At best, you can still live a long life with type 2 diabetes. If you commit yourself to lifestyle changes to follow a healthier diet and exercise more often, then your symptoms will diminish and your risk of disease development will decline.

At worst, the consequences of diabetes can be as severe as needing a foot amputation, losing your teeth, suffering kidney failure, going blind, or having a heart attack or stroke. While the early symptoms may seem easy to ignore, Diabetes is a serious condition that requires careful blood sugar monitoring to ensure good health.

Scientists aren’t entirely sure what causes type 2 diabetes, although the process itself has been observed. In a normal body, a person digests food, which is absorbed into the bloodstream, with the help of insulin produced by the pancreas, and distributed to cells for energy consumption.

When the body is through using energy, the remaining insulin then lowers the amount of sugar in the bloodstream, which decreases the amount of insulin secreted from the pancreas. The liver stores and manufactures glucose when insulin levels are low. All these processes keep the body regulated and properly transporting energy throughout your system.

However, the system of type 2 diabetics has gone mad, and sugar builds up in the bloodstream rather than dispersing it to cells, because the cells have become resistant to insulin. By contrast, with type 1 diabetes, the body is just not producing any insulin.

The complications of type 2 diabetes are easy to ignore at first. So what if you have to pee every hour or you’re drinking constantly to quench your thirst? Who doesn’t feel a little bit tired or have a sudden pang of extreme hunger every once in a while? Yet doctors caution that diabetes can affect all major organs if left untreated, so it’s very important to monitor blood sugar levels.

The short term troubles of diabetes include high blood sugar, an increased number of toxic acid ketones in your urine, which can lead to a coma and low blood sugar, which may lead to unconsciousness. The long-term consequences are far more severe, with a significantly increased risk of developing heart disease, coronary artery disease, strokes, nerve damage, kidney failure, eye damage, foot injuries, tooth loss, skin infections, osteoporosis and Alzheimer’s.

Treatment for type 2 diabetes requires a lifelong commitment and lifestyle changes. You must adhere to healthy eating, regular exercise and blood sugar monitoring. Many people need to stay on prescribed medication or take insulin therapy.

Often diabetics feel alone but it’s important to remember that there is a whole support team of dieticians, doctors and loved ones ready to assist you with whatever you need. With control of blood sugar levels, the risk of a heart attack or stroke can be reduced by over 50%.

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A quick look at any family reunion picture and you will come to the conclusion that every male, senior member of the family is predestined to some form of hair loss. While some people are liable to just laugh off this incidence as a natural thing, it would be enlightening to find out just what it is that makes hair loss a regular occurrence especially in old men.

1. Hair Loss is a Prize of a Lottery

When we talk about genes, we’re talking about specific physical and chemical predispositions in a person’s biology that would manifest themselves after being encoded in a person’s genes. It’s a lottery because often, the chances of getting a particular genetic trait are something like one in a thousand cases.

Conditions like hair loss, while they are very ordinary are still the produce of genetic luck. If you have an ancestor that had been bald, there’s a chance that a few generations into the future, some great, great grand child of yours would be bald as well.

It’s impossible to tell who will be bald by just looking at people. A person’s head shape doesn’t tell you anything, except of course whether the person had been born naturally or through C-section.

2. Male Pattern Baldness

In medical parlance, male pattern baldness is called ‘androgenic alopecia’. This condition is often the result of a genetic switch being activated at a particular moment in a person’s life. Again, medical science cannot tell us yet how to turn off this genetic switch. Such is the progress of medical science in the field of hair studies.

If you’re planning to blame your mother for such a seemingly regressive trait, then don’t. Medical science states that the predisposition to accelerated hair loss or balding is actually autosomal in nature.

This means that the offending genetic trait could have come from your mother as well as your father. There’s no scientific proof that mothers are culprits in spreading the curse of baldness among their children.

3. Expressivity

If you want a term to describe what’s happening to your scalp right now, you can use the term expressivity. Expressivity is an overarching term in genetics that pertains to the capacity of a particular genetic trait to manifest itself.

If genes are codes, then a trait’s expressivity is the strength of a particular set of genetic codes to be felt or seen by the person himself. Some genetic traits have poor expressivity, so that’s why you may also have a bald gene in you but you just don’t know it.

4. Time to Splice and Re-Attach

One of the long-term aims of studies in baldness is the possibility of identifying the offending part of a person’s DNA that contains the code for baldness and somehow de-activate it.

The human DNA is now undergoing a continuous mapping process, and it’s only a matter of time before we have an accurate roadmap as to where the baldness traits are hiding. When this is achieved, it’s very possible that baldness will be eliminated, whether through specific drugs or through genetic alteration.

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Are you suffering from a little pain at the corner of your mouth? Or, perhaps you notice splits that are painful when you eat or speak? You might be suffering from angular cheilitis.

