Psyllium seeds are so rich in fiber that it has been prescribed for constipation and other digestive complaints for nearly 500 years. During the Middle Ages in Europe, Arab physicians sold a constipation remedy called diagridium and psyllium was one of the main ingredients.
The small, reddish seeds are nearly odourless and tasteless and come from the Plantago psyllium plant. Another name for the psyllium plant is plantain, but is should not be confused with the edible banana-like fruit of the same name or the herb plantain.
Plantago is grown commercially in Spain, France, India and other countries. Various species of this plant is used in herbal medicine, but the most commonly used are the seeds of the Plantago psyllium plant and P. ovata. The seeds are generally dried, ground and sold in a powder form and are sometimes added to breakfast cereals.
The fibrous husk of psyllium seeds form a gel like mass when mixed with water that then absorbs excess water from the intestines and makes, larger, softer stools. Psyllium also helps to lower cholesterol by binding to cholesterol-rich bile, drawing cholesterol from your bloodstream. This kind of water-soluble fiber is suitable for people who do not eat a diet high in fiber.
In 1998, the US Food and Drug Administration allowed breakfast cereals to claim that it can reduce the risk of heart disease by lowering cholesterol. To be able to state this claim, breakfast cereals had to contain at least 1,7 g of soluble fiber from psyllium per serving.
Psyllium can help with a wide variety of disorders such as constipation, diarrea, irritable bowel syndrome, diverticulosis and haemorrhoids. This herbal medicine works by absorbing water makes larger stools. If you suffer from constipation, the added water will soften stools, making it simpler to pass. This is helpful to reduce the irritation experienced by people who have haemorrhoids.
By speeding up the passing of stools through the intestine, psyllium is beneficial to people who suffer from diverticular disease. This disease causes faecal particles to become trapped in small pockets in the intestine’s lining, causing infection and pain.
Psyllium’s ability to absorb excess water from loose stools makes it an ideal treatment for diarrea.
Only in the 1980′s did scientists learn another benefit of this herbal medicine: it lowers blood cholesterol levels, especially the terrible cholesterol (LDL) that can lead to heart disease. By simply adding psyllium to a low-stout diet, you can significantly reduce cholesterol levels, eliminating the need for prescription medications.
Weight-loss programmes recommend the addition of psyllium to a low-stout diet. By absorbing water, it fills your stomach and provides a sense of fullness, causing you to eat less. This herbal supplement also delays the emptying of food from your stomach, making you feel full for longer. In a small British study, women who took a psyllium supplement with water three hours before a meal, absorbed less stout and less kilojoules from food. Psyllium also stabilizes blood sugar levels, thereby controlling food cravings.
Please consult your medical practitioner prior to using any herbal medications should you be under their care.
Psyllium supplements can temporarily cause bloating and flatulence because it supplies fiber. You can avoid these unpleasant side effects by slowly increasing your psyllium intake over a period of several days.
Do not take doses higher than recommend as this can cause certain minerals not to be absorbed by your body.
Should you experience difficulty breathing or swallowing after taking psyllium herbal supplements, seek medical attention immediately as you may be allergic to psyllium.
The recommended dosage is one to three tablespoons of psyllium powder two to three times a day. Do not exceed 30 g a day.
It usually takes 12 to 24 hours to get relief from constipation and sometimes can take as long as three days. Ensure that you take psyllium supplements with plenty of water. Dissolve psyllium powder in a glass of water and then drink another glass of water immediately after.
Do not take any other medications with psyllium herbal supplements as this can delay the medications from being absorbed.
If you are pregnant and suffering from constipation, consult your medical practitioner before taking psyllium supplements.
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I do not know if the Expelled team used deceptive methods or not.
Look up the information for yourself. I have given you plenty of places to start your search to come to your own conclusion.
If you want to defend the movie or the people involved with the movie you should know the facts.
Without knowing the facts, when you make statements such as this:
Really, all of the people interviewed for Expelled signed off on it. People like Dawkins do these things all the time and likely didn’t reckon much of it. They simply NEVER QUESTIONED what the film was for.
It tends to make you sound ignorant, since the evidence is quite simple to find, and the producers of the movie do not even deny their tactics (they do try to “spin” them, but they do not deny them.
I also do not know who on the team claims to be a Christian.
Really, pretty much everybody involved in the creation of the “movie”, including the producers and Ben Stein.
Why do you bring it up?
