HowToDoThings.com Seniors' Health

How To Prevent MRSA

bronwyn — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:06:23 -0600

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, is an extremely drug-resistant bacterium, also known as a superbug. A form of staph, the MRSA bacteria can be spread by touching surfaces that are contaminated, and by skin-to-skin contact. MRSA causes skin infections, pneumonia, blood poisoning, and toxic shock syndrome - but there are ways to prevent MRSA!

How To Renew Your Confidence While Toning Your Figure for the New Year

melbeau — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 14:23:31 -0600

Applying the art of steadfastness in your yoga practice can be a lifelong journey. Yet begin today, and you will be inspired by the positive transformation of your mind, moods and body. When applying your asana (poses), heighten your experience further by integrating muscle balance and control. Delve deeper than simply "holding" your pose: Explore the sensation of bracing your balance, rooting your core and engaging your muscles. Study the pictures in correlation with the descriptions. Apply "stabilization" to achieve maximum results. Access to the wall and yoga blocks can be powerful and effective tools in reinforcing stability. Optimum steadfastness begins with a stable foundation.

How To Use the Power of Touch in Your Yoga Practice

melbeau — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 16:15:02 -0600

When we suffer from anxiety, our minds can become scattered and our bodies riddled with tension. Yoga has the ability to pull us out of a state of anxiety and place us into an environment of physical and mental solitude. Practicing yoga enables us to use all of our physical senses to help pull us back to calmness. One powerful sense we can learn to apply and cultivate in our asana (pose) is touch. By shifting our attention into pressing our hands and feet to the earth and grounding our asana, we've established a stable environment that can be calming and healing.

How To Prevent or Heal Osteoporosis

freepam — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 15:14:44 -0500

Women in the U.S. are diagnosed with bone problems, first osteopenia and then osteoporosis, more than in any other country in the world. Most doctors recommend bisphosphonate drugs, but there are many easy non-drug alternatives that can make your bones much stronger with no side effects.

How To Treat and Prevent Insomnia

contact@bodyfixes.com — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 13:17:13 -0500

It is one thing to know why older people don't sleep as well; it is quite another to do something about it. There is no easy solution because the aging process proceeds at a different pace in different people and affects each of us differently. If you are one of the 35 million Americans who has trouble sleeping, remember that age is not the only culprit. Here are some general measures to help you get sleep, no matter how old or how young you are:

How To Get Out of Bed

tjbooks — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:51:37 -0500

My grandfather use to wake me up in the middle of the night and say, "John, rub my legs." I would rub his legs until I got the circulation going again so he could go back to sleep. His one leg was pitted with scares where bone fragments had pierced the skin during a two-year healing period after he had crushed in in a quarry explosion. Old age made things worse. My grandfather died at age 95 when I was fighting in Korea.

Old injuries are painful to old people, but we are susceptible to new life-shortening injuries to our bodies. They may come by accident or by other means such as not eating breakfast. Here are some ways to stay healthy in old age:

How To Recognize Perimenopause

Staff468 — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:47:00 -0500

Understanding that the prefix "peri" means "around" helps explain the meaning of perimenopause. Perimenopause is the time around menopause, both the years leading up to menopause and then the first year or so after. Here is some information that will help you to recognize perimenopause:

Hormone Levels. During perimenopause, your hormone levels are all over the map. Estrogen and progesterone levels, which used to shift predictably, begin to rise and fall unevenly.

read more

How To Learn About the Hormone Replacement Therapy Study

Staff468 — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 16:02:00 -0500

From 1991-2006, the National Institutes of Health ran the Women's Health Initiative (WHI), a long-term study that focused on strategies to prevent diseases that affect women. The 15-year project involved more than 161,000 women from across the United States, aged 50-79. As part of the Women's Health Initiative, a clinical trial testing the effects of hormone replacement therapy on heart disease, breast and colorectal cancer risk and osteoporotic fractures, was run. Hormone therapy is the administration of either estrogen only or estrogen in combination with either progesterone or progestin (progesterone in synthetic form). We have the Women's Health Initiative to thank for putting a stop to the routine practice of prescribing women hormone replacement therapy upon menopause. The information here (gleaned from the hormone therapy trial of the Women's Health Initiative) will help you better understand why:

read more

How To Understand Age Spots

Staff468 — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 13:45:00 -0600

Age spots, also commonly known as liver spots or sun spots, are those flat, brownish black skin discolorations that are often seen on people who are advancing in years. Age spots tend to appear on skin that receives a lot of sun exposure, including the back of the hands, forearms, feet, and shoulders as well as the neck and face (particularly the forehead). Just for the record, even though age spots are sometimes referred to as liver spots, they have nothing to do with your liver. Here are a few points that will help you to better understand age spots:

The skin produces melanin in an effort to protect itself from ultraviolet rays. Age spots are basically an excess of melanin concentrated in one area. Age spots rarely appear in areas that have not been exposed to the sun.

read more

How To Recognize the Signs of a Stroke

The2 — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:17:00 -0600

Note: Always call 911 as soon as you suspect that a medical emergency has occurred.

The American Stroke Association, a division of the American Heart Association, warns that a stroke is the third leading cause of death in American adults. Unfortunately strokes occur often, so it's important to know how to recognize one.

The most important thing to remember when you encounter someone who you suspect has had a stroke is time matters. If a stroke victim gets to the hospital within 2 hours of the onset of symptoms, doctors may be able to administer a drug that could counteract some of the effects of the stroke and help lead to a more meaningful recovery.

read more