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Steve Kubby And Drug Medical Use

Steve Kubby and his wife Michele have spent years of their lives lobbying to make marijuana legal for medical use. He has adrenal cancer. He will die from it at some point and he believes marijuana is the only thing keeping him alive.
He credits the use of marijuana for controlling his adrenaline levels and claims the drug is the only thing keeping death at bay. Kubby smokes the drug to alleviate symptoms of a rare cancer called pheochromocytoma, which causes the adrenal glands to produce massive amounts of adrenaline.
The Kubbys and their two daughters, Brook, 9, and Crystal, 6, lived in a rural community outside of Kamloops, in the southern B.C. Interior.

Kubby's supporters and family were on hand as he boarded a flight to California escorted by his American lawyer, who worried he could die without access to pot in jail. There was an emotional farewell Thursday at Vancouver International Airport as medical marijuana crusader Steve Kubby reluctantly returned to the United States to face a jail sentence.

Kubby said he was concerned about heading back to a place that doesn't understand his health medicinal need for pot.
"The thought of people having an open animosity towards me, people that want to harm me, that want to bury their mistakes, that's very distressing," he said.
Kubby, 58, and his wife Michele had been fighting to stay in Canada almost since they arrived from the United States in 2001.
Kubby attempted to claim Canadian refugee status on the basis of persecution, both for his political opinion and his medicinal use of pot.

In the final hours before Kubby was due to get on a plane, his Canadian lawyer, Kirk Tousaw, was petitioning a B.C. Supreme Court judge for an injunction to prevent the minister of immigration from removing the Kubby family from Canada.
Tousaw argued the Kubbys still have an appeal pending in the Federal Court of Canada but the argument was rejected.
"These folks are going to be removed from Canada before they have exhausted all their rights," he said. "What's the harm in allowing them to stay in Canada? They don't pose any danger."

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Breast Exams

When breast cancer is detected early enough, it is often successfully treated; when it is not detected early, it could be fatal. This is why breast examinations are of important to all women, either your gynecologist or health practitioner perform regular breast exams on you, but it is more important that you perform them regularly on yourself.

Start to begin a routine of self breast exams as your cancer treatment at an early age, even though teens and twenties chances are low to have breast cancer. It is also necessary to be able to feel what is normal breast tissue for you and what is not.
Abnormal clumps or lumps of tissue are potential symptoms of problems and need to be detected and dealt with. It is these types of lumps that you are checking for while doing breast self exams.

Breast tissue is naturally lumpy, and it takes a little bit of time to become familiar with what is normal for you. The consistency of your breasts will often change throughout the menstrual cycle, becoming more lumpy just before menstruation. The best time to examine your breasts is soon after you finish your period. You must examine your breasts at approximately the same time each month in order to monitor yourself effectively.

Breast Self Exams
Here is how to examine your breast, use the flat of your fingers, not the tips, and feel around your breasts, one at a time, in a circular direction going from the outside (big circles) in (little circles).
Monitor your breasts in this way for any abnormal lumps or tenderness.

Sometimes it is helpful to raise your arm over your head on the side that is being examined, or to lie down to perform the exam. If you feel anything that is very hard (as hard as a frozen pea) it is a good idea to have your women health care provider feel it also, just to make sure that is feels normal. By doing breast exams in your teens, you will be making them part of a monthly routine that you will do for many years to come.



Adapted from Coolnurse.com

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Caring Your Inner Health

Inner health becomes very important because 95% of life threatening diseases starts inside our bodies where we can’t see what is happening. We will look at the main source of “body fuel” is the food that we eat and how we eat it. But before going into that subject, let's assume that we are not doing these activity : not smoking, no excessive alcohol drinking and no unprescribed drugs.

There is no point in eating foods that are saturated in fat as your basic diet and complaining that you are overweight and/or feel unwell. Of course you do because this is self-inflicted by inadequate diet. A good diet requires daily intake of the five major food groups that we have covered extensively.

Small meals taken regularly (even six meals each day) are better for you than long periods without food followed by a heavy meal. Large, rich, meals late at night should be avoided, especially for older people. A cooked meal at midday is digested better than a late night meal.

Drink enough at least one and a half quarts (1.5 liters) of fluid each day; much more if the weather is hot. Double your fluid intake when you ill. Water is best.

Eat more fiber in the fruit form, vegetables and whole grain bread. Two tablespoons of coarse bran can be added to your breakfast cereal for providing bulk, or roughage, that your digestive system depends upon for proper function.

Walk for at least half an hour each day, the exercise will increase your lifespan. If possible use stairs rather than escalators. All of these small things, together with your balanced diet, will increase your health and lifespan.

