Category: Wellness (Page 77 of 116)

Yoga Poses to Ease the Symptoms of Menopause

You can harness the power of Yoga to ease the symptoms of menopause.

Menopause brings with it fluctuating hormones that mess with your sleep, pack on pounds of belly fat, and make you irritable and less interested in sex.

But yoga can help.

Yoga practice cut hot flashes by 31% in one study, and other research has found that regularly doing yoga improved libido, mood, and craving control.

Studies Find that Vitamins Can Do More Harm Than Good

Evidence against vitamin use is mounting.

Especially with vitamin E and Selenium therapies which are targeted to specific conditions such as prostate cancer.

The Selenium and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention Trial, known as the Select trial, was studying whether selenium and vitamin E, either alone or in combination, could lower a man’s risk for prostate cancer. It was stopped early in 2008 after a review of the data showed no benefit, although there was a suggestion of increased risk of prostate cancer and diabetes that wasn’t statistically significant. The latest data, based on longer-term follow-up of the men in the trial, found that users of vitamin E had a 17 percent higher risk of prostate cancer compared with men who didn’t take the vitamin, a level that was statistically significant. There was no increased risk of diabetes.

In regard to women’s health not only were vitamins not successful in preventing disease but were found to be harmful, in some cases.

Among the women in the Iowa study, about 63 percent used supplements at the start of the study, but that number had grown to 85 percent by 2004. Use of multivitamins, vitamin B6, folic acid, iron, magnesium, zinc and copper were all associated with increased risk of death. The findings translate to a 2.4 percent increase in absolute risk for multivitamin users, a 4 percent increase associated with vitamin B6, a 5.9 percent increase for folic acid, and increases of 3 to 4 percent in risk for those taking supplements of iron, folic acid, magnesium and zinc.

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The Best Packaged Foods for Nutrition and Taste

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Although packaged food is not the first choice for a healthy meal, sometime it is the only alternative.

Prepared foods have come a long way from the sodium filled T.V. dinners and nutritionally void canned foods of days gone by.

Many are organic, healthy, environmentally friendly and lacking in preservatives and sugars which generally make prepared foods unhealthy and fattening.

Whether balancing busy schedules or leaving the cooking up to the kids a packaged meal fills the bill on occasion.

Finding the healthiest options and stocking up on the best prepared meals can make your life a little easier.

Higher Testosterone Protects Older Men’s Hearts

Naturally occurring high testosterone can protect the heart of older men.

Findings published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology showed that of 2,400 Swedish men in their 70s and 80s, those with the highest testosterone levels were less likely to suffer a heart attack or stroke over the next several years than men with the lowest levels

Low testosterone may be a marker of other health conditions that put men at higher risk of cardiovascular disease.

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Just in Time for Breast Cancer Month, Blue Shield of California Won’t Cover Breast Cancer Drug

Blue Shield of California won’t cover an approved breast cancer drug for women suffering from breast cancer.

For many, this drug is the only thing keeping them alive.

Blue Shield of California will no longer pay for the use of the drug Avastin to treat breast cancer, a sign that support for the widely debated and expensive treatment may be eroding among health plans.

Blue Shield, with 3.2 million members, is apparently the first large insurance company to end payments since a federal advisory committee unanimously recommended in June that the Food and Drug Administration rescind Avastin’s approval as a treatment for breast cancer, saying the drug did not really help patients.

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