Eating fried foods or made from dairy products is often a choice for many people today. Unfortunately the choice of food has high levels of saturated fat and trans fat which can increase cholesterol and have a harmful effect on heart health.
However, keep in mind that the body needs cholesterol to produce hormones, vitamin D, and various substances that can help digestion. However, if consuming foods that are able to increase cholesterol levels in excess will have a harmful effect on the body.
Quoted from various sources following some foods that can increase cholesterol levels in the body.
1. Heart
High levels of cholesterol in animals are located in organs. Although it is rich in iron content, the liver is the main source of cholesterol because it is the place for making and storing cholesterol in the body.
2. Red meat
Red meat from cows, sheep and pigs tends to contain more cholesterol than saturated fat. Besides being able to increase cholesterol, red meat can also aggravate the condition of heart disease. The American Heart Association recommends salmon, beans, and uncooked chicken as a better substitute.
3. Fried Chicken
Chicken can be a substitute for red meat that is low in saturated fat. However, if fried foods will lose water content and absorb fat, making it more calorie dense. Oils used for frying also tend to have high levels of trans fat.
4. Fried Potatoes
A study published by the Harvard School of Public Health states that fries have high cholesterol levels due to hydrogenated vegetable oils. Foods with hydrogenated oils tend to have a large amount of trans fat.
5. Ice Cream
A spoonful of ice cream has a higher level of fat and cholesterol than a burger and donut. A bowl of ice cream has 4.5 grams of saturated fat. Snacks such as frozen yogurt which are low in fat and fruits can be an alternative to ice cream.
6. Egg Yolk
One egg seed contains 186 mg of cholesterol. Even so, a study by a non-profit medical agency Mayo Clinc from the United States states that consuming less than four egg yolks per week does not lower the chance of someone suffering from heart disease. The key is not to consume excessively and continue to maintain cholesterol intake.
Monday, January 28, 2019
Sunday, January 27, 2019
Low Education Becomes Factor Causes of Kidney Failure
Kidney disease does not just appear in someone. There are a number of factors that can affect a person with the disease. Among them are education and profession.
Data from the Ministry of Health said that as many as 0.4 percent of the people who did not receive education became the highest group of people with kidney failure. Profession of fishermen, laborers, farmers and entrepreneurs occupy a higher percentage of 30 percent than employees.
However, the data also states that 0.6 percent of patients with kidney failure are the age group 75 years to 75 years and above.
Head of the Ministry of Health's Blood Vessel Heart Disease Subdistrict, Dr. Zamhir Setiawan, M.Epid, said that the biggest factor that causes 37% of kidney failure is hypertension, 27% due to diabetes mellitus, 10% congenital abnormalities, 7% urinary tract blockage, 1 percent uric acid and 1 percent due to lupus.
"There are many factors that cause kidney failure because of the impact of other diseases,"
Zamhir said that in 2015 almost 1.3 million people were affected by chronic kidney failure.
To anticipate the increasing prevalence of kidney failure, Zamhir said, socialization of the importance of healthy living must be encouraged. A number of programs are also planned for this such as village healthy houses, community empowerment and cross-sector involvement.
"Empowerment of the community concerning households, schools, workplaces, pilgrims, terminals and public places must be improved," he said
Data from the Ministry of Health said that as many as 0.4 percent of the people who did not receive education became the highest group of people with kidney failure. Profession of fishermen, laborers, farmers and entrepreneurs occupy a higher percentage of 30 percent than employees.
However, the data also states that 0.6 percent of patients with kidney failure are the age group 75 years to 75 years and above.
Head of the Ministry of Health's Blood Vessel Heart Disease Subdistrict, Dr. Zamhir Setiawan, M.Epid, said that the biggest factor that causes 37% of kidney failure is hypertension, 27% due to diabetes mellitus, 10% congenital abnormalities, 7% urinary tract blockage, 1 percent uric acid and 1 percent due to lupus.
"There are many factors that cause kidney failure because of the impact of other diseases,"
Zamhir said that in 2015 almost 1.3 million people were affected by chronic kidney failure.
To anticipate the increasing prevalence of kidney failure, Zamhir said, socialization of the importance of healthy living must be encouraged. A number of programs are also planned for this such as village healthy houses, community empowerment and cross-sector involvement.
"Empowerment of the community concerning households, schools, workplaces, pilgrims, terminals and public places must be improved," he said
Saturday, January 26, 2019
8 Foods that Reduce the Risk of Breast Cancer
In addition to a healthy lifestyle, one can prevent cancer by maintaining food intake. Some health studies sort a number of foods whose content is effective in preventing cancer, especially breast cancer.
"A woman can reduce the chances of cancer by two thirds, through good nutrition and weight management," said Cheryl L Rock, a professor at the Scool of Medicine University of California, as reported by Eating Well.
Among these foods, there are vegetables such as broccoli and celery, and nuts. The following are foods that have nutrients that can fight cancer compounds.
1. Broccoli
This vegetable contains sulforaphane which can reduce the number of breast cancer stem cells. To get maximum results, experts suggest eating raw broccoli, enough or sauteed for a while.
2. Salmon
Omega-3 fats in fish oil can reduce inflammation that triggers breast cancer. In addition, consuming fish oil for 10 years can reduce the risk of ductal carcinoma, the most common type of breast cancer. Researchers suggest eating at least 8 ounces of fish oil that can be obtained from salmon, sardines and tuna in a week.
3. Olive oil
Researchers found antioxidants and oleic acid in olive oil can quell the growth of malignant cells.
4. Parsley and Celery
Scientists from the University of Missouri, as reported by Eating Well, found that parsley and celery can inhibit the growth of cancer cells. Apigenin substances in these two types of plants increase the body's resistance to tumors. Experts recommend adding some parsley and chopped celery to the food every day.
5. Coffee
According to the Breast Cancer Research study, drinking coffee every day can reduce the risk of developing breast cancer. One possibility is predicted because coffee antioxidants can protect cells from cancer. However, further research is still needed to prove this.
6. Plums and Peaches
Both of these fruits have antioxidant levels that can match blueberries. Plums and peaches also contain polyphenols, antioxidants that can help kill breast cancer cells while leaving healthy cells intact.
7. Peanuts
The fiber content in nuts can reduce the risk of breast cancer. Researchers found 10 grams of fiber every day can reduce the risk of cancer by 7 percent. Apart from beans, other foods that also have similar fibers are lentils, peas, dates and raspberries.
8. Walnuts
Walnuts can thwart the growth of breast cancer. Experts consider anti-inflammation in walnuts that can be derived from alpha-linolenic acid omega-3 fats, phytosterols or antioxidants can potentially fight tumors.
"A woman can reduce the chances of cancer by two thirds, through good nutrition and weight management," said Cheryl L Rock, a professor at the Scool of Medicine University of California, as reported by Eating Well.
Among these foods, there are vegetables such as broccoli and celery, and nuts. The following are foods that have nutrients that can fight cancer compounds.
1. Broccoli
This vegetable contains sulforaphane which can reduce the number of breast cancer stem cells. To get maximum results, experts suggest eating raw broccoli, enough or sauteed for a while.
2. Salmon
Omega-3 fats in fish oil can reduce inflammation that triggers breast cancer. In addition, consuming fish oil for 10 years can reduce the risk of ductal carcinoma, the most common type of breast cancer. Researchers suggest eating at least 8 ounces of fish oil that can be obtained from salmon, sardines and tuna in a week.
3. Olive oil
Researchers found antioxidants and oleic acid in olive oil can quell the growth of malignant cells.
4. Parsley and Celery
Scientists from the University of Missouri, as reported by Eating Well, found that parsley and celery can inhibit the growth of cancer cells. Apigenin substances in these two types of plants increase the body's resistance to tumors. Experts recommend adding some parsley and chopped celery to the food every day.
5. Coffee
According to the Breast Cancer Research study, drinking coffee every day can reduce the risk of developing breast cancer. One possibility is predicted because coffee antioxidants can protect cells from cancer. However, further research is still needed to prove this.
6. Plums and Peaches
Both of these fruits have antioxidant levels that can match blueberries. Plums and peaches also contain polyphenols, antioxidants that can help kill breast cancer cells while leaving healthy cells intact.
7. Peanuts
The fiber content in nuts can reduce the risk of breast cancer. Researchers found 10 grams of fiber every day can reduce the risk of cancer by 7 percent. Apart from beans, other foods that also have similar fibers are lentils, peas, dates and raspberries.
8. Walnuts
Walnuts can thwart the growth of breast cancer. Experts consider anti-inflammation in walnuts that can be derived from alpha-linolenic acid omega-3 fats, phytosterols or antioxidants can potentially fight tumors.
Friday, January 25, 2019
Foods that Cause Diabetes
Indonesia - Diabetes is always a frightening specter. Complications caused can be life threatening.
In the world, it is estimated that there are around 245 million people fighting diabetes. Whereas in Indonesia, the prevalence of diabetes rose to 8.5 percent in 2018 from the previous 6.9 percent in 2013.
Diabetes occurs when the body cannot use insulin - an important part of the body's metabolic system - well.
An unhealthy lifestyle becomes a 'defendant' from this malfunction of insulin in the body. Especially lifestyle in choosing food. In the European Journal of Nutrition, it was mentioned that consuming too much fast food can increase the risk of type 2 diabetes.
If someone wants to reduce the risk of diabetes, then it's good to start diligently doing a healthy diet filled with nutritious foods. With a note, the effort must be carried out together with sports activities and stress management.
The following types of foods that can increase the risk of diabetes are taken from various sources.
Processed carbohydrates
When carbohydrate sources are processed, the vitamins and minerals in them will certainly disappear.
Calories without nutrients coupled with high sugar content are the main actors causing diabetes. As often as possible, you need to avoid this type of food.
The digestible properties of refined carbohydrates make this food can cause a surge in blood sugar and insulin levels. Over time, this condition will lead to type 2 diabetes.
In the Archives of Internal Medicine published in JAMA Network , it was mentioned that a diet high in refined carbohydrates increased the risk of type 2 diabetes by 21 percent.
To reduce that risk, it means you need to limit your intake of processed carbohydrate foods such as bread, biscuits and pasta.
Sweet drinks
It is common knowledge that sweet drinks with high sugar content are the main cause of type 2 diabetes. Sugar, as is known, can cause insulin resistance.
Citing Healthline, drinking one to two glasses of sweet drinks per day can increase the risk of type-2 diabetes by 26 percent.
To stay hydrated, you can reduce the consumption of sweet drinks and increase mineral water for the body.
Trans and saturated fat
High cholesterol is one of the risk factors for type 2 diabetes. While saturated fat is known to increase cholesterol levels in the blood.
Saturated fats can be found in a number of food sources such as meat, butter, milk, and cheese.
Unlike saturated fat, trans fat is a form of unsaturated fat that can bring you to the risk of diabetes. Generally, trans fats are found in packaged foods and foods that are fried or baked with oil.
To avoid trans fat, you can use olive oil when you make it.
Red meat
Red meat, whether processed or not, is equally related to type 2 diabetes.
study in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that 3 ounces of red meat per day can increase the risk of type 2 diabetes by 19 percent. While consumption of processed meat can increase the risk by 51 percent.
