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This woman is aware of the importance of self-care
It's PCOS Awareness Month, and while I think that's awesome, I also receive announcements on a daily basis that it's National Watermelon Day, National Yoga Day, you name it. Everyone wants air time, but they don't seem to quite know why they want it, or what to do with it once they get it.Women with PCOS deserve to be validated fo…
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Some thoughts about PCOS and insurance
Over the last week, the women in our Facebook group have been commiserating about the hard time they have achieving reimbursement from their insurance companies for their health care. I'm starting to sense that for many, they've defined their journey to health as beginning, if and only if…when and only when…insurance will pick up …
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An additional benefit of exercise--reduced risk of pre-eclampsia
I find it so interesting that we only seem to think exercise is good for losing weight and toning muscle. There are so many other benefits! Exercise helps to combat depression, it can clear your head when you've been sitting at your computer, it can help you better use anti-oxidants…and now, researchers believe it can help you hav…
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Move over Pinot Noir…when it comes to antioxidants, your Southern kinfolk, Muscadine and Scuppernong are the true royalty
Musca-who? Scupper-what?That's what I was thinking when one of my Southern cousins posted on Facebook last night that she had gallons and gallons of muscadines to give away.Gotta love Google, within minutes I learned that a muscadine is a grape native to the Southern United States (while many grapes are"local", few are"native", ha…