Jan. 15, 2009 — Oprah Winfrey says menopause caught her “off guard”
and that she’s taking bioidentical hormones that have made a big improvement in
how she feels.
Bioidentical hormones are one form of therapy for menopausal symptoms.
Winfrey, who turns 55 this month, writes in February’s edition of
O, The
Oprah Magazine
that she felt “out of kilter” and had
“issues” for two years that she suspected were hormonal. Upon a
friend’s recommendation, Read the rest of this entry »
Already a hit in England, Simon Lovell's weight loss ebook 'The Lunch Box Diet' made the cover of USA's 'Woman's World' Magazine and women went a little bit mad for it!
Exeter, UK, (
) September 14, 2008 — Once overweight and bullied at school, Simon Lovell changed his life around and decided he wanted to help overweight people. Never did he realize just the impact he would have on American women. His internet Read the rest of this entry »
RAWL — Residents of a small community in Rawl are concerned about a discharge that is appearing periodically in a stream near their homes.
According to David Miller, environmental inspector with the Department of Environmental Protection, Division of Mining and Reclamation, there is a closed coal mine at the head of the hollow. The mine is owned by Rawl Sales and Processing, a subsidiary of Massey Energy. The mine site includes a sediment Read the rest of this entry »
BEIJING (AFP) — Wal-Mart said Tuesday it had pulled a major brand of eggs from its stores in China, as concerns rose that an industrial chemical found in Chinese dairy products was in the nation’s wider food chain.
The announcement by the US retail giant came after authorities in Hong Kong said eggs from the same Chinese producer had been found to contain melamine, the chemical at the heart of a scandal in China over contaminated milk. Read the rest of this entry »
,
Oct. 8
/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Continuing its efforts to educate, inform and empower the people of
, SAVE THE PATIENT, a not-for-profit patient-focused organization, is hosting its 25-minute live call-in show, “Community Health,” on Chicago Access Network (CAN-TV) on
Monday, October 13, 2008
on Channel 21.
, MD, Attending Family Physician at NorthShore University HealthSystem and Assistant Professor at
Feinberg School of Medicine. Read the rest of this entry »
“Cardiovascular disease is America’s number one killer, and is the leading cause of death for older people,” says Michael A. Muchnicki, President and Chief Executive Officer of Touchstone Health. “As a healthcare company dedicated to serving Medicare beneficiaries, we decided to take the lead in raising awareness and empowering seniors in our community in the fight against this deadly disease. Our partnership with the American Heart Association and Read the rest of this entry »
After one month of ‘Flat Belly Diet,’ reviewer is 6 pounds lighter
When I suggested that I would be willing to follow the “Flat Belly Diet” as part of my review of the book, I had no idea what I was getting into.
I’ll say right off that my Body Mass Index was in the normal range when I began it, but I — like so many others — – seem to imagine life would surely be better if I could only lose 5 to 10 pounds. In the end, I lost 6 pounds during Read the rest of this entry »
Ocean’s Flavor provides a natural
lower-sodium, healthier and tasty alternative to traditional salt.
Ocean’s Flavor Natural Sea Salts are specialty products with natural
low-sodium ranges from 45% lower sodium to 70% lower sodium than other
standard table salt or sea salt. This is due to the company’s tight
patent-pending restrictions that can optimize the environment’s natural
ability to produce a salt Read the rest of this entry »
Cliff Village, Mo., recently passed a medical marijuana ordinance that allows seriously ill patients to use marijuana pursuant to the recommendation of a doctor (2/10, A-1, “
”).
A 2005 nationwide Gallup poll showed that 78 percent of adults support making marijuana legally available for doctors to prescribe to reduce pain and suffering. A 2004 AARP poll showed that 72 percent of adults age 45 and older think patients should be allowed to Read the rest of this entry »
Washington (IANS): Elderly adults who are more physically fit tend to have bigger hippocampi, a part of the brain that has a bearing on spatial memory.
Remove the hippocampus, as was done in the well-known case of surgical patient Henry Gustav Molaison, and a person’s ability to store most new experiences in memory is destroyed.
The hippocampus, a curved structure deep inside the brain, also is a key player in spatial navigation and other types Read the rest of this entry »