For women who are concerned about being able to spot the signs of a heart attack, the majority of sufferers do experience chest pains, but women should be aware of their risk factors for heart disease, such as high cholesterol, diabetes, smoking and high blood pressure.   Those who are at increased risk should become more familiar with other heart-attack signals, such as persistent pain in parts of the body other than the chest.

One half to two-thirds of us do not realize we have it until cirrhosis sets in. That’s because the initial infection causes no symptoms in most cases.   Instead, the virus silently damages the liver over the years, and people may only discover they are infected when they develop irreversible liver cirrhosis.

Get a blood test today and learn more from Reuters here!

Since I found the much-needed training and self-discipline to lose my extra weight, I find myself outraged daily by the risks some will take to lose weight.

We apparently can find NO self-control or discipline and instead choose to use very scary drugs and surgeries, rather than simply making the decision to stop indulging ourselves daily.

When others ask me how I lost the weight, the first thing I say is, “You have to really want it.“   One woman my age responded with, “Oh, but I LOVE pasta!“  Ah, but do you love pasta more than life itself?

Most of us have a serious starch addiction.   Think of it as a heroin problem, because it will kill you in the long run just as surely as heroin will, except that it’s worse because this is something we need to consume everyday.

Can you make the decision today to only eat about one-third as much starch, sugar, and fat as you have been eating, and replace those calories with high quality protein, vegetables and fruit?

Losing weight requires that we each make some hard, conscious choices, not excuses about how we eat.   Sure, it’s easy to blame it on your mother, commercialism, your unique metabolism, but that does not change the fact that unless you decide to stop eating so much and make radically different food choices, your chosen lifestyle will most certainly kill you.

The next question is how much and how long do you want to live?  If you see obesity as a slow way of killing yourself because you don’t enjoy your life, get help!   This is an entirely different issue which can only be resolved through counseling.

We all think there must be some secret, magic formula to living healthy.   I often recall a conversation I had with a friend decades ago.   This friend was in great shape in college, and had lost sixty pounds while still in high school.   So I asked, “How did you do it?“   His excellent answer was: “I stopped eating so much!“

Ever since I read this yesterday I’ve been taking special interest in how fast everyone around me walks!

The findings, published in the journal Immunity, showed the time of an infection changed its severity.

Learn more over at the BBC.

Learn more here!

New research shows that drinking just two cups a day may reduce depression, and the more coffee you drink the less you may feel depressed.

Coffee is also known to reduce your risk of developing many other diseases by blocking the chemical processes of diabetes, Parkinson’s, inflammation, and some cancers.

But keep your coffee consumption to the morning hours, or it may negatively effect your sleep cycle!

For those, the chemical ingredients are not as important as the “expectations of healing.”   Expectations are POWERFUL!!!

Learn more on 60 Minutes this upcoming Sunday night (Feb. 19th).

This interference can trick fat cells into taking in more fat or mislead the pancreas into secreting excess insulin, a hormone that regulates the breakdown of fat and carbohydrates.

Among the most ubiquitous of these so-called endocrine disruptors is bisphenol A, better known as BPA, a common ingredient in plastics and food-can linings.

Learn more over at the Huffington Post.

Go read this first over at my Believe in Love Again blog!