0 Multivitamins with minerals may protect older women with invasive breast cancer

Findings from a study involving thousands of postmenopausal women suggest that women who develop invasive breast cancer may benefit from taking supplements containing both multivitamins and minerals. The new research, published today in Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, found that the risk of dying from invasive breast cancer was 30 percent lower among multivitamin/mineral users compared with nonusers.

"Our study offers tentative but intriguing evidence that multivitamin/mineral supplements may help older women who develop invasive breast cancer survive their disease," said Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller, Ph.D., lead author of the study and distinguished university professor emerita of epidemiology and population health at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University.

Multivitamin/mineral supplements are the most commonly consumed dietary supplements among U.S. adults. They usually contain 20-30 vitamins and minerals, often at levels of 100 percent of U.S. Recommended Dietary Allowances or less, and the usual label recommendation is to take them daily.

The research was conducted as part of the Womens Health Initiative Clinical Trials and the Womens Health Initiative (WHI) Observational Study. Combined, the two studies include data from 161,608 postmenopausal women ages 50 to 79 when they first joined the study. These women were enrolled at 40 clinical centers throughout the United States during the years 1993-1998.

The current study focused on 7,728 participants who were diagnosed with invasive breast cancer during the WHI and were followed for an average of seven years after their diagnosis. Invasive breast cancer is defined as cancer that has spread outside the membrane of the milk glands or ducts and into the breast tissue. Two common types of invasive breast cancer are invasive ductal carcinoma and infiltrating lobular carcinoma.

After enrolling in the WHI and during repeated follow-up visits, all participants provided extensive information about their health including whether or not they had taken a multivitamin/mineral supplement at least once a week during the prior two weeks.

About 38percent of the 7,728 women who developed invasive breast cancer during the WHI were using the supplements. The vast majority were taking the supplements before their breast-cancer diagnosis. A comparison of mortality rates revealed that women with invasive breast cancer who took multivitamin/mineral supplements were 30 percent less likely to die from their cancers than women with invasive breast cancer who hadnt taken the supplements.

Could differences between the multivitamin/mineral users and nonusers account for this finding? The researchers looked at many possible confounding factors including additional supplements that the women took, their smoking status, education, race/ethnicity, weight, depression, alcohol use, physical activity, age at breast cancer diagnosis, and diabetes. The association between regular use of multivitamin/mineral supplements and reduced risk of death persisted even after these factors were taken into account.

"Controlling for these other factors strengthens our confidence that the association we observed – between taking multivitamin/mineral supplements and lowering breast-cancer mortality risk among postmenopausal women with invasive breast cancer – is a real one," said Dr. Wassertheil-Smoller, who also holds the Dorothy and William Manealoff Foundation and Molly Rosen Chair in Social Medicine Emerita. "But further studies are needed to confirm whether there truly is a cause-and-effect relationship here. And our findings certainly cannot be generalized to premenopausal women diagnosed with invasive cancer or to other populations of women."

0 Resveratrol falls short in health benefits for healthy women

Resveratrol, an ingredient in red wine thought to improve insulin sensitivity, reduce risk of heart disease and increase longevity, does not appear to offer these benefits in healthy women, new research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis indicates.

The study, reported online Oct. 25 in Cell Metabolism, involved 29 post-menopausal women who did not have type 2 diabetes and who were reasonably healthy. For 12 weeks, half took an over-the-counter resveratrol supplement, and the rest got a placebo, or sugar pill.

"Resveratrol supplements have become popular because studies in cell systems and rodents show that resveratrol can improve metabolic function and prevent or reverse certain health problems like diabetes, heart disease and even cancer," says senior investigator Samuel Klein, MD, director of Washington Universitys Center for Human Nutrition. "But our data demonstrate that resveratrol supplementation does not have metabolic benefits in relatively healthy, middle-aged women."

The results were somewhat surprising because earlier studies suggested that drinking red wine lowers the risk of health problems.

"Few studies have evaluated the effects of resveratrol in people," Klein explains. "Those studies were conducted in people with diabetes, older adults with impaired glucose tolerance or obese people who had more metabolic problems than the women we studied. So it is possible that resveratrol could have beneficial effects in people who are more metabolically abnormal than the subjects who participated in the study."

