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8 Factors That Increase Your Risk of Developing Blood Clots

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By Dr. Helen Okoye, World Thrombosis Day Steering Committee

 

Blood clotting is necessary in our bodies as this stops the blood from uncontrolled flowing after a cut or injury; but it’s when blood clots are created when they’re not needed, that they can become life-threatening. A clot can slow or block normal blood flow, and even break loose and travel to an organ, which can cause a heart attack, stroke, or a venous thromboembolism which are the top three cardiovascular killers.

 

Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) occurs when a blood clot (thrombus) forms in one or more of the deep veins in your body, usually in your legs. Deep vein thrombosis can cause leg pain or swelling but also can occur with no symptoms.

 

More people succumb to the life-threatening conditions caused by thrombosis, the formation of a blood clot in blood vessels, than the total number of people who lose their lives to AIDS, breast cancer, and car crashes combined, every year.

This disquieting fact makes it clear just how important it is to ensure that we are all aware of the risk factors that play a role in the development of blood clots – especially as thrombosis is both preventable and treatable if you know the symptoms and contact a healthcare professional immediately if needed. Dr. Helen Okoye, of the World Thrombosis Day Steering Committee, provides insight into the eight factors that can help identify if you’re at risk for developing blood clots so you can prevent them:

  1. Getting older

Although any person of any age can develop a blood clot, the risk of thrombosis increases with age. Those over the age of 60 are at higher risk, likely due to the fact that you’re more likely to develop other health conditions that increase your risk of developing a blood clot.

  1. Gender

Thrombosis can impact anyone, no matter their age, background, or gender. However, the risks can vary for men and women. Men have an overall higher risk of thrombosis than women, but women have risks that men do not because of pregnancy, hormonal birth control, or even hormone therapy after menopause. It is therefore important to take this into account when making any choices regarding family planning, pregnancy, or the treatment of menopause symptoms.

  1. Post-Surgery Recovery

Being hospitalised is a major risk factor for the development of venous thromboembolism (VTE). This is due to the fact that one usually spends a lot of time in bed recovering. Limited movement may cause blood to flow much more slowly in your deep veins, and may lead to clotting. In fact, up to 60% of all VTE cases occur during or within 90 days of hospitalization

Patients who have had blood vessel trauma after surgery are even more at risk. Major general surgery, cardiothoracic surgery, orthopedic surgery, and neurosurgery are a few of the procedures that carry a higher risk of VTE development. It is also important to note that if you are obese or overweight, a smoker, have recently been diagnosed with DVT, are older, battling certain types of cancer, or have a history of DVT or other blood disorders, your chances of having DVT after surgery are increased.

  1. Smoking

Smoking can raise the risk of life-threatening blood clots as it damages the lining of blood vessels making it more likely for platelets to stick together at the damaged vessel lining and initiate the formation of clots. Even significant exposure to passive smoke can affect blood coagulation activity.

  1. Patients with Cancer

The risk of VTE is increased, and common, in patients with cancer due to cancer-specific factors such as type of cancer, and cancer treatment as well as surgery and hospitalization. Cancer patients are four times more likely to develop blood clots than the general population. Blood clotting can have serious consequences for cancer patients as there is higher risk of recurrent thrombosis, the risk of bleeding during anticoagulation and hospitalisation is increased, while survival time is decreased.

  1. A Family History of Blood Clots

You’re more likely to develop blood clots if you have family members who have had dangerous blood clots. This is because inherited causes of blood clots are linked to your genetics. People with a family history of life-threatening blood clots tend to develop thrombosis before the age of 45, although it is not very common. If you are aware of this pattern in your family, let your doctor know about it so they can make informed medical decisions any time you visit the hospital with an ailment. Knowing this also allows you to make the necessary lifestyle and dietary adjustments to avoid this problem.

  1. Being Overweight or Obese

Although being overweight or obese does not guarantee that you’ll develop thrombosis, weight can increase the risk of DVT as it puts greater pressure on the lower half of your body and increases pressure in the veins. Additionally, other negative effects of obesity such as chronic inflammation can be a major catalyst for thrombosis.

