Hysterectomy Ruined My Life – Lydia ’ s Story
My hysterectomy ruined my life. I was given the option of having a full hysterectomy including ovaries removed as a precautionary measure when I had a potentially cancerous cyst at the age of 42. The alternative would have been to have the cyst removed and potentially have a second operation if it proved to be cancerous. I was warned that if I had a full hysterectomy I would have to go on HRT which brought a risk of cancer similar to that of taking the pill. I was given a leaflet that told me I would be able to have sex normally after a hysterectomy.
There followed two and a half years of chronic fatigue. I felt like a com...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - January 13, 2014 Category: OBGYN Authors: Linda Parkinson-Hardman Tags: Health bilateral salpingo oophorectomy cysts hysterectomy stories total hysterectomy Source Type: news
Hysterectomy Ruined My Life – Lydia’s Story
My hysterectomy ruined my life. I was given the option of having a full hysterectomy including ovaries removed as a precautionary measure when I had a potentially cancerous cyst at the age of 42. The alternative would have been to have the cyst removed and potentially have a second operation if it proved to be cancerous. I was warned that if I had a full hysterectomy I would have to go on HRT which brought a risk of cancer similar to that of taking the pill. I was given a leaflet that told me I would be able to have sex normally after a hysterectomy.
There followed two and a half years of chronic fatigue. I felt like a com...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - January 13, 2014 Category: OBGYN Authors: Linda Parkinson-Hardman Tags: Your Stories bilateral salpingo oophorectomy cysts total hysterectomy Source Type: news
Hysterectomy Ruined My Life – Lydia ’ s Story
My hysterectomy ruined my life. I was given the option of having a full hysterectomy including ovaries removed as a precautionary measure when I had a potentially cancerous cyst at the age of 42. The alternative would have been to have the cyst removed and potentially have a second operation if it proved to be cancerous. I was warned that if I had a full hysterectomy I would have to go on HRT which brought a risk of cancer similar to that of taking the pill. I was given a leaflet that told me I would be able to have sex normally after a hysterectomy.
There followed two and a half years of chronic fatigue. I felt like a com...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - January 13, 2014 Category: OBGYN Authors: Linda Parkinson-Hardman Tags: Health bilateral salpingo oophorectomy cysts hysterectomy stories total hysterectomy Source Type: news
How can I avoid GM food? | Lucy Siegle
Call me old-fashioned, but I refuse to eat or support GM food. How can I avoid it?If you have an ethical dilemma, email Lucy at lucy.siegle@observer.co.ukOld-fashioned? The environment secretary Owen Paterson might call you "wicked", as being anti-GM is seen as being anti-science and to deny the world a solution to hunger. David Cameron, the PM, has also said we need to revisit our stance on GM. In short: we should stop biting the hand that could feed us (transgenically). Critics say this is a concerted campaign to soften us up until we give in to biotech corporations.Actually GM haters in other nations look at our superma...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - November 10, 2013 Category: Science Authors: Lucy Siegle Tags: Farming Food Food safety GM Features Ethical and green living Life and style The Observer Food science Environment Source Type: news
Saturated fat link with heart disease questioned
This article is one doctor's opinion based on his own knowledge, research and experience.
However, it is fair to say there is an ongoing debate about how far cholesterol is a risk factor for heart disease, especially in people who are otherwise healthy.
There is also a similar debate about the use of statins in people who have no evidence of cardiovascular disease. This is alongside ongoing research into the components of LDL and the different types of lipoproteins known to increase risk the most. None of this relevant new evidence is covered by the news reporting.
What should you eat?
There is no need to change curren...
Source: NHS News Feed - October 23, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Heart/lungs Food/diet QA articles Source Type: news
Levels of aluminium in infant formulas 'too high'
Conclusion
This study measured the aluminium content of 30 widely available infant feeding formulas in the UK.
The study invited debate about whether the current regulation on aluminium in foods is appropriate as it stands but provided no new evidence about whether the levels were harmful to health. All of the products were within current health and safety regulations and so deemed safe in the context of current regulation.
However, the authors were of the opinion that the current level of infant exposure to aluminium represents an “unnecessary potential health risk to children and may actually contribute towards ill h...
Source: NHS News Feed - October 11, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Pregnancy/child Food/diet Source Type: news
Diet and exercise 'cut womb cancer risk'
“Exercise can halve the risk of womb cancer,” the Daily Express reports, while BBC News says the risk could also be reduced by diet, “and possibly drinking coffee”.
The stories are based on a major new report on lifestyle and womb (endometrial) cancer. It concluded that there is convincing evidence that greater body fatness increases the risk of the womb cancer. Physical activity and coffee “probably” protect against womb cancer, the report finds.
The report recommends that women maintain a healthy weight and are physically active for at least 30 minutes a day.
Who produced the report?
The report on endomet...
