Hormone Therapy May Pose Higher Cancer Risk In Some Women

Previous studies had shown that using hormones to alleviate menopause symptoms is linked with an increase in breast-cancer risk. The findings led to fewer hormone prescriptions for postmenopausal women, and a concurrent decrease in breast-cancer incidence shortly thereafter, which has been attributed to the reduced use of HRT, the researchers said. In the new study, in line with the previous findings , there was an overall link between HRT use and a higher rate of breast cancer. On average, 578 in 10,000 women who used HRT developed breast cancer, compared with 546 in 10,000 women who didn’t use HRT.
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Manning wants hormone therapy in prison. Will it happen?

“Where inmates have been denied care, courts have said that’s unconstitutional,” says Jennifer Levi, director of the Transgender Rights Project at Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders. “I don’t know of any cases that have been brought yet against military prisons. But they would have the same obligation to provide adequate medical care.” Levi worked with a North Carolina inmate to reform federal policy on hormone replacement therapy in prison. Vanessa Adams entered a North Carolina facility at age 29.
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Hormone-Replacement Therapy: Could Estrogen Have Saved 50,000 Lives?

The time period was too short for researchers look at heart disease or deaths, so authors discussed heart disease risk factors instead. The 16-year Danish study includes figures, their statistical significance, and several charts. “This is a very significant piece of research, and should reassure the millions of women who turn to hormone therapy for relief of their menopausal symptoms,” said Dr. Roger Lobo, a former president of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine.
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Hormone Therapy Safe in Early Menopause

Anytime something is less straightforward and more complicated, its difficult in a quick media sound bite to get the message across. We tried very hard when we published that data to show that the findings were different for different age groups of women. In terms of the challenge, I actually agree with these authors that there was a lot of media attention when the 2011 paper came out, but there was not a lot of discussion about translation for women afterwards. In that spirit, LaCroix says the Yale results should not necessarily drive all women who have had a hysterectomy to take estrogen pills. More research will need to tease apart how estrogen may or may not be contributing to premature death in these women. I find it incredibly brash in a way and almost arrogant to recommend the use of a pill to prevent death in women when it is totally unproven to do that in women of any age group.
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Medicine Or Treats? Gummy Vitamins And Chocolate Calcium Chews Blur The Line

This sweet and tasty approach to supplements has also taken hold in the adult supplement market. Products such as soft calcium chews are marketed towards postmenopausal women who may be concerned about warding off osteoporosis. Available in different flavors, such as caramel or different fruits, some chews even contain high quality chocolate and are wrapped in such a way as to remind the consumer of luxurious treats. But do doctors recommend that their patients use these products?
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Vitamins & Minerals For Hair That’s Healthier, Stronger And Shinier

Post Golden Crisp cereal gets more than half its calories from sugar, but darned if it isnt fortified with 10 vitamins and minerals. Even so, theres something a little jarring about the enriched Girl Scout cookies this year that were advertised as a delicious new way to get your vitamins!” The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is looking into this and other snack foods that toss in any healthy-sounding thing they can think of and then market it like crazy so it sounds like a nutritious food. This is the era in which, instead of eating calcium-rich foods, we eat calcium-enriched foods that make sure you know about that in big letters on the label.
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Vitamins: Good or Bad?

Beta-carotene, very bad. The fat soluble vitamins (A, D, E, K), as a rule of thumb, are the easiest to get too much of. Still reductive notions swaying perception too far against nebulous notions of vitamins is also bad. Everything we knew is not wrong.
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Vitamins don’t make Girl Scout cookies healthful

You can get enough good fats in your diet from small amounts of avocados and other whole plant foods, but oils are always processed as they are not found naturally in nature.” Get Rid Of Dull Winter Skin: Pineapple “Pineapple is excellent in promoting efficient digestion, which is what soft beautiful skin is dependent on,” says Snyder. “Pineapple is also high in vitamin C, which helps in the formation of collagen, a protein that helps grow new skin and blood vessels.” Get Rid Of Dull Winter Skin: Flax Seeds “Flaxseeds offer vital omega-2 fatty acids that supply the right ratio of essential fatty acids to your body, ensuring peak functioning,” says Snyder. “Omega-3 fatty acids also help prevent inflammation, which can lead to dry damaged skin.” Prevent Breakouts And Acne “The liver filters toxins and pushes the waste to the colon,” says Snyder. “But when these organs become overloaded with waste and toxins (from food), the toxins have to be pushed out through the skin, another eliminative organ, creating those ugly pimples called acne.” Prevent Breakouts And Acne: Coconut Yogurt “Try beauty foods like coconut yogurt, which contains beneficial bacteria (probiotics), and can help keep your system clean,” says Snyder.
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Physical Fitness Boosts Brainpower In Kids, Study Finds

For the new study, researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign wondered whether there was a correlation between physical fitness and learning. So they recruited 48 kids who were 9 or 10 years old and asked them to learn the names of 10 fictional regions on a made-up map. Half of the children in the study ranked in the top 30% of fitness (as measured by a treadmill test) for kids their age and gender; the other half ranked in the bottom 30%. Other than that, the kids in both groups were basically the same in terms of socioeconomic status, ADHD symptoms and scores on an intelligence test. In both groups, about half were boys and half were girls.
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Aerobic Fitness Boosts Learning in Children

Im way more relieved than before, because I can enjoy every day, he said. It was a good decision to just say it right away and just take advantage of every day and enjoy. You know, its a good thing. Its going to be fun to know this is the last time as a hockey player in this building or in this city. Im looking forward to that.
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For Ducks’ Teemu Selanne, fitness testing is first of many ‘lasts’

Half the children were in the top 30% of their age group on a test measuring aerobic fitness, while the other half scored in the lowest 30 percent. When asked to recollect the information studied, children who were fitter performed better than those who were not as fit. The difference between the high-fitness and low-fitness groups was also stronger when the initial learning was performed by studying alone than when testing and study were interspersed. Previous studies have suggested that combining testing and study improves later recall in children, and is less challenging than studying alone.
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L’oréal Presents Beauty Book

Done Your Email was not sent. Done THE ART OF BEAUTY: LOreal continues its literary quest to analyze the subject of beauty with the book Philocalie (Greek for the love of beauty), out in France this week. The 156-page, large-format tome in English and French comes four years after the French beauty giant sponsored 100,000 Years of Beauty, meant to show how beauty has been inexorably linked to humanitys development from a historical and sociological standpoint. Philocalie whose contributors include artists, philosophers, designers and art historians, such as Sonia Rykiel, Olympia Le-Tan, Oscar Niemeyer and Joey Starr was presented at a cocktail party in Paris Tuesday evening. What seduced us in the project was to give a follow-up to this reflection by gathering together this time points of view not only contemporary but also totally subjective, said Jean-Paul Agon, chairman and chief executive officer of LOreal, which supported the book.
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Beauty Bites: Charlotte Tilbury’s NYFW Essential, Get Fit For Free With Sweaty Betty & MORE

Well girls, look no further than fitness-fashion faves Sweaty Betty who are on hand this autumn to help you get fit for free. This autumn, in association with hip London-based dance studio Frame, Sweaty Betty are offering weekly sessions of a new dance class called Frame Rave- a high-intensity, 45-minute workout inspired by 80s rave culture, complete with glowsticks and a high-BPM playlist. Want in? From Thursday 5th September and every following Thursday throughout the month, Frame Rave classes will be available at all Sweaty Betty boutiques across the UK.
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