Pros and Cons of Liposuction After Childbirth

Pros and Cons of Liposuction After Childbirth

Pregnancy puts on extra pounds on a woman. Some women put on just a few that they lose right after the baby is born, and some unlucky women even put on hundreds. It all depends on the woman and her nutrition, body type, and other uncontrollable factors. After having a baby, of course most women want to get rid of the extra pounds. One idea is to have liposuction to get rid of the excess fat.
There are a few pros and a few cons to this procedure. Technically after giving birth to a child and waiting about 6-8 months, there is nothing wrong with having liposuction, especially if it is going to help you feel better as a woman and therefore as a mom. It is advised however to wait at least that amount of time to give your body time to heal from the damage done by the arduous process of childbirth and to get back to a somewhat normal health level. The issues with liposuction is that it removes the fat, but fat can grow back. If you don’t learn how to maintain your weight and follow the doctor’s orders during the liposuction recovery stage then it will be pointless. In a matter of weeks, you’ll be back to square one. It can also be dangerous if too much fat is removed. If you are opting for liposuction do not opt for more than 6-8 pounds in one session. Even this is usually divided into two sessions.
Another alternative to liposuction might be a tummy tuck or tummy liposuction. A tummy tuck can get rid of the excess skin and might give you a more permanent, lasting result as opposed to liposuction after the birth of a child. However, moms planning to have this procedure must be done with having more children as it involves having the skin on the tummy area permanently improved. So mothers, the choice is yours.

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Women Need to Feel Labor Pain

Women Need to Feel Labor Pain

It might seem that if there is no pain, there is no problem. However, doctors insist that pain is necessary: it forces a woman to complete the process of birth – to strive to end it with the birth of a baby. If there is no pain, there is no desire to make an effort.
According to Doctor of obstetrics Dennis Walsh from the University of Nottingham, England, the pain during childbirth has its own advantages for both mother and baby. He emphasizes that painkillers, such as epidural, violate the natural process of psychological connection between the mother and the child.
Dr. Walsh says that labor pain often helps to regulate the time of delivery, reinforces psychological connection between the mother and the baby, and prepares the woman for motherhood responsibilities.
Over the past 20 years, the use of epidural anesthesia has doubled. In fact, it is used only on demand of women in labor, even despite the fact that the medicine increases medical risks during childbirth and despite the availability of alternative and less invasive ways to control pain symptoms.
Meanwhile, according to Dr. Walsh, the pain has positive physiological effects, allowing to set the rhythm for the contractions and activate the production of endorphins, the hormones that help to adapt to the feeling of pain.
The doctors have noted that the use of epidural anesthesia facilitates side effects, such as the need for hormone replacement therapy during labor and the use of forceps for the child to be born safely.
According to the research by Swedish doctors, one should not overuse these painkillers at least because of the fact that the risk of drug addiction among the adolescents, whose mothers received morphine drugs during labor, is five times higher.
The nervous system of the baby “remembers” the narcotic analgesic. And then, if one day the teenager gives it a try, there will develop a fast and strong addiction.
Dr. Walsh says that alternative methods of reducing pain are safer for both the mother and the newborn baby. For instance, he suggests using the technique of hypnosis, massage, yoga, and birthing pools.
It is believed that the woman, who is psychologically ready to deliver a baby, who is able to breathe properly, is well aware of all the phases of labor, who is able to control herself and is aimed at the result, can cope well without painkillers.
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Woman Gets Pregnant Again and Again Despite Birth Control Techniques

Woman Gets Pregnant Again

When it became clear that a young Englishwoman had got pregnant again despite taking the contraceptive pill, the doctors decided that she simply had not followed the instructions as for taking it. But she became pregnant again and again, though she had referred to a more reliable method of intrauterine spiral.
Gemma Potter, the resident of the English city of Plymouth, is only 23 years old now. In 2006, when she met her future husband, she was a very young girl. Their love was passionate and mutual, but soon Gemma noticed a strange thing: all the contraceptives, which she resorted to, were completely ineffective.
As a result, she has given birth to three children during 5 years, and two pregnancies ended in miscarriages.
But the most piquant is the fact that the woman with three children and a young mother – judging by modern standards – is pregnant for the sixth time, although she took every precaution to prevent pregnancy.
Gemma and her husband Glenn made love no more than three times from the beginning of September until early December – once a month, as it turns out. The woman was very worried that she would get pregnant once again. But there was no way to escape her fate. Neither pills, nor intrauterine devices and hormone injections could help her. During the fall, she and Glenn used condoms, but Gemma still got pregnant.
At first, the doctors, whom she spoke with, only smiled and advised her to comply with the prescribed rules for the use of various contraceptive methods more carefully. But now they look at the woman as a kind of a medical phenomenon.
Gemma complains she has forgotten what a party with friends is like. She has forgotten the taste of champagne, whiskey, and wine. She will never be able to find a good job again, and all of that is because she is constantly pregnant. Gemma loves her children and her husband, but she is terribly afraid to once again discover that she is pregnant.
The woman decided that in future she would take advantage of this feature of her organism. After giving birth to their fourth child, Gemma is going to become a surrogate mother.
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Eat to Get Rid of Fat

Eat to Get Rid of Fat

The people, who constantly consume more calories, than are burnt in their body, and eat little protein, lose muscle mass each day and accumulate fat faster.
The study, whose results have been recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, involved 25 people. They were placed in a carefully guarded (for the security of the experiment) research center for three months. During this time, men and women consumed 1,000 calories more than required to maintain a stable weight, but at the same time their diets contained different amounts of protein.
The representatives of the first group, whose extra ration by 90% consisted of fat, lost an average of 700 grams of muscle mass, whereas the participants of the second and third groups, whose diets contained normal and high amounts of protein, increased their muscle mass for the average 2.7 or 3.1 kilos respectively.
The results of this study refute the old myth about protein diets. It has been believed that increasing or decreasing the amount of protein, you can gain and lose fat. The truth is that you will lose muscle mass, rather than fat, which is especially bad for older people.
The daily recommended rate of protein is 46 grams for women and 56 grams for men. However, the experts say this amount is very approximate and is capable of maintaining muscle mass in some people, but not everyone. It is necessary that one should use up to 78 grams of protein a day, to provide the complete “nourishment for the muscles,” and control the appetite. You can rely on low-fat foods – white meat, cheese, yogurt, and ocean fish – since they are high in protein.
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Children Eat Veggies

Children Eat Veggies

Why don’t our children like to eat vegetables? One of the reasons may be sensitivity to bitterness.
This phenomenon is quite common among children. For example, 70% of the kids, who participated in the study conducted by American scientists in the laboratory for the study of obesity, said that they would rather be drawn to an apple or a banana than eat lettuce or even less desirable Broccoli.
Dr. Jennifer Orlet Fisher, who led the study, says that the gene TAS2R38, which is responsible for the way we perceive the bitter taste, should be blamed for it.
What does the doctor recommend to the parents, whose children fail to eat useful vegetables? One should just reduce their taste with low-fat yogurt or buttermilk and add applesauce or hummus to the salad.
Cook delicious dishes – from the point of view of your children, – and then your kids will eat broccoli, lettuce, and other vegetables.
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Peacocks Files for Bankruptcy

Peacocks Files for Bankruptcy

Peacocks Files for Bankruptcy

More than six hundred stores of the Peacocks brand across the UK can forever shut their doors for customers. The company and the eponymous Peacocks brand, which had been working in the high street fashion niche, turned out to be on the verge of bankruptcy.
The company has recently made an official statement saying that the managers have failed to solve the financial problems. More than 9,600 employees of the large network of stores may soon be left without their jobs.
When it became clear that the company could not solve the financial difficulties by itself, an active though (unfortunately!) fruitless search for new investors began. The debt of 240 million pounds has remained on the company’s bank account. The negotiations with Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland had no result, so it made the company announce a state of emergency.
According to Richard Kirk, the chief executive officer of the brand, Peacocks is a company with great heritage. The brand is deeply sad to announce that they have no other way out, but to declare bankruptcy.
Peacocks Files for Bankruptcy - Peacocks worked tirelessly over the past year to negotiate their new financial policy in order to survive in the current harsh conditions of retail marketing. In particular, the representatives of the company were looking for new investments for business development.

