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Hair Loss: one of the most confounding conditions men and women have ever struggled with. People consider their hair as kings consider their crown; an important part of one's identity, an important part of one's self. Hair and hair loss are often considered as indicators of one's youth. That is...

• Date Added: 6/4/2006
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Menopause can go one of two ways. It can be a miserable experience characterized by aggravating menopause symptoms. Or, it can be a pain-free transition that's barely noticeable. In fact, choosing the right menopause supplement can make all the difference. nutraOrigin, makers of high quality...

• Date Added: 7/13/2006
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Once dismissed as something that was just in our heads, premenstrual syndrome is finally acknowledged as a real disorder. PMS affects women in different ways – making us edgy, emotional, crampy or bloated. Other symptoms include breast tenderness, headaches, backaches, impaired concentration and...

• Date Added: 7/13/2006
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Here's a test: define metabolism. Go ahead, what is it? If you said it's how fast you burn calories, you're partially right. Your metabolic rate does determine the number of calories your body burns. But your metabolism governs more than just your metabolic rate. It also keeps everything in...

• Date Added: 7/21/2006
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More women fear breast cancer than any other disease. Yet cardiovascular disease (CVD) claims over ten times as many women's lives as breast cancer. In fact, CVD is the nation's leading cause of death for both men and women. That's the bad news. The good news is that CVD is almost entirely...

• Date Added: 7/30/2006
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If celebrities know one thing, it is how to stay beautiful.  Just imagine the pressure they must be under to always look their best.  In the case of the A-list actors and actresses, they can barely leave their homes without being photographed.  Those photos end up on the covers of every magazine...

• Date Added: 3/30/2006
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One day an alarm starts to blare in your head. It says, "Wait a minute! This isn't the life I planned. Is that all there is?" You hit "snooze" on that annoying wake-up buzzer again and again but it goes off at so many times:

your body has betrayed you with strange new ailments,
your...

• Date Added: 4/27/2007
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Unexpected guests can add a frustrating glitch to any wedding, but what if the bride and extra individual are sharing the same seat? Back in the dark ages, expectant brides hid their pregnancies and opted for small civil ceremonies so as not to "reveal their condition." Shed some light on your...

• Date Added: 3/19/2007
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We all know that when a bride to be has already spent practically twenty years planning her wedding before she even knows who the groom is, the image that she dreams of is how she will look on her wedding day. Every little detail counts and is carefully pondered upon before making the all...

• Date Added: 7/3/2006
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Finding the perfect dress you have always dreamed about is one of the most fun and important tasks a bride will endeavor. Finding the perfect bridal jewelry for the bride to accessorize with that dress is also fun and essential to completing your look.

So now you have the dress, let's...

• Date Added: 5/9/2006
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Selecting the most beautiful bridal jewelry to match your dream wedding gown is so important to finishing off your bridal look. Most brides wear their bridal jewelry for the wedding day only and then store it in a jewelry box or chest, never to be worn again.

Wearing your bridal jewelry...

• Date Added: 7/7/2006
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For any woman that has suffered the horrible effects of menopause, there is some welcome news on the horizon. In the popular press, there has been a lot of talk about the potential of soy as a treatment for the effects of menopause. While some studies have suggested that soy is not the...

• Date Added: 6/9/2006
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Menopause is a natural occurrence for women and it is something which every woman will face at some point in her life. Fortunately, studies have been done in order to provide herbal treatments and remedies for women going through this stage. Herbal remedies, as controversial as they are, can...

• Date Added: 7/22/2005
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As baby boomers move into midlife, a woman's menopause does not have quite the alarming effect that it did some years ago. However, it remains a time of change in her life, as the ovaries start shutting down causing hormones to fluctuate. When this occurs, her childbearing years come to an end. A...

• Date Added: 8/5/2005
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An asthma patient has particularly sensitive air passages, or airways, resulting in difficult breathing for the patient when these air passages are irritated from an introduced substance or atmospheric change.

Asthma medications frequently need to be reviewed by a patient's physician in...

• Date Added: 1/11/2006
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The health of Indian women is intrinsically linked to their status in society. The Indian constitution grants women equal rights with men, but strong patriarchal traditions persist, with women's lives shaped by customs that are centuries old. The fact that the typical female advantage in life...

• Date Added: 12/4/2006
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Depo Medroxyprogesterone Acetate (DMPA) is one of the most widely researched and documented safe and reliable means of contraception. DMPA is 99.7% effective and lasts up to three months, making it a viable alternative to oral contraception and IUDs. Long-acting injectable contraceptives such as...

• Date Added: 6/28/2006
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http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/3101505.html Review of "The Impact of Menstrual Side Effects on Contraceptive Discontinuation: Findings from a Longitudinal Study In Cairo, Egypt." Published in: International Family Planning...

• Date Added: 6/30/2006
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Everybody longs for that healthy glow, for sparkling eyes and shiny hair that bounces with every step. Millions of dollars are spent every year in beauty products to make skin that much clearer, wrinkles that less visible and lips pout that much more. And while there are cosmetics that do work,...

• Date Added: 11/13/2005
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We all need to get back our sanity, our needs to recoup from life of work, children, hubby whatever so here is an idea that I came up with. Recouping after a hard week of just everything how about having a day at the spa? We need take time off for ourself's something we women seldom do - We take...

• Date Added: 8/5/2005
• Views: 722