As an animal lover I hate to see any animal in discomfort and, like me, if you are a pet owner of dogs, you have had to deal with seeing your dog distressed and in discomfort due to scratching and itchy skin. Perhaps you have been troubled by this in the past or you simply…

If health and beauty plays any kind of role in your world at all, then chances are you have tried a diet or two in your lifetime. Now, everyone that is living has a DIET…which simply means the type of food you eat regardless if you have a goal of weight loss or not. But…

Osteoporosis, meaning porous bones, is the gradual loss of bone density. A silent process which may begin during a woman’s thirties, bone loss accelerates after menopause because of the decrease of the bone-retaining hormone estrogen. Women are eight times more at risk for developing osteoporosis than men because of:
Smaller bone structure and bone mass…

As a young person growing up, stories, pictures, movies, and TV shows are constantly bombarding us with images of all kinds. Some funny, some violent, some sexual, and some drug and alcohol related.
Depending on the message you may be seeing at any one time, sometimes these things romanticize any or all of the above…

Many women still believe that osteoporosis is a condition that only affects bone density later in life, regardless of recent efforts of medical experts to establish otherwise. In the most recent issue of Women’s Health Orthopedic Edition, Rebecca J. Locke and Michelle P. Warren, MD from Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York discuss the…

Considering the strong societal pressure to maintain a slim figure and the prejudice and stigmatization connected to women who do not have such figures, women of large size often experience difficulty achieving a healthy lifestyle.
The stereotypes and myths of obesity so often repeated in American culture are misleading and often simply wrong. Why are…

Women struggle for satisfaction with themselves and their bodies much, if not all of their lives. While reasons for this struggle are varied, there are common factors in our society by which we are all affected. The perception of our bodies begins at a very early age in life.
Childhood messages about our bodies form…

In the past, women were usually told to stop exercising completely during pregnancy. Many health care providers now realize that exercise can be an important adjunct to a healthy pregnancy and encourage women to be physically active.
In 1983, Melpomene Institue initiated a descriptive study of pregnant, exercising women in a natural, rather than a…

With the aging of the “baby boomers,” more people will be experiencing perimenopause than ever before. Perimenopause is a period in a woman’s life that begins around 47.5 years of age as a result of declining ovarian function, and ends in ovarian failure.
Almost all women experience some symptoms and consequences of perimenopause. These include:…

Perimenopause is “a time when the abnormal becomes normal.” The following are symptoms, causes, and remedies for perimenopause. It should be noted that some natural herbs are discussed in the article as possible remedies, but they are not listed here.
Irregular periods – Occurs in 95% of women and is caused by fluctuating levels of…