| Ageing gracefully the healthy way
HEALTHY LIVING: Women face dozens of questions on their reproductive life, healthy ageing and endocrinology changes. Today we touch upon several health related problems that worry you. A detailed discussion on each problem will be brought to you from next week. Here's an opportunity to find everything you always wanted to know with the right medical advice. .
Guide offers insight into sex
With names like “the horizontal tango," “knockin' boots," “the nasty" or just plain ol' “gettin' some," it's difficult to think that sex is nothing more than a walk in the park. Sure, it seems like all you need is two people to have sex and that's it. But really, only in a perfect world would sex be so carefree, like a fairy tale behind closed doors. For all we know, Prince Eric gave Ariel crabs. That's why Amber Madison, a 22-year-old graduate of Tufts University, wrote a book aimed to educate women about the more technical side of sex. “Hooking Up: A Girl's All-Out Guide to Sex and Sexuality" points out that, pleasure aside, sex also deals with the worries of STDs, using protection and contraception, pregnancy and choosing the right partner with whom to share all these concerns. “I feel so strongly about not telling girls what to do, because that's not my place," Madison said in a telephone interview.
Back problems are second only to colds and flu as
Back problems are second only to colds and flu as the most common reason why people go to their doctors, according to the American College of Rheumatology. The National Institutes of Health report that back pain will affect nearly 90 percent of Americans in their lives - most for the first time in their 30s. The most common pain occurs in the lower back and disables 5.4 million Americans and costs at least $90 billion in medical and nonmedical expenses (such as loss of work and worker's compensation claims) every year. Maddeningly, most back pain has no specific cause, according to the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons. Furthermore, comparative research has shown that people with no pain or symptoms often have the same amount of pathology in their spines as do those with symptoms.
|
