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Tuesday, July 05, 2005It's true that doctors form their diagnoses based on answers to a train of related questions and investigations. We ask our questions looking for clues to back up or refute the various hypotheses we're holding in our heads as we examine someone. But aforementioned website is not quite that. It's more akin to the articles the National Enquirer used to run claiming you could diagnose illness by the spots in the iris. Example: Q: Do you or your children have blonde hair and blue eyes? A: Hyperactive boys are often blonde with blue eyes. They may be deficient in Zinc, Magnesium, Vitamin B6 and Essential Fatty Acids. I have three boys and one girl all with blonde hair and blue eyes, but I suspect it's because their father is blonde and blue-eyed, not because they have a vitamin deficiency. Another - for men only: Q: Do you get white spots on your shoes? A:If you do, you may be Diabetic, and possibly deficient in Chromium When someone is diabetic, they excrete sugar in their urine. When men urinate they usually get splashing as the urine hits the toilet bowl, or urinal. And when the urine splashes dry on their shoes the sugar content causes the spots to turn white. I'm not a man, nor am I a diabetic. But I often get white spots on my shoes, especially after I walk in the snow or the rain. It's the salt residue from the road surface. The site is interesting, but take its advice with a grain of salt. (Or Zinc, or Biotin, or whatever) posted by Sydney on 7/05/2005 04:35:00 PM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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