Monday, 23 January 2012

WHAT IS DIABETES

1) Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease that occurs when the insulin-producing beta cells within the pancreas are destroyed and fail to produce insulin. Insulin is a hormone that helps the body's cells use glucose for energy. Blood glucose (or blood sugar) is manufactured from the food we eat (primarily carbohydrates) and by the liver. If glucose can't be absorbed by the cells, it builds up in the bloodstream instead. Untreated, the high blood sugars that result can be toxic to every system of the body, causing serious complications.
2) Type 2 diabetes is the most common form of the disease, accounting for 90 to 95% of all diabetes cases in America. Most people with type 2 diabetes are still able to produce insulin at diagnosis. However, the insulin they make does not work properly and is unable to perform its primary job, which is helping the body's cells use glucose for energy.  This characteristic of type 2 diabetes is called insulin resistance.

If left untreated, the high blood sugar levels from uncontrolled diabetes can cause serious long-term diabetic complications. Eventually, they damage the insulin-producing beta cells of the pancreas, reducing insulin output. 

Although the majority of people with type 2 diabetes are adults, children and adolescents are increasingly at risk for the disease due to growing childhood weight problems and sedentary lifestyles.

3) GESTATIONAL DIABETES-The hormonal changes that happen in pregnancy can cause gestational diabetes in pregnant women at risk for the condition.  Hormones produced by the placenta -- including estrogen, cortisol, and human placental lactogen (HPL) --  increase insulin resistance in some women, which results in high blood sugars.  This usually occurs between 20 and 24 weeks of pregnancy. Gestational diabetes goes away when the baby is born, but women who have had the condition are at a higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes later in life.

4) LADA- Short for Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults, LADA is also known as Slow-Onset Type 1 Diabetes, Type 1.5 Diabetes, Late-Onset Autoimmune Diabetes of Adulthood, and even "double diabetes," since it has elements of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes. LADA patients, however, are closer to type 1 patients because, just as I did, they will test positive for antibodies against insulin-producing beta cells of the pancreas.

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Tuesday, 10 January 2012

Antiviral Natural Products. Part Three.




Protein
Sadly, fat pork and mutton will not help boost the immunity. Instead, young beef and turkey are perfect for the immune system. Also are used polyunsaturated fatty acids, known as Omega-3, to improve the immunity. Omega-3 is found in oily fish of cold seas such as herring, tuna, halibut, salmon.

Dietitians recommend to consume oysters, a healthy and delicious product. Oysters are rich in zinc that helps to fight influenza and protects body from cold. Zinc has a positive effect on T-cells which play an important role in detecting foreign antigens and recovery of other cells of immune system. Even moderate zinc deficiency may have negative effects on immune system.

Vegetable oils
In period of boosting your immunity try to prepare food with oils made of pumpkin, walnut, grapes, cedar necessarily of primary extra virgin. They are rich in Omega-3 but are quite expensive. Alternatively, accept purchase of these oils as purchase of a needful medication. Generally speaking, it is so.

Honey
Honey is digested easily by the body and its consumption helps to increases the immunity. Honey contains vitamins of B group which helps it to improve stomach work, calm nerves and improve sleep. Besides this, honey is natural analgetic remedy, which helps it to relieve cough during cold. Eat honey with or without warm green tea.

If you are not allergic to honeycraft products, it would be good to consume pollen. Pollen helps to boost immune system, prevent colds and influenza, normalize blood pressure, increases hemoglobin, normalize bowel work, helps to restore body after diseases and stress.

Tea
Tea (especially green tea) is second popular drink after water in the world. It is rich in polyphenols and contains a number of healthy substances which protect body from influenza.