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Diabetes, Puts One at Risk

06 Mar

Diabetes rates have been skyrocketing in the southern United States according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The states are Oklahoma, Georgia, Alabama, and Appalachian States such as West Virginia.

There are higher rates of breast cancer among Type II diabetics. CBS recently had a report on about elevated blood glucose and insulin on cancer incidence and its progression.

What’s the solution? Shed pounds and monitor your blood sugar level. I know that is easier said than done.

High glucose levels, high normal and even normal glucose levels can put a person at risk for diabetes, Type II, dementia, stomach cancer, death from strokes, breast cancer heart attacks, coronary problems.

I have read that green tea extract can help maintain healthy insulin sensitivity.  Green tea is probably preferable. There many other ways to eat healthy, be healthy, and stay healthy.

High normal blood sugar harms the brain and causes brain shrinkage according to studies. This is in pre-diabetic people.

 
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Diabetes, Let’s Stop It

09 Dec

I saw a link to end diabetes in this country.  Diabetes is killing more people than breast cancer and AIDS combined. One in five people are getting Diabetes. We need to stop this epidemic.

Visit:

www.stopdiabetes.com

 
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Blood Sugar

26 Nov

Did you know that if you don’t fast long enough you can have a high glucose level on a test? If you eat a lot of high sugar foods it can spike up. Then the doctor can have another test run that will will measure it a different way. I am unsure what it is called. I just know you don’t want high glucose levels.

There is an oral glucose test or tolerance test/OGTT that can be done where you drink this glucose rich drink and your blood glucose level is measured 2 hours afterwards.

 If it is normal it would be below 149 mg/dl two hours after you drink it.

If you are pre-diabetic it would be between 140-199.

 If it is more than 200 you would really be diabetic.

They would want your cholesterol and triglycerides checked to see if you are at risk for diabetes, heart disease, and maybe cancer.

 
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Visual Portions

10 Oct

I think when we need concreteness for dieting and when one has diabetes, portion sizes that are visual help.

One cup=one baseball

One half cup=the size of one light bulb

One third of a cup=one egg

3 ounces of meat =one deck of cards

1 ounce=the size of 4 dice

1 Tablespoon =your thumb

1 teaspoon=the size of a penny

2 Tablespoons=one golf ball

Some other visuals are:

Close your fingers on one hand=one cup

Only the palm of your hand is 3 oz., only eat this much meat at supper.

Check out this website if you have diabetes:

www.PrescriptionSolutions.com/diabetes

Remember the Plate Planner?

One fourth of your nine inch plate should be meat, fish, eggs, protein, or d airy products

One half should be veggies and salad. (non-starchy)

One fourth should be starchy choices such as potatoes, breast, grains.

Add one serving of fruit.

Add one serving of milk.

Add one oil or butter.

Did you know that alcohol lowers your blood surgar and that can be dangerous for diabetes?

Read the labels. One carb serving is equal to 15 grams of carbohydrates.

American Association of Diabetes Educators or AADE:

www.aadenet.org

American Diabetes Assoication or ADA:

www.diabetes.org

American Dietetic Association:

www.eatright.org

dLife:

www.dlife.com

National Diabetes Education Program:

www.ndep.nih.gov

 
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Hearing Loss

10 Oct

Did you know that people with diabetes can have a hearing loss? In fact high frequency hearing loss can be up to 54% compared to those who do not have diabetes (32%). Mild hearing loss can be 21% compared to those without the disease (9%).

Signs of hearing loss:

Socially:

-you need frequent reprtition

-have difficulty following conversations

-information sounds muffled

-difficulty hearing in noisy situations

-difficulty hearing children or women

-have to turn the tv or radio up

-don’t respond to questions or comments

-have ringing in your ears

-have to read peoples lips

Medical:

-family history of hearing loss

-ototoxic drugs can cause hearing loss

-diabetes, heart, circulation, and thryroid can cause a eharing loss

-exposed to loud sounds over time

Emotional:

-stressed from try8ing to hear people and can’t understand them

-nervous about not hearing

-withdrawal from social situations

Who has a hearing loss?