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Multivitamins Intake Helps Get Pregnant

Multivitamins Intake Helps Get Pregnant

According to the researchers from University College London, multivitamins make the chance of pregnancy twice bigger.
According to them, 60% of the women, who are taking the appropriate supplements during the course of IVF, get pregnant.
Dr. Rina Agrawal claims that the pills contain substances such as vitamins A, C, E, zinc, selenium, and folic acid that can increase fertility and that our diet usually lacks.
The scientists have tested this theory on 56 women aged 18-40 years. All of them were unsuccessfully trying to conceive a baby during the last year, using the IVF technology.
One half of the women, who participated in the experiment, received miltivitamins daily, and the other half had only pills with folic acid (which is believed to help get pregnant). As a result, it turned out that 60% of the women from the first group successfully conceived a child in the first three months. In the second group, only 25% of the women got pregnant after three months.

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Weight Loss and Female Friendship

Weight Loss and Female Friendship

Psychologists believe that weight loss leads to a less close female conversation.
Do not rush to lose weight, if you do not want to lose pleasant chatting. According to the results of the survey, involving 10,000 female residents of the UK and commissioned by the manufacturers of weight loss products, rapid correction of the waist is dangerous for female friendship.
One-third of the interviewed women have sincerely admitted that they secretly envy their friends, who are losing weight. One in six respondents wants her friends to have extra weight. 20% of the survey participants feel happy when their best friends have more extra pounds than they do.
No matter how much we praise friendship and how often we talk about wishing only the best to our friends, human jealousy is often stronger than the relationship.
10% of the respondents tell their friends that they have lost weight. But it does not happen in reality. Do you think this is done in order to encourage the friends? No, these words are uttered to make them stop dieting. A significant amount of women aged 16-17 years mark their friends only in those general photographs on social networking sites where they look ugly.

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Pros and Cons of Getting Pregnant in Winter

Pros and Cons of Getting Pregnant in Winter

Winter is not a very good time for planning and conceiving children. That is what many moms and dads think. After all, it is during this time that the levels of prolactin are elevated in the woman‘s body. Prolactin is a hormone that suppresses sexual desire and inhibits the ovaries.
Therefore, oocyte maturation occurs much less frequently in winter than at any other time of the year. Still, there are a lot of babies conceived in winter, just as of those conceived in fall, spring or summer. Now, we shall discuss the pros and cons of getting pregnant in winter.

Why Getting Pregnant in Winter?

When it is winter outside, women’s sexual desire is inhibited. But as for men’s desire, cold weather does not influence it. In addition, the U.S. scientists believe that it is best for the couples, who do not yet have children, to try their luck in winter. It is proved that sperm production improves in the male body under the influence of frost and cold. Therefore, the chances of conceiving a healthy baby increase during this period.
If you get pregnant in winter, the second trimester of pregnancy will be in spring. To be exact, this is the period of rapid emotional recovery. The first greenery appears. Yet it does not mean that the future mom will be able to completely stop taking different multivitamin medicines. They must be taken during all three trimesters.
But the third trimester of pregnancy will fall on summer. You will be able to rest from heavy clothing, and there will be no need to look for bigger winter clothes.

Light dresses and sandals for the future mom – what could be better? The delivery itself will take place in early autumn. It means that there will be a great selection of fruits and vegetables at your disposal. Eating all these useful products, the newly formed mummy will easily improve the quality of her milk.

Contra of Winter Conception

The disadvantages of winter conception include the fact that the first trimester of pregnancy will occur during the worst period in terms of epidemiological situation. The fetus is extremely vulnerable in the first couple of months of intrauterine development. Its placental barrier has not yet formed, and the future baby is vulnerable to difficult and dangerous viral infections.
Therefore, pregnant women have to thoroughly realize it and follow all the necessary precautions, such as washing hands with soap more frequently, wearing a gauze bandage, and moisturizing their nose.
The second trimester of pregnancy, if the child is conceived in winter, falls on early spring. However, spring cannot particularly please you with vitamins. To improve the situation, you may eat sauerkraut, since this product contains the remains of vitamin C, citrus fruits, carrot-apple fresh juice, green onions, and parsley.
The expectant mother goes through the third trimester of pregnancy in mid-summer. She may be annoyed at edema. It is also important for the future mom to avoid frequent exposure to the sun, especially from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., not to drink more than 1.5 liters of liquid per day.
By the way, the scientists from England have noticed that the babies expected in fall, are in no hurry to be born: their planned birth is often delayed. Physicians do not yet know how to explain this phenomenon. This tendency might be linked with natural biorhythms, which can compel the body to slow down its livelihood.
So, planning to conceive in winter or not is up to you. In any case, the most important thing for the baby is to be wanted, and then loved!

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Pregnancy Short Memory Syndrome

Pregnancy Short Memory Syndrome

You shouldn’t have smiled, seeing this headline. In fact, the mission of the pregnant woman‘s brain is the most noble one: it only remembers what it really needs at this period of the future mother’s life.
Laura Glynn, a psychologist from Chapman University in California, has held a number of studies that prove the idea that pregnant women do suffer from short-term memory loss, and the brain as if focuses on the needs of the child, while everything else is in the background.
Especially if it is not the first pregnancy, expectant mothers know that it is this temporary happy condition which makes them extremely forgetful. They can fail to remember what they have been doing, where they have put the car keys, what day of the week it is. But it does not matter, and neither the pregnant woman, nor the people around her should be scared by it. Be sure the “brain will get back in its place” exactly at the moment when the baby is born. One will need extreme concentration, good reaction and endurance, so the body is prepared in advance by accumulating energy.
Dr. Glynn explains that these changes make a woman absent-minded, forgetful and extremely sensitive. They can be caused by hormonal changes in her body, by the moving of the fetal cells into the mother’s bloodstream (the scientists believe that these cells are attracted to certain brain areas), and the movements of the fetus. And even if the child moves almost imperceptibly, any change in the position of its body increases the heart rate of the expecting mother. In addition, pregnancy is a critical period for the development of the central nervous system of the woman, but, unfortunately, the scientists do not know practically anything about it. The only thing we can say for sure is that all these components taken together affect the pregnant woman’s brain, making it so… “absent-minded”.

