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Got Questions? Answers for Starting and Maintaining an Exercise Program
An active lifestyle can help every woman. Physical activity also is an important part of weight loss treatment. If you are overweight or obese, losing weight can lower your risk for many diseases. A growing number of women are overweight or obese. Being overweight or obese increases your risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, breathing problems, arthritis, gallbladder disease, sleep apnea (breathing problems while sleeping), osteoarthritis, and some cancers. This site offers information on starting and maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
Natural Remedies for PMS
This article explains what PMS is and discusses how one can remedy these problems. It says that eating high-fat foods increases PMS symptoms and pain. During PMS, fish and poultry should be substituted for fatty cuts of beef, lamb and pork. Polyunsaturated oils such as safflower, corn and flaxseed should be substituted for butter. Food cravings for sweets and snacks occur during PMS and can be unhealthy to give into them and make PMS symptoms worse. The article says such cravings are caused by a drop in blood-sugar levels. To counter these cravings, eat complex carbohydrates such as pasta, rice, beans, cereal, and whole grains. Instead of eating three large meals, eat five or six small meals a day, about two and a half hours apart.
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Women's Health Style (12)
Your Bones: Keep Them Healthy and Strong
This site gives a detailed medical account of osteoporosis. It mentions many different hormone replacement therapies. This is the site that women should use if they would like a laymen's explanation on many different HRT drugs. It has a section on tips to reduce the risk of osteoporosis as well as a bullet section of risk factors.
The Ayurveda Approach to Menopause
The medical community is quickly evolving its understanding of menopause. After the halt to the HRT portion of the Women's Health Initiative last July, due to findings that Hormone Replacement Therapy's risks outweighed its benefits, headlines now read "Menopause is not a disease, but a normal part of life." Hormone "replacement" therapy (HRT) has become simply hormone "therapy" (HT) in because replacing estrogen is not natural and brings dangerous side-effects, rather than the fountain of youth once thought by experts Shocking and novel as these concepts may be to today's medical community, they are nothing new to Maharishi Ayurveda, a consciousness-based natural medical system from ancient India. Read on more to learn about this natural way to cope with menopause.
Natural Alternative Medicine Treatments for Female Sexual Dysfunction
This article by a doctor of alternative medicine recommends taking the following to remedy female sexual dysfunction: ginkgo biloba, arginine, yohimbe, St. John's wort, ginseng, DHEA and damiana. There are also more articles about natural hormones and other female sexual dysfunction articles and what to take for better women's health. Also see the article for causes, diagnosis and conventional treatments for female sexual dysfunction are included.
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