Klein, the Danforth Professor of Medicine and Nutritional Science, directs the Division of Geriatrics and Nutritional Science and the Center for Applied Research Sciences. He says many people who have heard about red wines health benefits want to take resveratrol supplements to get the benefits of red wine without consuming large amounts of alcohol. In recent years, annual U.S. sales of resveratrol supplements have risen to $30 million.

As part of the study, Klein and his colleagues gave 15 post-menopausal women 75 milligrams of resveratrol daily, the same amount theyd get from drinking 8 liters of red wine, and compared their insulin sensitivity to 14 others who took a placebo.

The team measured the womens sensitivity to insulin and the rate of glucose uptake in their muscles, infusing insulin into their bodies and measuring their metabolic response to different doses.

"Its the most sensitive approach we have for evaluating insulin action in people," he says. "And we were unable to detect any effect of resveratrol. In addition, we took small samples of muscle and fat tissue from these women to look for possible effects of resveratrol in the bodys cells, and again, we could not find any changes in the signaling pathways involved in metabolism."

But if resveratrol doesnt have a health benefit, then why are red wine drinkers less likely to develop heart disease and diabetes? Klein says there may be something else in red wine that provides the benefit.

"The purpose of our study was not to identify the active ingredient in red wine that improves health but to determine whether supplementation with resveratrol has independent, metabolic effects in relatively healthy people," he says. "We were unable to detect a metabolic benefit of resveratrol supplementation in our study population, but this does not preclude the possibility that resveratrol could have a synergistic effect when combined with other compounds in red wine."

0 Excess Calcium Doubles the Risk of Cardiovascular Death in Women

Cardiovascular disease continues to rank as the leading cause of death among men and women in western cultures. Many lifestyle factors, including processed food diet, lack of physical activity and daily stress contribute to this largely preventable disease and cause of early death. While there are many natural compounds and nutrients that help to help lower the risk of developing heart disease, taking supplemental calcium to prevent bone loss and osteoarthritis is now shown to be a significant factor that promotes the development of cardiovascular disease and advancing mortality, especially in women.

Excess Calcium Intake Disrupts Homeostatic Balance to Double Heart Disease Risk in Women

A research team from Uppsala University in Sweden has published the results of a study in the British Medical Journal that explains how high intakes of calcium (corresponding to diet and supplements) in women are associated with a higher risk of death from all causes, but cardiovascular disease in particular, compared with women with lower calcium intake. For decades, women have been advised to supplement with a daily course of calcium ranging from 1,000 to 1,500 mg to prevent bone loss. This study demonstrates how that advice may be a leading cause for the development of heart disease and early death.

Researchers studied 61,443 Swedish women over an average period of 19 years to test the association between heart disease risk and calcium intake. Data was gathered on total calcium received from both dietary and supplemental sources. The team grouped the women from the lowest mean calcium intake of 572 mg/day to the highest (2,137 mg/day). The scientist factored in lifestyle data including menopausal status, postmenopausal estrogen therapy, weight and height, smoking habits, leisure-time physical activity and educational level to help parse the results.

Women Need to Closely Monitor Calcium Intake from Food and Supplements to Lower Heart Disease Risk

Over the course of the study, 11,944 women, or 17 percent died. The team determined that 3,862 died from cardiovascular disease, 1,932 from heart disease and 1,100 from stroke. The study did not further differentiate specific diagnoses between cardiovascular disease and heart disease. The highest rates of death from all heart disease related causes were associated with a daily calcium intake higher than 1,400 mg/day or lower than 600 mg/day. Women in the top quartile that took a daily calcium supplement were found to be twice as likely to die when compared to those in the ideal range of 600 to 999 mg/day.

The researchers concluded that either high or low calcium intake can override normal homeostatic control causing changes in blood levels of calcium. Although not mentioned in this study, past work has also found that vitamin K is necessary to move excess calcium from the blood into the bones and teeth. Without this critical nutrient, calcium remains in circulation where it is easily bound with oxidized LDL cholesterol to form deadly arterial plaque. Individuals consuming a healthy diet rich in vegetables, nuts seeds and fruits should receive sufficient calcium from diet and naturally benefit from a reduced risk of cardiovascular disease, without the need for supplementation.

