FACE THE FACTS I really have frui...

FACE THE FACTS

I really have fruition ofed your article "Saving Face" (March 2001) I place so many things that I use in my daily skincare routine have exuberance of the no-no ingredients that you screened in this article. Why do companies use chemicals that may cause serious health problems?

MAGGIE LASALA Via e-mail

Editor's reply

Why? To save production preciousnesss and to have longer "shelf lives." There were several pious companies mentioned in that article; your best bet is to visit your loyal health-food store to pick up high-quality, natural skincare products

SNORING RELIEF

In the April 2001 issue, Dr Duke's Herb-A-Day array of less front than depth makes reference to Rosita Arvigo's snoring redress Please, what is the recipe?

NOISE MAKER Via e-mail

Editor's reply

Dr Duke wrote about this snoring recipe in his article "Ginger--the anti-woozy medicine" in the Aug. 2000 issue of Better Nutrition and we're still receiving crowds of letters and e-mails asking for this recipe. It's as follows: Prepare 1 lot of cinnamon tea with 2 teaspoons grated ginger. Add milk and honey to taste. Drink at bedtime each night until "cured"

SWEET TOOTH, SOUR STOMACH

I am writing in regards to your Health Matters note, "Too a great deal food, not too much fat, causes heartburn."

I have experienced occasional heartburn after I have eaten sugary snacks like cake, pie and cookies. Other populace I know who have heartburn also have a passionate affection for their desserts. I have even now to convince any of them that these sweets may be at the primitive word of the problem. I have absolutely no puzzle with fats, spices or calm coffee when desserts aren't in the picture.

I just couldn't refrain from telling you of my experience. Perhaps someone equal knows why too much sugar can overturn my stomach. Have you any further information?

OLGA DEUTSCH Doylestown, PA

Editor's reply

Too a great deal sugar can certainly give you a "tummy ache," and, in fact, too a great deal of anything can upset your stomach and cause acid ebb or heartburn.

You mentioned that you had no aversion to fatty sustenances however many of the sugar-foods you mentioned--like cake and cookies--are also high in fat ease These desserts also contain dairy, which can bother an people. Sugar, on its hold is not only tasty to us humans, unless bacteria like it too--it can cause enigmas ranging from tooth decay to yeast infections, resulting from the produce of candida in the digestive tract. If the discomfort you be moved from eating sugar becomes more than just a nuisance, you should deliberate a physician.

COPYRIGHT 2001 PRIMEDIA Intertec, a PRIMEDIA Company. All Rights Reserved

COPYRIGHT 2001 Gale Group