| Early Signs Of Pregnancy - Sign 2
Feeling tired all of a sudden? No, make that exhausted. No one knows for sure what causes early pregnancy fatigue, but it's possible that rapidly increasing levels of the hormone progesterone are contributing to your sleepiness.
You should start to feel more energetic once you hit your second trimester, although fatigue usually returns late in pregnancy when you're carrying around a lot more weight and some of the common discomforts of pregnancy make it more difficult to get a good night's sleep.
Cancer death rates still declining
The death rate from most forms of cancer has continued a decline begun in the early 1990s, driven in large part by decreases in lung cancer in men, according to an annual national cancer report released Wednesday. Between 1993 and 2003, deaths from cancer dropped about 16 percent in men and 8 percent in women, the study found. Deaths from lung cancer declined about 15 percent in men. The Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer also found recent increases in breast cancer appear to have leveled off, but scientists say it's too soon to call that a trend. They also uncovered a surprising jump in thyroid cancer. "The bottom line is we are making progress," said Ahmedin Jemal, program director for cancer occurrence at the American Cancer Society.
The role of diet and lifestyle changes in the management of constipation
More than three million people in the UK suffer from constipation once a month or more (DFIB, 2004), and as many as one in five people experience the symptoms of constipation at some time in their lives (MeReC, 1999).
The new-born baby, the young child, the teenager, mothers and fathers, the elderly, the business executive, the civil servant, the postman, the farm labourer, the poor, the affluent. No-one is exempt from the risk of constipation and the stigma with which it is associated.
Constipation mostly affects children and older people, with more women than men presenting with symptoms. One in 200 women have severe, continuous constipation and it is most common before a period and in pregnancy (NHS Direct, 2006).
Many people accept the consequences of constipation, refusing to believe there is anything that can be done about it.
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