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Apr 22

Candida Diet Foods – The 3 Worst Foods to Avoid



The Candida Diet is well known within the natural health world for being one of the most strict diets a person can attempt. It is truly the diet though that moves a person from eating what everyone else eats and having health problems to eating as healthy as possible and benefiting tremendously as a result. Today we will examine 3 of the major Candida diet foods which you need to avoid.

Avoid:

Sugar – This is easily the most important of the avoidance foods to limit in your diet as it directly increases the amount of Candida in your body when it is consumed. There is no way around this one, if you choose to continue to eat sugar on a regular basis you will continue to develop Candida in your body. This includes not just the obvious forms of sugar but also white flour and breads which convert to sugar in the body. Fruits unfortunately need to be removed too, however when you are finally healed from Candida I strongly recommend you get back to eating fruits regularly again.

Yeast – Candida is a yeast, consuming more yeast in your diet when you suffer from Candida will directly encourage Candida growth. This is arguably due to the fact that some believe Candida is capable of assimilating other yeasts and using them to further develop Candida growth.

Alcohol – I would rate this as the 3rd most important thing to avoid on a Candida diet simply because alcohol encourages fermentation, fermentation is what helps perpetuate the cycle of Candida growth in the body. In addition to which the by product acetaldehyde of alcohol is created on a daily basis by Candida in your body, this is the reason why Candida sufferers constantly complain of a hangover like feeling. There’s some major truth to it, in a way they are!

These are the 3 worst Candida diet foods that you should avoid at all times. With the exception of yeast when you come off the diet you should avoid them still. However if you hope to eliminate Candida for good you will need to do more than eat Candida diet foods. You need to find out why your body is allowing Candida to grow in the first place. There are many other people in the world who can go eat an abundance of sugar and not develop Candida, there is a reason for this. This reason, the root cause for Candida can be eliminated for good, you just need to step back and know where to look.

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Apr 20

Gestalt: Law of Similarity



The law of similarity is one of four visual perception laws as theorized by gestalt psychologists. Paul Martin Lester, the author of Visual Communication, an expert in the field wrote: “The law of similarity states that, given a choice by the brain, you will select the simplest and most stable form to concentrate on. This law stresses the importance of basic shapes in the form of squares, circles, and triangles.”

What does this mean? We tend to group similar shapes together and often times, we try to attach some type of meaning to them. For instance, if we see a row of small triangles, we tend to perceive them as a row or line. We are less inclined to regard them as separate triangles, but we are more inclined to view them as a line of triangles.

Another factor about the law of similarity has to do with what we identify first when viewing shapes and forms. We are prone to notice matching shapes, colors, and forms (as opposed to looking for what isn’t similar). Our human minds quickly identify patterns faster than the separate parts of the pattern. We like to look at how the pattern flows together. We love designs with repeating shapes, forms, colors, and textures.

The gestalt theory refers to how we see things in general. The gestalt laws refer to how we typically assimilate visual information particularly from the onset. This does not mean that we do this all the time and never wish to look at things more in depth either. However, understanding the gestalt laws are of benefit to graphic designers, because this knowledge teaches us to incorporate similarities in our layouts.

Another place where the law of similarity is at its peak is seen in retail stores. When retailers set up displays where the same product designs are repeated over and over, it looks really smart to us. In fact, sometimes the repeated patterns look grand! When consumers separate the product from the display and throw it into their carts, most often, the magic is gone!

Graphic designers are concerned with how information is received. Many of us receive visual information quickly and effortlessly as we gather information. If a graphic artist understands the law of similarity, they can anticipate what their viewers are noticing at a quick half-hearted glance. Graphic designers will anticipate how the product will look when grouped together in the store where the law of similarity is capitalized. This information can improve visual communication and save corporations millions of dollars on their advertising campaigns. (revised 2/15/2006)

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Apr 18

A Guide To Ultrasonic



Ultrasonic generally refers to acoustic frequencies above twenty thousand hertz, which is the upper limit of human hearing range. These frequencies are however audible to certain animals such as mice, bats, dolphins, and dogs that have a higher hearing range as compared to humans. The human inability to hear ultrasonic sound waves is caused by the middle ear that acts as a low-pass filter.

Humans would have been able to perceive ultrasonic sound waves if these waves could somehow be directed into the skull bone to reach the cochlea without passing through the middle ear. Deep-sea divers who are exposed to high frequency sonar signals above fifty thousand hertz sometimes experience this effect known as ultrasound hearing.

Ultrasonic sound waves form a part of many devices used in industrial and medical sectors. The most commonly used device is an ultrasound machine that is used in the treatment of benign and malignant tumors via a process known as ultrasound surgery (FUS) or high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU). Medical research conducted to study the effects of ultrasonic waves on the human body suggests that the waves have the ability to stimulate bone-growth and has the potential to disrupt the blood-brain barrier for drug delivery.

Industrial devices also use ultrasonic sound waves to locate microscopic flaws in materials such as metal parts and plastics. Ultrasonic frequencies used in these devices usually range from two to ten mega hertz. Ultrasonic sound waves used in cleaning devices are usually in the range of twenty to forty kilohertz. These are generally used for cleaning jewelry, optical parts, watches, dental instruments, and surgical instruments.

Advanced research work is currently underway to develop a system for producing a phenomenon called sonoluminescence that has the potential to enable nuclear fusion reaction. This will provide a safe and cheap means of producing electricity and will help in solving energy problems faced by countries worldwide.

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