Medical World Miracles - News You NEED to Know!

B'SD

5 Av, 5774

The world at large knows I've been under fire with the rest of Israel for weeks. Life has been hectic, and rather tiring. Sleep deprivation is nasty stuff. So is this.

I want to focus on what's going right with the world, so here are some heartwarming updates about medical advances, some of it news you probably need to know:

WOW - this puts theFantastic Voyage movie/story into the back of the class: See-thru Bodies Technique coming to medical centers worldwide!

Surgical staples have their up and down sides. Check out this improvement on the problem: TopClosure!

The Ebola virus has made scary headlines and miserable lives (not that they last long after a person has contracted the illness). The exciting news is that a cure for Ebola might soon be a reality!

Heart health is high on medical agendas. Listen in on an expert's Quality of Care Improvement assessment of that.

Need to know how to organize overwhelming amounts of medical and appointment information in your life? Want to lower the cost of your medical and/or mental health care? You need to read

Buy the E-book or print edition of EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge. 


It's been a bargain for readers around the world, saving time & money, let alone preventing heartaches and headaches. Medical and mental health professionals recommend that you read it and follow the suggestions inside.

Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity. Face Your Future with Optimism. 

Fill your life with healing optimism.


 

Chocolatey Comfort

B'SD

29 Cheshvan, 5773

Sometimes I'll let you know about good food for better health. Chocolate tends to keep coming back as one of my favorite topics. Not only does it taste comforting, it's a big health booster for brains and heart health.

Here's are tips on  "How to Eat Dark Chocolate. "

Here are "6 Reason WebMD Recommends Chocolate."

The prestigious Cleveland Clinic likes chocolate, too!

The important thing is to eat only a little each day, not to gorge on the goodies.

I have my favorite brands and flavors. What are yours?

Buy the E-book or print edition today for a brighter holiday season (but make sure you don't have chocolate on your fingers): Click on the words EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge.  


Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity. 
Face Your Future with Optimism. 



 

The Patient Checks Up!

B'SD


25 Iyar 5772


An unexpected bunch of things happened as I was preparing for minor surgery yesterday. For some reason I could not readily fathom, the surgical team wanted oodles of brand new information about me. So off I went back to my personal doctors' office for blood tests, EKG, blood pressure check and a weigh-in.


Hospital doctors eagerly awaited the results in order to reschedule me for outpatient surgery.

The envelope, please...

No surprise at my end of the information-sharing effort. I check out as years younger than I am.

Want to recover from sort of devastating medical or disability experience in your life? Or a loved one's? 

Find out what I've done and how you can mimic that effort in EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge.

It's quite a bargain. The book lowers your level of stress and is loaded with information to cut your medical costs. Buy it from Booklocker. Click on I'm EMPOWERing Myself Today! 

Yes, I'm feeling quite upbeat today. Hat tip: GOD!

Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity.
Face Your Future with Optimism.

Whittle Your Waistline and Improve Your Heart Health with ONE Strategy!

B'SD


26 Kislev 5772




The nights are bright with Chanuka lights (we've lit 2 so far). I bet I can light up your life with one amusing video that can get your health rhythm going better and better. WHAT is the low-cost, all-fun cure for many health problems? It's... it's... oh you'll be surprised!

Learn more can-do ideas and techniques for improving your health and/or a loved one's. Buy the E-book or print edition of EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge.


Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity.
Face Your Future with Optimism.

How to Feel Grateful at Thanksgiving - Even with an Illness

B'SD


12 Cheshvan 5772

Holidays are hard times for feeling happy when you or someone you love are seriously ill. You feel that GOD abandoned or betrayed you. You feel alone. Disgusted. Sad. Maybe you feel that there is absolutely nothing good about the situation.


But blessings abound in the most hidden, VERY unexpected of ways.


Please listen to this recording. Listen to the entire broadcast, about an hour in length. Hey, you're on the PC anyway. Tune up the sound and pay attention to the surprise ending no matter what elese you're doing at the time.

I hope you'll find Thanksgiving season something worth sharing.


Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity.
Face Your Future with Optimism.







Learn about the emotions that go with illness and how to resolve them on pages 12-31 in EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge.

Need a Healthy Liver?

B'SD

Here's another exciting mid-day update this week!

If you've read my books you know that in 2005 and 2008 I was exposed to many chemicals during surgery and from follow-up medications. And you know what I did to counteract their negative effects.

Let's fast-forward
a few years to the future.

We'll stop at today for a bit ;^ )

These past few weeks I've been going through my annual battery of medical exams to monitor my ever-improving sight and overall health (they seemed to be going dangerously downhill before I made significant changes in my lifestyle). I've been reaching my appointments for weeks, and smiling brightly to all the medical professionals scurrying about me. I know the drill and perform my tasks with lots of past practice.

I'm delighted to take these tests because

I know what we'll learn from them.

