Let's Solve a Crossword Puzzle with Midaged Health terms!

Fill in the following puzzle using the terms given in the word banks below.

Glossary for Midaged Women's and Men's Health

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Across 6 Name of the male sex hormone, which is the hormone responsible for the development of male sexual characteristics. One word. "Male menopause" is sometimes described as a condition referred to as low ________________________. 8 One word. What is the period in a woman's life (typically between 45 and 50 years of age) when this occurs? 9 A doctor who specializes in the care and health of the female reproductive organs. 10 One alphabet letter. Getting enough vitamin _____ is also critical for protecting your bones during menopause. It comes from the sun, but many experts say it’s vital for women’s health to take it as a supplement to ensure they are getting enough, especially in winter and in non-sunny climates. 11 One word. This seed is a member of the genus Linum in the family Linaceae, which is a food and fiber crop cultivated in cooler regions of the world. _________________________ is a wonderful plant-based food with omega-3 fatty acids. Try sprinkling ground ___________________ on cereal, yogurt, and salads; it adds fiber to your diet, keeps your arteries healthy, and has some estrogen-like compounds.

Down 1 One word. Changing hormone levels during menopause and midlife can increase the risk for ______________________ in women. Emotional symptoms related to menopause can include anxiety, fears, and mood swings. 2 One word. ___________________________ is a female disease in which endometrial-like tissue is found outside of the uterus in other parts of the body. 3 One word. Bone loss in the mid-age can cause this condition that increases the risk of bone fractures. What is this medical condition in which the bones become brittle and fragile from loss of tissue, typically as a result of hormonal changes, or deficiency of calcium or vitamin D? 4 Two words with no space (in plural form). This is a feeling of warmth in the face that spreads over the body, lasting from around 30 seconds to a few minutes. Reddened skin, palpitations (feeling a strong heartbeat), and sweating are accompanied. 5 One word (in plural form). What do you call the excess Estrogen taken into the body from outside sources (such as meat that has been injected with hormones and pesticides) to which our body reacts to as natural estrogen? 7 ________________________ dominance is not limited to women; Men can also have an increase of this hormone through environmental sources, which would increase the risk of prostate cancer.

Word Bank

Endometriosis	D	hotflashes	flaxseed
menopause	depression	Osteoporosis	Gynecologist
Testosterone	xenoestrogens	estrogen

Answer Keys:
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6. Testosterone
8. menopause
9. Gynecologist
10. D
11. flaxseed

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1. depression
2. Endometriosis
3. Osteoporosis
4. hotflashes
5. xenoestrogens
7. estrogen

10 Simple New Year’s Resolutions to Stay Healthy in 2018

10 Simple New Year’s Resolutions to Stay Healthy in 2018

(Source from https://cspinet.org/tip/10-simple-new-year%E2%80%99s-resolutions-stay-healthy-2018)

It has already been more than two months since our golden new year started off. How has everything been going with you and your new year resolutions, if there’s been any? Are you still keeping your promises to yourselves with no excuses or obstacles? Alright, it doesn’t matter if you have already fallen off the wagon. Every single day is a new day for you to start it all over again. This week, let’s think about going back to basics in order to stay healthy!

Here are 10 tips to turn ourselves into healthier versions throughout the year of 2018 and many, many, many more years to come!

What to Do in Your Kitchen

1. Cover Half Your Plate with Vegetables or Fruit

Vegetables have always been viewed as your side choices? They should occupy more plate real estate than your protein or pasta, rice, or potatoes. The OmniHeart diets—one of the healthiest diets you can eat—have 11 servings of fruit and vegetables a day. A serving is one piece of fruit, a half cup of cooked vegetables, or one cup of raw vegetable (like lettuce), so it’s not that much. Your main-dish salad could easily be four servings.

2. Add Veggies to Boost Potassium and Lower Salt

Mix a bagged salad kit with a bag of undressed lettuce. Add a pound of steamed broccoli or other veggie to your favorite Chinese or Thai take-out. Add a bed of baby spinach or kale to frozen meals. That way, each mouthful ends up with more potassium and less salt. Or cut sodium in a prepared seasoned grain by mixing it with unseasoned bulgur, quick-cooking brown rice, or farro.