  1. Immobility

When your legs remain still for long periods of time it increases the risk of a blood clot as blood flow is hampered. Bedrest, hospital recovery, casts on legs, or even sitting for long periods of time while at work can result in a DVT which can cause pain. If part of the clot breaks off, it can also cause a pulmonary embolism which can be fatal.

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ACMPN Inducts New Members, Urges Nigerians to Seek Professionals on Mental Health Issues

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The Association for Counseling, Matchmaking, And Psychotherapy of Nigeria (ACMPN) has urged Nigerians to seek the services of professionals to help manage mental health issues.

 

The association made this known at the induction ceremony for its new members.

 

The induction was also part of its long week of activities from 9th to 14th May 2022 to commemorate the 2022 Mental Health Week with the theme “Loneliness”

 

Recall, that it had an awareness walk, press briefings, lectures, and symposiums. 

 

 

ACMPN President, Dr. Tolulope Oko-Igaire congratulates the inducted members to be good ambassadors of the association by discharging their duties professionally. 

 

 She urged Nigerians to patronise the engage only members of the association who have been certified as professionals.

 

Also, she stated that the association has evolved and it is trailing, the blaze in the field of Counseling, matchmaking, and psychotherapy.

 

“With continuous awareness and sensitization, we will take the helping profession to a more honourable and well-sanitized stage, where every Tom, dick and harry will not just be able able to wake up and automatically declare themselves professionals. Our dream is Nigeria and indeed in Africa where clients will request the ACMPN certificate soon the practitioner before trusting them with their issues.

 

“No one believed in us when we started, but look at us now, we are trailing, the blaze in the field of Counseling, matchmaking, and psychotherapy, and there is no better time to come on board than now, positioning yourself as a professional before the scrutinizing an ethical tsunami sweep away the unprofessional helpers. How do you are practicing professionally if you are not a member of an organization that provides information on the latest development and discoveries in your field of specialization, at a global level?

 

“The days of just waking up and deciding to call oneself a professional counselor, therapist, or matchmaker are over in Nigeria. I encourage everyone who wants to practice professionally to be part of this association in Nigeria, with us you are secured and you can raise your shoulder high, in the league of professional counselors, therapists, and matchmakers in Nigeria and globally. Don’t be a loner, just come on board,” she emphasized.

 

The newly inducted members include; Belema Osagie-Ighodaro, Okafor Theodora, Olufunmilayo Omowunmi Tella, Olamiju Olajumoke, Doris Epelle, 

Gbemisola P. Fabunmi, Oyekunle Esther Abiodun, and Muolokwu Uchechukwu Esther.

 

Earlier, Akin Adeoya, CEO, Marketing Mix & Co.and keynote speaker at the event who spoke on the theme “Loneliness” urged experts to attend events, and read books to help them upscale, stating that books are a fantastic way of getting out of loneliness. He added that loneliness is the state of mind.

 

 

ACMPN is established to identify, develop and maintain professional standards of excellence in counseling, matchmaking, and psychotherapy. Its work promotes best practice and the development of the profession as well as safeguards the public. It is also the link between those who are looking for services in the areas of counselling, matchmaking & psychotherapy and those who provide such professional services. In addition, it set and maintains practice and training standards, and provides a forum where members may exchange ideas, information, techniques, and methodologies.

 

Establishing itself apart from the rest as a multi-disciplined association, which specializes in holistic techniques, ACMPN’s membership also includes medical practitioners, psychologists, clinical social workers, coaches, stress consultants, NLP practitioners, clergy, educators, mental health therapists, and others in the helping, healing sector, as well as those providing matchmaking services, which is crucial for relationship health and wellbeing.

 

 

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ACMPN Chart Course For Healthy Living, Urges Nigerians to Visit Psychotherapist, Others

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By Mene Prosper

 

 

 

The Association for Counselling, Matchmaking, and Psychotherapy of Nigeria (ACMPN) has urged Nigerians to consult the services of a psychotherapist, mental health counsellors, and therapists, among others often in a bid to embrace healthy living, stay out of loneliness and other mental health issues.

 

 

The association in commemoration of the mental health awareness week with the theme “loneliness”, held a press conference at the Lekki Central Mosque on Friday 13th of May 2022 to sensitize Nigerians on the need to be more concerned about their mental health.

