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Hypertension

Control

High Blood Pressure

Contents

1. Test Yourself for Possible High Blood Pressure

2. Understand High Blood Pressure

3. Measure your risk

4. Hypertension and Lifestyle

5. Medication

Myths and facts File

Blood pressure is the force created as the heart pumps blood through the blood vessels. When the blood pressure goes beyond the prescribed normal range,an individual is diagnosed as having high blood pressure.

High blood pressure (Hypertension) usually shows no symptoms and can affect people of all ages and backgrounds. 25% of the population these days suffer from high blood pressure. You too might be involving high blood pressure, and not even know about it.

BRAIN DAMAGING HABITS

Please follow these very important factors

1. No Breakfast
People who do not take breakfast are going to have a lower blood sugar level. This leads to an insufficient supply of nutrients to the brain causing brain degeneration.

2. Overeating
It causes hardening of the brain arteries, leading to a decrease in mental power.

3. Smoking
It causes multiple brain shrinkage and may lead to Alzheimer disease.

4. High Sugar consumption
Too much sugar will interrupt the absorption of proteins and nutrients causing malnutrition and may interfere with brain development.

5. Air Pollution
The brain is the largest oxygen consumer in our 20 body. Inhaling polluted air decreases the supply of oxygen to the brain, bringing about a decrease in brain efficiency.

6 . Sleep Deprivation
Sleep allows our brain to rest.. Long term deprivation from sleep will accelerate the death of brain cells..

7. Head covered while sleeping
Sleeping with the head covered increases the concentration of carbon dioxide and decrease concentration of oxygen that may lead to brain damaging effects.

8. Working your brain during illness
Working hard or studying with sickness may lead to a decrease in effectiveness of the brain as well as damage the brain.

9. Lacking in stimulating thoughts
Thinking is the best way to train our brain, lacking in brain stimulation thoughts may cause brain shrinkage.

10. Talking Rarely
Intellectual conversations will promote the efficiency of the brain

The main causes of liver damage are:

1. Sleeping too late and waking up too late are main cause.

2. Not urinating in the morning.

3. Too much eating.

4. Skipping breakfast.

5. Consuming too much medication.

6. Consuming too much preservatives, additives, food coloring, and artificial sweetener.

7. Consuming unhealthy cooking oil.
As much as possible reduce cooking oil use when frying, which includes even the best cooking oils like olive oil. Do not consume fried foods when you are tired, except if the body is20very fit.

8. Consuming raw (overly done) foods also add to the burden of liver.
Veggies should be eaten raw or cooked 3-5 parts. Fried veggies should be finished in one sitting, do not store.

We should prevent this without necessarily spending more. We just have to adopt a good daily lifestyle and eating habits. Maintaining good eating habits and time condition are very important for our bodies to absorb and get rid of unnecessary chemicals according to 'schedule.'

The top five cancer-causing foods are:

1.. Hot Dogs

Because they are high in nitrates, the Cancer Prevention Coalition advises that children eat no more than 12 hot dogs a month. If you can't live without hot dogs, buy those made without sodium nitrate..

2. Processed meats and Bacon

Also high in the same sodium nitrates found in hot dogs, bacon, and other processed meats raise the risk of heart disease. The saturated fat in bacon also contributes to cancer.

3. Doughnuts

Doughnuts are cancer-causing double trouble. First, they are made with white flour, sugar, and hydrogenated oils, then fried at high temperatures. Doughnuts, says Adams , may be the worst food you can possibly eat to raise your risk of cancer.

4. French fries Like doughnuts, French fries are made with hydrogenated oils and then fried at high temperatures. They also contain cancer- causing acryl amides which occur during the frying process. They should be called cancer fries, not French fries, said Adams ..

5. Chips, crackers, and cookies

All are usually made with white flour and sugar. Even the ones whose labels claim to be free of trans-fats generally contain small amounts of trans-fats.

PASS THIS TO ALL WHOM YOU LOVE & CARE FOR. .....

with all this we are still functioning as human beings?

Factors Causing High Blood Sugar

• Eating food containing simple sugars which are rapidly absorbed by the body. eg.Sweets,ice creams and pastries.

• Drinking sweetened beverages such as carbonised drinks and juices.