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Arguing with Children Harms Their Self Esteem

Arguing with Children Harms Their Self Esteem

Parents of teens, be careful! If you are accustomed to winning in debates by means of suppressing your child’s opinion, he or she will not be able to defend his/her opinion in other situations.
A new research, conducted at the University of Virginia, shows that the teenagers, who are not able to convincingly prove their position during an argument with their mother, find it harder to resist peer pressure. In contrast, other children are able to calmly and persuasively defend their point of view.
Of course, parents should give their children an opportunity to use their arguments in the dispute. However, they must first of all learn to listen – to listen to their children’s opinion to the end, to try to understand the motives which prompted the child to commit a particular act. This is the basic pattern of behavior, which the teenager copies and will continuously apply in life, including interaction with peers.
The skill of reasoned argument will be very useful when a classmate or a friend from the neighborhood will offer your child to try alcohol or drugs for the first time. It is not simple to abandon the “temptation”, because one can easily do anything “in a company”. And if a teen has an argument and the skill of using it, he or she can prove the peers that drugs and alcohol will not do any good in one’s life. At the same time, the teenager will retain the “reputation” in a social group, which is so important in this age.
Of course, parents can simply demand compliance with some rules of conduct, but the consequences of such pressure on the child are unpredictable – the teenager may act in the opposite way, thus demonstrating the protest.
Joanna Marie Chango (Ph.D., a post-graduate student in clinical psychology) and her colleagues have tested the adolescents and their mothers (because it is mothers who spend the most time with their children). They were offered to discuss any problems and then take part in a simulated hypothetical situation. As a result of these studies, the children, who did not get their mother’s support and understanding during the

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Foods Really Destroy Children’s Teeth

Foods Really Destroy Children’s Teeth

Some doctors believe that the real trouble for children’s teeth is caused not by chocolate and candies, but by “healthy” drinks instead – juices, fruit cocktails, and smoothies. The physicians believe the problem is that today’s children do not want to drink plain water – the most useful drink on the planet. They do not drink it even as they grow a little older. They do not have this culture, and their parents are guilty of it, since they offer their children juices, smoothies, cocoa and other sweetened natural substitutes from an early age, instead of giving their children the most natural liquid for a human being, plain water.
Britain’s leading dentist Catherine Hurley explains that fruit juices and cocktails, as a rule, are very acidic, and their pH levels range from two to three. And every time the environment in the mouth is more acidic than pH 5,5, the teeth get vulnerable to “acid attacks”. Parents, of course, understand that their child’s uncontrolled use of sweets can lead to tooth decay, but they do not know anything about acidity. Propaganda is certainly to be blamed for this, since it makes an emphasis on the harm of sweets, and juices are declared healthy drinks. According to Hurley, the most interesting thing is that the terrible picture of the “deterioration” of children’s teeth is observed more frequently in affluent families where parents do not spare money on healthy eating: fruit juices, smoothies, milkshakes…
So if Hurley’s message is heard, in the near future the manufacturers may be obliged to warn about the harm caused by fruit and sugary drinks, rather than tell about their health benefits. In the meantime, a good way is to offer your kids a straw if they are so fond of drinking juice instead of water. In addition, if the juice is drunk together with food, its negative impact on the teeth is greatly reduced. And this is the doctors’ second recommendation. It will also be good if you drink some plain water after juice, or rinse your mouth with water.

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Popular Lipsticks Contain Dangerous Levels of Lead

Popular Lipsticks Contain Dangerous Levels of Lead

At least two popular lipstick brands have lead levels above the threshold considered safe (5 ppm) in personal care products in the state of California, according to FDA researchers.
Lead is a neurotoxin that is particularly dangerous for pregnant women.
In the FDA testing, the most-contaminated brand, Maybelline Color Sensation made by L'Oreal USA, had lead levels more than 275 times the level found in the least contaminated brands, and more than seven times higher than the average found in all the lipsticks.
The FDA researchers, who tested 400 brands of lipstick, have concluded that the problem is much more widespread among lipsticks sold to U.S. customers than the agency's previous research had found.
According to Jane Houlihan, senior VP for research at Environmental Working Group, "Millions of women get a little bit of toxic lead on their lips each day with every swipe of their lipstick"
"There is no safe level of lead exposure. The biggest concern is for pregnant women – lead is a potent neurotoxin and the fetus and very young children are most at risk. Some companies make lead-free lipsticks, and we think all companies should."
EWG has addressed a letter to Linda Katz, M.D., M.P.H., director of FDA's Office of Cosmetics and Colors, that reads, "Your new analysis found lead levels in lipstick more than twice as high as your previous report. As in previous studies, certain manufacturers consistently have higher lead levels than other brands... Clearly, some manufacturers could be doing more to protect women from unnecessary lead exposure."

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The Longer the School - The Smarter the Children

The Longer the School - The Smarter the Children

Norwegian scientists have proved that the children, who are given a more intense academic load at school, may enhance their natural IQ level.
The fact that the school provides knowledge and adds more reason is not new. However, early studies on this subject show that the children with high IQ levels have most likely received a better education than others. Now, there is strong evidence that additional education makes the child more intelligent. We are talking about years, and not about seven classes a day and the load of numerous elective courses.
How did it become clear? Some time ago, there was an education reform carried out in Norway, and the period of secondary education was increased for two years. The scientists compared the data of the people, who had studied before these developments and after them. It was found that the additional workload had had a positive impact on the growth of the rate of schoolchildren’s mental development, and their IQ had been increased by 3.7 points on average.
The results of this study are sensational, at least because the vast number of psychologists and educators continue to believe that IQ level is determined by genetic factors. They claim that IQ is stable and not susceptible to any modifications. And for them, it is a matter of faith rather than of scientific findings.
So, if your child has decided to quit school and go get secondary special education, try to convince him or her that a few extra years at school will give him more intelligence.

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More Women Turn to Surrogate Sex Partners

More Women Turn to Surrogate Sex Partners

More and more women turn to the services of surrogate sex partners in the recent years. According to the recent data from the International Professional Surrogate Association, the purpose of these meetings is to awaken a woman’s libido.
Surrogate sexual partners are treated differently. It is believed that providing this kind of therapy is unacceptable on ethical and moral consideration. However, statistics shows that women themselves increasingly turn to health centers, where the treatment of sexual coldness presupposes the so-called surrogate sex. According to the experts, women talk with doctors about their sexual problems more openly, and the bulk of those seeking help includes women aged up to 40 years. They are socially successful, but for some reasons they experience sexual difficulties.
This type of sex treatment (it has purely medical goals) involves intimate contact with the professionals, who work with the patients to improve their confidence and skills in their intimate life and make their physical contact more comfortable both psychologically and physically. With the help of surrogate sex, one can treat vaginismus and other sexual disorders, deal with cases when women are burdened by lingering virginity, or when they have experienced a sexual trauma.
This kind of sexual therapy emerged in the 1970-s for the first time and was used primarily to help men. These days, professional surrogate partners are employed in many family planning centers and private offices of sexologists, whom women do not hesitate to contact.
The experts emphasize that surrogate sex has nothing to do with “gigolos”, since it is not a romantic adventure. Women resort to this type of aid when other means of solving sexual problems have proved to be helpless. But still, this kind of sexual therapy is regarded extremely exotic in medicine.

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Small Plate Doesn’t Promote Weight Loss

Small Plate Doesn’t Promote Weight Loss

A new study by the researchers from Texas Christian University in Fort Worth denies the dogma that small portions help to lose weight.
“Often, nutritionists advise to use a small plate as a way to control your appetite, but it can not be considered an effective strategy, – Ming Sha, Professor of Kinesiology, says. – Our study showed that obese people had inadequacies with processes responsible for hunger and satiety, so that portion size has nothing to do with it.”
The study involved 10 women who did not have any weight problems and 10 obese women. On the first day of the experiment the participants ate from small plates (21 cm in diameter), and on the second day they used bigger ones (27 cm). There were no limitations in food consumption. The women ate until full saturation, and it was observed that the diameter of the plate did not play any role for them.
One would assume that overweight women had a greater sense of hunger. However, it turned out not to be true. At first, they ate as much as the women with normal weight, but then, after a while, the participants reported that they still felt hungry. In other words, the overweight women received as many nutrients as their opponents did, but did not feel satiety. Scientists believe it is the proof that the problem must be sought not in the plate size, but in overweight people’s organisms, because they have a reduced feeling of hunger and satiety.

