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This great post over at FemChat highlights the need for folks in their 20s and 30s to start saving for retirement.
Author Michelle Schafer says,
I don’t understand everything there is to know about investments, but I do know this: You need to start saving early and the longer you keep saving, the more money you’ll […]
A new study indicates that daily use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), a common class of antidepressant, may increase the risk of fracture in people over 50.
“Other studies have pointed to this [link], but our study confirms it,” says David Goltzman, MD, one of the study’s authors. Goltzman is director of the […]
Research reported in January 2007 suggests that the age of your cells, not your calendar age, is what may best indicate your risk of heart attack and heart disease.
Every time a cell in the body replicates, the DNA string (the telomere) at one end of the chromosome gets shorter. When it gets too […]
It sounds like baloney, but it really is possible to improve the appearance of your skin in one day. This article over at That’s Fit tells you how:
I think skin is like hair: you can have “good skin days” and “bad skin days.” It’s almost impossible to tell which one you’ll get until you’re […]
I’ll be 25 in a month and a half, and it got me thinking about the whole concept of age. Sure, I know when I was born (March 1982, if you’re mathematically challenged, like I am), but is my body aging at the same rate the calendar tells me?
That’s why I decided to find […]
UK dental experts have developed software that can screen dental x-rays for signs of osteoporosis in women, reports WebMD:
“The value of our method is that dentists take millions of these X-rays every year for ordinary dental reasons and they contain useful information that isn’t being used,” [one of the programmers] says.
“People may be apparently […]
Cheerios announced on January 9 that it will be partnering with The Heart Truth and WomenHeart in a campaign to raise money and awareness for heart disease prevention and education. According to yesterday’s press release,
Although most women do not consider themselves at risk for heart disease, the reality is that almost […]
Shouldn’t I be past this by now? I’ll be 25 in two months, and I have the mother of all breakouts on the side of my face. There are four gi-NOR-mous pimples, and they seem to be reproducing and growing simultaneously. I mean, seriously, skin, get over it. We’re not 15 […]
In addition to building strong bones and staving off osteoporosis, adequate calcium intake can also help you maintain muscle tone and function, activate enzymes that help your cells function normally, and reduce the risk of pregnancy-induced hypertension. A more complete list of the benefits of calcium is available here.
According to the National Institutes of […]
As I mentioned earlier this week, black cohosh doesn’t appear to help with the symptoms of menopause while the much reviled hormone replacement therapy (HRT) does. Women have been warned about the side effects of HRT, which include a higher risk of breast cancer and heart disease but researchers at the Kronos Early Estrogen […]
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