Total heart health for women
“The Heart Truth” campaign was started by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute to increase awareness of heart disease in women in the US and has been having some measure of success. As of the year 2000 only about 30% of American women were aware of the fact that heart disease is a major [...]
Thousands of hysterectomies are carried out every year. Most of them are done in middle-aged women. Conventional wisdom has always dictated that the ovaries be removed at the same time to remove the risk of ovarian cancer. That is until now. Recent findings about ovaries and hysterectomies Research has shown that women who have their [...]
If you’re not exercising already, here’s another good reason to do so. According to a report published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, a review of previously-published studies showed that aerobic exercise (the kind that gets your heart pumping fast) can help increase the levels of “good” (HDL) cholesterol in your body. The increase was [...]