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Fat and Cholesterol Lead to Gestational Diabetes in Pregnant Women

Fat and Cholesterol Lead to Gestational Diabetes in Pregnant Women

The women, who cut the share of animal fats and cholesterol in their diet during pregnancy, can reduce the risk of developing gestational diabetes.
The researchers from the National Institute of Child Health and Development (USA) have analyzed the data on health status, lifestyle and diet of more than 13,000 women aged 22 to 45 years. Approximately 6% of the participants of the study reported that they were diagnosed with “gestational diabetes” (diabetes of pregnant women) during pregnancy. This disease is characterized by the period of gestation, it is accompanied by a breach of carbohydrate metabolism and increases the risk of complications during pregnancy. The disease may also affect the health of the newborn baby.
After analyzing the statistics, the researchers found that the women, who liked much animal fats and foods high in cholesterol before pregnancy, had a twice higher risk of getting ill with gestational diabetes.
The experts recommend that the women, who are preparing for pregnancy, reduce the consumption of foods containing large amounts of fat and cholesterol. For example, if the number of animal fats is reduced by at least 5%, the risk of gestational diabetes is reduced by 7%.

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Woman’s Shoes Tell Her Character

Woman’s Shoes Tell Her Character - French psychologists have conducted an amusing research which has revealed a link between the woman’s character and the shoes she wears. The results were published in the journal Psicologia e Salute.
The authors of the study have suggested using a scale according to which high heels are worn by the women who want to rise above the others in such a way because of their low self-esteem. High-heeled shoes are also worn by the ladies who are inclined to challenge, outrage, and vibrant sexuality.
Pins are most likely to be worn by self-confident and energetic women who can enjoy their attractiveness, get acquainted easily, and are very feminine by nature.
Choosing low wedgies characterizes the woman as an especially soft, flexible, and relaxed person. Such women tend to find compromise and are extremely pleasant to talk with.
But high wedge-heeled shoes, according to the psychologists, are certainly put on by a confident lady, firm and capable of defending her point of view, though at times somewhat unpredictable.
Practical and romantic people prefer platforms; the psychologists claim these women are straightforward and are always eager to succeed at any cost.
Blunt low-heeled shoes, resembling man’s style, will most likely be worn by sound girls who know what they want from life, but are prone to depression and easy tiring.
The sport models, according to the authors of the article, are worn by open-hearted women who easily come in contact with people, but feel somewhat conservative and are not always ready for change, as the Psicologia e Salute journal writes.

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Women Dream

Women Dream - British psychologists and sociologists have conducted a joint study to find out the expectations of modern women from life. The Science journal has more about it in the news section.
It turns out that most of the British women of the 21st century have abandoned their ambitions and career plans and increasingly dream of a warm nest together with their beloved man. In particular, the results of a national survey show that 64% of female residents of the United Kingdom strive to get married successfully. Almost 70% of British women want to “sit” with their children and do not want to work. According to the authors of the survey, a similar test in 1990 showed that the number of women in the UK who wanted to get married as soon as possible was only 20 percent.
In addition, the scientists inquired what the women thought about the IQ level of their potential spouse with whom they would lead a “sedentary” life. 62 percent of the Englishwomen admitted they wanted their husband to be smarter than them, though 20 percent of the survey participants said they were indifferent to their future husband’s intellect.
And what do you dream about? What do you want from life: a career or a family?

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Feminine Environment Harmful to Men

Feminine Environment Harmful to Men - American scientists have come to a paradoxical conclusion that men growing up surrounded by sisters are less attractive to the opposite sex, – the authoritative journal Science wrote in its news review.
Curiously, experts came to this conclusion after a study conducted not on humans but on rats.
For example, experts found out male rats that grew up surrounded by predominant number of females showed significantly less interest in procreation process than rodents that initially were near the males. In addition, they were interested in female rats to a lesser extent.
The study’s authors believe the same mechanism operates in humans. They believe a man whose childhood is spent close to his sisters is less masculine, and not even being a homosexual has a much smaller sex appeal in the eyes of women.

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Americans get Divorced

Americans get Divorced - American scientists have put forward their own version why couples get divorced.
According to the study they conducted that was reported in the news review of the journal Science, majority of Americans now get divorced because of dissatisfaction with their sex lives. After surveying some hundred partners, the experts came to an interesting conclusion: it turns out that the sexual life of spouses in most cases is unsuccessful due to differences in biorhythms: when the husband is a “lark”, and his wife is a “night owl” or on the contrary.
Such discrepancies in biological rhythms lead to the fact that the spouses experience peak concentrations of sex hormones in absolutely different times: sexual activity in “larks” declines in the morning, while “night owls” are ready to have sex only during the day or evening.
It is startling that according to the results obtained by the scientists, a whole of 90% of couples in the US decide to divorce precisely because of discrepancy between their sexual schedules.

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People Love Most in Champagne

Today is the day when innumerable bottles of Love Most in Champagne or other sparkling wines will pop open sending streams of white foam splashing freely and bringing along merry mood both through its cheerful fountaineering and exquisite taste.
Well, we all know what it is all about, but some of the boffins had been too engrossed to know until recently, when a study conducted by French scientists was published proving beyond any doubt that it takes good bubbles to make good champagne.
The study that appeared in the American Chemical Society Journal affirms that bubbles, as the most important aspect of sparkling wines, are a perfect agent transferring the texture, taste and aroma of the wine.
Therefore you should do well, when opening a bottle, to try and avoid letting too many bubbles escape.
In order to enjoy the bubblest of your champagne chill the bottle to 39-40 degrees before drinking. Pour the wine down the side of the glass slowly… and have a good drink and a merry celebration!

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Pregnant Women Shouldn’t Eat Too Much Beef

Pregnant Women Shouldn’t Eat Too Much Beef

Pregnant Women Shouldn’t Eat Too Much Beef - Pregnant women, who eat lots of beef, give birth to sons, who have a low content of active sperm when they grow up. This is according to a new research.
Scientists believe that the reason can be pesticides, hormones or contaminants found in the feed for livestock. The chemicals can accumulate in the fat of animals that eat contaminated feed or grass. In addition, the cattle are regularly given hormones to stimulate their growth.
The sons of the women, who had eaten beef in large quantities (more than seven beef meals per week), demonstrated 24.3 percent below normal sperm concentration. This was stated in the article published in the journal Human Reproduction.
The Specialist Group from the University of Rochester Medical School in New York has studied the data on 387 partners of women who sought to become pregnant. The data on five U.S. cities were presented. The information on them was verified by both the mother and the father. The study was conducted between 2000 and 2005.
Of the 51 men, whose mothers were actively eating beef during pregnancy, 18% had the amount of sperm, which, according to the classification of the World Health Organization, was not enough for normal fertilization.

