Health is Wealth: Bone health: Tips to keep your bones healthy

Health is Wealth: Bone health: Tips to keep your bones healthy:        Bone health: Tips to keep your bones healthy   Protecting your bone health is easier than you think. Understand how diet, p...

Bone health: Tips to keep your bones healthy

       Bone health: Tips to keep your bones healthy

  Protecting your bone health is easier than you think. Understand how diet, physical activity and other lifestyle factors can affect your bone mass.

Bones play many roles in the body — providing structure, protecting organs, anchoring muscles and storing calcium. While it's particularly important to take steps to build strong and healthy bones during childhood and

Sexual Dysfunction is Common

     

                            Sexual Dysfunction is Common

"A sexual problem, or sexual dysfunction, refers to a problem during any phase of the sexual response cycle that prevents the individual or couple from experiencing satisfaction from the sexual activity. The sexual response cycle has four phases: excitement, plateau, orgasm, and resolution.

While research suggests that sexual dysfunction is common, it is a topic that many people are hesitant to discuss. Fortunately, most cases of sexual

Stroke

A stroke is caused when blood flow in the brain is blocked, depriving the brain of oxygen and causing the death of cells. Blood flow is disrupted in two ways.

Clot

In an ischemic stroke, a blood clot slows or stops blood flow to the brain. A clot can originate in the brain, or it can travel from another part of the body, such as from the heart. Clots are responsible for about 90 percent of all strokes.

Blood clots can be formed by atherosclerosis, a condition where the walls of arteries become hardened and