Archive for the ‘Health’ Category
Easy Ways to Reduce Your Stress
Stress is our reaction to any stimulus (physical, mental, or emotional — internal or external), that tends to upset us. When the reactions are inappropriate, they can lead to health problems. The diseases most often connected to a stressful environment are heart disease, high blood pressure and cancer.
Women experiencing high levels of stress can experience anxiety, insomnia, fatigue, and depression, and may turn to unhealthy habits like smoking, drinking, overeating, or drug abuse to help deal with their stress.
Clean Up
First and foremost, get your life organized. Get your clothes off the ground, do your dishes, make your bed, vacuum a little, and wipe down surfaces with a cleaning aid. Clutter can add to being overwhelmed or out of control.
Exercise!
Stress is the body’s reactions to pressures, over commitments, time management, and other things. The body reacts a certain way to situations that feel out of our control and stress is actually how the body makes us feel using hormones and adrenaline. Aerobic exercise is a way to expend that excess energy that the body uses when your get stressed. If you work out to a point of healthy fatigue, you have successfully expended extra energy that could be used to sabotage your day with stress.
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Breast Cancer Prevention
Cancer prevention is action taken to lower the chance of getting cancer. By preventing cancer, the number of new cases of cancer in a group or population is lowered. Hopefully, this will lower the number of deaths caused by cancer.
Breast cancer prevention starts with healthy habits — such as limiting the amount of alcohol you drink and staying physically active. Understand what you can do to prevent breast cancer.
Protect Yourself
According to the American Cancer Society, “There is no question that early detection tests for breast cancer save many thousands of lives each year, and that many more lives could be saved if even more women and their health care providers took advantage of these tests.” Early detection means that the cancer is found when it is smaller. Often it has not yet produced symptoms and is less likely to have spread beyond the breast. Simply put, a three step program of monthly self-exams, a yearly physical and a yearly mammogram for those over 40 can save your life.
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Skin Care Tips For Career Women
Most women work as well as manage their family; I’m one amongst such women, my interest is also concentrating on my skin care aspects as well. Proper skin care is of utmost importance especially for women. Skin is a part that reveals the beauty to others. There are various tips available regarding skin care procedures for the career women of all ages. I work and usually return home at 6 in the evening. I do have interest in taking care of my skin; I get so tired & exhausted that I find no time for myself.
Here are some tips to stature the ways to take the skin care while you are in office and also will help you to look fresh and elegant in the office even after the day finishes in office.
The first step is to shield skin from the elements, such as stale indoor air and artificial heating and cooling systems. Most career women share air from a single air supply that’s filtered through an extensive maze of miles and miles of ducts — not the best conditions for healthy, radiant skin.
Learn how to defend skin, protect the complexion and fight off free radicals with a few easy steps.
Stroke Damage May Be Reversible
The often-devastating damage associated with stroke may be reversible under some conditions, according to US researchers.
“Our study provides… proof that initial brain injury from a stroke can be reversed in humans,” Dr. Chelsea Kidwell, of the University of California, Los Angeles Stroke Unit, told Reuters Health.
Kidwell and her colleagues used a type of magnetic resonance imaging to document the condition of 7 patients who had had an acute stroke, before and after treatment with clot-busting (thrombolytic) drugs. In the April issue of Annals of Neurology, they show that early use of clot-busters reversed the stroke injury.
“This finding is important in demonstrating that clot-dissolving medications not only prevent further brain injury from a stroke but can, in fact, reverse injury that has already occurred,” according to Kidwell.
Thrombolytic drugs are often used to treat patients with acute heart attacks. These drugs work by dissolving the blood clot that is stopping the free flow of blood through a vessel.
Botox Injections May Ease Tension Headache
This most common type of headache is caused by severe muscle contractions triggered by stress or exertion. The American Council for Headache Education (ACHE) estimates that 95% of women and 90% of men in the United States and Canada have had at least one headache in the past twelve months. Tension headaches are considered a type of primary headache, which means that they are not caused by another medical condition or disorder.
Other names for tension headaches include muscle contraction headache, ordinary headache, psycho-myogenic headache, and stress headache.
The exact causes of tension headaches remain unclear, although most are thought to be linked to stress. In most — but not all — cases, patients are able to gain relief through the use of over-the-counter pain relievers.
In an AAN statement, Relja explained that “since muscular contraction could be one explanation for the pain in patients with tension-type headache, I started to treat these patients with botulinum toxin.” Botox is a temporary muscle paralyzer, used to treat conditions ranging from Parkinson’s disease to facial wrinkles.