For that, it's good if you switch to protein sources that can improve health such as fish. Or, if you want to feel the pleasure of red meat, you can combine it with a bowl of vegetables.
In the world, it is estimated that there are around 245 million people fighting diabetes. Whereas in Indonesia, the prevalence of diabetes rose to 8.5 percent in 2018 from the previous 6.9 percent in 2013.
Diabetes occurs when the body cannot use insulin - an important part of the body's metabolic system - well.
An unhealthy lifestyle becomes a 'defendant' from this malfunction of insulin in the body. Especially lifestyle in choosing food. In the European Journal of Nutrition, it was mentioned that consuming too much fast food can increase the risk of type 2 diabetes.
If someone wants to reduce the risk of diabetes, then it's good to start diligently doing a healthy diet filled with nutritious foods. With a note, the effort must be carried out together with sports activities and stress management.
The following types of foods that can increase the risk of diabetes are taken from various sources.
Processed carbohydrates
When carbohydrate sources are processed, the vitamins and minerals in them will certainly disappear.
Calories without nutrients coupled with high sugar content are the main actors causing diabetes. As often as possible, you need to avoid this type of food.
The digestible properties of refined carbohydrates make this food can cause a surge in blood sugar and insulin levels. Over time, this condition will lead to type 2 diabetes.
In the Archives of Internal Medicine published in JAMA Network , it was mentioned that a diet high in refined carbohydrates increased the risk of type 2 diabetes by 21 percent.
To reduce that risk, it means you need to limit your intake of processed carbohydrate foods such as bread, biscuits and pasta.
Sweet drinks
It is common knowledge that sweet drinks with high sugar content are the main cause of type 2 diabetes. Sugar, as is known, can cause insulin resistance.
Citing Healthline, drinking one to two glasses of sweet drinks per day can increase the risk of type-2 diabetes by 26 percent.
To stay hydrated, you can reduce the consumption of sweet drinks and increase mineral water for the body.
Trans and saturated fat
High cholesterol is one of the risk factors for type 2 diabetes. While saturated fat is known to increase cholesterol levels in the blood.
Saturated fats can be found in a number of food sources such as meat, butter, milk, and cheese.
Unlike saturated fat, trans fat is a form of unsaturated fat that can bring you to the risk of diabetes. Generally, trans fats are found in packaged foods and foods that are fried or baked with oil.
To avoid trans fat, you can use olive oil when you make it.
Red meat
Red meat, whether processed or not, is equally related to type 2 diabetes.
study in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that 3 ounces of red meat per day can increase the risk of type 2 diabetes by 19 percent. While consumption of processed meat can increase the risk by 51 percent.
For that, it's good if you switch to protein sources that can improve health such as fish. Or, if you want to feel the pleasure of red meat, you can combine it with a bowl of vegetables.
Thursday, January 24, 2019
Natural Foods That Can Prevent Cancer
The most appropriate step to combat brain cancer is to prevent it. Although of course we can't know whether the cancer cells grow or not, but the habit of consuming healthy foods can prevent it.
There are several food sources that contain substances that can fight the growth of cancer cells in the brain and cancer cells in other body tissues that can spread to parts of the brain:
1. Broccoli
Broccoli is usually the vegetable we avoid the most. But it turns out broccoli is very beneficial for the body because it contains high antioxidants that can prevent brain cancer. In addition, broccoli contains fiber which acts to facilitate digestion and prevent metabolic problems. Daily consumption of broccoli is not only good for the large intestine and small intestine, but also protects the brain from the growth of abnormal cells that cause cancer.
2. Green Tea
Until now, people in Japan are still diligent in consuming green tea. They can consume green tea not only in the morning or evening. They have steeping green tea with natural pots and can be taken anytime. The result is that the brain health of people in Japan is the best.
Green tea contains the highest antioxidant because it has the simplest processing. There are not many antioxidants that come out during the cooking process and are far better than the types of red or black tea. In addition, green tea can also make the brain get good stimulation so that it can work optimally.
3. Nuts
All types of beans are very good as a food for brain cancer prevention. You can consume red beans, green beans, white beans, and other types as a daily diet for cancer prevention. Nuts contain high fiber and also fatty acids that act to protect the brain from cancer. In addition, nuts can also prevent the spread of cancer to other body tissues. Consumption of two cups of beans every week is recommended.
4. Walnuts
Walnuts are usually found in mixtures or cake decorations. Walnuts can also be eaten as snacks. Walnuts contain omega 3 nutrients that can make the body more relaxed. Walnuts can prevent brain cancer because they contain omega 3 which can function like, omega 3 found in fish that contain lots of oil. How to prevent brain cancer with walnuts has been tested in a study. To get the best results, it is recommended to eat snacks from walnuts for every day.
5. Ginger
Ginger which is included as a rhizome plant can prevent brain cancer because it contains compounds such as gingerol. In addition, ginger can be a source of ingredients that can protect the body from inflammation. Sometimes inflammation of certain body tissues can cause the growth of cancer cells in the brain. To get the main benefits of ginger can be mixed in drinks such as milk or tea. But it can also be used as a seasoning especially for Indonesian specialties.
6. Turmeric
Turmeric like ginger, also includes root plants or rhizomes. Turmeric is one of the ingredients or a mixture of traditional medicines that contain high antioxidants. From now on, using turmeric to prevent cancer can be done in various ways. One example is using turmeric as a seasoning mixture. Turmeric contains compounds that can prevent the inflammatory process that often triggers the growth of cancer cells in the brain. In addition to brain cancer, turmeric generally can also prevent various types of cancer in the body such as colon cancer and prostate cancer.
7. Tomatoes
Tomatoes are the fruit that can be used to prevent cancer cells. This is because tomatoes contain lycopene compounds that function as antioxidant anti-inflammatory substances and also prevent cancer growth. Usually people only consume tomatoes to prevent cancer, but it turns out eating tomatoes that have been cooked can increase the benefits. So it is better to consume tomatoes that have been cooked or made into mixed ingredients in cooking.
8. Avocados
Avocados are delicious fruits that contain lots of omega 3, fiber, antioxidants and can improve body health. Avocados can be a brain cancer prevention food that blocks the growth of brain cancer cells, by increasing the metabolic system and immune system. In this way the body is stronger and the active cells in the brain can work according to its function. In addition, avocados can also protect cells in the brain so that they are not affected by stimulation of active substances from air or food.
9. Garlic
Garlic is usually used as a spice for all types of cuisine. The strong aroma is often not liked, but it turns out garlic can actively prevent the growth of abnormal cells in the brain. In addition, garlic has other properties that are very good for preventing cancer such as protecting the body from bacteria, maintaining the immune system and can attack cancer cell growth directly. Even garlic can improve the DNA health system and prevent DNA damage. That's why add garlic in your menu.
10. Papaya
Papaya is a sweet fruit and usually contains a lot of water during the summer. Soft papaya with a special aroma contains a cancer-preventing substance. Lycopene contained in papaya is very useful to prevent the growth of cancer cells. The benefits are almost the same as lycopene found in tomatoes. Papaya can also be trusted to prevent the growth of all types of cancer cells, including ways to prevent skin cancer.
11. Cabbage
Cabbage can be used as cooking ingredients for soups or other types of preparations. Sometimes many cabbages are consumed as fresh vegetables. The content of antioxidants in cabbage is found in kale vegetables. Both types of vegetables are very active to prevent the growth of cancer cells and can maintain the age and strength of healthy cells in the body. Consumption of cooked cabbage and kale is highly recommended.
12. Salmon
Wildly found salmon can be the most effective food for preventing brain cancer. Many people consume salmon but they don't choose natural salmon. While the life methods for natural salmon and farmed salmon are indeed different. Apart from that problem, salmon can protect against brain cancer because it contains natural omega 3 substances that are very good for stimulating work and normal brain function.
13. Orange
Orange is known as a refreshing fruit that contains high amounts of vitamin C. Vitamin C in citrus fruit is very good for protecting brain cells from attacks of cancer cell growth. Sweet and slightly sour orange flavor contains antioxidants that are very good for preventing free radicals from entering the body. The most recommended consumption of oranges is natural fruit oranges and not oranges that have been processed in the form of juice.
14. Bit
Beets are often avoided because they have a rather strange taste and a less comfortable aroma when consumed. But it turns out that beets contain high antioxidants which can directly prevent the growth of cancer cells. Beet fruit is also important to influence the condition of the body and mind because it can provide a quite pleasant effect. But excessive consumption of beetroot can increase blood sugar levels and lower blood pressure.
15. Apples
Apples have still been considered a refreshing fruit, but it turns out that apples contain very high benefits. Consumption of one apple every day can increase the body's resistance to free radicals and can prevent the risk of heart disease. The most recommended consumption of apples is fresh apple peeled, because sometimes apple peels contain pesticides that can be harmful to the body.
So, from now on we can maintain health, including by protecting the body from brain cancer. Various types of food that have been mentioned can be consumed actively to prevent the growth of brain cancer cells.
There are several food sources that contain substances that can fight the growth of cancer cells in the brain and cancer cells in other body tissues that can spread to parts of the brain:
1. Broccoli
Broccoli is usually the vegetable we avoid the most. But it turns out broccoli is very beneficial for the body because it contains high antioxidants that can prevent brain cancer. In addition, broccoli contains fiber which acts to facilitate digestion and prevent metabolic problems. Daily consumption of broccoli is not only good for the large intestine and small intestine, but also protects the brain from the growth of abnormal cells that cause cancer.
2. Green Tea
Until now, people in Japan are still diligent in consuming green tea. They can consume green tea not only in the morning or evening. They have steeping green tea with natural pots and can be taken anytime. The result is that the brain health of people in Japan is the best.
Green tea contains the highest antioxidant because it has the simplest processing. There are not many antioxidants that come out during the cooking process and are far better than the types of red or black tea. In addition, green tea can also make the brain get good stimulation so that it can work optimally.
3. Nuts
All types of beans are very good as a food for brain cancer prevention. You can consume red beans, green beans, white beans, and other types as a daily diet for cancer prevention. Nuts contain high fiber and also fatty acids that act to protect the brain from cancer. In addition, nuts can also prevent the spread of cancer to other body tissues. Consumption of two cups of beans every week is recommended.
4. Walnuts
Walnuts are usually found in mixtures or cake decorations. Walnuts can also be eaten as snacks. Walnuts contain omega 3 nutrients that can make the body more relaxed. Walnuts can prevent brain cancer because they contain omega 3 which can function like, omega 3 found in fish that contain lots of oil. How to prevent brain cancer with walnuts has been tested in a study. To get the best results, it is recommended to eat snacks from walnuts for every day.
5. Ginger
Ginger which is included as a rhizome plant can prevent brain cancer because it contains compounds such as gingerol. In addition, ginger can be a source of ingredients that can protect the body from inflammation. Sometimes inflammation of certain body tissues can cause the growth of cancer cells in the brain. To get the main benefits of ginger can be mixed in drinks such as milk or tea. But it can also be used as a seasoning especially for Indonesian specialties.
