Does Alcohol Increase Your Risk of Breast Cancer?
Alcohol intake and breast cancer risk — helpful information to help you weigh the risks vs benefits.
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Countdown to New Year’s Eve…………….
It is about this time of year that I begin thinking about my New Year’s resolutions. According to Wikipedia, the most common reason for participants failing their New Years’ Resolutions was setting themselves unrealistic goals (35%), while 33% didn’t keep track of their progress and a further 23% forgot about it. About one in 10 …
Is Alcohol Stirred with Menopause a Good Elixir?
Menopause this season offers us a whole new reason to want to reach for our cocktail of choice. Forget work, spouses, kids, and money issues. Those may have been your old reasons for cracking open a bottle of Pinot Noir. Now there’s a new one: the extremely frustrating, often debilitating, more-than-maddening symptoms of perimenopause and …
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Declare War on Pre-Holiday Stress
As the holidays approach (yes, they’ll be here sooner than you know it!), most women go into platoon-sergeant-prep mode. It doesn’t matter whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or another holiday. Stress is stress. We’re deciding what to cook/which cookies to bake and how much/many, whom to invite (or not), when to hold the event, …
Scientists Connect Lower Estradiol and Sex Hormone Binding Globulin Levels with Poor Cardiovascular Health
Scientists Connect Lower Estradiol and Sex Hormone Binding Globulin Levels with Poor Cardiovascular Health Researchers at the North American Menopause Society’s Annual Meeting in October recently shared findings from a study connecting endogenous sex hormones with cardiovascular health. Scientist, El Khoudary, Ph.D., says that the amount of endogenous sex hormones women have at midlife may …