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Higher Risk of Major Disease for Black Women

African American women are twice as likely as white women to develop diabetes, heart disease and other major health problems. As the government addresses these disparities, African American health advocates are forging initiatives of their own.

As the fact that black women are 25 times more likely than white women to be infected with HIV/AIDS and twice as likely to be hepatitis C (a liver disease), lupus (an autoimmune disease), have heart attacks, develop diabetes (high blood sugar) and overweight. Significantly higher risk of cancer, asthma, arthritis, and the sexually transmitted disease chlamydia.

While stunning, those statistics come as no surprise to some experts in black women's medical care.
They say that these disparities started when black women do not get an screenings of adequate health with Only 75 percent of African American women seek prenatal care, as it compared to 89 percent of white women and only 7 percent of black women get treatment when they got depression, it's compared to 20 percent of other depression patients.

Even that they got medical care, African American women still often get short shrift. A 1994 study Journal of the American Medical Association found that Medicare patients who are African American with seriously ill and poor, in every type of hospital in America, will receive worse care than other gravely ill Medicare patients.

An addition to problems with the medical system, the socioeconomic factors also add to poor health.
Unemployment rates and poverty for black women are double that of white women, and accordingly to 2000 data from the Washington, D.C.-based U.S. Census Bureau. According to the Menlo Park, Calif.-based Kaiser Family Foundation, 20 percent 18 to 64 ages of black women are uninsured, it's compared to 16 percent of white women in the same age bracket.

Black women which address the health risks that threaten them, have launched organizations including the Sisters Network, the Black Women's Health Imperative, Bond's Chicago organization, and SisterLove, an Atlanta-based sexual health organization.

To supplement them, other African American organizations are urging black women to exercise regularly, eat healthier and get health screenings. Spearheading these efforts are black churches; professional groups such as The Links, Incorporated; Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Zeta Phi Beta Sorority and community organizations such as the National Council of Negro Women and the International Black Women's Congress.

"Society has failed the African American woman by devaluing the importance of her health, but our community is fighting back by working to close the health gap" says Jackson of the Sisters Network.

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Women Diabetes Risk

Diabetes is a disease in which the body fails to produce or process a hormone that is manufactured by the pancreas and helps convert food into energy called insulin. Diabetes causes glucose or sugar to accumulate in the bloodstream instead of being used for fuel and this buildup causes excessive thirst, frequent urination and physical exhaustion. Besides, it can also wreak havoc with the whole body, which is why diabetes often comes hand in hand with secondary complications like heart, eye and kidney disease.

For women diabetics, conditions like polycystic ovarian syndrome can increase the risk of developing either type of diabetes risk. Also, pregnant women will run the risk of giving birth to an unusually large infant weighing nine pounds.

A woman with as little as ten pounds overweight before pregnancy, could develop gestational diabetes, in which the hormones produced by the placenta interfere with insulin production in the mother. Gestational diabetes, which been affecting 4 percent of pregnancies in US, can increase the likelihood for a woman to develop diabetes types later in life.

Diabetics Women experience more fluctuations in the level of the hormone estrogen, so the cells will more receptive to insulin and lower the blood sugar. During the course of the menstrual cycle, diabetics women must carefully monitor their glucose levels. Other secondary complications that could be happen to women diabetics are cardiovascular disease and reduced blood flow to the hands and feet.

What makes treating diabetes so difficult is that no two cases are alike. Each woman exercises, eats well and follows the ABCs of diabetes treatment: "A" for an A1C blood test every three months, "B" for keeping blood pressure levels low, and "C" for maintaining healthy cholesterol levels.By taking these precautions, a women able to manage her diabetes with relative ease, keep on working 12-hour shifts and still finding the energy to shuttle her two children to drama or gymnastics classes.
But others must developed a host of secondary symptoms including vision problems, thyroid disease and kidney disease.

In most families, women are the ones who decide what kind of food goes on the table, when and how their families exercise. And as women, we have the opportunity and responsibility to protect ourselves families from this health epidemic.

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Women and Alzheimer

Women are only slightly more likely to develop Alzheimer's than men, its prevalence among women is twice as high simply because women live longer, with a life expectancy of 80 years versus 75 for men, means that half of all women over 85 in the US will eventually develop Alzheimer.

Women have unique health conditions that boost their risk of Alzheimer as they have to struggle with high cholesterol, diabetes and obesity that will increase the likelihood of developing Alzheimer's.

When proteins in the brain stop performing their normal function and instead cluster into two types of lesions: neurofibrillary tangles and amyloid plaques, that's when Alzheimer begun. By over time, these brain lesions will start to kill brain cells and erode learning, memory and reason.

The typical Alzheimer's caregiver is a 46-year-old married woman who works outside the home. Social and emotional factors play a part to take on the caregiving role of Alzheimer. Women have more of a sense of responsibility and a more natural urge to take care of others.