 

The press conference is part of the long week of activities in which visitation to the mosque and church is also part. After the press conference, the association embarked on an awareness walk starting from the mosque in a bid to sensitize the public on mental health.

 

Some of the members present are Dr. Tolulope Oko-Igaire, ACMPN president. Tosin Olusola, ACMPN secretary, Theodora Okafor, a professional mental health counsellor, and Sarah Agbelusi, a certified child and adolescent psychotherapist, amongst others.

 

According to Oko-Igaire, the association is non-governmental and non-profit-oriented. Its members are professionals who are passionate and dedicated to helping humanity.

 

The association’s aim and the objective is to restore excellence to the mental health profession by creating a platform where professional mental health counsellors, therapists, psychotherapists and matchmakers are easily accessible all year round by those who need their services at no cost. By so doing people will function optimally to the benefit of all.

 

The benefits are available to all both in the developed and undeveloped areas in Nigeria. As a result, sensitization exercises were not only held on the island but also in some areas on the mainland such as Ikorodu and Alagbado respectively.

 

L-R:President, Association for counseling Matchmaking and physiotherapy of Nigeria (ACMPN), Tolulope Oko- Igaire; Certified child and adolescent psychotherapist, Serah Agbelusi; Secretary, ACMPN, Tosin Olusola; and Professional mental health Counselor,Theodora Okafor, during 2022 International mental health awareness week in Lagos recently

She explained that contrary tothe belief that therapy is only meant for the weak and low self-esteemed people, “It is a misconception to think that people who go for therapy are of low self-esteem or weak. Rather it is only the strong-willed that admit they have problems because it takes strength to admit one has a problem.

 

In response to the gruesome killing of the Sokoto Christian student on the ground of blasphemy recently, she said.

 

“That is why we chose Lekki central mosque for our sensitization exercise. Our association is inter-religious because we have Muslims as members. One of our Muslim members, Hajia is currently heading the conference in the mosque. I felt really bad about that.

 

It is a problem of the mind. We need cognitive reconditioning as Africans. So for that, we are doing our bit to ensure everyone is mentally aware to act optimally for the good of all.”

 

ACMPN has differentiated itself and stands out from others by operating a multi-disciplined; inter-religious and service-free organisation saddened with the task of ensuring mental sanity amongst all.

 

ACMPN is established to identify, develop and maintain professional standards of excellence in counselling, matchmaking and psychotherapy. Its work promotes best practice and the development of the profession as well as safeguards the public. It is also the link between those who are looking for services in the areas of counselling, matchmaking & psychotherapy and those who provide such professional services. In addition, it set and maintains practice and training standards, and provides a forum where members may exchange ideas, information, techniques, and methodologies.

 

Establishing itself apart from the rest is a multi-disciplined association, which specializes in holistic techniques, ACMPN’s membership also includes medical practitioners, psychologists, clinical social workers, coaches, stress consultants, NLP practitioners, clergy, educators, mental health therapists, and others in the helping, healing sector, as well as those providing matchmaking services, which is crucial for relationship health and wellbeing.

 

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ACMPN Gears Up To Mark Mental Health Awareness Week

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The Association for Counseling and Psychotherapy of Nigeria (ACMPN) is set to host its annual Mental Health Awareness Week with press conference and a walk today, Friday 13th May at noon.

According to the association’s President, Dr. Tolulope Oko-Igaire, it would be celebrating the 2022  Mental Health Week with an awareness walk with the theme “Loneliness” slated to hold on Friday 13th May at noon. She added that the take-off location is the Central Mosque, Lekki Phase One, Lekki Lagos.

The week event commenced from 9th to 14th May 2022. It would induct new members to its association, and a Cocktail party would also be organised on 14th May 2022 at Civic Center by 10 am.

Other activities to commemorate the Mental Health Awareness Week include press briefings, lectures, and symposiums.

Mental Health Awareness Week is observed from the tenth to the sixteenth day of May in the United Kingdom and celebrated in the USA throughout May every year.

