Women’s Health Weekly Review: July 6 – July 12
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Breast Cancer
Breast asymmetry after cancer treatment affects quality of life, U-M study finds
The gene HER2 that is overexpressed in 20% of breast cancers increases the number of cancer stem cells, the cells that fuel a tumor’s growth and spread, according to a new study from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center. Herceptin – a drug used to treat HER2-positive breast cancer – targets and destroys the cancer stem cells.
According to a report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences breast cancer cells secrete a common inflammatory protein, IL-8. When the the protein was blocked with an antibody, it completely stopped the spread of breast cancer to the lungs (this was in mice). They also found that the protein produced by the gene DACH1 blocks the production of IL-8 – DACH1 is commonly missing or inactive in invasive breast cancer
Pregnancy
Children born from frozen embryos weigh more and do better than those born after fresh transfer
IVF does not increase risk of developmental disorders in children
Other
In a study published in the journal Biological Psychiatry data is presented that suggests a particular variant of a gene involved in endorphin metabolism may result in women with this variant to be more susceptible to alcoholism.
Early-life nutrition may be associated with adult intellectual functioning
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July 11, 2008
Friday Favorites
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Happy Friday!
Announcements
Wendy Piersall of Sparkplugging launched a new project this week called SparkplugU which offers classes to “help you make money from home and start or market your business”!
Sally of InDenialHealth.com announced the launch of two new blogs to her network: InDenialMoney.com and InDenialEarth.com.
Congratulations Wendy and Sally!
An Apology
Mary Robbins from the National Women’s Law Center emailed me earlier about a new national campaign that’s launched: Health Care for America Now – a “$40 million coalition effort to push for quality, affordable health care for every American”. And I completely forgot to blog about it! Sorry about that. Please visit Why Reform Matters for more information.
Health
Liz and Liberty of Healthbolt Carnival posted another edition of the blog carnival this week – lots of good information here – please visit! (They even included a post from me!)
I was also interviewed this week by Hsien-Hsien Lei: What does DNA mean to you? – thanks Hsien!
Work and Business
Anita Bruzzese discussed whether or not is always a good idea to take a promotion that’s been offered to you: You’re Such a Total Dumb**s for Not Taking That Promotion….Or Maybe Not….
Sharon Hurley Hall asks: When Last Did You Pay Yourself?.
Rebecca Leaman shared 4 Ways to Put a PowerPoint Presentation on Your Web Site.
Productivity
Elizabeth Potts Weinstein started a series of posts about ‘Time Perception Tips’ – the first went up this week: The Dog Ate My Blog, or 5 Time Perception Tips, part 1
Writing and Blogging
Arachne Jericho had some Thoughts on Greatness and Blogging this week.
Kristen King asks: Professional Development for Writers: What Organizations Do You Recommend?.
Some Quickies
7 phrases you can’t say in conflict resolution
SPOT-Light HER2 CISH: New Breast Cancer Genetic Test, FDA-Approved
Why Was This Woman Separated from Her Baby?
Autism in Babies: Early Detection By Tracking Eye Movements?
Do schools today kill creativity?
The importance of prenatal vitamins – and a give away
Female College Grads Expect Less
Fun Stuff to end your week with!
Judy Haley at Coffee Jitters has some cute pictures of ducks feeding.
Baby Panda video from National Geographic
Have a great weekend!
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July 10, 2008
Overcoming Underearning: Book Review Part 9
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This week I’ve read Chapter 8 of ‘Overcoming UnderEarning’ by Barbara Stanny.
In this chapter Barbara goes through step 5 of the 5 steps to make you a ‘doer’.
Step 5: Respect and Appreciate Money
The name of this step pretty much describes what this chapter is about. Now, personally, I don’t have a problem with taking care of the money I have, my problem is figuring out how to make more of it. But given the rate of savings in the U.S. and how much the average person is in debt, this chapter is probably pretty valuable to a lot of people out there.
“If you want it to last, you’ve got to take care of it.”
Barbara says that she met many people while researching this book and that “the ones with the highest net worth were not necessarily the ones who made the most money“.
Next she lists the Four Rules of Money:
1) Spend less
2) Save more
3) Invest wisely
4) Give generously
She also discusses how you need to shift your mindset from whatever it is now to that of a wealth builder.
From my own experience I can say that, yes, at times it was difficult to go without something I wanted – but I keep a close eye on my savings account. And it felt really, really, good to see that number get bigger and bigger over time. Sure, it takes a while. You have to be patient. If you can only save a little bit each month it takes a while, but it does all add up. And once I had a decent amount saved I was able to think about actually investing some in mutual funds. I ended up buying the ‘Mutual Funds for Dummies’ book and that really helped me a lot to understand what I needed to do.
