Chronic disease

How to prevent the complications of diabetes?

In the early stages of diabetes, when patients feel fine, they often ignore diabetes. But the future complications of diabetes are starting to build up since those early days. The main complications affect kidneys, heart, blood vessels, eyes and nerves. Controlling the blood sugar levels is the main step in prevention or delay of these

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Living With Alzheimer’s Disease

I’ve talked with many people who are dealing with Alzheimer’s patients and they all say one thing in common: Alzheimer’s Disease is the most devastating disease they know. Maybe they see the issue they’re dealing with as the worst pain in the world, or maybe this is the sad truth. Check out this infographic to

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Understanding Coronary Heart Disease

Did you know that Coronary Heart Disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women in the United States? For every 10,000 people, an estimated 200 pass away from this common heart disease. The conditions of atherosclerosis and coronary thrombosis are together known as coronary heart disease (CHD). Atherosclerosis is a degenerative

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Childhood Obesity

Almost 1 in 5 children between the ages of 6-9 in the United States are obese. High sugar intake, fast food, unhealthy snacks, TV ads and poor family control are among the main reason of childhood obesity. Surprisingly, the average American child consumes 32 teaspoons of sugar per day! This is highly above the amount

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Smoking And Vitamin-D

Most of us, including three quarters of American adults are vitamin-D deficient, which may cause serious problems. According to National Institute of Health, “vitamin D is a fat-soluble vitamin that is naturally present in very few foods, added to others, and available as a dietary supplement. It is also produced endogenously when ultraviolet rays from

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COPD:Chronic Airflow Limitation

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) refers to long-term lung problems that result in blocked air flow in the lungs. The two main COPD disorders are emphysema and chronic bronchitis. Emphysema occurs when the walls between the lung’s air sacs become weakened and collapse. Damage from COPD is usually permanent and irreversible. According to Mayoclinic, signs

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Extreme amnesia: The Man with a 10 Second Memory

  Clive Wearing, a British conductor and musician contracted a brain infection with herpes encephalitis in 1985 that caused him a memory span of less than 20 seconds. He’s not able to recognize anyone except his wife and he’s unable to remember anything happened even minutes earlier. But despite having one of the worst cases

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The most common symptoms of multiple sclerosis (MS):

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease that affects the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord). In other words, the immune system of the patient don’t recognize the neurons and start to destroy them. Depending of the location and severity of affected neurons the symptoms vary. The most common symptoms of multiple sclerosis (MS):

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More reasons to eat beet!

Beets are so effective in breaking up tumors mainly by their excellent amount of betacyanin; Betacyanin is the main ingredient that causes red beet its purple reddish color. Beets also have excellent antioxidant and anti-inflammatory compounds that are also fighting aging process in the body. If you love beets, you can also try their juice.

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New technology may help patients with spinal cord injury

A new technology invented in Northwestern University in Chicago may help spinal injury patients to regain movement: As you watched in this video, in the new technology researches connected the areas responsible for movement, directly to the muscles. In other words, they bypassed the spinal cord and brain is in direct command of muscles. This

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