in Lafayette, Indiana, 14 of whom could not break down lactose. They received a high-calcium, dairy-based diet that gave them 1,300 daily milligrams of calcium, and their symptoms decreased markedly after three weeks.

Less Estrogen

Less Estrogen

Although doctors aren't really sure why, in her 30s a women's ovaries begin to produce less estrogen and progesterone. In their late 30s, some women may not ovulate each month.

Fruits and Vegetables Low in Oxalate

 Fruits and Vegetables Low in Oxalate

Fruits and vegetables low in oxalate include broccoli, brussels sprouts, lettuce, mushrooms, turnips, cabbage, cauliflower, radishes, and peas in the vegetable family, and such fruits as oranges, grapefruit, peaches, plums, mangoes, melons.

High Oxalate Foods

High Oxalate Foods

Give a red light to foods high in oxalate. "We now feel that urinary oxalate may play an even more important role than urinary calcium in the process of stone formation."

Calcium rich foods

Calcium rich foods

Calcium rich foods appear to decrease the body's absorption and hence presence in the urine of potentially troublesome oxalates.

Drinks Risks

Drinks Risks

Drink lots fluids. This is without a doubt the single most valuable piece of advice someone worried about kidney stones can follow.

Urine and Blood

Urine and Blood

If you currently have a stone, or have had one in the past, you should see your doctor for urine and blood tests on which dietary recommendations can then be based.

Simple Eating

Simple Eating

But simply eating the right foods isn't enough. You must learn to eat in a habits of many people, and you can understand how digestive disorders develop. Grabbing meals at crowded fast-food restaurants doesn't help. Neither does eating while working or while the kids are screaming.

Diarrhea Attacks

Diarrhea Attacks

And because fiber speeds up the passage of food through the digestive system, it conditions the muscles of the large intestine to work normally. And this, explains doctor Guillory, helps reduce the spestic attacks that bring on diarrhea.