Posts Tagged ‘Osteoporosis’
Diseases That Attacked Women
Women indeed are unique and complicated. Therefore, women would need extra care than men. The same as for health problems, women are quite vulnerable than men. Women are often experiencing drastic changes in their body compared to men, like hormonal problems. Women are experiencing several changes in their body since childhood, teens, adults and elderly.
Well, here are a variety of diseases that women should watch out for, namely: Breast cancer; breast cancer is common cancer on women, although there is also happens on men. This second top-cancer death cause on women can be detected as early as possible by doing prevention and self-examination every month.
Depression; depression is usually happens on women rather than men even though men experience the same pressure. Men are tending to be more resistant against depression. Various hormonal changes such as pregnancy and menopause are also become a factor that increases the risk of depression on women. Depression also has physical symptoms.
Osteoporosis; Osteoporosis is a disease of bone strength decreased due to bone thinning. This condition would make the bones more vulnerable, which means that the bones could easily be broken by only experience a light trauma. That is why we often meet people with osteoporosis suffer a fracture due to minor accidents such as slipping in the bathroom, fell out of bed and others. And one other thing, Asian and Caucasian women are having greater risk for suffering osteoporosis rather than black women.
Benefits of Walking For The Bones And Heart
Walking can increased lung and cardiovascular fitness (heart and blood artery-cardiovascular). Walking will increase capacity of lung and heart to provide, fulfill the oxygenation of blood to the muscles and enhance muscle’s ability to use oxygen to form energy for physical activity. This will also help reduce high blood pressure.
Walking will increase density or bones density, because walking is a weight exercise, walking will help improve strength and bones density, especially lower back and hips. Thus, this will prevent the occurrence of osteoporosis, and also reduces hip fractures, as one of the risk of age increased / aging.
To Consume High Fat Calcium
You must be already know the importance of eating high calcium food for maintaining healthy bones and prevent osteoporosis. Not only that, from a recent research that conducted by Creighton University Osteoporosis Research Center in Nebraska, United States, found that consuming rich calcium foods are likely related to less incidence of overweight up to 70%.
Unfortunately, there are still many women who consume less calcium foods and beverages. Many of them are replacing that with cheese and even have high-fat, just because they do not like it. Solution: Drink at least two glasses of low-fat milk every day.