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Muriel Lights' Candle Designs: What is June Awareness Month for?Health and Wellne...

2019-06-15T18:15:00.001-07:00

Muriel Lights' Candle Designs: What is June Awareness Month for?Health and Wellne...: What is June Awareness Month for? Health and Wellness. Since Father's Day falls in June, it makes sense that June also is Men&#...

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What is June Awareness Month for?

Health and Wellness. Since Father's Day falls in June, it makes sense that June also is Men's Health Month, as well as International Men's Month. June also serves as the national month for Alzheimer's and brain awareness, aphasia awareness, cataract awareness, hernia awareness, migraine and headache awareness, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)...

Arts and Culture

African-American Music Appreciation Month is a good fit for June since June tenth falls on June 19 in recognition of slavery being abolished in Texas on that day in 1865. June also is National Caribbean-American Heritage Month. Other arts recognized with their own month in June include audiobooks, accordions, and bathroom reading, which might be one of the oddest topics to get its own month.

It's probably appropriate that Fireworks Safety Month is in June to prepare people for the Fourth of July.

Nature

Recognizing that the weather is getting warmer, June serves as Great Outdoors month and also is the national month for camping, gardening, roses, and rivers. Since not everything about warmer weather is pleasant, June also serves as Fight the Filthy Fly Month.

Home and Family

Children's Awareness Month falls in June, as does Student Safety Month and Potty Training Awareness Month. For four-legged (or no-legged) members of the family, the month also celebrates shelter-cat adoption and aquariums. But, remember, it's probably best to keep the cats away from the aquarium fish.

For family members who enjoy sports, June also is Sports America Kids Month and Women's Golf Month.

Business

Effective Communications Month falls in June and is a good topic for business professionals to revisit, as is Entrepreneurs Do It Yourself Marketing Month.

Miscellaneous

Flag Day falls on June 14 in the U.S., but all of June is National Flag Month. Other topics or issues recognized throughout the month include celibacy awareness, gay and lesbian pride, lane courtesy, hunger awareness, safety, smiling, and rebuilding your life.

Reference

https://www.thebalancecareers.com/calendar-of-national-awareness-month-celebrations-in-june-3514989

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DIABETES EMERGENCY

2019-04-17T07:42:00.000-07:00

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#T2Diabetes Facts - @nycHealthy @NYCHealthCommr is spending less than $3M on diabetes prevention out of a budget of $1.6B. It is time to declare #DiabetesEmergency #DiabetesCrisis

#T2Diabetes Facts – NYC has seen a 55 percent increase in diabetes-related lower limb amputations since 2009. It is time to declare #DiabetesEmergency #DiabetesCrisis

Muriel Lights' Candle Designs: Celebrating Black History Month

2019-02-07T11:27:00.001-08:00

Muriel Lights' Candle Designs: Celebrating Black History Month

Celebrating Black History Month

2019-02-07T11:21:00.002-08:00

Muriel Lights' Candle Designs: Celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day

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Muriel Lights' Candle Designs: Celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day

2019-01-21T06:19:00.001-08:00

Muriel Lights' Candle Designs: Cervical Cancer Health Month

2019-01-14T06:28:00.001-08:00

Muriel Lights' Candle Designs: Cervical Cancer Health Month: he United States Congress designated January as Cervical Health Awareness Month. Nearly 13,000 women in the United States are diagnosed with...

Cervical Cancer Health Month

2019-01-14T06:05:00.002-08:00

he United States Congress designated January as Cervical Health Awareness Month. Nearly 13,000 women in the United States are diagnosed with cervical cancer each year, but the disease is virtually always preventable with vaccination and appropriate screening (Pap and HPV tests).

USPSTF Cervical Cancer Screening Recommendations for Women at Average Risk

Cervical cancer screening should start at 21 years of age.
Women ages 21 to 29 years should have a Pap test every three years.
Women ages 30 to 65 years have the choice to get a Pap test every three years, a HR HPV test every five years, or a Pap test and HR HPV test every five years.

Women who are not having sex or who think they're too old to have a child should still have regular cervical cancer screenings. Women who have had the HPV vaccine still need regular screening.

Women can stop getting screened if they are older than 65 and have had normal Pap results for many years. Women who have had their cervix removed during surgery for a non-cancerous reason, such as fibroids, may not need screening.

Women should talk with their health care provider to decide what is best for them.