6. Turmeric
Turmeric like ginger, also includes root plants or rhizomes. Turmeric is one of the ingredients or a mixture of traditional medicines that contain high antioxidants. From now on, using turmeric to prevent cancer can be done in various ways. One example is using turmeric as a seasoning mixture. Turmeric contains compounds that can prevent the inflammatory process that often triggers the growth of cancer cells in the brain. In addition to brain cancer, turmeric generally can also prevent various types of cancer in the body such as colon cancer and prostate cancer.
7. Tomatoes
Tomatoes are the fruit that can be used to prevent cancer cells. This is because tomatoes contain lycopene compounds that function as antioxidant anti-inflammatory substances and also prevent cancer growth. Usually people only consume tomatoes to prevent cancer, but it turns out eating tomatoes that have been cooked can increase the benefits. So it is better to consume tomatoes that have been cooked or made into mixed ingredients in cooking.
8. Avocados
Avocados are delicious fruits that contain lots of omega 3, fiber, antioxidants and can improve body health. Avocados can be a brain cancer prevention food that blocks the growth of brain cancer cells, by increasing the metabolic system and immune system. In this way the body is stronger and the active cells in the brain can work according to its function. In addition, avocados can also protect cells in the brain so that they are not affected by stimulation of active substances from air or food.
9. Garlic
Garlic is usually used as a spice for all types of cuisine. The strong aroma is often not liked, but it turns out garlic can actively prevent the growth of abnormal cells in the brain. In addition, garlic has other properties that are very good for preventing cancer such as protecting the body from bacteria, maintaining the immune system and can attack cancer cell growth directly. Even garlic can improve the DNA health system and prevent DNA damage. That's why add garlic in your menu.
10. Papaya
Papaya is a sweet fruit and usually contains a lot of water during the summer. Soft papaya with a special aroma contains a cancer-preventing substance. Lycopene contained in papaya is very useful to prevent the growth of cancer cells. The benefits are almost the same as lycopene found in tomatoes. Papaya can also be trusted to prevent the growth of all types of cancer cells, including ways to prevent skin cancer.
11. Cabbage
Cabbage can be used as cooking ingredients for soups or other types of preparations. Sometimes many cabbages are consumed as fresh vegetables. The content of antioxidants in cabbage is found in kale vegetables. Both types of vegetables are very active to prevent the growth of cancer cells and can maintain the age and strength of healthy cells in the body. Consumption of cooked cabbage and kale is highly recommended.
12. Salmon
Wildly found salmon can be the most effective food for preventing brain cancer. Many people consume salmon but they don't choose natural salmon. While the life methods for natural salmon and farmed salmon are indeed different. Apart from that problem, salmon can protect against brain cancer because it contains natural omega 3 substances that are very good for stimulating work and normal brain function.
13. Orange
Orange is known as a refreshing fruit that contains high amounts of vitamin C. Vitamin C in citrus fruit is very good for protecting brain cells from attacks of cancer cell growth. Sweet and slightly sour orange flavor contains antioxidants that are very good for preventing free radicals from entering the body. The most recommended consumption of oranges is natural fruit oranges and not oranges that have been processed in the form of juice.
14. Bit
Beets are often avoided because they have a rather strange taste and a less comfortable aroma when consumed. But it turns out that beets contain high antioxidants which can directly prevent the growth of cancer cells. Beet fruit is also important to influence the condition of the body and mind because it can provide a quite pleasant effect. But excessive consumption of beetroot can increase blood sugar levels and lower blood pressure.
15. Apples
Apples have still been considered a refreshing fruit, but it turns out that apples contain very high benefits. Consumption of one apple every day can increase the body's resistance to free radicals and can prevent the risk of heart disease. The most recommended consumption of apples is fresh apple peeled, because sometimes apple peels contain pesticides that can be harmful to the body.
So, from now on we can maintain health, including by protecting the body from brain cancer. Various types of food that have been mentioned can be consumed actively to prevent the growth of brain cancer cells.
10 reasons not to be afraid of cancer
EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE IS ADVANCING BY LEAPS AND BOUNDS , and almost everyone has access to sites with correct information - but the word "cancer" remains frightening. Many tumors have long ceased to be a death sentence, especially in the case of early diagnosis. Nevertheless, cancer diseases are surrounded by a huge number of myths, conjectures and horror stories - and we tried to refute a dozen of them.
We have an epidemic of cancer
Indeed, in developed countries, oncological diseases occupy one of the first places among the causes of death of the population, catching up only with cardiovascular diseases or even ahead of them. At the same time, cancer is still a rather rare disease, different types of which are diagnosed only in a few dozen out of 100 thousand people a year. The catch is that the tumor develops due to a series of genetic mutations in a single cell - these mutations lead to its uninterrupted division bypassing the body's stop signals.
Cells become resistant to apoptosis (the so-called “programmed” death), new blood vessels begin to attract tumors to feed the tumor, and also penetrate into other organs and tissues - they metastasize. Often it takes years and decades. According to statistics , 77% of people with malignant tumors, they occur after 55 years. It is not surprising that in countries where the absolute majority of people are experiencing this threshold, oncology is widespread.
People used to not have cancer
The term "cancer" appeared in the fifth century BC thanks to Hippocrates. Traces of malignant tumors at different times were found in the mummies of ancient Egypt , Peru and Chile , in the bones of ancient Romans , in medieval cemeteries in England and Portugal . The King of Naples, Ferdinand I, died five hundred years ago from colon cancer that had been neglected , and a notable Scythian warrior, whose rich tomb was found in 2001 in the territory of the modern Republic of Tyva, had prostate cancer .
In other words, cancer with people was long ago, and even our distant ancestors did not escape it. On the only known remains of a Kanam man (Homo kanamensis) and another not yet named proto-man, they found signs of a malignant bone tissue tumor - osteosarcoma. By the most conservative estimates, about 200 cases of fossil cancer are described. It is worth making an amendment to the fact that many of the remains are only partially preserved, and targeted searches for cancer do not lead to them even now.
People used to have cancer less often
It is difficult to confirm or deny this item impartially. In addition to the fact that advances in medicine have allowed people to survive to cancer, the massive spread of smoking and obesity also did not improve the situation. But it cannot be argued that before cancer was extremely rare. The English paleontologist Tony Waldron studied the death register for the years 1901-1905 and found out that the probability of finding signs of cancer in the bone remains of men is 0–2%, and in women - 4–7%. At the same time, only primary bone tumors can be found directly in the bones - this is less than 0.2% of all cancers, as well as metastases of some other types of cancer. Soft tissue tumors in the remains, from which only the skeleton is preserved, are usually impossible to detect.
Later, scientists from Munich obtained the same results : using special equipment, they found five cases of cancer among 905 skeletons in Egyptian necropolises and thirteen cases in 2547 remains at a medieval cemetery in Germany. This suggests an interesting conclusion: although life in ancient Egypt and medieval Europe was different, people were equally sick with cancer.
Cancer is younger
From a statistical point of view, this is true: according to a recent conclusion from the International Agency for the Study of Cancer, over the past twenty years, their prevalence in children has increased by 13%. But everything is not as simple as it seems - and, fortunately, cancer in children remains an extremely rare disease (about 14 cases per 100 thousand children per year).
Scientists tend to believe that such an increase in prevalence is primarily the effect of more accurate diagnosis and high awareness. Perhaps in the future the numbers will increase: today's data covers 100% of children in North America and Europe and only 5% in Africa and Asia. In poorer countries, cancer in children is most likely simply not diagnosed.
Wild animals do not get cancer
All animals are ill with cancer: both wild, and domestic, and especially laboratory. Most often, tumors are diagnosed in domestic animals - there are many of them and they are subject to veterinary control. In addition, they are often the victims of closely related crosses that increase the likelihood of the transfer of defective genes to descendants. Wild animals also have oncological diseases. The population of Tasmanian devils - a marsupial mammal from Australia - is on the verge of extinction because their cancer has evolved and is able to spread through bites.
The myth that there are animals that do not get cancer is massively spread twice. The first time was when scientists noticed that the cartilage tissue does not contain vessels, and decided that it contains some substances that inhibit their growth. The most important feature of malignant tumors is the formation of new blood vessels, so the scientists decided to study the corresponding properties of cartilage tissue. True, they were ahead of the charlatans who flooded the market with shark pills: the shark's skeleton consists entirely of cartilage.
The second time the scientific community became a victim of the myth. Attention attracted naked cattle - small rodents, which differ in phenomenal life expectancy, up to thirty years. On this wave, Russian scientists even received a prestigious award for uncovering the mechanism of naked excavators' resistance to cancer, but after a couple of years, these rodents also had oncological diseases.
Can get cancer
Extremely seductive theory that cancer is an infectious disease, in the sixties of the last century, cost the United States National Cancer Institute hundreds of millions of dollars spent almost wasted. In fact, it is now known that there are viruses capable of provoking the development of certain types of cancer : the human papilloma virus causes cervical , anus, penis and pharynx cancer, hepatitis C virus - liver cancer, and Epstein - Barr virus - Burkitt's lymphoma.
People can become infected with cancer only by direct transfer of tumor cells from the donor to the recipient - for example, in the process of organ transplantation. True, even two thirds of such cases end with the fact that the immune system of the new host kills the implanted tumor.
The main cause of cancer is chemical carcinogens.
At one time, bacteriologist Bruce Ames invented a test that allows one to study the effects of chemicals on the genetic apparatus using bacteria, that is, to determine the carcinogenicity of these substances. Talk about chemical carcinogens caused a great public outcry and affected all industries. True, later Ames partially rehabilitated artificial chemical compounds: it turned out that natural substances may have the same properties. Of the 28 natural substances that a cup of coffee contains, 19 are vegetable carcinogens. However, they can cause the development of a tumor only in large quantities, and it is possible only in laboratory animals.
Chemical carcinogens and justifies the history of American Pripyat - the town of Love Canal , built on a dump of toxic waste. For thirty years of a retrospective study , no outbreak of cancer was detected in ex-residents. The residents and liquidators of Chernobyl also did not find anything , excluding the more frequent thyroid cancer in children and adolescents: its development was associated with food contamination with radioactive iodine in the first months after the disaster.
In fact, the main carcinogens have long been known - it is ultraviolet radiation, components of cigarettes and alcoholic beverages. Other important risk factors are obesity and some infections. Chronic exposure to cigarette smoke and other lifestyle elements are much more important than any parabens in cosmetics whose carcinogenicity has been demonstrated only in the laboratory.
Pharmaceutical companies are not profitable to invent a cure for cancer
It is impossible to find a single cure for cancer, if only because cancer is the common name for a huge group of diseases. Moreover, breast cancer alone is hundreds of different diseases. Cancer is individual, as the individual organism of each individual is individual, like fingerprints . The current trend in oncology is the so-called precision medicine, which allows you to choose a personal medicine or treatment regimen for each patient based on specific biomarkers.
Billions of dollars are invested in drug development, and it is still profitable for pharmaceutical companies - in terms of both finance and reputation. For many malignant tumors, effective treatment already exists - but for the reasons described above, it does not suit everyone.
We have no progress in cancer treatment.
Over the past ten to twenty years, overall cancer mortality in various age groups has decreased by 1% every year - and this trend is noted throughout the world. The exception was lung cancer in women - the result of the fashion of the seventies on "female" cigarettes, and also liver cancer - the result of the massive spread of infection by the hepatitis C virus.
