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“Doctor, I need your advice on how to get rid of the leg cramps that I experience at night. What would you recommend?” – By Dr harold Gunatillake Website:www.Doctorharold.com There is no evidence that magnesium supplements are beneficial for leg cramps, except for pregnancy-related ones, despite suggestions that magnesium deficiency may cause them. Let’s define what leg cramps are. They are painful and cannot be controlled voluntarily. Calf muscle contractions lasting for a few seconds to minutes disturb your sleep. Leg cramps are reported in up to 60% of adults and 7% of children. They are troublesome and can cause severe pain and sleep disturbance, and residual pain sometimes occurs in the affected muscles after cramping. Leg cramps can also happen while rapidly walking, playing sports, or exercising in the gym. They can affect your general quality of life. Certain drugs can cause cramps as a side effect. They include ...

“LEGS ELEVEN” – by Des Kelly Compliments of Charmaine Gunatillake and Keith Bennett, this both very interesting AND very important “post” comes walking in, to us, at e’Lanka. Unfortunately, it was just a little bit too late for this writer, who is, right now, the “guru” of isolation simply because my legs and feet refuse to let me walk more than a few metres because of an ailment that has got to be pronounced while totally sober. This is the Mother of Arthritis, called Ankylosin Spondylitis. Anyway, thank goodness I can still write a little. I will now rest my briefcase and once again say “thank you” to Charmaine and Keith, and let these boots keep walking back to you, good folk of e’Lanka. Desmond Kelly. (Editor-in-Chief) e’Lanka. Walking *Aging starts from the feet upwards !* KEEP YOUR LEGS ACTIVE & STRONG !! As ...