Healthy Aging
Our bodies change across our lifetime but no two women experience aging in exactly the same way. Although many health conditions are more common among older women, illness and disability are not inevitable consequences of age. Attention to health, including making simple lifestyle changes, may improve your odds of staying healthy and maintaining your well-being into your sixties, seventies, eighties, and beyond.
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Eye Health
Being able to see clearly and without pain is important to living well. There are many eye diseases and conditions that require medical and surgical treatment. Age-related macular degeneration (AMD), cataract, chronic dry eye, and glaucoma are some of the most common.
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Eating Disorders: Anorexia and Bulimia
Eating disorders are marked by extremes. An eating disorder can be an extreme reduction of food intake or extreme overeating, or feelings of extreme distress or concern about body weight or shape. A person with an eating disorder may have started out just eating smaller or larger amounts of food than usual, but at some point, the urge to eat less or more spirals out of control. Eating disorders frequently appear during adolescence or young adulthood, but may also develop during childhood or later in adulthood.
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Digestive System: Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a syndrome or group of symptoms. The most common symptoms of IBS are abdominal pain or discomfort, cramping, bloating, gas, diarrhea, and/or constipation. IBS affects the colon, or bowel (large intestine), which is the part of the digestive tract that stores your waste.
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Digestive System: GERD
Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) develops when a muscle at the end of the esophagus does not close properly. In adults, this causes frequent heartburn, also called acid indigestion. When the esophagus is not fully closed, acidic digestive juices can rise up from the stomach. Refluxed stomach acid in the esophagus causes a burning-type pain in the throat, chest, behind the breast bone, and/or in the mid-abdomen.
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Digestive System: Overview
Everyone has digestive problems from time to time: an upset stomach, gas, heartburn, constipation, or diarrhea. Many digestive problems can be controlled with simple changes in diet. Digestive disorders commonly affect women. The digestive system is made up of the digestive tract – a series of hollow organs joined in a long, twisting tube from the mouth to the anus – and other organs that help the body break down and absorb food.
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Diabetes: Gestational
Gestational diabetes is diabetes that occurs when a woman is pregnant. Changing hormone levels and weight gain are all part of a healthy pregnancy. But both these changes can make it hard for your body to keep up with its need for a hormone called insulin. Your body may not get the energy it needs from the food you eat and, later in your pregnancy, you could develop gestational diabetes. Gestational diabetes often goes away after the baby is born but having gestational diabetes can place you and your child at increased risk for developing diabetes later in life.
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Diabetes: Complications
If you have diabetes, you may be at greater risk for many serious health problems. But if you follow your treatment plan and make lifestyle changes, you may be able to prevent or delay serious health problems.
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Diabetes: Type 1 and Type 2
Diabetes is a disease in which your blood glucose, or sugar, levels are too high. Glucose comes from the foods you eat. Your blood always has some glucose in it because your body needs glucose for energy. Too much glucose, however, is not good for your health.
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Depression and Anxiety
Everyone feels sad sometimes, but these feelings usually pass within a couple of days. But when a woman has a depressive disorder, it can interfere with daily life and cause pain for her and those who care about her. The good news is that the vast majority of people, even those with the most severe depression, can get better with treatment.
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