Cancer is impossible to beat
Of course, it is better to warn rather than win. Cancer prevention includes a number of simple requirements : it is necessary to eliminate smoking, reduce alcohol consumption and red meat, eat enough vegetables and fruits, monitor body weight, be physically active and protect the skin from sunburn.
In the early stages, cancer is curable - true, and difficult to identify, because it does not manifest itself. On the website of the Cancer Prevention Foundation, you can be tested for personal risks and understand when to turn to oncologists. Cancer in the later stages is most often impossible to cure, but in many cases, treatment can restrain its progression. Cancers become chronic, and people have lived with them for decades - so in a certain sense, we won the cancer.
We have an epidemic of cancer
Indeed, in developed countries, oncological diseases occupy one of the first places among the causes of death of the population, catching up only with cardiovascular diseases or even ahead of them. At the same time, cancer is still a rather rare disease, different types of which are diagnosed only in a few dozen out of 100 thousand people a year. The catch is that the tumor develops due to a series of genetic mutations in a single cell - these mutations lead to its uninterrupted division bypassing the body's stop signals.
Cells become resistant to apoptosis (the so-called “programmed” death), new blood vessels begin to attract tumors to feed the tumor, and also penetrate into other organs and tissues - they metastasize. Often it takes years and decades. According to statistics , 77% of people with malignant tumors, they occur after 55 years. It is not surprising that in countries where the absolute majority of people are experiencing this threshold, oncology is widespread.
People used to not have cancer
The term "cancer" appeared in the fifth century BC thanks to Hippocrates. Traces of malignant tumors at different times were found in the mummies of ancient Egypt , Peru and Chile , in the bones of ancient Romans , in medieval cemeteries in England and Portugal . The King of Naples, Ferdinand I, died five hundred years ago from colon cancer that had been neglected , and a notable Scythian warrior, whose rich tomb was found in 2001 in the territory of the modern Republic of Tyva, had prostate cancer .
In other words, cancer with people was long ago, and even our distant ancestors did not escape it. On the only known remains of a Kanam man (Homo kanamensis) and another not yet named proto-man, they found signs of a malignant bone tissue tumor - osteosarcoma. By the most conservative estimates, about 200 cases of fossil cancer are described. It is worth making an amendment to the fact that many of the remains are only partially preserved, and targeted searches for cancer do not lead to them even now.
People used to have cancer less often
It is difficult to confirm or deny this item impartially. In addition to the fact that advances in medicine have allowed people to survive to cancer, the massive spread of smoking and obesity also did not improve the situation. But it cannot be argued that before cancer was extremely rare. The English paleontologist Tony Waldron studied the death register for the years 1901-1905 and found out that the probability of finding signs of cancer in the bone remains of men is 0–2%, and in women - 4–7%. At the same time, only primary bone tumors can be found directly in the bones - this is less than 0.2% of all cancers, as well as metastases of some other types of cancer. Soft tissue tumors in the remains, from which only the skeleton is preserved, are usually impossible to detect.
Later, scientists from Munich obtained the same results : using special equipment, they found five cases of cancer among 905 skeletons in Egyptian necropolises and thirteen cases in 2547 remains at a medieval cemetery in Germany. This suggests an interesting conclusion: although life in ancient Egypt and medieval Europe was different, people were equally sick with cancer.
Cancer is younger
From a statistical point of view, this is true: according to a recent conclusion from the International Agency for the Study of Cancer, over the past twenty years, their prevalence in children has increased by 13%. But everything is not as simple as it seems - and, fortunately, cancer in children remains an extremely rare disease (about 14 cases per 100 thousand children per year).
Scientists tend to believe that such an increase in prevalence is primarily the effect of more accurate diagnosis and high awareness. Perhaps in the future the numbers will increase: today's data covers 100% of children in North America and Europe and only 5% in Africa and Asia. In poorer countries, cancer in children is most likely simply not diagnosed.
Wild animals do not get cancer
All animals are ill with cancer: both wild, and domestic, and especially laboratory. Most often, tumors are diagnosed in domestic animals - there are many of them and they are subject to veterinary control. In addition, they are often the victims of closely related crosses that increase the likelihood of the transfer of defective genes to descendants. Wild animals also have oncological diseases. The population of Tasmanian devils - a marsupial mammal from Australia - is on the verge of extinction because their cancer has evolved and is able to spread through bites.
The myth that there are animals that do not get cancer is massively spread twice. The first time was when scientists noticed that the cartilage tissue does not contain vessels, and decided that it contains some substances that inhibit their growth. The most important feature of malignant tumors is the formation of new blood vessels, so the scientists decided to study the corresponding properties of cartilage tissue. True, they were ahead of the charlatans who flooded the market with shark pills: the shark's skeleton consists entirely of cartilage.
The second time the scientific community became a victim of the myth. Attention attracted naked cattle - small rodents, which differ in phenomenal life expectancy, up to thirty years. On this wave, Russian scientists even received a prestigious award for uncovering the mechanism of naked excavators' resistance to cancer, but after a couple of years, these rodents also had oncological diseases.
Can get cancer
Extremely seductive theory that cancer is an infectious disease, in the sixties of the last century, cost the United States National Cancer Institute hundreds of millions of dollars spent almost wasted. In fact, it is now known that there are viruses capable of provoking the development of certain types of cancer : the human papilloma virus causes cervical , anus, penis and pharynx cancer, hepatitis C virus - liver cancer, and Epstein - Barr virus - Burkitt's lymphoma.
People can become infected with cancer only by direct transfer of tumor cells from the donor to the recipient - for example, in the process of organ transplantation. True, even two thirds of such cases end with the fact that the immune system of the new host kills the implanted tumor.
The main cause of cancer is chemical carcinogens.
At one time, bacteriologist Bruce Ames invented a test that allows one to study the effects of chemicals on the genetic apparatus using bacteria, that is, to determine the carcinogenicity of these substances. Talk about chemical carcinogens caused a great public outcry and affected all industries. True, later Ames partially rehabilitated artificial chemical compounds: it turned out that natural substances may have the same properties. Of the 28 natural substances that a cup of coffee contains, 19 are vegetable carcinogens. However, they can cause the development of a tumor only in large quantities, and it is possible only in laboratory animals.
Chemical carcinogens and justifies the history of American Pripyat - the town of Love Canal , built on a dump of toxic waste. For thirty years of a retrospective study , no outbreak of cancer was detected in ex-residents. The residents and liquidators of Chernobyl also did not find anything , excluding the more frequent thyroid cancer in children and adolescents: its development was associated with food contamination with radioactive iodine in the first months after the disaster.
In fact, the main carcinogens have long been known - it is ultraviolet radiation, components of cigarettes and alcoholic beverages. Other important risk factors are obesity and some infections. Chronic exposure to cigarette smoke and other lifestyle elements are much more important than any parabens in cosmetics whose carcinogenicity has been demonstrated only in the laboratory.
Pharmaceutical companies are not profitable to invent a cure for cancer
It is impossible to find a single cure for cancer, if only because cancer is the common name for a huge group of diseases. Moreover, breast cancer alone is hundreds of different diseases. Cancer is individual, as the individual organism of each individual is individual, like fingerprints . The current trend in oncology is the so-called precision medicine, which allows you to choose a personal medicine or treatment regimen for each patient based on specific biomarkers.
Billions of dollars are invested in drug development, and it is still profitable for pharmaceutical companies - in terms of both finance and reputation. For many malignant tumors, effective treatment already exists - but for the reasons described above, it does not suit everyone.
We have no progress in cancer treatment.
Over the past ten to twenty years, overall cancer mortality in various age groups has decreased by 1% every year - and this trend is noted throughout the world. The exception was lung cancer in women - the result of the fashion of the seventies on "female" cigarettes, and also liver cancer - the result of the massive spread of infection by the hepatitis C virus.
Cancer is impossible to beat
Of course, it is better to warn rather than win. Cancer prevention includes a number of simple requirements : it is necessary to eliminate smoking, reduce alcohol consumption and red meat, eat enough vegetables and fruits, monitor body weight, be physically active and protect the skin from sunburn.
In the early stages, cancer is curable - true, and difficult to identify, because it does not manifest itself. On the website of the Cancer Prevention Foundation, you can be tested for personal risks and understand when to turn to oncologists. Cancer in the later stages is most often impossible to cure, but in many cases, treatment can restrain its progression. Cancers become chronic, and people have lived with them for decades - so in a certain sense, we won the cancer.
Wednesday, January 23, 2019
Diabetes in children
Diabetes in children is on the first place among all endocrine pathologies. Almost always (in 90% of cases) diagnosed type 1 diabetes, which requires lifelong insulin.
Usually in childhood diabetes is diagnosed during the discovery of the child unconscious. It develops diabetic coma due to the very high numbers of sugar. In the absence of adequate and timely treatment , a child can die within a few hours.
The primary cause of diabetes in childhood is a hereditary predisposition, often passed in the female line. However, infection of the boys absolutely not excluded. Can also affect pancreatic deficiency during embryonic formation of all organs and systems.
Trigger diabetes in children are:
Infectious diseases, such as (chicken pox, rubella, measles, influenza, mumps, etc.).
Sudden stressful situations for the kid (quarrels in the family, jitters etc.). After such situations the child can later short intervals to detect increased thirst (became request more water), and frequent urination. Nighttime urination increases several times. If you do not clog the alarm and did not show the child the doctor can easily and in short terms develop coma.
Throughout life, the child must receive insulin and stick to a particular diet. This does not, however, prevent complications, and only slightly lengthens the time of their appearance. Most often the first to be damaged blood vessels (angiopathy and develops retinopathy). To assist the child in such situations should be regularly and promptly held a survey on this issue and when it detects the slightest changes to urgently proceed with treatment.
Usually in childhood diabetes is diagnosed during the discovery of the child unconscious. It develops diabetic coma due to the very high numbers of sugar. In the absence of adequate and timely treatment , a child can die within a few hours.
The primary cause of diabetes in childhood is a hereditary predisposition, often passed in the female line. However, infection of the boys absolutely not excluded. Can also affect pancreatic deficiency during embryonic formation of all organs and systems.
Trigger diabetes in children are:
Infectious diseases, such as (chicken pox, rubella, measles, influenza, mumps, etc.).
Sudden stressful situations for the kid (quarrels in the family, jitters etc.). After such situations the child can later short intervals to detect increased thirst (became request more water), and frequent urination. Nighttime urination increases several times. If you do not clog the alarm and did not show the child the doctor can easily and in short terms develop coma.
Throughout life, the child must receive insulin and stick to a particular diet. This does not, however, prevent complications, and only slightly lengthens the time of their appearance. Most often the first to be damaged blood vessels (angiopathy and develops retinopathy). To assist the child in such situations should be regularly and promptly held a survey on this issue and when it detects the slightest changes to urgently proceed with treatment.
Tuesday, January 22, 2019
Diabetes Insipidus
Diabetes Insipidus, or as it is called nesaharnoe diabetes is a rare disease, which is caused by dysfunction of the hypothalamus or pituitary gland, and reflected the strongest thirst and large amounts of urination. The prevalence of diabetes insipidus is approximately 3 cases per 100 000 people.
