Causes and risk factors for endocrine disruption
1. Causes of Endocrine disorder Endocrine disorders occur due to problems of endocrine glands. Of multiple endocrine dysfunction, the most common are those related to pancreas or thyroid glands, pituitary glands or adrenal glands. Causes and types of endocrine disorders include: – Acromegaly – overproduction of growth hormone and prolactin; – Addison’s disease and Cushing’s […]
Diabetes and menopause, a double challenge
1. What is diabetes? Diabetes mellitus includes several related problems due to which the body cannot balance the amount of sugar (specifically glucose) in the blood. Blood glucose provides the necessary energy for the body to deal with the daily activities that a person carries. The liver converts food consumed by a person into glucose, […]
Drinking Plain Water May Avert Diabetes
Females who opt for plain water rather than the sweet drinks like fruit juices and sodas have a mild lower threat of getting diagnosed with diabetes in a larger recent study. These results are based on additionally 80,000 females for approximately a decade, recommended that adding water to the sweet drinks, a person drinks […]
Diabetes Health: Exercise Caution
If you have diabetes, it is essential to begin and maintain an exercise routine. A health care professional must first evaluate you for symptoms that could be aggravated by particular activities. You might also undergo a cardiac stress test. Why Exercise? Exercise is part of a well-established health regimen for people with diabetes. Dr. Ronald […]
calcium more than 1.5 grams per day
Postmenopausal and pregnant women, transplant recipients, patients with bulimia (an eating disorder) and individuals on dialysis face the highest risk of developing the calcium-alkali syndrome. The incidence of the calcium-alkali or the milk-alkali syndrome is growing in large parts, because of widespread use of over-the-counter calcium and vitamin D supplements. Study authors Stanley Goldfarb […]
How Fiber Helps Control Cholesterol
Just as eating certain foods — such as those high in saturated fats — can increase harmful cholesterol levels, eating fiber-rich foods can actually help lower it. Scientists are still trying to determine the exact mechanism by which fiber lowers cholesterol, says Linda V. Van Horn, PhD, RD, a registered dietitian and professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern […]
Dangerous body fat
Visceral Fat (Active Fat) Type 2 diabetes can be caused by storing high amounts of visceral fat Visceral fat is body fat that is stored within the abdominal cavity and is therefore stored around a number of important internal organs such as the liver, pancreas and intestines. Visceral fat is sometimes referred to […]
Reasons behind physical inactivity among diabetes patients
Researchers have found that fear of hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) act as major reason for physical inactivityamong diabetics. The study confirms earlier studies that found 60 percent of adult diabetics aren’t physically active. Lack of understanding of insulin metabolism came alive when one hundred type 1 diabetes patients answered questionnaires to assess their barriers to physical activity. The biggest fear was hypoglycaemia and other […]
Hypertension, diabetes linked to carotid artery wall thickness
WASHINGTON – Researchers from A.O.U. in Cagliari Sardegna, Italy have found a link between increased carotid artery wall thickness (CAWT) – which can cause heart attack and stroke- and diabetes and hypertension. During the study, the researchers looked at 186 patients with the help of multidetector row CT and sought to determine association between CAWT is […]
Radiation therapy for childhood cancer may up diabetes risk
WASHINGTON – Childhood cancer survivors may have an increased risk of diabetes, particularly those who received total body or abdominal radiation, says a new study. The study has been published in Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. To reach eth conclusion, Lillian R. Meacham, M.D., of Emory University and AFLAC Cancer Center and […]