Adults make up the largest population of people with type 2 diabetes. They have insulin resistance, which means that their bodies don't use insulin properly. As a result, type 2 diabetics must change their lifestyle, watch what they eat, exercise and take their medication (if prescribed by a doctor) in order to control diabetes.
Who Is At Risk?
People who have or are at risk of getting type 2 diabetes:
* Are 55 or older
* Are African-American or Latino (the risk is twice as high as it is for White people)
* Have a close relative (parent, brother, or sister) who has diabetes
* Are overweight or don't exercise
* Have a history of high blood pressure or high blood cholesterol
However, children and young adults have been getting type 2 diabetes in the past few years because they consume a lot of fat and sugar and don't exercise enough. Healthy living is important in preventing diabetes in not only adults but in children, as well.
Symptoms of Type 2
Adults who develop type 2 diabetes may display the following symptoms:
* Overwhelming thirst that does not go away.
* Frequent and/or uncontrollable urination
* Fatigue
* Blurred vision
* Slow-healing infections
* Impotence in men
If you notice these symptoms in yourself or a loved one, call a doctor. Diabetes can be treated, but it can also do damage to your body if the symptoms are ignored.
Saturday, August 14, 2010
TYPE 1 DIABETES
Type 1 Diabetes: Just the Facts
Once referred to as “juvenile diabetes,” type 1 affects mostly children and young adults. Their bodies make no insulin so they must take insulin shots.
Who Is At Risk?
Doctors aren't quite sure what may cause type 1 diabetes so there is no set of risk factors. Often parents of children with type 1 diabetes aren’t aware of the condition until the child gets sick. However, parents should be aware of the symptoms, so that they can see a doctor if they think their children may have the disease:
Symptoms of Type 1
Children who have type 1 diabetes show the following symptoms:
* Overwhelming thirst that does not go away.
* Frequent and/or uncontrollable urination
* Weight loss or weight gain
* Fatigue
* Nausea or vomiting
Type 1 diabetes can be treated. But, it can also do damage to the diabetic’s body if the symptoms are ignored. Some complications of type 1 diabetes include: heart disease (cardiovascular disease), blindness (retinopathy), nerve damage (neuropathy), and kidney damage (nephropathy). Seek a health care provider's or a doctor's medical care if you or child is experiencing any of the symptoms of diabetes.
Once referred to as “juvenile diabetes,” type 1 affects mostly children and young adults. Their bodies make no insulin so they must take insulin shots.
Who Is At Risk?
Doctors aren't quite sure what may cause type 1 diabetes so there is no set of risk factors. Often parents of children with type 1 diabetes aren’t aware of the condition until the child gets sick. However, parents should be aware of the symptoms, so that they can see a doctor if they think their children may have the disease:
Symptoms of Type 1
Children who have type 1 diabetes show the following symptoms:
* Overwhelming thirst that does not go away.
* Frequent and/or uncontrollable urination
* Weight loss or weight gain
* Fatigue
* Nausea or vomiting
Type 1 diabetes can be treated. But, it can also do damage to the diabetic’s body if the symptoms are ignored. Some complications of type 1 diabetes include: heart disease (cardiovascular disease), blindness (retinopathy), nerve damage (neuropathy), and kidney damage (nephropathy). Seek a health care provider's or a doctor's medical care if you or child is experiencing any of the symptoms of diabetes.
How to Manage diabetes
Diabetes: The Learning Zone
People with diabetes (like everyone else) must make their health a priority daily. The difference: Diabetics are reminded each day on the glucose meter why eating right, exercising and staying health-focused are the keys to overall health. If you or someone you know has made the smart decision to live a healthy life with diabetes, the Learning Zone will increase your knowledge about the disease and help you start your journey toward wellness.
Step 1: Learn About Diabetes
It’s important to know as much as you can about diabetes, so that you can manage this disease well. Here’s what you need to know and do:
What Is Diabetes?
Some folks may still call diabetes “sugar.” But, there’s nothing sweet about being diagnosed with diabetes. Diabetes is a life-changing health condition that is a daily reality in the lives of nearly 24 million people in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Simply put, a diabetic’s body doesn’t make enough insulin or cannot use the insulin it makes effectively.
For example, food is broken down into glucose (or sugar), which travels through the blood, moves into the cells and turns into fuel for your body. In people with diabetes, the glucose can't move into the cells. This raises their blood glucose levels, which can cause such symptoms as blurry vision, thirstiness, and weakness. Left unchecked, high-glucose levels can lead to various forms of diabetes, including type 1 and type 2 diabetes.