ACMPN is established to identify, develop and maintain professional standards of excellence in counselling, matchmaking and psychotherapy. Its work promotes best practice and the development of the profession as well as safeguards the public. It is also the link between those who are looking for services in the areas of counselling, matchmaking & psychotherapy and those who provide such professional services. In addition, it set and maintains practice and training standards, and provides a forum where members may exchange ideas, information, techniques, and methodologies.

Establishing itself apart from the rest as a multi-disciplined association, which specializes in holistic techniques, ACMPN’s membership also includes medical practitioners, psychologists, clinical social workers, coaches, stress consultants, NLP practitioners, clergy, educators, mental health therapists, and others in the helping, healing sector, as well as those providing matchmaking services, which is crucial for relationship health and wellbeing.

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Database Brings To Light Quality Of Care For Women And Their Babies In Nigeria

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Quality, standardized data on the health of women and girls who are pregnant or have recently given birth, and their babies, is crucial to inform the design of interventions to help to safeguard their lives and well-being.

Strong health systems, backed by an efficient health information system – informed by quality data – helps to ensure quality, respectful, safe and dignified health care for girls and women, as advocated by WHO guidelines.

In recognition of this, WHO, HRP and Federal Ministry of Health of Nigeria established the Nigeria Maternal and Perinatal Database for Quality, Equity and Dignity (MPD-4-QED) programme  – a standardized electronic platform for the collection of routine maternal and perinatal data, including mortality audit data, in health facilities which can be used for monitoring clinical care performance and quality improvement across Nigeria.

Launched by the then Honourable Minister of Health, Professor Isaac F. Adewole on the 25th of April, 2019 in Abuja, and funded by MSD for Mothers, the Quality, Equity and Dignity programme supported the establishment of the MPD-4-QED Project in 54 tertiary health facilities nationwide.

A new research paper, published recently in eClinicalMedicine, demonstrates the incredible  scale, depth and detail of the database. The results record the quality of care for 76,563 women and their babies admitted for birth or due to complications shortly after birth to tertiary hospitals in Nigeria.  Information on the quality of care for woman and their babies was collected for all women – from those who were healthy to those who faced  complications.  While the results show that there is room for improvement, the database provides insight into potential intervention strategies that could lead to progress for helping to ensure maternal and newborn survival.

More than showing mere numbers, the database and the research also brought to light important depth and detail in its findings. One such finding was the association between the risk of death for women and their babies when they lacked a companion of their choice during childbirth, and when the labour was not monitored  with appropriate tool.

An example of excellence

Beyond the findings, the success of implementing a nationwide programme to collect quality of care data on women and their babies across tertiary facilities in Nigeria is unprecedented.

“This database is an example of excellence. In terms of how it helps to improve and standardize data collection on the specific health outcomes and women and babies across Nigeria,” says Dr Olufemi Oladapo, Head of the Maternal and Perinatal Health Unit at WHO and HRP.

Many countries across the world, lack centralized, national databases dedicated to the health of women and their babies. In addition, some do not have effective registration systems for births and deaths, and data from across countries are often unavailable and not standardized. This means it can be difficult to combine, or aggregate, data to get a national picture of the health outcomes of girls and women.

The MPD-4-QED database, addresses precisely these issues, as the paper published demonstrates.

The national coordinator of the MPD-4-QED Programme, Professor Jamilu Tukur comments that, “As the findings show, the database was able to give a more accurate picture of quality of care received by women and their babies across an entire country. With the right funding, and when implemented in a similarly effective way, it could have great potential for use in countries across the world.”

Into the future

“We know that good quality data can help to save lives and improve health and well-being, so we expect that this database will really help to improve the quality of care that girls and women receive,” Dr Oladapo concludes, “We really want to ensure the database continues to grow, and to support the work of the Quality, Equity and Dignity programme.”

Indeed, WHO and HRP are working with the Nigeria Ministry of Health to sustain the project into the future, and there are now around 200,000 women recorded in the database.

 

 

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Women’s Health and Daily Routine

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BATHING:

Taking bath often has a health benefit to every woman. Always take a bath at least twice a day. This help to refresh body and often smells nice even without applying any body fragrance.

SHAVING:

Please always shave your pubic hairs neat, some married folks after few kids they stop taking care of themselves saying they are now married or old, there by allowing their pubic hairs. Pubic hairs attracts heat and heat causes odour so please help your self and shave .