0 Extreme and easy weight loss techniques for women

Extreme and easy weight loss techniques for women - There are hundreds and thousands of techniques for extra weight loss and becoming slim. A typical women is less inclined to heavy physical exercises or follow  traditional methods of weight loss. Theore, we suggest easy weight loss techniques for women who intent to follow the less physical methods. But, at the same time there are women who are serious about their looks and keep on working and adopting all strenuous physical methods for weight loss.  Easy techniques are prescribed for women are busy all day long or engaged in a job all the time and rarely find any time to exercise religiously. These includes techniques that are as followed

• Food that helps in burning fat – Honey and egg plays the role of burning fat of 60 to 70 calories  . Ricotta cheese helps to burn around 40 to 45 calories. Dark chocolate burns around 125 to 150 calories. Shrimp reduces 60 calories after consumption.
• Drinking water should not be considered as an alternative to juices or cold drinks. There should be maximum emphasize on drinking 8 glasses of water  or 2 litres of water per day.
• Noting down food intake on daily basis helps to check extra food intake and controlled fat gain.
• Should always long for walking up and down the staircase and take effort to walk on the street as much as possible every day.
• Should take five or six meals per day than two to three large meals per day. This helps to take less calorie even in consuming same amount of food.
• There should be 45 minutes walk every day to ensure atleast 300 calories fat burning.
• Interaction with a weight loss friend keeps your adrenalin and motivation for the effort.
• Women wearing girdles find it more easy to loose weight as it holds tight across abdomen and flatten it by distributing the fat. These girdles also work as a belly band after pregnancy for women after child delivery.  This works for both caesarean and women without c-section.

We will also discuss about extreme techniques for women who want to look slim and ready to work religiously and go the extra mile for weight loss in short time. Some of the extraneous techniques are as follows

• Smoking habit sometimes work wonders with weight loss. It kills the appetite for eating food and thus fats. Though it has side effects which cannot be recommended to follow. But, a good excuse for smokers
• Fasting 3 days a week with water also helps a lot in loosing weight. But, no alternate day fasting to be followed as because it harms metabolism of the body. There are chances of loosing atleast 0.5 to 1 kg body weight per day initially. It has its dark side for using the technique like it creates fatigue, loss in energy, headache etc.
• Diet pills helps in killing appetite for food and thus loose weight. These drugs are herbal in nature ,but, has extreme side effects.

Corset weight loss is indeed the best technique for the working women out of all the suggested easy and extreme techniques of reducing weight in a short span. Even the best girdle will start showing results in 4 weeks time.

0 Pregnant Women Have Ability to Determine Time of Birth

Pregnant Women | New Haven, Connecticut, For children born on a nice date or certain days that are considered good, pregnant women usually opt for caesarean. But according to research, most expectant mothers have the ability to delay or accelerate the normal birth.

The ability to control the time of birth as shown by the data on mothers giving birth in the United States. Although without the aid of a cesarean section, birth rates on certain dates that are considered either likely to remain elevated.

Research conducted by scientists from Yale University revealed, the number of vaginal birth on Valentines Day (February 14) increased 3.6 percent from an average weekday. Conversely on Halloween Day (October 31), the number of normal births fell 5.3 percent.

During this time, vaginal birth is considered as a process that is spontaneous and can not be planned, so if you want his son was born on a certain date then the solution is a cesarean section. However, these data suggest that vaginal birth is not really spontaneous.

"It seems that pregnant women can accelerate or delay the spontaneous birth, with a very limited time span of course, in response to cultural representation,"

For comparison, the increase in births by caesarean section rate is always increasing, on Valentines Day rose 12.1 percent. Similarly, on Halloween Day, the number of births by caesarean section are also down about 16.9 percent.

The study, published in the Journal of Social Science and Medicine, conducted through long-term observation for 11 years. Number of birth certificates that were observed in this study quite a lot, approximately 1.8 mill

0 Beauty Tips For Busy Women

There are many ways to create and maintain beautiful and healthy skin. But many of us do not have enough time to do so, especially when working a full day with activities. Thus, it does not mean you can not do your beauty treatments.