Causes of Diabetes Insipidus
Causes of diabetes insipidus in most cases are:
Neoplastic lesions of the hypothalamus and the pituitary gland.
Disorders of the circulatory system in the pool of the arteries feeding the brain these divisions.
Cranio-cerebral trauma.
Heredity.
Renal pathology, characterized by the violation of the perception of the hormone vasopressin, which is responsible for water exchange.
Development mechanism
As you know, the whole blood the body constantly passes through the kidneys, stored there from unnecessary and harmful substances. Extra fluid excreted in the urine and the rest back into the bloodstream. This process is called reabsorbciej (reverse suction). Responsible for her hormone vasopressin.
If for any reason the vasopressin does not fall into the bloodstream, would invalidate the process reverse suction of water in the kidneys, begetting profuse urination and thirst, which is so characteristic of diabetes.
However, because glucose is absolutely not involved in these processes, disease called Diabetes Insipidus.
Symptoms of Diabetes Insipidus
The severity of symptoms depends on the degree of deficiency of vasopressin (antidiuretic hormone). When partial deficiency of the hormone urine is usually a light, colorless, almost odorless and any pathological elements. Its relative density also generally low (before 1003).
The disease usually begins suddenly acutely.
Much less Diabetes Insipidus develops slowly, with a gradual increase in severity of symptoms.
Often provokes Diabetes Insipidus of pregnancy.
When the long-term course of the disease is increasing the bladder, ureter and renal pelvis dilatation. The stomach is stretched and falls. Cardiovascular system (with sufficient flow of fluid) does not suffer, only slightly expressed gipotenzia (lower blood pressure).
However, if the proper amount of fluid is also not filled are symptoms of dehydration — sudden weakness, heart palpitations, hypotension.
Diagnostics
Diagnosis of Diabetes Insipidus, as a rule, does not cause difficulties because the typical clinical picture. For differential diagnostic use test with suhojadeniem (to exclude neurogenic nature of symptoms).
Treatment
If the cause of diabetes insipidus in the pituitary gland or hypothalamus, prescribe hormone replacement therapy, usually for life. If the same cause in the kidneys, showing diuretic (thiazide diuretic) and anti-inflammatories. In neurogenic form disease prescribed course of restorative massage.
Causes of Diabetes Insipidus
Causes of diabetes insipidus in most cases are:
Neoplastic lesions of the hypothalamus and the pituitary gland.
Disorders of the circulatory system in the pool of the arteries feeding the brain these divisions.
Cranio-cerebral trauma.
Heredity.
Renal pathology, characterized by the violation of the perception of the hormone vasopressin, which is responsible for water exchange.
Development mechanism
As you know, the whole blood the body constantly passes through the kidneys, stored there from unnecessary and harmful substances. Extra fluid excreted in the urine and the rest back into the bloodstream. This process is called reabsorbciej (reverse suction). Responsible for her hormone vasopressin.
If for any reason the vasopressin does not fall into the bloodstream, would invalidate the process reverse suction of water in the kidneys, begetting profuse urination and thirst, which is so characteristic of diabetes.
However, because glucose is absolutely not involved in these processes, disease called Diabetes Insipidus.
Symptoms of Diabetes Insipidus
The severity of symptoms depends on the degree of deficiency of vasopressin (antidiuretic hormone). When partial deficiency of the hormone urine is usually a light, colorless, almost odorless and any pathological elements. Its relative density also generally low (before 1003).
The disease usually begins suddenly acutely.
Much less Diabetes Insipidus develops slowly, with a gradual increase in severity of symptoms.
Often provokes Diabetes Insipidus of pregnancy.
When the long-term course of the disease is increasing the bladder, ureter and renal pelvis dilatation. The stomach is stretched and falls. Cardiovascular system (with sufficient flow of fluid) does not suffer, only slightly expressed gipotenzia (lower blood pressure).
However, if the proper amount of fluid is also not filled are symptoms of dehydration — sudden weakness, heart palpitations, hypotension.
Diagnostics
Diagnosis of Diabetes Insipidus, as a rule, does not cause difficulties because the typical clinical picture. For differential diagnostic use test with suhojadeniem (to exclude neurogenic nature of symptoms).
Treatment
If the cause of diabetes insipidus in the pituitary gland or hypothalamus, prescribe hormone replacement therapy, usually for life. If the same cause in the kidneys, showing diuretic (thiazide diuretic) and anti-inflammatories. In neurogenic form disease prescribed course of restorative massage.
Blood sugar
Quite often, diseases associated with impaired carbohydrate metabolism (diabetes mellitus and prediabeticheskie condition ofhypoglycemia), long proceed asymptomatically and are diagnosed already in severe forms. It is important to understand that for the prevention of any disease is recommended strict I Herbal diet. Where no such therapeutic power type to prevent irreversible changes in the body, from time to time need to donate blood sugar.
Blood sugar is a fairly simple procedure that does not require a lot of time and money, but quite informative.
Types of
There are several types of blood sugar:
Laboratory;
Express-method;
Test with "sugar load;
Analysis of glikirovanyj hemoglobin.
It is believed that the laboratory method more accurate because it is carried out only in specialized laboratories (hospital or diagnostic centres). Express-method is convenient because the patient may spend it yourself at home by using a special device-glucose test. But when it is used in error results can be up to twenty percent that could be connected with the technical device of the device or its incorrect use.
Indications for
Measure the glucose level can each, but with a number of symptoms of blood sugar is necessarily procedure. Among them:
a strong and constant thirst;
reduced efficiency;
increased fatigue;
lowered immunity.
Methodology of conducting
Regardless of the type of blood, the rules are the same. First of all, the blood (from the finger or from Vienna) is carried out on an empty stomach, preferably in the morning. One day prior to analysis stands to abandon alcohol and possibly taking drugs because they may distort the results.
Laboratory study involves blood w anal blood from the fingertip/from Vienna. Thus, it is held as the standard sample for blood sugar levels and analysis for glycated hemoglobin. The latter is used less frequently to detect violations of carbohydrate metabolism. Is assigned to patients with diagnosed diabetes already for tracking blood glucose Dynamics to determine the effectiveness of treatment.
For a test with "sugar" is a load of blood from the veins on an empty stomach, after which the patient drinks sugar syrup and two hours later rents blood again. Taking a break to eat, drink, smoke or engage in physical exercise, as this may distort the results of the study.
Norms and decoding
As already mentioned, the normal blood sugar level is 3.5-5.5 mmol/l glucose Increase to 6.0 mmol/l is called a prediabeticheskim conditionwhich may be caused by excessive eating, drinking sweet alcohol for 24 hours prior to blood donation, stress, but it is not a disease.
When taking blood from a vein glucose levels above the norm at twelve percent and this should be taken into account when their decryption.
For a test with "sugar load" has its own border rules:
Up to 7.8 mmol/l is the norm;
11.00-7.8 mmol/l is pre-diabetes;
Above 11.1 mmol/l — diabetes.
What if the test results are bad?
You can always hold a retest to be sure, but if additional studies have identified the disease, do not despair. Violation of carbohydrate metabolism, when properly assigned therapy doctor-endocrinologist, largely not affect quality of life, and prediabeticheskie condition can be corrected by using individual diet.
Blood sugar is a fairly simple procedure that does not require a lot of time and money, but quite informative.
Types of
There are several types of blood sugar:
Laboratory;
Express-method;
Test with "sugar load;
Analysis of glikirovanyj hemoglobin.
It is believed that the laboratory method more accurate because it is carried out only in specialized laboratories (hospital or diagnostic centres). Express-method is convenient because the patient may spend it yourself at home by using a special device-glucose test. But when it is used in error results can be up to twenty percent that could be connected with the technical device of the device or its incorrect use.
Indications for
Measure the glucose level can each, but with a number of symptoms of blood sugar is necessarily procedure. Among them:
a strong and constant thirst;
reduced efficiency;
increased fatigue;
lowered immunity.
Methodology of conducting
Regardless of the type of blood, the rules are the same. First of all, the blood (from the finger or from Vienna) is carried out on an empty stomach, preferably in the morning. One day prior to analysis stands to abandon alcohol and possibly taking drugs because they may distort the results.
Laboratory study involves blood w anal blood from the fingertip/from Vienna. Thus, it is held as the standard sample for blood sugar levels and analysis for glycated hemoglobin. The latter is used less frequently to detect violations of carbohydrate metabolism. Is assigned to patients with diagnosed diabetes already for tracking blood glucose Dynamics to determine the effectiveness of treatment.
For a test with "sugar" is a load of blood from the veins on an empty stomach, after which the patient drinks sugar syrup and two hours later rents blood again. Taking a break to eat, drink, smoke or engage in physical exercise, as this may distort the results of the study.
Norms and decoding
As already mentioned, the normal blood sugar level is 3.5-5.5 mmol/l glucose Increase to 6.0 mmol/l is called a prediabeticheskim conditionwhich may be caused by excessive eating, drinking sweet alcohol for 24 hours prior to blood donation, stress, but it is not a disease.
When taking blood from a vein glucose levels above the norm at twelve percent and this should be taken into account when their decryption.
For a test with "sugar load" has its own border rules:
Up to 7.8 mmol/l is the norm;
11.00-7.8 mmol/l is pre-diabetes;
Above 11.1 mmol/l — diabetes.
What if the test results are bad?
You can always hold a retest to be sure, but if additional studies have identified the disease, do not despair. Violation of carbohydrate metabolism, when properly assigned therapy doctor-endocrinologist, largely not affect quality of life, and prediabeticheskie condition can be corrected by using individual diet.
Pre-diabetes-glucose intolerance
Impaired glucose tolerance (pre-diabetes) is a condition in which blood glucose levels above prefectures, but below a critical level, which is diagnosed is diabetes. In other words, this is one of the stages of violations of carbohydrate metabolism, the next step which is diabetes.
Currently, patients with diagnosed condition prediabeticheskim make up the bulk of the Group at risk to develop diabetes. The pre-diabetes is one of the factors in the development of diseases of the cardiovascular system and can be fatal even in diabetes.
With suspected or established by back should contact the endocrinologistwho will help find out the cause and prescribe treatment. And preferably not to postpone a visit to a specialist in order to avoid the development of disease or complications.
The reasons for violations
Glucose is the energy substrate of all processes in our body. Most of it gets into the blood stream while sucking it from the digestive tract following the breakup of the carbohydrates that come with food. Next in the pancreas produces insulin, which helps the body tissues to absorb glucose from the blood, lowering its level.
Two hours after a meal blood sugar dropping to normal (3.5-5.5 mmol/l).
Among the factors the breach of carbohydrate metabolism allocate:
Arterial hypertension;
Chronic diseases of the cardiovascular system, liver, kidneys;
Receiving diabetogennyh medication (hormonal medications, oral contraceptives, corticosteroids);
Obesity;
Stress;
Pregnancy (gestational diabetes);
Elevated levels of cholesterol;
Autoimmune diseases;
Diseases of the endocrine system;
Random diet (with lots of refined sugars);
Age (over 45 years);
Genetic predisposition (diagnosed diabetes or glucose tolerance violations among close relatives).
Doctors are advised to check your blood sugar at least twice a year, even if there is no suspicion, and people with at least one risk factor is about four.