3. Replace Your Meat (or Starchy Side Dish) with Beans

They’re packed with fiber, protein, potassium, magnesium, folate, and iron. That helps explain why beans (and lentils) are so good for you. Beans lower LDL (“bad”) cholesterol, probably because they’re rich in the gummy, soluble type of fiber. Eating beans regularly also helps lower blood pressure, possibly because they’re a decent source of potassium. Bonus: they’re delicious. Start with one of these recipes from Kate Sherwood, The Healthy Cook.

4. Use Nuts Instead of Croutons

Nuts and seeds offer a little plant protein and plenty of heart-healthy polyunsaturated fat. For instance, Brazil nuts are the excellent source of Selenium and Vt B1, and pumpkin seeds are filled with Protein, Iron, Zinc, and rich in Copper! So sprinkle them on salads instead of croutons (which are typically salty white-flour bread). Or add them to yogurt, cereal, fruit, and vegetable dishes.

5. Eat Plain Yogurt or Mix Plain with Sweetened Yogurt

Unsweetened yogurt provides the most nutrient bang for your calorie buck. For extra protein, try creamy low-fat plain greek yogurt. If plain is too tart for you, mix plain and sweetened. Or add peaches, bananas, berries, or other fruit. Actually, I have personally cut down on my intake of dairy products (milk, yogurt, cheese, butter, and ice cream, etc) because they might have a negative impact on balancing hormones at midaged people (especially women who are prone to have cervical or endometrial polyps).

6. Cook with Canola or Olive Oil

Replacing saturated fats (in meat and dairy) with unsaturated fats lowers LDL. Most people get plenty of polyunsaturated-rich soybean oil in restaurants and prepared foods, including mayonnaise and salad dressing. So you’ll probably end up with a good mix of unsaturated fats if you use canola oil or olive oil (when you want its flavor) for cooking. I also love to use Grapeseed oil or coconut oil to cook something at high temperature.

7. Snack on Fruits or Vegetables

What better way to tide you over to your next meal than a low-calorie, light-yet-filling orange, half cantaloupe, peach, plum, banana, or bowl of cherries, berries, or grapes? Try baby carrots, grape tomatoes, or slices of bell pepper, cucumber, or jicama with a few tablespoons of hummusor yogurt tzatziki. Yum.

When you eat out,…..

8. Start with a side salad for your appetizer…or just wait for your entrée.

At many restaurants, appetizers mean cheese plus white flour or other fried fare. Quesadillas, spinach and cheese dip, nachos, Buffalo wings, and most other apps hover around 1,000 calories. Who needs ‘em? 

9. Order Smart

Check out our tips for what to put on your bagel or smoothie or pizza, what to stuff in your sub or burrito or bowl of Chinese food, what to order for breakfast or lunch, and how to eat well almost anywhere. You won’t just cut calories. You’ll also boost the nutrients in your meal. Plus, avoid ordering sweetened soda or artificial fruit-flavored juice. Just a full glass of pure water will do.

10. Take Home Half Your Meal

When researchers analyzed main dishes at independent and small-chain restaurants in Boston, the average entrée (with sides) had roughly 1,300 calories. That’s with no drink, appetizer, or dessert. And they looked at more than half a dozen cuisines, including Greek, Indian, Vietnamese, Mexican, Thai, Japanese, Chinese, and Italian.

Some Health-related Expressions

Wanna check out some English expressions related to physical illness/ symptoms? Let us learn some expressions about unhealthy physical states, but stay in good health! J

1.   acute (adjective)

an acute illness is one that becomes very bad very quickly

ó chronic (adjective)

medical a chronic illness or chronic pain is serious and lasts for a long time. A serious illness or pain that lasts only for a short time is described as acute

2.   noncommunicable

ó catching (adjective)

a disease, mood, or idea that is catching spreads quickly to other people (synonym: communicable)

3.   congenital (adjective) (=inborn)

a congenital medical condition is one that a person has had since they were born

ó acquired (adjective) attained/ captured

4.   bariatric (adjective) relating to the causes and treatment of obesity

5.   degenerative (adjective)

a degenerative disease is one that gradually gets worse

6.   focal (adjective)

medical a focal disease or infection is limited to one part of the body

in which bacteria are localized in some region, as the tonsils or the tissue around a tooth, from which they may spread to some other organ or structure of the body.

