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What can women do to prevent onset of osteoporosis?
Q: I am a 50-year-old woman and am concerned about developing osteoporosis. Is there anything I can do to help prevent it?
Source: www.suburbanchicagonews.com
Medications That Might Affect Your Hair
Hair is a very delicate part of the body. It is easily affected by many body changes both external and internal. Are your perscriptions medicines on the list?
Source: www.bellaonline.com
Why Is There Even Debate Over Female Thyroid Testing? Patient Advocate Says Pregnant Women — and Their Babies — …
While researchers recruit women for a new clinical trial looking at pregnancy and thyroid disease — and the implications for babies — the nation’s leading thyroid patient advocate, Mary Shomon, asks why the trial is even necessary, when research already shows the dangers of failing to treat thyroid conditions in pregnancy. Shomon shares some important warnings for women who might consider …
Source: prweb.com
Skinny teens warned about osteoporosis risk
Skinny teenagers and girls suffering from anorexia could be seriously damaging their bones and increasing their risk of osteoporosis later in life.
Source: news.yahoo.com
Women’s heart risk underestimated
Most women carry a higher long-term risk of heart disease than they realize and should act now to prevent heart attacks and stroke, say American Heart Association guidelines issued today.
Source: www.usatoday.com
About Osteoporosis
Osteoporosis is a disease in which the bones become weak and are more likely to break. People with osteoporosis most often break bones in the hip, spine, and wrist.
Source: www.seniorjournal.com
High fibre diet ‘cuts risk of breast cancer in younger women by half’
Mike Waites Health Correspondent BREAKFAST cereal could be the latest weapon against breast cancer as a major study in Yorkshire has discovered a high-fibre diet cuts the risk of the disease in younger women by half. (24/01/2007 08:12:08)
Source: www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk
Better Sex Diet Sneak Preview
If you’re looking for another way to stir up some romance this Valentine’s Day, here’s an idea. How about a home-cooked meal to boost your mojo? Whole Foods chef Jamie Powell fired up a very quick and easy meal with plenty of aphrodisiac ingredients.
Source: www.kxan.com
Heart of the matter
Chances are good that you know at least one woman who’s at risk for heart disease, the No. 1 killer in the United States. And yet 80 percent of heart disease cases are preventable.
Source: www.thenewstribune.com
Update On Tufts Vitamin K Research
In a recent article in Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care, Sarah Booth, PhD, lab director of the Vitamin K Laboratory at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University (USDA HNRCA), reviewed studies regarding vitamin K status among the elderly. [click link for full article]
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.com