An aftercare plan should ensure that you feel supported, and have somewhere safe to turn when you feel unsafe, or get feelings about relapsing. It should also ensure that you have a good support system, in your family and friends. Your aftercare plan should be decided upon prior to leaving ...
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I’ve now suggested that he monitor his drinking and write down when he drinks - just for his own benefit, not to be shared with me. I’ve also told him that if he doesn’t do this, I no longer want to be married to him, as I can’t be with an alcoholic. Am I overreacting...
Create an accurate record of the care he's received, his meals, and when doctors and nurses attended him. You will need that record if you want to dispute anything. 3. Safeguard him from everything that is strange or disturbing that you possibly can alleviate: no beeping monitors; no ...
Net net, humans were not intended to ingest whole-grains. The whole-grain goodness myth was born in the late 1800’s when some jack-wagon named Kellogg who ran an insane asylum started forcing his “patients” to eat it, and a multi-billion dollar industry that keeps us fat and sick ...
The concept of livercleansing or detoxingis gaining momentum, especially on social media. As a registered dietitian, I see it in my own patients who are eager to make their liver healthy and assume the way do it is through some sort of product. ...
I hope you will give it a try this summer. I enjoyed being an engineering manager, but it has been nice to just manage me this past year. I like being an individual contributor again. I love being able to work on technology that has a chance at rebalancing power back to individuals. ...
The Master Cleanse is perhaps the originaldetox diet. Also called the Master Cleanser or the lemonade diet, this liquid fasting plan was introduced all the way back in the 1940s, when alternative health practitioner Stanley Burroughs developed it as a weight loss method. As his ideas became mor...
How does AA define an alcoholic? Whilethere is no formal “A.A. definition”of alcoholism, most of us agree that, for us, it could be described as a physical compulsion, coupled with a mental obsession. We mean that we had a distinct physical desire to consume alcohol beyond our capacit...
When humans lived nomadically and seasonally, relying on natural foods like fruit to give us energy, insulin was key to our survival. If we found some sweet ripe fruits to enjoy, the secretion of insulin increased our appetite so we could eat as much as possible, binging on the high ene...