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Divorcing at a Young Age and Health Risks

Divorcing at a Young Age and Health Risks

The scientists at Michigan State University have published a report in the Social Science & Medicine journal, saying that divorcing at a young age causes more damage to health, than divorcing at a more mature age.
Having analyzed the statistical data on the health of more than a thousand Americans, sociologists have found that people of mature age (44-50 years) usually have more stable indicators of health after the divorce, than the young people, who separate at the age from 35 to 41 years. It might seem interesting that during the marriage of these people, their health indicators do not change much. That is, the well-being and the occurrence of certain diseases is affected by the divorce itself.
The author of the study, Associate Professor of Sociology, Hui Liu believes that young people need more social and family support, as they often fail to cope with the stress associated with divorcing. Mature people, on the contrary, sometimes even feel relieved after the family separation, because, as a rule, they used to be unhappy in their marriage. This is the main reason for divorce.

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Mother’s Age and Breast Cancer Risk in Daughter

Mother’s Age and Breast Cancer Risk in Daughter

A new study shows that with age, under certain conditions a girl can develop breast thickening, which is a serious risk factor for cancer. If a mother gives birth to a girl when she is over 39, and if before puberty the girl is taller and thinner than her peers, she has a high chance of getting breast cancer.
Virginia Loup, the author of the study, explains that it is associated with an increased content of hormones. The risk of cancer is also caused by the speed of a girl’s maturation. If breasts begin to grow too rapidly, the predisposition to cancer evolves, as well.
Medical Express reports that breast cancer remains a genetic condition, but other factors also have influence – for example, the age when a woman gives birth to her first child and the number of children.
The study is published in Breast Cancer Research and Treatment.

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Top Complaints in US Healthcare

One would have to dig very hard to find a greater hot button political topic in the United States than healthcare. It is a subject where every politician will publicly agree that change is necessary, but almost nobody can agree on what that change needs to be or how to enact it. It has led to such buzz terms as "Obamacare" and "death panels." Beyond anecdotal horror stories (which can erupt from any type of healthcare system), it is important to note what the main problems with the current system are. This article will focus on the four areas that have generated the most heated debate. The reader can probably think of a few others as they are going through this, but I will venture a guess that most issues could fit under these umbrellas with minimal effort.

Cost: One could make a strong argument that cost is complaint number one, two, three, and so on with the health care system. Costs associated with healthcare have risen at a rate far greater than inflation or wages. In fact, as of last year, it takes up nearly one-fifth of the nation's gross domestic product (source: CBS News). Compare this to two decades ago and healthcare accounted for less than one-tenth of the gross domestic product. This is clearly felt among the nation's citizens who are either paying more directly for doctor's visits and surgical procedures or experiencing the costs through higher health care premiums.

Another big aspect of this complaint revolves around the fact that it is primarily the consumers that are feeling the pain of these costs. One may frequently hear doctors, drug companies, hospitals, and insurance providers lament the rising cost structure that they face (which is definitely true, they do face higher costs themselves), but it is impossible for them to be churning out the record profits that the industry has in recent years without giving the consumer even a greater markup.

Availability/Quality: One factor that had driven prices so high is a limited availability of professionals, medicine, and facility space. This number gets even smaller if the consumer is looking for high quality care. It is no secret that the United States is facing a physician shortage. Every year, its medical schools produce a limited number of doctors to enter the workforce. Meanwhile, an expanding population produces an ever increasing number of individuals who require the services of these doctors. Hospital space and drug companies also take advantage of the demand outweighing supply by driving their prices up in accordance with standard economics.

Tort: This is arguably the top complaint from those with conservative leanings, and it is certainly not without merit. In the United States, tort accounts for a significant percentage of the GDP as well. It leads to doctors going to unnecessary lengths and doing unnecessary tests that are not in the best interest of the patient just to cover their behinds in case they get sued. There are no caps in place and the burden of proof often falls on the accused. That last statement is not true legally, but when juries see a crying widow or victim and know that the health care companies have deep pockets and are insured, they often give awards based upon bad results rather than whether or not the defendant actually acted in preventable error.           

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Mass Media, Medical Professionals, and Reporters Perpetuate Misconceptions About Type 1 Diabetes

Mass media, medical professionals, and news reporters perpetuate misconceptions about Type 1 diabetes by using the word 'diabetes' when they are really only talking about Type 2 diabetes.

Lately, you can't turn on the television without hearing the word diabetes. Glucose meter companies are starting to advertise their meters, news stories are highlighting diabetes in their health segments, and drug companies are selling their latest diabetes product. There is a problem with all of this chatter, however, no one is differentiating between Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes.

While in most cases, and I really mean all cases, they are talking about Type 2 diabetes, they just leave out the words Type 2 and say, diabetes. While this may not be an issue for people with Type 2 diabetes, or even people without diabetes at all, it does cause a problem for people living with the 'other' diabetes, Type 1 diabetes.

This is where all the misconceptions begin. People eating their breakfast listening to the television in the background hear the word diabetes, then the rest of the commercial, then think they automatically know what my son is going through day in and day out. One commercial on how to eating right and exercise can help control your diabetes, and they think they have the lock on how to help my five year old 'control' his diabetes. Every one of these commercials would make my son's life a whole lot easier if they would just use the full title of this particular disease, Type 2 diabetes.

Or at least add a disclaimer saying something like, "While our commercial/news story/Public Service Announcement will help people with Type 2 diabetes, please leave people with Type 1 diabetes alone, this does not pertain to them." Obviously, I know this won't happen but it would be nice.

I saw this on a web page of a nurse that my son will have to work with one day in a future school that he will attend.

"YOU KNOW [sic] March is National Nutrition Month and March 2nd - 6th is National School Breakfast Week? Eating a balanced breakfast helps to keep you alert and feeling good. Children who eat breakfast are significantly less likely to be obese or become diabetic.  Children are more likely to have better concentration, problem -solving skills and hand-eye coordination."

When I read this I almost cried. Okay, I really did cry, but just a little. This lack of clarity that penetrates our subconscious on a daily basis is what makes it so hard for my little guy to explain why his diabetes, Type 1,  is different than Type 2 diabetes. A school nurse is a respected authority on health information, and the fact that this statement would be placed out there for everyone to read implies that my son, my child, possibly didn't eat breakfast and that is why he became 'diabetic.'

My son should not have to answer to another five year old about whether he ate breakfast or not, and whether that is why he has diabetes or not. Addition of the simple term 'Type 2' would educate people immediately that there is more than one type of diabetes. It wouldn't explain the whole story, but it might stop one person from saying something so insensitive and so inappropriate to my son so he doesn't even have to question whether his breakfast choices may or may not have caused his diabetes...which we all know they didn't.   

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Ladies's Health and Vitamin

In phrases of Ladies's well being and vitamin, there are some specific well being issues and dietary wants just for women.

There are a few medical circumstances which are of nice concern to a girls's well being like coronary heart disease, breast cancer, and osteoporosis. Statistics present that heart illness is the main killer of each men and women. Though extra males die of coronary heart disease than ladies, females tend to be below recognized, usually to the purpose that it's too late to help them once the situation is discovered.

Recent findings show that breast cancer is the commonest cancer in girls, and is second to lung cancer as the leading cause of dying for women. You presumably can forestall many kinds of most cancers by simply controlling your weight, exercising, and quitting smoking.

There are steps women and teen girls can take to avoid osteoporosis, as it is largely preventable. Your body will do what it might possibly to repair bone harm, however you have to present the tools for it to do its job. Adequate calcium and vitamin D consumption and weight-bearing physical exercise are a should all through your life.

Ladies's vitamin is important to preventing most of the top health issues present in women. The nutrients that girls must pay most consideration to are iron, notably if pre-menopausal, calcium, and folic Acid simply to call a few. The nice news is you may stay ahead of the game and it all could be prevented.