There are two screening tests that can help prevent cervical cancer or find it early:

Papanicolaou test (known as a Pap test or Pap Smear)
A Pap test looks for changes in cells taken from the cervix and sent to a lab to be looked at under a microscope. It is most often done during a routine pelvic exam. If the Pap test results show cells that are not normal and may become cancer, your health care provider will contact you for follow-up. There are many reasons why Pap test results might not be normal. It usually does not mean you have cancer.
High Risk (HR) Human Papillomavirus (HPV) test
The HR HPV test looks for the high-risk types of this virus that cause most cases of cervical cancer. The HPV test can be done at the same time as the Pap test using either the same sample of cells or a second sample taken right after the Pap test. A positive result for HR HPV means that you should be followed closely to make sure that abnormal cells do not develop. For more information on HPV and HPV vaccine visit:
http://www.health.ny.gov/diseases/communicable/human_papillomavirus/

Many people confuse pelvic exams with Pap tests because they are usually done at the same time. The pelvic exam is part of a woman's regular health care. During this exam, the health care provider looks at and feels the reproductive organs. The pelvic exam may help find diseases of the female organs, but it will not find cancer of the cervix at an early stage. To do that, cervical cancer screening tests are needed.

Revised: October 2018

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2018-12-30T08:07:00.001-08:00

Muriel Lights' Candle Designs: Merry Christmas From Muriel Light's

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Muriel Lights' Candle Designs: Merry Christmas From Muriel Light's

Merry Christmas From Muriel Light's

2018-12-24T06:14:00.000-08:00

Muriel Lights' Candle Designs: Seasonal Depression

2018-12-03T12:42:00.001-08:00

Muriel Lights' Candle Designs: Seasonal Depression: This this will be my 5th year of feeling depress during the month of November. The feelings using slips up around the end of October and c...

Muriel Lights' Candle Designs: Seasonal Depression

2018-12-03T12:38:00.001-08:00

Muriel Lights' Candle Designs: Seasonal Depression: This this will be my 5th year of feeling depress during the month of November. The feelings using slips up around the end of October and c...

Seasonal Depression

2018-12-03T12:36:00.000-08:00

This this will be my 5th year of feeling depress during the month of November. The feelings using slips up around the end of October and clearly last into the Thanksgiving festivity's.

Rightfully so I realize that because my husband died in the beginning of November and my Mother on Thanksgiving Day feeling their presence should not be usual. But these last years I realize it was so much more that. For me the feeling seem to consume me more than any other time of the year.

The tribulation to feeling thankful was true but foreign in comparison to the pain of sleepless nights, anger and mood swings and just plain deep sadness. For a while I felt like I was making it up. This is truly difficult for a person who is use to being in control, and finding out I can't control everything.

My hopes is this will help someone who in December while everyone is happy they feel crazy because they are not. I does not have to last for months even thought it might feel like it is. It does get better and until next year: I am good and grateful my feeling has a name. Do the winter months get you down more than you think they should? If so, you might have seasonal depression, also known as seasonal affective disorder (SAD).

Seasonal depression is a mood disorder that happens every year at the same time. A rare form of seasonal depression, known as "summer depression," begins in late spring or early summer and ends in fall. In general, though, seasonal affective disorder starts in fall or winter and ends in spring or early summer.

Causes

While we don't know the exact causes of SAD, some scientists think that certain hormones made deep in the brain trigger attitude-related changes at certain times of year. Experts believe that SAD may be related to these hormonal changes. One theory is that less sunlight during fall and winter leads to the brain making less serotonin, a chemical linked to brain pathways that regulate mood. When nerve cell pathways in the brain that regulate mood don't function normally, the result can be feelings of depression, along with symptoms of fatigue and weight gain.

SAD usually starts in young adulthood and is more common in women than men. Some people with SAD have mild symptoms and feel out of sorts or irritable. Others have worse symptoms that interfere with relationships and work.

