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Staying Healthy Means An Active Sex Life Too! (The Washington Post)
Here’s another reason to try to stay healthy: It extends your sex life as you age, according to a new study.
Stacy Tessler Lindau and Natalia Gavrilova of the University of Chicago analyzed data about health and sexual activity collected by two nationally representative surveys. The surveys involved 3,032 adults aged 25 to 74 and 3,005 [...]
MAN IN THE MIDDLE – UNEDITED: Your Obamacare Preview: Woman Stop Wasting Money On Mammograms!
If you wanted a preview of what life will be like under Obamacare, your dose of reality came this week. A government task force said women in their 40s don’t need annual mammograms, tossing out cancer screening guidelines that have been accepted for decades. Their report didn’t argue that mammograms have saved lives, on the [...]
White House Advice On Mammograms Meets With Outrage. HHS Secretary Sebelius On The ‘Hot Seat’ (CNN)
A government task force says women in their 40s don’t need annual mammograms, but Sara Fought would beg to differ: She says she’s alive today because a routine mammogram found cancer when she was 42.
“I had to read the guidelines twice because I really couldn’t believe women in the 40-49 age bracket were being discouraged [...]
The Secrets of Weight Loss and Physical Health
When I started teaching aerobics classes in college, I mostly taught the then-popular typical classes of Step, Double Step, Hi/Lo Impact, Body Sculpting and Abdominal classes. But after college, when I taught for Bally’s Total Fitness, I started teaching a class called Body Pump.
Body Pump went beyond body sculpting and incorporated strength training with [...]
Special Report: More Than 1M Preemies Die In First Month Annually
More than 1 million babies born prematurely die each year before they are a month old, the March of Dimes said Sunday in the first comprehensive global report on premature births.
The organization suggested the situation could worsen if the rate of premature births increases.
Each year, 12.9 million infants — or nearly 10 percent of the [...]
OPINION: Dr. Andrew Weil / The Wrong Diagnosis – Health Care Plan Does Not Help People Become Healthy
I’m worried — and if I’m worried, you should be, too.
The reason I’m worried is that the wrong diagnosis is being made.
As any doctor can tell you, the most crucial step toward healing is having the right diagnosis. If the disease is precisely identified, a good resolution is far more likely. Conversely, a bad diagnosis [...]
Dr. Mark Hyman: The 7 Keys to UltraWellness: Discover Why You are Sick and How You Can Heal
“I didn’t know how bad I was feeling until I started feeling better.”
That is what my patients tell me every day. They go from being ill or just okay to experiencing UltraWellness.
Most people don’t know how poorly they feel until they feel better. In fact, most of us don’t recognize that fatigue, digestive problems, aches [...]
Want To Improve Your Fitness? Try Sleep
Most people training for a race or sport focus on adding more miles, workouts or weight training to improve their fitness. But new research suggests that simply getting more sleep can improve athletic performance.
The small study included five members of the Stanford women’s tennis team. For two to three weeks, the athletes maintained their regular [...]
Spongeworthy? Contraceptive Sponge Makes a Return to Pharmacy Shelves
The contraceptive sponge has bounced back — yet again.
And this time it is repackaged for a younger generation who may not remember the Today Sponge — or the 1995 episode of “Seinfeld” in which Elaine hoarded her stash, for use only with boyfriends she deemed “spongeworthy.”
At one time the Today Sponge, a spermicide-coated polyurethane barrier [...]
Schwarzengger To Terminate Cal’s Debt – Deep Cuts In Health Care, Welfare, Prisons and Education
The day of reckoning that California has been warned about for years has arrived. The longest recession in generations and the defeat this week of a package of budget-balancing ballot measures are expected to lead to state spending cuts so deep and so painful that they could rewrite the social contract between California and its [...]
