Healthy Weight Loss Tips

 

Healthy Weight Loss Tips

By Joan Jones

 

 

Have you tried every fad diet to come along only to regain the weight soon after? Many popular fad diets lack basic nutrition which your body needs to maintain health and energy. For Permanent, healthy weight loss try these simple lifestyle changes which include smaller portions, more nutritious choices and more exercise. Follow these tips-the weight will come off and you will be healthier and happier as a result.

 

Start by thinking of just where you are "spending" your calories. Calories do count for weigh loss and, while literally counting calories every day isn't necessary, you must begin with an honest look at your current diet. In America's "super size it" mentality, you may be eating more than your body needs to maintain a healthy weight.

 

Keep a food journal for a few days. Many websites help you figure correctly the totals of what you are eating. Check labels also. You may think you aren't eating much but once you total the calories for a few days you may find you are eating more than you think.

 

Now that you know what you are eating- where can you make healthier, low-calorie choices? Fruits and veggies are low cal, contain lots of vitamins and minerals, plus fiber to help you stay fuller, longer. If you satisfy your body's nutritional needs you may find cravings for chips and candy fade. Try foods from the Superfood list for optimal nutrition.

 

Try substitutions to save calories - Order a healthy salad but ask for low calorie, low fat dressing on the side. Remember though, fat free isn't necessarily sugar free or calorie free. Again, check labels.

 

Try this healthy weight loss tip. Use a smaller plate for your meals. Did you know the Japanese typically maintain a healthy weight by eating smaller meals than Americans? They have their meals in three small bowls-one for meat, one for veggies and one for rice. If you use a large plate and heap it high, you will tend to eat everything on the plate.

 

Restaurants have succumbed to the demand of the eating public to provide high calorie, large portion meals. If you 'd like to eat out without guilt, ask for a to-go box with your meal, put half your dinner in it to take home before you even begin eating.

 

Try dishes from the weight-watchers side of the menu. You may discover these dishes are tasty and you don't feel deprived at all. A serving of fries can add up to 600 calories of fat with few nutrients. A 3.5 ounce serving of asparagus is 20 calories, zucchini is 18 calories, plus valuable nutrients and fiber. You get the picture.

 

Consider toppings-butter is 100 calories per tablespoon, sour cream is 26 calories, cheese is 100 calories per ounce. With several tablespoons of these low-nutrition fats on your baked potato, the empty calories are adding up.

 

Lastly, if you truly want to lose weight and be healthy, exercise is a must. You just can't escape it. Try parking your car as far away from your office as you can or, better yet, if possible, walk to work or ride your bike. Take the stairs, not the elevator. Get a dog and take it for a walk every day. Believe me, after you walk your dog one day, it will bug you daily and force you to get out and walk. Dogs make great walking companions and pets are also known to have a good effect on high blood pressure.

 

Remember a pound of fat is made up of 3,500 calories. If you regularly consume an extra 3,500 calories per month, you will gain a pound a month. If you cut back your calories by, say 2,000 per month and exercise away another 1,500, you will lose a pound every month.. This may not sound like much, but at the end of a year you will be 12 pounds lighter instead of 12 pounds heavier and you will also be healthier and less prone to diseases like high blood pressure, diabetes, cancer and heart disease.

Changing Your Eating Habits

 

 

Changing Your Eating Habits

By Bill Herren

 

We are bombarded with advertisements pushing delicious looking, fat filled, and obesity producing food in our faces every single day. We hear it on the radio; see it on TV and on billboards and even in newspapers. We go on a diet and try to totally turn our eating habits around. We go from eating hamburgers, French fries, pizza, hot dogs, and other junk to eating lettuce and drinking water. If we are really disciplined we make it a week or so. But like most people, we are back to our old habits within days. The change is just too drastic and makes it next to impossible for us to stick to our diets.

 

I have slowly improved my eating habits over the years. I have done this in a way that has been painless to me and has replaced bad diet choices with good eating habits. Of course, before any diet changes you should consult your physician. I was not in any immediate health danger and therefore did not need to immediately change my habits. What follows is not a "how to" article but more of an article on how I changed my eating habits over time.

