January 13th, 2011 by Stand Team

Women’s health is a cause for concern according to a recent study and reported by the National Women’s Law Centre in conjunction with Oregon Health and Science University. They state that increasingly more women are binge drinking, not getting screened for cervical cancer, are obese and diabetic and furthermore are obtaining positive results from chlamydia tests.

This report has been issued for the last ten years and the situation is only getting worse.  This said, rates for colorectal cancer and cholesterol have increased since 2007. Obesity is still a huge problem and 26.4 per cent of the female population in the US are considered obese. This percentage has grown substantially since 2007 from 24%.

A quarter of women, it is reported, are in occupations today that require them to be sitting for most of the day. Over a week, there is little or no exercise done and the five a day rule is non-existent.

More than 10 women reportedly had 5 or more drinks on at least one occasion in the last month. This number has grown by 6.7 per cent since 2007.

There is concern over just over what binge drinking can do to the major organs of the body but this behaviour increases the rate of sexual assault cases, the contracting of STIs and car accidents.  The binge drinking is thought to be a product of recession stress however; the decrease in the numbers going for pap smears is difficult to understand.  The last three years have seen 78% of women between 18 and 64 years having pap smears however, this number was down from 84.8% in ’07. This is said that it might be due to the fact that many women have been vaccinated and think that they do not need to continue getting pap smears.  It may also relate to health cover that some people do not have.  This is obviously not the case in the UK.

In the UK, roughly 2,800 women are diagnosed each year and it is the 12^th most common cancer experienced by women in the UK.  Being vaccinated against HPV does not vaccinate one against cervical cancer. HPV is one known cause for the developing of cervical cancer.

The chlamydia infections are said to be due to the increase in chlamydia testing facilities.

January 5th, 2011 by Stand Team

IBS turns the natural bodily function of digestion into a nightmare. The more common IBS Symptoms are general stomach disorders like nausea, cramps, flatulence, constipation and diarrhea. In more severe cases, sleep disturbance, headaches and backache became extended complaints. Recent research has shown that the cause of the IBS problem is routed in miss-communication of stomach sensors in the gut and the sub-nervous system that controls the level of natural body chemical like serotonin, histamine and protease that are released into the gut and bowels juncture.

It has even been suggested that this damaged system and the chemical cocktail that it produces are the real reason for the IBS symptoms of bowel distress and not necessarily the items being consumer and processed in the gut and bowels. Until these new research findings lead to medicines and treatments to inhibit or regulate the released levels of serotonin, histamine and protease, the old school of diet therapy, while possibly faulty, does reduce the elements that end up in the gut with IBS problem potential and subsequently do help relieve attacks of IBS symptoms.

A proper semi bland diet has been the foremost tool used against IBS. The best way to accommodate this diet is by avoiding foods that over-stimulate or irritate the colon and eating more of the foods that soothe and regulate the mix of chemicals in the gut and bowels in the first place.