Jack Challem
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 The first two quizzes are for women, and the second two are for men. (Some questions are identical, but others differ.) Be honest in your answers. No one except you has to see them.
The Prediabetes Quiz for Women
My doctor has told me that either my blood sugar (glucose) Y/N or my insulin is high.
I've been diagnosed with either carpal tunnel syndrome Y/N or Bell's palsy.
I think my belly is too big. Y/N lilt i i cu i aucic j i iuuiciii ._)
My waist is more than thirty-five inches (eighty-nine cm) Y/N around.
I often skip breakfast, except for coffee. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 Life for women with children isn't always that simple. Why would a club designed for women not offer a simple service like a baby-sitting area? Because it costs money for additional rental space and payroll for staffing to watch the kids. These are expenses that this type of operation cannot afford.
Okay, let's look past this lack of baseline services and amenities to what is actually offered. They must at least have the highest quality equipment and program available since they do not offer anything else, right? Unfortunately not. |
Dan Buettner
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 In Okinawa people enjoy what may be the highest life expectancy (in 2000 figures that worked out to be 78 years for men and 86 years for women), the most years of healthy life (the Japanese have the greatest number of disability-free years at 72.3 for men; 77.7 for women), and one of the highest centenarian ratios (about as high as 5 per 10,000). They suffer from diseases that kill Americans, but at much lower rates: a fifth the rate of cardiovascular disease, a fourth the rate of breast and prostate cancer, and a third the rate of dementia. |
Hyla Cass
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 Iron: 15 mg for women of child-bearing age
?Magnesium: 250-500 mg daily
?Phenylalanine and/or tyrosine: 500-1,000 mg twice daily
?SAMe: 400-800 mg daily
?Vitamin C: 250-1,000 mg twice daily
?Zinc: 15-30 mg daily
For relieving depressive symptoms:
?Rhodiola: 100-300 mg daily
?St. John's wort: 900 mg of an extract with 0.3 percent hypericin
For bipolar disorder:
?B vitamins: (see above)
?Calcium: 1,000 mg daily
?Iron: 15 mg for women of child-bearing age
?Omega-3 fatty acids: 5,000-10,000 mg of EPA/DHA from fish oil daily
?Magnesium: 250-500 mg daily
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Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 The next chapter will show even more ways that green tea promotes good health for women.
CHAPTER 9
Women, Brew Up a Cup of Tea . . .
As we've seen, the first clues to the health benefits of green tea for men came from the discovery that Japanese men enjoyed surprisingly low rates of incidence for many diseases. In a similar way, the low rates of breast cancer and osteoporosis in Japanese women suggested that green tea should be in every woman's teacup. As we'll see in this chapter, green tea can be a healthful addition for women throughout their life span. |
Steven V. Joyal
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 The dosing of chromium recommended by the Institute of Medicine is 35 meg for men and 25 meg for women ages nineteen to fifty years; 30 meg for men and 20 meg for women fifty-one years and older; and 30 meg for pregnant or breast-feeding women nineteen years and older. We have had excellent results with a suggested dosage of 600 to 1,000 meg daily.
Cinnamon
Since the dawn of human civilization, the aromatic spice cinnamon has been used to enhance food flavor and to manage various health conditions. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 The problem for women is some combination of discrimination and ignorance, the latter because presenting symptoms fot females are more varied and less predictable than they are for men. For African Americans, one can only conclude that an unacceptable discrimination is at the heart of these problems. It is all too obvious that emergency services do not work as well for women and blacks as they do for men and whites.
CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE
Critical care is a new medical specialty. The first hospital coronary care units were introduced in thel960s. |
Steven V. Joyal
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| The dosing of chromium recommended by the Institute of Medicine is 35 meg for men and 25 meg for women ages nineteen to fifty years; 30 meg for men and 20 meg for women fifty-one years and older; and 30 meg for pregnant or breast-feeding women nineteen years and older. We have had excellent results with a suggested dosage of 600 to 1,000 meg daily.