• Sedentary lifestyle-not burning the consumed sugar,carbohydrates and other products.

• not enough administration of insulin or other medication

• physical stress(e.g.infections,flu)

• psychological stress.

Some common terms in Diabetes

Hyperglycaemin is high high blood sugar or glucose.

Symptons

• Tiredness
• Thirst
• Nausea
• Blurred Vision
• Frequent Urination
• Dry itchy skin
• Genital itching
• Skin Burning

How Does Diabetic Mellitus Develop

Due to malfunctioning in the production and utilisation of insulin,the amount of glucose produced remains in the bloodstream. In Turn, the cells do not have enough blood sugar to provide the energy required.

Heart Matters

Human Machine

The heart is known as a human machine that pumps blood to the whole body and thereby maintains blood circulation within the body. Man cannot live without this human machine and it operates by means of blood moving to heart body like wires provide power to run electrical motor. If the flow of blood reduces by way og diminished arteries within the heart then there will be pains and heart muscles will die.

Money Making methods

swine flu

The newest epidemic reported around the world is Swine Flu.
This article explains the in and out of some of the most important aspects of it how to be away from getting swine flu.

The ideas given are very important in how to live healthy life, specially in finding precautions

Some precautions

1. Importance of Frequent hand-washing

2.Follow the principle of "Hands-off-the-face" approach. You have to resist all temptations to touch any part of face (unless you want to eat, bathe or slap).

3. Gargle twice a day with warm salt water . H1N1 takes 2-3 days after initial infection in the throat/ nasal cavity to proliferate and show characteristic symptoms. Simple gargling prevents proliferation.

4. Similar to 3 above, clean your nostrils at least once every day with warm salt water.

5. Boost your natural immunity with foods that are rich in Vitamin C (Amla and other citrus fruits).

6. Drink as much of warm liquids as you can. Drinking warm liquids has the same effect as gargling, but in the reverse direction.

Follow above all and all these are simple ways to prevent, within means of most households, and certainly much less painful than to wait in long queues outside public hospitals.

Human Body

No 1 Every Human Body is Made up of Trillions of Cells

A snowman is built up of trillions of tiny snowflakes stuck together .The human body also made of trillions of tiny pieces. But instead of snowflakes, we are made of things called cells. Cells are the building blocks of all living things. But the cells your skin is made up of are different from that made up of your blood. Your bones are made up of yet another kind. Even though there are different types of cells, they are still all cells. Therefore, they must have some things in common.
What is that makes a cell? Every cell is like a city. Cities can be very different from one another, but they still have things in common. All cities have boundaries around them. Each cell has a membrane around it, which acts like a protective wall. The nucleus, found in most cells, is like the cell’s city hall-it manages how the cell operates. Like the bust streets of a city, the cytoplasm is the place where all the work of the cell is done. This is the material between the nucleus and the cell membrane.

Red blood cells are one exception; they do not have a nucleus.


No 2 Shapes and sizes of cells

Most cells are so small that they can only be seen with a microscope. In animals, an average cell is 0.0004 inch across. Shapes of cells vary. Some look like columns, others are cubes. The cells in your cheek are flat, and nerve cells look like long threads.

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Type 2 Diabetes

In controlling diabetes, it is necessary to know fundamentals of treatments, symptoms and connected data. This post will demonstrate all such for a busy executive to know.

About Type 2 Diabetes

When you have type 2 diabetes, high levels of sugar build up in your blood. This can lead to serious health complications. That's why controlling your blood sugar is key to managing diabetes. Keeping your blood sugar under control lowers your risk for complications later. High blood sugar can harm your organs and raise your risk of heart disease.

Having type 2 diabetes means that your body doesn't make enough insulin, or doesn't properly use the insulin your body makes. Insulin is a hormone that is made in your pancreas. It helps your body's cells use sugar (also called glucose), which comes from foods and drinks. Sugar is a source of energy for cells.

This site focuses on type 2 diabetes, the most common form of the disease. Typically, with type 2 diabetes, the body still makes insulin, but its cells can't use it. This is called insulin resistance. Over time, high levels of sugar build up in the bloodstream. Being overweight and inactive increase the chances of developing type 2 diabetes.

