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Immunization or prevention tips against diabetes

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

If you are interested to prevent diabetes then you should have basic diabetes knowledge:Diabetes means your blood glucose is too high. Diabetes is the inability of the body to ‘produce insulin – type 1 diabetes’ or ‘proper use of insulin – type 2 diabetes. If we know the causes of diabetes then, we can take care ourselves from diabetes. Causes of diabetes are of two types: causes that we can’t overcome and that we can overcome. If you already have diabetes, then it is advisable to have diabetes medication and follow below mentioned diabetes care tips.

Causes can’t be prevented: Hereditary – It is strongly believed that due to some genes which passes from one generation to another. If a mother has diabetics then there is 2 to 3% chances for her child, but if father has diabetic, the risk is more than the previous case and if both has diabetic, the child has much greater risk for diabetes.Age – Increased age is a factor which gives more possibility than in younger ages. This disease may occur at any age, but 80% of cases occur after 50 year.

Causes can be prevented: Obesity – Most of the sedentary life diseases are caused by obesity, one among them is diabetes.Stress – Either physical injury or emotional disturbance is frequently blamed as the initial cause of the disease. It had been reported in many studies that there is direct relation between high systolic pressure and diabetes.

Diabetes care & handling or preventing tips

Obesity: Maintain your BMI (Body Mass Index) in normal range, that your weight with related to you height. Also your waist size should be below 40 inches for men and below 38 inches for women.

Eat healthy foods: follow healthy food triangle or pyramid. That is eat less – fat, sugar and alcohol, eat moderate – milk, meat and other proteins, eat more – vegetable, fruits, beans, grains and starchy foods.

Physically active: Make you physically active by slight changes in you daily activities by avoiding lifts, vehicles for short distances, play with your child, do some gardening, clean your vehicle or house and do some exercises (walking, aerobics, swimming, playing sports and weight exercises).

Care when sick: Type 1 diabetes is caused by auto immune disorder that is our body attacks our own body consider it as enemy. Mostly it is caused by viral infection such as mumps, rubella, cytomegalovirus, measles, influenza, encephalitis, polio or Epstein-Barr virus.

So I request you all to unit and work together to fight against the biggest life threading evil diabetes and conquered it. Best of luck

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Cabbage Soup Diet and the Fight Against the Big C – Cancer

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

Aside from the cabbage soup diet which can help people in their quick weight loss program, cabbage is well know for contributing to the battle against the big C or Cancer.
Cancer is one of the major causes of mortality all over the world. The rates are very high and no one is spared from this deadly disease. Experts say that cruciferous vegetables like broccoli, Brussel sprouts and cabbage can help in preventing cancer.What’s in the Cabbage?
Cabbage and the other green leafy vegetables can help kill cancer cells. According to the Cancer Research Conference in Britain, Indole-3 -carbinol(I3C) could be a powerful cancer fighter used in combination with chemotherapy.
I3C in cruciferous vegetables were found to make the tumors of breast cancers surrender to chemotherapy. The study entailed feeding 300 to 400 mg of I3C to the tumor cells; as a result the cancer cells were more easily killed by chemotherapy drugs. The I3C binds to the cancer cells and promotes the production of enzymes which will detoxify the carcinogens. They are said to have effects on the estrogen metabolism making it potent in the fight against breast and prostate cancer cells. Due to this, researchers are now studying the possibilities of using I3C to intervene with conventional cancers.
A study in the Netherlands revealed subjects who consumed the most vegetables lowered their risk by 25 per cent in getting colorectal cancer. Those who specifically consumed cruciferous vegetables dropped their risk of getting colorectal cancer by a significant 49 %.
In Singapore, a study found that regular consumption of cruciferous vegetables like cabbage lowered the potential of lung cancer by 30% in non-smokers. Smokers who ate the same type of veggies dropped their risks by 60%. Other studies have shown that cabbages and similar vegetables can also help fight bladder cancer.
Phytochemicals known as glucosinolates is believed to be responsible for the cancer fighting ability of the cabbage. These chemicals are metabolized by our body into their anti carcinogen form known as isothiocyanates.
Animal and human studies have constantly revealed that diets high in cruciferous vegetables are linked with lower risks for cancer. They have shown the correlation between brassica or cruciferous vegetables and cancers. Cabbage consumption was associated with lower risk cancer particularly on the stomach, colon, and lung.
The benefits of cabbage and consumption of similar cruciferous vegetables are more prominent in the demographics of three groups prone to cancer: men, smokers, and older individuals who are sixty seven years old and above. Eating half a head of cabbage everyday will lower the risk of this group to cancer.
Organically grown cabbages are the best option if you want to make most of the anti-cancer benefits. A comparison to the conventionally grown cabbage revealed that they have a higher level of phytonutrients. Steaming method best retains the nutrients of this anti cancer vegetable.
We can lower our risk of getting cancer by living a healthy lifestyle. In addition we can make green leafy vegetables, especially cruciferous vegetables as part of our regular diet. This preventive measure is cheap compared to the expenses and pain that we have to deal with if cancer invades our body.

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Arlen Specter against the public health insurance option

Monday, February 1st, 2010


On Meet the Press, host David Gregory asks newly rebranded Senator Arlen Specter if it’s true that he told President Obama that he would be loyal to his new party and support Obama’s agenda and support health care reform with a public health insurance option.

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Ethics against Alternative Medicines Not Necessarily Reasonable

Sunday, November 29th, 2009

Ethics can be defined as a philosophical mentality of right conduct and good living. Ethics in medicine are typically about what is appropriate practice and inappropriate practice. It defines specifics about what is allowed in the workplace, in the profession, and with clients.
However, the medical field is in fact, a business. Just like alternative medicines is a business. In fact, they are somewhat competing businesses. They are each other’s competition. Ethics against alternative medicines are typically produced and written by people in the traditional medical field. Therefore, the information that is read should be looked at with a grain of salt.
Ethics against alternative medicines should be analyzed by using the information about who wrote the article, what their objective might be, and where they produced the information. Of course some of the information may be true and in that case, the information should be available on many different places or by the alternative medicines companies as well.
The other concern with ethics against alternative medicines is that their root may be founded in different countries and different cultures. Just because something is different does not mean that it is less. The ethics against alternative medicines should be analyzed clearly. The ethics in any profession should be governed and determined by that profession.
The medical field has been around for a really long time and therefore has had centuries to come up with their code of ethics. The area of alternative therapies is a relatively new field within the United States and therefore needs some more time for each of the different elements of that field to develop a code of ethics. The countries in which the alternative medicines have originated are not necessarily governed with the same standards as the United States and therefore have never determined a set of standards. This does not necessarily mean that they are not as effective.
The ethics against alternative medicines should not try and deter people from accessing these services. If someone wishes to publish information regarding specific therapies, then it should be information that is set out in a way to help the consumer, not to tell the consumer what the best decision is. The people accessing treatments are smart and capable of weight the pros and cons and making reasonable decisions. There are definitely elements of the field of alternative medicines that do have codes of conduct and ethics. For example, psychology and chiropractic medicine definitely have standards, as well as acupuncture and acupressure.
They just may not meet the same standards as the traditional medical profession. The ironic thing is that traditional medicine in China and other places are alternative medicines in America. So that leaves the question, what makes medicine traditional or alternative?

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