Simply amazing:
It wasn’t easy for Madeleine Robb to send an e-mail to another mom warning that her baby might have a deadly form of eye cancer. But she’s glad she did it — and so is the mother of 1-year-old Rowan Santos.
“I didn’t want to scare her,” Robb told TODAY co-host Meredith Vieira from London on Thursday. “But then I weighed out the options. If something wasn’t wrong, then no real harm was done. If something was wrong, I really had no option, so obviously I had to tell her.”
Just hours after reading the e-mail, Megan Santos of Riverview, Fla., learned from a doctor that Rowan has a potentially deadly form of childhood cancer called retinoblastoma.
Three big dangers your doctor may not talk about and how to stay safe.
Your doctor has given you the lowdown on how to protect yourself against breast, colon, and lung cancer: Get yearly mammograms (check) and regular colonoscopies (check), and don’t smoke (double check).
But when was the last time she asked if you had any persistent mouth sores, unexplained fevers or joint pain, or discomfort during sex? These can be symptoms of three cancers—oral, leukemia, and endometrial—that don’t get the attention they deserve. Even though they are among the most common cancers affecting women over age 55, these diseases can fall through the cracks as doctors focus on the biggest killers hogging the health headlines, says Elmer Huerta, M.D., president of the American Cancer Society.
Read more for the facts behind these quiet dangers—and the simple ways you can protect yourself.
1- Oral Cancer
2- Leukemia
3- Endometrial (Uterine) Cancer
Read about these quite cancers
According to Laura Flynn McCarthy
Had a summer of too much sun and not enough sunscreen? It’s probably time to make a trip to the dermatologist’s office for a skin cancer screening. The good news is, the experience probably won’t be as painful as you’re expecting.
1- Scent - Read about it
2- Light - Read about it
3- MelaFind - Read about it
4- Tape Stripping - Read about it
5- High Resolution Ultrasound - Read about it
6- Confocal Microscopy - Read about it
According to Allison Van Dusen
Hopefully your yoga classes don’t turn out this way:
Every week Americans head to the grocery store knowing what should fill their carts–fruits, vegetables and unprocessed foods packed with whole grains.
Yet many end up walking out with bags full of sugary cookies, a couple of frozen meat lovers’ pizzas and liters of soda.
This happens most in the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington metro area, where shoppers spend 11.47% of their yearly grocery bill on unhealthy items (the national average is 8.5%). In second-place Richmond, Va., that number drops slightly, to 11.45%, and in Indianapolis and Carmel, Ind., No. 3 on our list, unhealthy items eat up 11.33% of a typical grocery shopper’s bill.
Chicago-Naperville-Joliet and the Charlotte-Gastonia-Concord region in North and South Carolina round out the top five.
According to AFP:
PARIS (AFP) — Contraceptive pills taken by tens of millions of women around the world can disrupt the innate ability to sniff out a genetically compatible partner, a study released Wednesday has found.
Normally women are instinctively attracted, via their sense of smell, to men who have a dissimilar genetic makeup.
Overly similar gene profiles can result in difficulty trying to conceive a child, an increased risk of miscarriage and a weaker immune system, earlier research has shown.
A group of about 140 genes in an area called the Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) — which helps build proteins involved in the body’s immune response — also plays a key role in odour through interaction with skin bacteria.
How these genes are expressed can help determine which individuals, unknowingly following their nose, find us attractive.
A team led by Craig Roberts at the University of Newcastle, England, conducted an experiment to find out if taking the pill influences odour preferences.
It may, in fact, be possible to outrun death—and even the creeping ravages of time—at least for a while.Research spanning two decades has found that older runners live longer and suffer fewer disabilities than healthy non-runners.
And the findings probably apply to a variety of aerobic exercises, including walking, said the study authors, from Stanford University School of Medicine, whose findings are published in the Aug. 11 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine. Read more…
According to Amanda Gardner
Is it possible to be fat and healthy? Two major new studies published this week in Archives of Internal Medicine suggest the answer is “maybe,” depending on where the fat lurks in your body. In normal and overweight people, those with belly fat are at greater risk of heart disease and diabetes than those with extra padding in the buttocks or thighs.But for the obese, the ultra-high-risk spot may be fat accumulation in the liver. Read more…
You can’t change most things that increase your odds of getting breast cancer. But building the following five priorities into your life may cut your risk—or make it more likely you’ll find cancer early, when it’s more easily treated.
1. Limit yourself to two or three alcoholic drinks a week.
2. Exercise at least three times a week (more often is better).
3. Maintain your body weight, or lose weight if you’re overweight.
4. Do a monthly self breast self-exam.
5. Have a mammogram once a year after 40.
According to Lorie Parch
Q: Are some foods better than others for healthy skin?
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A healthy diet can help promote healthy skin. In particular, antioxidant-rich foods seem to have a protective effect for the skin.
Good-for-skin foods include:
According to www.MayoClinic.com