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[Best Syndication News] The FDA have been researching the effects of Bisphenol A also called BPA a chemical that is found in plastic food containers which they have been recommending consumers to limit their exposure to plastic containers. The FDA has released an updated report on BPA which has been in hard plastic bottles and metal-based food and beverage cans since the 1960s.

The FDA has expressed concerns about the safety of BPA and have written on their website, “FDA have some concern about the potential effects of BPA on the brain, behavior, and prostate gland in fetuses, infants, and young children.”

While the FDA believes it is safe they are recommending limiting BPA to children. Because of the FDA's concern of BPA they have been working with the National Toxicology Program with their National Center for Toxicological Research to further research the potential hazards of BPA. The FDA has a website dedicated to BPA and what they are currently doing to remedy the problem.

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You might have gone in four your yearly exam and got the news that you have high cholesterol numbers, or you have been dealing with it for some time now. Your doctor more than likely has recommended you change your lifestyle habits to lower your “bad” LDL cholesterol and at the same time maybe raise up the “good” HDL cholesterol. You want to see your total cholesterol under the 200 mark. Here are some ways that you can lower your total cholesterol numbers and at the same time improve your HDL cholesterol.

Lose Weight

Losing weight means that you are eating less, and putting your body through less strain. It will work more efficiently and will in turn have less cholesterol floating around in your blood stream. Weight loss is more than likely helpful in that it is because you are eating less.

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(Best Syndication News) Ladies, Pick Your Cancer. Many women receiving menopausal treatments today are too young to remember the old American folk tune, There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly even though the song could be written about them.

The old lady swallows a spider to catch the fly--then a bird to catch the spider, then a cat to catch the bird ad infinitum--until she is a walking Noah's Ark and iatrogenic casualty.

For forty years women obligingly swallowed the "fly" of Premarin, a horse urine menopause drug manufactured by Wyeth (now Pfizer) until it was revealed to increase endometrial cancer in the 1970s.

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A pelvic examination is a visual and manual inspection of a woman’s reproductive organs. This exam is usually performed annually by a gynecologist in order to make sure that there are no problems such as infections or growths. A Pap smear is a test to look for cervical cancer.

During a pelvic exam, a woman will remove her clothing and put on a medical examining gown. She will lie on her back on the physician’s exam table and place her feet in stirrups, which are actually metal supports attached to the bottom sides of the table.

The physician will examine the patient’s exterior reproductive organs to make sure that there are no signs of infections, redness or abnormal growths or sores. The doctor will then inspect the internal reproductive organs by inserting a medical tool, called a speculum, into the vagina, which opens the area until the vagina and cervix are viewable.

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By far the biggest worry for us pregnant mums is the safety of our little ones. Most of our energy during pregnancy is focussed on providing a safe and nurturing environment for our babies to thrive and develop and the biggest fear in our hearts is doing anything to harm or disrupt our baby's development in the womb.

But pregnancy can be a confusing time. There is an absolute minefield of pregnancy health and fitness information out there and unfortunately a lot of it is conflicting, inaccurate, misleading and sometimes even potentially harmful to your pregnancy health and the development of your baby. So it's no wonder that the forums are full of confused pregnant women with pregnancy information overload; looking for a straight and definitive answer to their truckload of pregnancy questions...