Among the important dietary requirements and dietary wants for ladies's optimum well being are to get the advisable servings of the foremost meals teams, follow a nutritious diet, get the right amount of calories for vitality, exercise recurrently, and take additional nutritional vitamins and minerals to supplement their diet as most of the meals consumed nowadays have little to no nutritional value.           

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Girls's Well being - What's Thrush?

Among the many many organisms that reside in the human body is the yeast Candida albicans, Thrush, which lives in 80 p.c of the human population at anybody time. Candida can found on the skin, within the stomach, colon, vagina, rectum, mouth, and throat. Underneath regular circumstances Candida has no dangerous effects however can cause problems when an overgrowth appears in one of the areas talked about, an overgrowth of this yeast is known as Thrush and the medical title for Thrush is candidiasis.

Thrush can change into a major problem if it's not treated, and anybody who thinks they could be suffering from Thrush should seek medical recommendation on the earliest opportunity.

The telltale signs and signs of Thrush?

In the mouth it looks like creamy white patches or small crimson spots on the tongue, the roof of the mouth (also known as the onerous palate), gums or throat. Crusting on the corners of the mouth can be a standard symptom of Thrush. Thrush makes it troublesome and painful to swallow and can trigger chest ache in addition to nausea and making food taste different.

A medical practitioner is normally in a position to to check oral Thrush by checking your mouth and throat though in additional severe cases they may examine your throat and abdomen with an endoscope using X-rays or visual examination.

Many ladies undergo from Thrush, in reality it has been estimated that over seventy five% of all women will expertise candidiasis, a candida yeast an infection more commonly generally known as Thrush, at some point of their lives. The telltale indicators of a yeast infection embrace a thick, cottage-cheese-like discharge together with itching and burning. Some women also discover swelling of the lips which may also be purple and tender.

Can female Thrush be prevented?

Regular amounts of yeast are needed for good well being so main prevention of vaginal yeast just isn't possible. Because the an infection is a yeast and feeds on sugar some girls have found it helps to stop a recurrence of yeast overgrowth by limiting the sugar in their diet. One other easy method to make use of is to permit the area to breathe by sporting cotton panties and skirts or free-fitting pants.

If infections always reoccur a medical examination is really useful to verify diagnosis, however in any case make sure you seek medical recommendation earlier than enterprise any type of treatment.           

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Women's Health - Can Omega3 Fish Oil Boost Girls's Health?

Omega3 fish oil fatty acid dietary supplements would possibly boost women's health.

Fish oil has been proven to be a good suggestion for lots of health conditions. PMS, menopausal signs, hormonal imbalances, cervical most cancers and breast most cancers might benefit.

Plenty of authorities have recently beneficial increased intake of omega-three fatty acids through the overall population. On account of this, we are actually seeing more products (eggs, yogurt, milk, margarine, and the like) which might be fortified with omega3s. The query is, how much omega3s are in truth in these products and what's the omega6 to omega3 ratio. The person's goal must be to extend omega3 consumption even as decreasing omega6. On the grounds that among the fortified meals contain both, they don't seem to be prone to be beneficial.

On the subject of men's and girls's health, regular dietary consumption of fatty fish like salmon is most definitely a good suggestion, as long as it comes from the Pacific Ocean. The Atlantic Ocean is closely polluted. Fish from the Atlantic contain top ranges of mercury and PCBs.

Fish Oil - Absolute best Supply of Omega3/DHA

The better fish oil supplements are molecularly distilled to remove mercury and different contaminants. Eating a little fish once in a while is okay. But, one of the best ways to insure that you get sufficient omega-three fatty acids every day is to take a molecularly distilled supplement.

DHA is Very Important

A few manufacturers suggest that flax seed oil is best than fish oil. But flax seed accommodates only ALA. The omega-three fatty acids which are so much vital to our health are DHA and EPA. The frame can convert ALA to DHA or EPA. However, researchers have proven that ALA dietary supplements don't increase circulating levels of DHA. It's DHA that may be so much advisable to girls's well being issues, similar to PMS and the depression that can accompany menopause.

Low ranges of DHA are recognized to accompany depression and have been present in ladies affected by reasonable to critical PMS. Fish oil is the best and such a lot reliable supply of DHA, but it is very important learn the label to be sure. Many products include extra EPA than DHA; it must be simply the opposite.

Fish Oil Advantages Well being Conditions

Omega-3 fatty acids have natural anti-inflammatory job that helps relieve cramping. It's just right for the joints and the heart, painful joints ceaselessly accompany menopause. Middle illness is extra common in postmenopausal women.

Breast cancer is among the women's health issues which can be so much worrisome, particularly in ladies with a circle of relatives history of the disease. Fish oil may scale back the chance of breast and cervical cancer. A couple of research record that women with these types of most cancers have low circulating levels of omega-3 fatty acids.

As well as, we now understand that  power inflammation performs an important position in cancer cellular phone production and tumor growth. Researchers had been recommending higher consumption of natural anti-inflammatories for a couple of years, but now not everybody in the mainstream scientific community has paid consideration to that advice.

Most people don't wish to give up their regular diets with a purpose to reduce their possibility of persistent and existence threatening diseases. However, taking a good dietary complement is something that practically somebody is prepared to do.

In abstract: Devour extra DHA than EPA. Take in extra omega3 than omega6. Omega6 comes from cooking oils. Cut down on frying food. Fish oil is the most productive source of Omega3/DHA. So, take a excellent fish oil supplement. It's just right for women's well being and for men's. For the most efficient fish oil source that I've present in my research please talk over with my website online listed below. Thanks, Margaret Bell           

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About Girls Health, Sexology, Psychology, Pregnancy

With out taking any notice, we use kisses several instances a day - blow them to ourselves, touch our dad and mom' cheeks with our lips, smack the noses of our favorite toys, however all this can't be in contrast with an actual grown-up kiss between two people. Here comes essentially the most fascinating part - complexes and fears about our incapability to kiss. I'm going to disclose a little secret to you - even quite a lot of grownup and experienced people have the identical fears. We're all unique, what appeals to one person will be unattractive to another one; subsequently the artwork of kissing is a life long study.

What is crucial thing in the kissing technique? Whichever approach you look at it, there is just one answer - to really feel your companion's responses. Even with an absolute lack of skill, whenever you shyly touch the lips of the one you love for the first time, your desire to indulge them opens the celestial bliss of a kiss. Careful and velvet touches of your lips over cheeks, corners of the mouth and further will reveal your companion's preferences quickly. And try to not forget about such a significant thing as using arms and words - tender strokes of hair and shoulders, and tender brushings of the neck and arms supplement kisses and assist to expose the deepest feelings in your soul.

For the initial mastering of kissing strategies, it is price drawing your attention to the cinema. Put aside horror movies and detective tales, and change to melodramatic tear-jerkers, specializing in the way the principle heroes are kissing. Try to put yourself on their place, feeling touches to the pores and skin of another person. While steeping into desires, it's potential to imagine the one you love individual and "rehearse" kisses with them. There isn't a use in creating particular behavior patterns, as sooner or later you will have to improvise continuing on your partner's reactions.

