Hearing Loss: The Hidden Disability
Hearing loss is a hidden disability. As such it doesn’t get the political and financial support that more obvious handicaps receive from government and private organizations. Hearing loss is the number one disability in the world as well as the number one birth defect among infants . . . and yet, nothing has really been done about it.
Blind children learn to read Braille and graduate from high school at the same reading levels as their sighted peers. Deaf children even with help of American Sign Language generally graduate at the fourth grade level.
What starts out as a hearing problem is really a communication problem. If you’ve never heard, you don’t know what words sound like, so you can’t speak. If you can’t speak, you can’t hear, you can’t read, and can’t write, how can you communicate? How can you get a job? The answer is they don’t.
Combine the birth defects problem with hearing loss from a noisy world and the loss of hearing as we grow older and you have a major problem. Even if a problem is hidden, it’s still a problem. And it won’t go away.
When severely hearing handicapped Clover Park Rotarian Gene Pankey learned about research underway to restore hearing by re-growing inner ear hair cells, he put into action what today is known as Rotarians for Hearing Regeneration (RfHR: www.hearingregeneration.org). What better way to tackle a world-wide problem than to address a world-wide organization? Several decades ago Rotary began working for the elimination of Polio. Today that goal is just about realized.
Handicapped since a childhood by total hearing loss in one ear, Pankey suffered hearing loss episodes in his good ear. That brought him into the realm of those involved with research underway at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Research has discovered that birds spontaneously re-grow inner ear hair cells, thus restoring their hearing. That research has provided a dawning of Rotarian involvement. The small group of Rotarians decided to try helping researchers by educating Rotarians and others about the possibilities of restoring hearing in mammals by regenerating hair cells. The thinking is, “If birds can do it, why can’t we?”
Pankey, Rotary District 5020 Past District Governor Dave Sclair, and Dr. David Cotant, also a Clover Park Rotarian, formed today’s RfHR and set about trying to educate Rotarians and help raise 20 million dollars to support the research program.
Education efforts have included a PowerPoint show, an 11-minute video, brochures, and making numerous presentations to clubs, conferences, and a booth at the 100th anniversary Rotary convention in Chicago.
Today, RfHR has members all over the United States and several other countries. Approximately 2,000 copies of the video – Hope For Hearing Loss: The Hearing Regeneration Initiative – have been distributed. An updated version of the video is in the works. Fundraising has continued without interruption and more efforts are planned.
RfHR has joined forces with the Hard of Hearing Hall of Fame (www.hardofhearinghalloffame.com), which is dedicated to recognizing achievement from the hearing impaired and educating people about hearing loss, thereby reducing hearing problems.
Research funds are still far from the overall goal, but all donations help. 2006 saw matching funds cover half a million dollars, and in 2007 there are matching funds available for the first million donated. RfHR hopes its publicity and education campaigns result in adequate funding that allows research to move ahead quickly. Hearing loss should not be hidden. By recognizing it, we may soon unlock the secrets of hearing loss and hearing restoration.
Don Doman is a published author, video producer, and corporate trainer. He owns the business training site Ideas and Training ( ideasandtraining.com ideasandtraining.com), which he says is the home of the no-hassle “free preview” for business training videos. He is also the founder of the Hard of Hearing Hall of Fame ( hardofhearinghalloffame.com hardofhearinghalloffame.com) and a board member of Rotarians for Hearing Regeneration.
Adult Acne Myths
There are plenty of old wives’ tales concerning the development and treatment of adult acne, but are they really true and do they really work? Some people claim that certain things work like a charm, but when you try it for yourself it always come up short. Let’s take a look at some of the more prevalent adult acne myths.
• You will outgrow it
Well, if you going to outgrow adult acne you probably would have done so by now. Acne begins with puberty because of the release of hormones and the development of the glands, but when puberty ends that doesn’t mean acne will stop, just that it will hopefully ease. Acne is caused by a combination of factors that aren’t related to age.
• Acne is caused by what you eat
How many times have you heard someone say that your adult acne will go away if you just stop eating so much pizza and chocolate? It’s not true. Studies have found that greasy and sugary foods have no effect on acne. Unless you rub the stuff on your skin it’s not going to make it worse.
• Acne is caused by oily skin
Yes, there are people who appear to have very oily skin and severe acne but it is not directly caused by how oily your skin is. Acne is caused by a combination of factors, which include the clogging of pores via a mixture of oil and dirts or pollutants. Many people with severely dry skin will also have severe acne. It doesn’t matter how much oil your skin produces, it takes an obscenely small amount of oil to clog a pore.
• Alcohol will disinfect skin and reduce acne
Alcohol does kill acne bacteria, but it is also very harsh. Those who resort to rubbing alcohol on their skin are also likely to have reached the point where they are washing their face too often and scrubbing too hard. All of these factors can make existing acne appear worse. Alcohol is an irritant and can dry out your skin. Plus if you are washing your face more than twice daily you may be causing your skin to overreact and produce even more surface oils.
These are just a few of the more common adult acne treatment myths. It pays to be educated about the causes of your acne but make sure you are getting your information from the right place.