7.   low-grade (adjective)

a low-grade medical condition is not very serious

8.   niggling (adjective)

a niggling injury is not very serious but is difficult to treat or cure

9.   systemic (adjective)

medical affecting your whole body

10.        virulent (adjective)

medical a virulent illness is very dangerous, and affects people very quickly

Time to check with your knowledge! Choose the right expression for each of the following sentences.

   1.   John got his lower back injured while playing golf last weekend. He says it’s no more than a ____________________ injury, but I guess he should go see a chiropractor before it gets worse.

   2.   Tonsilitis, which causes unpleasant and uncomfortable state of your throat, is one of the examples of the _____________ infections. It is localized in one part of your body.

   3.   Many morbidly obese people go under gastric bypass surgery, which is one of the common procedures of _________________ surgery.

   4.   Have you heard the news about the _____________________ outbreak of cholera in Gujarat, especially in the native states?

   5.   Careful examination of the fingernails and toenails can provide clues to underlying ___________________ diseases.

   6.   Tom says he needs to dump his old running shoes and get a new pair of the ones designed for the overpronaters. He has painful flatfeet which can be a sign of a _______________ abnormality or an injury to the muscles and tendons of the foot.

   7.   This approach has helped detect infectious diseases, and the new technology allows __________________ diseases to be detected using the same strategy.

   8.   Physical examination showed ____________________ fever and a slightly tender, markedly enlarged spleen.

   9.   __________________ diseases, such as Asthma attack, come on rapidly, and are accompanied by distinct symptoms that require urgent or short-term care, and get better once they are treated.

  10.  My mother had been suffering from ____________ arthritis on knees, but the artificial knee replacement surgery did help her lead such an active life now.

Answer Keys

  1.   niggling

  2.   focal

  3.   bariatric

  4.   virulent

  5.   systemic

  6.   congenital

  7.   noncommunicable

  8.   low-grade

  9.   acute

  10. degenerative

Dream on the Path to the Sky

Born as a middle child among 9 children to poor parents in a small farming town, my mother had rarely drawn attention or special care at home. Once in her childhood, she was wanted by a Japanese couple with no child living next door as their adopted daughter, but she did not wish to leave her mom, dad, and eight loving siblings even if she had not been viewed as a special kid in the family but rather one of those many children or even a diddly-squat. No more than a shy and quiet girl, but deep down inside, she had a dream of becoming SOMEBODY in the future, although she had no clear idea of what that SOMEBODY might mean. In her mind, “somebody” might refer to someone who at least would not be a swarthy, thewless person with nothing to achieve in a secluded town, but rather the one who tries to hypostatize her amorphous dream.

The day came for this almost invisible high school girl to put her first step forward to get closer to become someone special in her family. It is applying for the air force as the first female air cadet corps in the Republic of Korea, which was supported by the government. When her parents came to learn about what their ‘non-person’ kind of insignificant daughter was up to, they furiously opposed the addle-headed idea of becoming a pilot. Since aviator was regarded as men’s job back then, her conservative parents even threatened by telling her they will repudiate her to say the least. She was locked inside her room, but her dream of flying made her escape through the window of her room.

She was the Korean War veteran and later discharged from the air force as a captain. Although her dream was not embraced by her own parents since she became a pilot, fortune favored the brave. She was granted the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to study abroad by the government scholarship. Literally not knowing the ABCs of English, her stay in the small college named Guilford in North Carolina had been no picnic at all. Eating, sleeping, and working myriads of part-time jobs with English dictionary in her hand finally led her to the point of showing up on a popular CBS TV show “What’s My Line?”. In the year of 1962, she became the most popular female pilot from Asia in the States and was fortunate enough to be presented a light aircraft called ‘Piper Colt’ funded by other American female aviators’ under the slogan of ‘We Help Captain Kim’ using their collection of green stamps. The precious aircraft was donated to the Aerospace University in Korea when my mother came back in the year of 1963.

My mother’s life had often been filled with trepidation and upslope throughout her path to the sky, but each time she was considered by the square viewpoints of the world and her own parents calling her “enfant terrible”, she reminded herself of Amelia Earhart’s beautiful thoughts in life: “Everyone has oceans to fly if they have the heart to do it. Is it reckless? Maybe. But what do dreams know of boundaries?” Who cares if your goals or dreams in life could be no more than a reverie that will never come to fruition? As long as you are putting your best foot forward, just one step at a time, you are already in the right direction towards your dreams.

