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Anx­i­ety is your body’s nat­ur­al reac­tion to stress­ful and uncer­tain sit­u­a­tions, it is your body telling you to stay alert and pro­tect your­self. Every­body expe­ri­ences some form of every­day anx­i­ety but when it gets out-of-hand you could be suf­fer­ing from anx­i­ety disorder. 

Heart dis­ease remains the No. 1 cause of death in the US and kills near­ly 380,000 peo­ple a year. While this mor­tal­i­ty rate has fall­en dra­mat­i­cal­ly over the last 10 years, risk fac­tors are still alarm­ing­ly high. Pre­ven­tion is an essen­tial ele­ment in the fight against heart dis­ease — much of which can be man­aged through diet.

1. Get an Annu­al Dilat­ed Eye Exam

Adults should have a year­ly dilat­ed eye exam to detect com­mon con­di­tions like cataracts, glau­co­ma or mac­u­lar degen­er­a­tion. These dis­eases could slow­ly be dam­ag­ing the eye and you would not be aware of the destruc­tion unless you have a dilat­ed eye exam. Be proac­tive and pre­vent blind­ness before its too late, sched­ule your annu­al eye exam (be sure to request dilation).

Seek­ing out help for men­tal health may not always seem easy depend­ing on your con­di­tion and sur­round­ings. To help ease your mind, here are 8 myths debunked about seek­ing help for men­tal health therapy. 

As you age, it is not uncom­mon for one or both eye­lids to begin to sag or droop. This con­di­tion is known as pto­sis, and can be caused by a vari­ety of fac­tors includ­ing your age, an injury, or anoth­er med­ical con­di­tion. In addi­tion to the vis­i­ble sag­ging, you may also expe­ri­ence sore­ness or aching around your eyes, and your face may appear tired.

Many women strug­gle with the stress and dai­ly tasks of tak­ing care of their fam­i­lies, and tend to neglect them­selves. Take a 5 minute break for your­self and read our 5 tips to help you be a health­i­er mom. If you are already incor­po­rat­ing some of these tips, it will help you learn more about your health and pre­ven­tive care.

Chances are you’ve expe­ri­enced dizzi­ness at some point in your life. That sen­sa­tion of light­head­ed­ness can be a symp­tom of many things — med­ica­tion, heart and/​or neu­ro­log­i­cal con­di­tions and head trau­ma. But what hap­pens when that dizzi­ness does­n’t go away, lasts for days and makes the room seem like it’s spin­ning even when you’re not moving?

Veins are blood ves­sels that car­ry blood back to the heart. To keep blood mov­ing toward the heart, veins have one way valves. When the valves break­down, blood does not flow well and can cause Chron­ic Venous Insuf­fi­cien­cy (CVI) and vari­cose veins. The abnor­mal flow of blood is typ­i­cal­ly referred to as ​‘reflux’ since the blood moves back­wards and for­wards. Venous reflux occurs most often in veins clos­est to the skin (super­fi­cial veins) and vari­cose veins can be blue, red, or flesh-col­ored. They typ­i­cal­ly look like cords under the skin and can be twist­ed or bulging. Spi­der veins are like vari­cose veins, but much small­er. The look like small tree branch­es on the sur­face of the skin.

The DMG urol­o­gists offer vasec­to­my con­sul­ta­tions and pro­ce­dures on select Sat­ur­days through the Men’s Health Clin­ic at the Lisle Med­ical Office Build­ing. These appoint­ments, offered in addi­tion to week­day appoint­ments, are avail­able to ease the has­sle of tak­ing off work for the con­sul­ta­tion and procedure.