 

There was a time in my life when I received my daily intake from fast food restaurants. I was in a sales position and on the road most of the time. I would have the burger, fries and coke combo from a different fast food joint every day. I was much younger then and blessed with a decent metabolism so I did not see much negative effect from all of the unhealthy eating. It was upon my taking a physical for another job that I discovered my cholesterol was not in a good range. I was way too young for something like this to happen and I knew that I must change my ways. I attempted to totally overhaul my eating habits in one day. I would do well for awhile and then go back to my old ways. I had made improvements but they were not ingrained good habits like I was hoping for.

 

Upon much reflection I decided to go a little easier on myself. I decided to start substituting food choices one by one until they became habit. My first substitution was with my beverage choice. Instead of having the cola I would order water. It was kind of a mental reward system for me. I would eat the burger and fries guilt free as long as I drank water instead of cola. I know that you are probably thinking "how can you eat a burger and fries guilt free?". I could do this guilt free because I knew that it was just a stage in my long term diet plan. I chose water as my first diet choice because it came easy for me. It required very little discipline on my part. After a month or so drinking water with a meal became second nature to me. It was no longer a sacrifice; it was a habit.

 

After that came the French fries. I substituted the French fries with a plain baked potato. Burger diet now consisted of a burger, plain baked potato and water. I actually started enjoying the baked potato rather quickly. They are much tastier than grease drowned fries. You can see where I am going with this. If you have been trying to lose weight for any time now, you know what a good food is and what a bad food is. You will know where and what to substitute. I continued these substitutions and still do to this day.

 

Now I am more aware of an unhealthy habit starting. I am very conscious of what I eat. Some of the great things about these diet choices are that they became habits; the desire for the unhealthy foods was replaced with a desire for healthy foods. Nowadays I rarely eat out. I have lost my taste for such foods.

 

Some of my diet substitutions:

Water for Cola, Baked potato for Fries, Whole Wheat for white bread, Soy Milk for cow's milk, pretzels for chips, salads for desserts, Meal replacement shake for cereal, and the list goes on and on.

Habits are built by doing something over and over. I have read it takes around 30 days to establish a habit. Do not stop your substitutions with the foods you eat....carry it over to other parts of your life. For example, substitute the elevator with the stairs, substitute the car with a bicycle, give up the evening news and replace it with a walk.

Low Back Pain - Causes and Symptoms

 

 

Low Back Pain - Causes and SymptomsBy Paul D Osborne

 

 

Low back pain is a quite common phenomenon in the humans and is generally experienced by all at some or the other point in their lives. The severity of the pain is often unrelated to the injury that has caused it. While a simple strain in the back can cause unbearable pain, a displaced disk may turn out to be quite painless.

What are the causes of low back pain.

Causes of Low back pain is often due to a wrong posture or displaced or strained back muscle. Irritation of the large nerve roots that go to our legs and our arms, a strain in the smaller nerves or an injury in any of the bones, ligaments or joints may also result in pain in the lower portion of our back.

Many a times, one can experience low back pain without any injury or known anatomical cause. However, back pain can be largely linked to a strain in any of the muscles or a specific condition such as degenerative disc disease or a herniated disc.

Most of the times, one can get rid of the low back pain by using conservative treatments, such as the application of ointments, physical therapy or oral medications. However, cure of certain back low pains may require surgery. One should seek proper medical treatment if the back pain continues for a long time, and is severe and accompanied by sudden bladder or bowel incontinence or progressive weakness in legs. Persons, who have suffered from fever, cold, trauma or undergone sudden weight loss, should seek proper medical attention for the cure of their low back pain

 

 

 

Back Exercises - Strengthen Your Back

The National Institute of Health has estimated that 4 out of 5 Americans suffer from back pain at some time or the other in their lives. Back pain afflicts a person suddenly and without giving any prior symptoms. When affected, one must use their body's own healing ability to combat the pain, instead of preferring medicines, and strengthen their body through back exercises. Back exercises, such as acupuncture, massage therapy, chiropractic, osteopathic care and certain other physical exercises are safer ways of treating back pain.

Basic Guidelines for Back Strengthening Exercises

Back exercises are one of the better ways to relieve yourself from back pain and lead a healthy life. It is important to ensure that exercises are worked within a range of motion, so as not to further strain the painful back. In case you experience pain while doing some stretching steps, stop exercising immediately. Avoid sudden movements and jerks when performing back exercises, even though it maybe hard to perform the steps in a slow and controlled motion.

