According to Colleen Doyle, the American Cancer Society’s Director of Nutrition and Physical Activity, women can become healthier and lower their risk of developing cancer simply by incorporating 5 strategies in their every day life: (1) not smoking; (2) eating a healthy diet; (3) increasing their physical activity; (4) maintaining a healthy weight; and (5) […]

The American Heart Association states that each year, over 500,000 women die of cardiovascular disease. According to reports, women with high cholesterol levels are at risk of developing heart disease or having a stroke. According from the American Heart Association’s Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics 2006 Update, over 51 million women in the United States […]

Mary Olson Kelly is a survivor — a breast cancer survivor. She also founded The Breast Wishes Institute. According to her, people have the tendency to give well meaning unsolicited advice to loved ones who have been diagnosed or are living with breast cancer. However, this kind of approach isn’t really the best approach because […]

Exercise benefits everyone. However, women can gain many health benefits by exercising. Exercising not only helps women lose weight, it can lower their risk of developing diseases such as cancer, osteoporosis, heart disease, respiratory ailments and more. Moderate exercise, when done consistently, can improve a woman’s overall well being. According to research, moderate exercise gives […]

In a community, one will always encounter a smoker.  Smoking, since its introduction to societies, is an activity that is inevitably passed from one generation to another.  It is viewed as essential to have a suave and strong personality.  It is once thought to be an indication of sophistication.  But today, it is closely linked […]

Our world is really fast paced. Everything relies on being fast. All of us want things accomplished faster. This is because most of us have very little time to do other stuff. So we try to move faster just to cram things up in our daily schedule.
When that happens, we will tend to burn ourselves […]

Most people always say that they are stressed out. Even little children may say that they are stressed out. But what is stress really? Is it simple things were people just get tired or burned out.
Let’s try to explain stress in a scientific standpoint of things. Stress happens when we feel threatened during a certain […]

It is a common knowledge that there are lots of stressful things around us in our daily life. Some of these stressful things are juts part of our life that is very much hard to avoid. The best thing a person can really do is learn ways to cope up with these stressful sources. We […]

People infected with genital herpes may or may not show symptoms.  The symptoms that show are called outbreaks.  An outbreak usually occurs within two days to two weeks after a person is exposed to the HSV (herpes simplex virus).  The people who do not experience the outbreaks will still have the virus in their bodies […]

According to the research conducted by the United States National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the disease that affects more than one-fourth of all women over the age of twelve is none other than genital herpes.  It is more widespread than other women-related diseases such as breast cancer and osteoporosis.  It is also one […]