If you’re bigger around the hips and butt than you’d like to be, there’s some good news for you.
It seems that fat that settles around your thighs and buttocks may be better for you than a spare tire around the middle according to experts from Oxford University. A new review of the data on body [...]
We all love “girls nights”, an evening out without the guys (or the kids) can be such fun, a welcome break from routine for many of us. But a recent looking at women and diet has made some interesting findings.
Beyond the laughs and silliness, you may also be prone to eating more than you planned [...]
Today breast cancer is the second leading cause of death in women, after lung cancer. As a result, yearly breast mammograms have become common for women over 40, or anyone at high risk of developing this dangerous, disfiguring disease.
Now that programs like this are in place, experts had expected that the number of cases of [...]
Swedish researchers report a link between the intake of high carb foods and cancer, as the overall glycemic load of a woman’s diet can impact her chances of being diagnosed with breast cancer.
Researchers from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm looked at data from the late 1980s when 61,433 female subjects filled out food frequency questionnaires.
Over the [...]
According to some new research that appears in the journal Sleep lack of sleep effects women more. So if you’re a woman sleeping less than the recommended 8 hours a night (and who isn’t?), you’re at increased risk of heart trouble .
Experts found that inflammatory markers (indicators of heart disease) changed quite a bit depending [...]
If you’ve ever wondered whether those anti ageing vitamins you swallow each morning is doing you any good, a recent report in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition should offer some solid reassurance.
It seems that multivitamins might actually help women live longer by keeping key parts of our DNA from getting shorter.
“This study provides the [...]
Just out of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) recent 56th annual meeting. If you are over 30 years old, exercising an hour a week may cut your risk of breast cancer, which is the most common cancer among U.S. women.
According to American Cancer Society estimates, 192,370 women will be diagnosed with this form [...]
While more education is no guarantee of anything these days, there is one area where more schooling has been shown to offer a benefit. And that is education linked to your own personal health.
A new report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Commission to Build a Healthier America finds that those with more education report better health [...]
Everyone knows the dangers of tobacco smoke, but until recently experts believed the danger to be equal for men and women. Now new research is showing just how wrong, and perhaps how dangerous, that misconception can be, as the effects of smoking cigarettes is different for women.
It appears that the cancer causing agents in cigarettes [...]
When it comes to getting sick, any woman (and probably any honest man) will tell you guys are “wimps” – they just don’t cope with the coughing, sneezing, aches and such that come in fighting disease as well as women do.
In fact, surveys have found that as many as 30% of men (vs. 22% of women) miss [...]
