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  Menopause and Memory Loss: New Research Explains Why Menopausal Women Often Feel Forgetful   Along with the hot flashes, sleepless nights and mood swings, many women also report another symptom that comes along with menopause: forgetfulness. "We see a lot of women who are afraid they are losing their minds," said Miriam Weber, Ph.D., a senior instructor of neurology from the University of Rochester Medical Center, who conducted a study on the topic with colleague Mark Mapstone, Ph.D., assistant professor of neurology. "A lot of women complain that their thinking or their memory isn't what it used to be. Their big fear is that it's early Alzheimer's disease." Menopausal women aren't forgetful, they've just got too much going on to really commit things to their memory in the first place. The researchers found no link between "forgetful" women going through menopause and Alzheimer's, but they did find something else: the forgetfulness doesn't stem from an impaired memory, it stems from stressed women with busy lives who have a harder time learning, or "encoding," new information. Not a Memory Problem [...]

  Got Pain? Natural Relief for 10 Painful Symptoms     Pain is your body's way of alerting you that something is amiss. In response to it, many people immediately grab pain relievers and similar medications to take care of the symptoms. Some medications, can have extreme side effects ranging from nausea to liver damage to allergic reactions to increased risks for heart attacks and stroke. By Sharing Possible Cause of Pain You May Find Some Natural Relief Pain is often your body giving you clues to the origin. Once identified and healed the pain often goes away. Ask yourself some important questions: How long have you had the pain? Has the pain reoccurred? Might the treatment to relieve pain do greater harm? Is your body's warning signals a clue that there's possibly something much more serious or even deadly ahead if you deaden your bodies warning signals being pain and not stop the cause? Are you getting temporary treatment for the symptom while ignoring the cause? Doctors are often pushed by patients to provide instant pain relief. Yet ignoring [...]

  Female Pattern Baldness: Genetic or Illness? What You Can Do About It! Hair loss creates an emotional roller coaster for millions of men and women around the world each year. However, for women, the experience can be far more harrowing as common social constructs have made it virtually impossible for them not to feel outcast or unattractive without a full head of locks. Fatigue is a common symptom of a hormonal imbalance. Female pattern baldness profoundly affects millions of women all ages each year with physical and emotional consequences. If you're a woman with hair loss, or you know someone afflicted with such issues, learn the important to know possible causes and, more importantly, understand that today there truly are many potential available solutions. Female pattern baldness often forces women to feel ashamed and secretive about their predicament, and there are likely millions of female hair loss sufferers who allow their situation to go undiagnosed, remedying the problem instead with readily available hair extensions, wigs and other fashion accessories. Hiding or ignoring the condition can be extremely problematic, not [...]

  Are You Dating Your Father? Did You Marry Your Dad?   You knew there was something familiar about your husband or boyfriend from the day you met him. Something you couldn't quite put your finger on, but still, it was there. Then one day it hits you: He reminds you of your dad! Ever wonder why so many couples look alike? It could be because women seek out men with similarities to themselves ... and their dads! Whether this sends you screaming from the house or smiling with nostalgia, it's a strong belief among some experts that women do, in fact, seek out men who are like their fathers. According to one camp, it's because women sometimes have difficult relationships with their fathers, therefore their marrying a man like him is a way to try to resolve some of their ongoing childhood issues. Others say that women simply like the familiarity of being around someone like their dad. It's probably fair to say that most women don't set out looking for a man that reminds them of their father, [...]

  10 Top Causes of Prostate Cancer and How to Avoid Them   Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer among men (skin cancer is the first), according to the American Cancer Society (ACS). In just one year, nearly 219,000 new cases of prostate cancer are expected in the United States, and over 27,000 men will die from the disease. Vigorous exercise can help to prevent prostate cancer, particularly in men over the age of 65. Although one in six men will get prostate cancer during his lifetime, only one in 34 will die from the disease. This is because prostate cancer is often slow growing (though it can at times grow quickly), and men may have the disease and not even know it. Though it's not known exactly what causes this disease, there are several known risk factors, some of which you can easily control to reduce your risk of prostate cancer. The Top Causes of Prostate Cancer Age: Your risk of prostate cancer increases with age, particularly among men over 65 years old. Family history: If a [...]

  Is Your Food Making You Sick? Get a Shocking Look at the Inside World of the U.S. Food System The American food system is in crisis, plagued with an industrial mentality that puts profits ahead of the people it is supposed to nourish. In response, the first of two much-needed films on the topic: Food Inc. “lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government's regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment.” The problems are deep-seated and varied, as Food Inc.’s official movie site explains: Obesity, Diabetes, Heart Disease and other Health Problems are at Epidemic Levels: The U.S. food system encourages the production of highly processed foods, high in sugar, calories and non-nutritional “fillers” like corn and soy ingredients. This heavily processed diet is leading to obesity, diabetes, [...]