Want to stay healthy and reduce stress? Then have more girls’ nights out. Seriously. Women and men react differently to stress, which comes as no surprise to most of us. Our brains release chemicals that actually cause us to seek out friends for bonding and support. That same response doesn’t happen in men. This helps [...]
When it comes to gender, Type 2 Diabetes is an equal opportunity disease. The major risk factors associated with diabetes – sedentary lifestyle, poor diet, and obesity – are essentially the same for both sexes. By the same token, the challenges of living with diabetes to ward off potential complications such as cardiovascular disease and [...]
In this ultra-modern age, it may surprise you that more and more women are finding relief from their PMS symptoms—not in the latest pharmaceuticals—but in a class of ancient remedies known as essential oils. This recent demand for a natural approach to achieving wellness has caught the attention of healthcare providers and given rise to [...]
Many Preterm Births are Preventable; U.S. Lags Many Other Developed Countries Fifteen million babies. That’s how many of the 135 million worldwide births were premature in 2010, according to a new multi-agency, multi-national report from the United Nations. Worse, 1.1 million of these infants died soon after birth, and millions more suffer from permanent physical [...]
Cd. It’s the symbol for cadmium, a heavy metal that naturally occurs in very small amounts in food, water and air. It’s also in cosmetics, farm fertilizer and tobacco smoke. High levels of this toxic metal have even been found in shellfish, likely due to runoff from farms. Cadmium exposure has been linked to many [...]
At a time when more than a third of adults in the United States are considered obese, a plant-based, cruelty-free diet known as veganism has been shown to offer multiple health benefits for women. A vegan diet is void of all animal-based products. That means no meat, including seafood and poultry; no dairy, including milk, [...]
Having lost ten pounds after my first successful diet at age eleven, I happily paraded my thinner self in front of my mom and grandpa in the family kitchen and announced my success. “Good for you,” my grandpa told me at the time. “You were getting a little heavy.” I was . . . wha? [...]
