Tag Archives : Diabetes

There are strange infections – and even stranger ones because we never thought they were virally transmitted and coming from bacteria, instead of just resulting from unhealthy lifestyle, genetics, or ageing. ‘A growing number of diseases that were thought to be down to genetics or lifestyle turn out to have an infectious origin.’ For starters, [...]

Bisphenol A (BPA) is practically everywhere: in CDs, many food and soda containers, bottled water containers, baby bottles, as well as many plastics. It has become ubiquitous that most people have already taken its existence for granted. Harvard School of Public Health researchers have recently confirmed that ‘college kids who drank from polycarbonate [...]

A person’s temperament can have impact on his or her physical health. According to Stephen Boyle of Duke University Medical Center, “The idea that behavior or personality traits can influence health is one that’s been around for a long time. We’re just now getting a handle on to what extent they do.” Fact is mental health affects [...]

In New York, there is a campaign war against soda and other sweetened drinks. The city’s health department has launched ‘a public-awareness campaign, which includes posters in the subway system and a multilingual Health Bulletin’ that began on the end of August and will run for three months. The new campaign asks New Yorkers if they’re “Pouring [...]

A recent study entitled Optimism, Cynical Hostility, and Incident Coronary Heart Disease and Mortality in the Women’s Health Initiative, published in the journal Circulation, argues that optimism as applied philosophy of life is a protective shield for women against heart disease and other disorders, even to the extent of reducing female mortality. The [...]

Obesity and diabetes are raging concerns in the oil-rich Gulf monarchies. A combination of diet with too many calories and sedentary lifestyle has brought about the disturbing reality. Authorities have come to realize the gravity of the situation and are now increasing awareness in the hope of appeasing the taste for foods high in calories served in [...]

The term preexisting condition has always had a negative connotation because it prevents an ordinary citizen from availing timely and appropriate health insurance coverage or making him or her pay a hefty cost when coverage is acquired. Each insurance company can have its own arbitrary list of pre-existing conditions that can be excluded from the insurance [...]

Scientists have recently linked the two pathologies of Alzheimer’s and diabetes. On one hand, the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease is increased by the onset of diabetes, particularly if it appears in a person before age 65. On the other, insulin which is a key hormone that lowers sugar levels in the blood would have a protective role [...]

If you were worried about having blood sugar not being normal or if you already have one of the two types of Diabetes, checking sugar levels consistently is something that is very important. It turns out you no longer have to go through unpleasant procedures to check your blood sugar levels. All you would need to do is, get yourself a tattoo! Well, [...]

Sugar has always been linked to brain impairments and now a study conducted by researchers has revealed that rising blood sugar could irreparably affect brains in ageing people. Sugar increase in the blood has been now linked to cognitive impairment and motor deficits both of which are related to degenerated brain. This means that blood sugar levels [...]