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Here are some ways to help your child stay healthy:
Parents can help their kids stay a healthy weight by limiting video games and television time to an hour or two a day. Creating opportunities to have fun without electronic diversions can be a family undertaking. Dancing to music or working with art supplies are all ways to fire a child’s imagination. Turning off the TV can help kids become more plugged in to the world around them. Let kids earn their TV time. For every minute they play outside, they can watch one minute of television. Thirty minutes of outdoor play will buy them a favorite half-hour television show later that day. Encouraging sports that the whole family can participate in can go a long way toward encouraging kids to be active. Some kids feel self-conscious when they are overweight and don’t want to participate in team sports. They might feel that they won’t be able to keep up, or that they’ll let the team down.
August 09 2008 | Camp and Care and Exercise and Fun Run and General and Information and Open Letter and Research and Tips | No Comments »
A study looked into the characteristics and care of people with diabetes from Muslim countries, and studied the features of diabetes during the period of fasting–Ramadan.
Sample of 12,243 people from 13 countries; 1,070 had type 1 diabetes while 11,173 had type 2 diabetes.
During Ramadan, 42.8% of those with type 1 diabetes and 78.7% of those with type 2 diabetes fasted for at least 15 days, however less than 50% of the whole group assessed changed their treatment dose.
Findings: Severe hypoglycaemic episodes were seen to be significantly more frequent during Ramadan compared with other months, more so, they were even more frequent in people who changed their dose of oral antidiabetic drugs or insulin or their level of physical activity.
Healthcare professionals are therefore challenged with the huge number of people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes who fast during Ramadan.
Recommendation: More intensive education, dissemination of guidelines should be given before people with diabetes fast. More studies should be conducted to assess the impact of fasting.
July 01 2008 | Care and Research | No Comments »
An annual eye check up should be done for those with diabetes. The doctor whould check the eye dilation every year. However, only very people follow this drill, and lesser and lesser people do so every year.
An analysis fo 48 studies was done, comprising 160,000 participants worldwide. The purpose was to look at efforts to increase the number of diabetic patients who would actually have their eyes tested.
The following interventions were able to help propel people to have their eye examined: by increasing patient and caregiver of diabetic retinopathy; improving access to healthcare; using computer-based reminder systems; augmenting collaboration among screening organizations; and developing a community-based healthcare system. Combining interventions together worked even better.
May 15 2008 | Care and Research | No Comments »
People with pre-diabetes contain blood glucose concentrations that are higher than any normal diagnosis of diabetes. This situation increases the threat of acquiring type II diabetes, heart disease, and stroke. Pre-diabetes is classified into impaired fasting glucose (IFG) or impaired glucose tolerance (IGT), depending on the test used to diagnose it.
- IFG is a state in which the blood glucose is relatively high after an overnight fast.
- IGT is a circumstance in which the blood glucose level is high after a 2-hour oral glucose tolerance test.
Report says that if you have pre-diabetes, you can do a lot to prevent or delay the disease. One solution is to lose weight by cutting fat and calories and by means of exercising.
April 14 2008 | Research | No Comments »
Coffee addicts get lower chances for developing type 2 diabetes, according to a medical research conducted in Netherlands. The only catch is, that person should at least have seven cups of coffee a day. Caffeine, which we all know is evident in coffee may influence the way our bodies control sugar. Though some studies explains, drinking coffee too much in one way or another affects the heart. In spite of everything, the best way to lower the risk of developing type 2 diabetes is to maintain a healthy living – like eat a heart-healthy diet, maintain your ideal weight and get appropriate amounts of exercise.
April 09 2008 | Research | No Comments »
The risk involved for diabetic pregnant women is called pre-eclampsia. It is a medical condition where hypertension occurs in connection with significant amounts of protein in urine. Studies shows, a s
ubstance from placenta which bring about endothelial dysfunction in the maternal blood vessels is the cause of pre-eclampsia. While high blood pressure is the most evident sign of the disease, damage can be seen in other organs as well like in endothelium, kidneys, and liver. When diagnosed with this illness, the common recommendations are abortion, caesarion section, or induced labor. So far, pre-eclampsia is the most dangerous pregnancy complications for both the mother and fetus.
April 05 2008 | Research | No Comments »
Having diabetes during pregnancy cause certain risk such as miscarriage, stillbirth or birth defects. That’s why years ago, doctors are advising women who are diagnosed with diabetes not to get pregnant. However, these threats or risks can be reduced through proper observation and intake control of sugar. It’s better to consult your doctor and have a complete medical checkup if you plan to get pregnant to identify any complications. At the same time to avoid any impediment during pregnancy, be sure to achieve proper diet, have a regular exercise (consult your doctor about this), control of insulin, and watching signs of dangerous fluctuations in glucose.
April 01 2008 | Research | No Comments »
It has always been a known by many that diabetes is for life. Also, one needs to take medication the whole life through. Those diagnosed with adult-onset, or type 2 diabetes are told this fallacy. It is interesting to note that 25% of people over 40 now are victims of this life-threatening condition.
You will be surprised to note that more and more reports are received on a complete reversal–no need for medication. These reports come from former diabetics, by those who follow a low ‘glycemic load’ diet, combining a mineral supplement and the spice cinnamon.
Fedon Lindberg from Norway, world renown diabetes doctor has reported a complete reversal of the most common form, type 2 diabetes, and even in those injecting insulin, by this radical non-drug approach. ‘A balanced low glycemic load (GL) diet, coupled with a healthy lifestyle, can also achieve non-diabetic sugar levels without the need for medication - therefore ‘reversing’ the disease,’ he says. He has challenged the Norwegian Diabetes Association to change its advice.
Despite 15 controlled studies on chromium, 13 of which show benefit for stabilising blood sugar, most diabetics are still being told ‘you get all the nutrients you need in a well-balanced diet’.
This is simply untrue for chromium. A really good, wholefood diet might give you 50mcg a day. You need 500mcg a day if you are diabetic. (It is very safe to take this much as the toxic level is above 10,000mcg.)
February 20 2008 | Care and General and Research | No Comments »
“The higher your blood glucose is during pregnancy, the greater your child’s chances of growing up to be obese”, according to a recent study published in Diabetes Care.
Metabolic imprinting is the mechanism behind this outcome. It is presumed that when children in the womb are overfed by the high blood sugars of their mothers, they become pre-programmed for obesity, or imprinted.
It was noted however that given the proper treatment of the high blood sugars would help eliminate the risk. Mothers who received treatment had children who were not likely to get fat compared to other children. This includes mothers who initially had the highest blood sugars.
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February 08 2008 | Care and Research | No Comments »
According to a new study, there is a slight risk for women who drink more than a bottle of soft drinks a day to develop diabetes than women who drink less than a bottle a month. Critics of the study however say that the eating habits of these women be studied also, particularly those who take junk food as part of their diet. The extra calories taken from soda could account for at least some of the slight increase in risk of having type 2 diabetes, the most common between the 2 types of diabetes, as some of the researchers i Harvard University say. According to them, there is more to it than soft drinks–there should be a link in the the individual bodies react to soft drinks, or soda as they are called in other countries.
January 26 2008 | Research | No Comments »
