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If you are suffering from corns or aches and pains in your toes it is almost always your own fault. The cause of the aches and pains in your toes can be caused from wearing too narrow shoes or uncomfortable ones that do not fit properly, Overtime by wearing poorly fitted shoes the constant pressing down that can occur on the toes (usually found on top of part of the toe) can cause thickening of skin tissue (corns) around the areas under pressure of to stave off the pressure and protect your toes from damage . This means that there will be even less space in your shoes-and then you will find yourself in a vicious circle!

Bad toes  maybe caused by a cone-shaped thickening of the skin layer, and it can be localized in the area around the toes, the sole of the foot, the heel and plantar fascia.

If you want to prevent corns, one must make sure to wear the right fitting footwear, and walk around bare feet as often as possible so the pressure does not build. You can also wear special orthotic insoles as well which can spread pressure evenly but make sure the insoles do not make your shoes uncomfortable and to tight.

The liver has approximately 30 different functions and can work far better and more effc iently then any high tech science chemistry lab possibly can.

But how does the liver actually work? Where in the body can you find the live?, what do our livers actually do?, and what can be done with it? Our liver is a reddish brown, quite large glandular organ found in the upper-right corner in the abdominal cavity. It is situated just below the diaphragm and covered almost completely by the ribs. It's size is usually between 15 centimeters  and 18 centimeters long and 20 centimeters in diameters, the liver is is cone shaped too.

The liver is actually the largest gland you will find in your body and with its 1.5 kg it is also the heaviest gland in the body as well. Scientists have been able to figure out just how many tasks the liver does for the body, and have come up with about 30 different things the liver can do. Among the most important is that it will create the proteins the body needs from nutritional elements which are absorbed in the intestine and transmitted with the blood to the liver.

But the liver can do a lot more. The store sugar in the form of glycogen in order to be able to make it available to the body when there is a need for this valuable energy supplier. As a reliable food chemist can recognize poisonous and harmful substances which come into its chemical filters via the bloodstream. It sorts these substances and automatically deactivate them and separates them from the body.

In addition, converting and storing the liver fat. It is so important for the fat metabolism to create bile juices and bile salts, which is stored in the gallbladder and, as appropriate, will be used in the intestine via the bile ducts. It produces various substances, which have an impact on blood clotting. And finally, generate and store the substances used for the formation of red blood cells and other components in the blood. Apart from the lungs the liver is the only organ in the body that contains arterial venous blood. The Oxygen supply to the liver should be delivered by liver artery, while the supply of the blood the liver processes is handled by portal vein. This carries all the blood from the digestive organs into the liver and with it not only the chemically digested nutrients that are absorbed in the intestine, but also blood from the spleen, where the rest of the blood cells, which the body has formed is situated. The portal vein is kind of like a "live gate" into the liver.

The liver cells, liver lobes of connective tissue substances, takes care of the real, biochemical tasks in the body. The result is different metabolic products and bile juice. The processed blood collects in 3-4 short liver veins and flows away through.

The blood that flows out from the liver, is the warmest you will find in the body.

When you consider how many tasks the liver must carry out you will then realize just how important the liver is on keeping us alive.

"can you live without a liver?" a very clear answer is "no", but if you ask whether it is possible to operate without a large part of the liver and still live a normal life, the answer is an equally clear "Yes". The liver has a very large "reserve tank", it is only necessary to have one-fifth of the total liver mass in use, to live a  living a moderate life.

But no matter how good it sounds, there is limits on the liver's powers so to speak. Many of the diseases that can affect the liver, are lethal. And the thing to know about these diseases is that they can develop over a long time without being detected.

This also applies to the dreaded disease liver cirrhosis (cirrhosis). This term refers to a gradual decay in liver cells, where damaged tissue is replaced with scar tissue. The liver will become thus less efficient  with the result of the blood not being sufficiently processed, i.e. the detoxed. The body will then slowly begin to poison itself. Cirrhosis can have different causes. It can be triggered by other liver diseases, but the main reason is usually alcohol abuse.

We often discuss how much you can drink without risk of liver damage. But it is impossible to give any definitive answers, for many individual many factors come into play. several glasses of "hard" liquor, followed by a bottle of wine on a daily basis might not be causing  liver damage with one person, but can have serious consequences for another. The scale is determined by genetic predisposition, which the Constitution of the health the body is in, and of the person's eating habits.

But how can you even notice a liver damage? Some of the signs of a liver cirrhosis are loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting and weight loss, as well as a feeling of being crowded. In addition, you can experience pain in the upper part of the abdominal cavity, and there may be digestive problems. In an advanced stage patients themselves feel energy abandoned, dull and weak. Leg swelling, fluid accumulations in the belly and mental disorder are indications that the disease has reached a serious, often incurable stage.