Diagnosis of prediabetes
Pre-diabetes is diagnosed usually accidentally. Tolerance to glukoze violation in some cases are asymptomatic, and the emergence of complaints often speaks about the already developed diabetes. And all, in some cases, patients were treated with some characteristic symptoms:
Thirst (severe and prolonged, occurs when the slightest bit of psycho-emotional load);
Fatigue, decreased performance, drowsiness;
Reduced immunity and overall well-being.
Confirm the diagnosis by using blood sugar or its modifications (glucose loading, analysis on haemoglobin glikirirovannyj).
When a standard analysis of the blood glucose preddiabetom is called prandial glucose level rise to 6.0 mmol/l For gljukozotolerantnogo test dvujetaptnogo prediabeticheskogo State boundaries is the level of glucose:
The first portion of blood -6.7 5.5 mmol/l;
The second portion of blood — to 11.1 mmol/l.
For gljukozotolerantnogo test there are absolute indications:
Patients at risk of development of carbohydrate metabolism;
Pregnant;
Patients who have frequent cases of hyperglycemia (increased blood glucose) and the glukozurii (increased concentration of sugar in the urine);
Persons who are close relatives whom suffer violations of exchange of glucose or insulin dependent diabetes mellitus.
Treatment tolerance to glukoze violation
It should be remembered that prediabetes is not a disease, and therefore treated as such does not exist. When it detects a violation of tolerance to glukoze, doctor-endocrinologist appoints correction, which is the change in lifestyle (nutrition with reduced carbohydrates and dosed physical loading).
Currently, patients with diagnosed condition prediabeticheskim make up the bulk of the Group at risk to develop diabetes. The pre-diabetes is one of the factors in the development of diseases of the cardiovascular system and can be fatal even in diabetes.
With suspected or established by back should contact the endocrinologistwho will help find out the cause and prescribe treatment. And preferably not to postpone a visit to a specialist in order to avoid the development of disease or complications.
The reasons for violations
Glucose is the energy substrate of all processes in our body. Most of it gets into the blood stream while sucking it from the digestive tract following the breakup of the carbohydrates that come with food. Next in the pancreas produces insulin, which helps the body tissues to absorb glucose from the blood, lowering its level.
Two hours after a meal blood sugar dropping to normal (3.5-5.5 mmol/l).
Among the factors the breach of carbohydrate metabolism allocate:
Arterial hypertension;
Chronic diseases of the cardiovascular system, liver, kidneys;
Receiving diabetogennyh medication (hormonal medications, oral contraceptives, corticosteroids);
Obesity;
Stress;
Pregnancy (gestational diabetes);
Elevated levels of cholesterol;
Autoimmune diseases;
Diseases of the endocrine system;
Random diet (with lots of refined sugars);
Age (over 45 years);
Genetic predisposition (diagnosed diabetes or glucose tolerance violations among close relatives).
Doctors are advised to check your blood sugar at least twice a year, even if there is no suspicion, and people with at least one risk factor is about four.
Diagnosis of prediabetes
Pre-diabetes is diagnosed usually accidentally. Tolerance to glukoze violation in some cases are asymptomatic, and the emergence of complaints often speaks about the already developed diabetes. And all, in some cases, patients were treated with some characteristic symptoms:
Thirst (severe and prolonged, occurs when the slightest bit of psycho-emotional load);
Fatigue, decreased performance, drowsiness;
Reduced immunity and overall well-being.
Confirm the diagnosis by using blood sugar or its modifications (glucose loading, analysis on haemoglobin glikirirovannyj).
When a standard analysis of the blood glucose preddiabetom is called prandial glucose level rise to 6.0 mmol/l For gljukozotolerantnogo test dvujetaptnogo prediabeticheskogo State boundaries is the level of glucose:
The first portion of blood -6.7 5.5 mmol/l;
The second portion of blood — to 11.1 mmol/l.
For gljukozotolerantnogo test there are absolute indications:
Patients at risk of development of carbohydrate metabolism;
Pregnant;
Patients who have frequent cases of hyperglycemia (increased blood glucose) and the glukozurii (increased concentration of sugar in the urine);
Persons who are close relatives whom suffer violations of exchange of glucose or insulin dependent diabetes mellitus.
Treatment tolerance to glukoze violation
It should be remembered that prediabetes is not a disease, and therefore treated as such does not exist. When it detects a violation of tolerance to glukoze, doctor-endocrinologist appoints correction, which is the change in lifestyle (nutrition with reduced carbohydrates and dosed physical loading).
Monday, January 21, 2019
Diabetic foot
Diabetic foot
Diabetic foot is a complication of diabetes that is pathological processes at the foot of the patient.
Diabetic foot refers to meet most often complicate diabetes and in 85-90% of cases is typical for type II diabetes. Usually starts after 15-25 years of diabetic experience in stage of decompensation and is the most frequent cause of disability of patients with diabetes.
The reasons for the development of
Development of diabetic foot syndrome is a complex mechanism of various processes throughout the body in diabetes. So, with a long course of diabetes, especially when frequent dekompensacijah process, because of the constant sugar spikes from normal to high numbers, occurs a gradual destruction of the blood vessels throughout the body.
It all begins with small capillaries, and culminates in an all-pervasive violation of the blood supply. Along with this process, similar phenomena occur with nerve endings. As a result — metabolic tissues, including the skin surface.
For diabetes is characterized by dryness of the skin, and the feet again and thickening. This is typically called fungal defeat or banal omozolennostju. This skin condition leads to frequent cracks on the foot or other injuries that the patient initially and does not notice due to impaired innervation area.
The scarred skin in healthy people with adequate blood supply heals easily and quickly. And diabetes when disturbed blood flow in vessels, any injury (including light cuts and bruises even) leads to long-nezazhivajushhemu process. To the site of injury joins infection and begins the process of inflammation and nekrotizirovanija (die-off).
Signs of diabetic foot
Complaints and a change in the objective examination by a doctor with diabetic foot depends on the form and stage of the disease.
Symptoms depending on the form of diabetic foot:
Neuropathic form. When is dominated by hitting nerves. Characterized by decreasing the sensitivity on the foot, increasing the pain, patients simply don't feel injured. Stop changing its form, deformed, skin thickens, there are calluses. When an ulcer at the site of injury, their edges will be quite smooth. When the pulse on the arteries of the foot and the colour remained without changes.
Ischemic form. When vascular lesions predominate. Characterized by pobledneniem skin on the feet, its colder than other areas, quite often you can detect swelling. When an ulcer at the site of injury, their edges are uneven, with acute pain.
When the sensitivity and pain persist, do not stop the deformed shape and no corns, but the pulsation of the arteries or not listening, or very weak.
Mixed form. This is the most common form of diabetic foot and includes symptoms and signs of the two previous shapes.
Also, regardless of the form of the disease, on the foot changes depend on the stage of the process:
Stage 0 (risk group). Stop taking deformed shape, there are omozolennosti or skin begins to fade over time and get colder. But no ulcers.
Stage 1. Ulcer occurs only on the surface of the skin without affecting other tissues.
Stage 2. The ulcer extends inland, hitting the skin, fat, muscles and tendons.
Stage 3. The ulcer deepens to the bone.
Stage 4. Occurs a limited stretch of gangrene. A small section of the foot becomes black, has often clearly bounded region.
Stage 5. Gangrene spreads up the foot, turning Shin and above.
Diagnostics
To diagnose diabetic foot, its stages and Forms using the following methods:
Neurological examination;
Blood flow Doppler (ULTRASOUND of blood vessels and blood flow to it);
Angiography (vascular condition survey of the foot);
Radiography stop;
General blood analysis;
Glycemic profile (definition of the blood sugar level throughout the day);
Bacterial sepsis;
Study on the content of the plagues.
Treatment of diabetic foot
Depending on the stage of the patients with diabetic foot can appoint conservative treatment or its combination with surgical methods.
Conservative treatment
To conservative treatment include:
Normalization of blood sugar (insulin, saharosnizhajushh e drugs)
Antibiotics broad-spectrum (prescribed individually, depending on the results obtained from the contents of the ulcers)
Painkillers (Diclofenac, ibuprofen, Analgin)
Drugs improve blood flow in the vessels (Pentoxifylline, Нормовен, Agapurin)
Local antiseptic and antibacterial drugs (prescribed individually, depending on the results obtained from the contents of the ulcers)
Surgical treatment of dabeticheskoj foot
The following methods are used:
Angioplasty (restoration of patency of vessels by plastics receptacles).
Endarterectomy (removing non-restorable vessels and blood flow to run additional branches).
Autovenous bypass (create additional branches of the bloodstream, bypassing the struck vessels from small fragments of their own veins).
Stenting arteries of the lower extremities (installation on the vascular wall special compartments, or other objects that support vessels from spadenija).
Forecast
At risk are about 50% of all patients with diabetes, diabetic foot, however, develops only 10% of the total number of diabetchikov.
After the timely holding of adequate treatment and compliance with doctor's recommendations risk re-development is not more than 1%.
Diabetic foot is a complication of diabetes that is pathological processes at the foot of the patient.
Diabetic foot refers to meet most often complicate diabetes and in 85-90% of cases is typical for type II diabetes. Usually starts after 15-25 years of diabetic experience in stage of decompensation and is the most frequent cause of disability of patients with diabetes.
The reasons for the development of
Development of diabetic foot syndrome is a complex mechanism of various processes throughout the body in diabetes. So, with a long course of diabetes, especially when frequent dekompensacijah process, because of the constant sugar spikes from normal to high numbers, occurs a gradual destruction of the blood vessels throughout the body.
It all begins with small capillaries, and culminates in an all-pervasive violation of the blood supply. Along with this process, similar phenomena occur with nerve endings. As a result — metabolic tissues, including the skin surface.
For diabetes is characterized by dryness of the skin, and the feet again and thickening. This is typically called fungal defeat or banal omozolennostju. This skin condition leads to frequent cracks on the foot or other injuries that the patient initially and does not notice due to impaired innervation area.
The scarred skin in healthy people with adequate blood supply heals easily and quickly. And diabetes when disturbed blood flow in vessels, any injury (including light cuts and bruises even) leads to long-nezazhivajushhemu process. To the site of injury joins infection and begins the process of inflammation and nekrotizirovanija (die-off).
Signs of diabetic foot
Complaints and a change in the objective examination by a doctor with diabetic foot depends on the form and stage of the disease.
Symptoms depending on the form of diabetic foot:
Neuropathic form. When is dominated by hitting nerves. Characterized by decreasing the sensitivity on the foot, increasing the pain, patients simply don't feel injured. Stop changing its form, deformed, skin thickens, there are calluses. When an ulcer at the site of injury, their edges will be quite smooth. When the pulse on the arteries of the foot and the colour remained without changes.
Ischemic form. When vascular lesions predominate. Characterized by pobledneniem skin on the feet, its colder than other areas, quite often you can detect swelling. When an ulcer at the site of injury, their edges are uneven, with acute pain.
When the sensitivity and pain persist, do not stop the deformed shape and no corns, but the pulsation of the arteries or not listening, or very weak.
Mixed form. This is the most common form of diabetic foot and includes symptoms and signs of the two previous shapes.
