Here’s one tip for halloween, some of us have dogs that go with us trick or treating but don’t forget:
“1.If you dress up your pet, make sure the costume lets them breathe and move. Speaking of eating, chocolate may be a favorite in your goodie bag, but it can be deadly to dogs and cats.
The darker the chocolate, the deadlier it is to your pet, according to Dr. Ron DeHaven with the American Veterinary Association.
“Don’t fill up on junk this Halloween. Treat yourself to yummy fruits and vegetables too. They make a great healthy snack to serve for Halloween parties with some sweets. It’s Halloween and the flu season is here! Keeping hands clean by washing them with soap and water is one of the best ways to prevent the spread of germs.”
CDC Center for Disease Control and Prevention
“Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a chronic inflammatory lung disease that causes obstructed airflow from the lungs.”
MAYO clinic
“Breathing out requires no effort from your body unless you have a lung disease or are doing physical activity. As your lungs expand, air is sucked in through your nose or mouth. The air travels down your windpipe and into your lungs. After passing through your bronchial tubes, the air finally reaches and enters the alveoli (air sacs) but with COPD this is not the case.”
NIH National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
“Diagnosis of Rett syndrome is based upon clinical criteria; A clinician should consider Rett syndrome when slowing of head growth is observed after birth. In most cases, the correct diagnosis can be made through a blood test(s) to identify the mutation of the MECP2 gene. But since the MECP2 mutation can also be found with other disorders, this finding alone is not enough to make a conclusive diagnosis of Rett syndrome.”
.Mychildwithoutlimits.org
“Rett syndrome is a brain disorder that occurs almost exclusively in girls. The most common form of the condition is known as classic Rett syndrome. After birth, girls with classic Rett syndrome have 6 to 18 months of apparently normal development before developing severe problems with language and communication, learning, coordination, and other brain functions.”
NIH (U.S. National Library of Medicine)
“Most SIDS deaths occur when in babies between 1 month and 4 months of age, and the majority (90%) of SIDS deaths occur before a baby reaches 6 months of age. However SIDS deaths can occur anytime during a baby’s first year. SIDS is the leading cause of death for babies from 1 month to a year old.”
NIH National Institute of Health
Today’s section regarding Controllable Risk Factors you can change if needed which are:
Studies have shown a clear association between obesity and increased risk of post-menopausal breast cancer. Because having more fat tissue can increase a woman’s level of estrogen, it is important for a woman to attempt to control her weight, particularly after menopause. Once a woman has stopped menstruating, her levels of estrogen and progesterone are much lower than they once were. Excess fat tissue may cause significant increases in her hormone levels.
Physical activity not only helps a woman reduce her risk of breast cancer by maintaining a healthy body weight, it may also have its own benefits to risk reduction. Some studies have shown that physical exercise throughout a woman’s life reduces her risk, independent of her weight.
One theory is that exercise may reduce a woman’s risk by limiting menstrual function, and it has been observed that regular physical exercise can delay menarche — the onset of menstruation — when body fat percentage is low. Since breast cancer risk may be significantly influenced by a woman’s lifetime exposure to hormones, reducing that exposure may also reduce her risk.
Many epidemiological studies spanning the past 20 years have shown an association between alcohol consumption and increased risk of breast cancer. Studies have consistently found that women who consume at least three alcoholic drinks per day are at higher risk for developing breast cancer than women who do not drink alcohol. Furthermore, study findings have shown that for women who drink two alcoholic drinks or more per day, breast cancer risk is related to the amount of alcohol consumed — higher consumption of alcohol equals higher breast cancer risk.
Among other mechanisms, it has been suggested that alcohol may increase a woman’s hormone levels. A recent study fed women specified amounts of alcohol each day, and demonstrated that a woman’s levels of blood estrogen did increase according to the amount of alcohol she consumed. In particular, the breast cancer risk of post-menopausal women, whose bodies make very little estrogen compared with pre-menopausal women, may be affected by alcohol consumption by this mechanism.
A study conducted by the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) showed that women in the study population who took hormone replacement therapy — combined estrogen and progestin — had a 26 percent increased risk (relative to an average woman) of invasive breast cancer after four to five years of therapy. This finding is consistent with the growing evidence that exogenous (outside) hormones increase a woman’s lifetime estrogen exposure as well as increasing her breast cancer risk.
An analysis published in July 2002 pulled together data from 47 previous studies to show that breastfeeding does in fact slightly lower a woman’s risk of breast cancer. The longer a woman breastfed, the lower her risk was. For optimal benefit, we recommend breastfeeding a child for 12 months. The hormonal balance is different than a non pregnant women who does not breast feed 12 months.
The decision of whether or not to breastfeed is certainly a very personal one. The knowledge that breastfeeding may offer a slight reduction in risk for developing breast cancer is just one of the many factors that will influence how long a woman decides to breastfeed.