Source: NHS News Feed - September 11, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Cancer Lifestyle/exercise Food/diet Source Type: news
'Seed freedom is the answer to hunger and malnutrition'
We must resist seed monopolies of corporates, they harm us all, writes biodiversity campaigner Vandana Shiva • Vandana Shiva will be speaking at the Resurgence & Ecologist Festival of Wellbeing on 12 October 2013What happens to the seed affects the web of life. When seed is living, regenerative and diverse, it feeds pollinators, soil organisms and animals - including humans. When seed is non-renewable, bred for chemicals, or genetically engineered with toxic Bt or Roundup Ready genes, diversity disappears.In recent years, beekeepers have been losing 25% of their hives each winter. According to a scientific study in 2008,...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - August 28, 2013 Category: Science Tags: Blogposts Farming Guardian Professional Biodiversity Food security GM Sustainability Guardian sustainable business Global development Conservation Health and wellbeing Agriculture Source Type: news
Some facts about growing artificial meat
How the world's costliest burger made it on to the plate (Report, 6 August) makes an interesting read and provides a good moment to bring attention to how artists progress thinking and do real innovation. For more than 10 years the work of Symbiotica in Western Australia has involved making art made of in-vitro meat (Disembodied Cuisine), recently hosting an art cookery show, ArtMeatFlesh, where the audience was served only grown-meat products.Victimless Leather was grown in collaboration with Dr John Hunt of Liverpool University and the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology in a custom made bio-reactor. The living st...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - August 7, 2013 Category: Science Tags: Meat The Guardian Tissue engineering Media Sergey Brin Letters Food science Source Type: news
The world's first cruelty-free hamburger | Peter Singer
Today's tasting of in vitro meat could herald a future free from needless animal suffering and polluting factory farmsEighty years ago, Winston Churchill looked forward to the day when "we shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium". Churchill thought this would take only 50 years. We are still not there, but today we will reach a milestone on the road to the future that Churchill envisaged: the first public tasting of in vitro meat.The scientist behind this historic event is Dr Mark Post, of the University of Maastrich...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - August 5, 2013 Category: Science Authors: Peter Singer Tags: Comment The Guardian Farming Food Animal welfare Climate change Animals Food science Environment Comment is free Source Type: news
Whether Nick Clegg feeds GM food to his kids or not is irrelevant | Tracey Brown
When it comes to science-based policy, politicians ignorant of the evidence should avoid discussing how they raise their kidsThe juddering express train of a science-y question came down the line on Nick Clegg's LBC radio call-in on Thursday. Nick aspires to being "science-based" on subjects like GM, but it wasn't just the evidence they wanted: do you feed GM food to your CHILDREN?Science, evidence, risk, children; we have seen this dangerous test of science policy before. John Gummer feeding his daughter a burger during the BSE crisis, public health official William Stewart worrying about his grandchildren using mobile ph...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - June 28, 2013 Category: Science Authors: Tracey Brown Tags: Comment Nick Clegg Farming Genetics Biology guardian.co.uk GM Politics Food science Environment Agriculture Source Type: news
Decoding 'orphan crop' genomes could save millions of lives in Africa
Howard-Yana Shapiro, a scientist with the Mars confectionery company, will make the information free to boost harvestsThe future wellbeing of millions of Africans may rest in the unlikely hands of a vegan hippy scientist working for a sweet company who plans to map and then give away the genetic data of 100 traditional crops.Howard-Yana Shapiro, the agriculture director of the $36bn US confectionery corporation Mars, led a partnership that sequenced and then published in 2010 the complete genome of the cacao tree from which chocolate is derived. He plans to work with American and Chinese scientists to sequence and make pub...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - June 1, 2013 Category: Science Authors: John Vidal, Mark Tran Tags: Farming Genetics Food security World news GM G8 The Observer Food science Global development Environment Africa Agriculture Source Type: news
Are SOYA BEANS the key to wrinkle-free skin? Hormone in the vegetable can keep us looking youthful, say scientists
Genistein, a natural plant-hormone in soya, has been found to boost the production of collagen, the protein which gives skin its elasticity, according to the that depletes with age, according to the cosmetic firm Swisscode. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - April 22, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Climate change: how a warming world is a threat to our food supplies
Global warming is exacerbating political instability as tensions brought on by food insecurity rise. With research suggesting the issue can only get worse we examine the risks around the worldInfographic: the impact of climate on foodWhen the Tunisian street vendor, Mohamed Bouazizi, set himself on fire on 17 December 2010, it was in protest at heavy-handed treatment and harassment in the province where he lived. But a host of new studies suggest that a major factor in the subsequent uprisings, which became known as the Arab spring, was food insecurity.Drought, rocketing bread prices, food and water shortages have all blig...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - April 13, 2013 Category: Science Authors: John Vidal Tags: Food security World news Society Drought Water Features Climate change The Observer Poverty Global development Environment Africa Source Type: news
