General Health Tips :Breast Cancer Survivors and Soy Foods

Tags: , , , | Sunday 27 December 2009 4:28 am

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Your source for reliable general health information, Offering quick guides to healthy living, personalized health advice, and tips.Because we know that breast cancer is promoted by oestrogen, any woman who has had breast cancer tends to avoid foods that contain it such as tofu and soy milk. The most common source for many women is soy, a plant that has chemicals with oestrogen-like and anti-oestrogenic properties

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General Health Tips:Home births as safe as hospital delivery

Tags: , , , | Thursday 29 October 2009 8:15 pm

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Women who give birth at home do not have any higher rate of complications or death than women who give birth in a hospital. This research was carried out in the Netherlands where one-third of women choose to give birth at home, due to a government encouragement of the policy.
Because

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General Health Tips:Heart disease risk for women increased with exposure to plastic food containers

Tags: , , , | Friday 17 July 2009 6:11 am

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Your source for reliable general health information, Offering quick guides to healthy living, personalized health advice, and tips. New research presented in Washington in June has shown that exposure to bisphenol A (BPA)– a chemical found ion plastics – causes abnormal heart activity in women. It is the oestrogen receptors that are responsible for this effect in heart muscle cells. BPA is an environmental

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General Health Tips:Body of work hits fertility

Tags: , | Sunday 14 June 2009 5:32 am

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Health, Nutrition and Wellness, News, Articles and Tips for women, men and children. Also including mental health, diets and research.Women who are successful in the workplace maybe damaging their chances of having children, a study has found.Career women tended to have androgynous body shapes that indicated higher levels of androgens rather than oestrogen, which is vital for getting pregnant.Women are more shapely

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Health Care Information:Mother-daughter breast cancer link

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Your source for reliable general health information, Offering quick guides to healthy living, personalized health advice, and tips. It was reported by the MLA University Health Network on 3 May that a unique mother-daughter study shows that the percentage of water in the breast could be linked to the risk of breast cancer in older women. Breast density is an inheritable characteristic that is known to be a cancer

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General Health Information:Folic acid can boost birth weight for healthier babies

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I mentioned a few weeks ago the benefits of Omega-3 for premature babies and now there is further help to boost your baby’s birth weight by over 60 grams - and this is very good news for their long-term health. The British Journal of Nutrition has reported that supplementing

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General Health Information:Rheumatoid arthritis on increase among women

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About general healthy, foods and nutrition information to live a healthy lifestyle and avoid disease easily come close to you. The overall rate of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has been decreasing for 40 years, currently down to 2.1 million from the 3 million recorded in 1995. However, it has substantially increased among women according to a study done at the Mayo Clinic and presented the annual meeting of

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Health Care Information:HRT & Cancer confirmation

Tags: , , , , | Monday 13 April 2009 9:29 am

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HRT is a thorny subject, with its advocates and detractors in equal numbers. I have been on HRT for 6 months many years ago, and know what it can do, but I also have seen much research on the damage it can wreak. New studies in recent months had pointedout the dangers of side effects [...]

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General Health Information:Fight mood swings with fish oil

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A recent report in the American Journal of Nutrition offers some hope for women - and those who have to live with them - who sufferfrom the hormonal havoc that can occur with PMS and in the time running up to the menopause. It’s not just the hormones of course, other stresses

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General Health Tips:New hope for infertility treatment

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It has just been reported in the Society for Endocrinology journal that the hormone kisspeptin shows promise as a potential new treatment for infertility. Research carried out at Imperial College London, have shown that giving kisspeptin to women with infertility can activate the

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