Home Health
One of the most talked about diseases today is diabetes (diabetes mellitus). There seems to be an epidemic including people of all ages. What are we to do? How about just using a little common sense? Start with learning as much as you can about the disease before you panic. If so many have it then there should be a lot of research available to answer your questions.
What is Diabetes?
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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...
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.
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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...
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...
Take some time off! If you take a day regularly to just do nothing, or two weeks for a relaxing vacation, would you consider that being lazy? Some people think so. Some experts, however, have come to the conclusion that most people don’t do these things nearly enough and therefore have stress and health related problems because of it. In other words, people don’t know how to be...
What is the acid/alkaline balance? Why is it so important to optimize it? Can it cause the disease? How else it affects our lifes? What do we need to optimize acid/alkaline balance and to reflect it in our diet?
Your body is a complex system that needs to strike a delicate balance between acidity and alkalinity in order to not only survive, but to thrive. The proper acid/alkaline balance varies...