Begin taking a little time to do the simple beauty treatments without having to disrupt your activities. Surely we still want to look beautiful and charming (especially women).

The following simple beauty tips for beauty care and skin health for busy women.

1. Wash your face twice a day morning and afternoon, no matter how tired you are. make sure to use a facial cleanser instead adapted to the type of skin with soap body. Use a skin moisturizer, because it is very good for the skin soft and young looking.

2. Know your skin type because it is very important in choosing beauty products, to avoid mistakes in choosing a product that will actually make the skin more damaged.

3. Use sunscreen to protect the skin from UV rays whilst under the sun. UV rays can cause skin spots and wrinkles on the face.

4. Facial better to keep your skin beautiful and healthy. facials do not need to be done every day, you can do it once a month, customized with your spare time.

5. Another important thing to make the skin moisture, drink 8 glasses of water per day. Include also the intake of vitamins and minerals from vegetables and fruits are good for the skin.

With proper beauty treatment to help hide flaws and enhance your beauty assets. Without the need for a lot of time, effort and money you are able to show how beautiful you are. 

0 Heart Attack Symptoms in Women

Heart Attack Symptoms in Women - In Indonesia, heart disease still the leading cause of death among men. But, that does not mean women can not be affected by this disease. There are several symptoms which mark the most common occurrence of heart attacks like tightness in the chest, pain, and dizziness. However, the question is, whether the symptoms of a heart attack in men and women equal? The answer, no!

Dr. Larry Weinrauch said, in essence, very little pre-menopausal women who have heart attacks. Except, if they are smoking, diabetes, or taking birth control pills for long period of time. However, he continued, smoking is still the biggest risk factors related to heart attacks in women.

The following are Heart Attack Symptoms will be the emergence of a heart attack in women, as described by Weinrauch:

• Nausea and vomiting that will not stop
• Shortness of breath (but do not sigh) or especially if you wake up at night
• Chest inconveniences which starts from the back of the sternum and radiating to the shoulder or arm, neck, jaw.
• Discomfort in the lower jaw
• Discomfort in the upper back, especially if it occurs only with the power or will not go
• Discomfort in the chest or back that occurs when you eat a lot
• All of a sudden heart beats very fast along with the pulse
• All of a sudden loss of consciousness
• Physical unable to do normal housework

So, who are most at risk of experiencing these symptoms? The point is, the more risk factors you have, the greater your risk of getting heart attacks, such as:

• Stop Menstrual
• Smoking
• Family history of heart disease before age 60 years
• High blood pressure (hypertension)
• Diabetes
• Obesity
• High Cholesterol

0 Makeup Tips for Women with Glasses

Makeup Tips for Women with Glasses

Who says women cannot be wearing glasses look beautiful with makeup? With certain tricks, bespectacled woman can look pretty and charming too! Want to know how? This article will tell you about makeup tips for women with glasses.

Consider the three expert beauty advice :

1. Clint Fernandes

For women who wear glasses, which should be highlighted is the lips.Dont hesitate to use a lipstick color that attracts attention, but still adjust the makeup and skin tone. Use thick eyeliner, but its better not to use mascara.

Excessive mascara can contaminate glasses if lashes are too long. So is the use of eye shadow, do not get past the glasses. 

Dont use too much blush on, because the possibility can scrape the rim glasses and making a mess. Also, remember to keep hair from the face, so as not to look messy.

2. Marvie Beck

I always use colored pencils for the eyes. Women who use glasses can try a variety of colors for eyeliner. In addition, using mascara on the top and bottom of the eyes can also make a woman look sexy.

Use mascara only on the upper lashes. Use eye shadow minimalist because it would look bigger with glasses.  

3. Kapil Bhalla

When using the glasses, eye makeup should be strengthened. Use black or brown eyeliner. Choosing frames is also important if you want to beautify the face. Style smoky eyes would be very suitable for use by people who wear glasses.

That makeup tips forwomen with glasses provided by the experts to beautify your face while wearing glasses. Good luck!