If the Family Have a History of Breast Cancer, Avoid Alcohol Right Now!

by: author - January 20th, 2012   Filed under: Women's Health Add Comment

Previously there has been a scientific study linking wine with breast cancer risk. This time scientists tried to relate the relationship between alcoholic beverages with the risk of cancer in a girl whose family has a history of cancer.

When a mother suffering from breast cancer, it could be her daughter will also fear of the disease because she worried would be exposed to the same disease with her mother.

The team of scientists from the United States found a simple way to reduce breast cancer risk to a child whose mother had attacked the disease. They suggested that these girls avoid alcoholic beverages.

A study has been carried out on 7,000 girls aged between 9-15 years. The study was conducted for approximately 10-11 years. The participants involved in research has been ascertained to have a family history of breast cancer (breast cancer either malignant or benign), can be from the mother, aunts, or grandmothers. Read More

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Walk 15 Minutes Every Day Can Lower Interests of Eating Chocolate

by: author - January 14th, 2012   Filed under: Dieting, Women's Health Add Comment

Most people would ever feel stressed at work. Some of them sometimes just take a snack or small meal to relieve stress. Chocolate, is one of the most preferred snacks by the workers when they face pressure at work.

Chocolate is claimed to improve mood, but there are other concerns that lurk, especially for women, namely the calorie content is quite high on these sweet food. This can increase the risk of obesity which is certainly not desired by anyone.

According to the researchers there is a simple way to reduce the appetite for chocolate, which is by walking for 15 minutes every day before work. This activity is claimed can reduce the consumption of chocolate to someone until half the usual amount of chocolate they ate when faced with stressful jobs.

Scientists from the University of Exeter tried to prove this by doing a study. This scientific studies have been published in the journal Appetite examined 78 chocolate lover, where they were eating chocolate regularly when under stress because of work.

Some of these participants are not allowed to eat chocolate for two days and told to perform a series of activities such as walking 15 minutes every day before work. Read More

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Early Menopause for Women Smokers

by: author - January 10th, 2012   Filed under: Women's Health Add Comment

Without knowing the gender, smoking invites danger for men and women. Enjoyment of smoking is not comparable with adverse effects in the long term. Not only smokers are subject to impact, but others who inhale the smoke also become the victim.

In addition to causing lung cancer, heart disease, impotence, and various other diseases, smoking was also affecting the female reproductive organ function. Women who are too often exposed to smoke will have menopause earlier than those without. It is estimated that at least menopause will come a year earlier than normal time.

In a study by Volodymyr Dvornyk from the University of Hong Kong said, the potential of women smokers have earlier menopause around 43 percent. These results were acquired after examining the condition of 43 thousand women sampled. If normally women experience menopause at age 46-51 years, women smokers can get it at the age of 43-50 years.

About 20 percent of the world’s total smokers are women. When women smoker have earlier menopause, then it is also early for her to have the potential for osteoporosis. Especially if the woman is also an alcoholic, menopause can go faster again. Smoking will only turn off the female hormone estrogen.

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Modern Chemotherapy Drugs Reduce Mortality Due to Breast Cancer

by: author - December 15th, 2011   Filed under: Drug & Disease, Women's Health Add Comment

Cancer is a dangerous disease which until now has not found a drug that could actually cure this disease. One type of cancer who feared the women is breast cancer. There have been many ways in which the medical experts to fight this cancer, one of which is the method of chemotherapy.

Recently discovered modern chemotherapy drug that is claimed can reduce the risk of death from breast cancer by up to 30%. Chemotherapy drugs were found after a scientific study conducted by researchers from the University of Oxford. Previously, the standard chemotherapy drug that has been used since the 1980′s only able to reduce the risk of death by nearly 25%.

Scientists have collected data from 123 trials involving 100,000 women studied over several decades. From examining these data, it is known that modern chemotherapy drugs can reduce a person’s death rate from breast cancer by a third.

Chemotherapy itself is a cancer treatment method that can cause rather severe side effects. Hair loss and fatigue are sometimes painful are the most widely side effects perceived by chemotherapy patients.  Read More

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Eating Lots of Cake Can Trigger Excess Hair Growth

by: author - December 10th, 2011   Filed under: Women's Health Add Comment

Hair is one body part that became the pride of the women, even touted as the crown of womanhood. But what happens when the hair grows in parts of the body besides the head? Not a few women who have hair on the arms, legs, or other body parts. To overcome this, many women who eventually had to remove the hairs in many ways.

According to a survey on the internet involving 2,000 women, have excess hair is the second most disliked problem by women, while overweight is a major problem that is hated by women.

Most people thought that this excessive hair can be due to hereditary factors. As revealed by Dr. Rina Davison from Whipps Cross University Hospital, have excess hair can be due to racial factors. For example, people from Southeast Asia or the Mediterranean tend to have excess hair when compared with Caucasians (white people).

Although could be due to racial factors, but experts say there are other possible causes of excess hair growth. One possible cause is eating too many foods containing high sugar and refined carbohydrates. For example cakes, breads, or Read More

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