September 10th, 2007
Thanks to Kendra at Diabetes Notes and Laura at CFS Squared for the tip off on National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week this week.
What’s an invisible chronic illness? Anything that people won’t know you have just by looking at you. Examples include…
Mental illness
Eating disorders
Endometriosis
Diabetes
Arthritis
Chronic pain
Heart disease
Autism
Migraines
Cancer
Multiple sclerosis
Chronic fatigue syndrome
and anything else you just can’t see
Check […]
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September 10th, 2007
Kendra over at A Hearty Life is surveying readers to find out how much sleep women really get, in the interest of drawing some unofficial conclusions about the link between lack of sleep and high blood pressure in women.
Leave a comment at Kendra’s post to weigh in!
Tags: A-Hearty-Life, high-blood-pressure, Sleep, woman, women, Womens-HealthShare This
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August 24th, 2007
I love, love, love this series of articles from iVillage. It complies health tips from women of all ages targeted toward specific age groups. Don’t just limit yourself to your age group — read all of them for some fantastic advice.
20somethings (6 tips)
30somethings (6 tips)
40somethings (6 tips)
50somethings (8 tips!)
60somethings (6 tips)
70somethings (6 tips)
Tags: 20s, 30s, […]
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August 3rd, 2007
Drinking diet doesn’t make you exempt from the link between soda consumption and risk factors for heart disease, say new findings from Boston University School of Medicine.
“We were struck by the fact that whether it was diet or regular soda that participants consumed, the association with increased risk was present,” says Ramachandran Vasan, a professor […]
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July 20th, 2007
A recent study by the University of Washington reported in the New England Journal of Medicine concluded that women living in areas with high levels of air pollution are more likely to develop and die from cardiovascular disease than are their clean-breathing counterparts.
The researchers studied levels of fine particulate matter, which are tiny airborne particles […]
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June 7th, 2007
I know, I know, the blog is Lively Women, but today we’re focusing on the guys as part of the Science & Health Channel’s monthly Theme Day. This month’s topic is, you guessed it, men’s health.
According to WomensHealth.gov (ironic, no?), even though men’s life expectancy is approaching ours, they still need to be extra careful […]
By Kristen King -- 2 comments
May 31st, 2007
Wade over at Healthbolt has an awesome post with some even more compelling reasons to quit smoking today, on World No Tobacco Day 2007.
I think one of the main reasons it’s so hard to quit smoking is because all the benefits of quitting and all the dangers of continuing seem very far away. […]
By Kristen King -- 3 comments
May 31st, 2007
May 31 is World No Tobacco Day, so what better day to talk about why you should quit smoking right now? Here are 10 compelling reasons to kick the habit today.
Smoking causes 87% of all lung cancer cases (source), and lung cancer kills more women than breast and ovarian cancers combined. (source)
Smoking causes wrinkles all […]
By Kristen King -- 7 comments
May 30th, 2007
You don’t have to love tofu to enjoy eating soy. With soy nuts, soy bars, soy milk, soy yogurt, soy cheese, and various soy-based meat substitutes, not to mention flavorless protein powers you can add to foods you already love, you’ll never run out of fun and delicious ways to eat more soy. And that’s great news […]
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May 29th, 2007
A new study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine yesterday suggests that working out can slightly boost your levels of high-density lipoprotein (HDL), the good kind of cholesterol. (FYI, low-density lipoprotein or LDL is the bad kind.)
These findings were based on an analysis of previously published studies, which revealed that individuals who are more […]
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