You love your asanas, but what can you safely do while you’re pregnant? Yoga helps you relax and focuses your breath, which can help you healthily cope with the demands of pregnancy, labor, birth and motherhood. Continuing your yoga practice is definitely possible...
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Women and Chronic Constipation: What Can Help?
You’ve been feeling a bit uncomfortable, bloated, and heavy. You're not "going" as often as you should, and you’re getting worried. Don't be embarrassed. Even though this is typically a private matter, you have plenty of company. Being a woman increases your risk of...
Seasonal Allergies and Women: 5 Ways to Help the Stuffiness
For many, spring’s warm weather means parks, gardens, hikes, and playgrounds. For the 35 million allergy sufferers in the U.S., it also means a barrage of symptoms like runny noses, sneezing, drainage, red eyes, and dark circles under the eyes. Many women reach for...
Infertility and Asthma
Women with asthma may have a lower pregnancy rate, and may take longer to get pregnant than those without the lung disease, suggests a new study. The researchers followed 245 women (96 with asthma) who were undergoing fertility treatment for unresolved fertility...
Your Heart: Know Your Risk Factors
According to the American Heart Association (AHA), more than one in three female adults has some form of cardiovascular disease, and heart disease is the number one killer of women in the U.S. Sounds scary, right? Yet, women often ignore heart risks and symptoms....
Ultrasounds 101
The word ultrasound is tossed around fairly lightly when someone is pregnant. They’ve become a routine part of pregnancy as well as other noninvasive procedures. But what are ultrasounds exactly? How do they work? Let’s start with a definition. An ultrasound scan uses...
Confident Breastfeeding
Mothers who expect to breastfeed may not realize that their attitude is important to their ability to breastfeed. Although new mothers describe breastfeeding as a meaningful and fulfilling aspect of caring for their infants, breastfeeding can cause anxiety and stress....
Metabolic Syndrome – Know Your Risks
Most women know that lack of exercise and unhealthy diets lead to heart disease, diabetes and strokes. But as women make the transition from regular cycles to menopause and after, it becomes more difficult to maintain a healthy weight because of hormonal changes,...
Yeast Infections
Let’s talk about something that no one wants to talk about: yeast infections. Despite the yuck factor, this condition is more common than you might realize. Three out of four women will experience at least one yeast infection in their life; half will have two or more...
Five Healthy New Year’s Resolutions
All resolutions are full of inspired hope, usually created in an optimistic swirl of confetti. But for long-term success, a detailed and sustainable action plan is crucial. Let’s get you on your way to making 2016 your healthiest year yet. 1. Commit to one thing Don’t...