People suffering from lower back pain face various problems while working out. It is important to get into an exercise routine gradually and build muscle power. Always performing back exercises after consulting your trainer. It is also important to understand that back pain doesn't develop overnight and hence restoration of the back will also take time.

 

 One of the back exercises that gently stretches your back muscles is: lie on your back with knees bent. Slowly raise your left knee to your chest, while pressing your lower back firmly against the floor. Remain in position for 5 seconds. Relax; repeat the exercise with your right knee, relax again & then repeat with both knees simultaneously. Repeat this exercise 10 times as a complete set..

 

 

 

How To Break Porn Addiction Before It Breaks You

 

 

 

 

How To Break Porn Addiction Before It Breaks You

By Robert Guida

 

 

Many people are starting to have a growing habit of watching porn and as much as it's the case, there are many also trying to learn how to break porn habits. This is mainly because the internet makes it much more available to everyone therefore, it's starting to become a growing concern for many all over the globe. As such, we will explain why a habit of watching porn is so hard to break, why is it so addictive and how to break porn habits.

 

 

Porn Is Like A Drug

First and foremost, let's go over why it is so hard to break a habit of watching porn. Now you may think that there is no such thing as a porn addiction simply because there is no substance involved. However, it is in fact even worse than other addictions and here's why.

The second most powerful drive as human beings is reproduction. When you are looking or thinking about any that has to do with sex, your brain releases tons of neurochemicals and endorphins. That being said, you do have substances involved and the only differences is that these are inside you.

When they're released, they give you a very strong drive for sex and it is very addictive. Now these neurochemicals can help a relationship but also break it. If you watch porn, it makes you much more depend on it making it hard for anyone to break porn habits.

 

 

What Makes You Addicted To Porn

Secondly, there are many things which makes people wonder how to break porn habits. For instance, you may think that it is the fault of pornography itself that you have these bad habits. However, there is something else that keeps you from going back to it which is masturbation. Masturbation is the number key element that keeps people attached to their porn addiction.

Now before you think that not all porn addicts masturbate, even if they don't now, they probably will later. That is because pornography is simply a window that detaches you from reality and masturbation is what satisfies your sexual hunger. You can break porn habits and still masturbate but doing the opposite is pretty much impossible.

Last but not least, if you definitely want to leave this for good, you need to learn how to break porn habits. The reason is because most people don't have a clue on how to break their habit therefore, they resolve it through their own means. You can't simply try to resist and avoid and expect results. You need to seek for help to learn how to break porn habits.

 

 

 

 

Are you wanting to stop your porn habits because it is ruining your love life? Are you a religious & dignified person wanting to stop doing to these sinful acts yet cannot find a way to stop? Are you simply wanting to have self-control and not let pornography overtake your life & restraining you from achieving your goals? If you are wanting to quit watching porn for any of those reasons or any other, then there are many things you need to understand first which is what we will outline in this article.

 

 

 

The Effects Of Watching Porn

Now there are a lot of misconceptions that since pornography isn't really 'doing it', you are not involved in any sexual activities. This saying is false and here's why; when a person is exposed to any form of sexual content regardless if it's real or only pictures and videos, to the brain it's all the same.

The brain releases powerful neurochemicals and endorphins that stimulates your sense and give a very strong drive and desire for sex. As such, when people watch porn, they have a strong sexual need which often times, they resolve their need through masturbation.

 

 

 

Why It Can Lead To Dependency

If you are wanting to quit watching porn chances are, it is probably because you have an addiction. Now that we've explained the brain's reaction to pornography, we will explain why it can lead to a strong dependency.

Most of the time, as people are starting to watch pornography to feed their needs, the things which use to satisfy them before becomes less fulfilling. That being said, they start to go to even more hardcore and explicit pornography. Most things that they use to find disgusting in the beginning starts to become more and more welcoming which makes it even harder to quit watching porn.

 

 

 

How It Can Have An Effect On Your Social And Love Life

If you are in this state then you should know that it has a tremendous effect of your perception of women/men as well as your love life. In most cases, once you are use to watching porn especially very explicit materials, you start to develop the wrong idea about women or men and you only see them as an object or a sex toy even though you don't want to see things this way.

