Category: Wellness (Page 52 of 116)

A Few Reasons For Why You Are Always Cold

January 31, 2012 / Staff

Like many people, especially women, are you always cold?

Here are a few common reasons to explain why you are always cold.

* Skipping meals – The body conserves energy and produces less heat when you don’t eat.

* Not getting enough sleep – This can make you feel rundown and less active.

* Anemia – A simple blood test can detect if you are anemic.* Hormonal imbalances – In women, fluctuating estrogen levels can make you sensitive to cold temperatures.

* Raynaud’s disease – The blood vessels and smaller arteries that supply blood to the skin constrict and limit circulation.

* Low body weight – Alvarez said he is referring to muscle mass and body fat. Using your muscles generates heat, and fat acts as insulation.

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How To Maintain The Weight Loss You Worked So Hard To Achieve!

January 31, 2012 / Staff

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There is no question that losing weight is difficult, however, keeping it off seems to be an impossibility for most people.

Joy Bauer offers some tips to help you maintain that weight loss which you worked so hard to achieve.

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To Get An Accurate Measure of Blood Pressure Use Both Arms

January 30, 2012 / Staff

The authors found that different blood pressure readings in the two arms were a sign of the narrowing or hardening of a person’s arteries, particularly on one side of the body.

It’s important to take blood pressure in both arms.

Although seemingly minor, a difference of 15 millimeters of mercury or more between systolic readings in the two arms meant the risk of peripheral vascular disease was two and a half times greater and the risk of cerebrovascular disease was 1.6 times higher. It was also associated with a 70 percent greater risk of dying from heart disease. The precise number of the higher or lower systolic reading was less important than the extent of the difference between them. A difference of even 10 millimeters was enough to raise the risk of peripheral vascular disease.

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Men Lose Their Cognitive Ability Sooner Than Women

January 29, 2012 / Staff

Men are losing their thinking ability ahead of women, study shows.

Don’t fear, however, a diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment doesn’t mean you are fated to get Alzheimer’s disease.

Scientists have yet to come up with a reliable test for who is vulnerable.

What is known is that continuing to learn, read and solve puzzles show positive signs of keeping your mind sharp.

The studied followed 1,450 people between the ages of 70 and 89 in Olmsted County, Minn., who were free of dementia in 2004. They went through testing every 15 months. After three years, 296 people had developed mild cognitive impairment. The study was published in the journal Neurology.
Men were more likely to be diagnosed, with 72 per 1,000 people developing a mild cognitive impairment; in women, the rate of diagnosis was 57 per 1,000. Overall, 6 percent were diagnosed with memory loss.

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Fried Foods May Not Lead to Heart Disease

January 29, 2012 / Staff

Fried foods are not the villains of nutrition that they have been made out to be in the past.

Spanish researchers have found that eating foods fried in healthier oils such as olive or sunflower is not linked to heart disease or premature death.

“We should emphasize that our results were obtained within the context of a healthy diet, the Mediterranean one, and may not be replicated with other types of diets,” researcher Pilar Guallar-Castillon, MD, PhD, MPH, associate professor of preventive medicine at Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, tells WebMD.
Another big difference between Spanish diners and U.S. diners may also play a role. “In our study, most meals were prepared and consumed at home,” Guallar-Castillon says. It’s difficult to know which type of oil you are eating, she says, when you are dining out.

There is agreement that this is not a green light to indulge in high fat foods as a regular part of your diet.

In an editorial that accompanies the study, Michael Leitzmann, MD, of the University of Regensburg in Germany, notes that the body of evidence refutes the myth that frying food is generally bad for the heart. “However,” he writes, “this does not mean that frequent meals of fish and chips will have no health consequences.”

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