Following the scientific approach, we may peek into the classification of kisses made by a French sexologist Gérard Leleu. In his opinion a quiet kiss is when lips contact the skin almost with none sound. It's better to start your kissing follow with this slight lip-contact, gently driving your companion to the need to proceed the kiss. After this, it's advisable to stimulate slowly a more durable kiss, when the stress is higher, the sound is louder, however the respiratory just isn't interrupted. If it is a kiss on the lips, the mouth is barely opened with a purpose to let the tongue free and enrich pleasant feelings with its light touches. It's almost a French kiss with an opened mouth and a penetration of a tongue into it. You should be very careful right here - maintain your tooth clear and your breath fresh. In that case only, your parnter may also have an interest to dab your smooth enamel with their tongue, to tease your lips bringing you to the best levels of pleasure.

Another sort of a kiss is a nip kiss when the lips nibble the accomplice's skin - such mild motions help to search out the erogenous zones. A suck kiss is familiar to everyone who was so absorbed in it that left love bites, small bruises, on the companion's skin. Your lips take some part of a pores and skin in and suck it, presenting the nice and cozy feeling. While utilizing a tickling kiss all your attention is concentrated on a selected erogenous zone which is being tickled and fiddled along with your lips, stimulating specific receptors. During a kiss named by Gérard Leleu stroke of a pan your lips are drawing on the accomplice's pores and skin, learning all the relief traces, typically accentuating the tenderness of touches with your scorching tongue. The last kind of a kiss in his classification is a tracing kiss when the lips of a closed or an opened mouth trace the pores and skin with a different pressure.

If we go further and seek the advice of the popular "Kama Sutra", we'll discover much more kissing strategies utilizing your lips and tongue. In the meantime, a kiss will not be restricted with a mouth solely, as all physique actions, touches of fingers and even the atmosphere influence pores and skin receptors and the partner's mood.

Thus, even considering of your self as a grasp of kisses, you can at all times study something new, particularly when your loved one person is able to support your most uncommon experiments, such because the utilization of ice-cream during kissing. But it is quite a unique story.           

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Mental Health Disorders - The Causes

Mental health is an emotional well-being of a person. It is how an individual thinks, acts and feel to handle what life has to offer. It is how we handle problems and stress. Mental health is as important as physical health and should be given great importance. This is not just an absence of mental disorder but it has to do merely with many views of our lives. Mental health issues or problems may lead to alcohol maltreatment, smoking, depression and anxiety, bad health and poor diet.

What cause mental health disorders? These could be several reasons for mental health disorders. A person may have experienced a tragic event in his life or negative experience such as abuse or negligence. In order to treat this illness, one should seek for a professional help and overcome this. Mental illness may be genetic or hereditary. Experts believe that this are linked to abnormalities in many genes. Brain defects and injury may also cause mental disorder.

All of us have problems to handle. Usually it is very hard to manage such problems that it may lead to mental illness. There are some people who are weaker than others and they are not able to handle their problems very well. That leads to mental health problems. Some common mental health problems are:

Depression - Too much problem may cause depression. Depression involves your body, mood, thoughts, behavior and overall health. It affects yourself as a whole; the way you think and feel about yourself. It also affects your sleeping and eating habits. There are medications to treat depression. You may also need to seek for a professional help to help you handle overcome depression.

Anxiety - Anxiety is an unpleasant feeling and emotion that is experienced. Worrying too much and fears are just some factors of anxiety but there is also a good cause of anxiety; it is something that helps motivate us to solve our problems. Although worrying is not really a bad thing but worrying too much may really cause mental illness. Anxiety disorders may seriously cause problems to individuals so this must be treated.

Eating Disorders - If you have too much problems to worry, this may also affect your eating habits. Eating disorder may be over eating or not eating at all. This will definitely affect your weight, shape and diet. Eating disorders should be treated by psychological support and counseling and medication.

Mental health is very important and it has a huge impact on every aspect of your life. Good mental health reflect your good self image where you recognize your talents and achievements and accepting your shortcomings. Your mental state also greatly affects your physical health. If you are mentally healthy, you are far from any diseases or illnesses and you would healthier inside and out.           

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Current Health Articles Talk About Myths

In the current health articles, we have seen the topic of breast feeding and myths related to it, have been raised tremendous times. These current heath articles reveal the today's hi-tech and scientific world and women still believe in these myths. There are many myths that have been attached to the breast feeding. The myths are like the following:

The first and most common myth is that the majority of women aren't able to produce more than enough milk. But in reality, this is the false conception. The current heath articles, written by the scholars, have shown that the overabundance of milk is common. The most common and usual reason that the baby does not get the milk that is available is that he is poorly latched onto the breast. This is why it has become so important that the mother be shown how to latch a baby on properly.

The second myth that has been shown in the current health articles is that it is normal for breastfeeding to hurt. This is not true at all. Any pain related to it that is more than mild is abnormal and it is because that the baby is not latching properly. Any nipple pain that is not getting better by day 3 or 4 or lasts beyond 5 or 6 days should not be ignored by the mother.

It is the frequently asked question in the current health articles that there is no (not enough) milk during the first 3 or 4 days after birth. This is again the misconception. The reason behind this misconception is also not the proper latching of the baby. This has been seen and read in the scholaristic current health articles that during the first few days the baby who is latched on poorly cannot get milk. By not latching on the baby well, the baby is unable to get the mother's first milk, called colostrums.

This is really funny and amazed query in the current health articles. It says that a mother should wash her nipples each time before feeding the baby. Hygiene is really important for the baby as he is prone to infections. As we all know that the breast milk protects the baby against infection. The concept of washing nipples before each feeding makes breastfeeding unnecessarily complicated and washes away protective oils from the nipple.

Breast milk does not contain enough iron for the baby's needs is the again one of the fallacy which women believe, says the current health articles. This is again an untrue statement. The breast milk contains just enough iron for the baby's needs.

Again the most asked question that it is easier to bottle feed than to breastfeed. This is again not true. The current health articles have proved that the breastfeeding is made difficult because women often do not receive the help they should to get started properly. A poor start can indeed make breastfeeding difficult as well as painful. But a poor start can also be overcome by the proper guidance as well as the help.           

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Current Health Articles on Diabetes and Its Complications

You may wonder why so many current health articles mention the necessity to keep a track of your blood sugar levels and to get yourself checked up for something like diabetes in the first place. However, the main reason for this is that there are so many complications that diabetes can have in the long term, that it is better take proper steps to avoid and prevent them.

There are other factors which cause diabetes and you need to be able to understand them properly. One of them is a family history. Current health articles call it the silent killer. Anybody with a parent having diabetes is at a high risk of getting the disease themselves.

Thinking and talking about something that may not really happen to us in our lives is weird and scary at the same time. However, we have to try and be realistic and understand what we need to do to prevent health problems. Current health articles advice for people to take care of their nutrition and fitness. These are perhaps the two most important factors that anybody should remember to stay fit and healthy.

However, if you find that you are having any kind of symptoms related to diabetes, then the best thing to do is to consult your doctor, get him to give you all the necessary tests to diagnose the problem and if you are a diabetic, then taking the recommended medications in a timely manner will help you stay out of further complications.

Some of the complications of a disease like diabetes can affect your eyes. Current health events mention that problems like cataracts, which make the lens of the eyes thicker and therefore make it impossible for you to see, are one of the complications of diabetes. Of course, there is the possibility of surgery, however, this is a slow process which will affect your vision in a slow manner and surgery will not be done until the disease has developed to certain stage.

Glaucoma is another very common factor that can be caused by diabetes. The blood pressure increases in the eyes thus creating a pressure which damages the optic nerves. If untreated, the person can lose their eye sight completely. This occurs rarely and it is seen only on elderly people, however, caution needs to be taken that your high blood pressure is not affecting your eyes in any way. Current health articles also mention that some glaucoma sufferers may need to undergo surgery to help them with the problem.