As for your love life, most people who have a porn addiction do not feel the need to have intercourse with their mates and rather satisfy their needs with pornography. It is just like any other addiction but this one has a more harmful effect on relationships which is why you should quit watching porn.

 

 

I Tried To Quit Watching Porn But I Can't

If this is your case, know that you are far from being the only one. Many people out there are dealing with the same problems and the epidemic is global. Most people also try to quit watching porn by avoiding it and using willpower & some have succeeded as has been some alike cases in smoking also. As much as they try however, willpower and avoidance is just not enough. Porn addiction needs to be treated just like any other addiction and it is just as harmful.

 

 

How Can I Quit Watching Porn?

Most try to quit watching porn on their own but just like trying to quit smoking, it never lasts. Trying to resist temptations just doesn't cut it for most people and that is why you need to have the proper method, guide or treatment to leave this habit once and for all.

One thing for sure is that when those porn sites are tempting you with their enticing devices they are not telling you that pornography is really harmful. Yes, indeed, when young men are being tempted for one reason or another by sexually enticing sites or even other forms of pornography they are not consciously aware of the harmful effects of such activities. However, they usually find that out the hard way. If you are one of the victims of porn you need to know how to break the porn addiction before it's too late. If you don't break the porn addiction it will break you.

 

How can such addiction break you? Well, just consider just a few of the side effects of pornography:

* Depression
* Lack of self-esteem
* Short live relationships or problematic relationships
* Eating disorder
* Nervousness and anxiety
* Sex-related crimes

 

These are only a few of the devastating effects of pornography, they are more of them, yet this short list is enough to give you an idea of the serious condition you are in when you're addicted to porn and how much you need to break from porn addiction right now.

Addictions in general are a challenge for anyone, but porn addiction comes directly within you, it's triggered from the inside and can be satisfy without any substance that you need to take in your body.

If that wasn't enough, it's also an addiction that can be fed very secretly from without anyone living around you or even with you ever finding out, unlike alcohol or drug addictions. And what is more is that while there is no publicity in the open to make you become an alcoholic or a drug addict the publicity to consume porn is all in the open with sites popping up for no reason on your computer, advertisement, magazines and even prostitution, available at any time of day and night.

These are few of the reasons why this type of addiction can be sneakier than any others, always in front of your eyes in one way or another.

You will more likely be unable to manage how to break porn addiction on your own, but you can break this serious and dangerous habit by getting help which is available to you on online platforms without even going out of your house. You don't need to go see a shrink and go through the shame of telling about your addictive habits to anyone, you can do it from the privacy of your home and get cured maybe even before anyone realized that you were addicted at all.

 

 

 

P.S: The Poison of Porn over the years has corrupted and degenerated the minds of many around the world including the young and old alike, perverting them from their original higher-selves and implanting in them seeds of raw animality. Humans are being of high-intellect and wisdom, superior to other creatures but sadly the sadistic & power-hungry ones have devised many attractive methods to control others like flocks. But with will-power & strong spirit one can overcome such petty manipulations. Avoid and stay away from sources of perversion, be strong, dignified & glorious, and develop in wisdom, invest your time and thought in healthy and good activities…….(HD)

 

Alcohol - A Health Malefactor

 

 

 

Alcohol - A Health Malefactor

By Rodrigue Monestime

 

 

Many people consider alcohol as a social drink because its associated with parties, relaxation and adventures. Since the dawn of civilization, mankind has been aware of the benefits and harms of alcohol. Today, for some alcohol is part of an everyday complete meal, some people tend to consume more than their body needs, which turns it into an insidious substance. While the health benefits of alcohol are being promoted since it prevents coronary heart disease and stimulates the circulatory system when consumed moderately, those benefits should not be encouraged because not only does alcohol increase the risk factors of many internal organs, it aggravates many environmental problems.

 

Alcohol consumption has been part of many cultures. Before the European colonization, the native population of the territory that would eventually become the United States used to produce weak beers or other fermented. In the past, alcohol was used as a trading medium, often bartered for highly sought-after animal skins and other natural resources such as indigo. During the colonial era, however, not only was alcohol used for medicinal purposes, it was also employed for religious ceremonies (clearly adapted from pagan festivities of the old). For example, until the twentieth century, alcohol was the only painkiller generally available in western civilizations. In addition, alcohol was applied to help people recover their health and to reduce the risk of certain diseases including flu. Furthermore, liquor was associated with transcendental experiences and other cultural rituals that were purported to put people in contact with supernatural forces (again adaption from senseless pagan customs as there was nothing supernatural but a bewildered mind of a drunk).

