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In most cases, the cancer of the cervix is without symptoms. It was discovered by smear in the absence of warning signs. Sometimes however, relatively discrete clinical signs should lead to quickly check.

Most cancers of the cervix are without symptoms, but some forms give rise to bleeding or unusual discharge. Faced with these symptoms should consult your doctor even if the last smear was negative.

Uterus cancer symptoms. vast majority of cancerous lesions of the cervix uteri are discovered incidentally during a smear as part of a gynecological consultation or even a medical consultation. More on this review, discover our dossier “smear against cancer of the cervix uteri. But too often, regular screening is not performed regularly in some women. Various surveys have found an unequal distribution of the realization of these smears with sometimes a repetition of the annual examination in women at low risk and at-risk populations have not undergone a gynecological examination. Finally, the practice of Pap smear is too often abandoned after 50 years, while the risk of cancer of the cervix increases after that age.

Signs that should alert
minor bleeding occurs between periods or after menopause, spotting pink or brown. These problems can be caused by micro-trauma: sex, travel, toilets.A pelvic exam can reassure you and then immediately detect a tumor, which stage of development will be clarified by further investigations (staging of the tumor).

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You regularly buy fresh foods, fortified products. But their vitamin content is not guaranteed! Because they are fragile and can disappear during storage, cooking. Some vitamins are extremely fragile. Thus, many foods can lose half of their content between harvest and your plate! The main enemies: light, air and heat.

You definitely buying orange juice, especially to accompany your breakfast. And you say I’m full of vitamin C! Attention this is not necessarily true! Because vitamin C is one of the most fragile. It is thus very sensitive to oxygen.
* A U.S. study moreover showed that orange juice brick can lose 100% of their vitamin C if not eaten quickly enough. The study authors advise to buy orange juice with expiration date is more than three weeks and used within seven days after opening. Read the rest of this entry »

Fluoride is well known, is the best friend of the teeth. Thanks to him, strengthens the enamel and reduce cavities. However, excess fluoride can cause white spots are harmless to health, but that would spoil the smile … Should we stop fluoride supplements? The French Union for Oral Health (the UFSBD) makes its first recommendations.

Fluoride helps strengthen the resistance of enamel to acid attack. This property has been for 30 years a key weapon for the improvement of the teeth of children and adolescents. Among the battery of measures adopted include the generalization of fluoridated toothpaste, the decision to fluoridate water in some states in the United States or Canada and that of adding fluoride to salt (since 1987 in France). The government has also encouraged parents to give their children fluoride tablets or drops. Better safe than sorry … the post was firmly told for years “Be attentive to the future of your children’s baby teeth, give them fluoride!”. This creed is no longer appropriate today …

The risk of “fluorosis”

A controversy was born in the United States a few years ago, has questioned the supplements in the form of tablets and drops. The overdose of fluoride can indeed cause white spots on teeth, “fluorosis”. Paradoxically, this condition affects the media pay more attention to dental hygiene and more favorable to the administration of fluoride, the wealthier classes who have diligently followed the instructions. Read the rest of this entry »

You have trouble cooking the artichokes, and you never bite into an apple? Yet this is not complicated at all to return to a healthier diet, adding some fruits and vegetables to your diet. Here are some tips for introducing a bit of freshness in your menus gently!

Lack of time and ideas for eating fruits and vegetables? Here are some tips to reconnect with the pleasure and health. Read the rest of this entry »

The mother’s diet during pregnancy can affect the health of the baby, even years later. To understand this “nutritional programming“, and can potentially enable the early prevention of certain metabolic diseases, several teams of researchers working on what they call the “fetal origins of adult disease.
Nutrition during pregnancy influences the health enfantUn link between maternal nutrition during pregnancy and child health
A study of survivors of the famine that struck the Netherlands in 1944-1945 was particularly shown that when pregnant women had suffered famine, their children were more likely to develop type 2 diabetes, obesity, hypertension and cardiovascular disease.

The subjects of the cohort affected by famine Holland are still followed today and interesting results still be obtained. Researchers have recently shown by example that subjects exposed to malnutrition before birth, ie during the first 16 weeks of gestation, prefer to eat fatty foods, which could increase their risk of high cholesterol if these foods are high in saturated fats and trans fats. These people also tend to be less physically active. Read the rest of this entry »