No Evidence Found for “Migraine Personality”
Some studies have linked the development of migraine headaches with certain personality traits, such as anxiety, repressed emotion, and depression. But Dutch researchers turn these findings around with a new report that suggests specific personality characteristics develop “as a consequence of suffering from episodic headache.”
The relationship between stress and migraine and the existence of a migraine personality type has been widely investigated, Dr. D.L. Stronks of Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and associates explain in their report. However, they also note that results of previous studies have been “…diverse and inconsistent.”
To avoid some of these inconsistencies, Stronks and colleagues “focused on the specificity of stress reactions and personality traits in migraine patients and compared these with tension headache and headache-free patients.” The subjects included 23 migraine patients, 18 tension headache patients, and 22 ‘controls’ (patients who did not experience chronic headaches). The researchers assessed moods and anxiety levels in the study participants before, during, and after a psychological stressor.
Major Depression Linked to Bone Loss
Episodes of major depression are linked with bone loss, especially in men, according to a report published in the American Journal of Psychiatry.
The finding supports a theory that hormonal changes associated with depression have effects on bone metabolism, leading to a loss of bone density known as osteoporosis, and an increased risk of fractures.
“The identification of depression as a risk factor for osteoporosis has important public health implications,” write Dr. Ulrich Schweiger and colleagues at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich, Germany. According to the study authors, major depression occurs in approximately 5% to 10% of the population, and a decrease in bone density of about 10% to 15% may result in increased incidence of illness and death from fractures in that group.
To evaluate the connection between depression and bone loss, the investigators used computed tomography (CT) to evaluate depressed patients for changes in the bone density of the first to third lumbar vertebrae — bones in the lower back.
New Treatment For Intestinal Bleeding Spares Surgery
A new treatment for bleeding from the large intestine (the colon) prevents further bleeding episodes and reduces the need for surgery, researchers report.
The new approach is based on colonoscopy, where the lining of the large intestine is examined using a long, lighted, snakelike device called an endoscope. Drugs and cautery devices introduced during the procedure can in some cases be used to stop bleeding from diverticulosis, a common cause of intestinal bleeding. Thus the technique can be used to avoid surgery.
While similar methods have long been used to treat bleeding from the upper regions of the intestinal tract, colonoscopy has not been used regularly to treat bleeding from the lower intestine, according to Dr. Dennis Jensen from the University of California at Los Angeles Center for the Health Sciences, and colleagues. Their findings are published in the January 13th issue of The New England Journal of Medicine.
When 17 patients were treated for bleeding associated with diverticulosis using standard surgical methods, nine had continued bleeding that required additional blood transfusions, the authors report. In six patients, the continued bleeding was severe enough to require surgical removal of part of their large intestines.
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Drug May Help Women with Recurrent Diarrhea
Women with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) may suffer from recurrent bouts of diarrhea, but results of a study suggest that a drug known as alosetron can help.
“This is a very important achievement in the treatment of IBS,” Dr. Allen W. Mangel from Glaxo Wellcome Inc. in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, told Reuters Health. “IBS is a multifactorial disorder — with pain and altered bowel function — and alosetron is the first proven agent to attack multiple symptoms.” People with IBS experience abdominal pain, and episodes of constipation and diarrhea.
However, more study is needed to compare alosetron with other existing drugs and to determine if it is cost effective, according Dr. Tony Lembo from Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, who wrote a commentary accompanying the report in the March 25th issue of The Lancet.
In the study, Mangel and colleagues looked at 647 women with IBS who took either alosetron or (an inactive) placebo for 12 weeks. The women had either diarrhea or alternating diarrhea and constipation as their main symptom.
Pregnancy Food Guide
Pregnancy Food Guide tell you about the basic food that contain essential elements for your baby before birth that not only best for before but having long lasting effect for your baby in his whole life.Many studies made this conclusion if mother take healthy diet during her pregnancy her kid will take birth with a perfect immune system.
M&Ms, jelly beans, pizza and Cap’n Crunch cereal are just a small sampling of the foods women crave during pregnancy. With strong aversions and cravings, it’s hard to eat well throughout the entire nine months (even if you’re a nutritionist).
Calcium Your daily calcium requirement shoots up from 800–1,200 milligrams when you become pregnant. This adds up to four servings of dairy products or three servings and one
Breakfast
- Whole grain cereal with berries, low fat milk
- Low fat yogurt and granola, orange juice
- Hard cooked egg, 2 slices whole grain toast,cut oranges, tomato juice