 

The peyote ritual is a prime example of these ceremonies. Peyote ritual is a sacrament intended to put one in communication with spiritual forces to instill harmony in ones life. The ritual follows a prescribed structure: it is composed of a leader called a Roadman who makes certain rules and regulations that are to be precisely followed. Finally, the Roadman uses a variety of sensory stimuli [including] cedar smoke and sprinkled water to prevent participants from drifting off into a disconnected state of conscientiousness. In fact, the peyote ritual is often used within Indian communities for the treatment of alcohol abuse.

 

In contrast to all the declared benefits of moderate alcohol consumption, it has detrimental effects. It impairs bone development. To begin with, alcohol has some harmful effects on the two types of bone the human skeleton encompasses: cortical bone, which is dense and thick, forms the outer layer of bone and the shafts of the long bones of the arms and legs and cancellous bone, which is a porous meshwork of thin plates [which shape the vertebral column]. Alcohol is harmful for both types of bone although the most crucial effects occur in cancellous bone. Medically speaking, the process of skeletal growth and maturation involves three general phases: growth and modeling, consolidation and remodeling. Alcohol consumption interferes with the growth-and-modeling phase by stopping the longitudinal growth rate and the rate of proliferation of bone. Moreover, usage of alcoholic beverages affects parathyroid, the hormone that regulates the calcium metabolism.

 

Indulgence of alcohol causes adverse effects, particularly on women. For example, alcohol might indirectly affect bone through estrogen since the deficiency of such a hormone is a major contributing factor of osteoporosis. Over the last decade, many studies have shown an obtrusive relationship between the consumption of alcohol and bone loss. Specifically, a 1997 study conducted by a group of researchers showed that women aged sixty-five and older who were alcohol consumers had an increased risk of vertebral deformity. Another study investigated the influence of moderate alcohol consumption on ovariectomized rats to imitate menopause. Subsequently, the rats that had their ovaries removed for the experimentation exhibited a diminished bone density and volume compared to nonovariectomized rats. Because fewer osteoblasts are found in the alcohol-fed animals, this finding leads to the conclusion that moderate alcohol consumption has no absolute health benefits since it inhibits bone quality.

 

Regular alcohol consumption may lead to the necessity of liver transplantation. Because the liver is the largest organ in the body, it performs a variety on tasks, namely digesting, absorbing, and processing food. Moreover, the liver stores vitamins, synthesizes cholesterol, controls blood fluidity and regulates blood-clotting mechanisms. A liver disease is one of the most serious medical consequences of long-term alcohol consumption. In 1991, 25,000 Americans died mainly from liver cirrhosis, making it the elevenths nation leading killer. Another study demonstrates approximately one half of cirrhosis deaths have been ascribed to alcohol usage. Moreover, long-term alcohol consumption is the most prevalent single cause of illness and death from liver disease in the United States since the only possible cure is a liver-transplantation, which is a risky undertaking. In addition, the liver is so fragile that a single occurrence of heavy drinking is enough to dispose fat in the liver and may lead to alcoholic hepatitis, a severe inflammation of the liver characterized by nausea, weakness, pain, loss of appetite, weight loss and fever. Finally, alcoholic cirrhosis is the most advanced form of liver injury. The disease is characterized by progressive development of scar tissue that blocks the blood vessels and distorts the livers internal structure, impairing the liver's function. Basically, liver disease compromises the body’s ability to perform multiple functions essential to life.

 

Furthermore, alcohol consumption can damage the nervous system. Because alcohol is a toxic substance, it can cause alcoholic and chronic drinkers to suffer from abnormalities in their mental functioning and changes in behaviors associated with brain impairment. Alcohol consumption can have direct or indirect effects in the neurological system, which makes it even more dangerous to consume casually or regularly. Over the past twenty-five years, images of the brain created with modern neurological techniques, such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Computer Tormography (CT), generally show a [clear] relationship between prolonged alcohol consumption and changes in the brains structure. For example, MRI and CT results have shown brain shrinkage and brain lesions or tissue damage in some alcohol consumers.