Current health articles have given a lot of emphasis on the different problems involved with some kinds of diseases like diabetes and how they don't seem to exist, and all of a sudden they seem to be creating havoc in your life. They recommend that you follow a very strict regime and take care of your blood sugar and blood pressure at all times and to avoid smoking to avoid any kind of eye problems related to diabetes.           

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5 Best Tips for Relieving Your Menopause Symptoms

So you've hit menopause and now you're wondering what to do next. Or maybe you just SUSPECT that your sliding into menopause (peri-menopause) because you're starting to experience any of the myriad of symptoms, like hot flashes, night sweats, insomnia, fatigue, decreased sex drive, mood swings, and relentless weight gain.

The good news is that we now live in a time when menopause is no longer a taboo subject. We feel more comfortable discussing it with our friends, significant others, spouses and doctors. There are more avenues than ever to help support us in our transition. The bad news is that there are a lot of traditional "old" Western medical approaches to menopause relief that are certainly dangerous and sure to be avoided whenever possible.

The beauty of menopause, however, is that it is the time when most women are flowering into the fullness of their personal identity - in what they want out of life, in what dreams and talents they want to give birth to, and what desires they want to fulfill. They spent their earlier years defining themselves as wife, mother, best friend, and trusty employee, but menopause ushers them into a new age - the Age of Wisdom - and here are our 5 little bits of wisdom for you to get you through this transition of menopause in style:

Tip 1: Exercise!

Even a gentle walk every day for 20 minutes (outdoors preferably) will go a long way towards preserving your muscle tone and bone density. Walking can help you lower your bad cholesterol and raise the good, lower your blood pressure, help manage your weight and even improve your mood. What's more is that if you do it outdoors, you also get the benefit of natural Vitamin D which is essential to your immune system and also helps to prevent cancer. (info from "The Mayo Clinic" and "Medical News Today"). Walking also may lead you to be more enthusiastic about starting a more rigorous exercise routine... after all "a body in motion STAYS in motion."

Tip 2: Eat a Healthy Diet

There is a LOT of misinformation out there about what's healthy. If your main source of nutritional knowledge comes from the News at 10 or the government's latest food pyramid, it's important to start doing a little research on your own. Some trusty sources are Dr. Mercola's site or our own "Sugar Control Diet" which is not only excellent for weight loss, but also for balancing hormones (which is so important for menopause symptom relief!) Our Sugar Control Diet guidelines also help in reducing inflammation and even identifying foods that may be causing digestive distress (scroll down to our resource box at the end of this article and you can contact us to request our Sugar Control Diet... it's free).

So many people think that baked potatoes, pastas, rice and breads are good for them - but those all metabolize as sugars in the body, and in doing so, they trigger an insulin release... too much of which not only causes your body to gain more fat but throws all your other hormones out of whack as well (a DISASTER for women seeking menopausal symptom relief!) So educate yourself and start making truly healthy changes in your diet asap - this will help with ALL your menopause symptoms.

Tip 3: Indulge in Some "Me" Time

Menopause often gets a bad rap because we're so inundated with information about the bad parts. But let's try to find its "good" aspects. For example, as we mentioned before, this is a time when women are coming into their own. They know themselves better. They usually have more free time because their children need less supervision - and so they can write that book they never wrote, or attend that class they never had time for in the past. They can build that new meaningful career or find their real purpose and passion that fuels their soul.

Part of birthing this new "you" is learning how to take care of yourself and your needs better. So start laying down the law with some "100% ME" time. Put in some earplugs, declare it a no-kid-zone, and go take a luxurious bubble bath by candlelight. Go to your local gym and indulge in some sauna time. Get a Thai massage - or better yet, some reflexology! As Tony Robbins puts it, schedule your own "Hour of Power" or "Thirty Minutes to Thrive"....if you can't do that, at least schedule "Fifteen Minutes for Fulfillment"! Everyone can find 15 minutes in their schedule somewhere. But put it on the calendar in ink and make it a "must" for yourself. It will calm your nerves, rejuvenate your body, and revitalize your soul.

Tip 4: Avoid Caffeine, Alcohol & Nicotine

If you have excessive consumption of caffeine or alcohol or any intake at all of cigarette smoke (first or second hand), you should know that these substances worsen menopause symptoms. Caffeine & Alcohol serve to exacerbate hot flashes, anxiety, insomnia and bone loss during the critical menopause & perimenopausal years. Caffeine especially disrupts mineral absorption and increases stress. Alcohol ruthlessly dehydrates you (never a good thing!) and is a "magnifier" - so if you're already feeling depressed, alcohol will "magnify" that depression and make it worse. It will take your menopausal anxiety and magnify that too. And you may think it helps you sleep, but when the sugar spike in your blood system finally crashes (remember alcohol = sugar), you will awaken in the middle of the night and find it difficult to go back to sleep.

And did you know that smoking is the main factor in causing early menopause (before age 45) in women?!? Plus it increases the risk of osteoporosis and heart disease, among other things we don't even need to mention. But in regards to menopause itself, according to the British Journal "The Lancet" researchers suggest that nicotine's effect on the nervous system possibly results in changes of the secretion of the hormones involved in menopause, and the smoke itself may affect certain enzymes that influence how the body handles sex hormones. So get help now if you're addicted... hypnotherapy is often a good route for quitting cigarettes and other addictions.

Tip 5: Get Yourself Some 100% SAFE, All-Natural Support for Menopause Symptom Relief

Now this is the MAIN TIP for you: The Big Enchilada. The topic every menopausal woman must educate herself about. It used to be that we all just went to our doctor and he or she prescribed the typical HRT (hormone replacement therapy) for us... you know: Premarin, Prempro, Provera and others. Those synthetic hormone pharmaceuticals that most often are made from the urine of pregnant horses. Yes... GROSS, we know. But it's the truth.

However that all changed when a recent study done as a part of the Women's Health Initiative discovered that long-term use of these synthetic hormone replacement drugs may increase the risk of strokes, heart attacks, blood clots and breast cancer. Even as far back as 1975, they knew these types of drugs substantially increased the risk of endometrial cancer as well. Despite all the findings in this study, doctors continue to prescribe it.

There is no doubt that we do need some source of significant relief for the symptoms of menopause - so we can feel like ourselves, not suffer the mood swings, the insomnia and HOT FLASHES all the time (not to mention the lowered libido), but it's important not to potentially harm yourself by taking traditional HRT.

There are a great many viable and effective, natural herbal remedies for menopause symptoms on the market today... they do work, but some work better than others. We highly recommend getting a full-spectrum product made with trustworthy, quality herbs... not pesticide-laden, and not in capsules that are difficult for your body to digest and assimilate.

For example, most supplements DO contain Black Cohosh for hot flash relief, but make sure your supplement also addresses your other symptoms. Like Sage for excessive sweating, and Damiana with Soy Isoflavones for low-libido and depression. Adrenal support is good as well (the Licorice herb helps with that) - because you need adrenal support during this time... and don't forget Valerian to relax. Full spectrum SAFE support!

Educate yourself also about bio-identical hormones, which are much safer alternatives to traditional HRT. A great source of information for those is found in the book "Ageless" by Suzanne Somers. She even has a directory of physicians in the back so you can find one near you to get help.

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In conclusion, we hope these 5 Tips can help you to have a happier, healthier menopause and guide you toward a smooth transition into the New You. If you'd like to learn more, read our other articles and visit our website where we have a free report on menopause relief - we truly seek to help you live your best life NOW.           

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