But the diagnosis "liver cirrhosis" is not necessarily a death sentence. Experience shows that the disease, can be stopped at all stages. And there are also operations which can help cirrhosis patients.

In addition to liver cirrhosis, there is another disease, which one should take seriously: viral infection of the liver, called serum hepatitis (hepatitis B). It is most likely due to another disease-causing micro-organisms than infectious hepatitis. Serum hepatitis is turning into a modern disease-in the form of jaundice, which sometimes begins with stomach problems, flu-like symptoms in the respiratory tract and often also gigtagtige joint pain. Unlike infectious hepatitis, which can be caused by poor hygiene, contaminated water and lack of nutrients, serum hepatitis sometimes transmitted by blood transfusions.

But in any case there are not just high risk for all transfusions. One need not fear getting hit by the disease, although after an accident or a serious operation which require ou to have  a blood transfusion. The blood stocks, which stands for doctors available are usually carefully selected and impeccable. You should be more careful with blood coming from the so-called commercial blood stocks. But also here it now usually  with the help of radioactive marked antibodies to detect and differentiate hepatitis, that may be found in the blood.

But it's still a problem that hepatitis B in addition to blood transfusion can also be transferred via unclean syringes, eg. among drug addicts. Hepatitis infection can also be transmitted via close body contact. This writes the American doctors from Houston in Texas in the New England Journal of Medicine. A technician who was infected by cleaning an artificial kidney, managed to transmit the disease to three women before his illness was discovered.

So long as people just stick to an inexorable rule.

 "We doctors have ... through the past years ' experience from the earliest time learned that the basis for any purposeful and promising treatment of liver-and gall diseases is a detailed knowledge of what is wrong."

In other words: the exact diagnosis is important. Therefore, if you believe that there is something wrong with your liver or gallbladder, seek out a specialist and not even try it with medications.

There are excellent methods, which makes it possible to get an accurate picture of the liver's function, among others. Special studies of the blood. But it is, above all, that it should be a technical specialist who will be conducting these studies.

How much alcohol liver can tolerate?

A rough rule of thumb says that a healthy liver from a normal very strong human can convert 100 grams of pure alcohol daily. It is equivalent to half a litre of wine, three individual whisky'er or a liter of beer.

2,000 gallons of blood a day
Day and night, as long as the heart beats, blood runs through the liver, 1 ½ gallons of blood through small blood vessels in the liver's interior every minute.

The liver is one of the body's most important organs. In adults the live represents only 2% of the body weight and still copes with the 25% of the metabolism and has over 500 different functions, many of which are vitally important.

The liver takes care of most of the nutrients that come into the stomach and intestine the livier will need to manipulate and transform them into a form that the body can easily exploit, for example. protein to sugar. It produces even a number of substances to be used elsewhere in the body, for example. clotting substances that causes blood to clot if you have a wound, and bile, which is necessary for digestion.

In addition, the liver detoxifies and converts or automatically gets rid of e.g. drugs and toxins, so that they can more easily excreted in the urine or stool.

And finally, the liver stores different nutrients, especially iron and vitamins. Acting as a vitamin-"bank" that is actually so fully-stocked that a healthy and beefy person can function without signs of vitamin deficiency for 2-4 years without the intake of vitamin B12 and for several months without vitamin A.

Animal studies have shown that if the liver is healthy, it can operate normally even if you take away the whole 80% of it.

Regulates nutrients
As all other organs are the liver supplied oxygen-rich blood from a artery. In addition, all the blood from the stomach and intestine gathers in a special vein (Portal vein) and transferred to the liver. This blood has already delivered its oxygen, and it contains a number of nutrients that it has got from food in the intestine.

The liver plays a vital role in keeping blood glucose levels even. Right after a meal the liver will abosrb the glucose, store it in the form of glycogen and secretes it in adequate amounts between meals.

Is controlled by hormones
The liver makes the chemical transformations that are required to maintain an adequate blood sugar levels. But it cannot decide the direction in which it must operate. A variety of signal substances, hormones, tells the liver whether to raise or lower blood glucose levels.

Insulin from the pancreas provides, for example. message when the sugar level is too high and must be lowered. And the stress hormone, epinephrine, are indications that the body has a particular need for the energy.

Produces bile for digestion of fat
The liver secretes 1/2-1 litre of bile a day. Bile is stored in the gallbladder until it is released into the intestine after a meal and helps in the digestion of fats. Bile also contains quite a lot of waste products, which eventually is removed out of the body this, for example. cholesterol.

