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Breaking the Breakfast Barrier
Why was breakfast fun when you were a kid? Because Mom made it, it was probably sugary, and you didn’t have to do the dishes!
Now you’re the whole show, maybe for the rest of the family, and there’s just never enough time in the morning to get...
Conquering Restless Legs: Victory over Defeat
Do your legs have the heebie-jeebies and creepy-crawlies, especially at night? Do you just have to move them? Do these symptoms play heck with your sleep? Then you just might have restless legs syndrome (RLS), a condition for which treatment is...
Increase HDL Cholesterol and Live Longer
There are several effective ways to increase HDL cholesterol (that’s the “good” one by the way), that can literally add years to your life, reduce the risk of heart disease, atherosclerosis and stroke. So, how do we go about getting high HDL...
Outsourcing Preauthorizations For Improved Outcomes
Increasingly, medical management firms and managed care organizations are turning to Independent Review Organizations (IROs) to pre-authorize treatments at the forefront of the healthcare decision-making process. Why?
With rapid medical...
Whole Grains Prevent Weight Gain
Research from Harvard, recently published in the highly respected peer-reviewed Journal of Clinical Nutrition, has now proven that women who eat the most whole grains lose more weight and maintain that weight loss better than women who eat the least...
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" And they lived healthily every after ... "
WEDDED bliss may protect women against heart disease and stroke, a new study suggests.
The study, which followed 413 middle-aged women over 12 years, found that those who were happily married were less likely than their dissatisfied peers to develop metabolic syndrome, disorders like high blood pressure, excess abdominal fat, abnormal cholesterol levels and elevated blood sugar that raise the risk of diabetes, heart disease and stroke.
Women who were deemed "maritally dissatisfied" were three times more likely to develop metabolic syndrome during
the study period than women who were content. The risk was also higher among divorced or widowed women. Single women, on the other hand, showed no significant difference from happily married women.
Wendy M. Troxel of the University of Pittsburgh, said that it's possible that chronic stress caused by an unhappy marriage could spur elevations in blood pressure, as well as changes in stress hormones that could affect cholesterol and blood sugar levels.
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