Blog1 -What health issues are you most concerned about?

As women we have number of issues to worry about. Few things that pop into my head are breast health, ovary health, and uterus health. Other major issues include cholesterol, osteoporosis, blood pressure, obesity and diabetes. I personally am more concerned with ovary health, uterus health, osteoporosis and obesity.

Ovary and uterus health seem to interlink with each other in the sense that all is in one place and can spread either direction. For example, if HPV is not caught in time it can turn into cervical cancer, and ovarian cancer in many ways effects uterus. After having several issues with uterus at young age along with ovarian cyst, I was encouraged to get educated about my own body. Women’s health is important because if we are not educated then how we to prevent issues that can indeed help save a life.

My other concern as a woman is obesity and osteoporosis. Naturally women care a higher percentage of body fat because we are the once who get pregnant. Its body’s natural way to keep the baby inside protected. We also gain extra pounds during pregnancy to insure baby has sufficient amount of fluids and thermal balance. Don’t quote me because this is all from my general knowledge and not deeply researched. Few extra stored up fat is okay but excess fat on the other hand can lead to many numbers of issues. It is understandable that women have lesser number of lean body mass and it takes longer to lose that baby fat or just few extra pounds from the holidays. That is why it creates a greater attention not just in women but obesity in general. The obesity rates are growing daily. But since women are more likely to suffer from osteoporosis, we should be concerned with weight issues. When you are overweight, it creates greater pressure and stress on your bones. Along with overweight, number of other issues occur such as blood pressure and diabetes which then allows even low ability to stay healthy and keep up the immune system.

I spoke to three women about some of these concerns that I have and I wanted to see if their concerns were the same or if they had few extras since they are different in age. My friend Claudia is 32 years old who works full time and has two young kids. Her concern was obesity. Her Hispanic back ground doesn’t offer healthy choices. She told me that it’s harder to cook everyday with full time job. She was not only concerned for her weight but also her children since on the run they end up eating easy junk food. She felt like fast food restaurants should have more healthy options. I agreed with her because I am part time student and I work full time. It might not seem a lot but all of that is time consuming and without planning meals weekly, weight can accumulate. My husband’s grandmother who is 71 years old had little bit different issue. She was more concerned with cholesterol. She told me it affects her heart, arteries, and even her oxygen. She is on different medications to help her lower it. My friend Christina is 24 and is pregnant with her second child.  She is concerned about diet related illness like diabetes and high blood pressure. To my surprise, their concerns were similar. At different ages and stages of women’s lives, the concerns vary but they are still similar in nature.

Quick Mini Bio

Hi Everyone,

My name is Anastasiya Koroleva (aka Wells). I am recently married, just under 6 month, and haven't gotten the chance to change my last name yet (it’s a complicated process). This is my first time ever blogging. Never in my life read a blog or written one. I do love to write on my facebook page and I actually thought of starting a blog before, just never got to it. I assume this is where my blogging career begins, ready, set, go. I know for sure it’s hard to summarize my life into just few paragraph but I am going to try.

My major is Dietetics. The reason I chose to go into this field is because my husband is type one Diabetic and I have always been health conscious. I grew up part of my life in Russia, my birth place, eating fresh from the garden. Then here in America most food is processed which makes me want to educated families and their children to make better health choices when it comes to food. I want to work in the field with children in order to establish a lifelong goal of nutrition. Many kids in today's generation are not educated by their families on proper eating which then leads into obesity, heart disease, diabetes and so on. In order to be successful in life long nutrition, one needs to learn from the beginning. This is my plan in health, to prevent different diseases and cancers. One of my hobbies of course is obsession with cooking. I can cook all day long. I also love going thrift shopping with my husband and just being with him in his company. I am in this class I would say by a mistake of misunderstanding, but I don’t believe in mistakes. I believe there is a purpose for everything including me being in this class. I really hope to share some of my struggles as woman and to share my testimony of overcoming them. I can't wait to learn more about women's health and apply it to my own life as well. I am sure there are still a lot of things as a woman I yet to learn about my own body.

Here my unique testimony. As I mentioned earlier I am recently married, and oh boy it’s been one amazing journey so far. I came from a broken home with no father and seen my mother struggle relationship to relationship while working 2 to 3 jobs a time trying to raise my brother and I. All that occurred in Russia where I was born. Then my mother met my step-dad online and that is how we all ended up here in America. All my mother's struggles reflected on me. Once I started dating, I bounced relationship to relationship. I was determined that no man will ever hurt me because I will always out run them by beating them to that first step. I was determined to never get married because marriage to me was nothing but pain, struggle and that love was only in movies that could never be true. I never realized how broken I really was and how blinded I was with my own desires. The night when I meat, now my husband, was a true movie where the world paused so that he and I could collide. The works not of our own but all predestined by the Lord's calling. I was faithless and ungodly woman who called herself feminist where no man can tell me what to do. I now laugh at that idea. I was blessed with a Godly man only 6 month of dating,  we were engaged, and married at 9 month. We as women believe so many lies of this world while the truth says "Trust in the Lord with all thine hearts; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, he shall direct thy path." Proverbs 3:5-6.

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