Health tips

Diabetic Retinopathy
Retinopathy is a non-inflammatory damage to the retina in the eye. It is most commonly caused by a problem with the blood supply within the eye. Diabetic Retinopathy is caused by complications of diabetes mellitus and can eventually lead to blindness. All diabetics who have suffered diabetes for fifteen years are more are at risk of diabetic retinopathy. It affects at least 80% of diabetics who...
Polyglandular Autoimmune Syndrome
A forty-five year old woman who has been relative active and healthy most of her life except for an occasional cold or 'bug' suddenly looses energy at the smallest task. She doesn't sleep well. Her head of thick glossy hair is thinning and her flawless rosy complexion suddenly seems dry and itchy. What is happening here? "I'm beginning to look just like old Aunt Edna!" Believe it or not...
Biological age to succeed in surgery
The risks of surgery can be greater for a person who has a higher biological age than others. This is because when one’s biological age is higher the body can be weaker and may not be able to handle certain types of surgeries. Some groups may not even recommended surgeries to a person with a high biological age. Biological age lower than calendar age. When a person’s biological age is...
Parenting improves biological age
In many cases becoming a parent in the middle part of your life can be good for your health. There are all sorts of good advantages of midlife parenting on biological aging to consider. These include how you will be able to follow healthier lifestyle options in order to give birth to a healthy baby and how that lifestyle can be used to influence one’s children. Biological Age - healthy...
Fitness Level Weight
Many people who do not exercise much do so on the premise that they are fit and healthy and do not need to exercise. On the other hand, there are those who hate exercise so much that they are ready to avoid it no matter how poor their fitness level. If you feel you are one of those people who are fit enough not to need exercise then it is time that you took a test to assess your fitness level....
Eating Healthy Food
Good nutrition is all about balance. There are several categories of foods that we need in our daily diet, but there is a certain balance we need to maintain with these foods to achieve good health. A general list of healthy food choices include: 1.   vegetables and fruits meat 2.   poultry 3.   eggs and fish 4.   dry beans and lentils breads and cereals 5...
Healthy food: Weight Control
According to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, 66% of adults in the U.S. are overweight or obese. When you eat too much and don’t get enough physical exercise, you gain weight. Simple. To lose weight, you must burn more calories than you take in. But this doesn’t mean you have to starve yourself. Actually, the newest trend among the weight conscious...
Fruits & Vegetables vs. Supplements
For many years, the medical and scientific communities didn’t believe that there was such a direct link between proper nutrition and superior health. Professional advice was that we got all the nutrients we needed from our daily diet so taking vitamins was not really necessary. They believed that, for the most part, illness and disease was just something that happened naturally or was...
Your Eyes: Care and Feeding
Can you name one of the most amazing gifts we humans have been given? Vision. Think what you would do without it. Actually, surveys show that people fear losing their sight more than any other sense, yet we tend to take it for granted. Proof of that is that unless we need glasses to see everything in sharp focus, most of us neglect getting regular eye exams. It’s important, however, to take...
You Can Do Self-Massage
Are you one of those people who always thought that getting a massage was an extravagance, or that it was just too self-indulgent and a waste of money? You might be surprised to find that a massage has many physical, mental and emotional benefits, and really isn’t all that expensive. However, perhaps you’ve just always been too busy or shy to try a professional massage, but would like...