Exercise – and Reducing Sedentary Activities Protects Women Against Type 2 Diabetes Excerpt from Women’s Health and Fitness Guide by Michele Kettles, M.D., M.S.P.H., Colette Cole, M.S., and Brenda Wright, Ph.D. (Human Kinetics, 2006) Type 2 diabetes is one of the top 10 leading causes of death in the United States for women of all […]
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Women Continue to Outlive Men American women on average outlive American men by over five years. Some reasons why: Men tend to smoke and drink more than women and generally have less healthy lifestyles. Men do not seek medical help as often as women. Men tend to join in fearless, risky, and dangerous behaviors more
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Men aren’t born passive. Women aren’t born wild. We just have that effect on each other … too often. When and why does a conversation become one-sided, or dissolve into conflict? How can you turn it around and stay sane? Man’s Attitude At work… the man is often active, articulate, assertive, and usually successful in
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Do you worry about growing older? About half of women do. At the grocery checkout they see magazine covers of beautiful, young, glowing women. The images present an impossible, airbrushed ideal that can raise fears about wrinkles, weight, and losing in the desirability derby if her man compares her to these beauties. And appearance is
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What does “courage” mean to you? Does it create images of flying men in capes and heroic deeds of physical prowess? Dr. Nancy’s amazing guest this week dispels this modern myth and open your eyes to what courage really is, where the word originated and how every woman shows courage in her everyday actions in
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I recently purchased a handgun for personal protection. I have handled guns and have shot both shotguns and hand guns but never owned by own gun. It is a strange feeling to walk into gun store pick out the gun of my choice and within seconds be cleared and able to purchase and walk out
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