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Help for Pregnant Moms with Diabetes
Women
Written by National Institutes of Health   

Treating Mild Gestational Diabetes Reduces Birth Complications
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Treating pregnant women who have even the mildest form of gestational diabetes can reduce the risk of problems among both infants and mothers, according to a new study.

Gestational diabetes is diabetes that arises for the first time during pregnancy. It affects from 1 to 14% of all U.S. pregnancies. Although it usually goes away soon after the baby is born, it leaves the mother with a higher risk for developing diabetes later in life. Uncontrolled, gestational diabetes can lead to high blood pressure and make it more likely the baby will be large and have a difficult delivery. The baby could also be born with low blood glucose and breathing or other problems.

Treatment is routinely prescribed to all affected women to normalize the elevated blood sugar levels typical of diabetes. In most cases, treatment consists of a specific diet and exercise.

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Women and Depression
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Written by National Institute of Mental Health   

Sunshine_thru_cloudWhat is depression?
Everyone occasionally feels blue or sad, but these feelings are usually fleeting and pass within a couple of days. When a woman has a depressive disorder, it interferes with daily life and normal functioning, and causes pain for both the woman with the disorder and those who care about her. Depression is a common but serious illness, and most who have it need treatment to get better.

Depression affects both men and women, but more women than men are likely to be diagnosed with depression in any given year.1 Efforts to explain this difference are ongoing, as researchers explore certain factors (biological, social, etc.) that are unique to women.

Many women with a depressive illness never seek treatment. But the vast majority, even those with the most severe depression, can get better with treatment.


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The Impact of Autoimmune Disease on Women
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Written by NIH News   

NIH Podcast Provides Insights on Autoimmune Diseases and their Impact on Women

Your body's immune system protects you from disease and infection. But if you have an autoimmune disease, your immune system attacks healthy cells in your body by mistake. Autoimmune diseases are a category of disorders that can affect just about every organ system in the body — from hair to toenails — and are often chronic diseases that can go on for a lifetime.

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Exercise And Bone Health
Women
Written by NIH   

Exercise for Your Bone Health
Vital at every age for healthy bones, exercise is important for treating and preventing osteoporosis. Not only does exercise improve your bone health, it also increases muscle strength, coordination, and balance, and it leads to better overall health.

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Girlfriend Health and Safety Tips
Women
Written by CDC Office of Women's Health   

Being girlfriends is a choice. Being healthy is a lifestyle.

You’ve been through it all, and your girlfriends have traveled the journey with you. Continue the journey, and make health and safety that “other” supportive friend that helps you stay on top of things.

Be a healthy girlfriend, and help a girlfriend live a safer and healthier life. Below are a few tips to help you stay focused on being the best you can be for yourself and your girlfriends.

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Surviving Menopause
Women
Written by Alyson Kieda   
Menopausal symptoms affect about 70 percent of women approaching menopause. Typical symptoms, such as hot flashes or night sweats, are caused by changing hormonal levels in the female reproductive system. Almost all women notice early symptoms while still having periods. This stage of changing hormone levels is called perimenopause and usually begins in the early 40s. Early menopause symptoms may also include irregular periods, sleep difficulties, decreased sex drive, vaginal dryness, and irritability.

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Women and a Balanced Life
Women
Written by Alyson Kieda   
In my mother’s generation, most women stayed at home and cared for their children while their husbands went to work to bring home the bacon. The mother’s job was to care for the children, prepare nutritious meals, keep the house spic-and-span, and run the household smoothly. Mothers volunteered at church and school. They sometimes supplemented the family income with a part-time job or helped cut expenses by sewing clothing for the family and clipping coupons.  

Today it’s rare for women my age and younger not to work.
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Sun Exposure May Trigger Certain Autoimmune Diseases in Women
Women
Written by NIH News   

Ultraviolet (UV) radiation from sunlight may be associated with the development of certain autoimmune diseases, particularly in women, according to a study by researchers at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), part of the National Institutes of Health.

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Conquering Back To School Stress
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Written by keepkidshealthy.com   
Back to School Stresses:

4 Tips to Conquer Them



As we drop our children at their classrooms, or watch them hop on the bus, or out of our minivans,  thoughts race through our minds… will they eat a healthy lunch, did we spend enough time on their homework… are they making friends.. are we budgeting/saving enough for their future education… and so on.  A recent survey from Little Grad, the Saving for College company, asked parents about the things that stress them out at back to school time. 
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Is Hormone Replacement Therapy Good - Its Benefits & Risks
Women
Written by Always-Health.com   
To replace a woman’s depleting hormone levels, synthetic estrogen and progesterone are designed called hormone replacement therapy. Hormone replacement therapy helps to relieve the dryness in vagina or pain during urination caused by menopausal symptoms.

Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is helpful in easing the pain and the discomfort that a woman experiences while going through menopause when her hormones level decrease. During her reproductive years, a woman’s ovaries produce the hormones estrogen and progesterone which work to help in menstrual cycle, sexual characteristics and prepare the body for fertilization and reproduction. But when the age of menopause is reached, these hormones are produced less and less and thus, hormone replacement therapy is required to deal with the pain and the dryness and to make this period comfortable.
Benefits of Hormone Replacement Therapy
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As You Age, So Do the Needs of Your Skin
Women
Written by Aazdak Alisimo   

Skin is the largest organ we have, a fact most people do not realize since they fail to consider skin to be an organ. Well, it is. As the years pass, however, the organ changes and so should the way you care for it.

Skin is often overlooked by many people, but it is absolutely critical to your health and amazing. Why? If your body is a castle, your skin is the wall protecting it. Things can leave the body, but nothing can get in unless you want it to.

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Baby Names | Popular Names | Girl and Boy Names I Baby Name Meanings
Women
Written by Simon Gittins   

A name stays with a person from birth and even after a person dies, and no matter what part of the world an individual comes from, a name is what makes each person unique and gives a person his or her identity. Today it's not that difficult to guess the race, the country and also the religion a person comes from by the name of a person. In fact naming a new born is an important part of many cultures the world over, and depending on which part of the world a person is from, there are elaborate naming ceremonies that take place after the birth of a child.

The most popular name in the world is Mohammad (the name of the prophet of the Muslim religion); irrespective of the religion there is a name that is just right for your new born baby, if you are looking for some insight into names all over the world then read on. The object of this article is to act as bit of a history lesson mixed with advice on naming your child irrespective of what part of the world you are from.

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Be Relaxed with a Memory Foam Pillow
Women
Written by FOL   

The health benefits of getting the right amount and quality of sleep has gotten the attention not just of health practitioners worldwide, but of business tycoons as well. This attention has led to the introduction of the memory foam pillow to consumers in different parts of the world and the subsequent improvement in the quality of sleep experienced by those who have given this new product a try. Perhaps due to the success of the memory foam mattress, manufacturers began to look into the business of developing other products that would complement the mattress. This is where the memory foam pillow comes in.

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