Tuesday 5 July 2016

What Is Diabetes? Learn The Pathway To Improved Healthy Life


Hi, I really want to share an important post with you today and it has to do with one dreaded disease that is spreading like wildfire among the people and I believe giving more insights into what the disease is all about is highly essential to guide against more people contacting this disease. This disease is called Diabetes.  This post is very important because it is the introductory aspect of one book I am writing on Diabetes and I believe everybody has one or two things to gain from getting this book. This book will be launched soon. The introduction of the book goes thus: 
 
With diabetes moving towards being an epidemic today, it is highly essential that you know exactly what the disease is all about. And, why is that? Well, this is for no other reason than to prevent you from contacting this disease! It is deadly especially, if not detected or controlled in time.  Having a better understanding of this disease is highly important to live a healthy, purposeful and better life.

In layman terms, “diabetes” is the inability of the body to process sugars properly. This is a disease that is known to be affecting quite a large number of people in both the developed and undeveloped nations of the world. With the world’s population at an all-time high in weight gain and low in health care delivery in some countries (developed countries inclusive), the problems associated with diabetes is growing at an alarming rate. Diabetes is a disease of the metabolism. Our metabolism is defined as the way our bodies make use of digested food for energy and growth.

Most food processed through our bodies is broken down by digestive juices into a sugar called glucose. Glucose is the fuel our bodies run on. And, anytime we eat, and our food is processed, the pancreas is supposed to produce the right amount of glucose from our blood automatically and release the right amount of insulin into our blood.

 When we eat or drink, our “pancreas” produces a hormone called “insulin”. Insulin is released into the blood and helps to regulate the amount of glucose (sugar) in the bloodstream. Diabetes is a condition where this process does not function correctly.

 However, in people with diabetes, little to no insulin is produced or the body’s cells don’t respond correctly to the insulin that is being produced. Therefore, the glucose builds up and overflows into the urine and passes out of the body. This is how the body loses its main source of fuel even though the bloodstream contains good amounts of the natural glucose.

The reason why diabetes occurs is because no insulin is being produced (often called Type 1 Diabetes) and requires the sufferer to use insulin injections, or insulin is produced but the body becomes resistant to it. This renders the insulin ineffective. This is normally called Type 2 Diabetes and is rapidly becoming more common. 

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Healthy Eating Guide: 10 Healthy Foods For Improved Healthy Living



Do you want to know about the top healthy foods that can greatly enhance your life towards improved and healthy lifestyle? Then come along as I show the foods that we always overlook at times and in which if we eat them as often as possible can greatly afford us the opportunity to live a better and healthy life. You should equally know that eating healthy foods alone is not all what you need for a healthy life; you should endeavour to combine it with physical fitness. It is a well-known fact that there are no magic foods that can make you to be one hundred percent healthy by just eating such food alone. Far from it, you need to know that you have to combine a variety of foods from each of these food groups in each and every day, if you really want to live the life of your dream without spending a fortune in the hospital. 

You should also remember that eating these foods are not as important as consuming the right portion at any particular point in time to avoid over-eating, in as much as we all know that everything in excess is not good enough. You should try as much as possible to make your mealtimes more pleasant and relaxed, then that’s when these healthy foods will work effectively as expected by giving you a healthy body. 
    
1.      Vegetables: One important food you can’t do away with if you want to stay healthy is vegetables. However, when we consider the variety of vegetables we have around us it’s really amazing. This has made it easy for some people to prefer being a vegetarian because they know that they have great opportunity to choose among so many vegetable is highly possible. For people who are vegetarian or vegan, choosing vegetables is known to be part of a nutritionally sound diet plan. Your vegetable group provides many of the minerals required in a good diet. For example, you may realize that potassium is necessary for healthy nutrition. Many people claim the benefits of potassium found in a single banana. However some people don’t even know that they can get adequate potassium in their diet by eating a stalk of broccoli? You can try a salad of fresh young spinach topped with pine nuts and stirred with lightly cooked penne'. Feta cheese and a light vinaigrette dressing to create the perfect light luncheon meal.

2.      Citrus: Citrus is a type of food derived from the citrus family has been widely known to be the main source of vitamin C. you can choose fully ripe citrus fruits for the best nutritional value that can provide high nutrients for your body. Well-ripened citrus fruits picked and consumed within hours of picking can give you the top nutritional rating for healthy living. Some citrus fruits are equally known to be highly valuable in managing some terminal diseases such as diabetes among others. You can try grapefruit for breakfast. You can as well add a dash of fresh squeezed lime to your salad as a dressing while slices of orange with coconut in a light honey dressing is equally good for dessert.

