INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Once your doctor confirms that you have a hiatal hernia, work together to develop a treatment plan. This treatment plan will start with lifestyle changes to see if it is possible to manage your symptoms without surgery. For example, you can try managing your symptoms by altering your diet. Avoid eating:   Fried and fatty foods. Foods that contain caffeine, including coffee and chocolate. Highly acidic foods, such tomatoes. Spicy foods. Peppermint or spearmint. Onions. Red meat. Carbonated beverages and alcohol. Making some changes to your routine can help manage symptoms. Start by decreasing the portion sizes of your meals, and make sure to eat at least 3-4 hours before lying down. This will help to reduce symptoms like heartburn or regurgitation. Your doctor might recommend medications to offer extra relief from your symptoms. Consider taking antacids or H2-blockers, such as Zantac. Make sure to follow the dosage instructions.  Call your doctor if symptoms don't improve after 2 weeks. They might prescribe something stronger, such as Nexium or Prilosec. Carefully follow instructions for prescription medications, too. In extreme cases, surgery is necessary to repair a hiatal hernia. If your symptoms are still causing you problems after lifestyle and dietary changes, talk to your doctor about surgical options.  During the operation, the surgeon will pull the stomach back into the abdomen and also close the hole in the diaphragm muscle. Talk to your doctor about whether this is the right choice for you, and also ask about the recovery process.

SUMMARY: Try dietary changes as a first step. Change your eating habits for added relief. Take over the counter medications to reduce symptoms. Consider surgery if lifestyle changes don't help.


INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Once you have the professional test results on how acidic your soil is, this will guide you on how much lime to buy. As a general rule, regardless of soil acidity, 50 pounds of lime should cover about 1000 square feet (23 kg, 93 square meters) of land. Consider the size of the area you need to cover and buy with this rule in mind. Lime comes mainly in pellets or powder, and is categorized as calcitic or dolomitic. Dolomitic is typically best for lawn care because it is rich both in Calcium and Magnesium, prime nutrients for a healthy yard. If you already have a spreader, great. However, if this is your first time treating your yard, you will need to buy one. A spreader is a wheeled basin that distributes the lime as you push the spreader forward. There are two basic kinds: drop spreaders and rotary (broadcast) spreaders. Drop spreaders drop the mineral/chemical straight down through holes in the bottom of the basin and rotary spreaders use a mechanism to flip it in a broader circle. Drop spreaders tend to be more precise while rotary spreaders tend to be faster and cover more area. The choice of which kind is essentially up to you, but you may ask a few people you know, or an employee at the store, to see if they have a suggestion. If you have a large yard, the rotary spreader is probably the better choice since it covers more area. If you have a small yard and want a more precise spread, the drop spreader is probably best for you. It is recommended to use gloves anytime you handle lime because it can burn the skin a little. It is not mandatory to wear safety goggles, but it is also a good precaution to take just in case. If you are spreading the lime on a day that is windy at all, a basic breathing mask is also recommended. While lime has not been found to be toxic to people or animals, it can irritate the skin so best to keep your skin, eyes, and mouth covered. Never spread lime by hand, even with gloves on. It is less effective than a spreader, anyway, but is also not a safe practice.  Keep your kids away from the yard when you are spreading the lime, and off of the yard for a couple days while the lime sets. While lime has not been found to cause illness or death, it can often irritate the skin, so best to be cautious. Lime has also not been found to be toxic to animals, but it is best to keep pets off of the yard for a couple days, as well.

SUMMARY: Purchase the lime you need. Purchase a spreader. Use safety gear.


INPUT ARTICLE: Article: In a large pitcher that holds approximately 2 quarts (1.9 l), place 1 orange that’s been sliced, 1 lemon that’s been sliced, 1 lime that’s been sliced, and half a grapefruit that’s been sliced. After the fruit, add 1 cup of fresh mint leaves.  You can use any combination of fruit that you prefer for your water. You may even want to keep things simple and use only one type of fruit, such as lemon slices. You can customize the water by choosing other fruits to substitute in or add to the recipe. Strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, apples, peaches, kiwi, honeydew melon, cantaloupe, and watermelon are other options to consider. Experiment with different combination to find your favorite. When the fruit and mint is in the pitcher, pour 6 cups (1.4 l) of water over them. Stir the mixture with a wooden spoon, and then add enough ice to fill the pitcher.  Use bottled or filtered water in the spa water. In addition to the fresh fruit, you can add frozen berries to the mixture in place of ice cubes to help chill it. Once all of the ingredients are in the pitcher, place it in the refrigerator. Allow the water to chill for approximately two hours so the fruit and mint flavors have time to infuse the water. Pour it into glasses to serve. If you prefer, you can serve the water at room temperature. However, you should still let it sit for a couple of hours so the fruit has time to flavor the water.

SUMMARY: Place the fruit and mint in a pitcher. Add the water and ice. Chill the water for a couple of hours before serving.


INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Some people are intimately familiar with their family history, and others don't know as much about their grandparents, great grandparents, cousins, and so on. Before you make a family tree, get all the information you need by conducting research in the following ways:  Ask family members for information. If you're making a family tree for a school project, your mother and father may be able to tell you everything you need to know about your family. For extensive family history projects, consider looking at a genealogy database. Sites like Familysearch.org have information about long lost relatives you may not have known you had. Be thorough. A family tree isn't as useful when someone is accidentally left out. You might want to check with multiple sources to make sure your information is accurate. It's interesting to trace your family history as far back as you can, but when you're drawing a family tree, it's not practical to record information that extends more than a few generations back. You're limited by the size of the paper you use, since you need to be able to fit all of the names on one page.  Many people choose to go as far back as their great great grandparents and their siblings, or their great grandparents and their siblings. These are people you, your parents or your grandparents have met, so they are tied to you more closely than more distant relatives. If you have a large family with a lot of great aunts and uncles, cousins, and so on, you may have to end with a more recent generation to fit everyone on one page. If you have a smaller family you might be able to extend the tree to a more distant generation.

SUMMARY:
Find out more about your genealogy. Decide how far back to go.