2008 Issue 4 October Women's Health
How to Prevent Breast Cancer (4-page version)
The best treatment for breast cancer is to prevent it from ever happening. Many of the factors that put a woman at higher risks for breast cancer, such as family history and number of pregnancies, cannot be controlled. But every woman has the power to make some basic decision about her diet, exercise and lifestyle that can help prevent breast…
2008 Issue 4 October Health & Wellness
HEALTHY HABITS (4-page version)
Walk Your Way to Good Health
When it comes to improving your health, your fitness and your vitality, walking may be the perfect exercise. By becoming a regular walker, you lower your risk for heart disease, diabetes, stroke, cancer and a host of other diseases. You also increase your aerobic capacity, your body’s ability to supply oxygen-rich blood to t…
2008 Issue 4 October Women's Health
Four for October: The four keys for early breast cancer detection (8-page version)
October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month
It’s time to get serious about this all-too-common disease. Indeed, as an American woman, you have a 12 percent chance of being diagnosed with breast cancer. In fact, every three minutes in the United States, a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer.
T…
2008 Issue 4 October Uncategorized
Breast Cancer: The Alarming Numbers (4-page version)
Why should every woman, especially those over the age of 40, be concerned about breast cancer?
Just consider these alarming statistics:
As an American woman, your chance of having breast cancer during your lifetime is one in eight. In 1960, the rate was one in every 20 women.
Breast cancer accounts for one out of every three cancers…
2008 Issue 4 October Women's Health
From The CEO: Two Minutes That Could Save Your Life (8-page version)
We all have very busy schedules these days. Seems like there is never enough time in the day to accomplish everything that needs to be done.
All too often, because of that busy lifestyle, we forget to take care of our health. For women, that often means neglecting to schedule an annual screening mammogram, one of the four…
2008 Issue 3 August Miscellaneous
From The CEO
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Welcome to the Summer 2008 issue of Healthpoint. In this edition, we’re featuring stories to help you and your family prepare for the start of a new school year. I hope you find it helpful on many levels.
Providing timely and useful healthcare information is just one of the ways we hope to contribute to the overall health of this community, and…
Article #2:
A Heartfelt Message
Rita Moreno’s Lifesaving Mission Is Preventing Heart Disease and Diabetes
Rita Moreno first captured the heart of America in 1961 when she won an Academy Award for her portrayal of Anita in West Side Story. More than 50 years later, she’s still going strong, starring in the third season of the television series Happily Divorced. Rita is one of only a…
Heartburn – Or Heart Attack?
You’re feeling a burning sensation in your chest. Is it just a case of heartburn? Or the first signs of a serious heart attack? Answering those questions can be the difference between life and death. So how do you know?
Heartburn Symptoms
Heartburn has nothing to do with your heart. It occurs when a small amount of digestive acid leaks out of the stomac…
We’re ALL Heart!
How Main Street Hospital Is Fighting Heart Disease
OK – let’s start with the bad news: More than one in three Americans have some form of heart disease, the leading cause of death in the United States.
Now here’s the good news: 80 percent of heart disease and stroke can be prevented! At Main Street Hospital, we provide multiple resources to help you and your family…
How to Kick Butts!
Are you a smoker? Then you probably already know that tobacco kills. Each year, 392,000 Americans die from smoking-related diseases. That makes smoking the leading cause of preventable death in the United States. Now if you’re thinking tobacco only causes lung cancer, think again. Smoking causes 30 percent of all heart disease. People who smoke are two to four times mor…