Who doesn’t like the sweet taste of honey. It’s used to sweeten hot tea, hot cereal and many food products. People spread honey on bread, use it in a sandwich (I love a peanut butter and honey sandwich). It’s in many recipes liked glazed carrots, one of my wife’s favorites. Before the discovery or advent
Menopause generally begins between the ages of 45 to 55, but can begin when a woman is only in her 30s. In some women, it may not start until after turning 60, eventually, under natural terms, menopause hits all women. Basically, menopause begins when a woman’s ovaries stop producing two important hormones, estrogen and progesterone.
Health officials are saying this year’s flu season will be an especially serious or difficult one. It has already reached epidemic levels in every state accept Hawaii. Hospitals are already reporting a large number of cases. The news has been filled with reports of young healthy children dying from the flu. The flu is striking
The last time you visited the emergency room of any hospital or an urgent care center, who made up most of the people waiting to be seen? From my limited experience, it’s usually children, parents and people under 50, but there are some older people sitting there, waiting to be seen. However, we need to
Type 2 diabetes has been directly linked to obesity, among several other factors. Quite often, this type of diabetes can be controlled by diet and exercise, without medication and in some cases, it can even be reversed if the person not only watches their diet and exercises, but if they lose weight and get back
Do you know anyone that is a clean freak and yet seems to be the one always getting sick? Think about this – why are farmers often much healthier than many others? Many try to attribute it to their work regime and healthy diets, but another key reason is that they are exposed to many
Looking after an elderly parent could cost you more than you expect: Your retirement security. Those were the findings from a study of caregivers by the Transamerica Institute, a foundation that specializes in retirement and healthcare issues. Last March and April, the institute polled 3,074 individuals who provided nonprofessional or unpaid care for friends or
For people who’ve battled certain common forms of skin cancer, use of a generic cream called 5-FU may greatly reduce the odds that the disease will come back, new research shows. The study tracked outcomes for just over 930 U.S. veterans who averaged 70 years of age. All had already been diagnosed with a minimum
Obesity is linked to prostate cancer, scientists know, but it’s not clear why. On Monday, researchers reported a surprising connection. When prostate cancers lose a particular gene, they become tiny fat factories, a team at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston reported in a paper published in Nature Genetics. Then the cancers spread from
Most of us think that Parkinson’s disease is mostly shaking uncontrollably, but it’s much more than that. According to the Parkinson’s Foundation: “Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that affects predominately dopamine-producing (‘dopaminergic’) neurons in a specific area of the brain called substantia nigra.” The Mayo Clinic provides an easier to understand definition: “Parkinson’s