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La Jolla Cosmetic Dentists Offer Wide Range of Services to Meet Patients’ Needs
Cosmetic dentists offer a wide range of services designed to keep your teeth healthy and improve your smile so that you have the confidence to laugh and smile in social situations instead of covering your mouth every time you want to laugh. These dental professionals have had extensive training through dental school and they also take continuing education courses to meet their requirements for licensing.
These continuing education courses keep cosmetic dentists up to date on the newest practices and procedures in dentistry and help dentists learn how to use these procedures to produce outstanding effects. In addition to the training these dentists have had, many have years of experience and come highly recommended by some high profile people in the community.
Finding a dentist you can trust is one of the best things you can do to keep your dental health in top condition. Once you find someone you trust with your dental care, you can listen to their recommendations and make decisions that are best for your dental health. Once you make these decisions, La Jolla dentists can then get down to the business of caring for your teeth and keeping your smile looking beautiful.
General La Jolla dentists may offer general services such as professional cleanings, fillings, root canals, and other procedures designed to repair problems with the teeth that can cause pain or discomfort. It is important that you visit the dentist to have plaque removed and experience the benefits that brushing and flossing at home cannot provide.
Cosmetic La Jolla dentists can perform procedures designed to transform your smile into a beautiful smile you can be proud to share with others. Cosmetic dentists may offer teeth whitening, dental implants, and other restorative dentistry procedures. These procedures were all designed to make the most of your smile so you can be confident in your appearance when you’re spending time with others.
Other dentists may specialize in teeth extraction or performing specific procedures that change the way your teeth look and how they are aligned in your mouth. Not only will you look better, you may also be able to speak and chew better if you get your teeth fixed by one of these professionals. If you want to get on your way to an improved and more beautiful smile, contact a local cosmetic dentist immediately and make the appointment that could change your life forever.
Communication with your dentist will bring together the best services and options available to fix your smile. Start improving your health today and increase your confidence.
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The Cure for Asthma
Asthma is the inflammation of the air passages resulting in the temporary narrowing of the airways from the nose and mouth to the lungs. Symptoms include difficulty breathing, wheezing, coughing tightness in the chest. In severe cases, it can be deadly.
Traditional medicine has yet to find a cure. Asthma is a very old disease described in the ancient literature. Yet the only progress made to date with this disease is to give drugs to mask symptoms.
According to Dr. Hulda Clark:
“Asthma is associated in all (100%) cases with tiny Ascaris larvae. As soon as eggs hatch (in the stomach, immediately after swallowing filth) the microscopic larvae travel to the lungs, not the intestines. Imagine the stress of lungs full of tiny worms! One tries to cough them up, of course, but in our misguided effort to be polite we teach children to swallow anything they cough up! Some swallowing is inevitable and the young worms are back in the stomach, this time to set up their house keeping in the intestine. Some never leave the stomach, causing children stomach aches and, of course, a large entourage of bacteria which, in turn, have their viruses.”
Once we understand the cause we can remove it, in this case with a zapper and cleansings, remove the cause and the symptoms, along with the disease goes away.
Not all people with Ascaris develop asthma, and we don’t know yet what determines who gets it and who doesn’t; The ages of the person or how many Ascaris are present, etc. But that cough of early childhood should be taken seriously. Don’t wait and call it “croup”. At the first sign of a cough, use a zapper. (Many variations in zapping technique have been discovered since the one found around 1990).
From Dr. Clark’s book:
Cure For All Diseases:”The original technique showed that very small animals, like our parasites, can be killed with a very small voltage. But only IF the voltage is 100% positive offset and only IF the voltage is varied up and down repeatedly”).
For most when using the zapper, you can’t even feel it. It is such a small charge that there is no discomfort whatsoever.
”A positive electrical force that pulses up and down not only appears to kill tiny invaders, it also seems to energize your white blood cells to go on an all – out attack on your enemies: your parasites, your toxins, everything,…. Remember that killing parasites, by its self, as we can do with herbs, removes the HIV virus source, but this does not return immune power. A zapper, on the other hand, not only eliminates parasites; it does so by returning immune power. Each method has its own virtues.” The Cure For HIV and AIDS, by Dr. Hulda Regehar Clark, pg. 71
For more information on Asthma and how to cure it, the zapper, cleanses and many other diseases go to www.drclarkuniversity.org
This is the next big wave in health care. And as much as the FTC, FDA, and AMA may try to stop it, eventually they will not be able to. By using the zapper and doing the cleanses most terminal and non-terminal diseases can be a thing of the past.
The Zapper
The zapper is essentially a pulse generator. It produces electrical pulses at a fixed rate. The Zapper has an output frequency of about 30,000 Hertz (cycles per second Positive-Offset), at a nominal voltage of 9 VOLTS DC. The purpose of the zapper is to destroy undesirable organisms within the body. The pulses are positively charged. This is a very important point, Dr. Clark reminds us. Only positive charges kill pathogens. Negative charges actually enable them! The zapper does not produce uniform results from one person to another, i.e. if one person gets rid of a back ache another person using the zapper may not necessarily get rid of her back ache.
Why? According to Dr. Clark, this is because of problems with insulating chemicals within the body, heavy metals and PCBs, these insulating chemicals shield all or parts of the body from receiving any electricity. In many cases there is so much PCB in the hands that zapping has to be done through the feet.