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In the USA and Canada there is a lot of problem about menopause, but studies around the world have shown those cultures that are vegetarian, the women do not suffer through menopause. It is non-existent.

Osteoporosis as you get older can become a problem and taking calcium supplements of little help, because it is passed right through the body without being used. But did you know that the Avocado of Belize is a converter of calcium so it can be absorbed and utilized by the body? If you mix avocado and yogurt, or with cottage cheese, you will get your calcium and be able to use it in your body as well.

Black pepper also contains four anti-osteoporosis compounds. Try it with your bean soup.

Click here for one great recipe for chaya -- the world ultimate health food that nobody knows about. Also some general information about chaya.

Overweight people in Belize should try the plantain. Three grams of plantain in water 30 minutes before meals will make you lose weight. The ingredient is psyllium. Just mix up some plantain with water and take it before a meal. It is the seeds that are important here.

Parkinsons Disease can be cured with the Fava bean ( vicia faba ). The bean produces a compound called L-dopa. It corrects the imbalance in the brain between dopamine and acetylcholine. The drug companies regularly prescribe L-dopa for Parkinsons Disease. Beans are a hell of lot cheaper than drugs. Not only that the Fava Bean is richer in L-dopa than the standard commercial drug. You will get gas though and have to work up to where your digestion becomes tolerant.

The big drug for Prostrate enlargement is Proscar. Yet herbal treatments have been proven in scientific clinical trials to be far more effective. The herbs are saw palmetto, licorice and pumpkin seeds. Make yourself a kind of herbal butter to use. A doctor in the USA at the FDA bet the organization he could cure prostrate problems better with herbs and won. They still recommend the manufactured drug though.

Scabies is a skin itch you can pick up from a microscopic mite. I think my dogs have it right now. Will have to do something about it. There are a variety of cures with herbs, but the easiest in Belize is onions. You boil the onions for a half hour and then use this quart of water to apply it liberally over the body were you have scabies. It kills the mites. The extract that works is called quercetin.

Aloe is of course good for lots of skin diseases. Burns and scabies too. Aloe grows well in Belize.

I suffered for years from sinus attacks. Until I turned vegetarian. Garlic and echinacea are the herbs for sinus. Oregano and Ginkgo also good. Horseradish and Eucalyptus also excellent. Got a Chinese Restaurant that makes a mean mustard. Just a titch of that, breaks me out in sweat, drink glasses and glasses of water and you can feel it burning it's way through the cavities in your head. I believe they take the standard Chinese mustard and pep it up with horse radish or something. But that sucker really kills sinus in fifteen minutes. Sinus is an inflammation of the surrounding nasal cavities and boney spaces. Usually, the infection is a mucus bacteria, such as haemophilus, pneumococcus, stphylococcus, or streptococcus. Try the herbs man as hot as you can stand. Works fast and all natural herbs. Tiger Balm is available at Augusto Quans in Belize City the port. That sucker works great too, if you stick it up your nose. It is made up of aromatic herbs. That Tiger Balm will also cure burns. One time I had the Quan family out to St. Georges Caye on my old Atoll Queen on a charter and I was flying a spinnaker and the thing went wild in a hard wind and the rope flew through my hands leaving me in five minutes with many swollen blisters, too tender to touch or use my hands. Full of water. Benito Quan, put Tiger Balm on the blisters and in 20 minutes the pain was gone and the blisters were calloused and hard as rock. No problema!

Aloe is the all round treatment for almost any skin problems. This plant is available in Belize, but not common for some reason. It has to be cultivated and there is even a market for it. For export.

Sties around the eye, are an annoyance and often effect children and teenagers. You know the ordinary potato? Take scrapings of potato from inside, put them on a piece of clean cloth and touch it to the stie. Repeat a few times. The swelling will go down. Never squeeze a stie, the infection spreads. Garlic being an important anti-biotic is also excellent. If you eat a dozen cloves chopped up, you will fix the sties also.

Stroke is common. There are two basic types. Those with clots and those that burst blood vessels. The first type is most common and can be treated with herbs easily. Again garlic as it is not only an anti-biotic but is a anti clotting agent. Pineapple also helps as it has bromelain and breaks down proteins. It works as a blood anti-clotting herb.