Here's some great news: Today my family doctor informed me that my liver is unusually healthy.

"The alkaline-phosphatase levels keep going down each time we test your blood. You've now reached normal levels. HOW are you doing this?" the surprised doctor exclaimed. His confusion stemmed from additional reports about my exceptional bone, neurological and overall health. And that's after my harrowing life-or-death emergency experiences.


I told him about what I do. He was fascinated and kept talking to me as other patients waited their turns.

Do YOU Need to know how to make your liver healthier? How about your eyes? Blood? Other parts of your health picture? Ya gotta read EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge.

Yocheved Golani
Coping with a Medical Crisis?
Make the Changes You Need in Your Life

Touch Your Toes to SAVE Your Life!

B'SD


7 Tevet 5770


Friends find it amusing that when I stretch, I go a-l-l-l- the way, touching my toes (no, I don't bend my knees) then reaching for the sky. I follow it up with criss-crossed fingers arched upward as my arms push them skyward. Next, my hands go palms up as I pull on my spine for all it's worth. Oooh, that easy Yoga move gets out some kinks so easily!

Here's some food for thought about cardiac health:

Phys Ed: Can Touching Your Toes Test Your Arteries?

Read that article again. Be sure to follow the advice it shares. THAT could save your life.

EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge.

Yocheved Golani
Coping with a Medical Crisis?
Make the Changes You Need in Your Life

Are Your Eating Habits Destroying Your Health? End that Inclusion Confusion Now!

B'SD

9 Kisev 5770

Gosh, the advertising world tries to convince you that

means Good For You! You happily repaint your fortified-milk mustache, gobble vitamins, and snack on so-called foods filled with Trans Fats. Then you wonder why you're gaining weight and feeling awful.

You just don't know WHAT to include in your menu anymore. Confusion fills your brain. You just don't feel ready to run, let alone crawl, to the mall for holiday gifts.

Want to end that Inclusion Confusion?

I'm willing to help you to

think this through.

The truth is, dairy can cause joint pain due to the chemicals (including artificial hormones that probably affect your fertility and monthly cycles) in commercial cow's milk. Lo-cal snacks lack nutrition and WOW are they high in health-destroying salt stripped of its native minerals, and loaded with synthetic chemicals plus other dangerous stuff.

Wanna clear your head?

I understand.

Skip the coffee (especially dangerous decaf processed with one of the most effective cancer-causers known). Pour yourself a tall glass of fresh juice without additives. Sip slowly and read on to end your inclusion confusion.

You do NOT need hormone-filled dairy products in your diet. Your biological balance can be thrown off by the signals it gets from chemicals that are bad for human bodies.

As for those vitamins you're sure are good for you, read Reuters News Report Warns the World: Multivitamins can Endanger Health!

And those convenient food-on-the-go snacks? They haven't been good for you since long before the BBC filed this Trans-Fats report .

What's left to eat when you're in a hurry? LOTS!

Grab an avocado and scoop out delicious nutrition-dense lutein so you can see better, vitamins and minerals for being better, and a mere 50 calories or so. Add it to a modest bowl of pasta or a heaping helping of vegetables. Either choice is easy to pack for workdays or school lunches and mmm, are they filling!

You'll feel and look better
for the regularly made effort.

For cold weather meals that make you feel warm & cuddled all over, fill a thermos with home made soup you simmered to perfection. If you don't know how to make soup, use this time-honored recipe, based on an instructive legend:

Stone Soup

Centuries ago, a starving beggar knocked on a poor villager's door, begging for food. The villager sadly pointed to the scraps lying about the primitive kitchen.

"Hmm," said the starving beggar. "Let's make a fire with those twigs and bits of wood lying about. Then we'll place your kettle on the flames. I'll toss in water I can draw from the well and add my Magic Stone. Let's see what happens!"

The villager had nothing better to offer, or so he thought. The fire burned merrily in minutes and the kettle heated with bubbling water.

The starving beggar plopped a pebble with great ceremony into the boiling liquid and said "Here comes the magic!" A few minutes later the villager remarked that there still was nothing to eat, unless the visitor cared to swallow a hot stone!

"Say we toss in those carrot tops you want to toss out, some bits of onion stuck to the cutting board, and perhaps those potato peels lying over there?"

The villager happily dumped what he'd thought was garbage into the brew. The beggar dropped a tiny turnip, parsnip and young squash growing in the garden into the boiling water.

"Er, may I add those meat bones you were saving for the dog?" the beggar pleaded. The villager shrugged as the bones dropped to the bottom of the brew.

A delicious aroma filled the air. Soon the two people dined on delicious, nutritious Magical Stone Soup.

You can make your own Stone Soup!

