Do you worry that your anxiety over your child developing melanoma might be unrealistic, but you just can’t help obsessively inspecting their moles and imagining the worst? Yes, melanoma occurs in children, even those with [...]
The ABCDE rules of melanoma screening for adults don’t apply to children. There are distinct differences in the way melanoma appears in kids than it does in adults. […]
Basal cell carcinoma is typically described as a nodule or bump that may be pearly in color, but also flesh toned or some range of pink. Purple is a color that may come to mind [...]
While gun control dominates the news, thousands of Americans every year die at the hands of trans fats in common foods. Trans fats should be banned. Where is the outcry? Trans fats are a poisonous [...]
A mom who says she's 265 pounds posted on Instagram a video of herself and her obese child hollering “Boooo!” at a diet commercial. The video was posted on Jan. 4, 2020. I recommend you [...]
TLC If Dr. Now’s patients on “My 600 Pound Life” can initially lose weight all on their own, why do they need the surgery then? […]
Have you ever seen people moving the handles only two inches on strength training equipment and wonder, “What the heck are they hoping to achieve?” […]
A song you love is on a workplace radio or public speaker and someone starts singing to it, destroying your listening pleasure! […]
Can there be a delay between when you stop taking pills and when pill esophagitis begins? […]
Have you noticed that often when you get up after sitting for a while, you have to burp? […]
So it goes as follows: You chew, swallow without any problem and then right after there’s an odd pain in your right chest that lasts a few seconds. […]
Many women seem to start gaining abdominal weight within a few years of completing menopause and some will wonder if it could be ovarian cancer. […]
Periods are a pain, and many women want to know if they can be safely stopped, delayed or sped up. This is particularly true for women who travel frequently. “Women using hormonal forms of birth [...]
Untreated cervical cancer kills about 4,200 U.S. women every year. But can cervical cancer ever develop into uterine cancer? Uterine/endometrial cancer takes about 12,100 lives in the U.S. every year. […]
Cigarette smoke is strongly linked to several cancers including gynecological. […]
If you’re lying on your back and start pressing around your lower abdomen and pelvic area, is it possible to feel an ectopic pregnancy? […]
Fainting has many possible causes. Menopause causes many possible symptoms. Is there an overlap? With all the symptoms that menopause can trigger, one has to wonder if fainting – not just feeling faint or lightheaded [...]
A colposcopy enables a doctor to view the inside of the cervix. Would cancer be visible with this procedure? That’s what many women want to know who are scheduled for a colposcopy. This can make [...]
In many cases of a uterine biopsy, bleeding occurs afterwards. Is there a way to tell if this is from cancer or from the procedure itself? A uterine biopsy requires that an instrument be inserted [...]
The onset of abdominal or pelvic cramping after completing menopause can frighten a woman, and certainly, some causes are life-threatening. […]
If you think braces are only for preteens and high schoolers, you are wrong. In fact, the American Association of Orthodontists estimates that more than one million of their patients who have come to fix [...]
November is Diabetes Awareness Month. Every November, National Diabetes Awareness Month is recognized by organizations, charities and individuals in order to increase visibility of the disease and to raise funds for research into its cause, [...]
Watch enough ID Channel and you’ll know there’s a reason why the abuser in a relationship can be a woman physically weaker than the victim. […]
This incredible veiny forearm belongs to a 71-year-old woman! The vascular forearm in that top photo belongs to Sharon Smith of Denver, Colorado, who began training in her late 50s. A forearm like that doesn’t [...]
You may be promoting unhealthy eating habits and eventually obesity by teaching your overweight child that she’s perfect just the way she is. • This isn’t about body shaming. • This isn’t about demeaning a [...]
Every woman needs to work on getting big heavy curves. Trust me, once you have big heavy curves, you will have more confidence than you ever imagined possible. […]
The latest in the fact-denying movement is that “obesity” is an insulting word and should not even be used by doctors as a medical term. […]
What yo-yo dieting may do to a woman’s heart health should be incentive to stop this “weight cycling” and fight very hard to permanently maintain a healthy body weight. Yo-yo dieting, also called weight cycling, [...]
If you had to choose between napping or medications for lowering your high blood pressure, do you know which would be more effective? Hopefully, you know that napping and pharmaceuticals such as beta blockers aren’t [...]
If obese people can be fit and healthy, then why don’t doctors ever advise their normal-weight patients to pack on some pounds? […]
Men with buff physiques who preach that NEAT can help dad bods transform their body are feeding you nonsense. You’ve been doing NEAT since birth yet still have a dad bod. […]
How many times have you seen a headline like “Which Foods to Avoid to Lose Weight”? From a purely hormonal and physiological aspect, you do NOT need to avoid any particular food or type of [...]
Many obese women in the “healthy at any size” camp claim to be healthy and feel great. But is this actually an issue of being habituated to aches and pains and not really knowing what [...]
Do you know the first three things you should do if someone’s having a stroke? Even a middle aged person can be stricken by this very common condition. Time is truly of the essence when [...]
Heart problems can cause neck pain. But so many benign conditions can cause neck pain as well, such as TMJ disorder and a pinched nerve. […]
Why doesn’t body inclusivity in the modeling world extend to faces? White, black or Asian, runway models including plus-size have the same face. […]
Pay no attention to fitness headlines claiming that planks can burn belly fat – because they can’t. Never. Planks will not flatten your stomach, either. […]
Fibromyalgia can affect isolated body parts such as the shoulders and neck, but what about literally being on one side of the body, such as affecting only the left leg, left hip area, left shoulder [...]
Fibromyalgia can cause breast pain, and so can breast cancer. Is there a difference in the way a woman would feel these different sources of pain? Though pain in a breast from cancer isn’t a [...]
There are 3 serious conditions – OTHER than muscle or nerve problems, injury, poor posture, arthritis, infection and cancer that can cause upper back pain. […]
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