Daily Archives: August 17, 2005
Bladder Cancer
You may have heard it from physicians, from family members who have been doing their reading, or from spinal cord injury survivors who go...
Bowel Problems
As a children’s book says, "Everyone poops." Although you may not talk about it or even think about it much, it’s important to your...
Breast Cancer
Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women, accounting for more than 30% of all of their cancers. While spinal cord injury itself...
Cholesterol
So you’ve heard cholesterol is bad. Don’t eat red meat. Eat more fish. Stay away from eggs. Don’t eat fat. Exercise a lot. Maybe...
Colostomies: A Radical Approach to Bowel Mangement
It freaks many people out, but to some spinal cord injury survivors, a colostomy is a perfectly reasonable way to manage those cranky bowels....
Cutting the Fat
Eating is one of the more enjoyable things life has to offer. That’s why what to eat and what not to eat – especially...
Diabetes
Long term spinal cord injury (SCI) and diabetes? According to some researchers the two go together like coffee and cream, like Bonnie and Clyde....
Exercise
Most people seem to exercise for one or more of four reasons: to improve flexibility, increase strength, increase endurance or aerobic conditioning, or improve...
Fatigue
We’re hearing more and more about fatigue these days. Who cares? Isn’t fatigue just part of getting older? Well, the truth is, new data...
H2O: Hydration
You’ve probably heard those narrators on the National Geographic specials say things like "Water gives life" or "Without water there could be no life."...
