Month: March 2014
Amercian Cancer Society Hails March as the Colorectal Awareness Month
Screening guidelines Colon Cancer Stories of Hope Detailed Guide to Colon Cancer Over the past few decades, more people have been surviving colon cancer, and fewer people have been dying from it. This is thanks partly to improvements in colon cancer screening. Screening, the process of looking for cancer or pre-cancer in people who have no symptoms of the disease, can find colon cancer early, before symptoms develop, when it’s easier to treat. Screening can also sometimes find growths...
Can We Talk Constipation?
For most of us it’s not unusual to have constipation once and a while, but when it persists for more than 3 months it called chronic constipation. The American Journal of Gastroenterology reports that up to 28% of Americans suffer from chronic constipation. There are a number of causes, such as medicine side effects, related to another medical condition, or any number of other factors individually or collectively. Experts say that up to 56 million Americans suffer from chronic...
Digestion for the Over 50 Crowd
Digestion is something we take for granted until something is not working smoothly. Digestive disorders need to be managed by your local board certified gastroenterologist. As we age we can still develop sensitivities to certain foods. Food hypersensitivity is linked to 75% of all cases of irritable bowel syndrome. Each time you eat one of these foods you can be ingesting a ticking time bomb. If you’re over 50 and you are having cramps, gas, indigestion, diarrhea, constipation, or bloating...