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Jamaica Gleaner Profiles in Medicine
published: Wednesday | August 10, 2005

Am I having a heart attack ? (Part II) - good ol'aspirin
So you feel a pain in your chest, you are thinking twice about the 'gas cramps theory', because the strong brew of mint or ginger tea didn't work, and you are thinking this could be more serious, like perhaps a heart attack...

Help! I want to get fat - (Response to reader's query)
Dear Mr. Gardner, I AM 18 years old and I think that I am underweight. I have always been skinny and have been teased in school and I have always tried to get fat but nothing seems to work.


Hooked to inhalants
JACKIE TOOK her 13 year-old child to the doctor because of consistent headaches. The constant throbbing pain was keeping her daughter from school and her grades were falling. The teenager was occasionally clumsy, uncoordinated and "not eating much".


Cellulite eludes a cure, but treatment options abound
DEATH AND taxes aren't the only certainties in life. Any woman who's caught a glimpse of her backside in a swimsuit knows there's always cellulite. Those pesky pockets of puckered fat that glom on to 85 per cent of all female hips...


Edible flowers
THE CONSUMPTION of edible flowers dates back to 140 B.C. The Romans used flowers such as roses and violets in their cooking, the Italians and the Hispanics gave us stuffed, squashed blossoms (pumpkin flowers), Asians and Indians use rose petals...


Defining infidelity (Part II)
THE CRUX of Part 1 (published two week's ago) was to show that what constitutes infidelity is much more than heterosexual extramarital penetrative sex. Infidelity is getting involved with ongoing excessive relational activities...


Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery
WE HAVE been emancipated from slavery over 150 years, yet many of us in this country still find ourselves in mental slavery, shackled by our minds, our behaviour and our attitudes. Mental slavery is the most malignant form of slavery...








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