March 4, 2010
- Pregnancy: How Much Weight is Too Much Weight?
Pregnancy and weight gain go together. There is no such thing as a pregnancy without weight gain. Gaining a healthy amount of weight during pregnancy through a healthy diet ensures that your baby is maturing and receiving all the vitamins and nutrients it needs to develop. Gaining a steady amount of weight throughout your pregnancy [...]
December 24, 2009
- Birth Control Pills: How to Recognize Side Effects
With so many different methods of hormonal birth control on the market today, it can be overwhelming trying to figure out which is the right one for you. There’s the patch, the pill, the ring, etc. For most women it boils down to lifestyle and side effects.
Lifestyle is easy. Can you remember to take a [...]
December 7, 2009
- How to Deal with Painful Sex
Painful sex is generally a women’s issue since, let’s be honest, there’s just more involved that can get hurt. The male sex organ is a lot less complicated than the female’s and thus there are fewer complications that can lead to pain. (Not to say that men don’t come with their own whole slew of [...]
November 1, 2009
- How to Deal with Painful Sex
Painful sex is generally a women’s issue since, let’s be honest, there’s just more involved that can get hurt. The male sex organ is a lot less complicated than the female’s and thus there are fewer complications that can lead to pain. (Not to say that men don’t come with their own whole slew of [...]
September 16, 2009
- Yeast Infections and Fertility
Many women worry that when something’s not right down there, it’ll affect their chances of getting pregnant. And it’s a valid concern: Our reproductive systems can be rather vulnerable, so it’s important that to ensure reproductive health, you keep a check on your vaginal health, as well.
If just so happens that women do not need [...]
September 13, 2009
- Pregnancy and High Blood Pressure
High blood pressure, or hypertension, is a common condition affecting many women during pregnancy. While some women with high blood pressure may not suffer from any associated symptoms, hypertension during pregnancy can be serious if left untreated.
If hypertension is associated with protein in the urine and/or swelling due to fluid retention, it could be a [...]
September 3, 2009
- Kill Two Birds With One His&Hers Combo Pack
Some great news today in sexual health! Apparently, so many couples that need help enhancing their sexual pleasure have been turning to Viagra and have discovered that it’s not always a problem with the man. Recent studies have shown that female libido issues can take their toll on a man as well, and can sometimes [...]
August 19, 2009
- Morning Sickness and Heartburn
Morning sickness: Either you get it bad or you don’t get it at all. It seems that there’s no one who falls out in the middle. If you fall into the 30% of women who never get nauseated at all, then consider yourself lucky. If you’re like most women and experience nausea and vomiting, however, [...]
- Pregnancy and Acid Reflux
For most women, pregnancy and heartburn go hand-in-hand. Most women just assume that heartburn is just another one of those random symptoms of pregnancy, but there’s actually a scientific reason for the increase in acid reflux. Your placenta produces progesterone which relaxes the muscles of the uterus. This hormone serves as a relaxer for other [...]
August 18, 2009
- How to Relieve Painful Menstrual Cramps
If you’re one of the millions of women who experience painful menstrual cramps every month, then you’re probably looking for some sort of pain relief. For some women, the monthly flow is not just a time of annoyance or a passing inconvenience, but is a time of severe pain that they dread from month to [...]
August 17, 2009
- The Effects of Smoking on Fertility
Many people are aware that smoking can affect a baby’s health. But less people know that smoking can also affect both male and female fertility. If you are trying for a baby, and quit smoking, it can seriously enhance your chances of getting pregnant. According to a report by the British Medical Association (BMA), women [...]
May 26, 2009
- Female Anatomy - Changes Post-Partum (Pregnancy Health Guru)
Your nipples are leaking. You can feel your uterus with your fingers. Your body is sore. What’s going on and when will it stop? More Post-Pregnancy Videos: pregnancy.healthguru.com
May 19, 2009
- Breast is Best for Mom Too
It is common knowledge that breast is best when it comes to feeding babies. The list of benefits for the baby is long, with breast milk credited with protecting against obesity, diabetes, asthma and infections of the ear, stomach and chest. However there are still women out there that need convincing to commit to breastfeeding [...]
May 11, 2009
- Kid Characteristics That Make Us Healthy Later in Life
It has long been accepted that children with a happy childhood grow up to be happier adults, but now a new study has revealed that specific characteristics evident in childhood are likely to cause positive or negative emotions and influence biological and behavioral responses to stress. In turn, this may determine whether kids grow up [...]
April 23, 2009
- Coffee in Men and Women With ALS (Lou Gehrig’s)
It is always intriguing to me when science discovers a food that has a positive effect on one gender and quite the opposite on the other. An example has arisen in a study on Amyotrophic Lateral sclerosis (ALS) or Lou Gehrig’s disease. As a reminder, Lou Gehrig’s disease or (ALS) is a deadly disease that [...]
April 10, 2009
- Sexercise!
I know, I know. It is yet another post on the importance of exercise and its often the very last thing most people want to hear is one of the key pieces of the health puzzle. But this time, the reason for exercise may delight you. Because research has consistently shown that there is a [...]
March 31, 2009
- Enhance Your Fertility Naturally
It seems like every other couple I meet these days is either struggling themselves or knows someone close to them who is experiencing infertility. Although in extreme cases, IVF may be the only route, there are often natural remedies and aids which can do just the trick and help you to conceive on your own. [...]
March 29, 2009
- In Chronic Pain? Check Vitamin D levels
If you’ve been reading up on the latest health news recently, you’ve probably already gotten your vitamin D levels checked, and if you haven’t, I suggest you do it asap. It has recently come to global attention that there is an epidemic of inadequate and deficient vitamin D levels in much of the world’s population, [...]
March 20, 2009
- Running From Osteoporosis
We’ve long been told that the way to strengthen bones and prevent osteoporosis is to get in the gym and start lifting weights. Which, I might add, is not so appealing to everyone. But it turns out that some previous studies that examined the effects of resistance training in men on bone density produced varied [...]
March 16, 2009
- Testosterone Patch, Not So Hot?
One or 2 posts back, we discussed the new testosterone patch for ladies which is designed as a woman’s libido enhancer after full hysterectomy but now (so quickly!) research is showing it may not work after all and what’s more, its long term safety has not been proven. According to Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin (DTB), [...]