DRESSING:

please learn to dress well and look neat and sexy. I don’t say dress indecently but at least look smart and sweet not tying wrapper like some old local lady, Some will even tie same wrapper for days without washing making the wrapper smell bad, Pls Wear nice skirts, tops, polo. Shorts, leggings if you wear trousers.

PANTS:

Yes you are married. But being married doesn’t give you the right to stop taking care of yourself. Panties are cheap, throw away the stain and old ones and wash and spread them privately. Doing this gives confidence.

FRAGRANCE:

Do you know that many married women don’t use perfumes or deodorants anymore ? for years you have never used perfume, body spray or deodorants for armpits.

Please try and get some nice perfumes, deodorants that you can afford and smell nice .

HAIR:

Women should always look after their hair, if you don’t have the Money to plait or weave often at least for it to be neat, it is advisable to go on a low cut and in fact you might even look more beautiful on a low cut.

All these mentioned above are very important to work on as women. As these things can promote longevity and happiness. Let people admires you with your appearances most especially your husbands.

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A Healthy Lifestyle Starts With A Balanced Diet: Get These 5 Food Items On Your Plate

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It is important to choose the right nutrients for the body to ensure a healthy lifestyle.

The key to a good and long life starts with what we eat. From a handpicked range of fruits, vegetables, nuts, and non-vegetarian options, such as fish and meat, the necessary nutrients for a balanced diet come through a lot of food items. It is important to choose the right nutrients for the body and lead the way to a healthy lifestyle. Packaged foods should be avoided and more focus should be laid on fresh food. Junk foods and oily food are to be avoided as they can harm the heart. But it also gets a little confusing on what to eat and what to avoid.

We have curated a list of the 5 must-haves for a daily diet so that the body is taken care of and the cravings of the taste buds are also attended to.

5 Foods To Add For A Healthy Lifestyle

1) Nuts

Nuts are a blessing in disguise. While they are great for a daily snack, the range of nuts also adds to the nutrients in the body. From proteins to carbohydrates, and magnesium, nuts contain a range of nutrients and provide multiple health benefits. Have nuts such as walnuts or peanuts daily. For you, we have a few recipes, too, where you can use nutsWhile these cashew nut cookies, which you can enjoy with your cup of tea, are full of protein, vitamins, and minerals, the nutritious Boasts of high fibre and is a great treat for diabetics.

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Nuts are loaded with nutrients

2) Berries

Berries are a healthy source of nutrients, such as vitamin C, fibre, and manganese. Blueberries are known for their antioxidant qualities while strawberries are very nutritious.

3) Eggs

Eggs are a huge source of protein for the body. They also contain folate that helps in hair growth. Eggs contain unsaturated fats, which are good for the heart, and a range of nutrients such as Vitamin B6, B12, and Vitamin D. Additionally, they are an absolute treat to relish.

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Eggs are an excellent source of protein

4) Meat

Meat, for non-vegetarians, offers huge nutrition. It contains iron that is good for the oxygen in the body, zinc to help in the growth and development of the structure of the body, Vitamin B12 to make the nervous system healthy and Omega-3 to keep the heart stronger.

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5) Green leafy vegetables

From spinach to kale, green leafy vegetables contain a high level of antioxidants that help in keeping the body healthy. It also provides Vitamin K to the diet, which prevents osteoporosis and strengthens the bone structure. In addition, green leafy vegetables also make any food tastier.

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Green leafy vegetables especially spinach should be a part of your diet

Add these food items to your diet and watch your body go through a healthy change.

