Sheryl Kraft
Everyday Health
Connecticut, United States
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The Dos and Don'ts of Diarrhea for Quick Relief
Here's what you need to know about the diarrhea dos and don'ts. Try these steps to help stop diarrhea: Do avoid dairy products. If you have lactose intolerance, then dairy products can be a major cause of diarrhea and should be avoided in general. → Read More
How to Keep Friendships Strong During Cancer Treatment
A cancer diagnosis can challenge friendships, but you can learn to navigate the ups and downs and still manage to stay close. → Read More
Is There Beauty During Breast Cancer Treatment?
One of the most disconcerting aspects of cancer treatments is that they can alter your appearance, but there are ways to take control again. → Read More
Scalp Cooling Caps Can Minimize Hair Loss During Chemotherapy
Hair loss is one of the biggest concerns for women undergoing chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer. Now there are options to prevent it. → Read More
Realistic Nipples for Breast Cancer Survivors
Women who have had breast cancer surgery often lose one or both nipples. Now a new prosthetic nipple can give them their confidence back. → Read More
5 Fall Food Swaps to Prevent Digestive Pain for People with UC
Ulcerative colitis can make it hard to eat fall favorites like chili and butternut squash. Find out how to modify these foods so they don't irritate your GI tract. → Read More
5 Good Reasons to Exercise If You’re Battling Breast Cancer or Worried About Getting It
Exercise has a powerful ability to prevent breast cancer as well as enhance treatment, recovery, and quality of life. → Read More
Voice of Experience: How to Support a Friend with Breast Cancer
Many people don't know what to say to someone who has been newly diagnosed with breast cancer. Here's a guide to help you offer support. → Read More
3 Ways Coffee Can Affect IBD and What to Drink Instead
A warm cup of fresh coffee may sound like a good go-to drink for a morning pick-me-up. But that cup of joe may do more harm than good for people with Crohn's. Find out about coffee alternatives. → Read More
IBD and Body Image: Life With a Stoma
Body image issues are prevalent in people with IBD, especially those who have a stoma, a surgical opening in the abdomen. Find out how one woman with UC learned to improve her body image by creating attractive ostomy covers that she now sells. → Read More
The Benefits of Swimming if You Have Crohn’s
Swimming can reduce inflammation and relieve joint pain in people with Crohn's. Here's what you need to know before taking your first plunge. → Read More
What to Order at Starbucks if You Have Crohn’s
It’s easy to find something to satisfy just about any taste at Starbucks. But for someone with IBD, the right or wrong choice can mean the difference between feeling well or suffering with uncomfortable symptoms of IBD. Here's how to navigate the menu at → Read More
No, Bruce Jenner Is Not Having a 'Midlife Crisis'
I really had to fight to keep my mouth shut when I heard that midlife crisis comment. Oh, and that other one about 60 being "old" and too late to make changes.... → Read More
The Wisdom I've Gleaned From Another Passing Year
This year has zoomed by, and it's tough to sit with the fact that 2015 feels and sounds like it's way in the future, rather than moments away. Time, which becomes such a precious commodity with each passing year, has a way of surprising me with its s... → Read More
Keeping Up Is Hard To Do
My father (may he rest in peace), at 89, taught himself to use a computer. But then again, he was always handy and could build a radio or a car engine from scratch, and isn't technology the modern-day equivalent of those kinds of skills?... → Read More
On Being a Mother
After yearning to be a mother for so long, suddenly, the word was strangely alien to me: weighty with responsibility, emotion and most of all, the unknown. → Read More
7 Surprising Dos And Don'ts For Drinking Water
SPECIAL FROM Grandparents.com For a long time, we've been led to believe we need to drink 8 cups of water a day, but “this number doesn’t come from any research,” says Riana Pryor, who specializes in heat and hydration research at the Korey Stringer Institute at the University of Connecticut. → Read More
Thanksgiving Thanks for a Healthy Life
Even the smallest thing, like the incredible scent of roasting coffee or the wonder of the intricate shape of a flower petal -- can be overlooked when distractions threaten to drown out the here and now. → Read More
11 Things Midlife Women Want Their Doctors To Know
This is a rather confusing time in my life; in fact, it's almost like being a teenager all over again (minus the wonderfully un-saggy skin and quick metabolism). My hormones are shifting. My body is changing. I'm feeling new sensations -- both mentally and physically -- and everything seems to be fluctuating. → Read More