Because christians tend to claim what they says is the moral high ground (i.e. anti-choice for expectant mothers, homophobic legislation to ban gay marriage, etc) so when these same people use deceitful tactics to push their agenda forward, it should be pointed out that it goes against what they CLAIM is the foundation of their religious faith.
If I make a claim that my faith tells me to not smoke, and you catch me smoking, you have EVERY right ot call me a hypocrite, and you would be right in doing so.
I would be completely against the team lying to get what they wanted.
Then once again, I would advise you to look up the information for yourself, so you can be informed of their tactics, before you attempt to defend them in the future.
I know you probably won't take my word on this topic, which is why I have been attempting to show you other places to look. Take the time to follow the links through the wiki page, and expelledexposed.com and read all of the information (both pro and con towards the makers of the “movie”). Once you have all of the information from what you would consider to be trusted (i.e. unbiased) sources (NYT, USA Today, Chicago Tribune, etc) then I reckon you'll be in a position to either defend Ben Stein and the rest of the producers, or dismiss their tactics as unethical.
Do you consider yourself to be a excellent person?
Yes
Check out the excellent person test…
The first page that comes up for that link questions if you are “excellent enough to go to heaven”. I don not believe in the christian view of a heaven and hell, and therefor, I'm not sure what point there is in that survey for myself.
If a christian view of the world is required ot be a excellent person, then the overwhelming majority of the planet are not “excellent” people by those standards, despite any efforts they make in their lives ot improve the world.
For instance if worshiping jesus is a requirement, then Thomas Jefferson and Gandhi would both be considered to not be excellent people. And yet, most rational people, looking at the works of these two people, would agree that by and large, both men were fantastic men who did much towards the improvement of those around them, and in some part, the world at large.
As well, I find it hard to take seriously Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort when they make claims like these:
Specifically, the simplest, and least controversial criticism of their arguments:
The next point to make is about the banana, as we know of them in the western world, being made by god. As many people with an understanding of biology can attest there is a well known history of how we got what we know of as bananas.
From a National Geographic article on some of the potential threats to bananas:
The domestic banana that we know and like is an asexual clone, one that results from the sedate, artificial act of vegetative propagation…
How the banana has got away without sex for so many thousands of years owes much to the hand of man. Although wild bananas do pollinate their flowers—having the botanical equivalent of sex—their fruit is packed full of peppercorn-hard seeds, making them inedible…
The soft, yellow flesh of the edible varieties is the result of a mutation many thousands of years ago that rendered the fruits of these plants sterile…
There is, in fact, nothing very natural about the banana…
Another article that does a excellent job describing the history of the banana is from a Washington and Lee University student:
The banana originated from seed bearing relatives in south-east Asia and the Pacific. The wild relatives were inedible, but a cross between two produced a sterile plant that has developed or been shaped into the varieties of edible banana and plantain growing today.
So then we can see that wild bananas, “as God intended them”, have seeds and are inedible. With even a minimal amount of research before they aired their program they could have avoided such an obviously flawed argument.
Any group that would make such obviously flawed arguments I personally reckon is not really deserving of much time., and certainly not worth listening to their uneducated propaganda.]]>
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I do not know if the Expelled team used deceptive methods or not.
Look up the information for yourself. I have given you plenty of places to start your search to come to your own conclusion.
If you want to defend the movie or the people involved with the movie you should know the facts.
Without knowing the facts, when you make statements such as this:
Really, all of the people interviewed for Expelled signed off on it. People like Dawkins do these things all the time and likely didn’t reckon much of it. They simply NEVER QUESTIONED what the film was for.
It tends to make you sound ignorant, since the evidence is quite simple to find, and the producers of the movie do not even deny their tactics (they do try to “spin” them, but they do not deny them.
I also do not know who on the team claims to be a Christian.
Really, pretty much everybody involved in the creation of the “movie”, including the producers and Ben Stein.
Why do you bring it up?
Because christians tend to claim what they says is the moral high ground (i.e. anti-choice for expectant mothers, homophobic legislation to ban gay marriage, etc) so when these same people use deceitful tactics to push their agenda forward, it should be pointed out that it goes against what they CLAIM is the foundation of their religious faith.
If I make a claim that my faith tells me to not smoke, and you catch me smoking, you have EVERY right ot call me a hypocrite, and you would be right in doing so.
I would be completely against the team lying to get what they wanted.
Then once again, I would advise you to look up the information for yourself, so you can be informed of their tactics, before you attempt to defend them in the future.
