If you’ve been sedentary for an extended period of time, first get approval from your doctor before starting any exercise programme. Your physician is in the best position to suggest the type of activity best for you, its intensity and duration, beginning at an easy level. A vigorous workout for someone else could be hazardous [...]
This disorder (after the Greek ‘anorexis’, without longing, without appetite) is dieting to the point of self-starvation, with an obsessive desire to be ultra thin, because of peer pressure among young women or the power of advertising. A girl with this condition can literally waste away to death. It is not well known in countries [...]
Scene: Any busy high street.
A frail, bent old woman totters along slowly with a cane.
Is she your mother? Your older sister?
Or is it you in ten – twenty – thirty years?
Genetically, our bodies have changed little in 40,000 years, and maybe women’s bodies were not meant to endure beyond their reproductive period. With increasing longevity, [...]
A good ratio of calcium to phosphorus is about one-to-one. Better yet, would be a calcium-phosphorus relationship of two-to-one, since there is generally an overabundance of phosphorus in today’s foods and your body absorbs it more easily than calcium.
Although phosphorus is an essential mineral found in every cell and involved in metabolism, a major component [...]
With women playing a larger role today in positions of greater responsibility and decision-making in business, or in stressful situations managing a home (perhaps without a spouse), their systems can react with problems of indigestion or ulcers. The D.H.S.S. estimates for 1987 that the ingredients for prescription antacids cost ?20.9 million, with millions more spent [...]