Is it a death sentence? It doesn’t have to be. Will it alter the way you live day-to-day? Yes. As a person with diabetes, you’ll have to learn how to check your blood sugar level and more than likely, you’ll need insulin shots or pills each day to control sudden highs (hyperglycemia) and sudden lows (hypoglycemia). You may also require other medicines to take care of related health conditions.
But, by making healthful food choices, exercising regularly and taking your medication properly, those with diabetes can potentially decrease their need for meds and live full, productive lives.
Left unmanaged, diabetes can bring on complications such as heart disease, problematic vision, kidney disease, stroke, nerve damage and loss of limbs. That’s why it’s critical to manage this disease. This "Manage Your Diabetes" tool is here to help you.
People with diabetes (like everyone else) must make their health a priority daily. The difference: Diabetics are reminded each day on the glucose meter why eating right, exercising and staying health-focused are the keys to overall health. If you or someone you know has made the smart decision to live a healthy life with diabetes, the Learning Zone will increase your knowledge about the disease and help you start your journey toward wellness.
Step 1: Learn About Diabetes
It’s important to know as much as you can about diabetes, so that you can manage this disease well. Here’s what you need to know and do:
What Is Diabetes?
Some folks may still call diabetes “sugar.” But, there’s nothing sweet about being diagnosed with diabetes. Diabetes is a life-changing health condition that is a daily reality in the lives of nearly 24 million people in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Simply put, a diabetic’s body doesn’t make enough insulin or cannot use the insulin it makes effectively.
For example, food is broken down into glucose (or sugar), which travels through the blood, moves into the cells and turns into fuel for your body. In people with diabetes, the glucose can't move into the cells. This raises their blood glucose levels, which can cause such symptoms as blurry vision, thirstiness, and weakness. Left unchecked, high-glucose levels can lead to various forms of diabetes, including type 1 and type 2 diabetes.
Is it a death sentence? It doesn’t have to be. Will it alter the way you live day-to-day? Yes. As a person with diabetes, you’ll have to learn how to check your blood sugar level and more than likely, you’ll need insulin shots or pills each day to control sudden highs (hyperglycemia) and sudden lows (hypoglycemia). You may also require other medicines to take care of related health conditions.
But, by making healthful food choices, exercising regularly and taking your medication properly, those with diabetes can potentially decrease their need for meds and live full, productive lives.
Left unmanaged, diabetes can bring on complications such as heart disease, problematic vision, kidney disease, stroke, nerve damage and loss of limbs. That’s why it’s critical to manage this disease. This "Manage Your Diabetes" tool is here to help you.
Saturday, August 9, 2008
HOW TO TIGHTEN YOUR VAGINA
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It can be embarrassing to discuss these issues, but many women have experienced the exact same concerns, particularly after having several children. Your medical practitioner won't be surprised to hear that you've got these concerns, so it makes sense to bring up your worries at your next appointment, or make a special appointment to talk things over, as difficult as it may be, in his or her office BEFORE you are examined.
You say you are embarrassed to have sex because you feel too loose. Is this something that your partner told you, or did you come to this conclusion by squeezing, or trying to squeeze, your fingers if you put them inside of you, using the muscles of your vaginal opening? Maybe inserting a tampon clued you in? Childbirth can bring changes in a person's body and sexual response. Every now and then, accommodations, such as trying various positions, having different expectations, or using lube, need to be made. Sometimes medical assistance can be helpful. Talk with your partner, although it may be embarrassing or hard to do, about what you both notice and/or worry about. These unexpected changes are part of a person's life and it's normal to accommodate them over a person's life span or a long-term relationship.
Are you having any trouble holding your urine? Often women who have the sensation that their vagina is stretched also notice that they leak urine, especially when they laugh, sneeze, or cough.
Kegel exercises strengthen pelvic floor muscles, the muscles that stretch during childbirth. They help improve sexual pleasure (more intense orgasms) by making the muscles stronger and more elastic, and they can improve bladder tone so that you don't leak urine. They won't, however, actually make your vagina smaller, but they can make the opening tighter.
Here's how to do Kegel exercises:
When you're peeing, clench (without your hands) your muscles to stop the flow of urine for about four seconds. Then release those same muscles to let the urine flow again. These are your pelvic floor muscles; these are the muscles you'll be exercising when you do Kegels.
If you want to check and make sure that you're using the right muscles, put a finger or two into your vagina. Tighten the muscles. If you can feel your fingers being squeezed (even just a little), then you've located the right muscles.
About five to ten times a day, repeat the Kegels ten times per session.