Angular cheilitis is a common problem encountered by many people, and this is usually experienced during winter or when the air is dry and cool, or when you are over exposed to the sun. This skin condition is characterized by splits at the corner of the mouth, often accompanied by cracked and dry lips. You will also notice that your lips may also get sore and could be painful.

Although this skin condition is not very serious, it is can also become annoying and embarrassing, as the symptoms appear in the face. It could also give discomfort when eating, laughing or speaking, which is why fast and quick treatment for angular cheilitis is always needed. The treatment for angular cheilitis will vary depending on what causes the skin problem. Knowing about its causes will also help you avoid the problem in the future.

The primary cause of angular cheilitis is the infection brought about by the fungi, Candida, also known as yeast. It can also be caused by bacterial infection (Staph infection). In some elderly or those who have dentures, this skin problem may arise due to dentures not properly fitted that cause the improper closing of the mouth which in turn will lead to accumulation of saliva at the corners of the mouth. When this happens, the folds at the corners of the mouth will become a good environment for bacteria or fungi to grow and multiply, starting the infection.

If you frequently suffer from chapped lips and you tend to lick your lips to provide moisture, you could be more prone to developing angular cheilitis. Bad habits of biting the tip of your pen or your nails can also bring bacteria to the lips.

Deficiency in vitamins B1, B12 and iron are also said to cause the occurrence of angular cheilitis. For women, it can also be caused by allergic reactions to some components of a lipstick or cosmetics.

Treatment for angular cheilitis may involve things like avoiding the culprits to avoid aggravating the condition. If you have chapped lips, use lip balm to moisturize and avoid licking your lips. Do not get yourself exposed to the sun and always moisturize when you go out on a cool, dry weather. Drink plenty of water to hydrate your whole body as well.

If you have ill-fitting dentures that cause the problem, get it fixed with your dentist. Also make sure your dentures are clean before putting them on. Make sure also that the infected part of your mouth is kept dry to make the skin condition heal faster.

Whatever is causing your angular cheilitis, it is always wise to supplement your diet with vitamins that strengthen your immune system. If you are a frequent sufferer of this skin condition, it is better to increase intake of healthy food rich in vitamin B and iron, which can be acquired from green leafy vegetables and dairy products.

Topical treatment for angular cheilitis is also available such as anti-fungal and antibacterial creams but always consult your doctor in this case, especially that it involves the mouth.

Those with HIV infection can also show signs of this skin condition. Treatment for angular cheilitis in this condition should always be asked from your physician.

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If you are looking for a good cardio routine that lasts only 20 minutes this will be something for you. What you can do is really easy, and fun, but it will give you great results when done 3 times per week.

The secret with cardio is to mix it up a little bit. So that is exactly what we are going to do. Imagine yourself doing 2-3 different types of cardio each week 3-4 times per week. That is what you will need to be doing, so here is the first kind of cardio that really works.

Hill Intervals – The hill intervals can be a real killer when you do them, but they are also really effective. Here’s how to perform this exercise.

Start at the bottom of a long hill, (preferably steeper the better you get) and run all the way to the top, then walk down slowly. Without resting go with all you got, one more time up the hill… and slowly walk down. Repeat this process for 6-12 reps. This will give you a deep burn in our muscles, and also get your blood flowing, your heart pumping and the body will burn fat like never before.

The second exercise is basic jobbing – This will not be new to anyone, but it still works. No matter what people are saying, jogging does still burn calories, but, mostly while you are running, so it has little after burn effect. Yes it has some after burn, but not as much as weight training or interval training. You want to run about 2-3 miles each time you run, and then once a week put in a longer distance, such as 5-10 miles. I know, right… 5-10 miles? This guy is crazy. Well, if you do run that far you will burn approximately 800-1,200 calories which mostly is fat, but also some muscle.

The third exercise I like is jump rope combined with my weight training. When you are doing your resistance training, add 100-200 jumpropes in between sets. So if you are supersetting pushups and squats, when you have done push-ups and squats, you would jump 100 times with the jumprope. Then do the pushups and squats again.

This will extend your workout, but get you lots of great benefits! You will increase the metabolism with the weight training and you will burn the fat with the jumprope. Perfect combination and I personally think it’s great fun!

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An antibiotic-resistant bacteria knownas Extended Spectrum Beta Lactamase (ESBL) is killing humans and swine in Denmark. The culprit in the deaths of many cancer and liver disease patients is the ESBL bacteria. There has been a jump of 50 per cent in patients being infected.

According to health officials, it appears the bacteria is being transmitted from pigs to humans. The feeling is that the increasing use of antibiotics in agriculture may be responsible for the spread.

What Are ESBLS
Enzymes known as Extended-Spectrum Beta-Lactamases are produced by certain types of bacteria. This makes the bacteria resistant to antibiotics normally used to treat them.

In the mid 1980s ESBLs were first discovered. They were mostly found in the Klebsiella species of bacteria which were found in intensive care units in hospitals. It did not appear to be a problem until recently as not too many people were affected by the bacteria.

