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Why do women need to worry about heart disease? All too often, women get inferior medical care because doctors don’t take their symptoms seriously. Some studies have shown that medical staffers tend to be slow to recognize cardiac conditions in women and treat them accordingly. After reviewing the records of 890 men and women who were diagnosed with heart ills, researchers at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, found that it took 10 minutes longer, on average, for women to be evaluated in the ER than men (30 minutes versus 20), and women were transferred to the coronary care unit almost an hour later than men....

Brew a pot of green tea. Green tea contains several powerful antioxidants that lower cholesterol and perhaps even blood pressure. To make a day’s supply, bring 20 oz water to a boil, drop in three decaffeinated green tea bags, cover, and steep for 10 minutes. Remove the tea bags, and refrigerate the tea. When cool, pour the tea into a container, add ice if you like, and sip throughout the day....

To avoid future flare-ups, talk with your doctor about starting an exercise program, such as Pilates, that will strengthen your abdominal and trunk muscles (aka your core). Good core stability will help protect your back from injury. Because body position and alignment are crucial when performing these exercises, you should consult with a physical therapist or fitness trainer to learn proper technique; doing the moves incorrectly may simply make your pain worse....

When people try to look at a situation from someone else’s perspective, they could actually make an argument worse instead of helping resolve it, says Jacquie Vorauer, PhD, a psychology professor from the University of Manitoba in Canada. Why? Apparently humans aren’t very adept at genuinely adopting a different vantage point. “People’s own guesses and estimates of another’s thoughts tend to be hugely biased by their own perspectives…especially if they’re consciously trying to see something through someone else’s eyes,” says Vorauer....

If you want to stifle your appetite, do short bouts of high-intensity exercise. High intensity intermittent exercise (HIIE; short bouts of high-intensity exercise alternating with periods of lower exercise intensity) reduced appetite and caloric intake for up to 24 hours afterward compared to 30 minutes of continuous exercise at moderate intensity, according to a study published in the Journal of Obesity. Researchers concluded that this appetite suppressant effect may be due to a lower active level of ghrelin (an appetite-regulating hormone) and higher levels of blood sugar....

Does she really remember from year to year the exact route you drive to get there? Most people are interested in their dog’s intelligence. While there are predictable differences based upon the dog’s breed (for example Border Collies are a lot smarter and more trainable than Bulldogs), there is a lot of variability within each breed. Whether you are merely curious about your dog’s memory ability or worried about possible memory loss in an older dog, here is a simple test that you can give your dog at home....

After years of being haunted by this image, I think I’ve figured out what the hunger is about. It’s about missing my own life. It’s about having food (both physical and emotional) right there, and not being able to taste it because my attention is somewhere else. We’re all walking around hungry for an elusive something, and we’re missing the very thing that could fill us: Showing up, being present in our own lives....

For examples of what clean eating looks like in action (plus recipes and meal plans), check out: The 23 Cleanest Food Choices You Can Make (And the 23 Worst)19 “Foods” that Aren’t Actually Food18 Clean Eating Staples Your Pantry Should Never Be WithoutThe 10 Best Ways to Start Eating CleanThis Is What a Perfect Day of Clean Eating Looks Like (With Recipes)How Eating Clean Can Help You Lose Up to 5 Pounds in 1 Week...

After giving it some thought, you’ll probably agree that the most important thing in life is the feeling of love inside and around you. If you feel the flow of love in your life, you have a springboard to miracles under your feet with every step. If you don’t feel the flow of love, you could be a billionaire and feel like a pauper. Without love, you could be a movie star and not be able to look at your face in the mirror....

It may be easy to buy trail mix at the store, but a homemade version like this one gives you full control over calories, added sugar, and ingredients. To make this a complete breakfast, pair your trail mix with these crazy-satisfying overnight oats and dig in. Makes 2 servings In a small bowl, combine 1 Tbsp dried tart cherries, 1 Tbsp raw pumpkin seeds, 1 Tbsp sliced almonds, 4 dried apricots, sliced, 1 Tbsp shredded coconut, and 2 dried figs, quartered....

From strains and fractures to serious tears, the following injuries rank among the worst you’re likely to experience. Patella femoral overuse syndrome This knee injury manifests as pain under the kneecap that worsens when running, going down stairs, or sitting for long periods of time with knees bent. It develops when the bones in the lower leg are not lined up perfectly, which creates an abnormal gliding between the kneecap and femur (thigh bone)....

Join the Prevention Virtual Walk on October 1, 2022! Sign up for free and do your 5K wherever you please. We look forward to walking “with” you! “All a walker has to do to burn more calories than a runner is to outpace the runner,” she explains. For example, if you walk 4.5 mph (a 13- to 15-minute per mile pace) for about 42 minutes, you can burn as many calories as a runner who does a 10-minute mile....

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[sidebar]In a study of 44 women with unstable asthma who had near-fatal asthma attacks, 25% had the attack on the first day of menstruation, while the rest occurred at random. The women whose bouts coincided with their period also experienced more symptoms in the days leading up to the attack. Asthma experts think changes in menstrual hormones may tighten airways in the lungs. “But whether it’s due to increases or decreases in estrogen or progesterone or the balance of hormones, we don’t know,” says Sally Wenzel, MD, a severe-asthma specialist at the National Jewish Medical and Research Center in Denver....

Here’s the skinny on the two best-known blood treatments: RegenokineHow it works:1. The doctor draws your blood into a syringe that contains small glass beads treated with a chemical called chromium sulfate. 2. The mixture gets incubated for 24 hours and then spun in a centrifuge to separate its parts. 3. Several naturally occurring anti-inflammatory proteins, including one called interleukin-1 receptor antagonist, become separated from the blood and are extracted....

“How satisfied are you with your life?” For five years researchers from Michigan State University asked more than a million people that same question then compared the answers to the day’s weather conditions. Despite the association that gloomy, doomy skies have with gloomy, doomy moods, over a million people proved that depression weather isn’t a thing. In fact, the data published in the Journal for Personality and Social Psychology revealed that life satisfaction is higher on a cloudy day when it follows a sunny day; especially when compared to two cloudy day and two sunny days in a row....

The researchers weren’t just looking at frequent phone calls and exploding text message inboxes. They took into account all smartphone functions, from surfing the Internet and perusing social media feeds to playing games, which may explain how a tool for connecting with others can bum you out. “It’s likely that people spending more time on devices have less frequent contact with live social networks, and may be more vulnerable to social comparison that leaves them with a sense of emptiness,” says Ramani Durvasula, PhD, licensed clinical psychologist and professor of psychology at California State University in Los Angeles....