Obesity and Hot Flashes Obesity is a major epidemic in South Carolina and the United States and the causes of diabetes, heart disease, stroke and some forms of cancer. These are major reasons why women and men should keep their weight at goal. A recent medical article suggested that obese women who experience weight reduction from diet and exercise reported less menopausal symptoms (hot flashes) when compared to women who remain overweight. Hot flashes continue to be a major dilemma for women and physicians because there is no good medication that can decrease or elimate these symptoms in most women. The estrogen pill that many women took for years to help curbed the above mention systems have been discouraged for most women because of the significant risk for breast cancer and heart disease.

 

When people think of the United States and health outcome one probably feels that we enjoy the best health outcome in the world. However a recent medical report ranks the United States as dead least compare to the other develop countries such as Canada, Great Britain, The Netherlands and Germany Australia and New Zealand, the Commonwealth Fund report found. Of the seven countries studied the United States was lasted last bases on the ares studied. "The current report uses data from nationally representative patient and physician surveys in seven countries in 2007, 2008, and 2009." The report said that the US spent about $7200 a year compare to about half that amount used by other countries. The report said that the US ranked last on safety and next to last on quality of care. "The report looks at five measures of health care -- quality, efficiency, access to care, equity and the ability to lead long, healthy, productive lives." "The lower the performance score for equity, the lower the performance on other measures. This suggests that, when a country fails to meet the needs of the most vulnerable, it also fails to meet the needs of the average citizen," the report reads."