The British Health Protection Agency (HPA) have said that there is now a new class of ESBL (called CTX-M enzymes). These are now being associated with E.Coli bacteria. It has come to light that the ESBL producing E. Coli has a resistance to penicillins and cephalosporins, and are now showing up in Urinary Tract infections (UTI)

Some other species of bacteria now producing ESBLS
Proteus Mirabilis
Salmonella
k.pneumonia
k.oxytoca
Pseudomonas Aeruginosa

The Problems are Seriously Worse than you Think
In a study published in 2007, in the American Medical Association Journal, there were almost 100,000 cases of invasive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus auereus (MRSA) infections in the US in 2005, leading to deaths of around 18,000. This resulted in more deaths that HIV/AIDS which killed around 17,000 in 2005.

Diseases resistant to antibiotics are a problem caused by man. However, not a lot is being reported about the overuse of antibiotics in agriculture, resulting in problems with humans consuming antibiotics leading to increased antibiotic resistance.

Now both MRSA and ESBL are being associated with animals being raised for food production and in particular pigs. For disease prevention many animals are given low doses. This in turn allows the animals to gain more bodyweight than those not on antibiotics.
This is making the stakes much higher by allowing perfect conditions for antibiotic resistance to become more prevalent.

The rising figures surrounding antibiotic resistance are being fuelled by the practice of using antibiotics in animals causing resistance in a wide variety of bacteria resulting in human diseases.

Sources of Other Agricultural Antibiotics
Chickens raised in a conventional way were also a problem. Bacteria from these types of chickens, showed that people who were consuming them, were resistant to Synercid, the very antibiotic used to treat antibiotic resistant bacteria.

The problem with using antibiotics in agriculture does not stop here. They can filter down the food chain in other ways through manure into your food supplies.

In the setting of a greenhouse, potatoes, corn and lettuce were grown in soil containing pig manure with everyday veterinary antibiotics added. The result was absorption in the tissue and leaves of all three crops. There was also a suggestion that root crops such as radishes, potatoes and carrots maybe at risk of accumulation of the antibiotics.

There were also implications for some organic farmers who use manure as their fertiliser. The result being if manure is used it contains antibiotics but is still labelled as organic.

What to do to Avoid Excessive Antibiotic Exposure
Grow it yourself

Get your produce from a local farm – one using non toxic farming methods. There are increasing numbers of community supported agricultural programs available selling healthy produce, locally grown.

Ensure to use grass fed beef. Grass fed cattle are not routinely fed antibiotics. If they do receive them it will only be for an infection, which would be rare, and would only be for a few days.

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As a parent, you will want the best for your child. You wan them to grow up and develop into a healthy, strong and independent individual; to estbalish themselves in a forward moving career and have a family.

Also, you will find that many youngsters will play and become hyper and distracted on some occassions, which is considered part of growing up. However, you may be a parent who has a child who is overly hyper and becomes confused or distracted, thus you may find that they have Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder or ADHD.

There are medicines and different therapies that can help with this, but many parents might wonder what else they can do to help their children. Some food may help ADHD and some other food may be good to limit or avoid for children with ADHD. Knowing the foods to eat and those to avoid can help in making children with this disorder, happier and healthier for a long time into the future.

If we look at recent studies about chilren with ADHD, we find that some research has shown the causes of ADHD in children could be as a result of an individual’s diet and a deficiency of certain vitamins and minerals – these include a deficiency in omega 3 fatty acids, Vitamin C, zinc, and possibly iron.

Not getting enough Omega 3 fatty acids has been linked to some symptoms of ADHD and some children with ADHD show other symptoms of an Omega 3 fatty acid deficiency such as dry skin and hair, thirst, and frequent urination. Some studies have shown that children with ADHD that were given fish oil supplements shown some improvements.

Also, some studies have found that children with ADHD may have more food allergies and they lose vitamins due to be allergic to foods such as: wheat, corn, soy, citrus, chocolate, eggs, artificial colors and preservatives. Some children with ADHD may also be allergic to food dye and in studies when these foods were taken away, some symptoms showed improvement. Giving children with ADHD zinc and iron supplements seemed to improve symptoms in some cases.

You will need to keep an eye on what your child eats and help them stay away from food additives and anything children with ADHD could be allergic to. Doing so will help improve their symptons and make them less hyperactive. You may also find that giving them Vitamin C supplements will help improve the symptoms too. And, consulting a doctor, about other concerns, medicines and for regular routine checkups, is also advisable.

There is strong importance for a child with ADHD to have enough vitamins and minerals to live a long and happy life, but there are certain vitamins and minerals that may cause the symptoms to get worse. This is the main reason for you to insist on your child eating a healthy and balanced diet, and for them to exercise regularly. This will mean that your child with ADHD will stay healthier and happier for longer.

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