It can take up to 8 - 10 weeks to notice improvement, and there will most certainly be improvement. Like any kind of weight lifting or muscle building exercises, Kegels take time to make a difference! (Adding a vaginal barbell to your regular Kegel exercise routine can help. They are available at specialty stores that carry sex toys or sexual enhancement items.)
If you do Kegel exercises enthusiastically and regularly, and notice no change at all, ask your health care provider about other methods to strengthen your pelvic floor muscles, including:
Vaginal conesThese objects are weighted, tampon-sized devices that a woman puts into her vagina and holds there. A set of cones increases gradually in weight. One starts with the lightest cone, inserts it into the vagina, and squeezes the muscles to hold it in place. This is done twice a day, for about fifteen minutes per session, while going about one's usual activities. When a woman is successful at keeping the cone in place, she can move on to the next heavier cone, working her way up to the heaviest.
Electrical stimulation (called NMES or Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation) This method uses a probe in the vagina to stimulate the muscles of the pelvic floor with an electric current, which causes the muscles to contract and relax. Treatments are performed every one to four days and last about 20 minutes per session. Depending on the situation, one might do these treatments for a few weeks, or longer. Some health care providers perform these sessions in their offices; others prescribe home units for their patients.
NeocontrolTM: This is a special chair that uses magnetic fields to stimulate the muscles of the pelvic floor. These treatments are usually administered by a technician or nurse in a urologist's office in 20 - 30 minute sessions, twice a week, for about eight weeks.
If you have severe problems due to vaginal stretching, some health care providers will recommend surgery; this is usually a last resort. Laser procedures and more complicated ones to re-position your bladder are available. You and your provider will figure out what makes sense for you.
There is nothing to be ashamed about — this is a common experience for women, as well as information you need to know.
5 GOOD REASONS MEN SHOULD CARE FOR THE PENIS
5 GOOD REASONS MEN SHOULD CARE FOR THE PENIS
1. Friction… Friction during sex can leave the penis sore, irritated, chafed, or raw.
2. Heat… The penis is subjected to intense heat due to tight pants, and during intercourse. This intense heat can have a drying effect on the skin.
3. Chemicals… The latex in condoms and the spermicidal chemicals used can have a reactive, irritating effect on the skin of the penis.
4. Enlargement and retraction… The penis is designed to get erect and to retract to the flaccid state. This constant stretching of the skin can be taxing, and a good moisturizer, like RestoreMax from MensMax can help the skin heal, recover, and thrive much better.
5. Age… As a man becomes older, his skin becomes dryer. The skin on the penis is not immune to this, and age can impair the sensitivity, elasticity, and texture of the penis.Most men probably never think about taking special care of the skin on their penis, but they should. Actually, the skin on the penis is probably the skin that needs our attention most.Simply by rubbing RestoreMax into the shaft of the penis twice a day and always after sex, a man can help the skin heal, recover, and restore itself despite the gauntlet of torture it is subjected to every single day.
5 SIMPLE TIPS TO LOOSE YOUR 10 POUNDS
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5 TIPS TO LOOSE YOUR 10 POUNDS
Many people today have developed some very bad diet habits in their daily routine which is causing to spread obesity like wildfire everywhere in the world; not just in United States. These people should change their daily diet plan in order to lose their weight to remain healthier and live longer. So here I am giving out 10 tips to lose your 10 pounds in a short period so that if you follow these tips regularly then you will see significant reduction in your overall body weight.
1) First and very important change you should implement in your daily diet plan is the inclusion of the most basic element without which life can not be sustained and that is water. And I mean not just few glasses of water but plenty of it daily. As you all know our body requires lot of water to purify our blood and other body parts. It helps to kill the toxic elements in our body and above all no matter what intake you take it doesn't matter as it do not contain any kind of calories.
2) Drink 2-3 full glass of water before and after any lunch, meal, dinner or breakfast. The very important reason of doing this is that it makes you feel that your stomach is full and psychologically you eat less and this helps you to reduce your fat.
3) Always stay away from sodas and other similar cold drinks. These contain harmful ingredients to our body resulting in increased fat. So avoid these kinds of cold drinks.
4) Eat more food containing high amount of water element like watermelon, tomatoes and other similar vegetable fruits. They contain almost 99.99% fresh water which is highly nutritional to our body and contains no harmful substances.
5) Include lot of fresh fruits in your daily diet like apple, orange, bananas, pineapple, and others. These fruits contains natural sugar i.e. glucose which is highly recommended for fat people as they also have more prone to diabetes disease. These are also the rich sources of water and many types of vitamins.
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