Make Long-Term Changes, but Don’t Berate Yourself When You Fall Short
If you are familiar with different healthy eating/living books, you have probably heard of Dr. Oz. He is the co-author of “You On a Diet” and “You: The Owner’s Manual”. Here are the 5 top healthy tips for women from him.
Tip 1: Ease Up on the Stress to Control Eating
“When you have stress, you’ll eat more and things you wouldn’t normally eat,” Oz said. “That’s because we are hard-wired to equate stress to famine.”
Oz suggested eating a small snack, like …

 
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is being treated for pancreatic cancer, but doctors reportedly caught the small tumor early, which may improve her odds of surviving the usually deadly disease. Pancreatic cancer is relatively rare, but in the past few years, it has gotten more attention because it has afflicted actor Patrick Swayze and Apple CEO Steven Jobs. Here are some facts you need to know:
 
 
1. Pancreatic cancer is not a particularly common form of cancer. Despite the high-profile cases, fewer than 38,000 people were diagnosed with the disease last year, compared …

No breasts, no need for breast cancer tests. Right? As a man, I’ll admit that’s been my assumption—even though breast cancer struck my mom when she was 39. But I’m one of many men who might need to reconsider that philosophy in light of intriguing new research published this month. Men whose female relatives have had breast cancer, it suggests, may want to consider genetic testing to evaluate their own—and their children’s—cancer risk.
Mary Daly, the founder of the Family Risk Assessment Program at Fox Chase Cancer Center, presented the research …

Symptoms 
Pancreatic cancer often develops without early symptoms. The majority of pancreatic cancer symptoms arise because of the location of the pancreas and its relationship to other organs in the body. (It is surrounded by various organs of the digestive system.)
Symptoms of pancreas cancer are:
Jaundice—Jaundice is a condition in which a person’s skin or whites of the eyes have a yellow discoloration. A person with jaundice may also have dark urine and light stool. Jaundice occurs when bilirubin, a substance produced by the liver, builds up in the blood. Normally, bilirubin …

Dr. Margaret Gatz, a professor of psychology, gerontology and preventative medicine at the University of Southern California, conducts research on interventions that may reduce the risk ofAlzheimer’s disease. In a recent study, published in the January 2009 issue of the journal Diabetes, Dr. Gatz and her team tracked rates ofdementia and diabetes in Swedish twins and discovered that developing diabetes before the age of 65 was associated with a 125 percent increased risk of subsequently developing Alzheimer’s disease.
1. How did you become interested in the relationship between diabetes and dementia?
Our research began with the question why some …

CHICAGO, Feb 2  - Insulin appears to shield the brain from toxic proteins associated with Alzheimer’s disease, U.S. researchers said on Monday, supporting a theory that Alzheimer’s may be a third form of diabetes.
And they said GlaxoSmithKline’s diabetes drug Avandia, or rosiglitazone, which increases sensitivity to insulin, appeared to enhance this protective effect.
“Our results demonstrate that bolstering insulin signaling can protect neurons from harm,” William Klein of Northwestern University, whose study appears in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, said in a statement.
Klein said the findings support a new …

The third Thursday of every November has been designated the Great American Smokeout by the American Cancer Society since 1977. While it’s important to quit smoking the other 364 days a year, designating one day allows everyone to rally around and draw more attention to the cause. From websites, to a mobile and even Twitter tool, here are nine resources to help you quit smoking.
So, what are you waiting for? Are you going to be one of the people this year putting down your cigarette for good?  Done it before and …