БРОНХИАЛЬНАЯ АСТМА – BRONCHIAL ASTHMA

Be colourful

Never buy drab-coloured clothes. Steer clear of dull shades of lovat, stone, putty and pale green. And unless you are confident you look good in pale grey and yellow avoid them too. In drab colours most men look drab.

The solution is simple. Go for strong, rich colours: reds, blues, greens and brown. Unless you are partial to and look good in fire engine red, sunflower yellow and burning orange put primary colours on the no-go list too.

Start from the outside. Select suits in fabrics that are in strong shades of navy, grey or brown. These colours may not be breaking new ground but they are the essential foundations to an elegant wardrobe and not only do they make a man look good (and, most likely, slimmer), they are a good foil for showing off shirts and ties.

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Often known by the bare initials N.S.U. this is an infection termed non-specific because there appears to be no known specific cause for it unlike gonorrhea or syphillis. But it is sexually transmitted.

About ten to thirty days after intercourse, usually with a casual partner, a slight discharge appears from the penis. Passing water may be painful or accompanied by a burning sensation. The need to pass water probably becomes more frequent.

During early stages the symptoms are similar to gonorrhea so a doctor will carry out an examination and test the discharge.

Treatment is usually with antibiotics like tetracycline. During treatment both sexual intercourse and alcohol must be avoided.

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If worklife is the problem or if you think your marriage is comfortable but stale, do not walk out on either without first considering where you are heading and how you will survive. Equally important, consider first the repercussions. These can be financial, destructive and not least of all, hurtful to people around you. Move slowly. Do not cause irreparable damage to other people’s lives.

This is a time when commonsense must dictate what can or cannot be done and most men, it seems, find all it takes to make their lives more acceptable is a simple adjustment. Wild moves while full of drama and charged with theatrical gesture rarely lead anywhere and are more likely to prove destructive rather than constructive. You may hate yourself for working behind a desk in a city office, for instance, and dream of running a puppy farm in a cosy, flower-covered village but how practical in real terms is this kind of dream even if you love dogs? Feeling restless is not reason enough for packing your bags, abandoning your family and putting the dog in the back of the car. You have to do your homework first and be maturely responsible. Consider what you already have and evaluate what is favourable and what is not. Take stock. Many things must be right. Wife? Lover? Home? Money? Work? Career? Capitalize on what is right. Be circumspect.

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At thirty the forehead is wrinkled, laughlines are lightly distinguishable around the eyes. This is character.

At forty the bags under the eyes are more pronounced, eyelids develop heavier folds, wrinkles etch deeper. This is also character. The face can also look as if the man is putting on weight as lines start to appear on either side of the mouth running down the face leading to a spare fold of flesh under the chin. The foundations of a permanent double-chin show. A fold of fleshy skin appears in front of the ears.

What has happened is that with age the natural powers of water retention under the skin have started to weaken, retention that was essential to the skin’s elasticity and its ability to spring back constantly into shape. Now it stretches, sags and wrinkles and no matter what claims are made by product advertising, no amount of wrinkle cream will remove wrinkles, nor eyecream remove puffy bags any more than moisturizers can feed moisture back into the skin by being rubbed into it. Cream cannot nourish or feed moisture into the skin, it simply covers

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The need for change can be urgent. For having discovered the solution to the problem many find not a second can be lost. Stale marriages are swept aside, dull jobs ended by penning a resignation letter. In a brave gesture of independence there might even be a fling to Paris or Acapulco with a young girl.

But making a true change cutting out of one lifestream and into another is not a move to be lightly taken and certainly not one for the weak. True change demands courage. Think of the consequences at home or at work while trying to explain the moves. Parents, friends, the boss, they only respect stability. To you stability may represent boredom, lack of initiative and enterprise or lassitude and dullness. To them one job, one family and a regular routine spells a nice guy with healthy understanding for responsibility. Wild gestures are never understood or condoned even if the move turns out to be shortlived before returning to the old life chastened and, maybe, revitalized.

To worry about the consequences is therefore realistic. Thinking before you jump, wise action. At forty there is no guarantee that any change is for the better or that success comes any more easily than it did at twenty-five. A man might be trapped in a dull job but handing in his resignation in times of recession without a new job to go to is highly risky and foolhardy. The sad fact is that fewer openings occur for men each year after thirty-five.

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