 

In addition, alcohol has some adverse effects on many other neurological processes. While moderate alcohol consumption of alcohol lowers body temperature, severe intoxication in cold weather may lead to hypothermia, a massive, life-threatening decline in temperature. Moreover, alcohol usage can interfere with normal sleep patterns. Light consumption of alcohol can cause early sedation of sleepiness, awaking during the night and suppression of Rapid-Eye-Movement (REM). Psychologically speaking, REM is the dreaming state of sleep and when it occurs near wakefulness, it often produces vivid hallucinations. Another severe consequence of alcoholism is the Korsokoffs Syndrome (KS), a devastating memory disorder in which a person forgets the incidents throughout the course of his day or as they occur. Hence, because of this dramatic loss of short-term memory (also called anterograde amnesia), patients with KS virtually live in the past.

 

Not only is alcohol consumption detrimental for the user but for others in his path. Drunk driving is one of the nations leading killers. Over the past decade, drunk drivers have killed more than 42,000 people on a yearly basis. According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, alcohol significantly increases the changes of fatal car accidents. In 1997, more than 17,000 Texans died mainly from drunk driving accidents. Another study of the same year shows more than 30 percent of driving fatalities involved alcohol consumption. Most shocking of all, teenage drivers represent less than 7 percent of the total population; however, the damage of teenage drunk drivers is more than 13 percent of motor vehicle deaths. In order to minimize driving fatalities, most states have now adopted the Zero Tolerance policy in compliance with the National Highway Systems Designation Act of 1995. Fortunately, with the new law in place, more than 17,000 lives are being saved every year.

 

In addition, alcohol plays a causal role in violence. Over the past forty years, many studies have shown a conspicuous relationship between alcohol consumption and violent events. According to these studies, alcohol is linked to one-half to two-thirds of homicides, in one-fourth to nearly one-half of serious assaults. In addition, alcohol consumption appears to be connected with sexual assault. For example, police reports have demonstrated 24 percent of a group of identified sexual offenders and 31 percent of their victims had been drinking. Moreover, although many people consume alcohol moderately, studies show that a number of people drink to get drunk and therefore, their behaviors create some serious problems for people around them. For example, alcoholics and people who frequently binge drink usually have problems with friends, marriage, home-life, work and finances. Statistically speaking, 5 percent of drinkers reported that their drinking affected their finances. Furthermore, heavy drinking can have major social costs on society including lost of productivity in the workplace, family violence, which in most cases, leads to a divorce, accidental injuries and even death.

 

Although there are opposing viewpoints on the effects of alcohol, there is one factor on which researchers can agree: Heavy consumption of alcohol is harmful. From some researchers standpoint, moderate consumption of alcohol is also harmful because it can interfere with the normal functioning of the liver, impede bone formation and most importantly inhibit the nervous system. Medically speaking, alcohol has no health benefits without negative externalities.

 

In summary, although some have found that moderate alcohol consumption has some benefits, the actual adverse impact that it has on society is far from being beneficial. In order to circumvent being affected by the deleterious chain-of-reaction that comes along drinking, society has to understand one fact: the best way to prevent something is never to start.

 

 

Dont be a retard & a loser for life but be a happier & healthier person avoid alcohol as there are many healthy drinks offered to you by nature like delicious fruit juices & milk-shakes which are really good for your precious life……………(HD)

Disgusting Smoking Fetish Of Women

 

 

 

Disgusting Smoking Fetish Of Women

By Chris Read

 

 

According to one of the researches, it has been found that the smell and taste of cigarettes play a greater role in women's smoking behavior than in that of men. Another study found that cognitive-behavioral therapy aimed at changing attitudes about weight promotes smoking cessation by women. Even if we compare their stats with men, we'll be surprised to know that the guys who smoke are one out of every three. However, while smoking as well as smoking-related deaths from such diseases as lung cancer have been falling in men, they have been increasing in women. Smoking, in fact, takes a greater toll on the health of women than men; a smoking woman loses, on an average, 15 years of her life while a smoking man loses just over 13 years.