Anyway, back to the book:
This chapter includes a 2 part exercise also:
Part 1: Track your Spending
Part 2: Spending Review
These are really important. I used to keep a notebook where I would write down everything I bought, all my expenses, etc. And see where I could cut back so I could save as much as possible.
Barbara is really giving some good advice in this chapter – do what she says and in a few years you will be very happy that you did!
Next time – Chapter 9.
Time for my favorite quote from this chapter:
“My advice to you is if you can’t afford it, don’t buy it.”
— Warren Buffett
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July 9, 2008
Learn from the best women fitness bloggers!
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As I mentioned in my previous post – it is necessary to be as healthy as you can to be able to achieve and succeed with many different challenges in life. When you are healthy you have more more energy and strength to be able to do what you want to with your life.
There are many important and necessary components to being healthy, but the one I want to focus on today is general fitness.
I searched the blogosphere for the best fitness blogs written by women that I could find – I’m sure I missed some though – so don’t hate me if I don’t include you here! Many of them also took time from their busy days to answer some interview questions from me over the last couple of weeks.
The following blogs – in no particular order – are written by women who we can all learn from. They all write from an unique perspective that is both realistic (at least for some of us) and not based on fear, fads or fantasy. Please take some time and visit their blogs:
- Crabby McSlacker of Cranky Fitness
– who understands that fitness isn’t always fun! Her tagline cracks me up: “Because most health and fitness advice is too damn cheerful”. Read Crabby’s interview.
- Lauren of laurensfitness.com
– who wants to give people quality information about fitness and to help them avoid all the nonsense out there, some of which can be harmful to your health. Read Lauren’s interview.
- Sally of InDenialHealth.com
– who tries to motivate and encourage ‘change with good humor and sound advice’. Read Sally’s interview.
- Spin Diva of Family In Shape
– who is “passionate about teaching others how to reach their fitness goals and bring the kids along with them”. Read Spin Diva’s interview.
- Monica Shaw of SmarterFitter
– whose tagline is “Less diet, more brain” and wants her web site to “help people make smart fitness decisions based on hard data”. Read Monica’s interview.
- JoLynn of The Fit Shack
– who believes the mind, body and spirit are all involved with making the change to a healthy lifestyle. Read JoLynn’s interview.
- Kelly Mills of Fitness Fixation
– who writes about fitness realistically and with a sense of humor! Read Kelly’s interview.
- Angie Schumacher of Women’s Diet and Fitness
– whose blogging comes from the heart and her passion of providing women to build a long and healthy life! Read Angie’s interview.
- Sally Parrott Ashbrook of Aprovechar
– who writes about a combination of self-care issues with an undercurrent of how to “embrace your life to find or create joy, pleasure, comfort, and meaning within it”. Read Sally’s interview.
There are lots of great women fitness bloggers around! Here are a few more that I wasn’t able to interview:
The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl, Half of me, Amelia Burton, Fitarella and Losing it – Getting fit
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Please enjoy and visit their blogs too!
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July 7, 2008
Inspiring, Daring, Educating, Achieving and Succeeding!
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Recently I’ve spent some time thinking about what this blog (and whole site) is about – what I would like to accomplish with it.
After quite a bit of soul-searching I’ve come to the realization of just how much I’m bothered by the fact that women are still underrepresented in politics, science and many other fields. I would like to do what I can to help change that. Examining my domain name more closely I decided that I would like to create an environment – a community – where women can Inspire, Dare and Educate each other to Achieve and Succeed.
When more women around the world are in positions of power we will be better able to make sure there is more equality in housing, health care, nutrition, education, etc. – and not just for women, for everyone on the planet.
I hope to someday add more blogs to this site too – blogs about topics that Inspire, Dare and Educate women to Achieve and Succeed. Some ideas are:
Ideas for Health: – We need to take care of our health so that we will have more energy and strength to be able to make a difference in the world. We need to learn about health and how to be healthy – based on real evidence based science – not on fear, fads or fantasy.
Ideas for Parenting: – Women are still the primary caregivers to children around the world and we have so much influence on the adults they will become that we need to learn all we can to be the best parents we can be.
Ideas for Money: Women still tend to make less money than men and have more financial problems if they are widowed or a single parent. If we can learn how to better manage the money we have we’ll be in a better position to change what we see around us.
Ideas for Change: This blog would educate and encourage involvement in global issues, like the environment, women’s issues and politics.
Ideas for Careers and Business: This would give information about developing a new career or tips for a business.
Ideas to Inspire and Dare: An inspirational blog.
Ideas for Fun : Hey, we need to relax and have fun too!
When I’ll be able to add more blogs, I don’t know. But meanwhile I hope to have some guest posters writing about various topics that Inspire, Dare or Educate women to Achieve and Succeed!
Have any ideas to suggest for a guest post?
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