Female Care

There are a lot of things in our daily diets that fall under the category of “A little is good, a lot is harmful”. One of those things, surprisingly, is a “health-food” that is potentially causing health issues for millions.

It has recently been released that soybeans and soy products contain high levels of the female hormone estrogen. Consuming too much of the hormone may lead to many problems, most notably in infants and young children.

Being pregnant is no picnic, and wanting to feed yourself and your growing baby is a paramount consideration. Ingestion of large amounts of soy products can boost your estrogen supply to unhealthy levels. If you are feeding an infant a soy-based formula, it is estimated that the child is absorbing the equivalent of up to five birth control pills a day. Continue reading »

Medication errors alone cause 7,000 deaths a year…or the equivalent of roughly 16 passenger-filled jumbo jet crashes. What contributes to this number of deaths from medication errors? Errors can occur from paper-based scripts, illegible handwriting, misinterpretation of medication dosage, and undetected drug interactions. If this sounds like yet another broken aspect of health care in the U.S. there is a cure to minimize errors just waiting to be swallowed, and far from being bitter it’s free.

NEPSI (National ePrescribing Patient Safety Initiative) is a consortium of organizations working to prevent medication errors using information technology available today. NEPSI stakeholders include Allscripts LLC, Microsoft Corp., Dell Inc., Fujitsu Computers of America, Cisco Systems Inc., Walters-Kluwer Health Inc., Google, and SureScripts. Together they combined component electronic health care technology and developed an electronic prescribing system used with an Internet connection. And better yet, the service is offered free to any physician in America who wants to participate in the five-year project. Continue reading »

One of the factors stressed by just about every professional in the fields of natural, alternative and traditional health care is the profound effects, both good and bad, of diet. A healthy and balanced diet is important to all aspects of natural health care, including disease prevention and treatment.
There are some important tips to incorporating a healthy diet into your alternative health program. Some of the most important are listed below.

• Eat a wide variety of simple, whole foods. It is important to eat foods in their natural, unprocessed state whenever possible.

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Indigenous communities treat a girl’s first menstruation as a joyous occasion to observe with great festivity. Your daughter would probably find such exuberance to be most embarrassing in this day and age, but treating it as a minimal parenting obligation of little consequence, is unwise as well.

Many health issues of adolescence and of the early adult years can be traced to poor management or even to neglect at menarche. All kids do not develop at the same pace, and boys typically reach puberty a good 5 years later than girls. It is healthy, in some respects, for kids to grow up together regardless of gender, but parenting should account for the biological fact that girls will become women while male siblings are still immature. Further, some girls will achieve menarche as early as at 11 years, while others have to wait for about 2 more years to come of reproductive age. Continue reading »

Modern women are aware of health issues and concerned about their wellbeing, but often don’t have room in their busy lives for dedicated exercise time or extra expense. These tips will improve health and reduce the risk of many diseases just by making small, easy and cheap lifestyle changes. Continue reading »