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by Paul Mander-o'beirne, Pau

Being diagnosed with a chronic long-term condition can be a devastating event for both the person with the condition and their partner, friends and family. It is very easy, and perfectly valid, to feel extremely sorry for oneself. If left unchecked, this can lead to depression and a pessimistic outlook. Much of this can be due to the sense of “being out of control". However, there is much that can be done to wrest back control and gain an optimistic outlook. (It would be great to hear what has worked for you also. Please post a comment)<

These sites will give you information on how the condition manifests itself, the symptoms that are likely to be experienced and the treatments that are available. Importantly, they will also give you the opportunity to communicate with other people living with the condition so that you do not feel so alone. In fact, you will most likely find that your immediate circle of friends and colleagues know numerous people with an inflammatory bowel disease. If at all possible, it’s worthwhile gaining their knowledge on living with the condition also as they most likely will be several years down the “experience road".

The next thing to consider is the impact that medication will have. For example, Pentasa or is often prescribed. This is a “folate antagonist". In other words, it strips folate levels out of your body. This is particularly important if the patient is a female of child bearing age as it can affect foetal development. You use folates to synthesise amino-acids and DNA. Low levels can also lead to a form of anaemia. It is important that you follow the medicinal therapies prescribed by your health professional, but it is equally important that you understand what their side effects are, and the steps you can take to mitigate these effects. In the case of Pentasa or mesalazine it is recommended that women trying to conceive should take a folate supplement at 2mg a day and increase their intake of folate rich foods.

The internet is a useful resource to discover this knowledge. A word of caution, however. I would advise that you check the credibility of any sites offering nutrition advice by determining who has compiled the information. Only accept information from sites that have engaged Registered Dieticians, or qualified doctors (preferably gastro-enterologist) to compile their knowledge. It is important that you test this by seeing if the site has a link to the organisation that the health professional is registered to. If you come across a website that has been compiled by “one man and his dog" or is offering a “one size fits all solution", and there is no way to validate the quality of the information, I would suggest you ignore it, as it may cause more harm than good.

There are now organisations on the internet that have credible and evidence-based information available on how specific nutrients help or hinder the management of Crohns. I would suggest that you conduct a Google search using the following search terms: food for Crohns or food for Crohn's. You’ll be glad to know that our site will be amongst the search results.

Many people with Crohns, ultimately require some form of surgery. It makes sense to try and stave this off as long as possible. A combination of effective and appropriate nutrition and medicinal interventions can help to achieve this. However, if surgery is required it can take some time for the patient to recover their appetite. One of the worst things well-meaning carers can do is push typical servings of food onto the patient. It is much more effective if a little food is presented on a small plate at regular intervals (dessert spoon sized max) and gradually increase it over time. See my other article on coaxing back appetite to see more detail on this.

In summary, knowledge is the key to successfully managing your condition. This will enable you to take control of your condition and enable your health professionals to work in conjunction with you to design a treatment plan that works for you. It is empowering to know that you are doing everything you can to manage your Crohns. This will in turn allow optimism, and as I am sure you are already aware, half the battle is in the mind!

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A colleage of mine forwarded me an article entitled ?Mortgage Hot Potatoes? from the Wall Street Journal that discussed how banks like Merrill Lynch, J.P. Morgan Chase, and HSBC Holdings are excercising clauses in their purchases of sub-prime loans from mortgage originators to make the originators take them back.

These clauses apparently state that if a borrow defaults early in the repayment period or if the loan had underwriting defects, such as bad appraisals, that the originator must buy back the loan. Needless to say that this allows the big banks to keep the good loans and kick back a large portion of the bad loans back to the people that shouldn't have lended the money in the first place.

While this process will prevent the big banks from hemmoraging too much profit margin, it will put some (or possibly a large number) of the subprime lenders/originators out of business. Many of these lenders/originators have limited assets and use corporate lines of credit to finance the loans they close until they can resell them to the bigger banks.

When these banks send these loans back (for failure to pay), this means that the subprime originator has to borrow against their line of credit, reducing their ability to make new loans. If enough of these loans get sent back, the mortgage originator may consume all their credit line with these bad loans and may not be able to fund closings on their new ones.

Enter the headache for buyers and sellers: Imagine sitting at the closing table waiting for a wire transfer of the buyer's funds and come to find out that the buyer has no funds because the originator has no money! This scenario will come true, it is just a question of how many originators will have the problem.

In the last few years lenders really softened up their lending requirements, allowing a lot of low credit score borrows to go ?stated income? or ?no doc? loans which basically paired up risky borrowers with risky loans. In the rush to make as much money as possible, some mortgage brokers/originators went one step further and either omitted or falsified information on the applications to get buyers approved that shouldn't have.

Because we are still in a rising interest rate market and we haven't exited the housing slowdown, there's still a long time for these loans to go into default and come to the attention of the big banks that bought them. As more of these loans come under scrutiny, I think we're going to see much larger problem than many expect.

If you're buying or selling a home, it is eminently important that you know where the money is coming from and that the lender will still be in business at closing!
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