Get Your Head In The Change

So often we want things to change in both our personal and professional life, but what we often fail to realize is, the most important change we have to make is a change in our mindset and attitude. You can’t move forward when you are mentally and emotionally stuck in the past. You can’t move forward when you are so sensitive that every critique someone makes offends you. Get over it and get over yourself. Sometimes you are not the right person for the position and it has nothing to do with your race, sex, age or sexual orientation. Not being right for that job or that role doesn’t mean that you won’t be the right person for something else. There is a time and a season for all things. Maybe there are some things and areas you need to improve in. Don’t be afraid to do some honest self evaluation. It won’t kill you and more often than not it will help make you stronger.


In my last post, I challenged you to make a list of things you wanted to see change for you in 2013. Well I want to add one more challenge and this should be at the very top of your list. Start with changing your mindset and your attitude and you will be amazed how the other things start to fall in place.

By Yolanda Askew

The Mom and Child Plate Project: Take a Survey

http://www.choosemyplate.gov/

 

The Mom And Child Plate Project about healthy eating and exercise for African American moms with children between 8 to 14 years old.   

The Research Group on Disparities in Health within the Department of Health and Behavior Studies at Teachers College, Columbia University, in New York, New York is studying the impact of The MyPlate Project for Moms and Children with a new website with cartoon-like videos and online activities that will allow you to learn about First Lady Michelle Obama’s work introducing MY PLATE (replacing the old Food Pyramid) to promote healthy eating and increase physical activity to combat the nation’s obesity epidemic.


Please visit http://momchildplate.wordpress.com/ to learn more about the project and take the survey, in order to have a 3 in 200 chance of winning either a $300, $200, or $100 bar-coded gift certificate for use on www.Amazon.com. 

Contact Alicia Chung for more info: ac3210@tc.columbia.edu

Body Empowerment: The Power of Sleep by Nancy Rothstein

"Caroline Rothstein is a New York City-based writer, performer, and eating disorder recovery advocate, who specializes in spoken word poetry, theater, creative nonfiction, journalism, and performance art. She has performed and facilitated workshops at poetry venues, theaters, colleges, universities, schools, and organizations around the United States for more than a decade. A longtime activist in eating disorder recovery, she hosts the widely viewed YouTube video-blog “Body Empowerment,” sharing her own recovery story as a means to promote positive body image worldwide."  http://www.carolinerothstein.com/


CWUW supports "Body Empowerment" and the messaging from Caroline Rothstein.  She has facilitated a great discussion in Indy last year with women who needed to address eating issues and disorders as a part of CWUWs Art therapy workshops. 

Sleep is related to health.  Take a listen.

Drugwatch.com: Women and Stroke Prevention

Women and Stroke Prevention

While many people are aware of the increased risk of stroke that comes with aging, few people know the facts on how gender influences the likelihood of stroke. For women, this is bad news, as statistics show women are more likely than men to have strokes.

Women can manage their health better by learning about these risks, available medications and the symptoms of stroke.

Increasing Your Stroke Awareness

The National Stroke Association worked with HealthyWomen, an independent health information resource for women, and discovered these trends:

• ·         Women suffer from 55,000 more strokes than men every year.
• ·         Seven out of 10 women are not aware that they are more likely than men to have strokes.
• ·         Strokes kill twice as many women as breast cancer.

The first thing women need to know is the definition of a stroke. A stroke occurs when a blood clot blocks an artery or a blood vessel breaks, cutting off blood flow – and oxygen -- to the brain. When this happens, brain cells can die and result in temporary or permanent brain damage.

The next step is to learn which medications help prevent strokes and the risks associated with these drugs.

Stroke Prevention Medications

Two main groups of medications are used to prevent strokes: antiplatelet agents and anticoagulants. Antiplatelet agents slow production of a chemical that signals blood cells to clot. Anticoagulants, also called blood thinners, target clotting factors, stopping blood clots from forming and reducing the size of existing clots. Some common blood thinners are warfarin, Pradaxa, Xarelto and Eliquis.

Unfortunately, because blood thinners stop clots from forming, minor bumps and bruises can escalate into uncontrollable bleeding events. If a patient is taking warfarin, the bleeding can be controlled with vitamin K. But with Pradaxa, Xarelto and Eliquis, there is no bleeding antidote, putting patients at risk. In fact, in 2011, more than 500 people lost their lives after using Pradaxa.

Stroke Warning Signs

Women also need to learn the signs of a stroke. The National Stroke Association found that among 1,000 women who were older than 25, only one in three could recognize the warning signs of a stroke. Being able to properly identity warning signs and promptly seek medical attention can reduce the risks of severe and possibly fatal strokes.

Signs of a stroke include:

• ·         Sudden, intense headache
• ·         Extreme dizziness
• ·         Dimmed vision
• ·         Loss of vision in one eye
• ·         Difficulty speaking
• ·         Difficulty understanding others
• ·         Sudden numbness of the face on one side
• ·         Sudden weakness of limbs on one side

If you experience these symptoms, call 911 immediately. The more timely your response is, the greater your chances of survival and recovery.

GUEST BLOG: Alanna Ritchie is a content writer for Drugwatch.com, specializing in news about prescription drugs, medical devices and consumer safety.