Cinnamon
Since the dawn of human civilization, the aromatic spice cinnamon has been used to enhance food flavor and to manage various health conditions. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 Salt can be another aggravating factor for women with menstrual cramps. Too much dietary salt can increase fluid retention and worsen bloating that contributes to the congestive symptoms of menstrual cramps. Canned and frozen foods, fast foods, and processed/packaged foods are all suspect for high amounts of salt. Read the labels carefully. You may be surprised to find that some of the things you thought were healthy, such as certain salad dressings, are actually loaded with salt. Even a bean burrito at a fast-food restaurant will be high in salt. |
Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron
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 I found the artistry of creating beautiful makeup styles for women intriguing, and the world of fashion and glamour thoroughly exciting. At the age of 24,1 was thrilled with my career. My clients wanted only me, and they were some of the most powerful and formidable women in Washington. But, as with any business, it had its ups and downs. A store at a mall in Silver Spring, Maryland, had an opening for a cosmetics salesperson. They hired me on the spot because, as I was told, I looked the part, wearing nice makeup and dressing well. |
| This twist-up stick lip balm is marketed to men but is ideal under lipstick (or alone) for women too, and it contains some good antioxidants.
» © Pro Care SPF 30 ($2.49 for 0.16 ounce) gets the UVA protection right by including 3% avobenzone. This smooth-textured stick lip balm contains standard waxes along with beneficial ingredients such as borage seed oil, cholesterol, ceramide, lecithin, and glycolipids. It's an excellent formula and one Blistex should have modeled most of their other lip balms on.
© Complete Moisture SPF 15 ($1.89 for 0. |
| Cocoa and Mahogany are excellent shades for women of color. Two final comments: This foundation has a strong fragrance, and the state-of-the-art ingredients Avon touts are listed long after the preservatives and fragrance.
© Personal Match Dewy Souffle Foundation SPF 10 ($10) includes an in-part titanium dioxide sunscreen but shortchanges your skin by not providing the recommended SPF 15 protection. This has a moist, somewhat thick texture that has lots of movement on skin, so it takes longer than usual to blend. |
| For evening glamour, these are contenders, and there are some good choices for women of color.
EYESHADOW: © About Face Eye Shadows ($12per shade; $3 for Custom Color Compact) have an enviable texture that is identical to the About Face Blushers above. These cling well, blend smoothly, and build color with ease. Again, the shine speaks louder than the wonderful texture, and most of these shades are shiny enough to emphasize wrinkles or crepey skin, making most of the shades best for younger eyes. The almost-matte options include Shy, Subtle, Suede, Diva, Reckless, Linen, and Sugar Beet. |
| Many products on the market are supposedly designed specifically for women who are in their 30s, 40s, or 50 or older. Before you buy into these arbitrary divisions, ask yourself why the over-50 group is always lumped together. Isn't it odd that women between the ages of 20 and 49 have skin that requires three or four categories, but those women over the age of 50 (often referred to as "mature skin") need only one? There are a lot of years between 50 and 90! |
| But also important is color
(was a wide range of colors available, and was there an adequate selection for women of color?), ease of use (was the container poorly designed, were colors placed too close together in an eyeshadow set, was foundation put in a pump container that squirted too much product or didn't reach to the bottom of the jar?), and, finally, price. More specific criteria for each makeup category is discussed further in this chapter.
Skin-care products are evaluated almost exclusively on the basis of content versus claim. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Your article implied that the study found no protective benefits for women taking antioxidants, when in fact, the study found a significant reduction in the risk of stroke (31 percent reduction) and heart attacks (22 percent reduction) for those women who actually took the antioxidants. This is even more substantial given that the antioxidants were provided in low doses and only taken every other day.
The absence of protective benefits was observed in those women who did not actually take the vitamins. (Those women who took no vitamins experienced no benefits, which is expected. |
Michael Pollan
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 The benefits to your heart increase with the amount of alcohol consumed up to about four drinks a day (depending on your size), yet drinking that much increases your risk of dying from other causes (including certain cancers and accidents), so most experts recommend no more than two drinks a day for men, one for women. The health benefits of alcohol may depend as much on the pattern of drinking as on the amount: Drinking a little every day is better than drinking a lot on the weekends, and drinking with food is better than drinking without it. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 In fact, the strategy of the cancer industry today can be best described as waiting for women to get cancer, then treating it with toxic drugs that just happen to generate huge profits for pharmaceutical companies.
While tens of millions of women are developing undetectable, early-stage breast cancer right now, the cancer industry does nothing. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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| Both ET and EPT reduce the risk of osteoporotic fractures. for women who have osteoporosis or are at high risk for fractures, ET/EPT is a treatment option. One should weigh the benefits and the risks of this and other treatment options.
Depression. Short-term ET may have antidepressant activity in perimenopausal women but not in older postmenopausal women. The panel did not support the use of ET or EPT for the treatment of depression.