The so-called bile salts works similar to a detergent that dissolves and shreds the fat in the food, so the digestive enzymes can better abosrb the broken down fat molecules as they will be smaller. Bile salts are also helps to carry these parts forward to intestinal cells, where they are absorbed.

Signs Of Disease
When the red blood cells grow old and die, formed waste bilirubin-an oily substance gathers. The body cannot get rid of it through the urine. It requires that the liver converts bilirubinet, so it will be more water soluble. If not bilirubinet gathering in the body and the skin and the whites of the eyes become more or less yellowish-a condition known as jaundice.

Jaundice is not a disease in itself, but a symptom of several different diseases of the liver, for example. that the red blood cells are injured, forming a larger amount of bilirubin, liver can't quite keep up.

Modern science has nevertheless demonstrated that the liver is supremely important.

The liver's main features and functions

Store and regulate nutrients:

Regulate a smooth level of grape sugar (the body's "fuel") in the blood.
Store food, especially sugar, vitamins and iron.
Produce and transform important substances:

Produce blood proteins, for example. clotting factors.
Transforming fats and proteins by hunger.
Produce bile, used in the digestion of fats.
Transform A and vitamin D to its active form.
Produce creatinine acting as muscle "energy-battery".
Produce nitrogenous bases, which, among other things. included in the DNA.
Defuse poisons and waste:

Destroy or defuse alcohol, poisons and medicines.
Destroy the hormones when they have completed their task.
Eliminate the bilirubin, a waste material from old red blood cells.
Transform ammonia, which is produced in the body, to urea.
Transform into lactic acid, which is formed in the muscles into grape sugar.

New research conducted by senior medical officer and ph. d. Niels Holmark Andersen supports the theory that an elevated blood glucose level reduces the heart's pumping ability. On the basis of a survey of 170 diabetes patients, he has demonstrated that there is an overall coherence between sub­ blood sugar and the hearts abiltiy to pump blood.

"What the Diabetes Association have recommended for years, turns out to be true: Beware of your blood sugar, watch out for your blood pressure," says Niels Holmark Andersen. The study offers good news for the many people, who have high blood sugar. "Patients who got down there levels and start to regulated their glucose level, had already after 45 days a better heart function."

Lactose is found naturally in milk and dairy products, regardless of whether the milk comes from cows, sheep or goats. Most patients with intolerance to lactose can drink 1-2 dl milk (7-12 g lactose) without symptoms, however, drank with a meal at the same time. Soured milk products are tolerated better, since they have a lower content of lactose, while hard cheese and mold cheese contains very little lactose so typically can be ingested in nearly unlimited quantity's  Lactose is however being added to more and more industrial food, which maybe start becoming more of a problem for those who are lactose intolerant as more foods contain it.

Lactose-intolerance is defined as abdominal discomfort (diarrhea, abdominal pain and air pollution), which is caused by the ingestion of lactose (milk sugar). The discomfort fades after total or partial elimination of lactose from the diet. Lactose-intolerant can effect people of all ages without gender differences. Due to the high nutritional value of dairy products should not be removed from the diet without serious reasons.

Children who experience their earliest childhood on a farm, achieves greater protection against possibly asthma and other allergic disorders than other children.

Protection is greater if the baby is exposed to the rural influences in its very first years of life, according to a study in the prestigious journal The Lancet (2001).

Behind the study are researchers from children's Hospital in Salzburg in Austria, and they have examined the situation of children in rural areas and agricultural environments in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. It turned out that children who were exposed to influences from farming environments, and who drank the farm's own milk, were less likely to develop asthma.

"The results from our study can contribute to a better understanding of the background for the development of asthma and other allergies and perhaps help to form the basis for future prevention strategies on allergies", says the head of the project, Dr. Josef Riedler, for The Lancet.

With in the study included factors such as the children's the contact to pets and livestock, mothers work on farms, children's consumption of the farm's own products and the farm's milk and children's vaccinations.

The asthma-allergy Association, has absolutely no plans to change the current recommendations for parents with infants and small children.

"In the past we have seen isolated studies, pointing slightly in the same direction as the Austrian's. But we have also seen studies that show the opposite, so it's by no means over. Without knowing the new survey in detail, I can generally say that today we do not know enough about the environment's importance for children, we in no way want to change on our recommendations and advice ", says a source from the asthma-allergy Association.

Do you think this is due to improved immune system broguth on by the exposure of more bacteria earlier on in life? What do you think?