Our women’s health category is dedicated to providing you with information on all aspects of women’s health including studies, fitness trends, nutrition news and more. Everything you need to know to keep up to date on women’s health issues can be found here.
A new study from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is telling older women that all of that vitamin D and calcium supplements they’ve been taking in order to strengthen their bones, lessen pain from bone-weakening osteoporosis, and prevent broken bones isn’t doing much good. In fact, findings from the study based on two reviews […]
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It seems that more and more North American women are overweight or obese before and throughout their pregnancies. This might not mean much on its own accord. However, a recent study from the Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism says that if mom is overweight before and during pregnancy; the chances of delivering a heavier baby […]
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Given that a fifth of the American population suffers from one form of allergy or another, it’s important to know what the most common allergens are in the U.S…
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The latest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual has been released with a fancy new psychiatric label that could very well deem millions of healthy Americans as “mentally ill”. The new disorder, Somatic Symptom Disorder, was added to the widely used resource tomb by the American Psychiatric Association. The disorder apparently exists if a […]
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A report published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that even though more American women are taking the morning-after pill, it is not replacing conventional birth control methods for the majority of women. With approximately 11 percent of sexually active women (about 5.8 million) admitting to taking the pill between 2006 and […]
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