3.       Berries: Some people don’t even know that it’s ideal for them to like all types of berries or just one or two favorites. One simple truth you need to know is that you can never go wrong by adding a few fresh berries as a quick energy snack or frozen berries made into a luscious smoothie in place of calorie laden desserts. Berries are known to provide high quality components of vitamin C across the board. You can decide to choose ripe blueberries for vitamin C and heaps of anti-oxidants for the health of your circulatory system. Gogi berries are less well-known but are wonderfully rich in many of the nutrients your body needs to be nutritionally and physically fit. If you want to stay healthy make it a point of duty to take berries as part of your food combinations.

4.       Whole Grains:  Like other types of foods, choosing only one type of whole grain for your meals at any particular point in time is not adequate enough to give you the necessary nutritional value needed for a healthy living. More often than not, it is highly important for you to mix two or more whole grains together to achieve a complete proteins requirements. For example, brown rice and wheat kernels with a spicy seasoning are a popular dish in many countries.

5.      Legumes: A legume is derived from leguminous family and is the name given to a variety of fruits with a single dry seed. Legumes are sometimes called pods. Examples of edible legumes are peas , dried beans , soybeans and peanuts, among others. Legumes are known to be very rich in iron and also high in fiber, making them perfect and excellent nutritional choices. Peanuts are a type of legume that have been used to make quite a number of different products, especially some of them are edible while others provide various types of helpful uses.


6.       Salmon:  Salmon is lean fish from salty water and is known to be nutritionally one of the best fish choices. It is rich in Omega-3 oils that are noted as helping improve the functioning of the brain and eyes. Salmon baked whole with just lemon or lime as a seasoning makes a fantastic main dish or a hearty luncheon featured menu item. Salmon is also commonly found in chilled seafood dishes. Taking salmon as one of the foods you consume will provide you ample opportunity to have the required nutritional value you need for a healthy and effective living.


7.      Nuts and seeds: Most everyone has heard of walnuts and pecans which are very good nutritional products, but did you realize that flax seeds are brain food--containing critical non-meat sources of the Omega-3 oil. Indeed, nuts and seeds have shown that nature has packed a lot of goodness into small packages.

8.      Lean proteins:  The keyword here is lean. Americans eat far too much protein compared to the rest of the world. Cut down of portion sizes--three ounces will provide all the needed protein needed for your day.  Also, trim all visible fat from your protein source. Alternatively, use non meat substitutes such as the complete proteins found in vegetable dishes like beans and brown rice.

9.      Tea: Tea has been one of the foods that have contributed immensely to human healthy living for quite a long period of time. Everybody needs tea for one reason or the others and this depends on the type of tea you prefer. Tea is capable of providing energy boost from just a cup of green tea, or the calming effect of chamomile tea. Get going with mint teas or start your day with Earl Grey Breakfast Tea. Herbal teas are known to be soothing, tasty and good for you. Non herbal teas also have ability to help you stay alert when you need help to function effectively.

10.  Olive oil:  Olive oil is probably the healthiest substance you can use to keep fat in your diet. Olive oil can be used for various purposes. For example, you can use it on your salad, mix it with a little vinegar to create your own, or fry other foods in the hot oil.  Just make sure that the temperature is not too hot to prevent the oil from breaking down.

A Healthy Lifestyle: What You Need To Know For Improved Living





Do you want to know what you need to do to enhance a healthy living you have been craving for? This article is written purposely to show you the right steps to take if you really want to change your life for the better.  The modern age and all the intricacies associated with it have indeed made it quite extremely easy to neglect our wellness and health without even noticing the type of disservice we are doing to ourselves. We seemed to be busy throughout the day racing through our day to day lives – family, friends, work, and social engagements – that we don’t for once take time to look after ourselves. This manifested in the way we go about our routine lifestyle and through this some of us appeared tired and run down. Then, the question is “what are some simple things that you can do to improve your quality of life?
1.  Eat Only What Can Add More Nutrients To Your Life: Our daily life has always been subjected to eating of highly processed food and this has contributed in no small ways to the rate at which we consume so much impurities into our body system. Reports have shown that heating food above 116°F destroys much of the nutrient contents in such foods. Some nutrients are processed out of some foods we eat nowadays and some don’t even care to know the type problems this might cause for our body system.  
 And, at the same time some of us aren’t eating enough veggies as being prescribed by the nutritionist for effective living. This on the other hand constitutes a substantially eating problem. It is noted that Nutritionists recommend five serves of fresh vegetables per day. How many of us are actually taking that advice?

Remember, a great way to get the nutrients found in fresh veggies without spending all day at stove or eating raw celery sticks is to juice your veggies. Ensure that you get a good juicer because some juicers expose vegetables to heat created by friction during juicing, which breaks down important enzymes especially those nutrients that are beneficial to the body. Ensure to grab some fresh vegetables and drink your way to good health. However, the amazing part of this is that it takes just a fraction of the time to get it prepared and doesn’t even involves cooking at all and can equally be prepared at your own convenient time.  Lastly, you stand the chance of taking your juice to work and can even give some to the little ones for school lunches!