Because the lack of enough daylight during wintertime is related to SAD, it's less often found in countries where there's plenty of sunshine year-round.

https://www.webmd.com/depression/guide/seasonal-affective-disorder#1

Muriel Lights' Candle Designs: WORLD AIDS DAY

2018-12-01T10:12:00.001-08:00

Muriel Lights' Candle Designs: WORLD AIDS DAY

WORLD AIDS DAY

2018-12-01T10:11:00.000-08:00

Muriel Lights' Candle Designs: Happy Thanks Giving

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Muriel Lights' Candle Designs: Happy Thanks Giving

Happy Thanks Giving

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Marijuana and Cancer

2018-07-02T12:27:00.000-07:00

Marijuana is the name given to the dried buds and leaves of varieties of the Cannabis sativa plant, which can grow wild in warm and tropical climates throughout the world and be cultivated commercially. It goes by many names, including pot, grass, cannabis, weed, hemp, hash, marijuana, ganja, and dozens of others.

Marijuana has been used in herbal remedies for centuries. Scientists have identified many biologically active components in marijuana. These are called cannabinoids. The two best studied components are the chemicals delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (often referred to as THC), and cannabidiol (CBD). Other cannabinoids are being studied.

At this time, the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) lists marijuana and its cannabinoids as Schedule I controlled substances. This means that they cannot legally be prescribed, possessed, or sold under federal law. Whole or crude marijuana (including marijuana oil or hemp oil) is not approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for any medical use. But the use of marijuana to treat some medical conditions is legal under state laws in many states.

Dronabinol, a pharmaceutical form of THC, and a man-made cannabinoid drug called nabilone are approved by the FDA to treat some conditions.

Marijuana

Different compounds in marijuana have different actions in the human body. For example, delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) seems to cause the "high" reported by marijuana users, and also can help relieve pain and nausea, reduce inflammation, and can act as an antioxidant. Cannabidiol (CBD) can help treat seizures, can reduce anxiety and paranoia, and can counteract the "high" caused by THC.

Different cultivars (strains or types) and even different crops of marijuana plants can have varying amounts of these and other active compounds. This means that marijuana can have different effects based on the strain used.

The effects of marijuana also vary depending on how marijuana compounds enter the body:

When taken by mouth, such as in baked goods, the THC is absorbed poorly and can take hours to be absorbed. Once it’s absorbed, it’s processed by the liver, which produces a second psychoactive compound (a substance that acts on the brain and changes mood or consciousness) that affects the brain differently than THC.
When marijuana is smoked or vaporized (inhaled), THC enters the bloodstream and goes to the brain quickly. The second psychoactive compound is produced in small amounts, and so has less effect. The effects of inhaled marijuana fade faster than marijuana taken by mouth.

How can marijuana affect symptoms of cancer?

A number of small studies of smoked marijuana found that it can be helpful in treating nausea

and vomiting from cancer chemotherapy.

A few studies have found that inhaled (smoked or vaporized) marijuana can be helpful treatment of neuropathic pain (pain caused by damaged nerves).

Smoked marijuana has also helped improve food intake in HIV patients in studies.

There are no studies in people of the effects of marijuana oil or hemp oil.

Studies have long shown that people who took marijuana extracts in clinical trials tended to need less pain medicine.

More recently, scientists reported that THC and other cannabinoids such as CBD slow growth and/or cause death in certain types of cancer cells growing in lab dishes. Some animal studies also suggest certain cannabinoids may slow growth and reduce spread of some forms of cancer.

There have been some early clinical trials of cannabinoids in treating cancer in humans and more studies are planned. While the studies so far have shown that cannabinoids can be safe in treating cancer, they do not show that they help control or cure the disease.

Relying on marijuana alone as treatment while avoiding or delaying conventional medical care for cancer may have serious health consequences.

Possible harms of marijuana

Marijuana can also pose some harms to users. While the most common effect of marijuana is a feeling of euphoria ("high"), it also can lower the user’s control over movement, cause disorientation, and sometimes cause unpleasant thoughts or feelings of anxiety and paranoia.

Smoked marijuana delivers THC and other cannabinoids to the body, but it also delivers harmful substances to users and those close by, including many of the same substances found in tobacco smoke.

Because marijuana plants come in different strains with different levels of active compounds, it can make each user’s experience very hard to predict. The effects can also differ based on how deeply and for how long the user inhales. Likewise, the effects of ingesting marijuana orally can vary between people. Also, some chronic users can develop an unhealthy dependence on marijuana.

Cannabinoid drugs

There are 2 chemically pure drugs based on marijuana compounds that have been approved in the US for medical use.

