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There is that moment in time when your child, or the child you are looking after is building up for a tantrum. Every child at some stage of there childhood (even as an older child) will throw a tantrum. A tantrum is when a child exhibits an uncontrollable physical, emotional outburst of noisy, sometimes tearful and frustrated bout of anger called a temper tantrum when they also stamp their feet or throw items around.

This is a personal story of one mother’s battle with her daughter’s diagnosed cancer and the challenge of different types of treatment. In June 2004, my 13 year old daughter Kestra was diagnosed with a rare form of lymphatic cancer called anaplastic large cell lymphoma. This disease, we were professionally informed, usually presented itself in adults, but very rarely in children. At the time of the diagnosis Kestra’s medical records listed no previous illnesses, as she was the youngest of four healthy children.

A number of factors impact on the function of the immune system – stress being one of them, and this effect has so interested science so much that a whole field of research has grown around it, known as psychoneuroimmunology.

People often think of homeopathic medicines as natural medicines that are good for coughs and colds, accidents and injuries. This is of course quite true, but did you know homeopathic medicines are taken for all chronic illnesses, such as menstrual disorders, migraines, autoimmune disorders, chronic viral infections, paralysis and many other mental and emotional problems?

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) is an autoimmune disease where the immune system attacks its own body. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) is caused by genetic mutations (single nucleotide polymorphisms) that impair the central nervous system’s ability to adapt to stressful situations, according to a summary released by the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, USA.

This article is about what is best to eat when you have cancer? Before we go any further, it is important for you to bear in mind that your doctor or oncologist has had literally no training in understanding how nutrition has had any impact on human health, and would you believe, it is very recently that medical science would accept that a person’s diet had any bearing on their level of health and disease at all.

Homeopathy is a like-treat-like treatment that is found to be remarkably successful in all childhood ailments. This is due to the fact babes and children respond well and quickly to homeopathic remedies, probably due to the fact that their systems are comparatively unspoilt from eating unsuitable foods and chemicals, apart from the drugs that mother took during pregnancy.

Heartburn, otherwise known as reflux, refers to the rise of stomach acids into the oesophagus, which irritates, then burns its lining, hence the breathtaking pain. It is more likely to occur after you bend down after a large meal, or when you eat in a hurry.

A healthy body has a range of friendly lacto flora bacilli (bacteria) in the colon in which normal digestion and elimination of food takes place. Without this natural gut flora one has a challenge with breaking down digestible foods.