Other main types of diabetes include:

• Type 1 diabetes, which often affects children (although adults can develop it, too). In this form of diabetes, the body can't make insulin. The immune system mistakenly attacks the cells in the pancreas that make and release insulin. As these cells die, blood sugar levels rise. People with type 1 diabetes need insulin shots.
• Gestational diabetes, which occurs in some pregnant women. It can cause problems during pregnancy, labor, and delivery. Women who get gestational diabetes are more likely to develop type 2 diabetes.

Life with type 2 diabetes

Managing type 2 diabetes means making some changes to how you live. Talk with your doctor about which changes are right for you. For example, it helps to:

• Eat healthy, and lose weight if your doctor says you should
• Be more active
• Test your blood sugar regularly
• Have your doctor check your A1C level (your average blood sugar over the past two to three months)

How to keep Sugar under control

Exercise is important for people with diabetes

Those who have diabetic levels marginal and can be controlled by means food it is likely that you need not have heavy exercises. But those who cannot maintained their sugar level by food only needs some drugs and few hours/week of exercises.The exercise here means not heavy exercises but brisk walking for 30minutes ever other day is sufficient. This will not only reduces sugar but helps to maintain cardiovascular systems in order.

especially type 2 diabetes -- because it helps regulate blood sugar and provide cardiovascular fitness that protects against heart and artery disease.

But which type of exercise is best? Cardio, weights, walking -- or perhaps a combination of aerobic and resistance training?

That's apparently what a team of scientists at the University of Calgary attempted to find out by evaluating 251 adults, aged 39 to 70, all with type 2 diabetes and whom were not regular exercisers. The scientists formed four groups and gave them different programs:

1. One group did aerobic (cardio) exercise for 45 minutes, three times each week.
2. Another group did resistance (weights) training for 45 minutes, three times each week.
3. A third group did both cardio and weights for 45 minutes each and three times each week.
4. A fourth group did no exercise at all.

The study team measured a key indicator of blood glucose levels in type 2 diabetics, known as A1c, before and after the various exercise programs. A1c is an indicator of blood glucose over the previous 2 to 3 months.

Would it surprise you to hear that A1c dropped by twice as much in the group that did the combined cardio and the weights? Well, that's exactly what occurred. . .but they did twice as much exercise didn't they? The results for the cardio or weights groups alone were similar to each other and the A1c lowering effect was doubled in the combined group.

While this story created headlines all around the world, did it really answer the question "which exercise is best?" No it did not, but what it did suggest is that either aerobic or resistance training is equally good at lowering A1c.

Generic Predisposition

Generic Predisposition determines entirely whether a person will develop immune reactivity against insulin producing beta cells in the pancreas. However, environmental factors and inspections can have a major impact on whether Type-1 diabetes will manifest itself clinically. This occurs after 80-90% of the beta cells have been destroyed. The ramnants of beta cells are transported to the pancreatic draining lymph node(PDLN), where the ensuing auto immune is thought to be coordinated. Debris from the beta cells is picked up by Antigen Presenting Cells (APC) and displayed to immune cells called lymphocytes(L) prompting from either to kill beta cells or to signal further immune responses

• In type I diabetes, the body loses the ability to make insulin,as the immune system destroys the insulin-producing cells.
• When insulin is not available , the glucose remains in the bloodstream and cannot be used as energy.
• A person having Type I diabetes has to take insulin injections to stay alive.

Types of Diabetes

Type I Diabetes

This is a severe form disease. It is an auto immune disease, which mostly developed in childhood or in adult under 30 years of age.
Auto-immune is when the body’s immune system starts destroying itself. ‘Juvenile diabetes ‘develops in childhood and must be treated with insulin. It accounts for 5-10% of diabetes in the world.

Inside the pancreas are the cell clusters known as the islets of langerhans. There are several type of islet cells including alpha cells and beta cells. Insulin is produced by beta cells. On increase of sugar in the blood, these cells manufacture insulin and then release it into the blood stream. The role of these cells is to monitor levels of blood sugar . In people with type I diabetes , beta cells are attacked by the immune system and are destroyed slowly. What exactly causes the immune system to get effected is still based on a number of theories. The unfortunate part is that, though this slow destruction takes place over a number of years (5-7), the symptoms of diabetes mellitus do not surface until about 80% of these beta cells are destroyed. Eventually, insulin production comes to halt as no beta cells remain.

