All Entries in the "Parents" Category
Nutrition Essential – Slow-release Carbohydrates
If we could take care of ourselves as well as we treat our car and motorcycle we’d be smilin’. We don’t. It’s terrible. Americans eat a ridiculously poor diet of processed foods that has nothing to do with real food. It’s practically just sugar (a lot) and salt. It’s a wonder we can even get [...]
Nutrition Essential- Quality Protein
Protein makes you go. It is made up of amino acids, and is really the foundation for all of the body’s parts. The quality of your protein is dependent upon the right amino acid balance. Naturally, it stands to reason that the quality of the protein determines the efficiency of our bodies. Because it is [...]
Nutritional Health Tips for Moms – Fiber
The highest benefits always seem to come from a high fiber diet. It is a natural plant product that slows the digestion, which lowers glycemic indexes of foods and therefore benefits our risk of breast cancer, colon cancer, diabetes, heart disease, constipation, diverticulosis, stroke, hypertension and obesity. Wow, this is something to remember!
The RDI for [...]
How to Get What You Want from the Doctor – No-No’s
Absolute No-No’s
It’s a sorry situation but you might as well believe that doctors have issues with overweight people. Beside this, there are more suggestions below.
Don’t Act Entitled
Regardless of your importance outside, in the doctor’s office you are just the same as every other poor soul waiting for this doctor who has control issues. Don’t [...]
How to Get What You Want from the Doctor – Getting Prepped
We found out earlier that bringing a list to the doctor’s office helps you be more self-contained and to the point. Now it seems that the list if for the patient alone, as doctors regard these lists very poorly. They really dislike your inadequate list.
Well, hold your own if you need one but be concise [...]
How to Get What You Want from the Doctor – Stoicism is for Wimps
Interesting article that both the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations and the Department of Veterans Affairs have requested that pain be a fifth vital sign along with pulse, temperature, breathing rate, and blood pressure.
This seems to have come by way of doctors not wanting to address pain. They don’t like to think that [...]
Balanced Diet, Water, Antioxidants
Which Diet is Best?
We seem to do things in droves. It seems that the American public has switched its preference for fat to a preference for carbohydrates. It is not a simple thing to make such a large switch. What’s happening with it? We’re gaining weight, leading to arthritis, heart disease and cancer. The suggestion [...]
Women’s Health Screening – Menopause
As mentioned in Part Three, menopause varies a great deal between women, and the time it comes is usually between the ages of 50-55. So many people have had difficulty with the symptoms that is has become a dreaded event. The body changes include weight gain, clumsiness, dryness, bladder infections, night sweats, hot flashes. . [...]
Nutritional Health Tips for Moms – Fats
Fats break down to fatty acids. The most necessary fatty acids must be ingested through food. They are linolenic and linolenic acid, which transports the fat-soluble vitamins A,D,E and K. These fatty acids help in the energy production and balancing of our hormone and nerve and brain function. Fat inside our bodies protects vital organs, [...]
Nutrition and Menstruation
Menstruation is the body’s way of preparing your hormones and uterus for a pregnancy. When the young women doesn’t conceive the uterus flushes out and begins its monthly cycle again. Nutrition during this time in life is particularly important.
Boosting Iron
Because a woman bleeds around 1/4 cup of blood or more each month she is [...]
Menstrual Problems – Menstrual Cramps and Excessive Bleeding
Menstrual Cramps (Dysmenorrhea)
Do you get cramps? Then, get into the pool and start swimming. The endorphins that you’ll get from the exercise will relieve you a great deal.
Yes, here it comes again. . .hormones. They are the culprits in menstrual cramping. They are overproducing prostaglandins. The covering of the uterus, endometrium helps the uterus contract, [...]
Coping up with Sleep Deprivation
Not being able to sleep while you are taking care of your baby is a part of every successful-baby-bringing-up story. This happens because you are putting your baby’s need before your own. Not getting proper sleep can be a part of your life for until the time your baby has arranged a bedtime routine of [...]
Women’s Health: Bladder and Kidneys
Every woman that I know has suffered from urinary tract infections. They are terrible, and so painful that you literally can do nothing but sit on the commode. The whole area is throbbing and you might have blood in your urine. These infections can occur when the urethra is close to the sexual organs and [...]
Getting a Smart Balance of Fats
Even though we’ve talked about limiting fats in our diet, some of those fats are necessary to complete the circle of our dietary needs. See what’s going on.
Saturated Fat
Heart disease, raising cholesterol and clogging arteries, and get yourself a big piece of prime rib and sock that fat down and you have a saturated fat [...]
Preventing Hearth and Blood Vessels Problems
Cardiovascular disease is the word used to represent heart problems. One in five Americans have cardiovascular disease and many do not even know it. A breakdown in cardiovascular disease results in heart attack or a stroke, both of which can be fatal. Cardiovascular problems are the number one cause of death in the US.
Exercise, which [...]
Detoxifying Your Body
If you have been able to read previous articles, we know that ultimately we are trying to save our organs so that we can live a fun-filled, interesting life without hospital visits and depression. That liver just works and works spitting out toxins you are eliminating, toxins you are breathing and it takes all of [...]
Coping with the Symptoms of Menopause
Hot Flashes and Mood Swings
As if women haven’t gone through enough during their years of hormones and children, now they have the challenge of withstanding hot flashes, which can occur any time of day or night and can be quite embarrassing as often our upper lip gets beads of perspiration, and if not that [...]
How Does Marriage Affect Your Sex Life – Part 1
Living together without marriage can be almost exhilirating. No one is the boss; nobody can threaten the other person about divorce. Keeping your own space is easier. These partners don’t infringe as much as they might do if married.
The prospect of living alone with no marriage and little sex sometimes feels superior to being married [...]
Women’s Health: Your Doctor’s Examination – Part 4
Blood and Lymph
Your blood has red cells, which carry oxygen, white cells that fight infection and platelet that allow clotting to occur. This fluid system also includes plasma which is the fluid itself. Lymph drains the system as well as blood, which is very busy eliminating waste products from the body.
Anemia is a condition that [...]
Age-Related Changes that Improve with Exercise
It’s amazing, isn’t it, that every single positive thing we can do for ourselves is exercise. If you do one thing for yourself every day, go to the gym or walk. Exercise improves the following: arthritis, stiff joints, decreased flexibility, incontinence, decreased strength, slower reflexes, slower metabolism, decreased balance, and decreased vision.
It is true that [...]