Source: NDTV foods

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Age and Fertility in Women

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Fertility changes with age. Both males and females become fertile in their teens following puberty. For girls, the beginning of their reproductive years is marked by the onset of ovulation and menstruation.
It is commonly understood that after menopause women are no longer able to become pregnant. Generally, reproductive potential decreases as women get older, and fertility can be expected to end 5 to 10 years before menopause.
In today’s society, age-related infertility is becoming more common because, for a variety of reasons, many women wait until their 30s to begin their families. Even though women today are healthier and taking better care of themselves than ever before, improved health in later life does not offset the natural age-related decline in fertility.
It is important to understand that fertility declines as a woman ages due to the normal age-related decrease in the number of eggs that remain in her ovaries. This decline may take place much sooner than most women expect.
Ovulation and the Menstrual Cycle
During their reproductive years, women have regular monthly menstrual periods because they ovulate regularly each month. Eggs mature inside of fluid-filled spheres called “follicles.”
At the beginning of each menstrual cycle when a woman is having her period, a hormone produced in the pituitary gland, which is located in the brain, stimulates a group of follicles to grow more rapidly on both ovaries.
The pituitary hormone that stimulates the ovaries is called follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH). Normally, only one of those follicles will reach maturity and release an egg (ovulate); the remainder gradually will stop growing and degenerate.
Pregnancy results if the egg becomes fertilized and implants in the lining of the uterus (endometrium). If pregnancy does not occur, the endometrium is shed as the menstrual flow and the cycle begins again.
In their early teens, girls often have irregular ovulation resulting in irregular menstrual cycles, but by age 16 they should have established regular ovulation resulting in regular periods.
A woman’s cycles will remain regular, 26 to 35 days, until her late 30s to early 40s when she may notice that her cycles become shorter. As time passes, she will begin to skip ovulation resulting in missed periods.
Ultimately, periods become increasingly infrequent until they cease completely. When a woman has not had a menstrual period for 1 full year, she is said to be in menopause.
As women age, fertility declines due to normal, age-related changes that occur in the ovaries. Unlike men, who continue to produce sperm throughout their lives, a woman is born with all the egg-containing follicles in her ovaries that she will ever have.
At birth there are about one million follicles. By puberty that number will have dropped to about 300,000. Of the follicles remaining at puberty, only about 300 will be ovulated during the reproductive years.
The majority of follicles are not used up by ovulation, but through an ongoing gradual process of loss called atresia. Atresia is a degenerative process that occurs regardless of whether you are pregnant, have normal menstrual cycles, use birth control, or are undergoing infertility treatment. Smokers appear to experience menopause about 1 year earlier than non-smokers.
A woman’s best reproductive years are in her 20s. Fertility gradually declines in the 30s, particularly after age 35. Each month that she tries, a healthy, fertile 30-year-old woman has a 20% chance of getting pregnant.
That means that for every 100 fertile 30-year-old women trying to get pregnant in 1 cycle, 20 will be successful and the other 80 will have to try again. By age 40, a woman’s chance is less than 5% per cycle, so fewer than 5 out of every 100 women are expected to be successful each month.
Women do not remain fertile until menopause. The average age for menopause is 51, but most women become unable to have a successful pregnancy sometime in their mid-40s. These percentages are true for natural conception as well as conception using fertility treatment, including in vitro fertilization (IVF).
Although stories in the news media may lead women and their partners to believe that they will be to able use fertility treatments such as IVF to get pregnant, a woman’s age affects the success rates of infertility treatments.
The age-related loss of female fertility happens because both the quality and the quantity of eggs gradually decline.
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Tips Women needs to Living a Healthy Life

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Living a healthy lifestyle should be our major target to living long as a woman. Although women are prone to do so many works here and there. That is why it very important to take good care ones self.

Here are some health tips to be observed almost every time most especially during this period of time.

1. Copy your kitty:  Exercising is so paramount. Learn to do stretching exercises when you wake up. It boosts circulation and digestion, and eases back pain.

2. Don’t Skip Breakfast: Studies show that eating a proper breakfast is one of the most positive things you can do if you are trying to lose weight. Breakfast skippers tend to gain weight. A balanced breakfast includes fresh fruit or fruit juice, a high-fibre breakfast cereal, low-fat milk or yoghurt, whole-wheat toast, and a boiled egg.

3. Brush up on Hygiene: Many people don’t know how to brush their teeth properly. Improper brushing can cause as much damage to the teeth and gums as not brushing at all. Lots of people don’t brush for long enough, don’t floss and don’t see a dentist regularly. Hold your toothbrush in the same way that would hold a pencil, and brush for at least two minutes.
This includes brushing the teeth, the junction of the teeth and gums, the tongue and the roof of the mouth. And you don’t need a fancy, angled toothbrush – just a sturdy, soft-bristled one that you replace each month.

