NEW BLOOD PRESSURE GOALS Recently, the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association released new 2017 targets for treatment of hypertension. Earlier the target blood pressure was 140/90 mm Hg, with 140 standing for the systolic blood pressure, i.e. pressure at which the heart pumps the blood. The number 90 expresses the diastolic…...
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Diabetes Complications and Costs Diabetes can be a nasty long-term condition because of the complications associated with it. However, these can often be avoided if the disease is managed well, and people living with diabetes can often lead long and healthy lives. If managed poorly though, that’s when complications occur. These are often traumatic –…...
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MANAGING HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE Blood pressure rises and falls throughout the day. When blood pressure stays elevated for a long period of time, it is called as high blood pressure or hypertension. Blood pressure is determined by the amount of blood that is pumped by the heart in ratio to the amount of resistance to…...
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TYPE TWO DIABETES DEVELOPMENT Type two Diabetes develops relatively slowly. You do not wake up one morning to find that you have got diabetes. For a long time, doctors were not that concerned about T2DM as a sinister health condition. Very few people were monitored for their blood sugar levels, and there was not much…...
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What causes Type 2 diabetes and how you can reverse it or send it to remission! When we eat more calories than we need, insulin organizes the body to store it away in the most efficient way possible. Which, basically means storing it in fat cells. So long as there are enough fat cells in…...
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What causes Type 2 diabetes and how you can reverse it or send it to remission! (Continued… How do we develop insulin resistance? Exposure creates resistanceThe human body is governed by a fundamental biological principle called homeostasis. Our body exists within a certain comfort zone, and will resist change outside of it. For instance, if…...
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Gluconova Glucometer ; Why we recommend it. Did you know GlucoNova is calibrated to measure glucose using plasma? What is Plasma —Plasma is the liquid portion of the blood, and its principal component is water. Within the water are necessary elements that allow humans to live, especially dissolved salts, nutrients, and gases, along with molecular…...
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Newly diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes? we would like to urge everyone who has Diabetes to avoid an unhealthy diet (salty, fatty and sugary foods), physical inactivity, tobacco and alcohol drinking. You must adopt a healthy and active lifestyle habits and continue to follow your doctor’s recommendations and guidelines. This will help you better manage…...
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Serum albumin test & kidney, liver health. Albumin is one of the several proteins that naturally occur in the liver. Proteins are important for the body to fight against diseases and infections. Albumin makes up to 50 per cent of the proteins in the blood plasma. It helps in maintaining fluid in the blood vessel…...
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