Dealing with Diabetes2 and remembering Goldi Community Group
A support group for individuals with Type2 diabetes. Encouragement, empathy, advice, and personal experiences from members dealing with the illness. A friendly environment with compassion and support as our main objective.
As vernon says "eat up all those lovely tunips."
EALTH NEWS: Home blood tests, eat turnips to keep cholesterol down
finger prick test
Test: The need for patients at risk of blood clots to visit the doctor for tests may be a thing of the past with a new monitoring device (posed by model)
A device that shows the rate at which blood clots could help thousands at risk of stroke.
The British invention uses a simple finger-prick blood test to work out the clotting speed.
Its sensors then display how much longer a patient's blood takes to clot compared to that of a normal person.
This is important for those with atrial fibrillation, a 'fluttering' of the heart which causes blood flow to be interrupted, leading to potentially dangerous clots.
To prevent such clotting, patients take anticoagulant drugs such as warfarin. But the amount has to be carefully managed: too little increases the risk of a clot, while too much can lead to a life-threatening bleed.
To avoid this situation, patients must regularly attend clinics for monitoring. The new device, developed by Microvisk and which will be launched next year, could let them do their test at home.
Eat turnips to keep your cholesterol levels down
Turnips may have anti-diabetic benefits, say researchers.
The vegetable has been shown to have a positive effect on glucose and fat levels, both of which play a role in type 2 diabetes.
This is the most common form of the disease, which occurs when the body makes too little insulin or cannot properly use the insulin it makes to mop up excess blood sugar.
Type 2 diabetes is linked to lack of exercise and being overweight. Turnip extract was given to laboratory mice with the condition.
Results showed it increased the speed with which fat was processed and lowered cholesterol, as well as reducing glucose levels.
'Studies should now be carried out to develop turnip extract as a novel therapy for type 2 diabetes,' say scientists from the National University in South Korea.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1282932/HEALTH-NEWS-Home-blood-tests-eat-turnips-cholesterol-Thalidomide-prevent-Alzheimers.html#ixzz0paEXdKbN
EALTH NEWS: Home blood tests, eat turnips to keep cholesterol down
finger prick test
Test: The need for patients at risk of blood clots to visit the doctor for tests may be a thing of the past with a new monitoring device (posed by model)
A device that shows the rate at which blood clots could help thousands at risk of stroke.
The British invention uses a simple finger-prick blood test to work out the clotting speed.
Its sensors then display how much longer a patient's blood takes to clot compared to that of a normal person.
This is important for those with atrial fibrillation, a 'fluttering' of the heart which causes blood flow to be interrupted, leading to potentially dangerous clots.
To prevent such clotting, patients take anticoagulant drugs such as warfarin. But the amount has to be carefully managed: too little increases the risk of a clot, while too much can lead to a life-threatening bleed.
To avoid this situation, patients must regularly attend clinics for monitoring. The new device, developed by Microvisk and which will be launched next year, could let them do their test at home.
Eat turnips to keep your cholesterol levels down
Turnips may have anti-diabetic benefits, say researchers.
The vegetable has been shown to have a positive effect on glucose and fat levels, both of which play a role in type 2 diabetes.
This is the most common form of the disease, which occurs when the body makes too little insulin or cannot properly use the insulin it makes to mop up excess blood sugar.
Type 2 diabetes is linked to lack of exercise and being overweight. Turnip extract was given to laboratory mice with the condition.
Results showed it increased the speed with which fat was processed and lowered cholesterol, as well as reducing glucose levels.
'Studies should now be carried out to develop turnip extract as a novel therapy for type 2 diabetes,' say scientists from the National University in South Korea.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1282932/HEALTH-NEWS-Home-blood-tests-eat-turnips-cholesterol-Thalidomide-prevent-Alzheimers.html#ixzz0paEXdKbN
If we all adhered to all of Lost's brilliant English ideas and inventions, I think we would be self-consumed in a very short time ;-)