In the first half of the 20th century, lung cancer in women was extremely atypical. In addition to that smoking wasn't very ubiquitous. Unfortunately, that soon changed when the tobacco industry started targeting women. In 1964, the first Surgeon General's Report on Smoking and Health was released and it became clear that smoking was a deadly habit which engulfed 45 percentages of women all over. A media campaign followed and smoking rates began to fall, as did tobacco industry profits. But the rates declined more in men than women; the tobacco industry had started their own media campaign, once again marketing directly to women.

 

Lung Cancer

By 1987, lung cancer had outdone breast cancer as the leading cause of cancer deaths in women.
Today, more women die each year from lung cancer than breast cancer, uterine cancer, and ovarian cancers combined. In fact, lung cancer among women is now considered a scourge, killing almost 75,000 in the US last year. Women appear to be more vulnerable to lung cancer than men, and they tend to get it at younger ages.

 

Symptoms of Lung Cancer

o Shortness of breath

o Fever with an unknown cause

o Hoarseness

o Chest pain

o Wheezing

o Coughing up blood

o Chronic cough

o Weight loss & loss of appetite

o Repeated bouts of bronchitis or pneumonia

 

 

Other Smoking influenced Diseases in Women

While lung cancer might be the most lethal disease caused by smoking, it's not the only one. Smoking doubles the risk of having a heart attack, and increases the risk of dying from a heart attack within the first hour. This is an especially serious problem for women since women are more likely to die after a first heart attack than men. Women who use birth control pills; and smoke are at especially high risk of having a heart attack.

Smoking also increases the risk of other cancers, including breast, uterine cancer, bladder and oral cancer. Smoking also increases a woman's risk of low bone density and osteoporosis.

 

 

Smoking-Related Disorders in Women

o Heart disease

o Stroke

o Lung cancer

o Emphysema

o Oral cancer

o Uterine cancer

o Breast cancer

o Bladder cancer

o Rectal cancer

o Colorectal polyps

o Osteoporosis

o Infertility

o Early Menopause

o Miscarriages

o Stillbirths

 

 

Family Matters

Smoking is not just bad for women; it's bad for their families and future families as well. Smoking can cause infertility in women. If a woman becomes pregnant, smoking increases her risk of miscarriages, stillbirths and premature births. Mothers who smoke during pregnancy are also more likely to have babies with asthma, sleeping disorders and chronic ear infections than non-smoking mothers. The menstrual cycle phase has an effect on both mood and tobacco withdrawal symptoms for women trying to quit smoking -- a finding that clearly suggests that women could improve their success rate simply by starting their quit attempt during certain days of their cycle.

 

Cosmetic and Other Considerations

Ironically, teens and young women often think smoking is sexy and glamorous although its just a wrong & perverted perception of their immature minds. However, the consequences -- such as stained fingers and teeth, tooth loss, gum disease, bad breath -- are anything but sexy and glamorous in fact ugly. Smoking also hastens the aging process most likely because of its adverse effect on estrogen. It can cause early menopause, facial wrinkling, and permanent voice lowering and urinary incontinence.

 

Old Habits Die Hard

Women and girls are not only more susceptible than men to the negative consequences of smoking; they are more likely to become addicted to cigarettes even when smoking comparable amounts.

Nicotine is one of the most addictive substances known to a man...and woman. Researchers are studying gender differences in smoking behavior and working to develop treatment plans that will help more women end their nicotine addiction. In fact, nicotine is considered more addictive than heroin or cocaine. And nicotine is more addictive for women than men.

The highly addictive nature of nicotine is a major reason why most people have difficulty quitting smoking, and women have a harder time quitting than men. Another thing that makes quitting difficult for women is the weight gain that, unfortunately, often accompanies quitting smoking. On the other hand, the weight gain, which rarely exceeds five pounds, can be reversed by a healthy diet and exercise.

More importantly, quitting smoking can also reverse many of the deadly consequences of the habit.

 

 

Weighing the Benefits

A woman who stops smoking reduces her risk of stroke to pre-smoking levels. Within a year, her smoking-related risk of heart disease drops by 50 percent. After three years, the risk of a heart attack is no greater than for a woman who never smoked. Within five years, her smoking-related risk of heart disease can disappear altogether. Clearly, the benefits of quitting outweigh the possibility of any weight gain. So think again...Are we going the right way?

 

 

 

BE & REMAIN BEAUTIFUL BY STAYING AWAY FROM SMOKING…….….(HD)