Tag: ‘Diabetes’

Weight Control


If your weight is too much, you’re not alone. The 66 percent of adults in the United States is surpassed in weight or obese. Achieving a healthy weight can help control cholesterol, blood pressure and blood sugar. It can also help prevent weight-related illnesses such as heart disease, diabetes, arthritis and some cancers
Eating too much or not enough physical activity can contribute to overweight. To maintain your weight, calories you eat must equal the energy it consumes. To lose weight, you must eat fewer calories than those consumed. A weight-control strategy includes:

* Select foods low in fat and calories
* Eat smaller portions
* Drink water instead of sugary drinks
* Be physically active

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Expert advice for after Christmas

Expert advice for after Christmas

In the usual Christmas indigestion, heartburn, feeling of heaviness, gas, heartburn and gastrointestinal disturbances including vomiting. Over Christmas hospital emergencies increased by 25% mainly crisis of hypertension, diabetes, gout, diseases of the digestive tract such as gastritis and pancreatitis, gastroesophageal reflux, biliary colic etc. The excesses of Christmas have much to do in the presence or acuity of these pathologies.

Therefore, experts recommend:

* Eating and drinking in moderation, especially the chronically ill are the ones who can suffer more serious consequences arising from the illness suffered. Avoid excesses, and try to balance. (more…)