Healthy Diet
Metabolic syndrome means your body is in an imbalanced biochemical state, resulting in an increased risk for “early death” due to heart disease, diabetes and stroke.
The known risk factors and conditions that create this “out of homeostasis” chemical state are:
high blood sugar
high blood pressure
low levels of blood HDL
too much fat around your waist
high levels [...]
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Gangrene is tissue death caused by the lack of blood flow to a part of your body. The most common areas affected by gangrene are the extremities, especially toes and fingers. For some, a bacterial infection gets involved.
Gangrene occurs because the necessary oxygen and nutrients are no longer being supplied. Without [...]
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Filed under: Diabetes, Skin ~ Infections
Diabetes is a chronic condition of too much sugar in your blood. If left unmanaged, long term, chronic high blood sugar levels can cause irreversible neuropathy to your feet. Neuropathy is the consequence of nerve and blood vessel damage.
In this instance, diabetic damaged nerves in your foot may send messages slowly, wrong or [...]
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Filed under: Diabetes, Nerves
Blood Sugar Test
Diabetes is all about too much glucose (sugar) built up in your blood. An over abundance of sugar in your blood is a health concern because it causes ‘not feel to good’ symptoms, as well as, long term health consequences.
When the food that you eat is digested, it broken down into [...]
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Matters little whether you call your condition insulin resistance, pre-diabetes, metabolic syndrome or Syndrome X, they all are moving your body toward the same health disaster outcomes. These silent conditions markedly increase your chances for developing diabetes and heart disease.
And a firm commitment to lifestyle changes, by way of appropriate weight maintenance, diet [...]
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Aloe Vera has been used for thousands of years as a topical wound healing treatment, various skin conditions relief and orally as a laxative for constipation. It is known as the plant of immortality.
Today, its use goes far beyond the traditional, to treat:
asthma
diabetes
epilepsy
osteoarthritis
But, there is not enough scientific evidence to support aloe vera for [...]
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Filed under: Constipation, Diabetes, Osteoporosis, Skin
If you are over 45, overweight and sedentary, then you are at a high risk for diabetes. Take the age component out of this equation and the high risk remains unchanged.
When you have diabetes, you have to actively maintain your blood’s glucose level, your body will no longer automatically do this for you. [...]
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Blood Sugar Test
If you have diabetes, either your body doesn’t make enough insulin, or your cells can’t use it the way they should. Instead, the glucose builds up in your blood, causing diabetes, or high blood sugar.
Glucose is your energy for life. Without delivery of this healthy energy producing source to your cells [...]
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Filed under: Diabetes, Skin ~ Itchy
