What Is Hypoglycemia? Hypoglycemia is low blood sugar. This occurs when blood glucose levels fall below 70 mg/dl. Normally, when you eat food, the pancreas detects the presence of glucose, fatty acids and amino acids in the small intestines. It secretes insulin into the bloodstream. Insulin acts on the liver, telling it to start building glycogen from that...
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What are SuperBugs? SuperBugs are microbes like bacteria, parasites, viruses and fungi that have become resistant to treatment. How Do Microbes Become Resistant? Microbes are survivors. They modify themselves to guarantee their survival. Since the discovery of penicillin, humans have been finding and creating medications to kill microbes that make us sick....
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CRPS Complex Regional Pain Syndrome CRPS, Complex Regional Pain Syndrome is a complicated disorder that can happen to anyone. It is also difficult to understand and diagnose. This is why sufferers are campaigning to raise awareness. What’s In A Name? Settling on a name for this burning pain disorder adds to the confusion that is out there. At this...
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Did you know that around 23,000 emergency room visits a year are the result of reactions to dietary supplements? Or that spending on dietary supplements tops $30 billion (2011 figure)? What are dietary supplements anyway? The Food and Drug Administration defines dietary supplements as products that you take to add to the nutritional value of your diet. They...
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How healthy is my brain? This a question you probably should be asking yourself. That is, for the around 9% (about 350 million) of the world population diagnosed with diabetes, 29 million of whom live in the US, research recommends making brain health a top priority. Diabetes and Brain Health Research Not many people consider diminished brain health a...
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Colorectal Cancer Awareness “It is a silent disease,” Teri Griege relates. “There is the embarrassment factor. Somebody’s got to talk about this,” she says. “Somebody has to have the guts to stand up and say, ‘I had bleeding.’” Since 2009, Teri has courageously told her story of being diagnosed with Stage IV colorectal...
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In the US, people buy health insurance to pay for their medical care. Often their employer, as a benefit, offers partially subsidized health insurance (if they are working full time). Yet, even if people buy the best coverage they can through their employer, they pay out-of-pocket costs. Some, who can’t afford that kind of chunk out of the weekly...
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March is National Nutrition Month. It is a educational campaign started in 1973 by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. To celebrate the importance of “eating right,” the Cleveland Clinic has created an infographic on power foods for your heart which we are sharing here. Include these foods in healthy recipes. Some of these foods help...
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“Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it… Let’s do it,” ~Cole Porter Let’s Fall Asleep. All right, so the song doesn’t go like this exactly but it is true that everybody–bees, birds, scorpions, dolphins and lots of other animals–sleep. The Dangers of Sleep Yet if you think about it, sleeping is a pretty dangerous...
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You eat a burger and drink lemonade. Your digestive process breaks the proteins, fats and carbohydrates into smaller components that can be absorbed in the blood. Waste products end up in the blood too. Can you imagine what your blood would be like if there were no filters? 6 Facts about Kidneys Luckily, there are kidneys. Kidneys are one...
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Vigilance is the watchword for caregivers of people with insulin-dependent diabetes. What do you need to know when illness strikes? Energy The body requires more energy when it is sick. That energy fuels the immune system’s fight against infection. People who are sick are often not interested in eating. With type 1 diabetes or insulin-dependent...
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Stating the obvious: cancer takes an enormous toll on the sick individual and their family. Being stretched financially and every other way-emotionally, physically, spiritually and everything in between-may make the idea of a vacation a low priority. Yet downtime is important. But what if the vacation were free? There are organizations that have made it...
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