Stress>
How much stress can you handle Scolding? As more and more women march their way into the workforce, becoming masters of multi-tasking and setting impossibly high standards, they consequently set themselves up for major stress. If a day in the office is becoming-literally-a daily grind, then you should learn to relax. The world Health Organization calls job stress “a worldwide epidemic.” If your body is under stress, it behaves as if it’s under attack. Chemical messengers in the bloodstream are released causing physical changes like an increased heart rate. Even worse, stress is said to play a big role in developing diseases like heart disease, diabetes and cancer.
2. Osteoporosis>
Don’t wait until your twilight years to start worrying about this. The Osteoporosis Society in the Philippines says women achieve peak bone mass between 25 to 30, meaning we should be depositing calcium requirements and doing regular weight training exercise.
3. Endometriosis>
We all know what menstrual cramps feel like. But if your monthly periods are becoming increases painful and you experience pre-menstrual spotting and back pains during your cycle, you may have endometriosis. This is a condition where the uterus lining grows in other areas of body, causing pain, irregular bleeding and infertility. Local expert claim it’s prevalent in 10to 15 percent of women of reproductive age is the major cause of chronic pelvic pain in 33 percent of women.
4. Heart Disease>
If your heart skips a beat for reasons other than your hot honey, listen up. One out of ten Filipinos aged 15 above suffers from hypertension. Approximately two percent aged 14 and below have high blood pressure. Society of hypertensions, says that in the past heart attack were more likely to strike 40 and 50 something. Today, cardiologists are noticing a growing number of patients in their late 20s and 30s. in the country, out of 100 adults, about 15 to 20 percent suffer from high blood pressure. The Department of Health says nine Filipinos die from cardiovascular disease every hour.
5. Breast Cancer>
The Philippines Cancer Society says breast cancer is the common type of cancer among women in the Philippines and in the country. However, if detected in its early stages, it can be treated with surgery, radiation and systemic therapy.
6. Diabetes>
Diabetes is characterized by the body’s failure to produce or properly use insulin, the hormone that converts sugar into energy. Approximately 2.5 million Filipinos are afflicted with the adult onset Type 2 diabetes, where the body fails to use insulin properly.
7. Domestic Violence>
We’re past the age where we have to fight for our equality but we’re still fighting for our lives. According to KALAKASAN, domestic violence is the leading cause of injury in women age 15 to 45. In the Philippines, six out of ten battered women have lived with domestic abuse for more than five years. The average woman will leave and return to her abuser seven or eight times before making the final break. Also, almost 75 % of women who are murdered by their abusive partner are killed in their attempt to leave the relationship or after they’ve left.
8. Smoking>
Cigarette smoke contains more than 40 carcinogens. Studies have confirmed that smoking is responsible almost all types of cancer and other weakening disease like diabetes, heart disease and stroke.
9. Strike>
The older we get, the higher the risk to get stroke. It remains a leading cause of death in the country. The Stroke Society of the Philippines says the incidence of stroke is rising. A major cause of stroke is high blood pressure, which affects a lot of women under 45.
10. AIDS>
It may seem too far-fetched that you could contract this disease but the number doesn’t lie. The AIDS Society of the Philippines reports that women aged 10 to 39 has a higher incidence of HIV/AIDS compared to men. And that the major cause of transmission is through heterosexual contact.
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