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Good Carbs, Bad Carbs – Fiber and The Grain Controversy
The latest diet trends have attacked carbs, specifically grains, saying they are bad for your health and make you fat. High protein and fat diets like Paleo and Keto cut out all grains. On the other hand, the heart association stresses that whole grains are...
Make Your New Year’s Resolution a Success This Year
The beginning of a new year is a time for birth, growth, and renewal; a chance to make a fresh new start; a time for reflection - so why are most New Year’s Resolutions “pie crust” promises: easily made, easily broken? You might have had good intentions, but...
Arthritis is Inevitable with Age, Isn’t It?
As we age, we start to notice aches and pains we didn’t have when we were younger. Creaking knees, pain or swelling in your fingers or toes, wrists, elbows, hips, or shoulders, or stiffness after getting out of bed. You may think that pain is just a normal part of...
Five Simple Steps to Help Prevent Common Women’s Health Issues
It seems as if every day a new miracle treatment arrives on the market that can help women live longer, lose weight, or have less wrinkles. So much information and so little time to wade through it all! How can you tell what works or better yet, what should you...
Chocolate, the Good Mood Food
If you’ve ever felt down in the dumps and dug into a bowl of dark chocolate ice cream or ripped into the nearest Hershey bar, you may have felt a little better afterwards. But, do you know why? Chocolate, in its purest form, is one of the “super foods”....
Overworked, Overextended, Overwhelmed – How to Manage Holiday Stress
You’re late for work, the kids missed the bus, and now you’re yelling at the dog because he ate your favorite pair of shoes. Your heart’s racing, you feel like crying and screaming. You are about to call in sick because you have last-minute gifts to buy and your...
How Diabetes Affects Estrogen and Progesterone
Estrogen and Progesterone are the primary female hormones produced by the ovaries needed for optimal reproductive and sexual health. They’re also important in controlling blood sugar and how your body reacts to insulin. Women with diabetes need to pay extra...
Insulin Resistance and the Hormone Connection
Is a Hormone Imbalance Increasing Your Risk for Type 2 Diabetes?Diabetes and insulin resistance affect over 30 million Americans. Type 2 diabetes, which accounts for 90-95% of all diabetes cases can usually be prevented (or at least controlled) through proper diet,...
Don’t Make Me Laugh or I Might Pee
35 million women in the US suffer from urinary incontinence most of whom experience stress or mixed incontinence. Stress Urinary Incontinence (SUI) is the accidental urine leakage during extraneous action or movement. The risk of having incontinence...
The Fundamentals of Creating a Successful Skin Care Routine
“Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.” – Coco Chanel Creating the “correct” skin care routine is overwhelming – there are so many different serums, creams, ointments, and masks to choose. Not to mention...
Life After Breast Cancer
You’ve been diagnosed with breast cancer, developed a treatment plan with your doctor (which may include surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, or hormone therapy), and started treatment.Your prognosis is good for a full recovery but it’s not over when the treatment...
Estrogen – The Double-Edged Sword
Estrogen is one of the most important hormones for women as it regulates our menstrual cycle and reproductive system. But it can also become the enemy in hormone receptive breast cancer. What you need to know about estrogen and its role during your life. ...
New Facts About Preventative Screenings for Breast and Cervical Cancer
Breast cancer affects one in eight women. Over 250,000 new cases are discovered and over 40,000 women die from breast cancer every year. Women between the age of 50 and 70 are at the highest risk. The key to survival is early detection as smaller tumors are the most...
Breast Cancer and Your Sexual Health
A breast cancer diagnosis brings a lot of changes to a woman’s life; some temporary, and some permanent. But on top of your physical changes, emotional fatigue, and side-effects from treatment, many women also experience changes in their sex life from lack of desire,...
Understanding The Complexity of Breast Cancer
Breast Cancer is a very complex disease. There’s invasive and non-invasive. Hormone receptive and triple negative. Medullary, mucinous, papillary, tubular, cribriform, lobular. In situ, metastatic…If you’re diagnosed with breast cancer, you may care more about...
Help Prevent Common Women’s Health Issues
Five Simple Steps to Help Prevent Common Women’s Health Issues It seems as if every day a new miracle treatment arrives on the market that can help women live longer, lose weight, or have less wrinkles. So much information and so little time to wade through it...
National Women’s Health and Fitness Day
How Women Can Feel Their Best This September There’s nothing better than a way to make you feel like a strong and empowered woman. This September, there’s a whole day dedicated to just that! Celebrate National Women’s Health and Fitness Day with your ladies by taking...
Don’t Go Enough?
You May Have Chronic Constipation Almost everyone experiences occasional constipation at some point in their life, especially women. Change in diet or routine can make us constipated but, if you have trouble going for several weeks or more or go less than three times...
Get a Grip On Your Stress
10 Tips for Managing Stress With today’s hectic lifestyles, it’s easy to get stressed out. Sometimes you might feel like it’s never ending with work, the kids, or whatever else gets thrown at you. Before you get stressed out about your stress, here are...
Are you Stressed Out?
That stress could make you sick… Are you stressed out a lot? Believe it or not, stress can make you sick. Stress comes in many forms. It can be short-term (acute) or long-term (chronic). Acute stress from everyday events like a work presentation or a job...
How Well Are You Sleeping?
The Wrong Pillow and Mattress Can Affect Your Quality of Sleep Everyone knows the importance of a good night’s sleep, but it’s more than just getting eight hours of shuteye each night. There are several determining factors in quality sleep, and many things you can...