Women & Health~ The healers, Article

I know in my household I am the one that makes doctors/dentists appointments, not for just myself and my 4 kiddos, but also my husband.  Not just appointments, but if any meds are needed, I distribute, if follow ups are demanded, I make sure they are met.

I make sure my husband gets in for a yearly check up, just like me- Oh yeah, he’s so lucky, isn’t he! :)

This is a great article about how Women are the healers, the one’s that keep the family (& a lot of the times relatives), healthy.
I’m proud to be one that watches over my family and their health.

Make sure you are watching over your family and make sure you are teaching them healthy habits now.

Lady Madonna
By Jeffrey Kluger Thursday, Apr. 15, 201
www.time.com

A sudden interruption turned what started as a routine press conference into a revealing anthropological dance. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was addressing the media when NBC newscaster Chuck Todd loudly sneezed — a scary sound in a crowded room during the H1N1 flu pandemic one day last September.

“Bless you,” Sebelius said. Then she did a double take and widened her eyes in reproach, an expression anyone who ever had a teacher or a mother recognizes — and fears. Todd had sneezed into his hand rather than using the approved into-the-elbow method for limiting flu transmission. “What is that about?” Sebelius asked sternly and then demonstrated the proper technique. “We’ll have to get Elmo to give Chuck a special briefing,” she added, a reference to a Sesame Street ad that shows kids how to sneeze hygienically.

The Cabinet Secretary was kidding — mostly — but Todd’s red face and uneasy squirming looked awfully real. And while the newsman might have reacted the same way if he’d been called out by Mike Leavitt or Tommy Thompson or any of the other male HHS Secretaries who came before Sebelius, it’s hard to picture. For humans, there has always been something about a health message coming from a woman that gives it special authority. The father may traditionally have been the head of the home — and the family doctor may traditionally have been male — but it was the mother who saw to it that the kids got vaccinated, Grandma made it to her heart specialist and Dad stayed on his blood-pressure meds. And while much about family life has changed over the decades, that part hasn’t.

Women make the primary health care decisions in two-thirds of American households. They account for 80 cents out of every dollar spent in drugstores and are likelier than men to choose the family’s health insurance. Even when both parents work, wives shoulder 75% of domestic responsibilities, including making the kids’ doctor appointments and getting them there on time. “Women are the main brokers of health care in the United States,” says Dr. William Norcross, a family physician and faculty member at the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine. “This has long been the case and is probably true elsewhere in the world too.”

It is, and the rule is not limited to mothers. In the 1990s, when Nepalese children faced an epidemic of vitamin-A deficiency, which can be deadly, and health experts needed someone to help distribute supplements, they recruited the nation’s grandmothers, knowing they had both the time to get the pills out and the moral authority to make sure kids took them. By 2005, 48,000 grandmothers were distributing vitamin A to 3.5 million kids.

“Global development agencies are cuing into this kind of thing too,” says anthropologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy of the University of California at Davis. “When you give resources or money to women, more winds up in children’s health. When you give it to men, it’s likelier to wind up going for things like tobacco.”

There are a lot of variables that explain the mom-as-health-czar phenomenon. As with so many things, it begins with evolution, but it doesn’t stop there. Females of nearly all species expend far more time and energy producing young than males do and are thus far more motivated to protect that investment. “I could count on two hands the number of species in which males are primary caregivers,” says Hrdy.

Doctor Recommendations- Help me make a list

Hi Ladies!

I’m receiving emails weekly from Women looking for doctors in their area that specialize in PMDD.  Of course we know that no one ‘specializes’ in PMDD, but some of us have run across some really great doctors that understood PMDD better than others.

I am making a list and need your help.  You can either reply to this post or email me privately at redefininglifewpmdd@gmail.com

Please send me the name of the doctor, city and state, address and zip code if you can, and phone number.  Really as much info as you can so that another Woman can find the doctor closest to her.

It’s so important with PMDD for us to find good doctors, PMDD is so misunderstood, this list can really help a lot.

Please participate, it will only take a quick second.

So many of you run your own biz, wanted to pass this onto you

Hi ladies.

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Anyway, he does have some vides online right now for his preseason show that you can watch just to get your Twitter and Facebook understanding in place before the season begins.  You can also do a search of 30DC or type in thirtydaychallenge.com and sign up for free or type in thirty day challenge in the search to see how long and how many people talk about this man.

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Please feel free to ask questions in the comments or email me.

Stef