Also, regardless of the form of the disease, on the foot changes depend on the stage of the process:
Stage 0 (risk group). Stop taking deformed shape, there are omozolennosti or skin begins to fade over time and get colder. But no ulcers.
Stage 1. Ulcer occurs only on the surface of the skin without affecting other tissues.
Stage 2. The ulcer extends inland, hitting the skin, fat, muscles and tendons.
Stage 3. The ulcer deepens to the bone.
Stage 4. Occurs a limited stretch of gangrene. A small section of the foot becomes black, has often clearly bounded region.
Stage 5. Gangrene spreads up the foot, turning Shin and above.
Diagnostics
To diagnose diabetic foot, its stages and Forms using the following methods:
Neurological examination;
Blood flow Doppler (ULTRASOUND of blood vessels and blood flow to it);
Angiography (vascular condition survey of the foot);
Radiography stop;
General blood analysis;
Glycemic profile (definition of the blood sugar level throughout the day);
Bacterial sepsis;
Study on the content of the plagues.
Treatment of diabetic foot
Depending on the stage of the patients with diabetic foot can appoint conservative treatment or its combination with surgical methods.
Conservative treatment
To conservative treatment include:
Normalization of blood sugar (insulin, saharosnizhajushh e drugs)
Antibiotics broad-spectrum (prescribed individually, depending on the results obtained from the contents of the ulcers)
Painkillers (Diclofenac, ibuprofen, Analgin)
Drugs improve blood flow in the vessels (Pentoxifylline, Нормовен, Agapurin)
Local antiseptic and antibacterial drugs (prescribed individually, depending on the results obtained from the contents of the ulcers)
Surgical treatment of dabeticheskoj foot
The following methods are used:
Angioplasty (restoration of patency of vessels by plastics receptacles).
Endarterectomy (removing non-restorable vessels and blood flow to run additional branches).
Autovenous bypass (create additional branches of the bloodstream, bypassing the struck vessels from small fragments of their own veins).
Stenting arteries of the lower extremities (installation on the vascular wall special compartments, or other objects that support vessels from spadenija).
Forecast
At risk are about 50% of all patients with diabetes, diabetic foot, however, develops only 10% of the total number of diabetchikov.
After the timely holding of adequate treatment and compliance with doctor's recommendations risk re-development is not more than 1%.
Herbal treatment for diabetes
Herbal treatment for diabetes
Diabetes is a disease that occurs due to the breakdown of carbohydrate metabolism. Carbohydrate metabolism is an important link for the full functioning of the body, as the primary energy source. Its main components: the ratio of glucose and insulin in the body.
The majority of glucose in the body comes from the food, only a small part can be synthesized by cells. Insulin is produced by the same in the pancreas. Diabetes occurs when a steady increase of the level of glucose in the blood, either because of insufficient amounts of insulin, or because of its incorrect structure.
The disease nowadays quite common. Due to the departure of the population from the consumption of healthier foods and popular passion harmful. Disease significantly affects the well-being of the patient, limiting it in many spheres of life, and leads to the development of serious complications:
serious violations of the cardiovascular system;
kidney disease;
disorders of the Visual Analyzer;
pathology of the nervous system at its different levels (encephalopathy, neuropathy);
trophic ulcers, etc.
This eventually leads to a decrease in overall life expectancy.
Diabetes diabetes is of two types: insulin-dependent and insulinrezistentnyj. In the first case raising the level of sugar in the blood is associated with insufficient amount of insulin. In the second case, insulin is produced in adequate quantity, but either cell receptors do not perceive it due to restructuring or glucose enters the body in amounts in excess of consumption. Another sign of insulinrezistentnogo diabetes is overweight.
Recently, patients increasingly try to avoid medication, adhering to therapeutic diets away from meat, milk and flour. Therefore, in the treatment of diabetes, as well as any other disease, does not exclude folk recipes which are an alternative to expensive medicines. Also, before using this or that method of self-treatment with herbs you can consult time phyto therapeutist of the timing of this treatment.
Specialists in the field of traditional medicine using affordable and common herbs for diabetes. The basis of the directions of medicine:
complex organism;
reduce the level of glucose in the blood;
to prevent the development of complications;
enhance the protective functions of the organism.
Many plants contain a substance — riboflavin — which possesses a regenerative abilities, among them: pomegranates, blackberries, Rowan, rose, raspberry, oats and others. The fruits of these plants can be included in a diet or prepare broths and tinctures. Naturally in the summer, when fresh berries, better to use them for food. Dried or frozen fruits are suitable for the winter period, they prepare infusions and Medicinal teas.
Diabetes is quite sedochno git and daily use of medicinal plants:
Aloe;
Galega;
clover;
nettle;
cabbage;
flax;
needle felted burdock;
peppermint and others.
Herbal treatment for diabetes, or more correctly say healing therapy in the treatment of diabetes, can be quite a useful complement to rigorous therapeutic diet, especially type 2 diabetes when patients need to follow not only the level of glucose in the blood, but also for cholesterol and triglycerides (components of lipid metabolism).
Here it is possible to apply different fees that reduce absorption of fat in the gut. Of course, that should be excluded from the diet of fatty, fried, animal foods. This is one of the mandatory items of treatment herbs for diabetes.
As for the recipes, their huge number. It all depends on the severity of diabetes, availability of individual sensitivity or allergies, climatic conditions (it is not always possible to find a plant on a particular area, and for herbal medicine it is better to use natural ingredients, and No extracts). You can also use the tinctures and concoctions based on one component, or to cook diabetic taxes. Below are examples of several popular and affordable recipes, alternative medicine, suitable for diabetes.
Peppermint
Mint has a tonic effect on the body, stimulates the immune system and lowers blood glucose levels. You can use the tincture of dried mint leaves instead of tea. One glass of boiled water will require five grams of dried mint leaves. Insist 15 minutes.
Urtica dioica
Insist leaves of nettle need on vodka or diluted alcohol. Two tablespoons should be 0.5 liter of vodka. After drenched leaves, you must give them to settle for two weeks, then strain and take one teaspoon three times a day before meals. You can also use the juice of fresh leaves of a nettle, taking one tablespoon before meals (three times a day).
Nettle Flowers can BREW with leaves saltbush (at a ratio of one tablespoon of flowers on two tablespoons of leaves). The mixture is poured liter of boiled water at room temperature and kept within a week. Drink this infusion need one teaspoon twice a day: morning and evening before food.
This is a simple and affordable recipes, however, the use of expert advice on desirable grasses.
Diabetes is a disease that occurs due to the breakdown of carbohydrate metabolism. Carbohydrate metabolism is an important link for the full functioning of the body, as the primary energy source. Its main components: the ratio of glucose and insulin in the body.
The majority of glucose in the body comes from the food, only a small part can be synthesized by cells. Insulin is produced by the same in the pancreas. Diabetes occurs when a steady increase of the level of glucose in the blood, either because of insufficient amounts of insulin, or because of its incorrect structure.
The disease nowadays quite common. Due to the departure of the population from the consumption of healthier foods and popular passion harmful. Disease significantly affects the well-being of the patient, limiting it in many spheres of life, and leads to the development of serious complications:
serious violations of the cardiovascular system;
kidney disease;
disorders of the Visual Analyzer;
pathology of the nervous system at its different levels (encephalopathy, neuropathy);
trophic ulcers, etc.
This eventually leads to a decrease in overall life expectancy.
Diabetes diabetes is of two types: insulin-dependent and insulinrezistentnyj. In the first case raising the level of sugar in the blood is associated with insufficient amount of insulin. In the second case, insulin is produced in adequate quantity, but either cell receptors do not perceive it due to restructuring or glucose enters the body in amounts in excess of consumption. Another sign of insulinrezistentnogo diabetes is overweight.
Recently, patients increasingly try to avoid medication, adhering to therapeutic diets away from meat, milk and flour. Therefore, in the treatment of diabetes, as well as any other disease, does not exclude folk recipes which are an alternative to expensive medicines. Also, before using this or that method of self-treatment with herbs you can consult time phyto therapeutist of the timing of this treatment.
Specialists in the field of traditional medicine using affordable and common herbs for diabetes. The basis of the directions of medicine:
complex organism;
reduce the level of glucose in the blood;
to prevent the development of complications;
enhance the protective functions of the organism.
Many plants contain a substance — riboflavin — which possesses a regenerative abilities, among them: pomegranates, blackberries, Rowan, rose, raspberry, oats and others. The fruits of these plants can be included in a diet or prepare broths and tinctures. Naturally in the summer, when fresh berries, better to use them for food. Dried or frozen fruits are suitable for the winter period, they prepare infusions and Medicinal teas.
Diabetes is quite sedochno git and daily use of medicinal plants:
Aloe;
Galega;
clover;
nettle;
cabbage;
flax;
needle felted burdock;
peppermint and others.
Herbal treatment for diabetes, or more correctly say healing therapy in the treatment of diabetes, can be quite a useful complement to rigorous therapeutic diet, especially type 2 diabetes when patients need to follow not only the level of glucose in the blood, but also for cholesterol and triglycerides (components of lipid metabolism).
Here it is possible to apply different fees that reduce absorption of fat in the gut. Of course, that should be excluded from the diet of fatty, fried, animal foods. This is one of the mandatory items of treatment herbs for diabetes.
As for the recipes, their huge number. It all depends on the severity of diabetes, availability of individual sensitivity or allergies, climatic conditions (it is not always possible to find a plant on a particular area, and for herbal medicine it is better to use natural ingredients, and No extracts). You can also use the tinctures and concoctions based on one component, or to cook diabetic taxes. Below are examples of several popular and affordable recipes, alternative medicine, suitable for diabetes.
Peppermint
Mint has a tonic effect on the body, stimulates the immune system and lowers blood glucose levels. You can use the tincture of dried mint leaves instead of tea. One glass of boiled water will require five grams of dried mint leaves. Insist 15 minutes.
Urtica dioica
Insist leaves of nettle need on vodka or diluted alcohol. Two tablespoons should be 0.5 liter of vodka. After drenched leaves, you must give them to settle for two weeks, then strain and take one teaspoon three times a day before meals. You can also use the juice of fresh leaves of a nettle, taking one tablespoon before meals (three times a day).
Nettle Flowers can BREW with leaves saltbush (at a ratio of one tablespoon of flowers on two tablespoons of leaves). The mixture is poured liter of boiled water at room temperature and kept within a week. Drink this infusion need one teaspoon twice a day: morning and evening before food.
This is a simple and affordable recipes, however, the use of expert advice on desirable grasses.
Omega-6 fats for the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases
Review question
We considered randomized trials (participants had an equal chance to receive any intervention), which studied the effect of increased omega-6 fat intake on mortality and cardiovascular diseases (CVD), including. heart attacks and strokes.
Relevance
Omega-6 fats are needed by the body, we get them from food. They are important for the formation of energy (metabolism), healthy bones, skin and hair. Many foods, especially vegetable oils and nuts, contain omega-6 fats. Omega-6 fats include linoleic acid (LK), gamma-linolenic acid (GLA), dihomo-gamma-linolenic acid (DGLA) and arachidonic acid (AK).
