Jose

Although fibromyalgia predominantly afflicts the female gender, it is important to understand that the disorder can also occur in males. Due to the fact that fibromyalgia registers the highest incidence in women, the disorder has been erroneously labeled as a women s disease , lots of people ignoring the fact that it may also afflict persons belonging to the male gender. A series of recently conducted medical investigations have revealed the fact that fibromyalgia is more likely to be overlooked in men rather than women. Thus, it is believed that there may be a lot more cases of fibromyalgia in men out there than previously thought. Statistics indicate that during the 1997 and 2002 time period, about 38 percent of all cases of suspected fibromyalgia were registered in men. At present, the estimated ratio between female and male patients with fibromyalgia is 8:1. However, this ratio is considered to be inaccurate, given the fact that large numbers of male persons who show signs of fibromyalgia are rarely diagnosed with the disorder...

Sometimes you may make your choice with stubborn determination. Other times, you may decide and then wait for the grace that allows you to experience the joyful choice. If you believe that a certain set of conditions must be in place in order for you to be joyous, you disempower yourself. If you desire joy, you must be joyous. It is a plain and simple fact. Joy and happiness are essentially synonymous. You can certainly tinker with the nuances of definition. If I were to distinguish, I would say that people often look for happiness outside themselves and find joy within themselves. But of course, you could turn the words around. The important distinction regardless of the word or words chosen is that true joy comes from inside you, not from outside you. I certainly do not want to imply that things and other people and conditions cannot contribute to your well-being and happiness. But joyous persons are joyous persons, no matter what the circumstances. And non-joyous persons tend to blame the circumstances for their non-joyousness...

The obsession with health rages on in our country and around the world. People are consumed by counting their calories and by getting in an extra few minutes at the gym. We want the bodies that Hollywood tells us are not only possible but easy to have. Much of our pursuit of health is actually a pursuit of physical perfection and a level of beauty that we will probably never attain. We hear a lot lately about the carb and about how we should cut the carb out of our diet as much as possible. The thing about the carb - or carbohydrate - is that there is a good side and a bad side to it. Let s start with the good side of the carb. Anyone who has ever chased a toddler around for an afternoon knows that life takes energy to make it through each day. Especially as we get older, we need more energy to make it through the days. The carb is a great source of energy that can help us stay awake and maintain high energy levels throughout our days. All of these fad diets that teach us to cut out all of the carbs from our diets are seriously...