Natural Menopause
Your Diet The first step on your road to natural menopause is to eat a healthy, hormone-balancing diet. Reduce saturated fat Keep down your intake of red meat (such as beef) and cheese because...
Your Health. Your Lifestyle. Vitamins and Minerals
Conventional Treatments for Preeclampsia
The WORD eclampsia is from the Greek meaning “bolt from the blue”. If you’ve been diagnosed with milk preeclampsia, you may need only regular checks with your doctor or midwife, as long as the...
Seeking Emotional Health Amid Physical Ailment
Another way to look at life, another way to look at death — this was the goal of Gerald Jampolsky, M.D., when he opened the Center for Attitudinal Healing in Sausalito, Calif., in 1975....
Pediatric Transplants Stressful for Parents, Too
Organ transplantation is now the treatment of choice for a number of serious medical conditions that today’s children face. While the experience is, no doubt, stressful for the young children who undergo transplantation, a...
Preeclampsia
Characterized by high blood pressure and protein in the urine, preeclampsia is a condition that, if allowed to develop into full-blown eclampsia, can have implications for you and your baby. Preeclampsia occurs in about...
Eating Disorders: A Campus Concern
Although eating disorders are not limited to any particular age group of women, they are certainly more prevalent among college-aged women. Women who suffer from eating disorders have an intense fear of gaining weight...
Exercise Could Prevent Pregnancy Disorder
Exercising during pregnancy could help prevent preeclampsia, according to a new report. Preeclampsia is a disorder in pregnancy that can lead to the death of the mother and/or the baby. Preeclampsia is often diagnosed...
Safer Surgical Weight Loss
(Ivanhoe News 2000) — Can’t lose weight? You’re not alone! Experts say obesity is at an all time high. Nearly 55 percent of Americans are overweight. While surgery is not the best option for...
Breast Cancer Study
One in 11 women will, at some point in her life, find out she has breast cancer. As cancer researchers work to find a cure, women are stepping up to take part in a...
Choosing Jogging Strollers
The American College of Sports Medicine emphasizes the importance of using a jogging stroller safely. This stroller checklist will help keep your child safe during your morning run. Since jogging strollers were first developed...
Hypnosis and Irritable Bowel Syndrome – Doctor’s Interview
What is IBS and how many people does it attack? IBS is a set of symptoms that affects about fifteen percent of the population. It involves primarily pain and discomfort in the abdomen that...
Laugh Until It… Doesn’t Hurt
Whatever you’re doing, stop right now. Take a moment… and laugh. If you can’t muster a knee-slapping, gut-knotting hoot, even a giggle will do. With enough chuckles, you just might do things like lower...
Options for Lose Weight
There are three main ways in which your doctor is likely to suggest you lose weight. The first is by suggesting that you diet. Then, if the problem is severe, he or she may...
Spring Clean Your Way to Health
Open those windows, sweep under the fridge, and dust away those cobwebs. It’s spring cleaning time. While tossing those old newspapers makes your keys easier to find, there are surprising health benefits too: Clutter...
What Causes Weight Gain
It’s easy to think that weight gain is controlled only by the mechanism of calories in and energy out. Although this is mostly the case, and you certainly won’t lose weight unless you burn...
A “PERFECT DIET” Day
The following is an ideal menu plan for a woman with gestational diabetes. BREAKFAST Organic oatmeal made with water rather than milk (instant oatmeal doesn’t count) and topped with ground mixed seeds; or scrambled...
How to Fit in Regular Exercise
Healthy eating is crucial for optimum weight loss, but it must be combined with regular exercise. Exercise lowers your risk of breast cancer, boosts your immunity, keeps your digestion functioning efficiently, helps balance your...
Stopping Skin Cancer
Summer is in sight. The days are longer, which means we have more time to expose ourselves to the sun. Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer in the United States. But...
Detecting Melanoma
Full-body skin examinations performed by doctors and patients can effectively detect early forms of melanoma, according to a new study conducted by researchers at the University of Florence. Researchers studied more than 800 patients...
Determine if a mole is cancerous
How were melanomas detected before melanomagraphies? The old fashioned way was to just look at a mole and try to determine if it was good or bad. Experienced clinicians are able to diagnose melanoma...
Fight Against Melanoma
Forty-thousand new cases of skin cancer are reported each year, and researchers say the number of people with melanoma is increasing faster than those with any other cancer. For the thousands who already have...
Gerson Diet
Melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer. More than 7,000 people in the U.S. will die from it this year. Some believe skin cancer patients can survive the disease using a little-known treatment...
When Life Throws You Lemons…
Studies show an optimistic spirit can aid recovery from illness or injury, and even lower your chance of developing dementia and cardiovascular disease. Use these tips to help you find the granules of sweetness...
Optimizing Your Weight
Millions of women follow diets, visit diet clubs, read weight-loss books, and look for low-calorie and low-fat foods when they visit the supermarket. We seem to be preoccupied with weight loss. Why do we...
Gestational Diabetes
It’s estimated that pregnancy – or gestational – diabetes affects between two and three percent of pregnant women. Although the condition can cause concern, it’s perfectly treatable. Diabetes is a condition in which your...
Spring Reaction
With the emergence of spring’s life-giving colors, fragrances, and weather comes an aggravation that affects 40 million Americans: allergies. If the sneezing and wheezing make you wish for cold weather, try these tips for...
Taming Bladder Pain Q&A
You said you had about 350 patients who suffer from interstitial cystitis. So this isn’t really a rare disorder, but is it difficult to diagnose? Dr. Hurm: It really is difficult to diagnose for...
Mood Swings
In the process of gradual, menopausal change, your hormone levels will rise and fall until they find a new equilibrium. During this time, your moods are likely to fluctuate, too – sometimes dramatically. Mood...
Essential Water
Without water, your brain can’t send messages to your cells, your stomach can’t break down your food, and your body can’t metabolize your fat reserves or detoxify properly. Water is essential to life. Headaches,...
Let Those Habits Go
While Americans enjoy freedoms others only dream about, we’re all vulnerable to habits that shackle self-mastery over health… and happiness. Gain control and liberation with these tips: Buddy up. Breaking a bad habit or...