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This Doc Says Forget The Health Rules and Live a Little!
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This Doc Says Forget The Health Rules and Live A Little! Lose weight, exercise more, get 8 hours of sleep, eat more fruits and vegetables, reduce stress, take supplements… have you grown weary of all the health rules offered by TV doctors, magazine articles and well-intentioned friends? Dr Pauline Chen, in her New York Times column. Breaking the Rules Won’t Break Your Health. Health rules can mislead you into half way believing that if you eat only the right things, or exercise in the proper way, you can...
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I launched this website five years ago as a part of my own journey through midlife changes. I feel better than ever now (more about that in a moment), and I’m committed to sharing the information I gather with my community of readers. What can you expect? To help you with your own research, I strive to present material as impartially as possible, to point out potential conflicts of interest, and to offer links to original sources whenever I can. I felt I’d lost control of my body. I threw myself into res...
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These Fitness Balls Can Help With Kegel Exercises
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These Fitness Balls Can Help With Kegel Exercises. Doing Kegel exercises, which involve contracting then relaxing the pelvic floor, can help strengthen this important muscle group. But many women have trouble doing this exercise correctly because it can be challenging to identify and isolate the right muscle. That’s where a handy Kegel tool called Luna Beads. 8220;You can pop them in and fold your laundry, run to the grocery store and it will keep those muscles engaged while they’re in,” said...For more ...
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Mother's Day Gifts For Hot Mamas
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Mother’s Day Gifts for Hot Mamas. Hot flashes is the theme of my picks for mothers’s day gifts this year. There’s no reliable natural remedy to make them go away. Even hormone therapy is no guarantee. But there are plenty of products that claim to make us more comfortable so we can at least get a good night sleep. Here are a few ideas for mother’s day gifts – that you may like too. If night sweats are a problem, consider trying Wicked Sheets,. 8220;cool garments for hot women”) also offers shirts a...
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A New Study Evaluates Non-Hormonal Treatments For Hot Flashes - Menopause - The Blog
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A New Study Evaluates Non-Hormonal Treatments For Hot Flashes. A lot of purported remedies for hot flashes, such as flax seed, botanicals like Black Cohosh, acupuncture, and deep breathing, have failed to show any benefit when put through the rigors of a scientific study. This latest clinical trial comes from a NIH-funded initiative called MsFlash. Ealth), that established a research network to conduct clinical trials of promising treatments for the most common symptoms of the menopausal transition such ...
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How Safe & Effective is Gingko?
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How Safe & Effective is Gingko? A perennial top-selling herbal supplement used to enhance memory function came under fire late last week as a threat to our health by the Center for Science in the Public Interest. CSPI) Citing a new study. But just a day earlier, in a webinar led by Mark Blumenthal, the executive director of the American Botanical Council. The Science of Herbal Medicines: What Works and Why. See my last blogpost. The ABC, a non-profit organization whose mission is “to provide educat...
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The Connection Between Fibroids and Vitamin D
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The Connection Between Fibroids and Vitamin D. From the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences has found a possible link between fibroids and vitamin D. In a three-year study of just over 1000 women, aged 35-49, researchers reported that those who had sufficient amounts of vitamin D were 32 percent less likely to develop uterine fibroids than participants with insufficient vitamin D. To order a home Vitamin D test kit. It’s interesting to note that the researchers in this study conside...
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These Books Can Help You Keep Your Fitness Resolutions Even If You Only Have 15 Minutes for Exercise (And I'm giving them away) - Menopause - The Blog
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These Books Can Help You Keep Your Fitness Resolutions Even If You Only Have 15 Minutes for Exercise (And I’m giving them away). Compared with persons who watch no television, those that spent a lifetime average of six hours a day watching TV can expect to live five years less. Dr Mike Evans, Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Public Health at the University of Toronto. How are you doing with your new year’s resolutions? For every increase of 10-minutes in your walk to work, there’s a 12 pe...
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Is Urinary Incontinence An Evitable Part of Aging?
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Is Urinary Incontinence An Inevitable Part of Aging? Urinary incontinence is something we associate with old age. Yet an overactive bladder (OA) can be a consequence of childbirth, or even constipation. So it’s not uncommon for women in their 30s to 60s to experience urgency, frequency and yes, even urinary incontinence. We do seem to hear more about OA in women than men, so I contacted an expert in the field, Dr. Charles Nager,. Here’s a transcript of my interview with him:. But because their urethra ha...
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10 Best Foods to Lower Blood Pressure
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10 Best Foods To Lower Blood Pressure. If you have elevated or high blood pressure, a common condition in menopausal women, you naturally want to reduce your sodium intake. But you also want to make sure that your diet includes enough potassium, which as a natural diuretic, will promote the excretion of water and sodium from your body. If you’ve been diagnosed with hypertension, (half the U.S. population has high blood pressure, according to the Center for Disease Control). The American Heart Association.
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