A new research has shown that beer can stop your bones from going brittle. The study found that women who drink beer regularly have strong bones that means they are less likely to suffer from osteoporosis.
But, according to the journal Nature reports, wine does little to protect from osteoporosis.
High silicon levels in beer slows down the thinning that leads to fractures and boosts new bone formation and beer is also rich in phytoestrogens, which keep bones healthy, the researchers explained.
Bones are made up of a mesh of fibres, minerals, blood vessels and marrow, and healthy ones are denser with smaller spaces between the different parts.
The researchers interviewed 1700 healthy women with an average age of 48 about their drinking habits.
The interviewed women then underwent ultrasound scans, which showed the hand bones of beer drinkers to be
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Cervical Myelopathy is a degeneration of the spine that occurs to people usually over the age of 50.
Whereas the term myelopathy refers to any kind of problem of the spine, the term cervical refers to the neck area.
Cervical myelopathy or Cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM) is a term used to describe the narrowing of the spinal canal which compresses or squeezes the spinal cord, resulting in symptoms such as:
neck stiffness,
neck, shoulder or arm pain, or problems in flexing the neck
stiffness in the legs,
changes in motor control and movements, even spastic movements which may result in difficulty in using the hands and even in walking steadily
muscle weakness,
numbness or tingling in the limbs,
dizziness
changes in bowel and bladder control [Bladder infection]
in severe cases one could e
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The recession is having some interesting effects on the nation and in particularly women.
Some are negative including the reduction of those taking regular health checks whilst others are more positive.
A recent survey carried out by the American Psychiatric Association shows that women are approaching life in a more back to basics way.
Instead of trips to the mall, the majority of those asked, were turning to religion or taking time to spend with friends and their family.
Although no questions were asked about changes in food or alcohol intake, it suggested that exercise and even music was being seen as the more common ways of stress relief.
A survey carried out by Gallup shows that more women are taking stricter measures to avoid unplanned pregnancies. The target group,
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A recent study examined the likelihood of a person dying after having suffered a heart attack and found that women were far more likely to die within a month after a heart attack than men are. Though it is not fully clear why this is the case, the study suggested that the reasons may be twofold.
There are biological differences among men and women, which could go some way to explain this difference. The average age of a woman who has a heart attack is considerably higher than that of a man; also women are likelier to have other health problems, which is responsible for this.
However, there are other reasons why this happens: the study suggested that it is the treatment regimens that were likely responsible for the fact that more women die after a heart
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Heart attack symptoms in women can easily ignored at the initial stages because the symptoms show up differently.
The symptoms of heart attack that one experiences may differ significantly from the experiences of others.
Recent research by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) reveals that women often undergo several different physical symptoms from a month or more prior to experiencing heart attack.
According to the women heart attacks survival statistics, heart attack is the third leading cause of death in women between the ages of 25-44. It is the second leading cause of death in women between the ages of 45-64.
How heart attack occurs?
Heart attack, also known as myocardial infarction (MI), is an event that results in severe form of pain in the heart muscle (myocardium
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Heart attacks in younger women are on the rise. You will need to have the facts about this silent killer.
Heart attack is only second to breast cancer in death toll. It is a myth that heart attacks are more prevalent in men than women.
Warning signs for a young woman usually show up a month before a heart attack. These can be subtle so you will have to know what to look for.
As a young woman, you will want to do research and arm yourself with the knowledge of what to expect when a heart attack occurs.
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You will want to get regular checkups to make sure your heart is in good shape. If you have any symptoms such as unusual fatigue, dizziness, nausea, or shortness of breath then you may want to be concerned.
There are things that you can do though to prevent yourself from ha
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If you find yourself running to the bathroom frequently, you may be suffering from a condition known as overactive bladder.
For some women, frequent urination is an inconvenience. For others, the problem can be so severe that they avoid leaving home.
There are several different reasons you may be going to the bathroom frequently.
To properly address the problem, you may need to work with your health care provider.
One common cause of urinary frequency can be a bladder infection. To diagnose a bladder or urinary tract infection, your doctor will perform a simple, in office, urinalysis. Most urinary tract infections can be treated with antibiotics.
If you have had a urinary tract infection before, you might try using cranberry extract capsules to treat it instead.
To
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The World Health Organization has reported that women’s health is being negatively impacted by urbanization and this is particularly true for poorer women.
Statistics quoted in the report indicate that the poverty worsens the impact of urbanization on women’s health – for instance women who live in very densely populated areas, are at 1.5 times higher risk of HIV/AIDS than their male counterparts. Also it is women living in urban centers who are at twice the risk of contracting AIDS as their rural counterparts.
A combination of factors such as the global economic crisis and rising population in urban areas means problems such as overcrowding, the spread of infectious diseases, substandard housing facilities, issues relating to water and food safety, problems related to solid waste dispos
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When most of us think of heart attacks and strokes the picture that immediately comes to mind is an overweight, balding, middle-aged man gripping his chest in appalling agony.
This is an image we have seen a thousand times in movies and TV shows. One image you don’t see is that of a woman gripping her chest in the same way as she has a heart attack.
That is because we have become accustomed to thinking of heart attacks as a male problem that does not really affect women. Hallmark TV movies of the week will depict a woman dying of cervical cancer or some other tear-jerking “women’s problem”.
In fact, cardiovascular diseases are the cause of over a third of all women’s deaths in the United States making it easily the biggest cause of premature death in American women.
Another fact is that “men grabbing their chest” im
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One of the medical conditions that can actually result in weight gain even when a woman is doing everything right is when she has the problem of underactive or Hypo Thyroid which is one of the main concerns voiced by our reader commentators in this post.
With hypothyroidism, which is ten times more common in women than it is in men, causes a woman’s metabolism to slow down. This results in fatigue and low energy levels and also weight gain.
This weight is much harder to keep at bay or lose than would be the case for other women of a similar build, structure and having similar dietary habits and lifestyles.
In fact it is often the case a woman starts to gain weight and continues to do so in spite of her best efforts. Investigation then reveals that the weight gain is a symptom of a thyroid problem.
What is then require
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