Achieving a balanced diet
The old saying “You are what you eat” is only partly true. It takes a great deal more than just food to create a holistically healthy person, but food does form a good foundation...
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Alcohol and Blood Glucose
Alcohol contains sugar and will initially raise your blood glucose level. However, in larger quantities, alcohol prevents your liver from releasing glucose, therefore it can lower your blood glucose and increase the risk of...
What do You Mix it with?
90 percent of Americans don’t get the recommended 21–38 grams of fiber in their daily diet. Why is this? Perhaps it’s our hectic schedules that don’t allow us the time to think about fiber....
Liver Health
The largest gland in the human body, the liver lies below the diaphragm, in the thoracic region of ht abdomen. The liver has a number of important functions, including storage of glycogen, the body’s...
High-Fat, No-Starch Diet
New research sheds more light on high fat, no starch diets. The study shows these diets are effective in helping patients lose weight without adverse effects on their lipid levels. Obesity affects more than...
Assessing Low-Carb Diets
Low-carb diets are all the rage these days, but are they really effective over the long-term? And even if they are, are they really healthy? Those questions are addressed in an article in the...
Low calorie, low carbohydrate diets
I’m always reading about new weight loss diets. Should I avoid them because I have diabetes? It depends on the eating plan that is being recommended. The most effective ways to lose weight healthily...
Oxidized LDL
The prime focus of most drug research concerning cardiovascular disease has been about lowering cholesterol levels, and that is about all you will hear in their ads on television. However, thousands of studies are...
Bone Grafts
After years of study, doctors have found a safer, less invasive method of treating broken bones that have a hard time healing. The wave of the future is called injectable bone grafting. Chris Wagner...
RECOVERING WITH HYPNOSIS
Shunning medication in favor of hypnosis? Some patients at University of Miami’s Jackson Memorial Medical Center are doing just that. James Blash has an injury that cut straight to the bone. Now after surgery...
Athletes Eat High-Energy Foods
Athletes are always trying to boost their energy to get a competitive edge in sports. Some say high-energy eating is the key. Even if you’re moderately active, the right food might rev-up your workout....
Energy After Chemotherapy Treatment
Fatigue is the most common side effect of chemotherapy. Ninety-five percent of cancer patients say it zaps their energy. If researchers are right, popping a few pills each day may bring the energy back....
Laughing boosts energy
Are you stressed? Do you have trouble sleeping? Or do you just want to relax? You’ve tried medicines or maybe massages. You might just want to laugh. These people are exercising, lowering their blood...
Major breakthrough in paralysis treatment
Researchers say they have uncovered a major breakthrough in the quest to cure paralysis. A new study shows rats with spinal cord injuries can achieve 70 percent normal function. Investigators from The Miami Project...
Doctors are doing the unthinkable — making paralyzed patients walk again!
In a study on laboratory mice, researchers discovered the central nervous system, responsible for communicating messages between the brain and body, can reorganize itself and follow new pathways to restore movement. In subjects with...
Soy protein and prostate cancer
Prostate cancer is the number two cancer killer of men in this country. Treatment options range from surgery to “watchful waiting.” Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute in Tampa, Fla., are studying...
Labyrinths for Mental Health
Labyrinths are maze-like designs that date back to ancient times. They were thought to be used for religious, as well as healing purposes. Today, as Western medicine is combining with complementary therapies to help...
Physical Activities for Diabetes
Myth “You have to spend a lot of time being active to get any benefit” Truth The recommended amount of activity is 30 minutes five times a week. But you don’t’ necessarily have to...
Reducing your risk of Type 2 diabetes?
Is it possible to prevent Type 2 diabetes? If you know that you are prone to diabetes because, for example, you have a family history of Type 2 diabetes or you had diabetes during...
Long-term Complications of Diabetes
I’ve just been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. What sort of health problems might I develop in the long term? You are at increased risk of two main sets of complications: those affecting your...
The Role of Nutritions in Our Body
Our understanding of vitamins and minerals – and other micronutrients, compounds, and elements – and their role in our body has improved dramatically over the last decades. We now know that “micronutrition” – or...
World Diabetes Day
November 14 celebrates World Diabetes Day, the primary global awareness campaign for diabetes. Diabetes is a chronic disease that occurs when the pancreas does not produce enough insulin or when the body does not...
Type 2 Diabetes and young people
Can children and teenagers develop Type 2 diabetes? Yes; although traditionally Type 2 diabetes has affected only older people, with the increased tendency for children and teenagers to be overweight and less active, the...
Who gets Type 2 Diabetes?
Can you be born with Type 2 diabetes? No. type 2 diabetes is a condition that develops over time. It is most common in people over the age of 40, but there are increasing...
Causes of Type 2 diabetes
Is it possible to discover why I got Type 2 diabetes? Type 2 diabetes develops as a result of a combination of factors, and it’s not possible to know exactly why you have developed...
Drugs that increase your risk of diabetes
Certain drugs for long-term conditions can raise your blood glucose level or prevent your insulin from working properly. If you take any of the following drugs, you have a higher chance of developing Type...
Acupuncture help patients with arthritis of the knee
The ancient Chinese therapy of acupuncture can help those suffering from arthritis of the knee, according to new research. The study is the largest clinical trial on acupuncture reported to date. More than 20...
Minimally invasive procedure – an alternative to traditional back pain surgery
How many people have back surgery every year? Dr. Taylor: In the United States, back surgery is performed on 200,000 to 300,000 people per year. What’s really gone up in the past year is...
What is the incidence of peripheral artery disease in the United States?
It is very common. Most of time, people do not even realize they have a problem. They just think the inability to walk is due to arthritis or different things, but it is a...
Electronic Records Keep Patients Safe
Automating patient medical records has been touted as a way to ensure health care providers have all the information they need to make care decisions. That concept was tested recently at the Cleveland Clinic...