-Ages 0-17-5%

-Ages 18-44-23%

Ages 45-64-29%

Ages 65 and older-43%

Source:

http://ihcrp.georgetown.edu/agingsociety/hearing.pdf

www.hearingcheck.org

www.hearpo.com

 
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Avandia, Diabetes Drug

29 Jun

Another interesting article in today’s paper was about the common drug Avandia, once a popular drug for diabetes and it’s link to heart failure (incr. by 25%), death (13%), stroke (incr. by 27%), and heart attacks (inc. by 28-39 %).

Different studies, different results…Should the drug stay on the market, should it be approved by the FDA?

Diabetes patients take other medications as metformin and surfonylurea.

Diabetes does put you at risk in the first place. You don’t want to get diabetes.

We will have to see what the jury comes out with this drug in comparison to others.

 
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You Can Improve Rheumatoid Arthritis

30 May

You can improve rheumatoid arthritis by eating enough omega 3′s.  It may be eating more fish or taking high doses of omega 3 pills.

It can also help those with autioiummune illness, stiffness, swelling, joint pain, those diabetes, obsity, or those with skin conditions.

Salmon, fish oil pills, tuna, anchovies, mackerel, and sardines are good sources of Omega 3′s.

 
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Got Diabetes?

13 May

See if you can have your selenium level tested. A study was done at the University of Montpellier. They found out that increased blood levels of selenium may decrease a man’s risk of abnormal blood surgar metabolism, and possibliy protect against diabetes. This study was done in France and involved 70 men and 57 women.

Selenium had a protective effect in men rather than women, possibly due to oxidant status.

 
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High Doses of Vitamin B

02 May

We have always heard that vitamin B was really good for you. In the Duluth News Tribune today it states that high doses of the B vitamins are an effort to for stall heart attacks and can be harmful, expecially if you are diabetic. This came from Candian researchers and was reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

It sure seems like a lot of people have diabetes know days.

Vitamin B levels are thought to reduce homocysteine levels.

The study they did involved diabetics that received folic acid and vitamin B6 and B12 versus a placebo group. The kidney function doesn’t work as well in diabetics. Some suffered a stroke and otherssuffered a heart attack compared to the placebo group.

Diabetes need to talk to their physicans.

 
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Agent Orange Exposure-Victims and Families

13 Apr

If your father (or mother) was in the military, he or she could of been exposed to Agent Orange, especially if he or she was in Vietnam. He or she may be experiencing the symptoms or the said children could be experiencing the symptoms or diseases.

For example, Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus is a result from high blood surgar levels when the body doesn’t have the ability to repond to the hormone insulin levels. It can be caused from Agent Orange Exposure. 

A family member died of this after getting gangrene in his foot last year (June, 2009) and it was in St. Mary’s Hospital.

Who would think a person would die in this day and age? He had his heal cut off and then days later was dead.

–If you have diabetes you need to seek help, be a squeaky wheel, complain, get help. He laid in his bed and didn’t demand enough care.It is very sad, and I believe some was based on the quality of his insurance. I wish I could remember the floor he was on.

There are other diseases associated with Agent Orange Exposure: acute and subacute peripheral neuropathy (numbness, tingling, motor weakness), AL Amyloidosis (abnormal protein, amloid in tissues and organs), Chloracne or Acneform Disease (skin condition that looks like acne), Chronic lymphocyctic Leukemia (as well as B Cell Leukemia, Hairy Cell Leukemia), Hodgkins Disease (involves liver, lymph nodes, spleen progressive anemia), Ischemic Heart Disease (chest pain), Multiple Myeloma (over production of white blood cells), Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma (lymph gland and tissues), Parkinson’s Disease (motor problems, tembling in hands, imbalance, loss of facial expression), Porphyria Cuteanea Tarda (liver dysfunction, blistering skin), Prostate Cancer, Respiratory Cancers (lung, larynx, trachea, bronchus),  or Soft Tissue Sarcoma (cancers of body tissue in muuscle, fat, lymph vessels and connective tissues).

Check out this website for more details:

http://www.publichealth.va.gov/exposures/agentorange/diseases.asp/

 
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