Sugar is a sweet, funny thing. For some of us, it’s a love-hate affair that borders around obsession, caution and indulgence. To others, it’s merely just glucose and/or fructose; have too much of it and you get diabetes.
Regardless of which group you belong to, you probably can’t avoid having sugar in your diet, so it’s always a good idea to understand better what you eating. Perhaps after reading this entry, you’ll find that sugar isn’t as bad as you had imagined – or possibly much worse than you believe.
Older women bothered by severe, chronic constipation may have a higher risk of heart disease than those who aren’t, according to a U.S. study of older women.
While the findings, based on more than 70,000 postmenopausal women, do not mean that constipation itself explains the extra risk, women with chronic constipation may tend to have more risk factors for heart disease such as a low-fiber diet, too little exercise, and higher rates of high blood pressure or high cholesterol.
The Food and Drug Administration will work to revise safety labels for silicone breast implants after reviewing data from several long-term studies, which also showed that the products had a small link to a rare form of cancer.
IF you have a child below eight years old who develops sudden fever, immediately check his tongue. If it has turned neon pink, rush him to the nearest hospital. Although there have been no reported cases in the Philippines, it could be scarlet fever. The epidemic now spreading in Hong Kong yesterday killed its second young victim.
LOW platelet count is one of the major battles of people suffering from dengue and in other serious medical state. A healthy person should have a platelet count anywhere between 150,000 and 450,000. Some hospitals peg the levels to up to 350,000.
Older people who use olive oil in their cooking and on their salads may have a lower risk of suffering a stroke, researchers recently reported.
In a study that followed older French adults for five years, researchers found that those who regularly used olive oil were 41 percent less likely to have a stroke than those who never used the oil.
Ang regular na pag-ehersisyo ay bahagi ng malusog na pamumuhay. Kausapin ang inyong doktor tungkol sa kung anong klase at kung gaano karami ang ehersisyo na gagawin kapag kayo ay:
May mga simple at hindi magastos na paraan para makontrol mo ang iyong blood pressure o BP. Ang mga paraan na ito ay maituturing na natural. Natural na paraan para sa paghaba ng iyong buhay at pagkakaroon ng magandang kalusugan.
Ipinaliwanag ni Julia Valentour, exercise physiologist at program coordinator para sa American Council on Exercise (ACE), na hindi kailangang mahirap ang pag-eehersisyo para lang maging epektibo. Ang rekomendadong 30 minuto araw-araw ay maaring hatiin sa tig-15 minuto kada sesyton o kaya tig sa sampung minuto pa ng paglalakad.
Malaki ang benepisyong makukuha sa pag-eehersisyo kaya kailangan mayroon tayong tinatawag na habit sa pag-eehersisyo.
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Like many older HIV carriers facing problems -- including financial -- they never expected to live long enough to confront, Grosso, 57, also suffers from aching joints, memory loss and nerve pain.
