Taking a Look at Women's Health
The major diseases of women are heart disease, breast cancer, osteoporosis, and
obesity. A recent Gallup Survey indicated the following:
- Most women are not concerned about heart disease. This is in spite of the fact that
more women than men die of heart disease — about 500,000 deaths of women every year.
- Although many women are getting mammograms and doing self-examination, few are
attending to diet as a means of prevention. (Breast cancer strikes 182,000 women each year
and kills about 46,000.)
- Shockingly, most women believe that osteoporosis (a totally preventable disease) is
an unavoidable consequence of old age. Each year about 500,000 postmenopausal women
experience their first osteoporosis-related spinal fracture.
All of these diseases, including obesity (currently at epidemic proportions), can be
prevented or alleviated with a healthy diet. Not only that, the diet is simple...
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Keywords: Bone health, Breast health, Breast
cancer, Calcium, Calcium citrate, Coronary heart disease, Diet, Heart, Hormone replacement
therapy, Magnesium citrate, Menopause, Obesity, Osteoporosis, Vitamin E, Vitamin C,
Women’s health
Topics: Supplement Your Heart, Here’s to Your Heart, Diet and
Breast Cancer, Getting Down to the Bone
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