Things To Know When Your'e Diagnosed With Diabetes

 

 Here are seven things to know if you been told you are a diabetic. I want to share them with you.

 

1. Know facts from fuction
2. Incoporate flexibility into your diet
3. Be aware of risks of diabetes medication
4. Ask family members to have a self assessment
5. Lower Your AIC levels without medication
6. Protect your heart
7. Know more treatment options

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Higher Vitamin D Intake Could Cut Cancer Risk - US News and World Report

A study of several participants in a Vitamin-D study found than more Vitamin-D is needed to reduce the risks of major diseases such as:
-Breast cancer
-Colon Cancer
-Multiple sclerosis
-Type 1 diabetes

Researchers have reported that adults need 4,000 to 8,000 iu per day to maintain the correct range of Vitamin-D metabolites levels in the blood.


Higher Vitamin D Intake Could Cut Cancer Risk - US News and World Report

Blood Pressure Medication No Benefit Against Stroke

Stroke patients with hypertension may not be benefiting from hypertension medication, but may be at risk from taking them.
This is according to a study at Oslo University in Norway.

For the study researchers administered candesartan to 1,017 patients
with acute stroke and a systolic blood pressure of 140 or higher.
A control group was given a placebo. They were followed for six months.

The study found:
-18 patients taking the medication suffered kidney failure compared to 13 taking the placebo.
-9 Patients taking the medication had symptoms associated with low blood pressure while 5 on the placebo had low blood pressure.

Researchers concluded that medication for lowering blood pressure is not beneficial in stroke patients.


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Breast Cancer On The Rise In The UK

The rise in breast cancer in the UK may be driven by increasing prosperity and modern lifestyles.
According to a recent report published by Cancer Research UK, 47,700 women were diagnosed with the disease in 2008, an increase of 5000 over the previous decade.
The risk has also risen to 1:8 from 1:9 .
Factors that contribute are:

• Rising obesity
• Increase drinking
• Hormone replacement therapy
  

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With the availability of consumer health education it is possible to learn to manage one's health to prevent diseases like cancer. Using avoidable health risk factors, this website teaches people to pursue a lifestyle to reduce or eliminate them.