I know you probably won't take my word on this topic, which is why I have been attempting to show you other places to look. Take the time to follow the links through the wiki page, and expelledexposed.com and read all of the information (both pro and con towards the makers of the “movie”). Once you have all of the information from what you would consider to be trusted (i.e. unbiased) sources (NYT, USA Today, Chicago Tribune, etc) then I reckon you'll be in a position to either defend Ben Stein and the rest of the producers, or dismiss their tactics as unethical.
Do you consider yourself to be a excellent person?
Yes
Check out the excellent person test…
The first page that comes up for that link questions if you are “excellent enough to go to heaven”. I don not believe in the christian view of a heaven and hell, and therefor, I'm not sure what point there is in that survey for myself.
If a christian view of the world is required ot be a excellent person, then the overwhelming majority of the planet are not “excellent” people by those standards, despite any efforts they make in their lives ot improve the world.
For instance if worshiping jesus is a requirement, then Thomas Jefferson and Gandhi would both be considered to not be excellent people. And yet, most rational people, looking at the works of these two people, would agree that by and large, both men were fantastic men who did much towards the improvement of those around them, and in some part, the world at large.
As well, I find it hard to take seriously Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort when they make claims like these:
Specifically, the simplest, and least controversial criticism of their arguments:
The next point to make is about the banana, as we know of them in the western world, being made by god. As many people with an understanding of biology can attest there is a well known history of how we got what we know of as bananas.
From a National Geographic article on some of the potential threats to bananas:
The domestic banana that we know and like is an asexual clone, one that results from the sedate, artificial act of vegetative propagation…
How the banana has got away without sex for so many thousands of years owes much to the hand of man. Although wild bananas do pollinate their flowers—having the botanical equivalent of sex—their fruit is packed full of peppercorn-hard seeds, making them inedible…
The soft, yellow flesh of the edible varieties is the result of a mutation many thousands of years ago that rendered the fruits of these plants sterile…
There is, in fact, nothing very natural about the banana…
Another article that does a excellent job describing the history of the banana is from a Washington and Lee University student:
The banana originated from seed bearing relatives in south-east Asia and the Pacific. The wild relatives were inedible, but a cross between two produced a sterile plant that has developed or been shaped into the varieties of edible banana and plantain growing today.
So then we can see that wild bananas, “as God intended them”, have seeds and are inedible. With even a minimal amount of research before they aired their program they could have avoided such an obviously flawed argument.
Any group that would make such obviously flawed arguments I personally reckon is not really deserving of much time., and certainly not worth listening to their uneducated propaganda.]]>
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salalao, my dad has a green thumb and only waters it once a week. He'd take it to the kitchen sink, let the water run through it and leave it there for a couple of minutes till the excess water drain out real excellent, then take it back. The Orchid sits next to the window where it gets plenty of morning sunlight. I don't reckon he talks to it though.
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Mr. Obama proposes to base Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements to hospitals and doctors on patient outcomes (lower cholesterol readings, made and kept follow-up appointments) in a coordinated effort to focus the entire payment system around better health, not just more care.
More details please. In theory this sounds excellent, but in practice I can't see how you would base reimbursement on outcomes rather than procedures performed. Even in careful studies about outcomes of medical care, there are often huge issues of selection bias and endogeneity bias here. How could you meaningfully measure outcomes for every individual doctor in the country?
Besides, given the fact that conventional wisdom is often incorrect — see Gary Taubes, “Excellent Calories, Terrible Calories” — I'd despise to see the massive weight of the government providing an incentive to produce “outcomes” that aren't really beneficial at all. If the government said, “You get paid only when blood cholesterol goes down,” that would provide a mis-incentive to overuse statins, which do lower cholesterol but have small proven benefit as to longevity or mortality.
Paying by procedure isn't ideal by any means, but I'd be very wary of the suggestion that paying for “outcomes” is an improvement.]]>
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I have lost a lot of weight following a Low Stout diet and I've been able to maintain that weight loss for over 6 years. The type of Low Stout diet I followed (and the type that any credible health professional would recommend) is centered on a plant-based diet consisting of fruits, veggies and whole grain products. Aren't those natural/whole foods?Sure there are packaged/processed products on the market, being marketed as Low Stout, but you won't find many credible health professionals associated with a Low Stout lifestyle who would recommend these as part of a legit Low Stout diet.Also how come your entry makes no mention of the packaged/processed Low Carb foods on the market, such as Atkins Advantage Bars or Low Carb candy bars?Aren't these also unhealthy, packaged processed foods?]]>
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