Dronabinol (Marinol®) is a gelatin capsule containing delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) that’s approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat nausea and vomiting caused by cancer chemotherapy as well as weight loss and poor appetite in patients with AIDS.
Nabilone (Cesamet®) is a synthetic cannabinoid that acts much like THC. It can be taken by mouth to treat nausea and vomiting caused by cancer chemotherapy when other drugs have not worked.

Nabiximols is a cannabinoid drug still under study in the US. It’s a mouth spray made up of a whole-plant extract with THC and cannabidiol (CBD) in an almost one to one mix. It’s available in Canada and parts of Europe to treat pain linked to cancer, as well as muscle spasms and pain from multiple sclerosis (MS). It’s not approved in the US at this time, but it’s being tested in clinical trials to see if it can help a number of conditions.

How can cannabinoid drugs affect symptoms of cancer?

Based on a number of studies, dronabinol can be helpful for reducing nausea and vomiting linked to chemotherapy.

Dronabinol has also been found to help improve food intake and prevent weight loss in patients with HIV. In studies of cancer patients, though, it wasn’t better than placebo or another drug (megestrol acetate).

Nabiximols has shown promise for helping people with cancer pain that’s unrelieved by strong pain medicines, but it hasn’t been found to be helpful in every study done. Research is still being done on this drug.

Side effects of cannabinoid drugs

Like many other drugs, the prescription cannabinoids, dronabinol and nabilone, can cause side effects and complications.

Some people have trouble with increased heart rate, decreased blood pressure (especially when standing up), dizziness or lightheadedness, and fainting. These drugs can cause drowsiness as well as mood changes or a feeling of being “high” that some people find uncomfortable. They can also worsen depression, mania, or other mental illness. Some patients taking nabilone in studies reported hallucinations. The drugs may increase some effects of sedatives, sleeping pills, or alcohol, such as sleepiness and poor coordination. Patients have also reported problems with dry mouth and trouble with recent memory.

Older patients may have more problems with side effects and are usually started on lower doses.

People who have had emotional illnesses, paranoia, or hallucinations may find their symptoms are worse when taking cannabinoid drugs.

Talk to your doctor about what you should expect when taking one of these drugs. It’s a good idea to have someone with you when you first start taking one of these drugs and after any dose changes.

What does the American Cancer Society say about the use of marijuana in people with cancer?

The American Cancer Society supports the need for more scientific research on cannabinoids for cancer patients, and recognizes the need for better and more effective therapies that can overcome the often debilitating side effects of cancer and its treatment. The Society also believes that the classification of marijuana as a Schedule I controlled substance by the US Drug Enforcement Administration imposes numerous conditions on researchers and deters scientific study of cannabinoids. Federal officials should examine options consistent with federal law for enabling more scientific study on marijuana.

Medical decisions about pain and symptom management should be made between the patient and his or her doctor, balancing evidence of benefit and harm to the patient, the patient’s preferences and values, and any laws and regulations that may apply.

The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN), the Society’s advocacy affiliate, has not taken a position on legalization of marijuana for medical purposes because of the need for more scientific research on marijuana’s potential benefits and harms. However, ACS CAN opposes the smoking or vaping of marijuana and other cannabinoids in public places because the carcinogens in marijuana smoke pose numerous health hazards the patient and others in the patient’s presence.

References

New York Cancer Society

Last Medical Review: March 4, 2015 Last Revised: March 16, 2017 Obtained July 2, 2018 CW

Lung Force Walk

2018-05-20T12:08:00.002-07:00

I want to thank everyone who participated in helping raised funds for the Lung Force walk. Lung cancer in recent years is the #1 killer of women. Like some of the other volunteers and people who also walked I too have lost a love one to this disease. Lung disease includes such diseases such as asthma and COPD which I know is a continues problem for many people in our community. Change comes with education, research and the combined efforts of others. Rain or Shine

That’s why I decided to participate in the LUNG FORCE Walk. When you join the American Lung Association and LUNG FORCE in the fight against lung cancer and for lung health, you join us in our mission to improve lives—and save lives.

Muriel Lights' Candle Designs: Lung Force Walk Join usMAY 19, 2018 9:30 AM (ET)So...

2018-05-18T08:20:00.001-07:00

Muriel Lights' Candle Designs: Lung Force Walk Join us MAY 19, 2018 9:30 AM (ET)So...: Lung Force Walk Join us MAY 19, 2018 9:30 AM (ET) South Street Seaport, Pier 16 | New York, NY Together, with you and you...