Expressions

  1.   diddly-squat: nothing/ zero

  2.   thewless: cowardly; timid

  3.   to hypostatize: (verb) to treat or regard (a concept, idea, etc.) as a distinct substance or reality

  4.   amorphous: (adjective) without a clearly defined shape or form

  5.   to repudiate: (verb) to cast off or disown (one’s children)

  6.   Fortune favors the brave/ bold: (phrase) "Fortune helps the brave", and "Fortune favors the strong" are common translations of a Latin proverb.

  7.   Green stamps: (proper noun) S&H Green Stamps are a discontinued line of trading stamps popular in the United States from the 1930s until the late 1980s. They were distributed as part of a rewards program operated by the Sperry & Hutchinson company (S&H), founded in 1896 by Thomas Sperry and Shelley Byron Hutchinson

  8.   trepidation: (noun) a feeling of fear or agitation about something that may happen

  9.   enfant terrible: (idiom) a person whose unconventional or controversial behavior or ideas shock, embarrass, or annoy others.

  10. reverie: (noun) a fanciful or impractical idea or theory

Idiom Check: Let’s get the meaning of your personality!

Life can be interesting because there is not exactly the same type of two people on earth. Each has his or her own specific traits and personalities. This week, we would like to go over some idiomatic expressions to describe personality.

<i> to not have a nasty bone in one’s body: to be a mean streak

<ii> all mouth and no trousers: full of boastful, arrogant, or shallow talk, usually by a male, who then cannot deliver on his claims (=all hat and no cattle)

<iii> wouldn’t say boo (to a goose /or to anyone): to be particularly shy, diffident, or timid by nature/ To not say a word (to anyone); to keep quiet/ not to be assertive

<iv> to keep himself to himself (or keep herself to herself): to lead a very private and unsociable life, while someone who is always lively and cheerful

<v> Someone’s bark is worse than their bite.: One's actions will not be nearly as severe as one's words imply.

<vi> a force of nature: a  person or creature possessing unnatural or God-like power/ or if we describe an extrovert and energetic person as a force of nature, we are probably mocking them at least a little

<vii> a cold fish:  someone who seems unfriendly and who does not share their feelings

<viii> a (nasty) piece of work: a very unpleasant person

<ix> a wall flower: a shy person, especially a girl or woman, who is frightened to involve herself in social activities and does not attract much interest or attention:

<x> a skiver: a person who is absent from work or school without permission

Ready to check your idioms to describe the following        people.

  1.   Tom needs to know that our team manager has been watching over us to secretly see who is the ______________ that often skips early morning meetings.

  2.   Bradley regrets that he has not been a good boyfriend to Olivia. Olivia decided to leave him because she can’t stand his coldhearted attitude anymore. Bradley is such a _______________.

  3.   Don’t worry about what Ted said last night. Although he sounds very intimidating and threatening, his ____________________________________________.

  4.   Mary stays at the gym all day taking every single exercise classes on a daily basis. My Gosh! She is a _____________________________!

  5.   The legendary pop idols Michael Jackson had not shared his private life with public. He kept ________________________________________________.

  6.   Are you sure Matt cheated on his loving girl friend? Well…I believe he doesn’t have a _______________________________________.

  7.   Linda never goes to a party, because she doesn’t want to become a _________________________ while everyone else is having a good time, chatting and socializing.

  8.   Today’s “Me, too” campaign in the States has made all the sexually molested women break the silence and come forward to find their right to speak up. They are not the same girl who wouldn’t _________________________________________ anymore!

  9.   You’d better steer clear of Jim. He is such a nasty _________________________________. Everybody says he is so annoying and even violent sometimes.

 10. Ronald is wheeling out the same old excuses for being way behind in his project that is due tomorrow. He always toots his own horn or even cooks up a story to embellish his capability, but everybody knows that he is all ______________________________________.

Answer Key

1. <x> skiver

2. <vii> coldfish

3. <v> bark is worse than their bite

4. <vi> force of nature

5. <iv> himself to himself

6. <i> nasty bone in his body

7. <ix> wall flower

8. <iii> wouldn’t say boo to a goose

9. <viii> nasty piece of work

10. <ii> all mouth and no trousers