2.      Drink Some Cup Of Water But Do Away With All Forms of Alcohol: It has been proven scientifically that drinking a lot of water on daily basis can save you a great deal to enhance food digestion as well as sending out of some impurities from your body. Think about it for a second: The human body is known to be composed of 72% water. A 5% drop in fluids creates a 25-30% loss in energy while a considerable drop in fluids up to about 15% can cause death! And the agonizing part of this is that 66% of us aren’t drinking enough water that can help them live a healthy lifestyle. So, more than half of the world population isn’t running on all six cylinders for effective living. You need to have a better understanding of the negative impacts of bad air, bad food and stress can have on your life, especially if you want to live a healthy lifestyle without being subjected to any form of illness. You also need to know that it’s not all that difficult to remedy this anomaly. Just ensure that you change your disposition towards drinking of one glass of water every half hour or so, or presumably you can try to take between 10-12 glasses of water per day. As you do this you’ll notice a huge jump in your energy levels and will be more invigorated to carry out your daily activities without complaining of getting tired more often.

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       Taking Part in Daily Exercise: Exercises have always been prescribed as major contributors to healing process of some terminal diseases and has been proven to be of highly beneficial in the treatment of such diseases or illness. Though exercise is another dirty word for most of us because of the inconveniences we might be experiencing while doing it, but the most important reason why we have no other option than to exercise our body is that, it is a life saver. You need to bear it in mind that exercise doesn’t have to be horribly time consuming or mind-numbingly and boring. There are quite a number of options you can choose from especially after you might have studied yourself purposely to know which type of exercise is ideal for your body system. In the times past gyms usually offered weight rooms, aerobics classes and maybe a tydro-circuit to whoever wants to carry out one form of exercise or the other. However, there are more options available for you to choose from such as water aerobics, yoga, Pilates, step classes and a whole range of new workout options to choose from.

However, if you don’t really have the time or money for the gym, or prefer to spend your mornings/nights at home, then you can try an exercise bike or walker. At times you may even be physically unfit or tired and this can make it a mammoth battle to just do the most minimal amount of exercise in a day. The danger associated with this is that inactivity for a long time can lead to further loss of energy or ability to carry out any form of exercises. This may become a self-perpetuating cycle until you can barely get off the couch.

An excellent way to get back into a physical routine is to start slowly. Ridiculously slowly, it may seem. For the first couple of weeks, walk/ride for 5 minutes per day – exactly 5 minutes, no more, even if you think you could continue. If you are able to do this for 2 whole weeks then you can increase to 7 minutes, then 10 minutes, 12 minutes… and on and on like that. Just try as much as possible to gradually increase your activity level until you’re at a level that you’re more comfortable with and that nothing can make you stop what you are doing. Another thing you need to know is that as you are starting out your body system may feel disjointed but the simple truth is that the only thing that can solve the problem for you is not to stop. DON’T STOP!
It may sound a little silly, but it works. In effect, you trick your body into producing more energy. You’re building your exercise time up so slowly that your body doesn’t really realize what’s happening. Follow this method and, before you know it, you’ll be comfortably exercising within your limits every day. And you wouldn’t regret doing this.

Yes, that’s just the basics of what you need to know for an effective and enduring healthy lifestyle. If you can rearrange your life a little to allow for better eating habits, drinking of more water and a little exercise in a day, you’ll be well on the way to living a healthy life.

In conclusion, cultivate the habits of taking some quiet time for yourself to meditate. Meditating is an excellent way to minimise stress. You don’t have to sit around for hours, just give yourself 5 minutes of quiet time every day – even in the shower, if that’s the only place where you can get time out – and have a little catch up with yourself.

You have to remember that a healthy lifestyle is an option you can decide to choose if you want to live your dream life that is devoid of all form of tiredness or sickness. Choose to be healthy and live healthy. It’s your choice.

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Monday 27 June 2016

The Danger Associated With Overweight And Obesity: Learn The Best Method To Improve Your Health





Do you ever know that overweight and Obesity has been a major concern for more than 300 million people of the world? And, if you want to experience better living condition you must make it a necessity to find ways of how to count yourself out of this statistics.

Issues that have to do with overweight and obesity has been a major health concern for many people around the world, and the struggle with being obese or overweight is assuming the dimension of being more than just an issue of aesthetics or physical appearance.  It has created a very real health concern for quite a lot of people around the world.   

