Women

Over the course of a lifetime, a woman’s body undergoes continuous and pre-programmed changes. The symptoms coupled with menopause are likely among the most drastic of such changes. This natural process is usually expected to begin in females of age 45 to 55, and women experiencing these changes after or before this age range experience a ‘late’ or ‘early’ menopause respectively.

The most significant physiological change is the termination of the female’s menstrual cycle and the cessation of her fertility. With the shutting down of the ovaries, a women’s delicate hormonal balance is disturbed and almost all of her regulatory systems are affected.

Heart Disease & Women:How High Is Your Risk?

Excerpted from The Planned Parenthood Women's Health Letter, May 1995, Vol. 2, No. 3

Get fit, slim down, boost your energy—and more.
By Carol Krucoff, Prevention

If there's a single "perfect exercise," it's walking, says Susan Johnson, EdD, who has helped thousands of people walk their way to good health as director of education for The Cooper Institute in Dallas and author of their Walking Handbook.

"Walking is easy, convenient, and inexpensive-all you need is a good pair of shoes," she notes. "Nearly anybody can do it at any skill level-from Grandma to the kids. You can do it almost anywhere, anytime. Plus, it has the lowest dropout rate and injury rate of all exercise programs."

WASHINGTON - The globe-trotting tuberculosis patient now in quarantine insisted to Congress on Wednesday that doctors told him he wasn’t contagious and didn’t order him to stay in the United States for treatment — even as health officials painted a picture of a man on the run

by: Toni Morrison - Nobel Prize in Literature 1993
December 8, 1993 at at Stockholm Concert Hall, Stockholm, Sweden

"Once upon a time there was an old woman. Blind but wise." Or was it an old man? A guru, perhaps. Or a griot soothing restless children. I have heard this story, or one exactly like it, in the lore of several cultures.

"Once upon a time there was an old woman. Blind. Wise."

By IBNlive.com

Wednesday May 16, 2007