Women’s Health Issues

The key to having manageable menopause is to keep your diet as balanced as you can. If you focus on nutrition and remember all of those food groups, you will feel a whole lot better no matter what your menopause symptoms are. Remember to include servings of grains and carbohydrates, proteins and protein alternatives, dairy products, fats, and of course, lots of fruits and vegetables. Try not to overdo it on certain food groups, particularly fats, carbohydrates, and proteins.

Experts say that knowing the proper diet for menopausal women is one excellent way of fighting the emotional, physical, and spiritual changes they experience.

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The breast size and shape in different women varies a lot.  Some women have more glandular tissue in their breasts, some have less.  Some have more fatty tissue than others.  Some have more connective tissue so their breasts are firmer, and yet some women are totally flat-chested.

The size and shape also varies over time in the same woman because of the changes during menstrual cycle, pregnancy, after weaning, and during menopause.  Most of the size differences between women are due to the amount of fatty tissue in the breast.  But practically all breasts can make milk and help nurture the baby - and that is what makes breasts beautiful!

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Diet is thought to be partly responsible for about 30% to 40% of all cancers. But diet alone is unlikely to be the “cause” or “cure” of cancer. Although more research needs to be done on diet and breast cancer, findings suggest that physical activity, a healthy diet (particularly one low in fat and high in vegetables and fiber), and a healthy weight can help reduce the risk of breast cancer or the cancer coming back.

Breast Nutrition

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide. Breast cancer is hormone related, and the factors that modify the risk of breast cancer when diagnosed premenopausally and when diagnosed postmenopausally are not the same.

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Gravity may get the best of you but a few simple exercises done every other day can keep your pectoral muscles firm and toned and your breasts above your belly button. While exercise do not increase the size of your breasts, the use of weights can strengthen the underlying muscles.

Breast Firm Exercises

Modified Push Ups - It is an excellent exercise for breast toning and firming. For doing modified push ups, lie down on your knees with arms extended out to the sides of the body. Make sure that the angle of push up is working the side of your arms where the arm meets the breast, and pressing the pectoral muscles slightly with each repetition.

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Vaginal dryness is a feeling of dryness or lack of lubrication. This may cause pain with intercourse, chronic vaginal infections, or feelings of tingling or burning.

A very common cause of vaginal dryness is lack of the hormone estrogen. Applying a vaginal estrogen-based cream can help relieve this dryness. Water-based lubricants also are effective for relieving vaginal dryness. Lubricants will moisten the vaginal lining for several hours, and the effect of a vaginal cream can last for up to a day.

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Many women (up to 90%) have menstrual cramps. Most are simply due to menstruation itself and don’t indicate any underlying gynecological problems. The medical term for this is Primary Dysmenorrhea. Dysmenorrhea is from Latin words meaning “bad menstruation” .

Menstrual cramps are a very common problem for most adolescent girls and women. The cramps can be mild, moderate, or very severe. In fact, they are the single most common cause of days missed from school and work. Around 80 percent of the time, cramps are part of the primary dysmenorrhea syndrome. Cramps are caused by hormones called prostaglandins, which cause painful cramping of the uterus during menstruation.

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Pregnancy doesn’t have to be a frightening experience. Once you know what the nature of the first month pregnancy symptoms are and how long they would last, you will be able to better cope with them and welcome the newcomer in your womb more warmly.

The first ever easily noticeable symptom of your pregnancy could befall on you as nausea or dizziness and often you may feel like resting without any valid reasons. It is also quite common for you to ignore your first month s pregnancy symptoms as just fatigue but when you analyze things you may be able to correlate your tiredness with that of possible pregnancy.

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The breasts are always a point of concern for women, a focus of physical feminine beauty. Aside from the need for the breasts to be healthy, most women desire to make their breasts appear beautiful – firm, shapely and perky. There are many women in the world who would not hesitate to spend thousands of dollars going through breast augmentation or breast reduction surgery or any other cosmetic procedure available just to get their breasts molded into the shape and size that they want.

Breast self massage differs from the breast self exam in the attitude of how one approaches the breasts. Where the breast self exam is a diagnostic tool to search and find problems in the breasts, breast self massage works to familialize ourselves with our breasts and more importantly, to maintain a healthy attitude toward the breasts.

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During pregnancy your body will go through a tremendous set of changes to help your baby grow inside you. Use this pregnancy timeline to find out how your body will change and how your baby will grow, as well as what you should be doing when.

Spotting is very light bleeding. About a quarter of all pregnant women experience spotting at some point in pregnancy. It is similar to what you may experience at the beginning or end of your pregnancy. The color can vary from light pink to brown.

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A tubal pregnancy occurs when an egg that has been fertilized implants itself somewhere outside of the uterus, typically in the fallopian tubes. A tubal pregnancy used to be a catastrophe. Diagnosis was usually made only after the tube had ruptured - and emergency surgery was required to stop the bleeding and save the mother’s life.

If an tubal pregnancy is present, you don’t need to have all of these symptoms, usually the pain with any of the other symptoms is enough to raise concern, especially if the pain is concentrated mainly on one side of the body.

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