And, what is even more alarming about this issue is that over 22 million of the world's children below five years old are classified as obese or overweight, and many more are bound to join this group of people if drastic decision about how to put an end to this problem is not tackled head long. A report released in year 2000 based on a study carried out by Media Awareness Network, stipulated that  eight out of 10 Americans above 25 years of age are overweight.  The actual figures show that 58 million Americans are overweight and 40 million are obese. 

To the average person, being overweight is visually judged and not measured accurately based on medical or scientific parameters.  And, the ability to have the so-called love handles, beer belly, and other bulges around the body are often the obvious signs of being overweight.  The simple truth is that being overweight generally is a clear indication that a person has more body fat than what is considered normal and useful for the body's functions. Obesity, on the other hand, is defined as a condition in which the stored fatty tissues in a person's body are increased to a point where it is already a health risk.

However, if things are to be done right, then there is the need to critically look at what exactly are to be done to correct this anomalies that have come to stay purposely to constitute health hazards for the populace. We should have a better understanding of the fact that there are actual standards set by nutritionist-dietitians using the Body Mass Index (BMI), which is a statistical measure of the weight and body fat of a person scaled according to height.  BMI is known to be used by health care service providerss to discuss a patient's “thinness” or “fatness.” However, there are limits to the use of BMI as a health assessment tool since it may overestimate body fat in athletes and other individuals who are well-built; and this may equally underestimate body fat in the elderly or those who have lost muscle mass.

Another method that has been adopted as a health assessment tool is called Waist Circumference Factor, which is simply the measurement of the distance around a person's abdomen.  Based on an advisory released by the United States Department of Health and Human Services, those who are at risk of developing heart problems and other chronic diseases are women with a waist circumference of over 35 inches; and men with a waist circumference of more than 40 inches.  However, for Asian populations, the World Health Organization has recommended that women maintain a waist circumference of not more than 31 inches; while not more than 35 inches has been recommended for men.

It’s crystal clear that having a better understanding of what a waist line circumference or body mass index all add up to is our best bet to know what should be expected from every individual that are known to have this double “O” (as overweight and obesity are known for) and what exactly should be done to achieve such a great accomplishment.  Why do we need to know our weight or the measurement of our waistline?  Researches and studies have all pointed out that overweight or obese individuals are more prone to heart disease, diabetes, kidney problems, and a host of other serious illnesses. 

And, the good news is that many of these people are now being more aware about their weight and health situation in general.  The remarkable growth of the sports and fitness industries point out that more and more people are taking their physical health more seriously. It is equally a well-known fact that enrollment in gyms and other health clubs have risen over the years.  The popularity of the fitness franchises like Gold's Gym and Fitness First not only in America but in other parts of the world have made weight lifting and aerobics household words.  Even in places where gym memberships are considered as luxuries, minds are being changed as awareness about the need for regular physical exercise is made more widespread and in-depth. 

In fact, a number of fitness programs have sprung up and have become the latest fads followed by fitness buffs and regular people alike.  Pilates, boxing, tae-bo, yoga, and even belly dancing are among the most popular routines utilized by professional fitness experts to teach people who have prepared themselves to scale all hurdles in order to lose weight or those who want to improve their physical appearance. 

Though, taking part in series of exercises may not be all what some people have to do to reduce their weight, because to lose weight is not practically attached to any specific lose weight programme. For example, those who are extremely overweight or obese need more help in losing unwanted pounds from their body.  The use of a weight loss pill is one of the options that can be taken to shed the extra weight from our body. You should bear it in mind that if a specific weight loss pill is applied under the strict supervision of a health care professional, a weight loss pill can work like a miracle drug.  

However, you should equally know that It is important to know that not every weight loss pill works the same to achieve the same result.  There are as much number of unfounded claims as there are brands of herbal or dietary pills in the market.   These claims can range from the decreasing a person's appetite to ensuring the increase of calorie and fat metabolism.  Quite curiously, almost all of these products claim to be the “best weight loss pill.”  Some of these products contain herbs, botanicals, laxatives and even caffeine. And most often than not, the safety or efficacy of these ingredients when taken together may not give the desired results as expected, and this may be because the effectiveness of such drugs are not yet been properly established.  Therefore, it is highly important to be fully informed about the weight loss products they purchase to tackle their overweight or obese situation.  

However, much is needed to be done if indeed one is determined to reduce overweight or being obese. You need to do this because you can’t afford to become part of the statistics.  Improved health care is what you should pursue with vigour and you should never leave any stone unturned if you really want to live your dream life.

You should know that weight loss is not an impossible goal for you especially if you get the required and adequate information from a qualified health care service provider.  The combination of regular exercise, low-fat diet and, if necessary, the use of weight reduction medications can put an overweight or obese individual on the road back to an improved healthy lifestyle.

Thank you.