Dementia and Cognitive Decline. Starting EPT after age 65 is not recommended for the prevention of dementia or cognitive decline. |
| Postmenopausal women who have a uterus and who are given estrogen need an adequate dose of a progestogen in order to prevent endometrial cancer. for women who have no uterus, a progestogen is generally not prescribed with the systemic estrogen. (Some practitioners, and especially alternative-minded practitioners, believe that giving a bio-identical progesterone can have additional health benefits other than protecting the uterus from the estrogen. A discussion on this is included in the section on bio-identical progesterone later in this chapter. |
| One of the greatest fears for women contemplating menopause treatment options is the concern about estrogen replacement therapy and breast cancer. Although we will be addressing this in the hormone and conventional medicine sections of this chapter, there are several lines of evidence and logic that support the conclusion that not only is soy safe, but there is actually a relationship between increased soy intake and breast cancer prevention. |
| Hair thinning and hair loss are often traumatic for women and cause a great deal of anxiety. Androgenic alopecia (hair loss) is the most common alopecia in humans and is genetically determined. Androgens modulate hair growth. The follicle responds to the androgens and is dependent on the amount present and the presence and number of androgen receptors. The thinning of hair that can be seen in menopausal women is more likely to be diffuse but is most common on the top of the head (the vertex) and next most common at the crown. Some women have a receding hairline and thinning at the temples. |
| For women on hormone therapy, adjustments in the dose may improve mental function.
Vaginal Dryness and Thinning. Vaginal dryness, vaginal thinning, and what is called atrophy are very common problems for menopausal women but usually do not become troublesome until several years after menopause. Estrogen is responsible for the thickened, elastic, lubricated tissue of the vagina and vulva (external genital area). When estrogen levels decline, the vulva loses its collagen, fat, and water-retaining ability. As a result, it becomes flattened, thin, and dry and loses tone. |
John J. Ratey, MD
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 Patty and Amon are conscientious people who generally communicate well and support each other, which is extremely important for women going through hormonal changes. Amon suggests that they go to the gym together on days she'd rather skip it. "Patty is one of those people in whom you can see the storm clouds building before it comes," he says.
The term PMS became politicized in the 1970s because some felt that it labeled a natural aspect of women's lives as a medical issue and created a perception that all women have a psychiatric disorder once a month. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It’s also practical for women, who generally want functional strength and not cosmetic strength. “Muscle Logic” shows you how to be truly strong in the way your body moves, not just the way it looks.
If you're interested in experiencing the greatest strength gains possible in the least amount of time, I believe that EDT is a system that will allow you to do it. The book does a great job of teaching you how the system works and how to get started no matter what your age, gender or current level of strength. |
Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews
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 One benefit for women in particular: One study demonstrated that strength training can actually increase metabolism not only during the exercise session itself but for up to 2 hours after strength training ended—resulting in an additional 100 extra calories burned!7 And I've already mentioned how lean muscle tissue burns more calories than fat. A regular program of strength training can reduce your body fat, increase your lean muscle mass, and help you to burn calories more efficiently. |
Alex Steffen
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 Part of a global women's movement dedicated to providing choices and opportunities for women from a wide range of backgrounds, the Global Fund for women is a grant-giving institution for financing projects outside of the United States that advance women's human rights. Since 1987 the fund has given over $47 million ($7.3 million was given out in 2004 alone) to organizations addressing the specific needs of women in their communities. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 While rates of depression or anxiety for women with "less than severe" CFS were in the same range as women with diseases such as multiple sclerosis (MS) or rheumatoid arthritis (RA) (29 percent), rates were over 50 percent in the "severe" group.
One thing that seems to move a woman from the "less than severe" category to the "severe" category of CFS is the addition of fibromyalgia (FM). Women with both CFS and FM are twice as likely to have a problem with depression as those with CFS alone. And when multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS) also exists, rates climb even higher. |
| Rates of this complaint tend to increase as women grow older, peaking at 25 percent for women aged sixty to sixty-four. Adding the requirement for multiple tender points magnifies the gender disparity and makes FM a major issue in women's health. For example, FM rates in the city of London, Ontario, were 4.9 percent of all women compared to 1.6 percent of all men. The epidemiologists doing this work extended their study to include Amish people living in rural Ontario. Why? |
| In fact, the number two cause of death for women in their twenties and thirties after physical injury is suicide due to depression.
Let me begin with the ABCs of depression itself. As is the case with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), fibromyalgia (FM), and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), psychiatrists have come up with a clinical case definition by consensus. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders defines a major depressive episode as requiring "at least 2 weeks during which there is either depressed mood or the loss of interest or pleasure in nearly all activities. |
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