How to live Dengue Free

In todays blog I wish to give you some aspects of living Dengue free. I have obtained some details from webMD.com in setting up of this blog.Since I am not a medical man , I have to learn things from a doctor and gather information from Internet.

I live in an Island called Sri Lanka which has been the topic during the past few months for Terrorism and how the Government managed to vipe out it.

My intention, today, is to brief my readers about the dengue fever and how to live dengue free in this island or elsewhere in the world. I want to analysis how this spread in the country.They breed and develop in almost new water which are left out for days by the public. Typically left out Coconut half,left out tins,cans, tyres and some vegetation are responsible for collecting water in them during the rains. Where do you find them ? are they in your garden? no! .They all are in collected garbage by the authorities for dispatching and where non dispatched garbage by the authorities in municipal,urban areas are responsible for assisting breeding in the respective local body areas. Not only these garbage but also the blocked culverts and uncleaned drains are the main reasons for assisting breeding mosquitoes. In the area where I live all the people clean their gardens bu they find lot of mosquitoes, the reason for this is due to blockade of water in the culverts and drains which are maintained by the local bodies.

Few weeks back, I saw a pageant of people holding posters traveled from their office to main road and elsewhere passing such water blocked culverts and drains and no body was able to convince or show the members of the organizers where and who is responsible for breeding.

I saw few banners in front of MOH office,Local Body office and some areas where they are displayed for public to remind but there are banners on top of them showing some advertisements of tution and politicians.
The local authorities should not blame public for breeding mosquitoes.Instead they should blame themselves for not transporting garbage, not cleaning drains,culverts , not even checking the waterways in their territories.The mosquitoes breed at such place and very rarely you find a place that also in shanty areas where large number of people live in a small area with inadequate sanitary facilities.

I will provide the photos of some places.

The Insulin factor

Normally our body converts the food we eat into sugar or glucose, which is used for the production of energy.This is done by the pancreas, an organ lying near the stomach. The pancreas makes a hormone called insulin, which attaches itself to the receptors on the cell wall, thereby allowing glucose to enter the cells.It acts as the key, unlocking the receptors for glucose to enter the cells.The cells then metabolise the glucose to give energy to the body.

Insulin Resistance

The pancreas makes enough insulin , but due to certain factors, the insulin is not effective in transferring glucose from the blood into cells of the body. Such a disorder is referred to as insulin resistance

" I am a person suffering from diabetes for the last 25 years , I ate sweets, drank lot during my thirtees and as a result the dowry of high blood sugar given to me by my own god.My own fault" . Remember, one who is diagnoised should be careful for its effects causing blindness,kidney inactivity, and other thousands of things where one should go for life time treatments.

When one cannot control sugar ,a switching to indigenous methods and treatments,reading horoscope,and other non scientific treatments does not heal the one but those culprits who advetrise for treatments for thousands of illness will get rich.

So without tempting to all such non scientific treatments and beliefs, please follow doctors advise, do exercises, take recommended drugs at intervals, and control food.

If you eat at home made articles and eliminate from sugar and sweets 25 days a month and keep one day for you to enjoy sweets, other food during a wedding,dana pinkama or any other ocasion in a month so that you are totally controlled. How about durian , mangustine, rambutan and mangoes .There again you can taste little a day and such periodic fruits should be consumed by a diabetic to have a better life.But not sweets and sweetened drinks.

Hint: fast foods are extremely bad for diabetes people.




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How to Live Diabetes Free

Diabetes Free Living
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There are few things that you should know in living diabetic free.

1. Maintain with drugs
2. Control Food
3. More Exercises.
4. Above all

How do you know whether you are Diabetes
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There are few tests that should reveal whether you are in a state of checking/consulting a physician.

1. Hunger and Thirst
2.Health Problems
3.Urinary Problems
4.General Symptoms
5.Other Risk Factors

Hunger & Thirst

1. You are often very tasty Y/N
2. You feel Hungry all the time Y/N

if the answer to 1 above is "Y" then you are liable coming closer to diabetes and if "N" means you are OK
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or simply if you say Yes to all abobe then you are at a risk of getting the Diabetes dowry.
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