Health And Children Care

Web Site And Book For Asthma

2007-09-26T16:27:00.000+08:00

If your kid has asthma than these are web site that you can surf. This one is faor the basic facts, check out the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Web Site, aaai.org. You will find the most frequentlly asked questions answered clearly.
After that, visit the Allergy & Asthma Network: Mothers of Astmatics site (aanma.org). Geared toward parents, it focuses on more complicated issues, such as making sure your school district knows how to handle your child's needs and keeping your home free of allergens and irritants.
The book One Minute Asthma: What you Need to Know by Thomas F. Plaut, M.D., is the nation's best-selling asthma book. Only 64 pages long and 7" by 4", it's the perfect pocket guide for adults and children 10n or older. The book can be purchased oline at either Amoan.com or Pedipress. Com for $5.

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Exercise can helps women after breast cancer treatment

2007-09-19T16:55:00.000+08:00

An aerobic exercise program improves quality of life for women previously treated for localized breast cancer, according to UK researches.
Previous studies have shown that exercise improves physical and psychological health for breast cancer survivors, but it has been unclear if the benefit came from the exercise itself or form the increased attention women got from participating in the programs.
To isolate the effects due to exercise from those due to attention, Dr. Amanda J. Daley, from the University of Birmingham, and her associates designed a study that uncluded not only an active exercise group as well as a usual-care group.
The participants were 108 women who had been treated for breast cancer between 1 and 3 years before, and who were physically inactive.
As described in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, the active exercise program involved one-on-one 50-minute sessions three times a week for 8 weeks. Exercises were moderate intensity, with a goal of boosting heart rate up to 65-85 percet the maximum for each women's age.
The instructor also discussed cognitive-behavioral techniques for sticking to regular exercise with each participant.
The placebo exercise group also met for 24 sessions, but exercise was limited to light-intensity bod conditioning and stretching, and no counseling.
Quality of life was measured with a scale called the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy - General (FACT-G). The benefits of exercise therapy compared with usual care were reflected by a greater improvement in scores an the FACT-G, averaging 9.8 units.
The magnitude of change, Daley's team notes, is "far greater than those reported for other types of health-enhancing and quality-of-life interventions (e.g., psychological support in cancer patients)."
Significant improvements were also observed in subscale scores for functional well-being and social/family well-being, and for breast cancer concerns.
"These findings cannot be attributable to attention effects, because the exercise-placebo group did not report significant benefit, compared with usual care," the researchers say.
The result for functional well-being "are particularly promising<" they add, "given that physical functioning is considered one of the most important components of quality of life in cancer patient. They propose that exercise ma "expedite the recovery process," but add, "We are mindful that this study only demostrated short-term gains." - Reuters p/s: My advice is do not wear bra when sleeping. That also can cause breast cancer. women mature women health womens health
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Are You Spending Too Much On Your Kids?

2007-09-19T11:13:00.000+08:00

Ritirement savings - or new iPods all around?

How to keep them happy without mortgaging your future

What made me snap when I started looking at how much parents pay to raise their kids? Maybe it was seeing all those $400 Nintendo Wiis and $200 iPods Nanos fly off the shelves. Or perhaps it was the $10,000 "princess party" for a 3-year-old. Or the $879 Bugaboo "travel system" (that's the term for a high-end baby stroller).

This kind of overspending is not good for kids or their parents - because, unless you're in the top income bracket, the only way to give your children everything they want (or everything marketers tell you they should have) is to neglect your own retirement saving. And the message you're sending, meanwhile, is that money grows on trees. Or at least on Mommy and Daddy.

"spending too much" is a value judgement, of course, not a specific number. O average, couples with two kids and a households income in the middle range ($43,200 to $72,600) spend $7,493 a year on each child, from birth to age 17, according to the US Department of Agriculture. (The per-child total rises to $11,234 if you count their share of the cost of maintaining your home, such as insurance, mortgage interest, and utilities). While those aren't princess-party budgets, spending much more than the averages may be overdoing it - and can even lead to credit card debt and other money troubles. A recent study by Robert Manning, Ph.D., professor of consumer finance at RIT in Rochester, NY, found that parents use credit more freely when buying for their children than when shopping for themselves.

Another way to define "too much" is to ask yourself this: If you're in your 30s, are you putting at least 10 percent of your income into a retirement plan? If you're in 40s or 50s, are you saving 15 per cent? If you're nowhere close to those goals, you may be spending too much on your family lifestyle, and your child-related cost are a good place to consider cutting back. By Jane Bryant Quinn

Another topic from the author Jane Bryant Quinn:-

What Your Kids Can Do
How You Can Cut Back

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