4. Bone Up Daily: Get your daily calcium by popping a tab, chugging milk or eating yoghurt. It’ll keep your bones strong. Remember that your bone density declines after the age of 30. You need at least 200 milligrams daily, which you should combine with magnesium, or it simply won’t be absorbed.

5. Berries for Your Belly: Blueberries, strawberries and raspberries contain plant nutrients known as anthocyanidins, which are powerful antioxidants. Blueberries rival grapes in concentrations of resveratrol – the antioxidant compound found in red wine that has assumed near mythological proportions. Resveratrol is believed to help protect against heart disease and cancer.

6. Laugh and Cry: This really sounds funny, but research says having a good sob is reputed to be good for you. So is laughter, which has been shown to help heal bodies, as well as broken hearts. Studies in Japan indicate that laughter boosts the immune system and helps the body shake off allergic reactions.

7.Save Steamy Scenes for the Bedroom: Showering or bathing in water that’s too hot will dry out your skin and cause it to age prematurely. Warm water is much better.
Apply moisturiser while your skin is still damp – it’ll be absorbed more easily. Adding a little olive oil to your bath with help keep your skin moisturized too.

8. Deep Heat: Sun rays can burn even through thick glass, and under water. Up to 35% of UVB rays and 85% of UVA rays penetrate thick glass, while 50% of UVB rays and 75% of UVA rays penetrate a meter of water and wet cotton clothing.

Which means you’ll need sunscreen while driving your car on holiday, and water resistant block if you’re swimming.

9. Fragrant Ageing: Stay away from perfumed or flavoured suntan lotions which smell of coconut oil or orange if you want your skin to stay young. These lotions contain psoralen, which speeds up the ageing process. Rather use a fake-tan lotion. Avoid sun beds, which are as bad as the sun itself.

10. Take a Deep Sleep: Taking a deep sleep is so much important in human’s life.  Rest heals the body and has been shown to lessen the risk of heart trouble and psychological problems.

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How Women’s Nutritional Needs Differs From Men’s

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As children, boys’ and girls’ dietary needs are largely similar. But when puberty begins, women start to develop unique nutritional requirements. And as we age and our bodies go through more physical and hormonal changes, so our nutritional needs continue to evolve, making it important that our diets evolve to meet these changing needs.
While women tend to need fewer calories than men, our requirements for certain vitamins and minerals are much higher.
Hormonal changes associated with menstruation, child-bearing, and menopause means that women have a higher risk of anemia, weakened bones, and osteoporosis, requiring a higher intake of nutrients such as iron, calcium, magnesium, vitamin D, and vitamin B9 (folate).
Why supplements aren’t enough
In the past, women have often tried to make up deficits in their diet through the use of vitamins and supplements.
However, while supplements can be a useful safeguard against occasional nutrient shortfalls, they can’t compensate for an unbalanced or unhealthy diet.
To ensure you get all the nutrients you need from the food you eat, try to aim for a diet rich in fruit, vegetables, quality protein, healthy fats, and low in processed, fried, and sugary foods.
Calcium for strong bones throughout life
Among other things, you need calcium to build healthy bones and teeth, keep them strong as you age, regulate the heart’s rhythm, and ensure your nervous system functions properly.
Calcium deficiency can lead to, or exacerbate, mood problems such as irritability, anxiety, depression, and sleep difficulties. If you don’t get enough calcium in your diet, your body will take calcium from your bones to ensure normal cell function, which can lead to weakened bones or osteoporosis.
Women are at a greater risk than men of developing osteoporosis, so it’s important to get plenty of calcium, in combination with magnesium and vitamin D, to support your bone health
The importance of exercise for bone health
In addition to diet, exercise and other lifestyle factors can also play an important role in bone health. Smoking and drinking too much alcohol can increase your chances of developing osteoporosis, while weight-bearing exercise (such as walking, dancing, yoga, or lifting weights) can lower your risk.
Strength or resistance training—using machines, free weights, elastic bands, or your own body weight—can be especially effective in helping to prevent loss of bone mass as you age.
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