Article: Staying active during the day may help alleviate any back pain you have. It will also help you burn energy, which will make it easier to fall asleep at night.  Aerobic exercise, stretching, and core-strengthening exercises are all great for people with scoliosis.  Avoid contact sports, as well as competitive swimming, which can strain your back. People with scoliosis may produce lower levels of the hormone melatonin, which helps us sleep. Nighttime light, whether it's from a lamp, the television, or any other source, disrupts melatonin production for everyone, and this is especially bad for individuals who produce less of it to start with. Keep your room nice and dark to avoid disrupting your body's melatonin production. Children with scoliosis tend to have higher levels of growth hormone. When there are high levels of growth hormone in the body, melatonin levels will usually be low. If you have just been given a brace to wear for your scoliosis, you may feel like sleeping comfortably in it will be impossible. Luckily, most people get used to their braces quickly, so it probably won't bother you at all after a week or two. If you continue to have discomfort while sleeping after the first few weeks, talk to your doctor and see if any adjustments can be made to the brace. While some people do not experience any pain from scoliosis, others suffer from severe pain. If pain is keeping you awake at night, talk to your doctor about the best treatment options for you. There are a variety of ways to treat scoliosis pain, depending on the severity of your condition.  For mild pain, you can take over-the-counter NSAIDs, such as ibuprofen. If your pain is more severe, your doctor may suggest that you take prescription pain medication. Your doctor may also recommend spinal injections to help relieve pain, although these will only provide you with temporary relief. Physical therapy or chiropractic treatment may help you achieve long-term pain relief. If nothing else works to control your pain, your doctor may recommend surgery. The most common types of surgery performed for scoliosis are decompression surgery, which is done to remove a disc or bone that is compressing a nerve, and spinal fusion surgery, which is done to fuse two or more of the vertebrae together, thus improving the shape of the spine.
Question: What is a summary of what this article is about?
Stay active. Keep it dark. Be patient while adjusting to your brace. Manage your pain.
Article: Screening will be enabled, so you won't have picked up the phone even after you answer the call. Instead, you will be given a list of options of what to do: pressing 1 will answer the call and pressing 2 will send it to voicemail.   If you hear part of the voicemail and see that you should answer it, just press * and you'll be connected to the person on the other end of the line. Make sure to listen to your phone's prompts at the beginning -- some systems will require you to press * to pick up the call while others will say that you should press 1 + 4.
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Answer the phone during the call. Press 2. Listen to the voicemail. Press * if you want to answer the phone at any time.
Article: Vitamin A is a fat-soluble vitamin that is best absorbed by your body when you eat it with foods containing fat. Good options are red meat, liver, cream or cheese, whole milk, olive oil, and fatty fish like salmon. If your overall diet is very low in fat, you may not absorb vitamin A efficiently. Eating a diet high in saturated fat causes health problems like high cholesterol, weight gain, and heart issues. The important thing is to eat a balanced diet, with enough fat but not an unhealthy amount. Your doctor can help you with this. Ask, "Can you help me come up with a healthy diet plan?" Taking your supplement when you haven’t eaten anything, or even with very low-fat foods, may cause stomach upset, indigestion or heartburn. This also increases the chance that the vitamin could pass through your system without being fully absorbed by your body. Avocado contains a high amount of “good fats,” and studies have shown this food might help your body absorb vitamin A. Adding one whole avocado to your meal may even double the amount of vitamin A you can absorb. You need to have enough zinc in your diet in order to fully absorb vitamin A.  Women need at least 8mg every day (up to 10 or 11mg if pregnant or breastfeeding), and adult men need 11mg daily.   Foods high in zinc include beef, pork chops, chicken, crab, oysters, lobster, fortified cereals and oatmeal, cashews, almonds, swiss cheese, chickpeas, and kidney beans.
Question: What is a summary of what this article is about?
Eat a meal containing fat with your vitamin. Avoid taking vitamin A supplements on an empty stomach. Eat avocado. Get enough zinc.