But the good news is that women can take some steps to protect from Alzheimer's. By getting regular exercise, eating lots of fruits, vegetables and fish, and keeping the mind active can help ward off the disease. So can taking a pass on hormone replacement therapy, which can double the risk of Alzheimer's.And if the patients start showing signs of confusion or memory loss, getting diagnosed and taking medication early can slow the Alzheimer's progression.

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Women's Heart Disease

Heart disease is the No. 1 killer of U.S. women, triggering more fatalities than the seven other leading causes of death combined.
Eighty percent of heart attacks in women can be prevented by educate women to protect themselves by getting exercise, eating healthy and lowering their cholesterol and blood pressure.

The 8 million American women who suffer from heart disease develop the same conditions as men, including angina (chest pain), stroke (loss of brain function caused by blockage of the blood vessels), coronary artery disease (in which plaque builds up in the blood vessels) and heart failure (in which the heart can't pump enough blood to the body), but women's symptoms can be dramatically different.

If women have high cholesterol levels, the plaque that builds up in their arteries tends to be softer and more diffuse than that of men. If they have blockages, these obstructions tend to lie not in the major arteries but in the often-overlooked smaller branches.

Women's heart attack symptoms are also usually more subtle. "Women tend to have less discomfort in their chest and more of the other associated symptoms like indigestion, backache, a vague feeling of malaise, unusual fatigue, dizziness and palpitations," says Dr. Robert Bonow, chief of cardiology at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. "Women also tend to have heart attacks in their 60s and 70s, decades later than men."

Women are advised to quit smoking, get 30 minutes of exercise a day and load up on fruits, vegetables and whole grains while going light on red meat and cheese. And get the heart condition regularly evaluated starting at age 40, and maintain healthy trigliceride, blood pressure and cholesterol levels.

Another warning also focused on factors that put women at highest risk of developing heart trouble such as being overweight, having diabetes, being African American and being over the age of 65.

Nancy Loving, director of the National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease says "For too long, we've lived with the stereotype that women are not at risk for heart disease, but women are finally beginning to take ownership of this epidemic and to claim it as their most pressing health issue."

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How Breasts Getting Bigger?

Many factors that influenced the breasts growth, including genetic, nutrition and the hormone stimulation that happens during puberty.
Those pubertal hormones produced by the pituitary gland, located in brain and responsible to produce hormones variety which play a critical role.As the result of the increased production of ovarian estrogen stimulated by the pituitary hormones, is an enlargement of the breasts as the sign that puberty has begun
As long the estrogen continues to be secreted in females, breasts will keep to grow and/or maintain it's size. Breasts may also enlarge slightly after menopause or on women taking birth control pills, estrogen-replacement pills. But naturally, breasts will enlarge during pregnancy as a result of estrogen secretion marked increase.
For women with poor diets weight loss and diet may notice that their breasts will smaller, unless she improved their nutrition, her breasts would enlarge to it's previous size.


Many girls often worry when they notice that her friend's breasts enlarging and theirs are not. Please note that lot of variation in the normal timing on the growth of the breast. Normally, breasts start growing as early at nine years age and it is also normal if it is not begin to grow until 14 years. In general, girl experiencing the breast growth within one year of the time her mother first noticed her own breasts growing but timing is even closer among sisters. It is an interesting and helpful to discuss it with them.

The first time a women wore a bra at their first menstrual period events are closely related with the breasts growth which is generally begin about a year before menses.Nutrition, exercise, and physical emotional health can affect the hormones levels, the family timing history of breast growth and menses provides a rough guess about when it will actually begin.

Girls should know that it is not always the same for both breasts and they should not be worry because there is usually catch-up by the time breasts fully grown which can take a few years. For many girls, one breast remains slightly larger than the other and rarely noticeable to anyone.

The breasts big for each women come in different sizes, some are tall an some short. And similarly some girls will have large, medium or small breast and many girls are unhappy with their breasts size and this attitudes of breast size are often influenced by fashions.In 1920's, it was considered desirable to have small breasts, as was the case in l960s when fashion models began to look emaciated and with the arrival of the Wonder Bra, it again became fashionable to have larger breasts.

There is no ideal breast size on a health perspective. The breast size has no relationship to breast cancer or ability to nurse an infant. Many available surgical procedures that could increase or decrease the breasts size. These are major operations and should not be done without an extensive information and considerable thought,as it will have serious possible complications and drawbacks. Safer alternatives for those who want to make their breasts appear larger is using padded bras
Please note that you have time on for your breasts continue to grow, especially during puberty and pregnancy and improving nutrition will contribute on increasing breast volume.

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