Some evidence suggests that increased intake of omega-6 fats with reduced consumption of saturated fats (animal, meat and cheese) can reduce the incidence of coronary heart disease. In contrast, there are concerns that high levels of omega-6 fats may worsen the cardiovascular risk by increasing inflammation. In general, there is no convincing evidence of the benefits or harm of omega-6 fats in cardiovascular diseases or other conditions.
Characteristics of research
The evidence in this review is relevant for May 2017. We found 19 studies involving 6461 adults. In these studies, the effects of high omega-6 fat intake on cardiovascular diseases and mortality were evaluated. We found that the three trials were highly trustworthy (they had a good design, and, therefore, reliable evidence). Studies were conducted in North America, Asia, Europe and Australia. Eight of them were funded only by national or charity agencies. Participants consumed more omega-6 fats or maintained a normal level from 1 to 8 years.
Main results
We have found that increased intake of omega-6 fats may slightly affect mortality or cardiovascular events or not affect them, as well as reduce the risk of heart attacks (evidence of poor quality). Evidence was weakened by design research problems, a small number of events, a low number of participants from developing countries and women.
Evidence suggests that increased intake of omega-6 fats lowers blood cholesterol levels (high-quality evidence), does little or no effect on body weight, taking into account growth (evidence of moderate quality), and only slightly or not at all affects high-density triglyceride levels (HDL, "good" cholesterol) and low-density lipoprotein (LDL, "bad" cholesterol, evidence of poor quality).
We considered randomized trials (participants had an equal chance to receive any intervention), which studied the effect of increased omega-6 fat intake on mortality and cardiovascular diseases (CVD), including. heart attacks and strokes.
Relevance
Omega-6 fats are needed by the body, we get them from food. They are important for the formation of energy (metabolism), healthy bones, skin and hair. Many foods, especially vegetable oils and nuts, contain omega-6 fats. Omega-6 fats include linoleic acid (LK), gamma-linolenic acid (GLA), dihomo-gamma-linolenic acid (DGLA) and arachidonic acid (AK).
Some evidence suggests that increased intake of omega-6 fats with reduced consumption of saturated fats (animal, meat and cheese) can reduce the incidence of coronary heart disease. In contrast, there are concerns that high levels of omega-6 fats may worsen the cardiovascular risk by increasing inflammation. In general, there is no convincing evidence of the benefits or harm of omega-6 fats in cardiovascular diseases or other conditions.
Characteristics of research
The evidence in this review is relevant for May 2017. We found 19 studies involving 6461 adults. In these studies, the effects of high omega-6 fat intake on cardiovascular diseases and mortality were evaluated. We found that the three trials were highly trustworthy (they had a good design, and, therefore, reliable evidence). Studies were conducted in North America, Asia, Europe and Australia. Eight of them were funded only by national or charity agencies. Participants consumed more omega-6 fats or maintained a normal level from 1 to 8 years.
Main results
We have found that increased intake of omega-6 fats may slightly affect mortality or cardiovascular events or not affect them, as well as reduce the risk of heart attacks (evidence of poor quality). Evidence was weakened by design research problems, a small number of events, a low number of participants from developing countries and women.
Evidence suggests that increased intake of omega-6 fats lowers blood cholesterol levels (high-quality evidence), does little or no effect on body weight, taking into account growth (evidence of moderate quality), and only slightly or not at all affects high-density triglyceride levels (HDL, "good" cholesterol) and low-density lipoprotein (LDL, "bad" cholesterol, evidence of poor quality).
Ganoderma lucidum mushroom (Ton varnished) (Lingzhi / Reishi) for the treatment of cardiovascular risk factors
What are the risk factors for cardiovascular diseases?
Cardiovascular disease is the name used to refer to any disease such as a heart attack / myocardial infarction or stroke that affects the heart and circulatory system (which moves blood throughout the body). Risk factors for cardiovascular diseases include high blood pressure, and high blood levels of glucose and cholesterol. People with risk factors for cardiovascular diseases are more likely to have a heart attack / myocardial infarction or stroke than people without them.
What is Ganoderma lucidum lacquered cart?
Sterile lacquered (G Lucidum), also known as "Lingzhi" or "Reishi", is a mushroom commonly used in traditional Chinese medicine. In China, G lucidum (tinder lacquered) is used in the traditional form of a decoction (kneaded and boiled in water), or in tea or coffee. Recently, it has been produced in the form of an extract in tablets and capsules for the Western market, since it is currently used in Western countries in the hope that it can improve the health of the cardiovascular system.
Purpose of this review
Cochrane Collaborators have tried to determine if G lucidum (tinder mushroom is lacquered), when compared with other drugs or counterfeit drugs - called placebo - is an effective treatment to reduce the risk factors for cardiovascular diseases.
What this review has found
Researchers searched the medical literature for June 2014 to identify all relevant medical research. They found a total of 5 studies comparing G Lucidum with placebo in 398 people (in total) with type 2 diabetes. Overall, the quality of the evidence was poor (low). Unpublished data was obtained for the two included studies and one study was translated from Chinese. The daily doses of G Lucidum used varied between trials from 1.4 g to 5.4 g. In one trial, participants from the group taking G Lucidum used capsules containing either G Lucidum only or a mixture of G Lucidum (75% of the mass of the capsule) with another fungus called Cordyceps sinensis (25% by weight of the capsule). The duration of the test ranged from 12 to 16 weeks.
Two of the 5 trials reported the results only for participants who received G Lucidum, but not for those participants who received a placebo, and therefore information from them could not be used. The remaining 3 trials with 157 participants provided information for analysis.
This information showed that G Lucidum was not an effective treatment for lowering blood glucose, blood pressure, or cholesterol. It was not clear whether the fungus G Lucidum could have reduced the blood glucose level after a meal, since the only information on this was in one study of uncertain quality.
There was not enough information to determine overall safety when taking G Lucidum. One study showed some increased risk of harm (side effects) among participants taking G Lucidum, in the form of nausea, diarrhea or constipation.
Future research in this area should include clinical trials in which the results are presented better.
Cardiovascular disease is the name used to refer to any disease such as a heart attack / myocardial infarction or stroke that affects the heart and circulatory system (which moves blood throughout the body). Risk factors for cardiovascular diseases include high blood pressure, and high blood levels of glucose and cholesterol. People with risk factors for cardiovascular diseases are more likely to have a heart attack / myocardial infarction or stroke than people without them.
What is Ganoderma lucidum lacquered cart?
Sterile lacquered (G Lucidum), also known as "Lingzhi" or "Reishi", is a mushroom commonly used in traditional Chinese medicine. In China, G lucidum (tinder lacquered) is used in the traditional form of a decoction (kneaded and boiled in water), or in tea or coffee. Recently, it has been produced in the form of an extract in tablets and capsules for the Western market, since it is currently used in Western countries in the hope that it can improve the health of the cardiovascular system.
Purpose of this review
Cochrane Collaborators have tried to determine if G lucidum (tinder mushroom is lacquered), when compared with other drugs or counterfeit drugs - called placebo - is an effective treatment to reduce the risk factors for cardiovascular diseases.
What this review has found
Researchers searched the medical literature for June 2014 to identify all relevant medical research. They found a total of 5 studies comparing G Lucidum with placebo in 398 people (in total) with type 2 diabetes. Overall, the quality of the evidence was poor (low). Unpublished data was obtained for the two included studies and one study was translated from Chinese. The daily doses of G Lucidum used varied between trials from 1.4 g to 5.4 g. In one trial, participants from the group taking G Lucidum used capsules containing either G Lucidum only or a mixture of G Lucidum (75% of the mass of the capsule) with another fungus called Cordyceps sinensis (25% by weight of the capsule). The duration of the test ranged from 12 to 16 weeks.
Two of the 5 trials reported the results only for participants who received G Lucidum, but not for those participants who received a placebo, and therefore information from them could not be used. The remaining 3 trials with 157 participants provided information for analysis.
This information showed that G Lucidum was not an effective treatment for lowering blood glucose, blood pressure, or cholesterol. It was not clear whether the fungus G Lucidum could have reduced the blood glucose level after a meal, since the only information on this was in one study of uncertain quality.
There was not enough information to determine overall safety when taking G Lucidum. One study showed some increased risk of harm (side effects) among participants taking G Lucidum, in the form of nausea, diarrhea or constipation.
Future research in this area should include clinical trials in which the results are presented better.
Sunday, January 20, 2019
Ganoderma lucidum (Reishi mushroom) in the treatment of cancer
Every year there is an increase in the number of patients diagnosed with cancer. Malignant tumors are the main cause of death in some populations. People diagnosed with cancer want to do everything to combat the disease, control the symptoms and cope with the side effects of radiation or chemotherapy. Many are turning to complementary and alternative medicine. Extract of G. lucidum (Reishi mushroom) is a drug that is widely used in the practice of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). It is usually recommended as an additional support of the immune system in the treatment of cancer. Recent laboratory studies and preclinical tests of G. lucidum have shown promising results for its antitumor action. However, clinical evidence of its effectiveness is scarce, and a systematic review is needed to provide holistic information for consumers of health care assistance.
Our review identified, and then included, five relevant randomized controlled trials. A total of 373 people were analyzed. A meta-analysis was performed to combine available data from individual studies. Our results found that patients who received G. lucidum extract as part of an antitumor therapy regimen were 1.27 times more likely to respond to chemotherapy or radiation therapy than those who did not. However, these data could not demonstrate a significant effect on tumor size reduction when the extract was used in monotherapy. Moreover, G. lucidum can stimulate immune functions in its host by significantly increasing the percentage of CD3, CD4 and CD8 lymphocytes. However, the activity of natural killer cells - (NK) cells, which, as suggested, is an indicator of its own defense against tumor cells, was slightly increased. It was found that patients of the G. lucidum group had a relatively better quality of life after treatment than patients of the control group. Several cases of minor side effects of G. lucidum treatment have been reported, including nausea and insomnia.
There are limitations to the results of this systematic review. First, most of the included studies were small and raised concerns about the methodological quality of individual tests. Secondly, all participants in the individual tests were recruited from the population of China. Based on the combination of these factors, the reliability and applicability of these results are reduced to a significant extent.
Our review identified, and then included, five relevant randomized controlled trials. A total of 373 people were analyzed. A meta-analysis was performed to combine available data from individual studies. Our results found that patients who received G. lucidum extract as part of an antitumor therapy regimen were 1.27 times more likely to respond to chemotherapy or radiation therapy than those who did not. However, these data could not demonstrate a significant effect on tumor size reduction when the extract was used in monotherapy. Moreover, G. lucidum can stimulate immune functions in its host by significantly increasing the percentage of CD3, CD4 and CD8 lymphocytes. However, the activity of natural killer cells - (NK) cells, which, as suggested, is an indicator of its own defense against tumor cells, was slightly increased. It was found that patients of the G. lucidum group had a relatively better quality of life after treatment than patients of the control group. Several cases of minor side effects of G. lucidum treatment have been reported, including nausea and insomnia.
There are limitations to the results of this systematic review. First, most of the included studies were small and raised concerns about the methodological quality of individual tests. Secondly, all participants in the individual tests were recruited from the population of China. Based on the combination of these factors, the reliability and applicability of these results are reduced to a significant extent.
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