Fill the pot with root vegetables after scrubbing the skins clean under running water (they hold lots of nourishment so keep them ON the veggies not in the garbage!) and let those unpeeled veggies simmer. Toss in some spices, a few aromatic herbs. Garnish your filled soup bowl with home-grown sprouts you learned to make right here, yesterday. Have your Magical Stone Soup with some whole-grain bread and savor the health-promoting flavor.

Kitchen success is a matter of user-friendly chemistry. See Science Daily's Chemistry of Cooking for affordable, body-building ideas.

Bon apetit!

Ready for more food for thought and body-building nutrition that's easy on your time, mind and muscles? Read EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge. It's filled with adorable stories that can make you stronger. And gosh, are they easy on your wallet ;^ )

Yocheved Golani
Coping with a Medical Crisis?
Make the Changes You Need in Your Life

Are YOU Afraid of Your Heartbeat after a Good Run?

B'SD

1 Kislev 5770


Doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital and the US National Institute on Aging believe there's no reason to fear odd heartbeats after a brisk run, even if those heartbeats feel strange to you:

"Healthy, older adults free of heart disease need not fear that bouts of rapid, irregular heartbeats brought on by vigorous exercise might increase short- or long-term risk of dying or having a heart attack, according to a report by heart experts at Johns Hopkins and the U.S. National Institute on Aging (NIA).

"Researchers say such fears surfaced after previous studies found that episodes of errant heart rhythms, more formally known as non-sustained ventricular tachycardia, more than double the chance of sudden death in people who have already suffered a heart attack."

Read the rest of the story at Science Daily: Exercise-Linked Ventricular Tachycardia Is Not a Risk to Healthy Older Adults.

OK, class, put those running shoes back on and glory in the sunshine. Let your heart fill with gratitude that you can run, that the weather's gorgeous, and with whatever else you're enjoying. Power up your personal health on indoor tracks or outdoor paths.

And be sure to read a book that medical professionals recommend. EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge.

Yocheved Golani
Coping with a Medical Crisis?
Make the Changes You Need in Your Life

Female Hearts Need Different Medication, Surgical Instrument Sizes, and...

B'SD



14 Shvat 5769


I've blogged about female cardiac health before and I'm still puzzled at the enduring lack of awareness about a woman's need for medical care tailored to the size and chemistry of her heart. The medical world, and the world at large, overlook some critically important realities about female cardiac health. The information is not top-secret, it is in the public domain and horribly overlooked!

That ignorance can kill you, if you're a woman!

I hope to end the ignorance to some degree with today's blogpost.

Here are are some snippets of
necessary information

for women worldwide,

from the Heart Truth Campaign:

"Women must get serious about heart disease and take control of their heart health, starting at an early age," said Elizabeth G. Nabel, M.D., director of NHLBI (the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute). "Younger women need to take steps now, like eating a healthy diet and being physically active, to help prevent heart disease later."

A new survey, conducted in January 2009 shows that 65 percent of women are aware that heart disease is their No.1 killer, a slight increase from 2008. [NOTE FROM YOCHEVED: Ladies, this means that most women fail to understand that 1. female hearts are very physically different from male hearts and therefore have different medical and physical needs, AND that 2. women need to learn how to care for their physical hearts so they can live healthier lives.]

However, even with awareness on the rise, many women do not take this message seriously or personally. One-third of women still underestimate their own personal risk of getting heart disease, and too many -- one in four women -- still die from heart disease. "Understanding your personal risk of heart disease really matters. Having just one risk factor for heart disease -- like high blood pressure or being overweight -- doubles your chance of developing heart disease. And the alarming fact is that more than 80 percent of midlife women have one or more of the risk factors," said Dr. Nabel.

Read the entire NIH press release about

the warnings above at

TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR HEART AND ITS HEALTH

Here's why I'm so irked at the high level of society-wide ignorance about female heart health: the necessary information is in the public domain, not hidden away in a drawer!

But too many medical "professionals" IGNORE THE INFORMATION!!!!

I wrote about some ground-breaking research and revelations about female cardiac health several years ago. In brief:

• Women need smaller surgical instruments since our hearts are smaller than those of men.


• Women have different symptoms of heart disease and heart attacks than men.


• Female bodies require different medications and in different amounts than men.


• Medical research about heart health too often fails to include significant numbers of (or any!) women among the research cases!

If your female heart is not healthy,

then you owe it to yourself to hire

the most compassionate, capable,

well-informed cardiologist and cardiological surgeon

possible.

Your LIFE depends on them!

Find out what I mean as you read these articles:

Healing the Female Heart By Yocheved Golani

and

Advice for Heart-Healthy Living by Yocheved Golani

And puh-leez BUY It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry if I Need To so YOU can read some tips on how to get your doctors to be honest with you. It most definitely IS "A Life Book that Helps You to Dry Your Tears and to Cope with a Medical Challenge."

To your cardiac health,

Yojeved Golani
Coping with a Medical Crisis?
Make the Changes You Need in Your Life