TEN FACTS ABOUT BREAST CANCER

·         For every 100,000 women, about twenty five will suffer from breast cancer.

·         Every woman whether young or old is at risk of breast cancer. It is easier to treat all cancers, including breast cancer if discovered early through routine self-examination, mammography, ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging. In other words, check yourself regularly and see a doctor if you notice anything strange.

·         Statistics reveal that about 1% of men have breast cancer. When they do, it is more deadly because men's breasts are smaller and have fewer nerves in them. So it is not an exclusively female disease.

CAN MEN ALSO HAVE BREAST CANCER?

Breast cancer is widely perceived to happen among women, but the truth is that though breast cancer may be rare in men, it still happens. After all, men have breast tissues too. Research has it that the overall ratio of female to male breast cancer is about 100 to 1. This may sound like a small number but the reality is that 390 men die out of 1,970 diagnosed

HEALTH BENEFITS OF LOVE

To love and be loved is certainly a good feeling. We all long for love and this begins from when we are babies and it continues till we reach our senior years. No matter how one looks at it, love is like air that we all thrive on. The surprise is that it has been proven that apart from its physical  benefits, there are several medical benefits of love

ARE YOU STRESSED?

For most city dwellers, stress is so commonplace that it has become  a  way of life. Stress isn’t always bad. In small doses, it can help you perform under pressure and be at your best. But when it goes beyond a certain point, it starts causing major damage to your health, mood, productivity, relationships, and quality of life. At that point, believe me, you are stressed.

EMOTIONAL ABUSE

Not all abuse is physical in nature and may not necessarily involve sores and bruises, some are verbal or silent. Emotional abuse is often very destructive and harmful, leaving the victims with unseen pains and scars that would take years and years of  counseling  to overcome. Regrettably, because there are no ugly scars or bruises,  society  doesn’t  lend as much credence to  emotional abuse as it should,  and even the victims play down on this ill.

COUGHS

Coughing is the body’s way of removing foreign material or mucus from the lungs

COLDS

Cold is caused by many viruses. The symptoms of a cold are a runny nose, red eyes, sneezing, sore throat, dry cough, headache and general body aches.