What is stuttering?

Stuttering (or stammering) is a voice disfluency, a speech disorder. When a person stutters, normal flow of speech is disrupted by repetitions and/or prolongations of voice sounds. Frequently, an individual is also unable to start a word.

Child stuttering, toddler stuttering and adult stuttering are themes being studied by many scientists and speech specialists all around world. The Stuttering Foundation of America, National Stuttering Association, National Center for Stuttering and individual speech therapists in general are all investigating why people stutter and finding effective and fast speech therapies.

Nevertheless, even though scientists have several theories and suspect a variety of causes for stuttering, precise mechanisms causing this disability (also called stammering) are not understood. Some believe that many forms have genetic origins.

A common form of stuttering is neurogenic. Neurogenic stuttering arise from signal problems between brain and nerves or muscles. In neurogenic stuttering, brain is unable to adequately coordinate different components of speech mechanism.

I have an old friend who has just gone in for colon cancer surgery. I am on vacation in Oregon and got to see her for less than 5 minutes as she was headed for a doctor's visit.

Cancer is so common now. And it could occur in any of us, if we do not address things that might keep our immune system from functioning properly. This could be our diet, our chemical exposure, our emotional issues and much more.

So I wanted to add a reminder today of something that is easy to add into diet and is very good at helping all of us fight cancer.

Fight Cancer With Broccoli Sprouts

Mom was right to insist on us eating our vegetables. She knew they built good health, gave us minerals we need and more. But perhaps there are some things she was not aware of. One of them may have been sprouts.